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Thursday-Friday, August 2-3, 2018

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From County Fair Fun To Elvis And City Of Hills Art Fest

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he Otsego County Fair is the best six days of summer and it’s not hard to see why!

With animals, midway rides and games, a Demolition Derby and Monster Trucks, and, of course, plenty of deep-fried delights, there truly is something for everyone. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Through Sunday, Aug. 5, Otsego County Fair Grounds,

Morris. (607) 263-5289.

• Find a new painting to hang in your living room or new pottery to put on your table as the annual City of the Hills Arts Festival returns to downtown Oneonta.

In addition to great artists and creative crafts, hear live performances by writers and musicians. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, Main

Street. (607) 432-2070.

• Here’s something new: The Fly Creek Historical Society is hosting Elvis (in the form of tribute artist Matthew Boyce) at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 4, at the Grange Hall on Cemetery Road. Tickets $15, available in advance at Fly Creek General Store, Spurbeck’s in Cooperstown and the Green

Toad Bookstore in Oneonta. chairs, picnic. 6 p.m., Fri• day, Aug. 3, West Kortright But even before that, First Centre, 49 W. Kortright Friday offers plenty Church Road, East of fun on Oneonta’s things Meredith. (607) 278Main Street, includ- to do!

5454. ing a car show, beer • tastings, live music The only thing

by Off The Record better than seeing a and homemade movie with friends brownie sundaes. 5-8 and family is seep.m. Friday, Aug. 3, ing a movie under Main Street, Oneonthe stars! The Clark ta. (607) 432-2941.

Sports Center ofLIBBY • fers a free outdoor In Cooperstown, CUDMORE screening of “The the youth chorus of Greatest Showman.” the Glimmerglass Festival Bring snacks, seating. 9 perform an operatic rendip.m., Friday, Aug. 3, Outtion of Homer’s “Odyssey” door Soccer Field, Clark with sailor songs, storms, Sports Center, Cooperstown. sirens and more. $20. 4 (607) 547-2800. p.m. Friday Aug. 3, Audito• rium, Cooperstown Central Jamie Bernstein returns to School. the Glimmerglass Festival to • honor her father Leonard’s And at the West Kor100th birthday with the tright Center, the kids of the Young Artists performing Shakespeare in the Valley works by the American workshops perform “Much Master. 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Ado About Nothing.” Bring Aug. 4. The Otesaga.

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ON UPSTATE HILLSIDES

Sweet Berries, U-Pick Them, Snack A Few

Cheers!

Visit one of our fabulous breweries and have a taste of New York!

607-286-9330 110 River Street, Milford 4 miles from Cooperstown 20 minutes from Oneonta Member of the Cooperstown Beverage TRail

BOTH LOCATIONS offer daily tastings, free tours, team parties, and group events.

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North samples a blueberry at Northstar Farms, Franklin, which parents Phinn Reisz and Anat Volfovich named after their daughters.

15 acres.”

Volfovich now manages the farm alongside her partner, Phinn Reisz, FRANKLIN and Northstar Farm is named for his daughter, North. etsy Babcock knows that “The soil is great here for growing fresh is best. blueberries,” said Volfovich. “They “Nothing tastes better ripened even earlier than we expectthan a blueberry you’ve just picked ed, and there is a lot of fruit.” yourself,” she said. “It’s the most ripe The first plants were wholesale fruit there is.”

– for a time, you could buy them at Babcock, owner of Handsome Hannaford – but with the plants now Brook Farm here, just opened her ripening, she opened up the farm for second farm venanyone who wants to ture, Northstar Farm, bring a pail. ►WHOLE LOT OF specializing in U“It gets the comPICKIN’ GOIN’ ON Pick blueberries. “We munity to engage planted 800 bushes with their food,” said •northstar farms, 595 Franklin Heights Road, for our own use with Babcock. “People like Handsome Brook Farm Franklin, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., being able to connect or by appointment. info@ in 2008, and they did to where their food northstarblueberryfarm. really well,” she said. comes from. It’s a com “In 2013, we partnered great family and complete list of with Anat Volfovich Please See u-pick farms/a8 and planted 15,000 on PICKIN’, Pg. 5

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Lake George Brew House is now home to the new Northway Brewing Company.

