Reporters Notebook A novice’s guide to opera, Glimmerglass style As a 30-something Oneonta resident who arrived from Brooklyn three months ago, it can be somewhat difficult finding things to do that don’t involve sitting at home and watching endless amounts of anime (for more information on this, see my previous column). However, one of the first things I heard about upon arriving in Oneonta, and since I also spend a lot of time at The Freeman’s Journal office in Cooperstown,…
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LETTER from TERRY BERKSON ‘Bootlegging Hermits’ Life Rich As Renaissance Man’s One cold and leafless November morning about 40 years ago, I was deer hunting on Panther Mountain outside of Richfield Springs with my friend Paul O’Connor. After a long climb, we came into an area that was covered with hardwood trees that stood in gentle depressions and on top of small hummocks. The rolling terrain repeated itself over and over in a nondescript fashion so that it was easy…