HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, NOV. 18 Oneonta History Center Opens Holiday Exhibit To Learn How You Can Help Area Families This Holiday Season CLICK HERE. HOLIDAY DISPLAY OPENS – Noon-3 p.m. Bresee’s Santa, model train layouts, and other traditional holiday displays. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneotna. Info, (607)432-0960 or www.oneontahistory.org FUNDRAISER – 4:30-7 p.m. Brooks Barbeque Chicken Dinner & Homemade Pie Sale. Proceeds benefit the church’s Global Mission Outreach. Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)547-9555. GINGERBREAD CONTEST…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Marketing Tourism Discussed At Oneonta TOURISM ROUNDTABLE– 8:30-10 a.m. Professionals invited to open participatory tourism marketing roundtable with tourism leaders. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Coffee and bagels served. Reservations required by Nov. 1. Info, Barbara Heegan baheegan@otsegocc.com, (607)432-4500 ext. 207. SUNY THEATER – 8 p.m. Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.” Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.edu/academics/theatre/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Lighten up this Election Season CAPITOL STEPS – 6 p.m. The Capitol Steps.. They put the “mock” in Democracy. Washington-based group of political staffers turned songwriters who perform equal opportunity musical satire and parody. $35 per person, show only. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://foothillspac.org/ or (607) 431-2080 PUMPKIN GLOW – 6-7 p.m. Jack “O’ Lantern Festival. (Drop off your pumpkins 1-4 p.m. on Village Library porch if you want to…
IN MEMORIAM: Peter Macris; Glimmerglass, Foothills Founder Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Sam Goodyear has alerted us that Peter Macris, founder of Orpheus Theater, the Glimmerglass Opera and the Foothills Performing Arts Center, passed away early Saturday. In recent years he has been living in Suffield, Conn., near his daughter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Meanwhile, here is an appreciation of Macris that Goodyear delivered in 2008 at a testimonial for the giant figure in the development of Otsego County’s arts community. PETER…
6o ‘ENVISIONEER’ ACHIEVING INCLUSIVE ONEONTA BY 2025 ONEONTA – Sixty citizens spent half a day today “envisioneering” – a term coined by late Mayor Dick Miller – on what ONE-onta ought to look like in 2025. “You have unity in your name,” observed the keynote speaker, Corning Inc. Ph.D. Mark Vaughn. The occasion was an Inclusivity Summit, hosted in Foothills Performing Arts Center, and while discussion included the need to make a diverse population welcome, also discussed was how to make…