Check out the following trailer for Ang Lee’s new movie, Taking Woodstock, which was filmed around New Lebanon and East Chatham.
The motel prominently featured in the movie is a real motel, about a two minute drive down the hill from our house. The whole town was buzzing when Hollywood came a calling last summer and aside from the occasional traffic hickup (traffic does not normally exist in these parts) it was groovy times for all. We saw our hippie population (already fairly large) rise by one VW bus, selling tie-die t-shirts in the parking lot of our beer, booze, and head-shop strip mall (for real, this strip mall has four stores – the three I just mentioned and the world’s best Chinese take-out place) with said hippie staying in town after the filming wrapped (Hollywood lingo for ended).
Hopefully the only movie theater in town will be showing Taking Woodstock when it comes out this summer. If it does, I’ll be there with my new tie-died t-shirt and freak flag flying!
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