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 is to be closed, we older people have to do more than we have done." Yasgur quickly established a rapport with the concert-goers, providing food at cost or for free. When he heard that some local residents were reportedly selling water to people coming to the concert, he put up a big sign at his barn on New York State Route 17B reading "Free Water." "The New York Times" reported that Yasgur "slammed a work-hardened fist on the table and demanded of some friends, 'How can anyone ask money for water?'" His son Sam recalled his father telling his children