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As Village Awaits President, New, Old Tributes Surface By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN In all the “craziness” of the 2008 election, James Dean, saw opportunity. “Barack Obama was the only sane voice we could find,” he said. “And he’s still the only sane voice.” Dean, now also a Cooperstown village trustee, printed up a bumper sticker that read “I’m Sticking With the Sane, Intelligent Guy!” and launched them on his website, The Sane Guy, “I said what I thought, and I thought…
Cooperstown First-Graders Welcome Obama…
Van Buren Last Sitting President To Visit Here COOPERSTOWN Security surrounding the modern president may prevent what happened to Martin Van Buren, who, at the end of a “large evening reception” in his honor in 1839 at Woodside Hall, became lost in the Greek Revival mansion’s large gardens at 1 Main St. He “wandered about the grounds for a long time,” according to Birdsall’s “The Story of Cooperstown,” “finally coming back to the house just at the family were going to bed,…
PRESIDENT OBAMA TO VISIT COOPERSTOWN 2 DAYS BEFORE HALL’S 75TH SEASON STARTS COOPERSTOWN President Obama will visit Cooperstown and the National Baseball Hall of Fame Thursday, May 22, he announced in his radio address to the national this morning. “I’ll be heading to Cooperstown, New York – home of the Baseball Hall of Fame – to talk about tourism,” he said. “Because believe it or not, tourism is an export. And if we make it easier for more foreign visitors…
