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Orpheus Theater presents Seussical Jr.

Hyde Hall and Glimmerglass State Park celebrate the opening of the summer season with local vendors and organizations offering everything from a chance to meet the Rolling Meadows Clydesdales to archery with the Boy Scouts and crafting with the Springfield Center Library. Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Saturday, June 11, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. www.hydehall.org; www. parks.ny.gov/parks/glimmerglass • Explore Wilber Mansion in Oneonta and enjoy a beer tasting from local craft brewers, live music by The Wood Shop Project, art from the Mansion Show, and floral arrangements by the Oneonta Federated Garden Club. Admission, $5 per person. The Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta. Saturday, June 11, 7 - 9 p.m.

• The popular Friendship Craft Festival returns to Richfield Springs after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Find handmade gifts sold by local vendors, artisans, and crafters.

Sponsored by the Church of Christ Uniting and held at Spring Park on scenic Route 20 in Richfield Springs.

Bake sale, Brooks’ Barbeque.

Saturday, June 11, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

• Enjoy a Butternut Valley hike and explore the On the Trail of Art woodland exhibit featuring works

by the area’s professional and student artists. Free, open to the public. Basswood State Park, 500 Conservation Road, Burlington.

Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. www.butternutvalleyalliance.org • Learn about Otsego County during the Great Depression in “American Ideal: Picturing Otsego County in 1937,” the new exhibit from the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

Opening reception at The Smithy’s third-floor gallery, 55 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown. Friday, June 10, 5 - 7 p.m. www.smithyarts.org • Join the Starstruck Players for this presentation of Seussical Jr., featuring beloved characters from Horton the Elephant to the Cat in the Hat. Cost, $15/adult. Presented

by Orpheus Theater at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11 at 7:30 p.m.; matinee performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 12. www. orpheustheatre.org/seussical

►ON THE COVER Evan Jagels and Kristen Leonard collaborate to add musical fire to the menu at Origins Café.

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Cooperstown’s Origins Cafe promises summer filled with fantastic food, music It stands to reason that a summer music calendar at Origins Café would be as eclectic, innovative, and fresh as the food on the menu – and that’s exactly what happens this summer as the Cooperstown restaurant readies its 2022 Featured Artist Concert Series featuring tangos, a brass band, world jazz, and thoughtful improvisation over four special nights.

Local bass impresario and musical omnivore Evan Jagels worked with Origins Café owners Kristen and Dana Leonard to bring a diversity of styles to the unique setting – a multipurpose room that features a greenhouse, lush and vibrant plants, and the full-service restaurant. It’s the second year for the concert series.

“Last year’s was such a success that we wanted to do it again,” Mr. Jagels said. He’s enthusiastic about what’s on offer for the summer of 2022, adding, “We want to bring bands to town that people might not think about or think they’d see in a village in upstate New York.”

First up this year, then, on Saturday, June 18, is Latin Grammy-award winner Pedro Giruado and his Tango Quartet. So says their website: “The quartet’s fervent and virtuosic musical style takes elements from Argentine tango, European classical music, and American jazz, and combines them gracefully and organically, bringing something new and exciting to the form while retaining all the lushness and beauty that characterizes the genre.”

Mr. Jagels puts it simply thus: “People may have a preconceived notion of what tango is all about. When an audience is exposed to something like tango at a world-class level, though, they know they love it.”

Along with Pedro Giraudo’s Grammy-winning pedigree, the quartet includes the assistant concertmaster of the New York City Ballet, a Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall-performing solo bandoneonist, and an international piano prodigy now living in New York City.

Mr. Jagels and Kristen Leonard expect an exciting evening on June 18, and again on July 23 when they welcome the Dingonek Street Band to Origins.

“I was driving to New York City and heard a brass band on the radio,” Mr. Jagels said. “There was a brass festival in Kingston and it was just amazing to see. These weren’t marching bands playing traditional parade tunes.

