Guest Post: Yasgur's farm for sale (Woodstock not included)
By Marlowe, Wednesday, August 8, 2007.Bookmarking Sites
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Max Yasgur's farm, the site of Woodstock in 1969, is for sale for $8 million and listed with Joshpe Real Estate. While you get 103 acres of land you do not get the actual Woodstock festival site as that is part of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. You do, however, get a barn with paintings of rock stars painted on the windows.Yasgur and his farm were celebrated in Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock," popularized on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's album, Deja Vu, with the following words: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm. I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band."
Current owner Roy Howard has tangled with the town for years for hosting Woodstock reunions in his field and has decided to move on.
The actual concert site next door to Howard's property is owned by cable magnate Alan Gerry, who built the Bethel Woods Center, concert venue that opened last summer.
All I want to know is, is it Zillowable? Maybe Paul Allen should buy it and move it to Seattle for his Experience Music Project.
P.S. If you're going down to Yasgur's Farm, don't miss Hippiefest on August 11.
--Marlow Harris - http://www.360Digest.com
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Submitted by Anonymous on August 12, 2007 - 7:45pm.
Let's see, I am going to test my memory here. The Woodstock Festival was held on Yasgar's Farm, in the town of White Lake, hosted by the Woodstock Recording Company. The song titled "Woodstock" written by Joni Mitchell and performed by "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, captured the very essence of the festival. Joni Mitchell cracked up laughing when she told me that she never made it to the festival and doesn't know how the heck she did that. The traffic was too bad. (I used to work in the entertainment business).
The town of Woodstock, NY (well north of White Lake) had a very lovely town green which was descended upon by hippies from that time forward. You see the masses are always confused. Put the name Woodstock on anything and they showed up with flowers in their hair, lol. Some things never change.
Submitted by Anonymous on August 12, 2007 - 7:47pm.
The second Woodstock Festival was held in Bearsville Ny, hosted by Polygram Records. Bearsville is just beside Woodstock NY.
Submitted by Anonymous on August 12, 2007 - 10:43pm.
8 Million seems a tad too much....but I happen to know from a personal experience that the current owner and his companion are also a tad greedy. If karma has it's way, the place will get flooded before they sell it.
Submitted by Anonymous on August 15, 2007 - 1:37pm.
I don’t think it is Zillowable, but it is HouseFrontable! I found the property on HouseFront which is a lost like Zillow but better in some ways. Go to HouseFront at http://blog.housefront.com/?p=101#respond