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They started looking for a place for the festival. They couldnt find a place in woodstock that was large enough. They found a property that might have worked, down the road from woodstock, but that fell through. Out of desperation, they found an Industrial Park near middletown, new york. It was fairly flat. Kind of uninteresting land, but it had Good Transportation access. They started building, started advertising. They built the stage. They had artists creating art installations and everything was going smoothly until the locals caught wind of what they were doing and it wasnt going to be a 50,000 person folk festival after all, what they were promised. Jimi hendrix had been booked, and a number of nonfolk bands were booked, prominently. The town basically rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival. And that left Wo ....