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Lots To Do Outside, From Art By Lake To Power Days

he only thing better than art is Art By The Lake! The annual juried art exhibit celebrates the relationship between artists and landscape. Features artist demonstrations, food by Origins Café, music, more. 10 a.m.5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 17, back lawn, The Fenimore

Art Museum, Cooperstown. (607) 547-1400. • The annual Antique Power Days showcases tractors and farm vehicles from the past to the present, including the tractor parade! Food, vendors and more. 10 a.m. Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 17-18, corner of

Routes 166 and 165, Roseboom. Info (607) 264-3015. • Celebrate Otsego County’s hops history with beer tastings, food trucks, live music, family activities, and more in The Farmers’ Museum. Admission $12/adult. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, The Farmers’

Museum, Cooperstown. Saturday, Aug. 17, Schen(607) 547-1450. evus Lake Park, Lake Road, • Schenevus. (607) 638-9295. Experience a Civil War • encampment complete with Celebrate the opening of soldiers in authentic unithe Greater Oneonta Historiforms drilling/performing cal Society’s latest exhibit, tactical maneuvers, perform- “The Oneonta ‘49ers,” ing period songs. At 7 p.m. which follows Oneonta Sunday, enjoy concert by the storekeeper Collis HunMusicians of Ma’alwyck. tington as he leaves for Concert tickets, $10. things California to find Encampment, 10 his fortune. 2-4 p.m. a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday- to do! Sunday, Aug. 18, Sunday, Aug. 17-18, Oneonta History Hyde Hall, 267 GlimCenter, 183 Main merglass State Park St., Oneonta. Road, Town (607) 432-0960. of Springfield. • (607) 547-5098. Two Classical • music concerts at Honor those who 7:30 p.m. Sunday: LIBBY served with a The Lysander Piano CUDMORE free concert by the Trio plays “Slavic 10th Mountain Serenade” at The Division Jazz Band as it Otesaga, part of Coopersalutes our veterans with stown Summer Music songs from each branch Fest. $25. Also, Fenimore of the military. Free, all String Quartet performs invited. 7:30 p.m., SaturBeethoven’s Piano Trio in day, Aug. 17, Alumni Field D Major, more, at the Star House, SUNY Oneonta. Theater, The Foundry, 44 • Main St., Cherry Valley. $20 Whether you’re in a Visit http://www.cvartworks. high-end kayak or a homeorg/ made boat, you can race in the fifth annual Luke ►ON THE COVER Hazen Memorial Regatta. Cooperstown natives If land’s more your scene, stick around for the cornhole Owen and Hailey Decker, now living in Clifton Park, tournament. Cost, $25/adult come home to partake of paddler, cornhole tournathe blueberry harvest at ment, $10/person. 1 p.m. Ingalls’ farm. ADMISSION-FREE

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Last year, Mary Oprea of West Oneonta picked 40 pounds of berries at Ingalls Blueberry Hill on Seminary Road, Hartwick Seminary. She’s at it again.

Hartwick Family’s Blueberry Picking Now In 44th Year crosses Route 28. He and David planted blueberries on a 10-acre hillside parcel, a former cow pasture. HARTWICK SEMINARY “He sent me to Cornell to learn about farming,” the son said. “We avid Ingalls knows the weren’t sure if it would pay off, but cure for whatever might when we got them planted, people trouble you: “I get a lot couldn’t wait to come up and pick of doctors here from Bassett, and I berries!” want to tell them they should write The same purchase included flat prescriptions for people to come and land on the east side of Route 28 pick blueberries!” (now part of Dreams Park), which Ingalls owns Ingalls Blueberry the father gave to Paul, David’s Hill on Seminary brother, who grew t’s a good Road, the only strawberries there. certified organic David worked as family activity,” U-Pick in Otsego a school counselor Ingalls said. County. “That in Cherry Valley “You don’t have to bend and Oneonta, and makes all the difover to pick them the ference,” he said. runs the farm as his way you do strawberries, retirement. “I picked “It’s a little more expensive, but up where my dad left so everyone can do it. that’s what people off,” he said. It’s a nice day in the say they want.” With over 5,000 country. His father, plants in six different DAVID INGALLS Rodney, bought a Please See Proprietor, u-pick blueberry farm parcel in 1975 that BERRIES, Pg. 5 By LIBBY CUDMORE