Both breweries are owned and operated by Northern Eagle Beverages, Inc., Oneonta, NY www.northerneaglebeverages.com

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From Fenimore’s View To Worcester’s Seafood

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magine Otsego Lake 5798 Highway 80 .Cooper‌ rolling green lawns stown. www.fenimoreartmudown to the water seum.org/visit) ‌ a gazebo where many TARA BARNWELL marriages have started ‌ General Manager serenity ‌ and you will find yourself at the Fenimore Art reakfast is the most Museum CafĂŠ. important meal The day we were there of the day, and at was sunny with a cool the Plaza Diner it’s taken breeze, so I chose the “One VERY seriously. It’s got Shoe Offâ€? spinach wrap, all the classic diner fare filled with chicken, – from a couple of tasty avocado, onion FINE DINING, eggs with toast to and tortilla strips. of pancakes FUN DINING aorpile My friend had the a fluffy omelet “Little Peddlarâ€?, a Staff Picks with bacon, ham or mixed berry salad sausage and home with broccoli and sliced fries – but it’s the Belgian almonds, feta cheese, onions waffle that brings me in all on a bed of leaf spinach. every time. Buttery and The selection of wines, beer, lovely, with crisp edges, it’s teas and sodas made our good whether you slather it lunch complete! with syrup or go wild with You’ll find the cafĂŠ in whipped cream, topped with the back of the museum, fruit or filled with chocolate of course you have to go chips. through the wonderful gift Already had breakfast? shop to get there! (Psst! You There’s lunch and dindon’t have to pay admission ner too, including a sliced to the museum if you only London broil sandwich on a want to dine there, although garlic hoagie roll with crisp I’d suggest taking in the French fries. Like a good summer’s and ongoing diner, it’s got everything. exhibits). It is quite possi(Plaza Diner, 122 Main St, bly the most relaxing place Oneonta. (607) 441-3393.) to grab a bite on the lake.

LIBBY CUDMORE The menu isn’t huge, but it’s Managing Editor tasty and has something for everyone. (Fenimore CafÊ, See FINE FOOD, Pg. 6

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Planting 1,000 Trees A Year Expands Middlefield Farm

PICKIN’/From Pg. 3 group activity and it gets you outside.”

Northstar joins Middlefield Orchards, Cooperstown, Ingalls Blueberry Hill, Milford and Otsdawa Berry, Otego in offering U-Pick berries.

Willy Bruneau, Middlefield Orchards, purchased the farm in 2002 after retiring from working in computers and technology for 35 years. “We planted 1,000 trees a year,” he said. “Now we have 10,000 trees on 120 acres.”

His wife, Joan, liked to make jam, so they planted raspberries, blackberries, rhubarb and blueberries on two and a half acres, opening it up for visitors to come

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ickle the cluster, and the ripe ones just fall into your hand.”

JOAN BRUNEAU Middlefield Orchards co-owner

and pick a quart or two.

“We sell thousands and thousands of pounds of berries,” he said. “And we sell tons of apples every year.”

The secret to the best blueberries lies in a technique Babcock calls “tickling the berries.”

“You look for the ones that are a deep, velvety blue all the way around,” she said. “They grow in clusters, Please See PICKIN’, Pg. 8

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Phinn Reisz and Anat Volfovich have moved to the country and partnered with the Handsome Brook Farm owners in a U-Pick blueberry patch.

It’s never too early to start planning for college…

Schedule a tour at 888-Hartwick or Hartwick.edu/visit

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Healthy Food At Green Earth; Clams And More At Cooley’s FINE FOOD/From Pg. 4. or years the Green Earth has been a one-stop-shop for people looking for healthy, local and organic food. And if you are looking for a meal that will nourish your body and soul, try out the offerings at their kitchen. Always on hand are 1-2 soups of the day (made certified organic and vegetarian) that are

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chock full of tasty ingredients from local farms. These soups are perfect year round, but especially in the winter months.

But they are more than soups, they also have an extensive breakfast and lunch menu of reasonably priced offerings including their popular Tempeh Ruben, the A La Toscana (roasted chicken, mozzarella, roasted

red peppers and homemade pesto) or their popular Bob Breakfast Burrito (egg, avocado, sprouts and pesto on honey oat bran bread). They also have smoothies, a juice bar, paninis, wraps and salads. If you can, grab one of their cheese scones, which, in my opinion, are the best in town. But be warned, they go fast for a reason!

