A Walking Tour of the Historic Village, Local Hikes and Nature Preserves, The Story of the Colony of the Arts, As coauthor with Michael Perkins of Walking Wood-stock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town, a local bestseller. Will Nixon offers a tour of his favorite places that tell a strange and wondrous story. First settled by farmers, glass blowers, tannery workers, and quarry men, who made hard livings cutting forests and carving into mountainsides, the town later reinvented itself as a major artists colony that has given us a legacy of galleries and music venues. Not to mention the Concert That Didn't Happen Here. They're all here, the early Dutch settlers and their witches, the Sixties rock 'n' rollers led by Bob Dylan and Levon Helm, the Bohemian artists of a century ago, the Buddhist monks of today, the free-spirited visionaries drawn to Woodstock's scenic mixture of nature and the arts. Learn what has made this town so inspiring and so famous.