Woodstock had been a “colony of the arts” for most of this century. Painters, writers, musicians and craft-creators began arriving in 1903. The town had always had a troubled economy– farmland was poor quality, and the native forests were cut down over a hundred years ago. Some residents of Woodstock objected to the so-called outlandish life-styles of newcomers to Woodstock, going all the way back to the founding of the Byrdcliffe Art Colony and the Maverick Art Colony in the early 20th Century. More

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