For food that looks good,

tastes good and makes you feel good for eating it, look no further than The Green Earth. (4 Market St. Oneonta. 607-432-6600) IAN AUSTIN Photographer

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Fri. & Sat. @ 7 pm • Sunday @ 2pm Tickets only $5 adults, Children $3 Only 20 min from Cooperstown & Oneonta!

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ANNALS OF COOPERSTOWN

Babe Ruth Makes Appearance – In Person of Willis Gardner

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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t was Induction Weekend 26 years ago when Linda Ruth Tosetti saw Willis Gardner and declared, “Here you are, the grandfather I never knew.”

Her declaration launched a new career for the man from Oberlin: depicting Babe Ruth, America’s most famous baseball player, even today, 70 years after the American Hero’s death.

Even before then, he was aware of the likeness, he and wife Cecile recalled the Saturday of Induction 2018 Weekend, sitting on a bench

in Pioneer Park.

Their son – they also have three daughters – came home with a photo of The Babe and declared, “’Here’s a picture of dad,’” said Cecile. “We put it on a bulletin board and it hung there for years.”

Soon, Gardner had a contract with the Babe Ruth League – based in Trenton, N.J., it is one step up from Little League, for boys 13 and up – and was making appearances at tournaments around the country.

He, as Babe, was at the 1998 dedication of Diamondback Stadium in Phoenix, Ariz.

He was invited to Baltimore to the Babe Ruth

No, it’s not Babe Ruth, basking in the sun at Cooperstown’s Pioneer Park.

It’s Willis Gardner of Oberlin, Ohio, one of the nation’s foremost depicters of The Babe, with wife Cecile.

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Centennial Celebration in 1995.

Five times, he’s been asked to be The Babe at a

“subway series” in New York City, when the Yanks play the Mets.

At the height, Gardner,

now 80, was making 20 appearances a year across the nation.

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Don’t Want To Pick? Pick Berries Up At Oneonta, Cooperstown Farmers’ Markets PICKIN’/From Pg. 5 so you reach up and kind of tickle the cluster, and the ripe ones just fall into your hand.”

Ripe raspberries and blackberries come off easily, and if you have to tug, they’re not ripe yet.

But the best part, of course, is sampling a few of the goodies while you pick.

“The berries are fantastic,” said Babcock. “Snacking is part of the fun!”

While the blueberry season is only until midAugust, raspberries will stay through the fall, and the Middlefield orchards will be open for fresh apples starting August first, with U-Pick pumpkins in the fall.

“We take everyone

around on a hay ride, then you take the corn maze into the pumpkin patch,” said Bruneau. “If there are little kids, I’ll give them some Indian corn.”

Too busy to pick your own? Middlefield Orchards sells all their produce at the Oneonta and Cooperstown Farmers Markets ever Saturday, along with

Joan’s jams and pastries, as well as vegetables from the farm, and Reisz says they’re working with local grocery stores to get their Northstar brand onto shelves.

And they freeze well, so you can have blueberries long after the summer sun has turned to winter.

“If I can put a blueberry in a cake or a muffin, I’m all over it,” said Babcock. “You just throw them in a bag and throw them in the freezer, then take them out when you need them.”

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(607) 547-8212 •ingalls blueberry hill, Seminary Road, Hartwick Seminary, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday; 5 p.m. to dark, Monday-Friday (607) 432-2999 •OTSDAWA BERRY, 1803 County Highway 8, Otego.

Dawn to dusk, seven days a week. (607) 432-2999

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Crafters • Vendors Games for the Kids Chinese Auction Music Dancers Magic Show Puppet Show Food by Buccaneer BBQ August 11 and 12 · 11 am $5 admission · Children 12 & under free!

We welcome everyone to come in period costume!

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Willis Has Been Living The Life Of ‘The Babe’ BABE/From Pg. 7 “Everyone remembers The Babe,” he said.

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resemblance.”

One of his most affirming experiences as Babe Ruth was a look-alike contest at Manhattan’s famous Gallagher’s Steakhouse on West 52nd Street.

