HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 Explore Oneonta Main Street Historic District WALKING TOUR – 5 p.m. “Historic Main Street Walking Tour” with Bob Brzozowski, Steve Yerly, and Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope. Admission by donation. Walk-ins welcome. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or visit https://oneontahistory.org/events-programs/ DINE OUT – Eat out at local restaurants to support Helios Care. Bella Michael’s, 57 River Street, Oneonta. (607) 431-9166 or visit https://www.helioscare.org/all-events/dine-out-for-a-cause/?sd=1672531200&ed=1703980800…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, JUNE 6 Share Your Stories Of Baseball In Oneonta BASEBALL STORIES – 6-8 p.m. Local fans are invited to share their stories about Oneonta’s baseball history. Hosted by Bob Brzozowski and Chris Vredenburg at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or visit oneontahistory.org/visit/ PLANTING – 1-4 p.m. Join Otsego Land Trust to beautify the gardens at Brookwood Point, 6000 New York 80, Cooperstown. (607) 547.2366 or visit otsegooutdoors.org/event/volunteer-day-at-brookwood-gardens/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 Fighting Fire In Early Oneonta ONEONTA HISTORY – 6:30 p.m. Online program from exhibit ‘Up from the Ashes: Oneonta Shaped by Fire’ featuring exhibit planners Carlene Bermann, Bob Brzozowski, others will discuss highlights. Presented by Greater Oneonta Historical Society. 607-432-0960 or visit www.oneontahistory.org/upcomingevents.htm…
In Search Of (Oneonta!) History GOHS’ Brzozowski Took Deep Dive Into Adopted City’s Past By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Even as a boy growing up in Antrim, N.H., young Bob Brzozowski befriended his elderly neighbors, entranced by stories they told about the good ole days in their rural community. When, age 9, he got a stamp collection book for Christmas, it piqued his interest in the larger world, from emerging African nations to Great Britain’s islands in the…
Bresee’s Santa Lives Restored Five Years Ago, Jolly Elf Reclaims His Stature In Downtown By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Even Santa Claus sometimes needs a little work done. For the past five years, he’s been a Christmas Time treat at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, but for many years after Bresee’s Department Store closed down in the 1990s, he was out of the public eye. “He had been in our warehouse, and we rescued him,” said Elaine Bresee,…
EDITORIAL Use County Historian Position To Help Revive Post-COVID Economy ‘History Tourism’ Can Bolster Off-Seasons As it happens, both AllOTSEGO.life stories in this week’s newspaper – it’s rechristened for this one week only as AllOTSEGO.heritage – explore two surprising pieces of our county’s history. Too little known, not to our local historians, listed in the box at right, but to most of the rest of us. Also this week, our county’s Heritage Businesses trumpet their longevity and success in twice-annual…
S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance Focus Of Swart-Wilcox Panel Libby Cudmore, mystery author and managing editor, Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal/AllOTSEGO.com, speaks about the creation of Philo Vance, one of the premier sleuths of the “Golden Age” of detective fiction, by Willard Huntington Wright, who adopted the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine to write the mystery series, during a talk at the Swart-Wilcox House this afternoon. With her are Bob Brzozowski, executive director, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, who discovered that Wright likely…
History Center Reopens Friday ONEONTA – The Oneonta History Center reopens at noon Friday, Executive Director Bob Brzozowski announced a few minutes ago. COVID-19 closed the center at 183 Main St. almost four months ago. The GOHS has developed a Safety Plan to help ensure everyone’s health upon reopening. Attendance will be limited to 15 persons at a time. Masks and social distancing will be required. There will be regular cleaning and disinfecting of high-contact surfaces.…
Elaine Bresee To Lead Effort FOTOT Planning To Buy, Renovate Oneonta Theater By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – By the end of the year, Bob Brzozowski hopes, the newly revived Friends of the Oneonta Theater will have site control of the theater. “We’ve seen places like Walton, Norwich, Bainbridge and Worcester re-open their theaters,” he said. “If small towns can do it, so can we.” Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, is one of three new…
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