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The Tabletop Protest Sign
Displayed 2019 in the FREE Exhibition Gallery, downstairs at the Museum at Bethel Woods, for the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Displayed 2019 in the FREE Exhibition Gallery, downstairs at the Museum at Bethel Woods, for the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Description: circa 1950's enameled steel kitchen table
( legs removed )
Dimensions: 47" x 25" x 1"
Condition: wear from exposure over time, 3 rusted nail holes top center
Inscription: painted in red, free-hand style:
LOCAL PEOPLE
SPEAK-OUT
STOP MAX'S HIPPY MUSIC FESTiVAL
NO 150'000 HiPPiEs HERE
( legs removed )
Dimensions: 47" x 25" x 1"
Condition: wear from exposure over time, 3 rusted nail holes top center
Inscription: painted in red, free-hand style:
LOCAL PEOPLE
SPEAK-OUT
STOP MAX'S HIPPY MUSIC FESTiVAL
NO 150'000 HiPPiEs HERE
Photographed Monday July 21, 1969 and published with the article copied below in The Times Herald Record of Middletown, NY the following day, this sign was nailed to a fencepost alongside route 17B a mile or so west of Max Yasgur's dairy farm. Despite the public protest, that Monday night the Bethel Town Zoning Board approved Woodstock Ventures' plan to hold a three day event on the 600 acre farm. The sign was facing WEST to be seen by residents traveling EAST from Callicoon and Jeffersonville. That is why this is the only published photograph of this relic.