As he entered past the meat rack, there were five guys against the wall.

One was wearing a mask.

Another, seeing Gardner, gave up.

He won that contest twice.

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ments was when Tosetti called and asked him to come to Cooperstown because the Hall of Fame had renovated the room dedicated to her grandfather, he told the Milwaukee Journal in 2012.

Gardner and Tosetti were standing in the refurbished room when a man turned around and asked Gardner, “What the hell are you doing here?”

“I just wanted to see what

they did with my room,” Gardner replied.

The man turned white, muttered an expletive, and hurried out of the room.

“That’s the honest-toGod’s truth,” Gardner said with a wide smile, the newspaper reported. “It was so funny.”

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O-COUNTY FAIR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. See best Otsego County has to offer. Daily shows, rides, more. Highlights include agriculture day, 2Xtreme Racing monster truck show, beef show, contradancing, more.

Otsego County Fair, Mills St., Morris. 607-263-5289.

HOPPY TOURS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer, brewing, hops, followed by tour of hop yard, house.

The Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

MUSIC â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12:05 p.m. Enjoy mix of folk, blues, light rock played by the Jeff Syman Quartet. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-9931.

INTEREST MEETING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 - 3 p.m. Learn about Walk With Ease program by Arthritis Foundation of New York. 6 week program teaches how to walk safely, comfortably, improving flexibility, more. If

you can be on your feet for 10 minutes without increased pain this program is for you.

Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-4320010.

THEATER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 p.m. Operatic rendition of Homerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Odysseyâ&#x20AC;? features rollicking sailor songs, storms, siren songs, more. General admission, $20. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School. 607547-2255.

OPENING RECEPTION â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 8 p.m. Presenting exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abstract Landscapesâ&#x20AC;? by Colleen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara. Lines, shapes cause viewer to observe, question what they understand about landscape before them.

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

ICE CREAM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 - 8 p.m. Get fabulous brownie sundaes served by Irene Curley, Liz Morley. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

607-432-0960.

FABULOUS FRIDAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5:30 - 8 p.m. Classic cars at Tom and Dougâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cruise In Car Show. Enjoy music by Off The Record, tastings by Northern Eagle Beverages. Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-2941.

SHAKESPEARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6 - 10:30 p.m. Celebrate talents of youth, Shakespeare at 31st Shakespeare In The Valley featuring performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing to do about Everythingâ&#x20AC;? followed by picnic, per-

formance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Much ado about Nothingâ&#x20AC;? at 8 p.m. Bring own lawn seats. Tickets, $12/ adult. West Kortright Centre, 49 W. Kortright Church Road, East Meredith. 607-2785454.

CONCERT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7 p.m. Welcome back Internationally touring singer/songwriter Matt Nakoa. Cost, $25/adult.

Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., Earlville. 315-6913550.

CONCERT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:30 p.m.

Presenting Julian Fleisher and His Rather Big Band. Free admission. Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-3700.

MOVIE NIGHT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 - 10:30 p.m. Showing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Greatest Showmanâ&#x20AC;? (2017). Bring snacks, beverages, chairs, blankets, bug spray, etc for added comfort. Free, open to the public. Outdoor Soccer Field, Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607547-2800.

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O-COUNTY FAIR – 8:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. See best Otsego County has to offer. Daily shows, rides, more. Highlights include equestrian Gymkhana, bicycle giveaway, truck pull, livestock parade of champions, Supreme Champion Showmanship, talent contest, more. Otsego County Fair, Mills St., Morris. 607-263-5289.

BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m.

Cooperstown residents may put clean/returnable bottles and cans on the curb or visible from the street.

Support Cooperstown Boy Scouts. Drop-off bin at Major League Motor Inn, 6156 NY28, Fly Creek. Call Bruce at 607-267-6730.

TOURNAMENT – 9 a.m. Noon. 3-on-3 basketball tournament to support capital improvements to historic Gilbert Block in heart of downtown.

Cost, $40/team. Centennial Park, 55 Spring St., Gilbertsville. 607-783-2836.

ART & MUSIC – 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Outdoor street festival featuring outstanding regional artists, crafters, sidewalk sale, musicians, writers, more. Main St., Oneonta. 607432-2070.

