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his is it: The biggest weekend of Cooperstown’s year. Warm up for the Main Event with a Great Event: At 6 p.m. Saturday, July 28, the Legends of Baseball Parade will roll up Main Street from the traffic light to the Baseball Hall of Fame, featuring dozens of Inductees from years past and this year’s six
honorees with join their colleagues for the first time. At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29, is the Main Event – Induction. Bring a lawn chair and come cheer Jack Morris, Alan Trammell, Vladimir Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, Chipper Jones and Jim Thome in the field beyond the Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Avenue. Free.
And it’s not just the players who are getting inducted. Famed broadcaster Bob Costas and writer Sheldon Ocker will receive their awards during a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28, Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. Now’s your chance go get some tips from the pros as Ozzie Smith and other Hall
of Famers host a breakfast United Methodist Church, 66 fundraiser in the plaque gal- Chestnut St., Cooperstown. lery to benefit the Baseball (607) 547-5782. Hall of Fame. Get • personalized instruc- things But Cooperstown tion and a chance to to do! isn’t the only place turn a double play. for baseball. Catch a Registration required. game in Oneonta as 8 a.m. Friday, July the Outlaws take on 27, Baseball Hall of the Saugerties StalFame, Cooperstown. lions. 7 p.m. Friday, (607) 547-0397. July 27, Damaschke • Field, 15 James Hungry? Grab a Georgeson Ave., LIBBY bite of Oneonta’s Oneonta. (607) 432CUDMORE famous Brooks 6326. Bar-B-Q chicken • before the parade, complete If baseball isn’t your with fresh salads and homescene, take the kids on a made desserts. Take-out field trip to Hanford Mills available so you can enjoy the Museum for hands-on sunny day. Noon-4 p.m Satdemonstrations of a 1926 urday, July 29, Cooperstown waterwheel used to power a gristmill, sawmill and ►ON THE COVER antique woodworking machines. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Visiting with the Eagle Baseball Club of East Saturday, July 28, Hanford Hampton, Mass., Marissa Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. Badorini, left, and Maddy 12, East Meredith. Call Subocz pass “The Sandlot (607) 278-5744. Kid” statue.
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ON COOPERSTOWN’S STREETS
‘The Sandlot Kid’ Beloved Amongst On-Street Statues Victor Salvatore Jr., 96, observed his father creating “The Sandlot Kid” more than a half-century ago.
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Freeman’s Journal building burned in 1961 at the corner of Main and Pioneer streets, Stephen Clark got COOPERSTOWN behind the idea of creating what today is Pioneer Park, at the flagpole n 1964, Victor Salvatore Jr. arin downtown Cooperstown. rived for a visit at Swanswick, He and Salvatore Sr. – as the the mansion where George family story has it – conferred and Washington was hosted during his devised the concept of what would victory tour in 1783, to find Ambrose become “The Sandlot Kid.” When Clark’s carriage with tandem rig and it was complete, however, the plan uniformed footman out front. didn’t move forward. “I don’t think On the terrace overlooking Otsego Stephen Clark liked the statue,” the Lake, were Clark – brother of Stesculptor’s son said. phen C. Clark, Baseball Hall of Fame So the elder Salvatore was styfounder – and the famed sculptor Vic- mied, with a full-size Plasticine tor Salvatore Sr., discussing the fate model of the larger-than-life statue in of “The Sandlot Kid.” his studio in New York “My father told him: City’s Bible House DON’T MISS ‘The statue is finished block, and nothing to ‘THE SANDLOT KID’ do with it. and there’s no place •victor salvatore sr.’s to put it,’” related the On the terrace that famed statue of a barefoot younger Salvatore, afternoon, learning of ballplayer of yesterday is at who is now 96, sumthe sculptor’s plight, the Main Street entry to the Ambrose Clark asked, mering in Pierstown Doubleday Field parking lot “What about the enand working out twice in downtown Cooperstown. a week at the Clark trance to Doubleday complete list of Sports Center. Please See cooperstown statues/a8 After the old THE KID, Pg. 5 By JIM KEVLIN
