In Search Of (Oneonta!) History GOHS’ Brzozowski Took Deep Dive Into Adopted City’s Past By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Even as a boy growing up in Antrim, N.H., young Bob Brzozowski befriended his elderly neighbors, entranced by stories they told about the good ole days in their rural community. When, age 9, he got a stamp collection book for Christmas, it piqued his interest in the larger world, from emerging African nations to Great Britain’s islands in the…
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BOUND VOLUMES January 7, 2021 200 YEARS AGO The Florida Treaty – The Treaty ceding Florida to the United States has been officially communicated to Mr. Rush, the American Minister in London. Don Manuel de Barros, who is attached to the Spanish Legation to the United States, is arriving at the House of the Spanish Consul at Bordeaux, with the Treaty for the Cession of the Floridas which had been ratified by the Cortes. A letter from Bordeaux, received at…
HOMETOWN HISTORY January 7, 2021 150 Years Ago Local: Most of the wells in this village are dry. Housewives therefore grumble. Charley Freiot has just received a large and splendid assortment of stereoscopic views. N.I. Ford wishes to say that he will sell his house and lot on Centre Street. It is centrally located and will be sold cheap. More than 70 houses have been built, enlarged and repaired in our village this past year. We hope to herald more…
HOMETOWN HISTORY December 31, 2020 125 Years Ago Congressman D.F. Wilber of Oneonta did not vote for the Dingley Tariff Bill. Neither did he vote against it. Mr. Wilber’s position on the bill was explained by him as follows: “I represent a district which is strongly protective in its tariff views and I myself am a radical protectionist. As such I could not bring myself around to support the Dingley measure. It is a bill for revenue rather than protection.…
BOUND VOLUMES December 31, 2020 150 YEARS AGO Quarantine – The experience of the past year has furnished additional evidence of the security afforded to the public health by the proper administration of quarantine laws. Out of 365 vessels which arrived in the port of New York from ports infected with Yellow Fever, 107 had cases of this disease on board either in the port of departure, or on their passage, or were found on their arrival here to have…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, OCT. 12 Jazz Night At CANO MUSIC AT THE MANSION – 6:30-8 p.m. Free event features open mic for solo and small ensemble musicians followed by an intermission and then a featured performance by The John Davey Trio and Lisa St.Onge. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. www.canoneonta.org/calendar/ HISTORY PROGRAM – 6:30 p.m. Presentation “Otsego County — The Lincoln Connection” by Deb Mackenzie. Kinney Memorial Library, Co. Hwy. 11, Hartwick. www.facebook.com/OtsegoIsHistory/ or call Deb Mackenzie…