Letter from Growing Community
Thanks for Great Harvest Supper
What a great community! Last Sunday, we couldn’t have asked for better weather, more delicious food, or more remarkable people to celebrate our community with at the 10th annual Cooperstown Growing Community Harvest Supper.
We have such gratitude for the many people, groups and businesses who helped to make the evening so special. We thank the Village of Cooperstown for its support; the Cooperstown Fire Department for bringing equipment; the Friends of the Village Library, who loaned tables (especially to Bud Zaengle, George Fasanelli, Joe Membrino, Tom Hohensee, Keith Parr, Finn Jensen, David Griger and Charlie Kieler, who hauled the heavy tables); Patti Ashley for sponsoring the posters; the Scarzafava family for lovely bottles of wine for the tables; “The Freeman’s Journal” for spreading the word; Hanna Bauer of Mohican Flowers, Jackie Hull of A Rose is a Rose, Susan Jones of Otsego County Master Gardeners, Anna Meyerhoff, Rose McCabe, Padrick and Annalise Jensen, Maggie Dowd, Elizabeth and Alexandra Yeske, Willa and Maisie Reed, Bella Cembrinski, Meara and Rosalie Foster, Mariana Pokorny, Claire Satriano, Susie Knight, and the many individuals who donated or helped with flowers to make it all so beautiful; Cooperstown Event Rentals for their services; Boy Scouts Troop 1254 for collecting returnable cans and bottles; the Clark Estates and all of the neighbors on Main who let us take over their street for a day; Mohican Farm for collecting recycling and compost; Alex Webster for photographs, MJ Harris for decorations, and decorating helpers Dick and Sandy deRosa, Nyssa Alden and Rowan Brown; the Stoddard Hollow String Band for once again setting a festive mood throughout the supper; and last but not least, all the additional incredible volunteers who set up chairs for the long table, rolled out paper, arranged flowers, and broke it all down at 7 p.m.—you were outstanding, we couldn’t do this without all of you!
See you next year, the last Sunday in September (September 28, 2025)!
The Growing Community team:
Normandy Alden
Holly Fanion
Kristen Griger
MJ Harris
Karen Katz
Virginia Kennedy
Dana Leonard
Kristen Leonard
Lynne Mebust
Maureen Murray
Ellen Pope
Rebecca Weil