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Taking The Grave Out Of Gravestone Gravestones in Oneonta Plains Cemetery reflect the more personal approach to eternity.
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Show your love for the Catskill Symphony Orchestra and enjoy great food and wine at their benefit tasting on Saturday, May 31.
Good Food Benefits Good Music At CSO Fundraiser
Cherry Valley Monuments’ Daniel Viscosi shows a gravestone with an almostphotographic etching of a farm scene, one in a new trend of personal markers for people who move into the great beyond.
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ample 13 different wines paired with appetizers from 10 local restaurants, all the benefit the Catskill Symphony Orchestra with music by Alone Together. 7-9 p.m., Saturday, May 31, Oneonta Country Club, Country Club Road, Oneonta. Info, tickets, (607) 436-2670. DOG DAYS: Bark for Life dog walk raises funds for the American Cancer Society. 10 a.m., Saturday, May 31, Fortin Park, Youngs Rd., Oneonta. Info, wpoohbear25@yahoo.com. FANCY PLANTS: Fill out your garden with clippings from the private collections of the Master Gardeners at their annual plant sale. 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, May 31, Cooperative Extension Education Center, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-2536, Ext. 228.
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Cherry Valley Memorials Will Cement Your Personality For All Time By LIBBY CUDMORE CHERRY VALLEY
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t began with an elaborate request, remembers Daniel Viscosi, a third-generation stone-carver at Cherry
Valley Memorials. “A man came in and he wanted a scene on his gravestone of a coon in a tree and a coon dog down at the bottom,” he said. “My father and my grandfather looked at him and said, ‘We don’t do coon dogs’!” What could be carved on a
gravestone then was limited by social convention – now, the possibilities are endless. Detailed scenes, personal etchings and photographs are beginning to take the place of roses, the Virgin Mary or simple crosses on monuments. “We’re doing one now that’s an aerial shot of
the family farm in Fly Creek,” he said. “It’s a family monument.” In the Oneonta Plains Cemetery, a scene on Harry Chambers’ grave depicts a man fly fishing; on the tombstone of Oneonta Bus Lines owner Please See MARKERS, B4
AUTHORS DEBUT: The Smithy Writers Circle members read from their new collection, “The Wordsmith Anthology.” 1-3 p.m., Saturday, May 31, Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8898. HOLE IN ONE: Score big and help local families at the Annual Family Service Association golf tournament, with a $10,000 Hole-in-One prize. 8:30 a.m., Sunday, June 1, Ouleout Golf Course, 13501 St. Hwy. 357, Franklin. Info, sign-up Patricia Leonard, (607) 432-2870.
Present At First Induction, He’s Much In Demand On 75th Year A Resource To All, Homer Osterhoudt Will Lecture, Sign Autographs By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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Homer Osterhoudt at the Hall’s Classic parade with, from left, son and daughterin-law Darrell and Priscilla Osterhoudt of Virginia and Mary Hoose of Portlandville.
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omer Osterhoudt has been part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame since the very first brick. In 1937, “I had just gotten a job as a laborer at Bedford Construction Company,” he said. “I mixed cement, I built scaffolding, I laid brick – whatever they
BIRD BRUNCH: Birds, Brunch and Beer event features workshops, food, raffles and more. 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sunday, June 1, Brewery Ommegang, 656 Cty. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, tickets, Eleanor Moriarty, (607) 435-2054.
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eview a slide show of Homer’s photos of baseball notables from the past 75 years in the “New This Week” section at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
SPRING SONGS: Catskill Chamber Singers present their spring concert, “Some of Our Favorites: Songs of the Season.” 4 p.m., Sunday, June 1, Unitarian Universalist Church, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-0999.
needed me to do.” It was his first job, at age 19, and two years later, he was front and center for the Hall of Fame’s first Induction Please See HOMER, B4
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