There was Afrobeat, New Orleans jazz, you name it. The experience really became the seed for our Origins concert series.”

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Tangos, brass bands, spontaneity add musical spice

Continued from page 3 required dinner service on an atmosphere at the restaurant unique not just Wednesdays and Fridays. for Otsego County, but for visitors who make it Dingonek is a six-piece, Find out more “We have local music to a point to make the café a must-do when they’re Brooklyn-based band “dediFor more about Origins Café: pair with the food we serve nearby. The Leonards share their passion through cated to human culture and www.originscafe.org from local farms,” Kristen their ‘Growing Leaders’ program, open to all sonic adventure,” according Pedro Giraudo: Leonard said.

“It’s a combijunior and senior-high school students. to its website. “Built on www.pedrogiraudo.com nation that fits perfectly with “We hope to have an impact on the next the celebratory energy what we want to do here.” generation of change-makers,” Ms. Leonard Dingoneck Street band: and raw spontaneity of www.dingonekbrass.com One mile outside of said.

“We have kids here every year who want to the second-line brass band Cooperstown at 588 Beaver make a difference, starting with plants and food Heard: www.heardmusic.net tradition, Dingonek has Meadow Road, the popular decisions.” created a funky, high-energy Nicole Brancato and Duo Extempore: restaurant grew after the Her program opens students to planning garden www.nicolebrancato.com party music all its own by Leonard sisters decided to open space, planting, maintaining, and cultivating the absorbing and reworking Sample performances from a food truck a decade ago. food they choose to grow, and then preparing elements of Afrobeat, Ethiothe Origins Concert Series “We outgrew that first dishes to serve to the public from the gardens they bands at this playlist: https:// jazz, punk rock, free jazz, truck pretty quickly,” she began with the first seedings as early as April. open.spotify.com/playlist/ and Balkan brass music.” said.

“We got a bigger food “We have them work in what was our first food 6jXYHGNFEUFxxWZNAluTd6?si=Tj_ If that’s not eclectic ZHOB9RZqIGLoks9AhRg truck that we still use today, truck,” she said. “They get the whole experience enough, the Capital Regionbut we saw the opportunity to and it’s completely hands-on for them. We put a based sextet Heard comes to take what we have here at the pizza oven in, as well, so they can make pizzas town on August 20, a show the restaurant expects garden and turn it into a restaurant that matched to serve during our concert series performances. to be ‘great for kids’ with a workshop before the our vision for fresh and freshly made food.”

They love it.” evening’s performance. Of their 2018 album, Their website spells out the list of local farm “We want to inspire entrepreneurs,” she said.

“Flyaway,” the late and learned musicologist partners from which the restaurant sources its “The high schoolers come in here with real Greg Haynes of Albany wrote this: “Not sure that food, with menus changing to “share the best of passion and we want to help them find their role. my ears are big enough to hear all the influences seasonal flavors.”

The family has traveled the They know they are the new activists for food of Flyaway or the multiplicity of voices and world learning about sustainability, biodiversity, sustainability, healthy choices, and different instruments … most striking is the vast number and culinary arts — a background that creates methods of doing things.” of percussion instruments … and while the instruments and voices and the textures they produce are numerous, the music is clear and evocative.” (www.heardmusic.net) The final concert scheduled to date in the series is a September 24 performance by Duo Extempore — featuring world-renowned pianist Nicole Brancato and, on bass, Mr. Jagels.

“Like the name suggests,” Mr. Jagels said, “it’s improvisational and extemporaneous. We set out WITH ANIMALS, CRAFTS, MUSIC & MORE to express the physical space of our surroundings through the music we develop; we’ll consider the room and space we’re in, its history, its origins, and bring that to life with the music we create.”

The duo formed during the pandemic’s lockdown, when the two musicians began collaborating online, meeting in person afterward and deciding to explore different performance opportunities together in the same room. Their next appearance is June 11 at Hyde Hall in Glimmerglass State Park, when they’ll bring to life the building’s history, artwork, and artifacts through an extemporaneous musical performance.

