Started looking for a place for the festival. They couldnt find a place in woodstock that was large enough. They found a property that mightve worked down the road from woodstock, but that fell through and out of desperation they found Industrial Park in the town of walt dale and it was fairly flat, kind of uninteresting land but it had Good Transportation access. , theytarted building started advertising, they built the stage, they had arts artists creating art installations and everything was going smoothly until the locals figured out what they were doing and it wasnt going to be a 50,000 person full festival after all. Jimi hendrix had been booked and a number of young folk bands were booked very prominently in the town basically rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival and that left Woodstock Ventures with about four weeks to find another location and thats when they came in contact with max. Bethel a dairy farmer in about 90 miles northwest of new when Woodstock Ventures approached him in july of 1969 and asked if he had any property that might be suitable for a rock festival. When he showed them a couple of pieces of land and when they came to this property, which was ,is one of his hay fields Woodstock Ventures or partners noticed it was a natural ball, a perfect shape, a perfect size for the type of rock festival they wanted to have and right there on the spot they made a deal to lease his property for the rest of the month so that they could move their rock festival to bethel and the rest is history. Bethel is still very much like it was in 1969. The road system hasnt been upgraded very much and the economy is still very rural. Left shortlym after woodstock. They moved to florida and soon after, he died. The property went to a woman by the name of june kalisher and she kept the june. In the mid1990s, she put the property up for sale and a local man by the name of alan gary set up the foundation and purchased the land, he recognized that woodstock was a big part of this regions history and worthy of commemoration and created Bethel Woods Center for the arts which has an outdoor performance pavilion, worldclass museum and of course the Historic Site itself. And our mission is to inspire tople through the arts and follow at least the good examples of the 1960s of peace, brotherhood, acceptance. The people that come here can feel that just by walking the grounds, they feel that vibe. American history tv products are available on the new cspan online store. Cspanstore. Org to see whats new from American History tv and check out all cspan products. Distant drummer is a series of four early 1970s films about drug abuse. They were produced by George Washington university and the National Institute of Mental Health and narrated by hollywood actors. , distant drummer a movable scene narrated by robert mitchum. This episode takes a sympathetic yet critical look at the late 1960s counterculture movement. The film argues hippies excessive drug use is dangerous and that dropping out wont solve the problems of society. Everyone embraces these hallmarks of success. In each city there exists another culture whose very philosophy and way of li