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Show Farmers May Cut Crops For Artists' Patronage ' $ J A OaV riH. -aaaaBaaaaaaaassBBBaw - A IiS A IITTH M-taH ' , 1 V.aoit aoa ra't 1 , '- . " ,a Y" '""J, i Arttat ad J. t'a laspreaelati a mt WaaMlaiark. fMert. Mva. Daa y JOSKTHIMC VAJ hH tlglfT lb K A ar tee ta rites. WOODHTtH'K. N. Y ept. M Art spells poverty, not money. Wi learned that In achonl. Yet art, like oil. spalls esah sometimes. some-times. An srt boom, ss unlqus ss many an oil boom, has put ths village vil-lage af Woodstock on tho nian. Thii Is a suburban tlreenwlh Vlllsgs" Wllh a golden lining! Henta havs doubled snd tripled. Farming has been sbandoned la favor fa-vor of art. Villagers used te hats ths art etudanls whea they first cams to Woodstock becauss they left their paint rsgs lying around snd Woodstock sows at, 'em snd died. Now they turn brn stalls and hay lofts Inte studios, ranted at Now York prlrea, and charge you a dollsr for boarding houae meals. "Kooifta come high," aaya Al leather, leat-her, proprietor of Twloj tlablea, boarding houae do- luxe. "I get mora bectuas my house has a bathroom." bath-room." i gee;.. HKAtr TnArrir. I cams out here ta gee ths flrat autumn exodus of ens cash breeding breed-ing art colony. In winter ood-stock ood-stock baa loo people; in summer 1700. t Too eostd rent a whole neuss snd gsrdea for III or I'JO a month a fsw years ago. New York ertlsts hsd solved the high cost of living problem. Now 111 different houses st $t0 a month Tt with hs l h room : hsra Iof t a for $100 a sesson: rooms without private bath tor public either) S a atght; board and room :ft a weekt oh, he, Woodstock villagers don't sneer at srt and artiats now. They're simply crasy sbout srt, wonderful srt! All except one worn- feurg and taxi msn la tha afreets of 1'arte. "They aay I am too old to be a chauffeur.' commented the edmirnl. Me had owned four Holla-Kovca cars at hts plsce near Petrofrred: Then he told of his older friends, of General Wadlnow . upholstering chairs in a llttls shop near the ei de lyon. of hie fellow admiral happy In the poet of porter at the enuam-a, to a Constantinople hospital. The latter'a wife lives with him, a fa'-t which appealed especially to the lonely old man before me; and although al-though her only home la a little hut near tha hospital gate, she la qulta happy In her new life, and seems to have forgotten tlys splendors of thslr great house In Sebaalopol. "And you? "Oh, I hava work. I should not complain.' " The admlrafa work la that of peddling ped-dling from door to door woolens fur men's suits. sn Mrs. Daa Fully, who stubbornly stubborn-ly refuses to eeknowtedgs that art Is belter, la dollars and cents, thsa agriculture. a e e or miBAr. Cheap in the country? - fon't let anybody tell you thst! Not la srt-msd srt-msd Woodstock. I hsd a talk with (Inn H Brllton. wha csme to Woodatock te paint, but remained to sell resl eslsts. "I could get you a hsra toft, ahe ssld. "without running water or anything for 1100 a season. Twlcs ss much with. But a house? Twenty dollsrs a month? Ari jruu mad" 1 went acroas ths at reef to where a chunky little woman waa selling vegetable. Thers were some tomatoes to-matoes thst could bs bought for a penny, but soms knotty looking encumbers en-cumbers were selling for 10 cents spites. Kven vsgetsblss hevs gold paint now' Vor ths Woodstock fsrmsra grea't fsrmlng muh nowsdsys. When they aren't renting out hams or setting; up garages or waiting tshu for ths summer hosrders they'rs hiring out ss "types" te th art stu- j dents st 10 cent sa hour, gome of them srs thinking seriously of going go-ing Into ths movies. a o s TTI L OBlt HATB Only ths grsnd old womsn ef Woodstock has proved obdurate, j Mrs. Kully. now In her Oth yesr, I wss born la Woodstock, bha used: t H. on ths stage. I Twsnv yesrs sgo, at ths height I of her corser. shs ram back to i Woodstock. Kor fourteen yesrs ahe rsn the Woodstock saw mill, sawed logs and msde barrel heeds. Hhe owss eight houses snd a thoussnd seres of Isnd and looks after them all. flhe drives her own team, milks rows and does sll her housework house-work In her bare fet. . Other Woodstock inhabitants first scorned, then endured, then embraced, em-braced, ths srtlsta. Mrs. Sully ston will have naming to do wlta them. 'Call thst stuff art? she sniffs. Tv got better stuffjnmy atUc." |