Sam Yasgur Sam Yasgur Samuel S. Yasgur (January 9, 1942 – June 23, 2016) was an attorney; Sullivan County, New York official; and the son of Max Yasgur, who leased land on his dairy farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in August 1969. Yasgur has said that his "consultations with his father" played a crucial role in the concert coming to Bethel. He grew up on his father's farm, and was a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago School of Law. Yasgur was a 27-year-old assistant district attorney in Manhattan when his father
Beerenberg Farm and tenon joints secured with wooden pins, in 1990 the barn was classified by the National Trust as Historic . Grant Paech grew up on what was then a dairy farm run by his father Hermann Christian Paech. When Grant left school he studied at Roseworthy Agricultural College and then joined his father working on the dairy farm. In the winter of 1969 Hermann became sick and on Christmas Eve 1969 he died. Grant and his wife Carol took over the running of the farm and renamed it "Beerenberg", meaning Berry on the Hill in German. The first Beerenberg strawberries