11 Facts About Elliot Tiber

Elliot Tiber claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.

Elliot Tiber was born as Eliyahu Teichberg, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York.

Elliot Tiber's family moved to White Lake in Bethel in 1955 where they acquired a rooming house that they expanded into a motel, called the El Monaco Motel, at the intersection of New York Route 17B and New York Route 55 near the southeast shore of White Lake.

Elliot Tiber graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, and attended Brooklyn College and received a BFA from Hunter College.

Elliot Tiber was in the MFA program at Pratt Institute.

Elliot Tiber died at the age of 81 in Boca Raton, Florida from complications of a stroke.

Elliot Tiber said he led a closeted life in Bethel in the early 1960s as he spent time managing his parents' El Monaco Motel, serving as president of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce, and, at the same time, participating in the gay scene in New York, where he lived.

Elliot Tiber says in the book that he had a permit for the White Lake Music and Arts Festival, a planned chamber music event at his motel.

Lang says that Elliot Tiber referred him to a local real estate salesman, and that the salesman drove Lang, without Elliot Tiber, to Yasgur's farm.

Elliot Tiber left Bethel shortly after Woodstock and soon moved to Los Angeles, where he became a movie set designer.

Elliot Tiber taught creative writing at New School University, fine art at Hunter College, and art design history at the New York Institute of Technology.