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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25-26 2014
THE BATS...
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO
BEST BETS
While beekeeper McCoy “extracted,� bees buzzed around his Franklin Mountain plant.
...and THE BEES
“Peaceable Kingdom� by Edward Hicks is on display at The Fenimore Art Museum’s current folk art exhibit
Fenimore Symposium Celebrates Folk Art
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he history, personal collections and culture of folk art will be the theme of this year’s Fenimore Art Museum symposium, “Folk Art and American Modernism.� $65 members, $75 non-members, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, The Fenimore Art Museum, State Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/americana. BIKES, BEER: Third annual “Drops to Hop� bike race, hosted by Clark Sports Center and Brewery Ommegang. Finish line party for racers and families. 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, Brewery Ommegang, 656 Co. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, www.clarksportscenter.com/events. DINE WITH NEIGHBORS: Growing Community’s third Community Harvest Dinner is 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, on tables set up on Main Street between Fair and River, Cooperstown. Bring place setting, dish to pass and recipe to share. In case of rain, dinner moves to fire hall.
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Cooperstown Bat proprietors Tim and Connie Haney are dwarfed by the silo at their Hartwick plant, which they fill four times a year with sawdust from their bats – 11 tons in all – and us it to heat their plant.
Cooperstown Bat Uses Wood Twice – For Its Product, And To Heat Plant By LIBBY CUDMORE HARTWICK
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aste not, want not is how Tim and Connie Haney see it. “We’ve paid for the wood,� said Connie. “We might as well use it.� The owners of the Cooperstown Bat Company will tell two-thirds of the wood used in making their custom bats gets turned into sawdust. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. Please See BATS, B4
Product – and heat source – is piled high in the Haneys’ plant.
Beekeeper John McCoy prepares a frame from one of his 200 colonies of bees for the extractor.
TAKE TO THE SKY: A kite-building workshop, followed by a high-flying festival. Workshop, $5 admission includes supplies at 9 a.m., festival 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Cherry ValleySpringfield School, Cherry Valley. Info, cvartworks.org
Honey Harvesters Hail Sweet Product Of Hives By LIBBY CUDMORE
DUCKIES DO: Not just for bathtime anymore! The Cooperstown Lions Club hosts the annual Rubber-Duck Race, with free family fun, prizes, entertainment; proceeds benefit community. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Sept. 27-28. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, www.flycreekcidermill.com.
ON FRANKLIN MOUNTAIN
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or Otsego County beekeepers like John McCoy, fall is the sweetest time of the year – the honey harvest. McCoy, owner of McCoy’s Pure Raw Honey, overlooking Oneonta from Route 28, is in the middle of what the industry calls “extraction� – he collects over 2,000 frames from his nine beekeeping locations throughout Otsego County and culls the sweet nectar he built his business on. “This year, we’ve got a lot of goldenrod honey, mixed with a little of the knotwood,� he said as he placed the dripping frames in the extractor. Bees were buzzing everywhere. “It turns it dark, but Please See BEES, B4
DEVIL’S DEAL: Hartwick College presents “Doctor Faustus� by Christopher Marlowe, performed by the American Shakespeare Center. 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, Slade Theatre, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-427 or www. hartwick.edu/theatre.
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