ESCAPE ROOM – 10 a.m.

- 2:30 p.m. Solve puzzles, use clues, escape from the Backstage at the Concert-themed room. Limit 6/time-slot.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

607-432-1980.

Losie’s Gun shop

6478 State Hwy 23 Oneonta

607-432-6452 Mon - Fri 10 am to 6 pm Sat 10 am to 5 pm

BEAUTY WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Join Anna Krusinski of Willow & Birch Apothecary to create lavender bath fizzies, scrubs to take with you. Registration required, cost $35 materials included. Adult 15+. Children 10-14 must be accompanied by an adult. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury. 607-3267908.

SHOWTALK – 10:30 a.m.

Celebrate 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein with Jamie Bernstein. Explore his work, life, legacy with the young artists performing works by the American Master. Cost, $25.

The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

607-547-2255.

STREAM DAY – 11 a.m. 1 p.m. Look for macro-invertebrates (crayfish, bugs, etc.) in the Susquehanna River with Oneonta World of Learning.

Learn about river ecology, the watershed, more. All ages welcome. Fortin Park, Oneonta.

607-431-8543.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer. See Friday Listing.

CAR SHOW – Noon - 4 p.m.

See antique cars, participate in a raffle, enjoy food by Fort Plain AmVets, vendors.

Followed by live music featuring Tucker Yager and the Curtis Road Band. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009-2019 Co. Hwy. 80, Fort Plain.

518-993-2239.

THEATER – Noon. “A Case For Eviction” following struggle of Frank and Dora to evict a temporary resident from their guest room. Leatherstocking Stage, The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547-1450.

PADDLE & PULL – 1 - 4 p.m. Bring your canoe/kayak, or reserve one of OCCA’s, and help pull invasive water chestnuts from the stump portion of Goodyear Lake.

Bring water, sunscreen, & a hat. Registration requested.

Meet at Porlandville Fishing Access, St. Hwy. 28, Portlandville. 607-547-4488.

AUTHORS SERIES – 1 p.m.

Baseball author Bill Sullivan discusses book “Long Before the Miracle: The Making of the New York Mets.” Followed by book signing. Included with admission. Bullpen Theater,

Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200.

PERFORMANCE – 2 p.m.

Showing “Circus Minimus” written, performed by Kevin O’Keefe with collaboration by the audience. Free Admission.

Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607829-3700.

VIGNETTES – 2 p.m.

Guided tour showcasing three site-specific performances by the Templeton Players on the struggle for Women’s Rights. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

FISHING DERBY – 3 - 6 p.m. Catch & release event for children aged 3-15. Must have own gear, bucket, adult supervision. Refreshments provided. Oneonta Lions Club presents awards for most fish caught. Free, registration required. Forms avialable at City Clerk, Recreation Department, Mac’s Barber Shop, at the Derby. Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m.

Makers of all ages create, learn, experiment. Materials provided for many different hands-on activities to inspire creative thinking and problem-solving. Everything from crochet to coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

CHICKEN BBQ – 4:30 p.m.

Enjoy BBQ, eat-in or take-out.

Cost, adult dinner $10, ½ chicken $7, child under 12 $7. Pierstown Grange, SUMMER GALA – 5 - 10 p.m. Jane Austen pays a visit to Hyde Hall. Enjoy music, an experience dinner, games, treats, more. Cost, $195/individual 30+. RSVP by July 27.

Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Road, Cooperstown. 607-547-5098.

SHAKESPEARE – 6 - 10:30 p.m. Celebrate the talents of the youth and Shakespeare at the 31st Shakespeare in the Valley featuring performance of “Nothing to Do About Everything” followed by a picnic, performance of “Much Ado About Nothing” at 8 p.m.

Bring your own lawn seats.

Tickets, $12/adult. West Kortright Centre, 49 W. Kortright Church Road, East Meredith.

607-278-5454.

TRIBUTE CONCERT – 7 p.m.

Enjoy hits from the 50s, 70s performed by Elvis Tribute Artist Matthew Boyce featuring live band. Tickets, $15, available at Fly Creek General Store, Spurbecks, The Green Toad Book Store. Limited seating available. Old Fly Creek Grange, 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek.

