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Farmers’ Museum Crowd-Sourcing To Fund Retirement Home For ‘Zeb’ By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A cherished figure at The Farmer’s Museum is hoping to get a new home soon. Zeb, a 23-year-old Percheron, retired from full service two years ago, and museum officials are hoping to raise enough money to build him his own stable to relax in. Following the two busiest shopping days of the year – Black Friday and Cyber Monday – museum officials took…
IN MEMORIAM: Jacquelyn Mortensen, 86; Operated Carousel At Farmers’ Museum VAN HORNESVILLE – Jacquelyn P. Mortensen, 86, who operated the Empire State Carousel at The Farmers’ Museum for 25 years, passed away peacefully on Thursday afternoon Nov. 16, 2017, at her home on Summit Hill Road, with her family by her side. She was born on Aug. 24, 1931, in Hartford, Conn., a daughter of the late David and Anna Egenton Parsons. Jacquelyn was raised and educated in Hartford.…
COMMISSIONER BALL BRIEFS GATHERING Youth Food Movement On Center Stage Today Young Farmers, Restauraters Keynote Annual Farmers’ Museum Ag Forum The Leonard sisters, Dana, left, and Kristen, in top photo, co-founders of Origins Cafe on Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown, and local exponents of the Youth Food Movement, organized the keynote panel at today’s “Celebration of Our Agricultural Community,” The Farmers’ Museum annual “Conference on Food & Farming,” which continues throughout the day at the Louis C. Jones Center. Free, and…
Ghostly Haunts Toured As Hallow’s Eve Nears With Halloween arriving Oct. 31, thrill-seekers filled tours of local ghostly haunts over the weekend. In top photo, Hyde Hall interpreter John Henry Aborn discusses unexplained happenings, premature deaths and curses uttered at the National Historic Mansion on Otsego Lake as “Hyde and Shriek” tours began at dusk Saturday. Later that evening, (inset photo at right), Linda Smith of Oneonta, flanked by brother Roger, left, and husband Geoff, examines documentation of deadly happenings…
Too Nice A Day To Stay Inside Here Are 2 Things To Do, Spooky And Sedate The Labruzzo twins, Gino, left, and Joe, are getting a jump on Halloween, activating their very creative Scruff & Pup’s Pumpkin Stand on Allen Lake Road between West Lake Road and Richfield Springs. Fun (and ghouls) for all ages, including – new this year – a Puzzle Room: Figure out the puzzle and you can get out. The stand is open noon-5 weekdays and…
Hopsego Features Beer Samples, Music, Demonstrations, Kid Fun Wyatt Crowley from the Red Shed, Cherry Valley, top photo, pours a sample of the craft brewery’s offerings for Debbie Quick and Ray Kelly, both of Milford, this afternoon at The Farmers’ Museum first Hopsego Festival, celebrating the revival of Otsego County’s signature crop and related beer making in recent years. At left, Linda Patterson of East Greenbush sports a hops corsage, the outcome of hops-related crafts pursued today at the Cooperstown…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, JUNE 25 Share Musical History ORAL HISTORY – 2 p.m. Share your stories about Oneonta’s Music History, facilitated by Dr. Alan Donovan. All are invited. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call (607)432-0960 or visit www.OneontaHistory.org ART BAZAAR – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Browse the collection of gently used artwork and fine crafts for sale by artists at the Spring Cleaning Art Bazaar. Cooperstown Art Association. www.cooperstownart.com…