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The Mills of Saugerties part 2

Part 2 of 4 - Pages From A History Atlas of Saugerties, Program #6 - The Mills of Saugerties - A history of the dam, canal and water powered mills of Saugerties, New York. Created by Michael Sullivan Smith, an historic preservation commissioner with the Town of Saugerties and a landmark review board member with the Village of Saugerties. This video was created to bring an awareness of the early Industrial Revolution mills, the period of the founding of the Village and the 1825 Barclay's Canal; a landscape feature which is the last remaining intact representative of the period. The video gives a background to qualify the canal as a cultural asset and states an argument for its preservation and listing as a local, State and National landmark. It is specifically designed to educate political and regulatory decision makers and activist organizations. A .pdf compilation of period texts used as source materials for the content of this video can be found for purchase at hopefarmbooks.com by clicking this link

WOODSTOCK - WikiVidi Documentary

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Scheduled for August 15–17 on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, northwest of New York City, it ran over to Monday, Billed as An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music, it was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acres dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel. Located in Sullivan County, Bethel is 43 mi southwest of the town of Woodstock in adjoining Ulster County. During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of more than 400,000 people. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. The event was captured in the Academy Award-w...


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00:01:45 Planning and preparation
00:04:53 Selection of the venue
00:07:12 Free festival
00:08:08 The festival
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Max Yasgur

Max B. Yasgur was an American farmer, best known as the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.


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Juma Sultan, Aboriginal Virtuoso: From Woodstock to the Jazz Loft Scene

In this interactive program multi-instrumentalist and artistic impresario Juma Sultan will guide audience members down a winding, philosophical and spiritual path that explores his engagement with Jimi Hendrix and Woodstock in the 1960s, and later collaborations with the largely African American New York jazz loft scene of the 1970s.