Michael Lang and Artie Kornfield met with John Roberts and Joel Rosenman in February of 1969. Roberts and Rosenman seemed interested in the project, but they wanted a written proposal from Lang and Kornfield. The four decided to meet again with a budget for the festival. In the beginning the budget for the festival was $500,000 and an expected attendance of about 100,000. Roberts and Rosenman were the driving force of the festival. John Roberts and Joel Rosenman decided the show should be a rock and roll concert, and the money they earned from the concert would go toward the recording studio. In March the four men formed Woodstock Ventures, Inc., where each of them held twenty-five percent. The company was named after Bob Dylan’s hometown. Woodstock Ventures leased a piece of land in the town of Wallkill for $10,000. The land was an industrial park owned by Howard Mills, Jr. The industrial park was perfect, but it did not have the country feel they wanted. The four started work on the land, but they were still looking for a new site. Michael Lang and Artie Kornfield wanted to advertise the festival to appeal to the sense of independence. Townspeople would stop Howard Mills and complain about the festival. Woodstock Ventures tried to satisfy the townspeople by hiring Wes Pomeroy, the former assistant of the Justice Department, as head of security. They also hired Reverend Donald Ganoug to head relations. Ventures could not get a big movie studio to film the festival so they hired Michael Wadleigh. The town meetings were always packed, and people started to threaten Howard Mills. Woodstock Ventures settled on calling the festival Woodstock after Bob Dylan’s hometown. The four decided on the slogan of “Three Days of Peace and Music.” Ventures thought using the word “peace” in the slogan would help keep order and avoid violence. Woodstock got acts by promising huge paychecks to the performers. When The Jefferson Airplane and Creedence Clearwater Revival signed the bands started to fall in line. Michael Lang’s friend, Stan Goldstein, was hired as coordinator of the campgrounds. Goldstein called in the Hog Farm in late June. The Hog Farm started as a communal pig farm. Members of the Hog Farm eventually bought land next to a Hopi Indian reservation. Stan Goldstein called the Hog Farm because the festival needed people to set examples for the people attending the festival who had never camped out before (Tiber 1-5, Pt. 1). The people of Wallkill were still angry and complaining even more. On July 15, 1969 the Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals banned Woodstock in Wallkill because the outdoor toilets Woodstock had were illegal in the town. Elliot Tiber owned a resort on White Lake. Tiber also owned a permit to have an arts and music festival in Bethel, New York, because his resort had an annual folk life festival. He heard the news about Woodstock and called Michael Lang. Lang met Elliot Tiber the day after he called him. Tiber’s resort was too small so he introduced Lang to Max Yasgur. Yasgur owned a six hundred acre dairy farm. Michael Lang fell in love with the farm. The price for renting the farm started at fifty dollars per day. Yasgur heard all of the news about the festival, and the price went up to $75,000. When Woodstock Ventures leased this piece of land they tried to keep the plans secret so the ordeal that happened in Wallkill would not happen again. One night Lang and Tiber went out to eat and discuss the plans. A waiter heard the two talking and called the media. While Woodstock Ventures was getting the land in order people started to put up signs trying to stop the festival. The same things that had happened in Wallkill were starting to happen in Bethel. In late July Woodstock Ventures received a permit from Bethel Town Attorney, Fredrick W.V. Schadt and building inspector, Donald Clark. Clark said, “Woodstock was moving so fast and trying to stop it would be cha

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