KEVIN HERRICK WIELDS GAVEL AT 6:30 GOHS’ Annual Auction, Main Fundraiser, Tonight…
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GALA WEDNESDAY IN NEW YORK CITY Consumer Hall Of Fame To Induct Owen D. Young Almost 60 years after his death, Owen D. Young is still receiving kudos. The Van Hornesville native, who rose to found RCA and preside as president and chairman of the nation’s first radio company, will be inducted into the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame Wednesday at an awards banquet in New York City. Young, who was Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1929 and…
SCHOLARS GATHER AT FMCC Clinton’s Dam, Expedition Against Iroquois Explored William A. Starna, above, SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus of anthropology, describes a schematic of what Clinton’s Dam might have looked like. It was built across the Susquehanna River in Cooperstown, probably in the vicinity of today’s Main Street bridge, during the summer of 1779 and breached on that Aug. 8; the resulting torrent floated 200 bateaux down the Susquehanna in Gen. James Clinton’s expedition against the Iroquois during the American…
DOZENS OF TRICK, TREATERS VISIT For An Evening, Church Becomes Haunted House From the back, he looked like the Headline Organist. From the front, it was Tim Iversen, CCS band director and virtuoso organist, churning out spooky sounds that wafted throughout Cooperstown’s First Baptist Church, which Thursday evening doubled as a Haunted House. Inset photo, Cooperstown’s Juan Alamo family partakes of the scarey offerings in the church’s lobby. For much of the evening, trick or treaters were lined up down…
Princesses To Dragons, Coop Parade Has It All CLICK FOR SLIDE SHOW OF ALL THE FUN…
On Halloween, 3-Generation Tradition Lives On At Jackie’s A three-generation tradition is alive and well at Jackie’s Restaurant in Milford where Jackie Folts, left, her sisters and the next generation were in full Halloween regalia today. Right of Jackie is sister Brenda Alton, Jordyn Scott, Brooke Sisson and sister Sue Sisson. The ladies pose with Bones and his dog, No-Barc. After the photo, the mother of the family, Sandy Chase of Cooperstown, showed up and posed with Jordyn. When her…
LIBBY CUDMORE SHARES INSIGHTS Mystery-Writing Editor Places ‘Oneonta-Born’ Philo Vance In Context…
Headless Ghouls, Scary Ghosts Haunt Farmers’ Museum Village…
ERICA JONG AT SHARON SPRINGS: No Women In ‘Canon’ Because Men Define It By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SHARON SPRINGS – Why women shop in Bloomingdale’s, witches and telling the truth through poetry were just a few of the topics discussed in “Erica Jong in Conversation with Jean Hanff Korelitz” at the Roseboro Hotel last Saturday, the final event of the Sharon Springs Poetry Festival. Novelist Korelitz, who lives here parttime, opened her “intimate talk” with Jong –…