Editorial of December 20, 2021
Celebrate the Hunter
On March 18, 1898, “The Freeman’s Journal” reported a four-week effort to move a 31-ton granite boulder from the western edge of the village to the “Cooper Grounds” to mark the site of Otsego Hall, the original Cooper homestead that was destroyed by fire in 1852. This is now known as Cooper Park. On May 28 of that same year, the Journal recorded that a replica of John Quincy Adams Ward’s masterpiece, “The Indian Hunter,” was mounted upon the boulder, writing that “it typifies the literary achievements of the greatest writer of purely American romance, James Fenimore Cooper.”
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