COLUMN FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE To Sell, First, Sell Yourself By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Many years ago, when Earth was still cooling, I was a young professor teaching rhetoric. That study had been greatly advanced by Aristotle. He was not long dead then, so the topic was still fresh. Aristotle said that rhetoric is “the art of effective, persuasive speech.” The crassest form is used by the used-car salesman who scuttles across the lot with wide…
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COLUMN VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT The Cost Of A Free College Tuition By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com You might read the headline and ask, “How can something that is free have a cost. First of all, nothing is really free. That includes the free lunches at school, the free grants the City of Oneonta receives from time to time to pay consultants or deploy flower pots, and free college education. A public school education is free to the…
Tim Mead New HoF President HAIL TO THE CHIEF! By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead is anything if not approachable. Walking by that display board of standings in front of the Hall of Fame the other day, Glendaly Garcia of Hartford, Conn., called out to the new president of Baseball’s Mecca: “Can you take our photo?” Unhesitatingly, he did, then posed with the family, now thrilled at meeting the man who holds one of the…
AT FENIMORE MUSEUM: Rock, Roll Summer Peaks At Gala, Panel By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Even before the Herb Ritts exhibit arrived from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to The Fenimore Museum, the institutions shared a commonality. “Ahmet Ertegun, who co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, was Gene Thaw’s roommate in college,” said Greg Harris, president. The Herb Ritts photography exhibit, on loan from the Rock & Roll Hall through Labor Day,…
National Pastime’s Stars Giving Autographs Here Editor’s Note: Here are where the MLB stars will be signing autographs this weekend. ► Roberto Alomar, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►Jeff Bagwell, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►HAROLD BAINES, Noon Monday, July 22, Tunnicliff Inn ►JESSE BARFIELD, 2-4:30 p.m., 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 2-4:30 p.m., 6-9 p.m., Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 3:30 p.m.-close, Sunday, July 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, July 22, Cooperstown Bat Company. ►…
HOMETOWN History July 19, 2019 By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STEWART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 150 Years Ago Jacob C. Dietz, of Anamosa, Iowa, is spending a few weeks here among the homes and haunts of his early life, and is greeted most cordially on all hands. In childhood, youth and early manhood, “Jake” had the way that always wins and keeps many friends. Now that he comes back to us broadened-out by the whole-souled progressive manhood of glorious Iowa,…
HARTWICK’S NEW PROVOST Bill Ehmann Sees Potential In Generation Z’s Strivings By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Bill Ehmann believes students will guide the school’s future as much as the faculty will guide theirs. “Students are always changing because economic forces are always changing,” said Hartwick College’s new provost and vice president/academic affairs, who arrived on campus July 1. “We have to keep adapting to them.” To adapt quickly to change, Ehmann said, students need to have…
COLUMN VIEW FROM LYON America Invades France To Cheer Women’s Team Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Bill Waller, whose son Scott played for CCS, took Scott’s daughter – and aspiring soccer player – Kira to see World Cup play in France. By BILL WALLER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LYON, France – “USA, USA, USA.” Over 30,000, more than half of an enormous new Lyon, France Olympic soccer stadium’s crowd are screaming their support for the U.S. Women’s soccer team. Flags waving everywhere, chants…
BOUND VOLUMES July 18, 2019 By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STEWART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 200 YEARS AGO Died at Jerusalem, Ontario, on the 8th inst. – Jemima Wilkinson, commonly called the “Universal Friend,” aged 66 years. Her complaint, we learn, was the dropsy. A few moments previous to her death she placed herself in her Chapel, and called in her disciples one by one, and gave each a solemn admonition, then raised her hands, closed her eyes and gave…
Friends of Doubleday Past This Original ‘Friend Of Doubleday’ Might See Dream Come True Rudy: Even 25 Years Ago, Ballfield Was ‘Worn’ By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A lifelong love for everything baseball. That’s why a small group of men started the Friends of Doubleday in the early 1990s, according to John Rudy, a retired lawyer and now Cooperstown Baseball B&B proprietor, who was present at the creation. The story of the Friends’ founding began in…