“We’ll be using the mansion’s original pianoforte,” Mr. Jagels said. “We’re studying the history of Hyde Hall, its architecture, its people, the people who worked there and their own traditions.”

The four concerts scheduled so far aren’t Visit HYDEHALL.ORG for more information. the only music on tap at Origins — Mr. Jagels Hyde Hall events are presented in cooperation with brings local musicians in for the seasonal the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – Central Region. dinners the restaurant serves for its reservations-

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East Merideth’s Hanford Mills slates summer ‘Explorations’ taught Earth Science for 34 years. For twelve summers he worked as a seasonal NPS Park Ranger at Fort Stanwix National Monument where he began learning the trade of coopering.

Kevin Q. Gray, photographer, will make wet-plate tintype portraits using the same process that was available in the mid-1800s, around the time of the Civil Bob Allers will demonstrate his War. Weather permitcoopering skills at Hanford Mills ting, visitors can have Museum on June 18. a traditional portrait Hanford Mills Museum of themselves and their in East Merideth — just group taken with an antique 10 miles from Oneonta camera and can watch as — expands its 2022 season it is developed on a metal with scheduled tours and plate at a cost $35 per 4" x ‘Exploration Days’ guiding 5" plate. visitors through the site’s Lisa Tessier is a professor sawmill, gristmill, and at SUNY Delhi’s School of wordworking shop while Liberal Arts and Sciences, learning more about renew- and an HMM member able energy and the history and volunteer. She is set of the milling industry. to join us for the first time Guided tours take place using native plants to create Wednesdays and Sundays at botanical sunprints.

10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and The day will begin 2:30 p.m. and are limited when the Delaware-Otsego to 20 guests per tour. The Audubon Society hosts a museum recommends reser- morning bird walk starting vations — visitors can call at 8 a.m. in conjunction with 607-278-5744 or visit www. the Exploration Day. Veteran hanfordmills.org to make a birders Suzanne Gaynor reservation. and Kathryn Davino co-lead Saturday, June 18 the walk around the Hanford brings the museum’s first Mills property. The 90“Exploration Day,” offering minute walk covers fairly hands-on activities and easy terrain; participants presenters demonstrating will meet in the big event their art and historical craft parking lot and bring binocprocesses. ulars, insect repellent, water, Bob Allers will demon- and curiosity about birds! strate historic coopering Upon return to the skills, sharing the tools and parking lot, the group invites techniques of constructing participants to drive a short buckets, tubs, casks, and distance to see a newly other containers. Allers, a constructed Bald Eagle nest returning HMM volunteer,

that currently has a pair of adults caring for one or more fledglings. This is a free program and pre-registration is appreciated, as it allows leaders to contact participants in the event of inclement weather. Visit doas.us to pre-register and for additional information.

Hanford Mills Museum will update its website and social media channels with information about additional Exploration Days for the summer season.

Hanford Mills Museum is listed on the National and New York State registers of historic places and is located at 51 County Highway 12 in East Merideth, at the intersection of Delaware County routes 10 and 12. For more information, visit www. hanfordmills.org or call 607-278-5744.

City of Oneonta has free concerts on tap for Neahwa Park The City of Oneonta 2022 Summer Concert Series kicks off June 23 with “Kids’ Night Under the Stars” and a showing of Disney’s “Encanto” on a big screen in Neahwa Park by the bandstand! The show begins at 8:45 p.m.

The eight weeks that follow feature concerts beginning at 7 p.m. each Thursday at the bandstand stage area of Neahwa Park, starting with the Oneonta Community Concert Band on June 30. Upcoming concerts include: July 7 – Fritz’s Polka Band July 14 – The Driftwoods July 21 – Three Days Gone July 28 – Steve Fabrizio Ensemble August 4 – Off the Record August 11 – The Country Express August 18 – Lucia and Levi The shows are free of charge; in the event of rain, performances may be moved to the large pavilion in the park. Contact Louise (Lou) Lansing, Parks Administrator, at 607-432-0680 or e-mail her at llansing@oneonta.ny.us for more information.