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Keep It Simple: There’s Nothing Like A Diner, Or A Simple Tuna Melt

othing beats a to hold their own – ask to good tuna melt. have the biscuits toasted And I mean a for an even deeper flavor! GOOD tuna melt! (Jackie’s Restaurant, 3688 Plaza Diner in Oneonta State Highway 28, Milford.) has just that. LIBBY CUDMORE The tuna doesn’t have Managing Editor so many fillers that FINE DINING, you ooking for FUN DINING can’t taste it. It’s something got just the right sweet and STAFF PICKS crunchy? Give amount of mayo mixed in. Then it’s the Cooperstown topped with melty cheese Diner a try. and grilled on your choice of The honey-dipped fried bread. chicken fills both cravings Not everywhere you with a crunchy exterior and go can grill a sandwich – soft, juicy, and sweet intesometimes it’s too greasy or rior. Served with apple sauce burned. Not here – grilled to perfection. It’s served with fries that are to die for too! My friend had the ham and Swiss cheese club. It must have been 5 inches tall, loaded with ham and Swiss, lettuce and tomato. A sandwich doesn’t have to be Good club sandcomplicated to be good. Try wiches are about the tuna melt at Oneonta’s Plaza Diner. as hard to find as good tuna melts. Give them a try, the menu and a choice of sides – fries, is huge and sure to please broccoli, potato or macaroni everyone! (Plaza Diner, 122 salad, to name a few – this Main St. Oneonta.) is a delicious way to spend a TARA BARNWELL meal. (Cooperstown Diner, General Manager 136½ Main St, Cooperstown) reakfast is the most LARISSA RYAN important meal Office Manager of the day and at Jackie’s Restaurant, they good diner will offer know it! you friendly comfort They’ve got all the both in food and in traditional diner fare – atmosphere. Sandy’s Diner, eggs and bacon and located at 5626 Route 7 at pancakes, but I’m always Oneonta’s Price Chopper drawn to the Biscuits and Plaza, checks off both Sausage Gravy. They do those boxes. not skimp on their peppery, I ordered two eggs over savory sausage gravy, and hard and they came out the biscuits are fluffy enough Please See FOOD, Pg. 6

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One Brother Grew Blueberries; Another Grew Strawberries BERRIES/From Pg. 3 varieties – Blue Crop are good for pies, Blue Ray for muffins – people will drive great distances to hand-pick their favorites. Any variety you pick, they’re $3.60 a pound. “I’ve loved blueberries my whole life,” said Robert Goldstein, Phoenicia. “Three years ago, I started looking

for an organic u-pick within driving distance, and now I come every weekend!” “I come up after work,” said Marie Oprea, West Oneonta. “I bake a lot, so I use them there. Last year I picked 40 pounds!” “It’s a good family activity,” Ingalls said. “You don’t have to bend over to pick them the way you do

strawberries, so everyone can do it. It’s a nice day in the country.” And while he discourages “grazing,” he does invite you to sample to figure out which ones you like best. He jokes that in 20 years, the kids have to return to pay for the blueberries they eat. “I want them to come back when they are adults and

bring their kids!” he said. When youngsters are tired of picking, he has five sheep that they can pet as well, in a pen at the top of the hill. And his commitment to organic doesn’t stop with his berries. He uses a gravityfed drip irrigation system and powers his well-house with solar panels. His home, at the top of the farm, is heated through geothermal. As the season winds down, Ingalls and his crews pick as many as 10,000 pounds to freeze and sell throughout the winter, as well as to make jam with. “We have a really good jam recipe,” he said. “And you can only get it at the farm.” He also carries honey made from the bees that pollinate his fields – he rents 24 swarms of honeybees every year – and maple syrup tapped from the trees on his farm. “If you pick 50 pounds, we give you a free jar of jam, syrup or honey,” he said. But if you can’t get away to pick them yourself, both the Green Earth and Cooperstown Natural Foods carry them fresh every day. “We take 36 pints a day to Cooperstown Natural

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David Ingalls demonstrates the energyefficient, gravity-fed irrigation system. Solar panels power the well house.

