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ndependence Day is Thursday, July 4, but it’s not too early to start making plans for how to celebrate! There are parades on land and water, old-fashioned farm fun, music, games and, of course, fireworks! Oneonta’s annual Home-
town Fourth of July starts with a 5K Color Run at 9 a.m. and ends with fireworks at dusk – with plenty of fun in between! The annual parade is at noon, followed by an afternoon of fun in the park, including music, bounce houses, a
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baseball game, and a things raising ceremony and visit from Oneonta’s Revolutionary War to do! own Ninja Warrior, display, as well as Anthony Eardley, games, food and live all free of charge. 9 music to follow. Stick a.m.-10 p.m. Neahwa around for fireworks Park, Oneonta. Info, and a community conschedule www.homecert in the evening! 11 town4th.com a.m.-dusk, Springfield • Community Center, The second-oldest LIBBY 129 County Route Fourth of July parade CUDMORE 29A, Springfield in the country is right Center, Info, schedule, here in Springfield “Springfield 4th of Center, with fancy floats, a July Parade and Celebration” fife and drum corps, a flagon Facebook.
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• Remember what Independence Day is all about with a reading of the Declaration of Independence at The Farmers’ Museum, complete with a traditional militia muster. Then stick around for tintype portraits and a tour of the 19th-century celebrations on the farm. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. Info, schedule www.farmersmuseum.org • If fireworks are too loud, head out to the Windfall Dutch Barn for the annual Quiet Concert for the Fourth, featuring a program of classical Indian music. Bring a dish to pass and enjoy a potluck supper! 4 p.m., Windfall Dutch Barn, Salt Springville. Info 607-436-3419. • But Independence Day isn’t just for the Fourth of July! In Cooperstown, the annual patriotic concert and fireworks display will be held 8 p.m. Friday, July 5, in Lakefront Park. Start your weekend with a bang! • Parades aren’t just for the streets! The annual Boat Parade. This year’s theme is “Red, White & Blue,” so decorate up your boat and try to win a prize. 4 p.m. Lakefront Park, Cooperstown. Info 518-542-6630 • And don’t take off the decorations just yet! There’s a second boat parade at Canadarago Lake, with fireworks to follow. 6 p.m. Saturday, July 5, Canadarago Boat Launch, Richfield Springs.
►ON THE COVER Dad Will and son Willis stand next to a shoulder-high pile of books, among the million at Willis Monie Books, 139 Main St. Yes, one million!
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The Monies – dad Will, an Antiquarian Book Fair founder, and son Willis – have one million books in their 139 Main St. store, a former auto dealership. 125,000 of them are also listed online.
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►IF YOU GO: The 25th Cooperstown Antiquarian Book Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, June 29, Clark Sports Center. Admission, $4.
wide – 81 percent of the developed ad Will Monie and son Willis don’t minimize chal- world; more than half of all humankind – expected to be on the Internet lenges to the book busiby year’s end. ness, but the Internet Age has also So it’s no wonder you can see opened up opportunities. son Willis almost daily pushing a Willis Monie Books has one cart with a couple dozen Internetmillion volumes in its building at generated orders down Main Street 139 Main St., easily available to to the post office. the half-million Many Mondays, visitors who come to he orders await Cooperstown annubusiness is 50-70 processing. ally, plus the 60,000 changing. This weekend, county residents. the Monies are But the business is Of the total, bullish as Otsego 125,000 books are not going away.” WILLIS MONIE, County’s anonline, and they are Please See partner with father Will in available to the 320 Willis Monie Books BOOKS, Pg. 5 billion people world-
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uch a nice way to spend onions, peas and fava beans. an hour! We went to The It had a little carrot salad on Hawkeye Bar and Grill the side and looked tasty. The at The Otesaga for lunch. combination of all of the flavors It’s one of my favorite places really works. to go where I can pretend to be Try The Otesaga for dinner a tourist – the outdoor seating is as well, the “After 5 Menu” will by the lake and you’re satisfy everyone in your FINE DINING, party. The last time we only separated from the water by rolling FUN DINING were there for dinner we grass. Skiers on the enjoyed the slow roasted STAFF PICKS prime rib. Cooked lake. Kids playing lawn games. People perfectly and just melted getting sun by the pool. in my mouth. Someone got the Touristy things. It puts everyTruffled Mushroom burger, to one in a good mood! die for! Roasted mushrooms, And the lunch…I think they brie, arugula then topped with have about the best Caesar salad Truffle Aioli. You can’t go around, I had it topped with a wrong with that combination. perfectly seared piece of salmon. It’s served on a cutting board It’s so fresh and refreshing. My with fries. Delicious! (The friend had an unusual dish, the Otesaga Resort Hotel 60 Lake Roasted Vegetable Tart. It was a St., Cooperstown) Fontina crust puffed pastry filled TARA BARNWELL, with asparagus, goat cheese, General Manager
