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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Tour Farms, Watch Madonna, And Lots To Do In Fly Creek
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s the harvest draws take your pet in the photo near, explore farms booth, meet the mascots and throughout Otsego more. Free, open to public. County to witness and try Noon-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. out activities from fish 24, 5088 St. Hwy. 28, Coofarming to beekeeping, perstown. (607) 547-8111. more. Pick up farm guide • from participating farms, See “Madonna: Truth farmer’s markets, libraries, or Dare,” (1991, R), last or download guide at movie associated with this www.familyfarmday.org. summer’s Herb Ritts’ photo 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, exhibit $7/non-member. Aug. 24. Questions? Call 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, (607) 547-2536. Fenimore Museum, • Cooperstown. (607) things It’s bargains ga547-1400. to do! lore as you explore • 50+ lawn sales, with Bring old & new shows, special events quilts to share, or to entertain you while brag, then learn you shop. And whenabout quilting with ever you get hungry, Debby Clough and stop by and enjoy the Susquehanna breakfast (7:30-11, Fly Valley Quilters. Creek Fire Hall), lunch LIBBY 1-3 p.m. Sunday, (11, Grange Hall), Aug. 25, SwartCUDMORE and bake sale (Fly Wilcox House MuCreek Methodist Church). seum, 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug, Wilcox Avenue, Oneonta. 24, downtown Fly Creek, (607) 287-7011 Route 28. Plus, 26th annual • Antique Engine Show at The Musicians of Fly Creek Cider Mill. Ma’awlyck present “Ameri• can Dreams of Russia.” Enjoy the fourth annual Features Russian-inspired Community Softball Game American music, and purely as the Family Resource American “From A Dream Network takes on the Of Russia.” Admission, Oneonta Job Corps Acad$20. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, emy. Also includes contests, Aug. 25, The Star Theater, prizes, fireworks, more. The Foundry, 44 Main St., 6-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, Cherry Valley. Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. ►ON THE COVER (607) 432-0001. • Terry Cox, acting presiHelp the Susquehanna dent, Cherry Valley SPCA celebrate groundMuseum, discusses a breaking of its new building World War I uniform in for the Animal Shelter. Afterthe exhibits. wards, enjoy refreshments,
Thursday, August 22, 2019
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Sue Miller built this geographically accurate diorama by overlaying it on a topo map. It’s the centerpiece – but not the only novelty – of the Cherry Valley Museum.
Diorama Of Massacre In Trove Of Artifacts At Cherry Valley Site Local Museums Are Full Of Surprises churn, and you hung a bone up front and the dog would walk on it to crank the butter churn.” CHERRY VALLEY The dog treadmill is just one piece of the packed Cherry Valley n the homesteads of Cherry Museum, one of nearly a dozen Valley, even the dogs had smalltown museums that track the to help out with history of very the chores. local life in Otsego ’ve been to “We have a dog County, from the other museums, earliest settlers to treadmill from and none of the 1893 Sears & the present day. Roebuck catalogue,” them have anything “It’s amazing said Barbara Bill, how many people like this.” director of the SUE MiLLER, aren’t aware of their who created the Cherry Valley Cherry Valley Please See Massacre diorama. Museum. “It was HISTORY, Pg. 5 attached to a butter By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Falling In Love With Fiesta, Again And Again And Again