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Our best bets for local dining Stagecoach Coffee and Café 31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown www.stagecoachcoffee.com

Picture this, you’re visiting Cooperstown, walking down Main Street visiting the shops on your way to the Baseball Hall of Fame and you realize, you’re hungry. Can’t tour the museum on an empty stomach!

One of your many options is the Stagecoach Café, a cozy business that is a fixture of the local community. You can stop by for breakfast or lunch or just a snack throughout the day.

I stopped in recently for a breakfast of what the menu calls “The Ultimate.” It was an open sandwich consisting of tomato, bacon, avocado spread, and cream cheese on a choice of a bagel or toast or other kind of bread. It turned out to be a flavorful and juicy start to my day.

The Stagecoach Cafe specializes in coffee, too — I ordered the Mayan Mocha with my breakfast. The drink consists of Hershey’s chocolate syrup, espresso, milk, and cinnamon syrup with whipped cream on top. Most of the time my coffee needs to be at least half creamer for me to enjoy. Not so here.

The Mayan Mocha was delicious from the first sip, no extra creamer or sugar needed. It was sweet, flavorful, and the cinnamon gave just that bite of flavor that takes a coffee from being good to great.

Check out this little café in the heart of Cooperstown.

Larissa Ryan Office Manager

Natty Bumppo’s 8 Hoffman Lane, Cooperstown www.nattybumppos.com

One of the nice things about living in Cooperstown again is that every now and again my wife, Angie, and I have time to enjoy our lunch break together at a local restaurant. We walked down to Main Street in the village one day last week and stopped in at Natty Bumppo’s — one of our favorites since moving back to town in November.

Lunch or dinner, the portions are just right — friendly prices, delicious food, and a menu that one might not expect from a restaurant in upstate New York. Creative southwestern cuisine and a nice change-up from sandwich-and-fries fare — along with a nice rotation of specials that always hit the spot.

For our impromptu lunch date, Angie chose the ‘black bean crunch wrap’ — the menu says it’s ‘black bean burger and crunchy taco wrapped and pressed with Ommegang cheese sauce, chili-lime ranch lettuce, tomato.’ Of course I tried some of it, and I declare it delicious. I went with the ‘blackened salmon club’ from the day’s menu of specials, and I’d go back and get another one. A perfectly blackened and generous piece of salmon with lettuce and tomato and a side of the restaurant’s signature yuca fries. They’re pretty fantastic.

Being a work day for both of us, we went for a lemonade, but Natty Bumppo’s has a full bar with nice beers on tap, too —yes, we’ll avail ourselves of those fine choices the next time we’re there for dinner (which will be soon).

Friendly service, friendly prices, chill atmosphere, great food — highly recommended.

Ted Potrikus Editor

The Blue Mingo 6098 State Highway 80, Cooperstown www.bluemingogrill.com

I can never seem to get enough of the Blue Mingo Grill on Otsego Lake. I try to go once a week just so I can enjoy the view, the food, and the overall atmosphere. Other than the sign on Route 80 telling you it’s there, you might never know it’s there! The long driveway winds around the bend and through the boatyard; you walk through the Lake Classic Outfitters boutique, and then the restaurant presents itself in its glory, directly across the lake from Kingfisher Tower.

It’s stunning.

The food is equally stunning. I have my favorites, and I’m a creature of habit. I always start with the Onion Chips. I’m not a fan of onion rings, but these chips are perfect little squares of onions fried to perfection with an incredible dipping sauce. I know myself too well — I pre-order extra dipping sauce because I love

it so much.

