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FTA: [Billionaire Alan Gerry is the force behind the [Woodstock] project. He and his family have contributed almost $30,000 to Clinton and a committee headed by Schumer dedicated to electing Democrats to the Senate. Gerry is a longtime major political donor. The contributions — $20,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $9,200 to Clinton's presidential campaign — came just days after the earmark was inserted into the legislation.]
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Beginning in 1996, cable television billionaire and philanthropist Alan Gerry purchased the original Woodstock festival field and 1,700 surrounding acres in Sullivan County, N.Y., with the intent to turn economically depressed Sullivan County into a tourist destination. The site provided a perfect backdrop to create Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a multi-venue performing arts complex that can accommodate 16,800 fans at the main outdoor concert pavilion. The complex ... includes a museum and event gallery dedicated to 1960s in general and the world-famous 1969 festival in particular.
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Alan Gerry, the billionaire behind the Woodstock museum, has made sure that his friends remain well compensated. He hasn’t just hit the campaign coffers for Hillary and Chuck, because Gerry wants to spread the love. He’s ... given a whopping $150,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee over the last two years — coincidentally, run by Chuck Schumer. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) has taken almost $20,000 from Gerry since 1998, and returned the favor with a 2003 earmark of $200,000 for the project.
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Billionaire Alan Gerry, a longtime political donor, is the driver of the project. Days after a Senate committee approved the $1 million request, Gerry and his family contributed $20,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Schumer heads, and $9,200 to Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to USA Today.
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The sprawling venture was financed by billionaire Alan Gerry, who bought the remaining 1,700 acres of the Yasgur farm a decade ago. Back in the day... he forbade his own daughter, Annalise, to attend the festival. She went anyway.
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[T]he place where the event happened, in all its unpredictable and magical permutations, was sold to a nonprofit foundation set up by a billionaire entrepreneur and former marine named Alan Gerry. Mr. Gerry built an open-air performing arts center there with seating for 5,000, lawn space for 12,000, an air-conditioned museum pavilion, a staff of guides who wear uniform lavender T-shirts, and a kiosk where the hard of hearing can rent amplification devices. Smoking is not allowed anywhere on the grounds.
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