Elliot Tiber discusses and signs his new book Taking Woodstock October 9, 2007

Taking Woodstock is the true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who rescued the original Woodstock Festival from cancellation. Elliot, who owned along with his parents an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet somehow managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 28, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Inn—and witnessed the riot that would galvanize the American gay movement and enable him to take stock of his own lifestyle. And on July 15, when Elliot learned that the Woodstock Concert promoters were unable to stage the show in Wallkill—a town near the motel he helped run with his parents—he offered them a new venue. Soon he was swept up in a vortex that would change his life forever.

A vibrant and telling snapshot of America from not too long ago, Taking Woodstock is the story of a man who was living two separate and very different lives—one in New York City, and one in a sleepy upstate town—until the Woodstock Concert altered his way of looking at the world and at himself.

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