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Edition of 06/27/2024

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Independence Day the Old-fashioned Way

Nineteenth-century children’s games will be provided for family play on the Bump Tavern Green. Museum artisans will demonstrate traditional blacksmithing, letterpress printing and other trades throughout the day. At the print shop, visitors can pick up a copy of the 1840’s lemonade recipe, printed on the museum’s Liberty Job Press.…

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Lineup Announced for Summer Festival

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival released the concert schedule for its 26th season, featuring a wide variety of artists and genres. The Miró Quartet, one of the country’s most celebrated string groups, will kick things off at The Farmers’ Museum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 18.…

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Editorial: A New Perspective

The exhibition, in its first appearance before it begins some wide traveling, and to Denmark as well, is outstanding, both in its inside gallery, which is a traditional exhibition space, and in its outside space, not so traditional, overlooking beautiful Otsego Lake and far-off surrounding hillsides.…

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Cooperstown Observed: Thank You to the Altruists

The gardens of Cooperstown abound with riches: flowers of every color, height, size, shape, and configuration; herbaceous borders; privet hedges; multicolored flowering bushes in bursts of joy; plants without number; flower-filled window boxes, urns, and hanging baskets; seasonal wreaths; mini-jungles worthy of Henri Rousseau; and whiffs of lilacs, roses, honeysuckle, and the like.…