Foods,” he said. “We’ve got local families that come and pick 200 pints a day for us.” They also take 30 pounds a week to Stagecoach Coffee in Cooperstown for their smoothies. The farm is open six days a week, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5 until dark Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday through the end of August. “Come at dusk,” he said. “It’s very romantic.”

►YOU CAN ALSO U-PICK HERE • MIDDLEFIELD ORCHARDS, 2274 Route 166, Cooperstown. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Saturday. (607) 547-8212 • NORTHSTAR FARM, 595 Franklin Heights Road, Franklin, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., or by appointment. info@northstarblueberryfarm.com • OTSDAWA BERRY, 1803 County Highway 8, Otego. Dawn to dusk, seven days a week. (607) 432-2999

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‘Honey,’ You Have To Try Sandy’s FOOD/From Pg. 4 perfectly – the yolks were not dried out yet held firm, and the eggs were not greasy. The bacon I ordered with my eggs wasn’t too crisp and wasn’t too limp. My side of French toast was delicious, the bread soft and coated in just the right amount of French toast batter. My daughter Alexandra ordered two pancakes, which were good and enormous, almost completely covering the cute, colorful plate they came on. She probably won’t have to eat anything else today! And then there is Sandy’s comfortable atmosphere. It may be located on a huge concrete parking lot, but Sandy’s interior is the oppo-

site of its exterior. The walls are decorated with sparkly butterflies, uplifting mottos, and rows of photographs of Sandy’s customers over the years – babies, kids, parents, grandparents, and so on. The waitresses do what good diner waitresses do: call you “honey” or “sweetie” as they swiftly take your order, bring out your dishes, refill your coffee cup, and gab with the people sitting at the counter. Sandy’s diner is one of those places you want go back to at least once a week until you’re known as a regular and photos of you and your family join the ones on the wall. JENNIFER HILL Staff Reporter

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DEADLINE – Last day to register for GOHS (9/17) day trip to historic Mohonk Mountain House. Tour historic hotel, enjoy legendary lunch buffet, walk the grounds/gardens, more. Cost, $155/person. Forms available at Oneonta

History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-1385 FROG-BIT REMOVAL – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Volunteers remove invasive European FrogBit from Clarke Pond before it enters Otsego Lake. Kayak (provided) or wade edges of pond to pull. Dress to get wet/ muddy. Registration required.

Meet for carpool at Otsego County Conservation Association, 7207 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. 607-282-4087. CONCERT – 2 p.m. Themed concert “Perfect Pitch” features songs on playing, loving baseball. Included in admission. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200 ORIENTATION – 3 - 5 p.m. Learn how you can help at Animal Shelter. Susquehanna SPCA, 4841 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. 607-547-8111. CRUISE-IN CAR SHOW – 5:30 - 7 p.m. Enjoy ice

Summer Dreams B-7 cream, music, wagon rides, M&M’s #18 NASCAR Show Car, restored vintage cards, muscle cars, street rods from car enthusiasts. Pathfinder Village, 3 Chenango Rd., Edmeston. 607-965-8377. FUNDRAISER – 6 - 9 p.m. Support “Braking AIDS Ride” from Cooperstown to NYC. Event includes auction, 50/50 raffle, entertainment, drink specials, surprises, more. Proceeds support Housing Works in mission to end the AIDS epidemic in NYS. My Father’s Place, 5690 St. Hwy. 7, Oneonta. 607-386-1508. COMMUNITY PROGRAM – 6:30 p.m. Join Carol Waller of Mohican Flowers to learn the “Joy of Flower Arranging.” Followed by light refreshments. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-0600, ext. 102. SUMMER CONCERT – 7 p.m. Enjoy musical performance by Country Express. Bandstand near Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-432-7997. THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Performance “Billy Bishop Goes To War.” Set in 1914, follows journey of underachieving Billy Bishop on his journey to become a great fighter pilot. Explores complexities of heroism, cost of war, Britain’s colonial past. Free admission. Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-3700. WRITERS SALON – 7:30 p.m. writers open mic followed by presentation featured author Jim Loudon, author “Railroads of the Upper Susquehanna.” Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-2070.

