Congratulations Wade!
Our local CBS affiliate carried the story of your opening. They also mentioned about McCain's political grandstanding in stopping Clinton and Schumer's efforts to get government funding for your museum.
I have a commemorative memory for you. While I was a bit too young at 14 years to attend the original Woodstock 3 days of Love and Music, I did grow up south of the area - and two or three years later friends and I would drive to the site on the anniversary, stop along the side of the road, eat granola and raw cashews, drink - something - and play music.
Perhaps 3 or 4 other people would show up. Did we recognize the importance of Woodstock? Or was it just something fun to do on an August day, when gas was 33 cents a gallon?
Anyway - best to you on your first summer season. I hope to get down your direction in the next few months.
Cindy Boyer
Director of Museums and Education
The Landmark Society of Western New York
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wade Lawrence
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:14 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] New museum opening TODAY!
Hello museum colleagues,
It's been a long journey, but today we finally open the doors to the public
here at The Museum at Bethel Woods. You may have seen some of the media
coverage -- CBS Sunday Morning, New York Times, Time, Good Morning America
-- and know that we are located at the site of the historic Woodstock
festival. I'm proud to say that the museum is much more than a memorial to
three days of peace and music -- we are a history museum about the entire
decade of the 1960s and the legacy of the '60s and Woodstock that we are
still living with today. I hope that all of you can come visit us, perhaps
as a side trip on your way to or from AASLH in Rochester this fall.
Peace,
Wade
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Wade Lawrence, Museum Director, The Museum at Bethel Woods | Bethel Woods
Center for the Arts | 200 Hurd Road, Bethel, NY 12720 | One Cablevision
Center, P.O. Box 222, Liberty, NY 12754 (mailing address) | 845.583.2075 |
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Be inspired at The Museum at Bethel Woods, on the site of the 1969 Woodstock
Music and Art Fair -- Opening June 2, 2008.
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