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or me, there is only one true way to serve a hot dog and that is from a good old-fashioned hot dog vendor. And Hot Dog Jim’s, on Southside in Oneonta, is the real deal. Jim himself is there six days a week, serving classic Sabrett all-beef hot dogs, cooked either double-boiled or grilled FINE DINING, and availFUN DINING able with the classic Staff Picks ketchup and mustard garnishes or piled high with onions and chili (with or without beans). Bagged chips are clipped to the side of the truck – I can’t have a hot dog without Fritos, personally – and make sure to grab a cold can of soda before you take a seat at one of the umbrella tables. Cheap eats served the way a summer classic should be. (Hot Dog Jim’s, Route 23, a mile past Lowe’s) LIBBY CUDMORE Managing Editor
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like my hot dogs HOT and spicy! If you want to take your hot dog experience to the next level, I go to Stewart’s Shop in Oneonta. You may not think a gas station would offer a one-of-a kind hot dog experience, but I have yet to find another that compares. If you want to try a HOT Dog, then I recommend you try their Cajun Dog! The paprika in it gives the Cajun dog a rich, deep pink color, making it easy to spot in the cooker. But behind that pretty exterior is a surprising punch of heat that will linger in the mouth long after the dog is gone. And if it’s not hot enough for you, try topping it with some of their chili, or add some hot sauce! Go nuts! All their toppings are com-
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plimentary, and if you’re really nice to the staff, they may let you put mac & cheese on it. Also, try their Breaded Sriracha Chicken and Cheese Dog, for a slightly less spicy, option! Not feeling the heat? They have deli dogs, classic hot dogs and kielbasa dogs too! along with your classic condiments of ketchup, mustard, relish, onions, BBQ sauce, Parmesan and more! AND, they are open until 12am, just in case you need to feed your players after a little league game that ran late! (Stewart’s Shop, 47 Main St. Oneonta. 607-4319359; or 108 Chestnut St., Cooperestown, 607-5477248) IAN AUSTIN Staff Photographer
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t least, the hot-dog meal at The Tunnicliff Inn is an excuse for visitors and locals alike to pay a visit to the storied “Pit” – the basement of that venerable establishment. Arguably, The Tunnicliff is Cooperstown’s oldest business, dating back to 1802, only a dozen years Please See DOGS, Pg.6
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Ambrose Clark Revived Fortunes Of ‘Sandlot Kid’ THE KID/From Pg. 3 Field?” Salvatore Jr. had the impression there was something of a rival between the two Clark brothers, so the slightly older Ambrose was glad to take on the younger Stephen’s project. Be that as it may, Ambrose Clark paid for the statue to be cast at New York City’s famed Roman Bronze Works, preeminent during “The American Renaissance” at the turn of the 20th century but still operating today; it used the “lostwax” method dating back to the actual Renaissance. At the time, Ambrose Clark owned that small patch of land next to the Key Bank building at the
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hat about the entrance to Doubleday Field?” AMBROSE CLARK “The Sandlot Kid” benefactor
entrance to the Doubleday Field parking lot, and there it was dedicated on April 23, 1964. He also provided the pedestal. “The Sandlot Kid” has been in the news in recent months since plans were announced for a $5 million upgrade to Doubleday Field – it was once heralded as the Birthplace of Baseball, an Please See THE KID, Pg. 9
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Rosana Gnanagothy, Cooperstown, and Travis Coats, Syracuse, paused from planning last-minute details of their Sept. 9 wedding to admire another beloved local sculpture: “The Indian Hunter” in Lakefront Park.
