FAMILY FROM PHOENIX 1ST IN LINE After 126-Day Gap, Hall Opens Sedately “We’re open!” Oneonta’s Steve Pindar, Baseball Hall of Fame visitor services coordinator, called out at 9 a.m. sharp, and the Mecca at 25 Main St., with no fanfare, reopened after a 126-day closure caused by the coronavirus threat. Tadhg O’Brien, 6, in top photo, entered first, followed by brother Kian, 8, and dad Eugene, who were visiting grandmom Marjorie O’Brien of Syracuse, who is leaning against the rail. …
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
Cooperstown news - Page 45
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…
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…
Matching Masks And Parades Honor Graduates By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Although no graduations are being held at the Unadilla Drive-In, Cooperstown Central borrowed the idea, and families will watch the 2020 Commencement from parked cars at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28. “It will be a full ceremony, with all the students suited up on the field above,” said Superintendent Bill Crankshaw. And when families hear their student’s name over the loudspeaker, they’ll be invited up…
LETTER from ROBIN MOTT Village Pretty: Now Make It Work To the Editor: I have been told that between 5 and 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 24, a crew would be coming in to, hopefully, fix a water main on Main Street that has broken. If it does not get fixed, I will not be able to do business that day. I am not the only one in this situation. This is the third time that a water main has broken…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Briefing ‘From Worst To First’ Editor’s Note: Here are three excerpts from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 111th and last of “daily briefings” that became part of New Yorkers’ lives since the day of his emergency declaration Friday, March 13, as the coronavirus epidemic loomed, until Friday, June 19. He will continue briefings on an as-needed basis. Today, we have done a full 180, from worst to first. We are controlling the virus better than any state in the…
Trustees Erasing ‘Indian’ From Village Plaques By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It was a constituent that alerted Village Trustee MacGuire Benton to verbiage on historic markers at Council Rock, a Native American meeting place where the Susque- hanna River flows out of Otsego Lake. “I was shocked that I hadn’t noticed it previously,” he said. “The sign refers to Native Americans as ‘Indians’. It’s racially insensitive and incorrect, and it needs to be updated.” The signs,…
This 4th Of July Enjoy Virtual Parade By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com What do Franklin Delano Roosevelt and elephants have in common? Both will be part of a county-wide parade this Fourth of July – virtually, of course. “When Springfield announced that they would be cancelling their 4th of July parade” – the second-oldest continually running such parade in the country – “I knew we had to put something together that would uplift people,” said Michelle Bosma, New…
IN APPRECIATION Giles Russell, Good Citizen Giles Russell was the kind of citizen – active, engaged, sure-footed in the projects he undertook – that any community would welcome and cherish. “Giles was a very hardworking, very caring – I can’t think of anyone who cared more for the village than Giles; and a lot of people care about the village,” said Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk. To Cooperstown’s gain, he and wife Jane chose “America’s Most Perfect Village” as their new…
