LETTER from CATHERINE LAKE ELLSWORTH Hugh’s Legacy Linked To Famed Novelist Editor’s Note: On hearing of Hugh MacDougall’s March 6 passing, former columnist Cathe Ellsworth, now retired from Cooperstown to Mount Vernon, Ohio, resubmitted this column from Feb. 15, 2018, as a tribute to the James Fenimore Cooper expert. We have recently learned that at the 21st International Cooper Conference, held in Oneonta last September, Cooperstonian Hugh MacDougall was recognized as founder of the Cooper Society and longtime Cooper Conference…
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COLUMN WHERE NATURE SMILES Year After Moving To Ohio, Reflections On Cooperstown By CATHE ELLSWORTH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It was a year ago last week that we left our home of 36 years in Cooperstown to move to a new home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. We left behind the house which the he-we’s grandparents built for $5,000 in 1912. Though the years, four generations of the Ellsworth family lived at 105 Pioneer St. But now the family has indeed…