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Hot Dogs Abound In Baseball Town DOGS/From Pg. 4 after our first father, William Cooper, came over the hill from Canajoharie. The Pit itself was the preferred watering-hole around here in the 1960s, packed on Friday evenings as patrons took advantage of the 75-cent gin-and-tonics. Those were the days. But I digress. Here it is: Hot-dog meal, $7.95, including the ¼-pound all-
beef hot dog on a brioche bun, with fries and a soda. Plus, yellow or Dijon mustard, relish, chopped onions and banana peppers are free for the asking. And for an extra $2 each, add shredded cheddar, sauerkraut or chopped bacon. Hot-dog fans, do yourself a favor! (Tunnicliff Inn, 34 Pioneer St., Cooperstown 607-547-9611) JIM KEVLIN Editor/Publisher
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hen it comes to hot dogs, I often find myself needing to eat at least two to fill me up. That isn’t the case with the jumbo dog at Doubleday Café in Cooperstown. The all-beef dog is a quarter pound of savory bliss, and certainly enough to take care of that mid-day hunger. And costing only $6.75 before taxes, it’s almost fiscally irresponsible to not get the jumbo dog. While everyone has their own preferences when it comes to toppings, I’m personally more of a hot dog traditionalist, meaning I don’t put anything on my dog minus the usual ketchup and mustard. But for anyone slightly more liberal with his or her hot dog toppings, you can order the jumbo dog with sauerkraut and relish as well. And of course, no hot dog is complete without a side of fries and a soda to make up the perfect lunch. (Doubleday Café, 93 Main
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f course, nothing goes better together than hotdogs and baseball, especially on Hall of Fame Induction Weekend. Hey Getcha Hot Dog is just the place to be over the weekend – you’ve got to say that name with a bit of a New York accent, it’s totally appropriate! Right on the corner of Main and Pioneer streets in Cooperstown, you walk downstairs to hot-dog heaven. Get it with cheese. Get it with kraut. Get it with chili. Get a foot-long. Then turn around and get more creative with the condiments. I got the cheese dog, then put onions and this really good spicy red sauce on it. And if you remember getting a really good hot dog at a baseball game when you were younger, this is it. Just a good dog! They have plenty of seating downstairs, but if you are lucky enough to get an outside table, go for it! Eating a nice hotdog on a summer day right by the flagpole on Main Street… doesn’t get much better! They have other menu items as well, but you’ve gotta get a hot dog with a name like this! (Hey Getcha Hot Dog, 74 Main St., Cooperstown, 607-547-5775) TARA BARNWELL General Manager
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Cleveland Artist’s Collages Make Splash At Wax Museum Tom Salomon has returned to Cooperstown for his first solo exhibition, 31 vibrant COOPERSTOWN baseball collages at the Heroes of Baseball Wax is artwork has been Museum. lauded “I do baseball by baseart for fun. It ►IF YOU GO: ball legends like keeps me alive, “Collages of The Pee Wee Reese, you know? Keeps Greats” by Tom Salomon at HeWhitey Ford and it interesting roes of Baseball Pete Rose. His for me,” said Wax Museum, 99 work was shown Salomon. “As Main St., Cooperin the Baseball they age, most stown, 9 a.m.-9 Hall of Fame. American males p.m. And now, artist try to find ways to By PARKER FISH
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keep their youth alive. They do it through car shows, or through music and things like that. For me, it’s creating my baseball art.” Salomon, 75 and a Cleveland, Ohio, native, creates collages featuring the greats of the game and current stars of the Major Leagues. He’s been doing this for 50 years, since he was given a set of large, uncut baseball cards by Daniel Stagg, grandson of legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. After a stint away from home, he returned to Cleveland and rediscovered his childhood in his vintage baseball card collection. “I found out that my mother had saved my 1949 baseball card collection,” he said. “I said subconsciously, ‘I want to make my own baseball cards.’” Living in Brooklyn in 1963-1978, Salomon became very interested in the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Obviously I never got to see them play, but I started making collages for all of the players of the 1955 Brooklyn
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Visiting from Ridge, Suffolk County, Bob and Madeline Angelo pause to examine Tom Salomon’s exhibit in the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum.
