so trisha and i and this guy named morris abrahams chofs affiliated with a group in florida picked us up and took us around the neighborhood, and we went down route 17, came up over a hill and there it all was laid out before us. stop the car, this is it. and that was when the miracle happened. we all got out of the car, looked at each other and tried not to float off the ground too far. we said, who owns this? it's a local dairy farmer named max yasgur. and max was the leading sort of business person in the community. he was really a self-made man, he was quite an amazing man. he was totally right wing, behind the war in vietnam, but he didn't think that anybody had to share his views, he was that kind of person. and so i said does he own any other land, and they said, yes, he pardon farms about 2,000 acr. so we went right the his house and knocked on his door, and he came out, told him what we had in mind. he'd known about us, you know, we'd been all over the press by then and everybody knew what was going on with woodstock. and max and i took a ride back with tisch shah and mel to