►FRIDAY, August 16 CIVIL WAR WEEKEND – 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Experience civil war encampment complete with soldiers in authentic uniforms drilling/performing tactical maneuvers, performing period songs. Continues Saturday, Sunday. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. 607-5475098. SONGBIRDS SESSIONS – 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Pamela West-Finkle leads hands-on interactive musical exploration for all ages. Sing, dance to American, World Folk

Music. Free, open to public. West Kortright Center, 49 W. Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. 607-278-5454. MOVING DAY – 1 - 8 p.m. Help club move from FORDO to their own space. Enjoy pizza at 5. Start at Club Odyssey, 22 Elm St., to new building at 80 Water St., Oneonta. 607-267-4435. MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m. Bring kids for program “Geology Rocks - Find Out Why.” Free, children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-6732314 ext. 113. THEATER – 7 p.m. Classic metatheatrical play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder portrays everyday live of residents of the fictional Grover’s Corner. Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400. THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Performance “Billy Bishop Goes To War.” See Thursday Listing.

►SATURDAY, August 17 ANTIQUE POWER DAY – 10 a.m.. 2-day showcase of antique tractors, vehicles. Roseboom. 607-264-3015. RELAY RUN – TBD. NY Route 20 Association celebrates 20 years with relay run from Duanesburd, Lafayette to West Winfield, covering entire NY stretch of Rt. 20 in 3-mile segments. Free to run, dinner is $5/person. E-mail Bill Kosina at jabkos@verizon. net to sign up. PANCAKE BREAKFAST – 7:30 - 11:30 a.m. Middlefield VFD hosts all you can eat pancakes, eggs, maple syrup, sausage, more. Cost, $7.50/ adult. Cooperstown Westville Airport, Rt. 166, Cooperstown. CHILDRENS YARD SALE – 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Stop by for selection of infant, toddler, children’s toys, clothes, furniture in good to excellent condition. West End Yard Sale, 24 Schoolhouse Ln., Oneonta. 607-432-7529 PADDLE & PULL – 9 a.m. Noon. Volunteers pull invasive Water Chestnuts, European Frog Bit from lake. OCCA canoes/kayaks only. Preregistration required. Bring sunscreen, hat, water, be prepared to get dirty. Silver Lake, New Berlin. 607-547-4488 MORE CALENDAR, Pg. 8

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p.m. Enjoy music, food, vendors, games, more with ►SATURDAY, August 17 Schenevus-Worcester Rotary. Main St., Worcester. in OtsegO COunty THEATER – 3 & 7:30 p.m. HOPSEGO – 10 a.m. Performance “Billy Bishop 5 p.m. Celebrate area hops Goes To War.” See Thursday history with tastings, food Listing. trucks, live music, family CHICKEN BBQ – 4:30 p.m. activities, more in Historic Village. Admission, $12/adult. Enjoy delicious barbecued chicken. Eat-in or eat-out. Farmers’ Museum, CoopersCost, $12/adult dinner, town. 607-547-1450. ART BY THE LAKE – 10 a.m. $7/child under 12. Pierstown - 5 p.m. 12th annual juried art Grange, 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. fest celebrates relationship 607-264-3069. between artists and landSHOWCASE – 7 p.m. “A Litscape. Features demonstratle Bit of Broadway” features tions, food, music, more. area performers presenting Lake Front Lawn, Fenimore vocals, dances in group or Art Museum, Cooperstown. solo performances. Conces607-547-1400. sions will be sold. Admission, REGATTA – 1 p.m. 5th $5 donation. Proceeds to MaAnnual Luke Hazen Memojor’s Inn restoration. Butternut rial Regatta features racers Valley Grange, 7 Bloom St., in canoes/kayaks/home-built boats. Proceeds to Schenevus Gilbertsville. 607-371-4030. SALUTE – 7:30 p.m. PerLake Park Capital Improveformance by 10th Mountain ment Fund. Cost, $25/adult paddler, cornhole tournament, Division Jazz Band for Salute to Veterans. Free, tickets avail$10/person. Schenevus Lake able at TFJ office, local busiPark, Lake Rd., Schenevus. nesses. Alumni Field House, 607-638-9295. SUNY Oneonta. BLOCK PARTY – 3 - 7:30

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