HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 Sci-Fi & Horror Festival Returns SCI-FI & HORROR – 11 a.m. Day 2 of the strange and horrific festival. Features authors, vendors, speakers, activities, more. Cost, $6/person for day pass. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Visit www.facebook.com/SciFiHorroFest/…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Celebrate Community At Fall Potluck COMMUNITY POTLUCK – 4 – 7 p.m. Celebrate our community at 8th annual community harvest supper. Bring a dish to pass, cutlery, plates, beverages, pull up a chair and enjoy the company of your neighbors. Includes games on the Library Lawn for the kids. Main St. between River & Fair Sts., Cooperstown. E-mail kristenmgriger@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/GrowingCommunityCooperstown/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Drops To Hops Bike Race BIKE RACE – 10 a.m. 8th Annual Drops to Hops Bike Race. Ride 43 miles or 23 miles followed by party at the finish line for races, families. Cost, $55/person after 9/26. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Co. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800 or visit www.clarksportscenter.com/events/2019-drops-to-hops/…
FARMERS’ MUSEUM HARVEST FEST: One Perfect Day, Another One Due Juggling burning sticks, Dickens the Clown was performing again today at The Farmers’ Museum Harvest Festival, as he has for years. Sitting on the bench behind him are the Micelli family of Glenville, near Schenectady, who have come to the annual event for 16 years, since 16-year-old Katelyn Micelli, left, was a newborn. Inset, the sounds of Milford’s B.J. Baker’s violin serenaded festival goers at the entrance of the museum’s…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Celebrate The Harvest With Farmers’ Museum HARVEST FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 2-day fest featuring live performances, music, family activities to celebrate the seasons bounty. Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450 or visit www.farmersmuseum.org/Harvest-Festival…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, AUGUST 19 Learn Photography While Visiting Farmers’ Museum PHOTO EXCURSION – 6-8 p.m. Walk through The Farmers’ Museum with photographer Kevin Gray and learn tips on composition, lighting and camera techniques, and return home with your own beautiful pictures of Otsego Lake and the museum’s historic village at sunset. Bring lenses, camera battery, tripod (if you have one). Cost, $17/non-member. Fenimore Art Museum & Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org CLICK FOR MORE HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 Landscape Art Fest On The Lake ART EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Art By The Lake 12th annual juried art exhibit celebrating relationship between artists and landscape. Also features artist demonstrations, food by Origins Cafe, music, more. Lake front Lawn, Fenimore Art Museum, Coopersotwn. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, JULY 9 Junior Livestock Show LIVESTOCK SHOW – 9:30 a.m. The Farmers’ Museum Annual Junior Livestock Show features best livestock and youth exhibitors from a nine-county region. Iroquois Farm Showgrounds, County Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1461. CLICK FOR MORE HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Father’s Of The Past FATHER’S DAY TALK– 1-3 p.m. “The Man of the House” program offers Henry Wilcox’s 1867-1911 diaries’ excerpts to show drastic changes in that role since. Refreshments, house tours. Swart-Wilcox House, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta.…
Lost Art Of Blacksmithing Lives At Farmers’ Museum …well, not completely lost, as Lucas Novko, Oneonta, (top photo) a blacksmith/interpreter at The Farmers’ Museum, demonstrates this afternoon during the first day of the Blacksmithing Weekend. Inset, John Patterson, New Lisbon, describes how the functions of blacksmiths (making useful and decorative tools) and ferriers (shoeing horses) separated after World War II, when workhorses were phased out, and horseback riding for pleasure moved to the fore. Listening are David Martin and Melissa…