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have fallen in love – lots of them are hearty, three times at Fiesta. cream-based delights, and The first was the they run a whole gamut of salsa. Each meal is preceded flavors – lasagna soup, coby a bowl of chips and conut curry shrimp, kale and in-house salsa, fresh each sausage, just to name a few! day, resulting in salsas with They’ve also started different personalities from offering breakfast sandnight to night. Sometimes wiches, and don’t forget to spicy, sometimes pick up a pound of mild. Don’t let the FINE DINING, their wicked sharp lightness of this FUN DINING cheddar cheese for salsa fool you, it is later! (Spurbeck’s STAFF PICKS Grocery, 9 Railsuper yummy on chips or dishes. road Ave #1173, The second was the tacos; Cooperstown) simple and tasty, it’s just not LIBBY CUDMORE Tuesday for me without the Managing Editor $2 Taco Tuesday special. • Pork, beef or chicken, you alk down an can’t beat this combination alley. Enter of delicious food at a through a side great price. door. You think twice about My third love was the it but once you’re inside, it’s Diablo Calamari. Deep fried magic! Welcome to Alex’s and served with a spicy dip- Bistro in Cooperstown. ping sauce, this is the dish You’re immediately that made me love calamari. surrounded by eclectic furniAnd if you’re in the mood ture and dozens of mirrors for seafood, this is a great hanging everywhere. The appetizer before heading heavy wood bar is to the for main courses like their right – feel free to sit there California whitefish tacos or and dine if you like. their shrimp quesadilla. Here’s a must to start (Fiesta Mexican Grille lunch or dinner: the Fingerand Cantina, 19 Clinton ling Potato Fries. Perfectly Plaza Drive, Oneonta) cooked and served with an IAN AUSTIN awesome chipotle aioli dip, Staff Photographer they get your taste buds • going for your entrée. f you want to feel The menu is also eclectic. like a Very Important Thai, Japanese, Cambodian, Customer, head over to Indonesian, Indian, JamaiSpurbeck’s Grocery, where can...the list goes on and on. they greet you like an old Try the Great Britain Fish friend whether it’s your first and Chips. Wild Atlantic time in or your 50th. They Cod is fried to a crispness, don’t skimp on the sandserved with fries. The wiches, and if you’re lucky, Japanese Salmon Sesame you get in on a day when Noodles has shiitakes, they’re doing one of their cucumber pickles, sweet specialties – paninis, chili tamari and about six other dogs – but you never know things that make this noodle when that might be, so you dish indescribably delicious. might want to stop in often! Intense flavors and But on days when they’re smells will bring you back not running a special, I can to Alex’s again and again! always count on a cup of (Alex’s Bistro, Main St. delicious, hearty soup. And Cooperstown) be prepared! You won’t TARA BARNWELL find thin, boring soups here General Manager
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
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Little Appreciated, Local Museums Abound With Novelties
HISTORY/From Pg. 3 local history,” said acting president Terry Cox. “But they can come here and learn all about it.” The museum here is most famous for its elaborate diorama of the 1778 Cherry Valley Massacre. Push-button lights indicate homes and sites where the massacre occurred, creating an hour-by-hour timeline of
the siege. “This is what Cherry Valley looked like at the time,” said Sue Miller, town historian and museum secretary. Miller, the author of “Five Days in November,” built the diorama in her
kitchen. “We had a plaster of Paris one, but it wasn’t accurate,” she said. “We got a topographical map of the area and blew it up, then built on top of that. It took two years.” Claddagh Ring, “I’ve been to that Janet Camp- other museums, and bell wore during none of them have the massacre. anything like this,”
she said. have to do with Cherry ValIn addition to the dioraley?’” she said. “And my ma, there is also a video fea- second is ‘How big is it?’ turing a short skit about the We’re running out of room!” massacre. “It’s so important If the Cherry Valley that we get back to history, Museum is full of novelties, that we teach it in schools,” it’s not alone. said Miller. The Swart-Wilcox House, Also on display in the Oneonta’s oldest home, “Massacre Room” is the and the Greater Oneonta Cole Bible, which settler Historical Society in the Asa Cole was reading on the former Laskaris candy store night of the massacre, when have collections, exhibits he was speared by an Indian and full slates of lectures. raider. The Bible was also speared, and bloodstains can be seen on the pages. But Bill wants visitors to know that there’s more to Cherry Valley than just Ian Austin/Summer Dreams the bloody Barbara Bill describes how the 1893 history. Sears & Roebuck dog-powered butter The muse- churn works. um, opened in a former rooming house Others, from Milford in 1959, has exhibits packed to Otego to Middlefield, into every room, including a include the Edmeston historic kitchen and bedMuseum, which will open room, a selection of antique its first permanent exhibit, wedding gowns, locally the C.W. Hopkins’ DelCo manufactured Melodeon or- Light display, on Thursday, gans and the nation’s second Aug. 29, on the second and oldest fire pumper, known third floors of the Edmeston as The Washingtonian. Town Hall. “Whenever someone The display will include wants to donate to us, my the DelCo generators used first question is, ‘Does it Please See HISTORY, A6