MUSIC – 7 - 10 p.m. Hot Tin Roof present Atomic Rewind.

Enjoy Ommegang beer, great music, fun in the sun. Cooperstown Fun Park, 4858 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. 607544-1800.

CONCERT – 7 p.m. Monkey and the Crowbar play Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Jimmy Buffet and more. Free. 3 Chenango Rd, Edmeston. 607-965-8377.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Presenting Julian Fleisher and His Rather Big Band. Free admission. Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-3700.

►Sunday, August 5

O-COUNTY FAIR – 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. See best Otsego County has to offer. Daily shows, rides, more. Highlights include demolition derby, cake walk, chain saw art auction, goat show, dessert contest, more.

Otsego County Fair, Mills St., Morris. 607-263-5289.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

- Brief history, discussion of beer. See Friday Listing.

SUNDAY BRUNCH – Noon - 2:30 p.m. Treat your father to 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.

GARDEN HACKS – 1 - 2 p.m. Learn tried and tested gardening tips. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1450.

SUNDAY SERIES – 1 - 3 p.m. Learn about “Textiles: Early Fabrics of the 1800s” with Rabbit Goody. SwartWilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta.

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►Sunday, August 5

ANTI-RENT WAR – 2 p.m. Enjoy performances by Templeton Players depicting Anti-Rent Movement. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

PERFORMANCE – 3 p.m.

Showing “Circus Minimus” written, performed by Kevin O’Keefe with collaboration by the audience. Free Admission.

Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607829-3700.

OPENING RECEPTION – 3 - 5 p.m. “Body of Work” a posthumous show featuring works by Treadwell artist, Roy Purcell focusing on his figurative works, select landscapes. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. 607-829-5055.

MUSIC FESTIVAL – 4 p.m. World class music in a restored dairy barn. Features cellist Benedict Kloeckner, pianist Andrew Armstrong.

Cost, $25 at-th-door. Honest Brook Music Festival, 1885 Honest Brook Road, Delhi.

607-746-3770.

MUSIC FESTIVAL – 7:30 p.m. Enjoy music by world renowned jazz guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli with Mike Karn, bass, Andy Watson, drums.

Trio performs works by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, others.

Ballroom, The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 800-838-3006.

►Monday, August 6

PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE – 10 a.m. - Noon. Children 9-12 learn photography in a 3-day workshop with exercises in composition, lighting, color, more. Must have digital camera with memory card, no cell phone cameras. Cost, $64/non-member. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE – 1 - 4 p.m. Teens 1318 learn about photography through exercises in portraiture, landscape, documentary, abstract, sports, more.

3-day workshop. Must have digital camera with memory card, no cell phone cameras.

Cost, $95/non-member. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Exhibit “The Truth - What is Yours?” Featuring works by guest, member artists. Displayed thru 9/2. The Smithy, 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

607-547-8671.

THEATER – 6 p.m. Operatic rendition of Homer’s “Odyssey” features rollicking sailor songs, storms, siren songs, more. General admission, $20. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School. 607547-2255.

FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model. Poses chosen by consensus. Cost $12/class.

The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-435-8718.

►Tuesday, August 7

POTTERY – 9 a.m. - Noon.

Children ages 7-14 learn to throw on a potter’s wheel.

Lessons in designing, glazing.

Cost, $75, materials included.

The Smithy Clay Studio, 1 Otsego Ct., Cooperstown.

607-547-8671.

ART ROCKS – 11 a.m.

Young artists learn new techniques, explore the works in the museum’s collection.

Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

TEA PARTY – 1 p.m.

Garden tea party featuring American Girl Doll Felicity Merriman (and some of her friends!). Learn about the American Revolution, try colonial crafts and games. enjoy some snacks. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie.

518-673-2314.

ART CLASS – 1 - 3 p.m.

Explore printmaking, create images of your favorite summer adventures with Justin Mastrangelo. Cost, $55/nonmember. Cooperstown Art Association. 607-547-9777.

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-8344.

COMMUNITY GATHERING – 2 p.m. Preview a Civil War reenactment at Hyde Hall.

Meet re-enactor Ted Shuart, Captain of 125th New York Infantry. Learn what to expect in a Civil War-era encampment. Free, open to public.

Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-0600, ext 101.