overlook with excellent
views on Main St where
you can spot bald eagles
soaring overhead. The
National Park Service
office has animal skulls
and skins on display – fox,
raccoon, otter, beaver –
that kids can touch and
try to identify.
Two NYC fashion-world
transplants own the River
Gallery (www.rivergalleryny.
com; 8 Main St; h11am-5pm
Mon-Thu, to later Fri-Sun), a
high-end boutique filled
with an eclectic mix of oil
paintings, handcrafted
glassware and other
whimsically designed
home accessory items.
Just up the road from
town, past Peck’s grocery
store, is Fort DelawareMuseum (%845-252-6660;
15 Rte 97; adult/child $7/4;
h10am-5pm Sat-Mon summer
months), a reconstructed
log fort (not a military
outpost) from the 1750s
when English settlers
and Lenape (Native
Americans) coexisted in
what was then wilderness
territory. Interpreters in
period dress demonstrate
skills like candle-making,
quilting, weaving and
food preparation and will
explain how the A, B, Cs
were taught in the late
18th century.
If you’ve canoed or
kayaked down from
Calicoon you can take
out at the Lander’s office
just under the single-lane
bridge from Milanville.The slightly more
adventurous can carry
on through Skinners
Falls, where there’s a little
white water, and end at
Narrowsburg (tubing the
falls is $12). When the
water’s low, the rocks
around Skinners Falls
create small pools and
eddies – a great place
for sunbathing and
swimming.5 p135
The Drive » Heading south on
Rte 97, you’ll initially head inland
before hugging the river all the
way to the city of Port Jervis.
Stop in the Zane Grey Museum –
famous novelist of the American
West – in Lackawaxen on the
Pennsylvania side if you have
time. Milford is 7 miles to the
southwest from here.Start: 1 Calicoon
About 13 miles southeast of Calicoon on Rte 17B is Bethel, the site of the former pig
farm that for three rainy summer days in 1969 hosted Woodstock, a concert that
came to symbolize the dreams and aspirations of an entire generation. These days,
it’s a bucolic rolling field of green. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (%866-
781-2922; http://www.bethelwoodscenter.org; 200 Hurd Rd), a state-of-the-art performance and
recital center, is designed to be perfectly in harmony with the terrain. As you walk
the stone pathways, you can get a bird’s-eye view of the gorgeous Pavilion Stage,
which has about 50,000 seats set into a sloping lawn, and the outdoor Terrace
Stage, which is like a Greek amphitheater set down in a mossy field. Big acts like
Joan Baez, Blake Shelton, John Mayer and Yo-Yo Ma perform in the summer.
The jewel of the complex is the Museum at Bethel Woods (%866-781-2922; adult/
child $15/6; h10am-7pm daily late May-early Sep, 10am-5pm Thu-Sun early Sep–late Dec) at
the center’s entrance, a groovy look back at the tumultuous, spontaneous concert
that’s come to define the Summer of Love. The captivating multimedia displays use
a combination of stock footage, documentaries, retrospectives, letters, books and –
above all else – music to capture the ‘60s all-embracing spirit. A 21-minute film runs
every half hour. You can pick up undeniably non-freelove, commercialized souvenirs
like tie-dies and key chains emblazoned with a Woodstock logo in the gift shop.WHERE WOODSTOCK REALLY HAPPENED:
BETHELDETOUR:
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