Going back as far as the 1930s, when my family came here, Sullivan County was a vacation mecca, with hundreds of hotels.

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Our idea was to draw upon the fact that the Woodstock event in 1969 was held in Sullivan County and the land that it was held on had developed into some sort of shrine.

FORBES: In My Own Words

Maureen Sullivan spent two years in New Ross, then further periods in a laundry in Athy, County Kildare, and another in Dublin.

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