George Peters

12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s.   He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…