Dodgers team.” He’s been making collages ever since, building them against a background of mixed colors, textures and unpredictable brush strokes. “All I need is a good photograph of a player, and then I just paint a wild abstract painting as the background,” he said. He continued: “First, I lay a color on the stretched canvas, let’s say yellow. I let the yellow paint dry, then I
go over it again with black. Before the black dries, I scratch out parts with a fork so that the yellow shows through underneath. After that’s dry, I just glue on the picture of the player.” When Salomon got the opportunity to meet some of the 1955 Dodgers at a convention in New Jersey in 1999, he knew that he had to show them his work. “There was this long line Please See EXHIBIT, Pg. 11
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â–şCOOPERSTOWN, VILLAGE OF STATUES • “James Fenimore Cooperâ€? also by Victor Salvatore, on the Cooper Grounds (or Cooper Park) next to the Hall of Fame Library. The park is the site of Otsego Hall, the mansion building by William Cooper, founder of the village (and this newspaper). “Cooperâ€? was dedicated on Aug. 31, 1940, the 150th anniversary of the novelist’s birth. The sculptor died the following year. • “The Indian Hunter,â€? which was moved from Cooper Grounds to Lakefront Park, at the end of Pioneer Street, to make way for Salvatore’s Young Jimmy Cooper “Cooper.â€? It was commisis flanked by Victor sioned in 1896 by Alfred Corning Clark, Ambrose and Salvatore, right, and Stephen’s father, all heirs to Stephen C. Clark at the 1940 dedication the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. It was a new casting of “James Fenimore Cooper.â€? of the original work by John Quincy Adams Ward, which debuted at the 1867 Paris Exhibition and, in 1869, was the first statue by an American sculptor placed in Central Park. It’s often pointed out it depicts a Plains Indian, not any of the tribes that flourished around here. • “The Leatherstocking,â€? 1858, in Lakewood Cemetery, visible from East Lake Road just north of the Cooperstown village line, depicting Natty Bumppo, Cooper’s heroic woodsman who for more than a century was considered as much an American icon as Huck Finn became. Poet William Cullen Bryant and novelist Washington Irving led an effort to build a monument in New York City after Cooper’s death in 1851. Only $658 was raised, but it was folded into $2,500 raised in Cooperstown to build the monument here. At Bumppo’s feet is his loyal dog, Hector.
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With Famed Armory Show Behind Him, Salvatore Career Took Off THE KID/From Pg. 5 idea now debunked. Among other ideas, one plan is to create a pedestrian-friendly walkway between Main Street and the ballpark, with a small plaza in the middle, wherein would be “The Sandlot Kid,” according to Village Trustee Cindy Falk. There are a number of public statues in Cooperstown – from “The Indian Hunter” in Lakefront Park and “The Leatherstocking Statue” in Lakewood Cemetery. Victor Salvatore, though, is the sculptor most associated with “America’s Most Perfect Village.”
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He was born in Italy in 1885, brought to The States at age 2 and won his first major prize, a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition, when he was just 19. He was noted for his sculptures of children, but found them challenging “because they change so. You have to do them so quickly,” recalled Victor Jr., himself a retired journalist, whose career included a stint on the Washington Post. The father participated in the groundbreaking 1913 Armory Show, remembered as introducing modern art – Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and the lake – to bewildered America. He sold nothing there, according to his son, but his next exhibit, in Chicago, sold out, and that appearance won him commissions in Portland, Ore., that kept him there for two years, according to his son.
Famed sculptor Victor Salvatore examines the Plasticine versions of “The Sandlot Kid” that was the basis for the “lost-wax” process that would create the bronze statue at the entrance to the Doubleday Field parking lot.
