Max Yasgur covered by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Matthews Southern Comfort, Richie Havens, Eva Cassidy, and Brooke Fraser) refers to "Yasgur's Farm". In addition, Mountain (who were also at the festival) recorded a song shortly after the event entitled "For Yasgur's Farm". The band Moon Safari has a song titled "Yasgur's Farm" on their album "Blomljud". Yasgur is portrayed by Eugene Levy in Ang Lee's film "Taking Woodstock". Sam Yasgur wrote a book about his father, "Max B. Yasgur: The Woodstock Festival's Famous Farmer", in August 2009. Max Yasgur Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919 – February 9, 1973) was an
Max S. Hayes Historical Society maintains one collection, which is available through interlibrary loan in microfilmed form. Other material is held by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Hayes is the namesake of Max S. Hayes High School in Cleveland, part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Max S. Hayes Maximillian S. "Max" Hayes (1866-1945) was a newspaper editor, trade union activist, and socialist politician. In 1912 Hayes became the first candidate to challenge Samuel Gompers for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in nearly a decade, drawing about 30% of the