i would say within three or four days of signing the contract i went back up to saugerties to try and pursue the site that mr. schaller owned. and by then i think the district attorney or one of the officials in ulster county had gotten wind of what were doing and put something in the local newspaper saying, "never again will we entertain an event in woodstock" because they were having problems with the sound outs by then. so i guess mr. schaller read that, and that was the end of the schaller site. so we started looking further afield for something that would fit. we needed at least 300 or 400 acres. we needed access, we needed power, we needed water, we needed actually a place where you could build a small city to support this crowd of potentially 200,000 people for three days. we weren't finding it. one weekend john and joel were riding around in the catskills and saw a sign off route 17 which said, "mills industrial site for rent." it was for rent. they went and they found it. mills was willing to rent i think for $10,000, and they agreed on a spot. then they called me and said, "

. >> i grew up in saugerties. small schools, you know. just involved in sports and things like that. >> reporter: everyone seems friendly and it just seems kind of -- >> yeah, they're small-home towns, you know? >> reporter: it's where linda lived with her husband tom and their family. a loving home where they celebrated birthdays and holidays. thanksgiving 2011 was a busy time, visiting relatives, over-eating, and watching football. >> he just loved the game of football. and he was a giants fan from a kid. >> reporter: and you took him to his first giants game. >> i did. i have pictures of him, like, you know, standin' down by the field like, "look at me." >> reporter: kid in a candy store? >> yeah, yeah. it was great. >> reporter: both linda and tom had been married before, but this felt like the real deal. >> reporter: what was it about tom's personality that made him so lovable and made you love him? >> he had a shyness about him that was sweet. he had like a -- like a kinda shy, flirty kinda way. it was just adorable. >> reporter: wh

they found a property that might have worked in saugerties, down the road from woodstock, but that fell through. out of desperation, they found in industrial park near middletown, new york in the town of wallkill. it was very flat, kind of an interesting land, but it had good transportation access.

they found a property that might have worked in saugerties, down the road from woodstock, but that fell through. out of desperation, they found in industrial park near middletown, new york in the town of wallkill. it was very flat, kind of an interesting land, but it had good transportation access. they started building, they started advertising, the built the stage, they had an artist. everything was going smoothly until the locals caught wind of what they were doing and it was not going to be a 50,000 person folk festival after all, what they were promised. jimi hendrix had been booked and a number of non-folk bands were booked very prominently and the town rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival. that left woodstock ventures with about four weeks to find another location. that is when they came in contact with max. max is a dairy farmer in bethel, 90 miles northwest of new york city. when woodstock ventures approached him in july of 1969 and ask if he had any property that might be suitable for a rock festival, when he showed them a couple of pieces of land and when they came to this