HOMETOWN HISTORY July 3, 2020 150 Years Ago Wanted to Know!!! The whereabouts of a man who came to Oneonta and purchased a sewing machine on December 18, 1868, giving his note for it, and calling himself J.E. Wentworth, and claimed to reside four miles east of East Davenport, over east of Rattlesnake Hill. He was about five feet, nine inches in height, weighed about 175 pounds, was dark complexion, had dark eyes and dark whiskers, and was about 35…
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LETTER from SAMANTHA DAVENPORT Mecca ‘Tone-Deaf’ Way To Refer to HoF To the Editor: I am a reader of www.AllOTSEGO.com as well as its weekly newsprint companion. Twice now I have seen reference made to the Baseball Hall of Fame as “Mecca” and/or “the Mecca.” Although I too place great value on the HoF and acknowledge it might be very old tradition to use the word, I think calling it “Mecca” is, frankly, tone-deaf. I am sorry to be so…
Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomes Fans Back By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN For the second time in history, the Baseball Hall of Fame had an opening day. “It’s only the second opener, after the day we first opened,” said Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president. “It puts it in perspective.” On Friday, June 26, nearly 81 years to the day of the first June 12, 1939 opening, Oneonta’s Steve Pindar, visitor services director, opened the glass door…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 2-3, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Security Cameras Protect Trump Billboard ‘Indian’ Erasure Revisited Museums, Hyde Hall Announce Openings Baseball Hall of Fame Opens Doors COMMENCEMENT 2020 Oneonta High School Cooperstown High School Worcester High School Unatego High School Milford High School Laurens High School Cherry Valley-Springfield High School Schenevus High School Richfield Springs High School EDITORIALS Extremism Threatens George Floyd’s Legacy COLUMNS MORGAN: Slavery Was Most Everywhere…
BOUND VOLUMES July 2, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Important to Tanners – The patent right for preparing, using and vending chestnut wood for the purpose of tanning and dyeing in the New England states, is vested in the Springfield Manufacturing Company, who will soon have in operation machinery and apparatus for preparing the wood fit for use, and will deliver it to purchasers in large or small quantities, at any place within the above limits, for a sum that will…
From Our Comments Section Is Word ‘Indian’ Even Offensive? Editor’s Note: Here are reactions that appeared on www.AllOTSEGO.com’s comment section regarding an aritcle, “Village Board Concludes: It’s Time To Revisit Use Of Word ‘Indian’ On Plaques, Statues,” posted Monday evening, June 22. ►JOE BRANT – If you really want to be sensitive to Native Americans we should return to them the lands that were taken in Cooperstown. I am sure Trustee Sternberg’s house with a view of Otsego Lake was…
COLUMN from PETER FEINMAN If Philip Schuyler Statue Toppled, What Else? Editor’s Note: FYI, William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown (and The Freeman’s Journal), also owned slaves. ‘Reconsidering the Past, One Statue at a Time,” was the front-page above-the-fold headline in The New York Times on June 17. The article begins by noting the “boiling anger” that exploded after the murder of George Floyd. It has gone national. In religious terms, we are witnessing the attempt to purify America by cleansing…
What’s Fun In Otsego County Make a Giant, Hike The Trails & Go Boating! Learn about Rube Foster, the founder of the Negro Leagues, and other players from the 1920s – 40s in a virtual field trip at the Baseball Hall of Fame to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the league. 1 p.m. Thursday, June 25, www.baseballhall.org/events/virtual-field-trip-celebration-of-the-negro-leagues?date=0 for info. • If your teen has been cooped up inside for too long, get them out on the trails…
The Plains Marks Decade Of Comfort, Friendship By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In many ways, Milly Parish thinks of The Plains at Parish Homestead as the old house. “I was really inspired by the song ‘This Old House,’” she said. “The song is about someone reminiscing about the old homestead, which has been abandoned.” But her homestead was not abandoned. For the last decade, civic leader Gordon B. Roberts’ dream has been a home to retirees.…
Artists’ Muse: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Sidney Waller first looked at Robert Seward’s submission to the “Dust Off the Constitution” project, she thought the red circles on his version of the 14th Amendment were wax seals. “Looking at it closer,” she said. “I realized they were bullet holes.” Waller, owner of the Art Garage on Beaver Meadow Road, partnering with Ashley Norwood Cooper, invited artists to submit works inspired by the…
