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Down to Yasgur's ... Blawg?

By Robert J. Ambrogi

As you no doubt know unless you live under a rock, this week marked the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. And as you no doubt also know, Woodstock was not in Woodstock, N.Y., but on the dairy farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel. Yasgur appears in the 1970 documentary about the event, proclaiming, "The important thing that you've proven to the world ... is that a half million young people can get together to have fun and music ... and have nothing but fun and music and I god bless you for it!" The venue was also memorialized in the song "Woodstock," written by Joni Mitchell: I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him where are you going And this he told me: he said I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to get back to the land And set my soul free... Max, it turns out, had a brother, and that brother had a son, Stevan. Steve worked as a veterinary assistant and as a journalist before settling on his current career as a...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).