HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, JULY 18 Benefit Run/Walk SUNDAE RUN/WALK – 8 a.m. Support local community center and get outside for 5k, 10k run, or a 2 mile walk followed by opportunity to make your own ice cream sundae, 50/50 raffle, more. Cost, $25/person. Register the day of from 7 – 8 a.m. Richfield Springs Veterans Club, 13 Lake St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-3200 or visit runsignup.com/Race/NY/RichfieldSprings/RSCCRunWalk…
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S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance Focus Of Swart-Wilcox Panel Libby Cudmore, mystery author and managing editor, Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal/AllOTSEGO.com, speaks about the creation of Philo Vance, one of the premier sleuths of the “Golden Age” of detective fiction, by Willard Huntington Wright, who adopted the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine to write the mystery series, during a talk at the Swart-Wilcox House this afternoon. With her are Bob Brzozowski, executive director, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, who discovered that Wright likely…
SUSAN B. ANTHONY EXPLORED Century-Old Ideals About Womanhood Bring Groans Today By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Digging through the NYSHA archives in 2004, Sharon Stuart, Otsego town historian, found an item that everyone else overlooked. “As I was looking through February 1885 issues of The Freeman’s Journal, a name caught my eye,” Stewart said during a Sunday, Aug. 9, talk at the Swart-Wilcox House, “Susan B. Anthony.” Stuart’s talk on Anthony – she also spoke in 1894…
Historian Tells Crowd Susan B. Anthony Was Here…
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Swart-Wilcox Sunday Series Kicks Off With Marbled Paper With plenty of room to spread out for social distancing, the Swart-Wilcox House kicked off their annual Summer Sundays series with a talk from Elaine Downing, right, on marbled paper. Guests were asked to bring their own lawn chairs and masks, and although the house was not open for tours, the lawn was wide open for seating. The series will continue at 1 p.m. every Sunday throughout the summer with talks on…
Rail Travel in Oneonta Topic Of Wilcox Talk…
Thank You, Swart Wilcox Volunteers Tell Supporters The staff of the Swart Wilcox House hosted an open house this afternoon in appreciation to all supporters who helped preserve Oneonta’s oldest surviving house and continue to prosper. Above, volunteers Norma Slawson, Debby Clough, Loraine Tyler, Pat Follett, Ann Schulz, Helen Rees, Richard Tyler, Ginny Pudelka and Len Pudelka pose for a photo on the lawn with a celebratory cake made by Barbara Clark, Otego. All but two items in the house…
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…