Back in New York, he married Ellen Ryerson, who survived the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Her father, Arthur Ryerson, principal
in the Ryerson Steel Co. of Chicago, died in the historic tragedy. The family summered on Otsego Lake, developing what is now the Otsego Golf Course, among the oldest golf courses in the country. Her mother Emily lived in Ringwood Manor, behind where Farm Credit East was built last year. She gave Horton House to one child, and to Ellen, Swanswick, where Victor Jr. spent his
boyhood summers and his father moved his studio in 1958 after the Bible House block was demolished. (“Famed New York Sculptor, 71, Refugee From Wrecking Crews,” read the Utica Observer-Dispatch Headline.) His son remembers visiting his dad in his studio during creation of “The Sandlot Kid.” The sculptor invited in Jimmy Symington, the record-breaking prep-school baseball player of the day (at Groton), to get an idea of a young ballplayer’s stance. (Symington’s mother, Cecilie, lived for years in that pink bungalow on Nelson Avenue.) Symington thought he was the model for “The Sandlot Kid,” but the younger Salvatore remembers otherwise. It was actually a young, rather rough teen he remembers as “Tommy.” Some years later, Tommy showed up at Salvatore’s studio, well-dressed, looking prosperous. “My father always wore overalls,” said Victor Jr., and Tommy must have thought he was in straitened circumstances. “He tried to give him some money.”
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►HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO COUNTY ►Friday, July 27
DEADLINE – Last day to RSVP for Hyde Hall Summer Gala featuring visit from Jane Austen. Cost, $195/individual. 607-547-5098. PLAY BALL – 8 a.m. Ozzie Smith & Hall of Famer Guests host 2-hour fundraiser featuring breakfast in Hall of Fame Plaque Gallery, personalized instruction, chance to turn double plays. All ages welcome, registration required.
Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-0397. HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m. Brief history, discussion of beer, brewing, & hops, followed by tour of hop yard, house. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-5471450. FILM SCREENING – 3:30 p.m. Showing “A Hall for Heroes” narrated by Bob Costas. Depicts founding of Baseball Hall of Fame, 1st induction in
1939. Bullpen Theater, The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200. MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m. Makers of all ages create, learn, experiment. Materials provided for hands-on activities. Inspire creative thinking, problem-solving. Everything from Crochet to coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314. OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Presenting abstract
drawings by Lise Engel. Free, open to public. West Kortright Centre, 49 W. Kortright Church Road, E. Meredith. 607-278-5454. FLOAT NIGHT – 6:45 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy summer fun in pool. Guests accompanied by member. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-0010. BASEBALL – 7 p.m. Support Oneonta Outlaws Vs. Saugerties Stallions. Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-6326. PERFORMANCE – 7:30 p.m. “A Walk in the Woods” by Lee Blessing, set during The Cold War, dramatizes stand-off between opposing arms dealers. Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-3700. THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Performance “Brighton Beach Memoirs” by Neil Simon. Coming of age story about Eugene Morris Jerome, teenage Polish-American immigrant during Great Depression in Brooklyn. Tickets, $17/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080. FUNDRAISER GALA – 8 p.m. - Midnight. Dance, drink, feast, support War Words Dance, multi-disciplinary collaboration project with Lake Arts, Feast of Crispian, Bright Hill Press. Live demonstration, readings. Cost, $25 atdoor. Castle on the Delaware, 139 Stockton Ave., Walton. 607-829-5055.
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COMMUNITY DAY – 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Features concert, carnival, clowns, face painting, balloons, BBQ. Main St., Laurens. 607-441-5431.
