From This Week’s Edition
Of The Freeman’s Journal
LANDMARK OPENS TODAY FOR TAKEOUT
Retired Maritime Lawyer
Steers Cooperstown Diner
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
“She told me that if we started dating, Cooperstown was in my future,” he said. “She spent every summer up here, taking horseback riding lessons from the Moffats and staying with her aunt on Pioneer Street.”COOPERSTOWN – When Caspar Ewig met his wife, Patricia, in 1973, she had a condition for going steady with her.
Now, 47 years later, he’s fulfilled that edict, taking over as the new manager of the Cooperstown Diner, which is reopening for take-out Thursday, May 28.
“I was looking for something to do and I saw the diner was looking for a manager,” he said. “I called Scott Hayford” – longtime owner Earle Hayford’s son – “and the rest is history.”