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. Catherine Lake Ellsworth 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 participant. At the conference, a handout entitled “A Tribute to Hugh MacDougall” was distributed to the attendees.…
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Man Of The World Hugh MacDougall Encountered Adventures Worldwide By HUGH MacDOUGALL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Editor’s Note: Hugh MacDougall, one of Cooperstown’s foremost citizens, spent 28 years in our nation’s diplomat corps. On May 15,2020, he recounted several of his overseas’ adventures in a lecture at The Thanksgiving Home, where he resided from April 2019 until his passing on Saturday, March 6, 2021. MacDougall in 2007 In 1958, I joined the United States Foreign Service, where I spent the next 28 years, mostly as a political reporting officer. I served in seven countries overseas, as well as at the…
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