GOLF TOURNAMENT – 8 a.m. Captain & Crew Golf tournament feature raffles, prizes, music. Cost, $65/person (4 person teams). Colonial Ridge Golf Course, 195 Bateman Rd., Laurens. 607-432 1800. FAMILY SATURDAY – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Field trip for families features hands-on kids activities, guided tours, demonstration of 1926 Fitz overshot waterwheel used to power sawmill, gristmill, woodworking machines. Admission, $9/adult. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Call 607-278-5744. HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m. - Brief history, discussion of beer. See Friday Listing. HALL OF FAME BBQ – Noon - 4 p.m. Enjoy Brooks’ chicken, homemade salads, pie. Dinner $8 (light) - $12 (full). Take-out available. Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. 607-547-5782. THEATER – 12:30 p.m. “A Case For Eviction” following struggle of Frank, Dora to evict temporary resident from their guest room. Leatherstocking Stage, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1450. ZUMBATHON – 1 - 4 p.m. Zumbathon, vendor fair to benefit Days For Girls, helping girls stay in school. Cost, $10/adult. Greater Plains Elementary School, 60 West End Ave., Oneonta. 607-6438209. CHARACTER TOUR – 1 p.m. Tour museum through eyes of artists themselves. Features tour with Thomas Cole as portrayed by Templeton Player. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400. MORE CALENDAR, Pg. 11
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WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join writers, improve craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980. THEATER – 1:30 p.m. Showing “The Barber of
Seville.” Cost, $26-$126. Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. 607-547-2255. VIGNETTES – 2 p.m. Guided tour showcasing site-specific performances by Templeton Players on struggle for Women’s Rights. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.
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PERFORMANCE – 3 & 7:30 p.m. “A Walk in the Woods” by Lee Blessing. See Friday Listing. AWARDS PRESENTATION – 4:30 p.m. Features award of Ford C. Frick Award for baseball broadcasting excellence to Bob Costas, J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing to Sheldon Ocker. Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200. PARADE OF LEGENDS – 6 p.m. After awards presentation, Hall of Famers ride down Main Street to a reception at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Staging on Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200. COMMUNITY CONCERT – 6 - 8 p.m. Wrap up Laurens Community Day with performance featuring “Small Town Big Band.” Knapp Park, Main St., Laurens. 607-441-5431. COFFEE HOUSE –7 - 9 p.m. Music in range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church. Church Road., Schuyler Lake. 315858-2575. CONCERT – 7 p.m. Singer/ songwriter Pat Wictor, jazz vocalist Deborah Latz collaborate for performance at Chapin Memorial Church, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-4323491. MUSIC – 7 - 10 p.m. Hot Tin Roof presents Blues Maneuver. Enjoy Ommegang beer, great music, fun in the sun. Cooperstown Fun Park, 4858 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. 607-544-1800. THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Performance of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” by Neil Simon. Coming of age story about Eugene Morris Jerome, teenage Polish-American immigrant
during Great Depression in Brooklyn. Tickets, $17/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080. JAZZ CONCERT – 8 - 10 p.m. Renowned Canadian flutist, soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett & Maqueque present finest Cuban Musicians. West Kortright Centre, 49 W. Kortright Church Road, East Meredith. 607-278-5454.
►Sunday, July 29
HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m. Brief history, discussion of beer. See Friday Listing. SUNDAY BRUNCH – Noon - 2 p.m. Enjoy delicious omelettes made to order, carving stations, waffles, more. Cost, $34.95/person. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-9931. THEATER – 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. See “Box and Cox Trunk Show” featuring best performers in region. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450. SUNDAY SERIES – 1 - 3 p.m. Learn about “Local Archaeology: Historic or Prehistoric” with Buzz Hesse. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta. INDUCTION CEREMONY – 1:30 p.m. Jack Morris, Alan Trammell to be inducted to Baseball Hall of Fame. Attendees should bring chairs or blankets, hat & sunscreen. Refreshments sold on-site. Admission, free. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607547-7200. THEATER – 2 p.m. Performance of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” by Neil Simon. Coming of age story about Eugene Morris Jerome, teenage Polish-American immigrant during Great Depression in Brooklyn. Tickets, $17/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080.
WORSHIP – 3 p.m. Church - N - The Hood & Spiritual Bootcamp, a Hip Hop worship Experience. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 803-4033763. CHESS – 3 - 4 p.m. Workshop with certified trainer James Caban. Learn game, improve, have fun. Cost, $10/session. West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Road, East Meredith. 607-278-5454. PERFORMANCE – 5 p.m. “A Walk in the Woods” by Lee Blessing. See Friday Listing.
