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Susan Fenimore Cooper
The first days of August 2023, have arrived. It’s the absolute height of summer. Hot, but not too hot, humid, most of the time, sunny, fairly often, rainy, pretty much a little bit every day, with some humdingers in between, and unseasonably green. We have at long last shed our down jackets and hung up our fleece, though not too far away, and embraced, though merely for a few moments, the snow-less, freeze-less few short weeks we have in front…
‘OOPS! TOO LATE!’ and ‘Patterns’ Open at CAA Galleries COOPERSTOWN—This Friday, April 14, the Cooperstown Art Association Galleries will hold an opening reception on the front porch from 5-7 p.m. for two shows, “OOPS! TOO LATE!” by Jules Feiffer in Gallery A and “Patterns” by Melissa Tevere in Gallery B. The exhibits are on display concurrently through May 10. “OOPS! TOO LATE!” is described as a playful exhibit of current work by renowned illustrator Jules Feiffer, meant to surprise, give a…
Editorial Into the Woods with Merlin Spring has arrived in Otsego County—at last. The birds are flying around, trying out their songs and leaving their feeder seeds to the squirrels, the daffodils are peeking up through the dirty remains of snow and mud, there’s a big black bear or two sneaking around the bird feeders on Glimmerglen Road, and there’s water pouring off the hills everywhere.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, APRIL 14 The American Landscape in Art & Literature EARTH DAY LECTURE – 7 – 8:30 p.m. Commemorate Earth Day and enjoy lecture ‘Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Hudson School’ presented by author and professor Rochelle Johnson, exploring how literature and painting employed similar techniques to represent landscape change in the nineteenth century, with a special focus on Susan Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole. Free, suggested donation $15, registration for Zoom required. Presented by The Fenimore…
Editorial Rural Hours This week, as we watch the forests magically change their colors, wave fond goodbyes to the squawking flocks and ponder the stillness of the lake in its reflective glory, Susan Fenimore Cooper comes to mind. And while we were planning to offer our own reflections on the beauty of the changing season, Cooper’s enchanting treatment of the subject would be hard to top, so we let her speak for herself. It was in 1850 that her book,…
THE OTHER FENIMORE COOPER By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After reading “Rural Hours,” Charles Darwin, of all people, mentioned Susan Fenimore Cooper in a letter to Asa Gray, perhaps the most important American botanist of the 19th Century. Struck by her understanding of the “battle” between Old and New World weeds, he asked, “Who is she?” Nowadays, we know the “weeds” she was writing about were “invasive species,” a burning environ-mental issue in Glimmerglass’ environs even today, 125…
CLICK TO READ TEXT OF ARTICLE Audubon Magazine Features Cooperstown Nature Writer Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Reputation Rising COOPERSTOWN – This month’s edition of Audubon magazine features Susan Fenimore Cooper, whose “Rural Hours” (1850) was mentioned by Henry David Thoreau his journals prior to the publication of his famous “Walden” (1854). Credited simply as “by a lady,” her “Rural Hours,” while praised by such giants at Charles Darwin, prevented Susan from even approaching the fame of her father, James Fenimore Cooper.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MARCH 13 Environmentalism Of Susan Fenimore Cooper ART LECTURE – 2 p.m. Discuss naturalist author Susan Fenimore Cooper and her work ‘Rural Hours’ with leading scholar Rochelle L. Johnson and what her contributions mean in the era of climate change. Free, registration required for Zoom conference. Dontions of $10 or more requested. Presented by Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org…
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