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Mr. Gorn has performed dozens of concerts in the mid-state area, including six previous concerts at the Windfall Dutch Barn. Mr. Narendra will be returning to the area to perform for the first time since the death of his long-time playing partner, the renowned Indian-American sitarist, Roop Verma, of Oneonta. Also appearing wlll be jazz artist Ethan Cypress, who will play informally preceding the concert and during the potluck supper. Ethan, a native of Oneonta, is currently a graduate teaching assistant and a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music. He was recently awarded first prize in the national jazz soloist competition sponsored by the U.S. Army Blues.
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Statistician Son Is Baseball Buff many – surprisingly, you might think – are bought by Dreams Park team members and other hen Willis Monie youngsters, who was still are intrigued enticed by books in this back to CooperInternet Era. stown in 2000 to Willis’ interest join dad Will’s in baseball – an book business, RPI math major, there two shelves he looked forward of baseball books. to a career as a Today, there’s statistician for a wall of them a Major League at Willis Monie team, “until I Books, 139 Main realized there are St., in a prime spot, 30 teams and they just to the right of already had statisthe entrance. ticians” – open a And during the upcoming Baseball Summer Dreams whole new market for the book store. Hall of Fame InWillis has exFor instance, a duction weekend, panded a shelf of July 20-21, six baseball books to relationship has baseball authors a wall of baseball developed with the Boston Red will be autograph- books. Sox. When an ing their books, artifact in one of the history including Dan Schlossberg, exhibits on Fenway Park’s author of 38 baseball books concourse begins to show wear – his latest, the “New Baseball Bible’ – and 25,000 articles over and tear, Monie Books will be asked for a replacement media a 50-year journalism career. guide, yearbook or World SeMany of the books sold off the shelf are popular standards, ries program. COOPERSTOWN
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At Monie’s, Peruse A Million Books BOOKS/From Pg. 3 nual celebration of books, the Antiquarian Book Fair, passes the quarter-century mark. The 25th annual fair is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown. It’s about more than books alone, dad Will said: “I think of it as a cultural event that benefits the whole region.” He has the perspective to know: He’s been in the middle of it since its founding in 1994 in Oneonta. With Hartwick and SUNY students gone until fall, however, organizers soon concluded that busy summertime Cooperstown would be a better venue. In those early days, Will was helped by the late Ed Brodzinsky, the Schenevus book dealer, whose wife Mary, since Ed’s passing in 2014, still helps with the fair’s logistics. For a few years, NYSHA (the New York State Historical Association) sponsored the event, but Will, who spent 15 years on the Cooperstown Central school board, three as president, shifted that to CFEE,
the Cooperstown Foundation for Excellence in Education. The total gate – 400-500 people pay $4 to get in – goes to CFEE, used to underwrite school activities that don’t fit into the budget, such as the quiz team, which this spring went all the way to fifth place in the National Academic Quiz Tournament’s small school division. The fair also provides $50 to people willing to host a book dealer overnight – the price of motel rooms around here in the summer, if you can even get one in high summer, could discourage the vendors across the Northeast from signing up. A Hartwick College grad from Westchester County, Will met wife Barbara, a SUNY Oneonta undergrad from Walton, while there, and both went off to the University of New Hampshire, where he obtained a Ph.D. in English lit and she got her master’s in education. Both taught for three years in West Virginia, until 1979, when Will connected with Roger Butterfield, a Cooperstown bookseller, and signed
on for an apprenticeship. His first independent book-storage barn was on Pioneer Street, selling books, not retail, but via catalogue. He bought 139 Main in 1989, and son Willis joined him in 2000. Every bookseller has a story about That One Book. In Will’s case, it was obtaining a 1755 first edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, which he sold for $15,000. But despite a dip in the book business – and businesses generally – in the 2008 Great Recession, things started getting back to normal for Willis Monie Books by early in this decade. As the Monies see it, they sell rare books, but their foundation customers are people who read and are looking for a particular and not-particularlyexpensive book – via Amazon, Alibris or wilmonie.com. “We’re unique,” said Will. “We’re in a tourist area. We own our own space. We can ship out of here. We still get a lot of foot traffic. The business is changing. But the business is not going away.”