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►OTHER LOCAL MUSEUMS TO TRY • Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St. Current show, “Oneonta’s ’49ers,” includes Collis Huntington, one of “Big Four.” Noon-4 p.m., M-F, 10-4 Saturday. • Unadilla Historical Association, 181 Main St., 2-4 Sundays. Features dairy-farming equipment and exhibits on “Tie-Co,” the Tieco-Unadilla Corp., novel ways to tie bundles. • Springfield Historical Society, Springfield Center. 1:303 p.m. Mondays. More than 500 photographic images of local people, architecture, cemeteries, historic activities, plus documents, displays. • Otego Historical Society, 6 River St., 1-4 p.m. Wednesday. Home, farm exhibits including homemade quilts, antique furniture, home decorations, dairy-farm miniatures. • David Sayre House, 81 North Main St., Milford. 1810 home restored showcase of daily merchant-settler interactions. • Richfield Springs Historical Association, 134 W Main St. Noon-4 p.m. daily. Exhibit features famous sulfur springs, believed to have healing properties. • Edmeston Museum, 1 North St.. 9 a.m-noon, first and third Saturday, 6-8 p.m. second and fourth Wednesday. New exhibit on DelCo lights, generators, military exhibits, history of local banking. • Cherry Valley Museum, 49 Main St. Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Known for its diorama of the Cherry Valley massacre, much more.
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HISTORY/From Pg. 5 to power farms in the early part of the 20th Century, before Otsego Electric ran lines into the rural parts of the country. “We have a map of all the DelCo products sold throughout the area,” said Deb Mackenzie, Edmeston Museum president and past president of OCHA, the Otsego County Historical Association. “Back then, it was more important to use electricity in the barn than in the house!”
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And Cherry Valley isn’t the only museum with an antique piece of fire equipment. “We have a bicarbonate of soda fire extinguisher,” said Mackenzie. “It’s a copper cylinder filled with baking soda, and when you turn the top, it breaks a vial of vinegar – the original chemical fire extinguisher!” The Edmeston Museum also has a collection of archeological artifacts, farm and home implements, and military uniforms from the Civil War through World War I and II. ADMISSION-FREE
AUGUST 9–25 Tiffany Studios, River of Life Window, 1900-1910, leaded glass. Photograph by John Faier. © 2013 The Richard H. Driehaus Museum. Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection was organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
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HISTORY TOUR – 5:30 p.m. Explore history of Brookwood Point from time of Native American’s to Cooperstown’s founding to present. Brookwood Point, 6000 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. 607-547-2366 ext. 108. SUMMER SOIREE – 5:45 p.m. Awards reception features cocktails, tours. Honor Clark Sports Center, receiving Quality of Life Award, Information Systems Division, receiving Environmental Stewardship Award. Cost, $100/person. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607432-4500. SUMMER CONCERT – 7 p.m. Enjoy musical performance by Three Days Gone. Bandstand near Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607432-7997. THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Performance “Billy Bishop Goes To War.” Set in 1914, follows Billy Bishop on journey to become a fighter pilot in WWI. Explores heroism, cost of war, Britain’s colonial past. Free admission. Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-3700.
