Advertisement. Advertise with us

NASH BRING COOPER TO LIFE

‘Lord Of The Wilderness’

Depicts Bawdy Founder

Playwright Ron Nash, left, trades pointers with James Iversen of Franklin, center, who played an uncouth William Cooper in a dramatization of the village’s founding in this evening’s reading of “Lord of the Wilderness” in The Fenimore Art Museum’s auditorium.  Nash, now living in California, said he wrote the play 10 years ago for the Leatherstocking Theater Group, which closed down before it could be performed. The play is one of four that will be read in the next several weeks under the auspices of The Fenimore Art Museum. At right is Bill Elsey, Springfield Center, who plays the county sheriff in cahoots with Cooper when the founding father bought the future site of Cooperstown at auction in Canajoharie. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

Posted

Tags

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.


Related Articles

Fenimore Art Museum, Farm Announce Leadership Change

Dr. Paul S. D’Ambrosio, president and chief executive officer of Fenimore Art Museum and Fenimore Farm, has announced his retirement in 2026, after more than four decades of transformative leadership, scholarship, and institutional advancement, officials announced on Thursday, October 30.…
November 6, 2025

Three Exhibits on View at CAA through Oct. 31st

Cooperstown Art Association introduced three new exhibits to its galleries on Friday, October 3 which will remain on view through the end of this month. The exhibits contain works by a number of artists, including local painter Kara Mattice as well as members of International Encaustic Artists and the Central New York Watercolor Society. …
October 27, 2025

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

Visit our “subscribe” page and select your charity of choice at checkout

SUBSCRIBE