The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 kmÂ²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Many of the best-known musicians of the time appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock.
Andrew William Mellon (1855â1937), one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries in history and also the namesake of Washington, D.C.'s Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
The family can be divided into four branches: 1  Thomas Mellon (1813â1908), Judge and founder of the Mellon Bank who married Sarah Jane Negley of Pittsburgh. 2  As a boy he decided to abandon his parents' farming lifestyle for law and banking in the city after reading Benjamin Franklin 's autobiography. James Ross (Jay) Mellon II (*1942) successful hunter and author of books about Abraham Lincoln, Slavery in America and his familyâs founding patriarch, Thomas Mellon.