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►THURSday, June 27 CRAFT & CHAT – 3:30 p.m. Bring current knit or crochet project, chat with friends. Ages 10+. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518673-2314. OPEN STUDIO –4- 7 p.m. Meet June Artist-in-Residence Haley Manchon of Gilbertsville Expressive Movement, (GEM), see her work. G.E.M., Gallery & Sculpture Garden Commons Drive., Gilbertsville. 607-783-2897. PUBLIC SPEAKING – 6:15 p.m. Practice public speaking
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with the Toastmasters. The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. POETRY READING – 7 p.m. Poets Lynn McGee, Bertha Rogers share their work at open mic. $3 suggested donation. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church Street, Treadwell.
►friday, June 28 AUDITIONS – 6 p.m. Try out for role in Stuff of Dreams Production ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ October performance. No preparation
necessary. Production Center, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-432-5407. FILM – 6:30 p.m. “Labyrinth” w/David Bowie from “Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits” film series. Light refreshments. Cost, $7/ non-member, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, 607547-1400. ROCK BAND – 7-10 p.m. Buffalo indie rock band, “The Tins,” perform for Firepit Fridays concert series. Free admission. Food & beer for purchase. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Co. Hwy. 33,
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Cooperstown. COMEDY SHOW – 8-9:30 p.m. The Big and Tall Comedy Tour’s show features comedians Ernesto “Big Ern” Galano and Mike Bova. $10-$20. Oneonta Sports Park, 132 County Hwy. 47 Oneonta.
antiquarian books, maps, prints, etc. Clarks Sports Center, Cooperstown. DUCK DERBY – 10 a.m. Launch flock of rubber duckies at headwaters of Susquehanna River. Support Cooperstown Leo Club trip to United Nations in NYC. Cost, $5/duck at Otesaga, Mel’s @ ►Saturday, June 29 22, others. Finish line South BOOK SALE – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. of Main St. Bridge, Cooperstown. 607-282-2956. Books, audiobooks, videos, CONCERT & PICNIC – Noon. DVDs from $1-$5. All proceeds to Library. Cooperstown Bring picnic, lawn seating, enjoy blend of stories, song, & Village Library, Cooperstown. improv by Story Laurie. Free. 607-544-1418. West Kortrich RARE Center, 49 W. BOOKS – 10 ENJOY THE 4TH Kortright Church a.m.-4 p.m. ►For a wrap-up of Rd., East MerCooperstown Fourth of July events, edith. 607-278Antiquarian check Libby Cudmore’s 5454. Book Fair ofBest Bets/Pg. 2 MORE CALENDAR, fers dozens Pg. 7 of dealers in
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AUDITIONS – 2 p.m. Try out for role in Stuff of Dreams Production of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ October performance. See Friday Listing. ARTIST’S TALK – 3 p.m. Sarah Draney will discuss
her work in exhibition, Post Nature: our natural world at risk. Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, 607-547-5327. MINISERIES PREVIEW – 6 9:30 p.m. See preview of the July PBS miniseries, “Chasing the Moon,” part of Harris Memorial Library of Otego’s Summer Reading Program Launch. Harris Memorial
Library, 334 Main St., Otego. 607- 988-6661. OPENING ART EXHIBIT – 6 p.m. 7th Cherry Valley Biennial Sculpture Trail opens w/ reception for New York State sculptors, including artists from Cherry Valley, Oneonta, Springfield. Cherry Valley Museum, 49 Main St., Cherry Valley. 607-264-3080. DINNER FUNDRAISER – 6 p.m. Cooperstown Central School Alumni Association’s dinner by Mel’s to raise funds for two $1500 scholarships. $15/person. RSVP by 6/19. Cooperstown Jr/High School
Summer Dreams B-7 cafeteria, 39 Linden Ave, Cooperstown. BENEFIT CONCERT 7-10 p.m. Celebrate life of John Heller w/music by Ken Wilber and The Jason Wicks Band. Dancing, raffle, cash bar. $20-$35, proceeds to the Heller family. Foothills Performing Center, Oneonta. OUDOOR MOVIE – 9 p.m. See “Dumbo” on inflatable movie screen outside on the fields. Clark Sports Center, 124 County Highway 52, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800.
