LIBBY’S BEST BETS What A Weekend Of Festivals, Picnics, Music, Drama, Art! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Festivals for music, for beer, for Classical music abound this weekend around Otsego County! Start at the first annual Summer Fest as the Red Shed Brewery celebrates good weather, good friends and, most importantly, good beer! Cornhole tournaments, food trucks, karaoke and beer marionette planned. 12 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Aug. 2-4, 709 County Highway 33, Cooperstown. Info, redshedbrewing.com Oneonta is alive as…
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July 2019
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Indian Food Back In Oneonta; Plus, Bomber’s Burrito Bar Indian food has finally returned to Oneonta for the first time in nearly 20 years and I cannot be more excited. The thing I love about Indian food is that when you smell it, it’s like a warm hug. When I walk past Noor Indian Restaurant in Oneonta, you can smell the curry in the air wafting out from the kitchen, beckoning you to come in. Recently…
IN THE REGION ‘Hot Glass Road Show’ Punctuates Tiffany Exhibit At Utica’s MWP Institute By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com UTICA – Heat wave be damned — at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute is bringing the fire. “The Hot Glass Road Show” – The Corning Museum of Glass’ mobile glass-blowing studio – will be here from Friday – Aug. 2 – until Aug. l1, with demonstrations, classes and live glass-blowing exhibitions, all parked on the MWP’s front lawn at 310…
SUMMER DREAMS 1909 Adds Elegance Intimacy At Otesaga Tradition Of Great American Steakhouse Reinterpreted On Shores Of Otsego Lake By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At 1909, The Otesaga’s “intimate new dining experience,” it’s all about the presentation. “Our Wagyu beef” – from a prized Japanese breed of cattle – “is prepared tableside,” said Jim Miles, general manager/vice president. “We have a special Japanese cast iron skillet and we sear it right at the table before serving…
HOMETOWN History Aug. 2, 2019 150 Years Ago Excerpts from a letter submitted Mrs. Dr. Bassett, mother of Mary Imogene Bassett, then practicing medicine with her husband in Mt. Vision – “We maintain there is nothing in the study or practice of medicine to unsex the sexes; nothing unwomanly, or un-Christian in responding to the calls of suffering humanity; that it is truly woman’s nature and province to practice the healing art; that it is a necessity of the age…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 1, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – Books just received for sale at the Book Store of H. & E. Phinney. “The New York Justice or a Digest of the Law relative to Justices of the Peace;” “Works of the Rev. John Newton,” 6 Vols. – also his letters and Conversational Remarks; “Cooper’s History of N. America;” “Love’s Surveying;” “Domestic Cookery;” “Woodsworth’s Poems;” “Don Quixote” 4 Vols.; “Young’s Night Thoughts,” and “Young’s Misses’ Magazine;” “Tales of Aunt…
COLUMN VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Capitalism Works; ‘Squad’ Proves It Since the day they were sworn into office, the “Squad of Four” Congresswomen with a far-left agenda have been critical of the President and of this country. They have been incessant in demeaning the President, calling him a racist, xenophobic, homophobic and every other “phobic” one can dream up. One of them has engaged in tirades which range from being anti-Semitic to stating that on “911” “someone did something”. Yes,…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM 22 MAIN People Want To Live In Village. There’s Room By CINDY FALK • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I am passionate about housing. In fact, I write this as I prepare to travel to Honduras to participate in a program called Mi Casa, which provides new or renovated houses for Hondurans who do not have the resources to obtain adequate housing themselves. Having a place to call home is a fundamental component of personal identity and a…
COLUMN A FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE Accidents Will Happen… By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Well, of course they will, if you mean by accident a sudden, undesirable event – one that might have been prevented by closer attention. “Damn, why didn’t I see that coming?” That’s our common reaction to a minor accident, a fender-bender, maybe. But if the accident’s a more serious one, our response may well be guilt, recriminations, fear of consequences. “You know kids play ball…
IN APPRECIATION • Joe Campbell Sr. Of Many Oneonta Greats, Joe Left A Big Footprint Editor’s Note: “Big Chuck” D’Imperio, radio personality and author, assess Joe Campbell’s impact on Oneonta at the “Voice of Oneonta’s” memorial service Saturday. This is an excerpt. By CHUCK D’IMPERIO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com When I joined WDOS in 1989 I was a fairly young guy, not even 40-years-old yet. And the station was filled with young people, from sales to administrative to on-air and…
