Woodstock, New York
Woodstock, New York Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States.
Woodstock is in the northern part of the county, northwest of Kingston, and lies inside the borders of the Catskill Park.
The Town of Woodstock was established in 1787.
Later, Woodstock contributed some of its territory to form the suburbs of Middletown (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken (1804), and Olive (1853). The Arts and Crafts Movement came to Woodstock in 1902, with the arrival of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Brown and Hervey White, who formed the Byrdcliffe Colony.
Ever since, Woodstock has been considered an active artists colony.
From 1915 through 1931, Hervey White's Maverick Art Colony held the Maverick Festivals, "in which hundreds of no-charge spirits gathered each summer for music, art, theater and drunken orgies in the woods." A series of Woodstock Sound-Outs were staged at Pan Copeland's Farm just over the town line in Saugerties from 1967 to 1970. These featured folk and modern acts like Richie Havens, Paul Butterfield, Dave van Ronk and Van Morrison and were identified with Woodstock's reputation as a summer arts colony.
The Sound-Outs inspired the initial Woodstock Festival's organizers to plan their concert at the Winston Farm in Saugerties; however, the town turned down their permit, and the "Woodstock" Festival was actually held almost 60 miles (97 km) away at Max Yasgur's Farm in the town of Bethel. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 67.8 square miles (175.7 km2), of which 67.3 square miles (174.3 km2) is territory and 0.54 square miles (1.4 km2), or 0.80%, is water. The town is famous for lending its name to the Woodstock Festival, which was actually held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm almost 60 miles (97 km) away in Bethel in Sullivan County.
The 1903 Byrdcliffe art colony is one of the nation's earliest Arts & Crafts colonies. It brought the first artists to Woodstock to teach and produce furniture, metal works, ceramics, weaving and established Woodstock's first painting school.
Byrdcliffe forever changed the cultural landscape of the Town of Woodstock.
The town is home to the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM), established in 1919 by John F.
The Art Students League of New York's summer school was in Woodstock from 1906 until 1922, and again after World War II, from 1947 until 1979.
The Woodstock Guild, established by Byrdcliffe artists in 1939, is now the steward of the 350-acre (1.4 km2) Byrdcliffe Colony.
In 1981, the town hosted the Woodstock Jazz Festival, a celebration of the Creative Music Studio, an organization established in 1971 by Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman.
On April 19 22, 2012, Woodstock hosted the Woodstock Writers Festival.
See also: List of citizens from Woodstock, New York The town has long been a mecca for artists, musicians, and writers, even before the music festival made the name "Woodstock" famous.
Film and art celebrations attract big names, and hundreds of musicians have come to Woodstock to record.
Artists' Cemetery A cemetery for Woodstock artists and luminaries on Rock City Road.
Bearsville A hamlet at the junction of Routes 212 and 45, west of Woodstock village.
Byrdcliffe Site of the initial art colony east of the junction of Routes 212 and Glasco Turnpike (County Road 33), northwest of Woodstock village on the lower slopes of Mount Guardian above Glasco Turnpike.
Daisy A hamlet east of Woodstock in Saugerties associated with Woodstock through the Woodstock Jewish Congregation, sometimes called East Woodstock; here it is said are the most "documented" contemporary cairns, mounds and other possible ancient sites associated with Woodstock folklore traditions.
Montoma A hamlet south of Woodstock near the town line with the Town of Hurley.
Ohayo Mountain A mountain to the south, between the Ashokan Reservoir and Woodstock village, bordering West Hurley.
Opus 40 a large free-form sculpture carved out of the small-town bluestone by Harvey Fite in the Saugerties hamlet of High Woods, four miles from the central Woodstock hamlet. Overlook Mountain A mountain to the northeast, on whose lower slopes much of Woodstock is situated.
Radio Woodstock Woodstock's online improve and global Internet radio channel.
Saugerties, New York A close-by town that includes the 800-acre Winston Farm, a proposed site for Woodstock '69 and home to Woodstock '94, and host to the Garlic Festival and Horse Shows In The Sun (HITS) north of the village.
Saw Kill A stream that rises in Echo Lake, flows west through Shady, then south to Bearsville, east to Woodstock, and southeast to Zena on the way to its confluence with the Esopus Creek near Kingston.
Woodstock The hamlet of Woodstock and the principal center of small-town services for the town.
Zena A hamlet east of Woodstock hamlet in the southeast part of the town.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Woodstock town, Ulster County, New York".
The Maverick Festival of Woodstock The Story of the Woodstock Music Festival New York "The Maverick: Hervey White's Colony of the Arts" (Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 2006), pp.
Wolf, tom.Woodstock's Art Heritage: The Permanent Collection of the Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1987).
Town of Woodstock official website Denning Esopus Gardiner Hardenburgh Hurley Kingston Lloyd Marbletown Marlborough New Paltz Olive Plattekill Rochester Rosendale Saugerties Shandaken Shawangunk Ulster Wawarsing Woodstock Accord Clintondale Cragsmoor East Kingston Gardiner Glasco High Falls Highland Hillside Hurley Kerhonkson Lake Katrine Lincoln Park Malden-on-Hudson Marlboro Milton Napanoch Phoenicia Pine Hill Plattekill Port Ewen Rifton Rosendale Hamlet Saugerties South Shokan Stone Ridge Tillson Walker Valley Wallkill Watchtower West Hurley Woodstock Zena
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