Woodstock Festival

 
Woodstock Monument at the corner of Hurd and West Shore Roads



Woodstock Music and Art Festival Poster



Photos and design by Joseph Klimasiewfski,
50th Anniversary Postcard. Postcards will be available at local events and Town Hall.
Visit: jfklim.smugmug.com for other designs of posters celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock  Festival.

                               Under Construction

July 21, 1969 Times Herald Record (Apollo Project, Woodstock and Vietnam
July 21, 1969 Town of Bethel Town Board Minutes
1969 Building Department Daily Cash Ledger (Page 1)
1969 Building Department Daily Cash Ledge (Page 2)
1969 Town Clerk's Daily Cash Ledger
7/29/1969 - Building Department Stop Work Order posted on stage
8/2/1969 Building Department Letter to Woodstock Ventures lifting Stop Work Order
1969 Yasgur Farm and Woodstock Ventures Contract
1969 Woodstock Ventures Certificate of Insurance
1969 Woodstock Festival Applications (Town Archives)
1969 Town Board Minutes
1969 Zoning Board Minutes
1969 Vehicle Staff Pass (Town Archives,
       donated by Ken VanLoan)
1969 Press Pass - Toots VanLoan (Town Archives,
       (donated by Ken VanLoan)
1969 Ken's Garage tow truck (Donated by Ken VanLoan)
1969 Festival Field Photo (donated by Ken VanLoan)
1969 Woodstock Ventures Thank-you Letter
10/1/1969 Catskill Shopper Paid Ad by Concerned Citizens and Taxpayers of Bethel
1982 Cultural Resource Survey
1998 Memories of Woodstock (Video Interviews)
      by Walter Mann (Town Archives)
2006 Woodstock Thesis: Beyond the Myth 
      by Sean McKean
2009 Governor's 40th Woodstock Anniversary Citation
2009 Times Herald Record Woodstock Festival Trivia

                            Monument History

9/5, 9/12 and 11/7 1984 Town Board Minutes

1984 Town Historian Note on Wording of Plaque

1984 News Article on Monument and Replacement Plaque 

1987 Town Historian Memo to Town Board - Theft of Plaque

2009 New Article on Passing of Wayne C. Saward (1957-2009), Sculptor of Monument

*Cover Photo:  1999 Postcard signed by original 1969 musicians (owner Steve Brighton, retired Bethel Postmaster)