The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 kmÂ²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Many of the best-known musicians of the time appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock.
Andrew William Mellon (1855â1937), one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries in history and also the namesake of Washington, D.C.'s Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
BNY Mellon CEO Faces Shareholder Criticism. Marcato Capital calls for the ouster of Gerald Hassell, says improvement needed. Updated March 10, 2015 7:58 p.m. Just months after letting one activist investor onto its board, Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is being attacked by another. BNY Mellon on Tuesday came under intense, public fire from shareholder Marcato Capital Management LP, which called for the ousting of the custody bankâs chairman and chief executive, Gerald Hassell, and cost cuts.