Today, tourism is the obvious and major driver of the Woodstock economy, but this wasn't always so. Up until the 1950s Woodstock was largely an agrarian-based community with family farms and trades and businesses that supported farming. Although no longer farmers, many of the old farming families remain in Woodstock. Stories of pet bears, cold winters, planting and harvesting, tragedies and triumphs live on as they have been passed down through the generations. Family Tales of Farming and Country Life around Old Woodstock will be an open discussion among old Woodstock families remembering and recounting this history.