►Friday, August 23 MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m. Bring kids for program “Magnets - lets see what sticks.” Free, children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314 ext. 113. OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Celebrate opening of exhibits “Made In New York: The Art Of Wood” and solo show “Keeping It Real: Hand
Drawn Stone Lithography in the 21st Century” by Amy Silberkleit. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Coopersotwn. 607-547-9777. COMMUNITY SOFTBALL – 6 - 9 p.m. Enjoy 4th annual softball game. Family Resource Network V. Oneonta Job Corps Academy. Includes contests, prizes, fireworks, more. Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-0001. FILM – 6:30 p.m. Presenting “The Secret Life Of Pets 2.” Cost, $3/person. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta. THEATER – 7 p.m. Classic play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder portrays live of residents of 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 24 LAWN SALE DAY – 7:30 a.m. Find 50+ lawn sales, events, food available all day Fly Creek. GARLIC FEST – 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Find delicious, biodynamic garlic, seed stock, growing tips, food samples, more at Dancing Veggie Farm, 246 Ainslie Rd., Richfield Springs. 315-858-1095. ANTIQUE ENGINES – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 26th annual show features single cylinder gas engines (manufactured by Hercules, Economy, Jaeger, McCormick, others) running early agricultural machinery, more. Rain or Shine. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. 607-547-9692. MORE CALENDAR Pg. 8
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CORN FEST – Noon - 5 p.m. Enjoy afternoon of vendors ►Saturday, August 24 selling everything corn flavored, crafts and games for in OtsegO COunty FAMILY FARM DAY – 10 kids, cornhole tournaments, a.m. - 5 p.m. Explore local competitions, duck race, farms throughout Schohamore. Klumpp Park, 88 Park rie, Otsego, and Delaware St., Windsor. 607-655-3399. Counties. Tour, try products, PAWSITIVE PAWSIBILITIES learn about farming from fish – Noon - 2 p.m. Meet adoptto bees, more. Pick up your able pets from Susquehanna farm guide from participatSPCA. Front Lobby, Oneonta ing farms, farmer’s markets, YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., libraries, more in the 3 counOneonta. 607-547-8111. ties. Call 607.547.2536 or THEATER – 3 & 7:30 p.m. download guide from www. Performance “Billy Bishop familyfarmday.org Goes To War.” See Thursday CELEBRATION – Noon - 2 Listing. p.m. Help Susquehanna SPCA FILM – 6:30 p.m. Presentcelebrate groundbreaking of ing “The Secret Life Of Pets new building for the Animal 2.” See Friday Listing. Shelter. Includes unveiling FILM – 6:30 p.m. Visit Herb of shelter plans & exterior, Ritts exhibit then enjoy film, interactive photo booths, restarting at 7, connected to freshments, more. Free, open exhibit with introduction. This to public. Susquehanna SPCA week “Madonna: Truth or New Site, 5088 St. Hwy. 28, Dare” Documentary chroniCooperstown. 607-547-8111. cling the life of Madonna durFROM Pg. 7
Thursday, August 22, 2019 ing her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. (1991, R) with live commentary by tour manager John Draper. Cost, $7/nonmember. Fenimore Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400. 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 Rd., Schuyler Lake. MAGIC SHOW – 9 p.m. Enjoy the show by widely traveled magician, Ben Seidman. Cost, $3/person. Hunt College Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta.
►Sunday, August 25 GARLIC FEST – 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Find delicious, biodynamic garlic, seed stock, growing tips, food samples, more at Dancing Veggie Farm, 246 Ainslie Rd., Richfield Springs. 315-858-1095. BOOK SALE – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Pick up your next read for $1/book at Franklin Free Library, 334 Main St., Franklin. 607-829-2941. MUSIC – 11 a.m. The Catskill Mountain Consort performs Classical music, original compositions. Franklin Farmers’ Market, 25
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CHORAL SOCIETY will hold auditions Thursday,
August 29 between 5 and 6:30 pm at at the Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Avenue, Oneonta for our winter concert titled Christmas songs throughout the Ages and led by G. Roberts Kolb. All voices are welcome and tenors and basses are always needed. Sight reading not required. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings from 7 to 9:30 pm at ≠Unitarian Universalist Society in Oneonta.
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Institute St., Franklin. 607829-2672. SUNDAY SERIES – 1 - 3 p.m. Bring old & new quilts to share, or brag, with Debby Clough and the Susquehanna Valley Quilters. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta. 607-287-7011. FILM – 1 p.m. Presenting “The Secret Life Of Pets 2.” See Friday Listing. THEATER – 5 p.m. Performance “Billy Bishop Goes To War.” See Thursday Listing. MUSIC FEST – 7:30 p.m. Cooperstown Summer Music Festival presents Violinist
Jesse Mills leading chamber orchestra in performance of Baroque masterworks, including works by Vivaldi, Bach. Tickets, $25/adult. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 800838-3006 CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Musicians of Ma’awlyck present ‘American Dreams of Russia.’ Features Russian, Russianinspired American music, and purely American “From A Dream Of Russia.” Composer in attendance. Admission, $20. The Star Theater, The Foundry, 44 Main St., Cherry Valley.
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