To Barn or Not to Barn … By Helen K. B. Rees The Swart-Wilcox Barn Committee met on Monday, October 3 to discuss the possibility of a barn for the Swart-Wilcox House Museum complex. There had been a barn on the property from the 1790s until 1968. At that time it was burned down by the City as a fire-fighting exercise. It is now felt that a barn would help tell the story of the early settlers, who were mainly…
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He Pitched For Phillies In World Series Display On Jim Konstanty At GOHS During October ONEONTA – “Jim Konstanty & the World Series,” featuring Oneonta’s most accomplished Major Leaguer, is on display at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., through October. Helen Rees, Konstanty’s daughter, is sharing her collection of memorabilia from her father’s professional baseball career. Konstanty (1917-1976) played for five teams during his 11 years in the Majors. Although also a starting pitcher, he is considered baseball’s first…
DAR Display At Mall Honors Constitution…
HENRY WILCOX, IN HIS OWN WORDS City Father’s Diaries Being Transcribed By Swart-Wilcox Friends Some Of It Humdrum, Some Endearing By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The Huntington Library didn’t know what it had. When the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society – now the GOHS – was cleaning the Swart-Wilcox House for the 1976 Bicentennial, someone found all of Henry Wilcox’s diaries, said Helen Rees. “They gave them to the Huntington Library and two were transcribed, but they didn’t…
Swart-Wilcox House Opens Season With Reading Of 1870s Journals…