My second favorite starter is the coconut shrimp, which is really enough for lunch if you aren’t too hungry. You get six nice-sized coconutcrusted shrimp with a tasty chili sauce. I have a friend who swears by the sweet chili Brussels sprouts; they’re crispy and served with a sweet and spicy chimichurri glaze.

The Blue Mingo Classics are all served with French fries, or, you can substitute sweet potato fries or a side salad. If I’m feeling healthy I get the house salad with lobster salad on top. OMG! The amount of lobster salad is incredible and it is truly “lobstery,” not much more than mayonnaise and a couple of spices. The lobster roll is great as well.

Don’t miss The Blue Mingo; you won’t regret it.

Tara Barnwell Publisher

The Autumn Café 244 Main Street, Oneonta www.autumncafe.com

Located in historic downtown Oneonta, the Autumn Café serves fresh food, craft beverages, and local artisan products.

Reservations are highly recommended.

We were there around 5 p.m. on a weekday, thinking they could find a table for two at such an early hour. It would have been nice to sit outdoors on the deck on such a gorgeous afternoon, but the only seating available, without a reservation, was at the bar.

We both ordered a pint of Guinness to get over our loss. The bartender was very sympathetic, and chatted us up to ease our pain.

The Husband ordered the Warm Grilled Steak Salad — sliced steak, cooked to order, over mixed local greens with roasted tomato, lardon, caramelized onion, blue cheese, bacon, and a pear bourbon dressing. It looked so good I had to steal some.

I was also very happy with my order, the Nashville Chicken Bowl — a Southernstyle fried chicken with a spicy honey maple glaze, over smoked maple bourbon fried rice with red and poblano pepper, corn, and cabbage.

My only complaint was that it came with two large pieces of chicken breast — far too much to eat in one sitting.

Darn! I had to take it home for lunch the next day.

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FIBER ARTS GROUP – 11 a.m. Bring your knitting, crocheting or other fiber art to work with the group on your current project. Springfield Library, 129 County Rd. 29A, Springfield. 315-858-5802.

DRAGON DATES – 5 - 6:30 p.m. Teens are invited for gardening workshop about beginning an outdoor garden. Registration required. Presented by The Family Resource Network, Oneonta. Call Kristen at 607432-0001 for info.

INVASIVE SPECIES – 6 p.m.

Join the Cornell Cooperative Extension to learn about local invasive species. Will include a presentation and discussion with Agriculture and Horticulture Educator, Jessica Holmes and CCE Intern, Becca Leone.

Registration required. Held at Oneonta Town Hall, 3966 St. Hwy. 23, Oneonta. 518-2344303 ext. 119.

WORD THURSDAY – 7 p.m.

Enjoy presentations from writer and teacher Julene Waffle who is a graduate of Hartwick College and writer/actor Vladimir Lucien. Free, suggested donation $3. Registration required. Presented by the Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, Treadwell. 607-829-5055.

HOME GAME – 7 p.m. Local baseball team Oneonta Outlaws Vs. The Elmira Pioneers.

Damaschke Field, Oneonta.

607-432-6326.

►Friday, June 10 FROG-BIT FRIDAY – 10 a.m.

- 1 p.m. Go wading to pull up the highly invasive European Frog-Bit and prevent it from spreading to the local waterways. Meeting instruction will be sent at a later date. Work site is Clarke Pond, Springfield.

607-547-4488.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Celebrate the opening of new exhibit ‘American Ideal: Picturing Otsego County in 1937’ featuring pictures of Otsego County curated by Dr. Cynthia Falk and students of the Cooperstown Graduate Program. Displayed in the 3rd Floor Gallery through September 3. The Smithy, 55 Pioneer

St., Cooperstown. 607-5478671.

GARDEN RECEPTION – 5 - 8 p.m. Art in Bloom returns featuring floral arrangements by the Oneonta Garden Club inspired by the works of the CANO Mansion Show. On view June 11 & 12, Noon - 3 p.m.

Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-4322070.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Join the Starstruck Players for this presentation of ‘Seussical Jr.’ featuring all the beloved character from Horton the Elephant to the Cat in the Hat. Cost, $15/adult. Presented

by Orpheus Theater. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-432-1800.

►Saturday, June 11 PICKLEBALL – 8 a.m. start.

Sign up for fun tournament at the new courts. There will be divisions for casual and more competitive players. Test your skill, meet new pickleballers, and have a fun morning. Cost, $25/person. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-432-4500.

FOREST REBIRTH HIKE – 9 - 11 a.m. Join Otsego County Conservation Association for a hike to a state forest where a spruce plantation was logged 2 years ago. Hike and learn about how nature restores itself. Meet at main parkign area on Conservation Road.

Basswood Pond State Forest, 500 Conservation Rd., Burlington. 607-547-4488.

CRAFT FESTIVAL – 9 a.m.

- 3 p.m. The Friendship Craft Festival returns after a 2 year hiatus. Find hand made gifts for those special people in your life from local vendors, artisans, and crafters. Sponsored by the Church of Christ Uniting. Spring Park, Sceneic Route 20, Richfield Springs.

315-858-1553.

MEET THE MAKERS – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Stop in new emporium to meet the makers behind their selection of locally sourced art, craft, food, & beverages. Will include samples, outdoor activities, demonstrations & more. Pickin’ Patch Emporium, 7487 St. Hwy. 7,

Summer Dreams B-7 Maryland. 607-638-6086.

OPENING DAY – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Join the community for day of crafts, food, music to celebrate the opening for the summer season. Meet community organizations, enjoy tours of the State Park. Rolling Meadows Clydesdales, Utica ZooMobile, Springfield Reads, more. Free, open to the public.

Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown.

607-547-5098.

EXHIBIT TOUR – 11 a.m.

- Noon. Grandparents and grandchildren are invited to special tour with Victoria Wyeth, grandaughter of artist Andrew Wyeth to explore exhibition ‘Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies.’ Complimentary. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

ART TRAIL – 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

‘On The Trail Of Art’ woodland exhibit to feature works by professional and student artists from the Butternut Valley installed on a hiking trail. Park on Conservation Road. Free, open to the public. Basswood State Park, 500 Conservation Rd., Burlington. Visit butternutvalleyalliance.org MEET ME ON MAIN – 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Main Street will be closed for live music performances, vendors, outdoor dining, and more to welcome back the college students to our town. Main Street, Oneonta. 607-376-7599.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Join Armof-the-Sea Puppet Theater for performance ‘Dirt: The Secret Life Of Soil,’ combining science and art to explore the ground beneath our feet. Outdoors, bring lawn seating and sun protection. Check ahead for inclement weather. West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Rd,. East Meredith. Visit westkc.org FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 6 8:30 p.m. Join Victoria Wyeth for dinner buffet followed by Powerpoint presentation on exhibit ‘Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies’ featuring works by her grandfather. Cost, $115/ non-member. Registration required. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

HOME GAME – 7 p.m. Local baseball team Oneonta Outlaws Vs. The Mohawk Valley Diamond Dawgs. Damaschke Field, Oneonta. 607-4326326.

GARDEN PARTY – 7 - 9 p.m.

Enjoy party on the grounds of the Wilber Mansion and explore the Mansion Show and Art in Bloom exhibits by the Oneonta Garden Club. Live music from The Wood Shop

Project, beer tasting, and a raffle benefitting CANO and The Vet Crew, a group of Ukrainian veterinarians. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-2070.

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A Perfect Day on Otsego Lake The Blue Mingo Grill Lake Otsego’s only open-air lakeside dining spot offers creative grill cuisine on its Adirondack porches at the water’s edge. Inspired by a multitude of international cuisines, the Blue Mingo Offers an eclectic menu that The New York Times has calleD “the area’s most interesting dishes.”

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