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 Yasgur to his own property was far more extensive and, over a year later, he received a $50,000 settlement to pay for the near-destruction of his dairy farm. He refused to rent out his farm for a 1970 revival of the festival, saying, "As far as I know, I'm going back to running a dairy farm." In 1971, Yasgur sold the farm, and moved to Marathon, Florida, where, a year and a half later, he died of a heart attack at the age of 53. He was given a full-page obituary in "Rolling Stone" magazine, one of the few non-musicians to