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Donald Aters Accomplishments and history Discharged US Navy July 1967 Met the members of Big Brothers and Holding Company, Clark’s Street Old Town, Chicago, 1967 Managed a few images at MonteryPop Festival, 1967 Made a sojourn to San Fransico, 1968, and first concert at The Fillmore Auditorium with Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape. Mailed my first narrative of event to Bill Graham. His response was “...if you continue to construct text in that fashion, I will grant you access to the Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Winterland and any show with Bill Graham Presents in the Bay Area.” Ahorrendous injury kept him at bay fo a few years but ended with his adventure to Woodstock Festival in 1969 on Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, N.Y. With that behind him, he made concerted efforts to gain access into events of noted magnitude which led to the first twenty two Farm Aid Concerts. He has been confirmed for all Bonnaroo Festivals since 2002. He was one of fifty people invited to Lead Belly Tribute and subsequent dinner with Robert Plant in 2004 at The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,Ohio. He has images hanging in the Indiana University Library adjacent to the shelf where the thesis to his masters degree is placed. Don remains one of the two photographers who have had an exhibit at the renown Speed Museum in Louisville, Ky., (Linda McCartney and Donald Aters) with Tom Constanten (hall of fame with The Grateful Dead) and legendary promoter and mayor of Haight Ashbury, Chet Helms. He has given lectures at several museums inclusive of The Ali Center, Kent State University in Ohio and Indiana University, southeast in New Albany Indiana with noted icons, Rainbow Warriors of the Counter Culture, Jerry Miller of Moby Grape, Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Slick Aguilar of Jefferson Starship, and hall of fame member Tom Constanten of The Grateful Dead. Don Aters has reference letters from Tom Constanten of The GratefulDead, Sam Andrew of Big Brother and The Holding Company, Artie Kornfeld, father of Woodstock Music Festival, 1969, Judge Murphy, The Band Zero, Dr. Claude Baker, Indiana University faculty, Dr. Christa Zorn, Indiana University faculty. He served as consultant Monterey Pop Festival, 40th anniversary (2007). He assisted in orchestrating bands and activities for Gathering on The Mountain,1997-2002 in Big Boulder, Pa. He authored Winds of Change in 2015. He is a noted historian of fabled events.