Editing Max Yasgur (section)

==Personal life and dairy farming==
Yasgur was born in [[Manhattan]], New York City, to Jewish immigrants Samuel and Bella (née Feder) Yasgur.<ref>U.S. Census, January 1, 1920, State of New York, County of New York, enumeration district 701, p. 8-A, family 200.</ref> Sam had been born in [[Minsk]], now in [[Belarus]],<ref>{{cite web |title="United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch | website=[[FamilySearch]] |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-L1NS-K35?cc=1968530&wc=9FZ1-W38%3A928312401%2C929065801 |access-date=11 April 2023 |location=New York > New York City no 168; Shapiro, Isaac M.-Z > image 1050 of 1136; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).}}</ref> and Bella had been born in [[Poland]].<ref>{{cite web |title="Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Year: 1930; Census Place: Thompson, Sullivan, New York; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0038; FHL microfilm: 2341387" | website=[[Ancestry.com]] |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/46523161:6224 |access-date=11 April 2023}}</ref> Max was raised with his brother Isidore (1926–2010) on the family's farm (where his parents also ran a small hotel)<ref>{{cite news |title=This Day in Jewish History // 1973: The Farmer Who Defied His Neighbors and Hosted Woodstock Dies |date=February 9, 2016 |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |author=Green, David B. |url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/1.702103 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809002136/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-02-09/ty-article/1973-woodstocks-unlikely-host-dies/0000017f-e1b6-df7c-a5ff-e3fea4b50000?_amp=true |archive-date=August 9, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and attended [[New York University]], studying real estate law.

By the late 1960s, he was the largest milk producer in [[Sullivan County, New York]].<ref name='Yasgur-tribute'>{{cite web|url=http://www.woodstockpreservation.org/pastpresent/maxtribute.html |title=Max Yasgur Tribute Page |access-date=September 9, 2009 |work=woodstockpreservation.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816222547/http://www.woodstockpreservation.org/pastpresent/maxtribute.html |archive-date=August 16, 2009 }}</ref> His farm had 650 cows, mostly [[Guernsey cattle|Guernseys]].<ref name='soulfarmer'>{{cite news | title=Farmer With Soul:Max Yasgur | date=August 17, 1969 | work =The New York Times }}</ref>

At the time of the festival in 1969, Yasgur was married to Miriam (Mimi) Gertrude Miller Yasgur and had a son, [[Sam Yasgur|Sam]] (1942–2016) and daughter, Lois (1944–1977). His son was an assistant district attorney in New York City at the time.<ref name='soulfarmer'/>

In later years, it was revealed that Yasgur was in fact a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who supported the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=yasgurmorerevealed>
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 | title = Daily TWiP – Max Yasgur, who rented out his farm as the site of Woodstock, dies today in 1973
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 | date        = February 9, 2011
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}}</ref><ref name=yasgurrevealed>{{Cite web|url=https://canadafreepress.com/article/max-yasgur-the-conservative-republican-who-saved-woodstock|title=Max Yasgur: The Conservative Republican Who Saved Woodstock|first=Aaron|last=Goldstein|website=Canada Free Press}}</ref> Nevertheless, he felt that the Woodstock festival could help business at his farm and also tame the [[generation gap]].<ref name=yasgurmorerevealed /><ref name='Timesobit'>
{{cite news 
 | author     = Times Staff
 | title      = Max Yasgur Dies; Woodstock Festival Was on His Farm
 | date       = February 10, 1973
 | page       = 34
 | url        = https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/10/archives/max-yasgur-dies-woodstock-festival-was-on-his-farm-undaunted-by.html
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 | archive-date = June 3, 2019
 | newspaper  = The New York Times 
 | accessdate = February 9, 2022
}}</ref> Despite claims that he showed disapproval towards the treatment of the [[Counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]] movement,<ref name=yasgurmorerevealed /> this allegation was never confirmed.<ref name=yasgurrevealed /> Woodstock promoter Michael Lang, who considered Yasgur to be his "hero," stated that Yasgur was "the antithesis" of what the Woodstock festival stood for.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/woodstock-producer-roy-rogers-not-hendrix-could-have-closed|title=Woodstock producer: Roy Rogers, not Hendrix, could have closed|date=August 8, 2009|website=Washington Examiner}}</ref> Yasgur's early death prevented him from answering questions about why he agreed to allow the festival to take place at his farm.<ref name=yasgurrevealed />