►SUNday, June 30 CONCERT – 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Folksinger/songwriter John O’Connor and Fellow Travelers to play at Franklin Farmers Market. 25 Institute Street, Franklin. OPEN STUDIO – 2-4 p.m. The Horned Dorset Colony’s first open studio w/reception and artists Howard Fishman, Soojin Kim, Oriol Mora, Michelle Pauls. Creekside Studio, Huey Road and Hillside Avenue, Leonardsville. TOUR – 11 a.m. Self-guided tour of exceptional gardens, landscaping in Gilboa-Stamford-Hobart area. Fundraiser for West Kortright Center. Cost, $23 at-first-garden. Begins at The Bull and Garland, 760 Main St., Hobart. 607278-5454. CONCERT – 3 p.m. Town of Springfield Appreciation Concert to offer overview of Glimmerglass Opera’s 2019 season. Proceeds benefit Springfield 4th of July Committee. Alice Busch Opera Theater, 7300 NY-80, Cooperstown. 315-858-0304. FIREWORKS – 7 p.m. View fireworks display over Otsego Lake w/music, free Stewart’s ice cream. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. Brookwood Point, 6000 State Highway 80, Cooperstown. 607-547-2366.
►MONday, JuLY 1 SCREENING – 7 p.m. Rescheduled: Watch Oneonta’s own Ninja Warrior Anthony Eardley run American Ninja Warrior Course on the big screen. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.
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Franklin Library’s “Blast Off to Summer Reading” pizza party, registration. Franklin Free Library, 334 Main Street, Franklin. 607-829-2941 CONCERT – 7 p.m. 20piece Easy Money Big Band to play at Lakefront Park’s historic bandstand, 1 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. 607-5475256.
►WEDNESday, JuLY 3 AUTHOR SERIES – 1 p.m., Scott Pitoniak discusses new book, “Let’s Go Yankees!” Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St., Cooperstown. 607547-7200
►tHURSday, JuLY 4 OLDEST PARADE – 11 a.m. The second oldest parade in the country kicks off again, with a full day of festivities to follow, including a concert and fireworks at dusk. Springfield Center Community Center, 129 Co Rd 29A, Springfield Center. TRADITIONAL CELEBRATION – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Celebrate Independence day how they used to with reading of Declaration of Independence at Noon, followed by militia muster. Throughout the day, enjoy music, sit for tin type portrait (weather permitting), learn about life in the 19th Century. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1450. HOMETOWN 4TH – Noon – 10 p.m. Celebrate Independence Day with tacos, music, & fireworks (9:30). Neahwa Park, Oneonta. QUIET CONCERT – 4 p.m. Catskill Conservatory presents annual Independence day concert to honor Louise Porter Moore. Features classical Indian music by Steve Gorn, Narendra Budhakar on bamboo flute, drums. Also, featuring jazz pianist Ethan Cypress. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Rd., Cherry Valley. 607-436-3419. BOAT PARADE – 4 p.m. Annual ‘We Love Our Lake’ decorated boat parade for Independence day. This years theme is ‘Red, White, & Blue.’ Prizes awarded, no registration required. All boats welcome. Parade to form off Lakefront park then progress to 3 mile point. Cooperstown. 518-542-6630.
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