►Monday, July 30
MUSIC – 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy piano stylings of Mark Lubell. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-9931. OPENING – 6:30 p.m. 21st Annual Otsego County Fair Hymn Sing & Special Music at Grande Building followed by Agricultural Olympics. Otsego County Fair, Mills St., Morris. 607-263-5289. BASEBALL – 7 p.m. Support Oneonta Outlaws against Utica Blue Sox. Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. 607-4326326.
►Tuesday, July 31
O-COUNTY FAIR – 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. See best Otsego County has to offer. Daily shows, rides, more. Highlights include, 4-H shows, harness racing, bands, more. Admission, $1. Otsego County Fair, Mills St., Morris. 607-2635289. HISTORY TOUR – 2 p.m. Tour historic Lakewood Cemetery with C. R. Jones, past president of The Association for Gravestone Studies. Registration required, $25. Lakewood Cemetery, 182 Co. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. 607547-2586.
Collages Vividly Capture The Motion Of Game EXHIBIT/From Pg. 7 to see Pee Wee Reese. He was the big draw for the show. But I charged to the front of the line, because I just couldn’t wait,” he said. He ended up giving his original Pee Wee Reese collage to Reese’s sons, who were acting as a security detail for the Hall of Famer. As Salomon packed up to head back to Cleveland a few days later, Reese stopped
in to thank him. “He came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder and said ‘Thank you so much for gift that you gave to my two sons.’ It was incredible.” Salomon was able to get Reese’s autograph, starting him on another track. “There are 324 members in the Hall of Fame,” he said. “Out of all of them, I have roughly 36 percent of all of their autographs.”
B-12 Summer Dreams
Thursday-Friday, July 26-27, 2018
FREE STUFF!
To find out more about free events in the Entertainment Tent, go to otsegocountyfair.org
Wednesday, August 1 at 6:30 pm $5 admission Country recording artist
607-263-5289 · www.otsegocountyfair.org · info@otsegocountyfair.org
Keith Anderson Jason Wicks Band opening
Otsego County Fair Association, Inc. · 48 Mill Street, Morris, NY 13808 · ATM on the grounds
grandSTand evenTS GRANDSTAND ADMISSION jUST $5!
TueSday, July 31
DOLLAR DAY - ADMISSION ONLY $1 Noon........N Y State Sire Stake Harness Racing 7:30 pm....Fire Service and School Band Parade, Fireworks
WedneSday, auguST 1
GILLETTE SHOWS PAY-1-PRICE 5 to 10 pm 9 am.........Catskill Garden Tractor Pull Noon........Gillette Shows Midway Carnival (Every day)
ThurSday, auguST 2
GILLETTE SHOWS PAY-1-PRICE Noon to 5 pm 9 am.........Antique & Out-of-Field Tractor Pulls 7:30 pm....Spinning Wheels Production Demolition Derby $5 Admission
Friday, auguST 3
AGRICULTURE DAY 7 pm.........2Xtreme Racing Monster Truck Show, $15 Admission (Presale Discounts Available)
SaTurday, auguST 4
CHILDRENS DAY, BIKE GIVEAWAY & GAMES GILLETTE SHOWS PAY-1-PRICE RIDES Noon ........ to 5 pm 1 pm.........100 Bicycle Giveaway Registration 3 pm.........100 Bicycle Giveaway 7 pm.........Otsego County Fair Truck and Semi Pull $5 Admission
Sunday, auguST 6
GILLETTE SHOWS PAY-1-PRICE RIDES Noon to 5 pm 1 & 6 pm....Spinning Wheels Production Demolition Derby - $5 Admission
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Friday, August 3 at 7 pm $15 admission 2Xtreme Racing
Monster Truck Show
100 Bicycle Giveaway Saturday, August 4
Registration 1 pm | Giveaway 3 pm