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 approache