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At the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, NYSHA President Paul D’Ambrosio and Diane Forsberg, the Arkell’s chief curator, examine Winslow Homer’s “A High Sea: Watching the Breakers,” a centerpiece of this summer’s collaboration, “Winslow Homer: The Nature of Rhythm and Life,” at The Fenimore Art Museum.

ART OPENING: CANO members exhibition features Charlie Bremmer, Barbara Ardan and more. 5-8 p.m., Friday, March 7, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, www. canooneonta.org.

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By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN f you drove along the New York Thruway through the Mohawk Valley in the 1980s, you might have seen a dog-eared sign that read something like, “Winslow Homer paintings, next exit.” If you happened to see it and took that exit, you would have found yourself in front of the handsome but not atypical Canajoharie Library, Georgian Revival with a gambrel roof. Inside, behind the circula-

Watching the Breakers.” The collection, assembled by Beechnut founder Bartlett Arkell, was little known, even in the art history community. Paul D’Ambrosio, now president of NYSHA, was let in on the secret while a student at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in the 1980s by professor Gib Vincent, himself a future NYSHA president, who took his class on “a little pilgrimage” to the surprising cache of masterpieces. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is also providing one In 2004, the Arkell FoundaWinslow Homer, “Inside The Bar,” to the Fenimore exhibit. tion, founded in 1940 for the tion desk, was a middling room, brandt’s “The Night Watch” benefit of Bartlett’s hometown, not particularly well lit, but the among them – and originals of partnered with the library to walls popped, packed as they modern American masters, inbuild the modernistic Arkell were from floor to ceiling with cluding Winslow Homer’s most Museum to better showcase replicas of Old Masters – Remfamous creation, “A High Sea: Please See HOMER, B3

HOMECOMING SHOW: Jimkata returns with special guest The Manhattan Project. 8 p.m., Friday, March 7, Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontatheatre. com. BRIDAL BEAUTY: “The Perfect Bridal Show” features vendors, fashion, tastings and more for the bride-to-be. Noon-4 p.m., Sunday, March 9, The Carriage House, 790 Southside Dr., Oneonta. Info, Bobbie, (607) 434-0103, Paula, (607) 431-9333. WISE BUDDHA: Sandy Huntington leads a panel on “Buddhism Through Local Eyes” as part of the Friends of the Village Library Lecture Series. 3 p.m., Sunday, March 9, Cooperstown Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, Hilda Wilcox, (607) 547-9725.

SUNY Oneonta Students Snap Up Rooms In New High-Rise By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA

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t was fate that SUNY Oneonta sophomores Melissa Sider and Perri Spector were able to get a room at Hillside Commons.

“The double rooms went really fast,” said Amanda Masterjohn, leasing manager for the futuristic 325-student, four-story highrise opening in August on Blodgett Drive, at the campus’ north end. “They just happened to come in and a double was available.” “We’re in a quad now, and it’s so tiny,” said Perri, after she and Melissa toured a model apartment that was set up in Septem-

BUDDING STARS: Performers ages 7-18 can audition for the Glimmerglass Festival’s performances of “Madame Butterfly,” “Carousel” and “An American Tragedy.” 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, March 8, noon- 4 p.m., Sunday, March 9, Rehearsal studio, 4152 Rte. 20, Warren. Info, (607) 547-0700 Ext. 333, www.glimmerglass.org

ber in downtown Oneonta’s Clinton Plaza. “I get bored of campus food; I want to live like a real person.” Plenty of their 5,683 fellow students must agree; the building is almost 70 percent full. “Finding anything even remotely like this off campus is non-existent,” said Masterjohn. Please See HIGH-RISE, B2

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