HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JAN. 27
Hike Away The Cabin Fever
SHOWSHOE HIKE – 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Enjoy a hike around Gilbert Lake State Park led by Jeff O’Handley and featuring fun ecological facts about Otsego County. Gilbert Lake State Park, 18 CCC Rd., Laurens. Call 607-547-4488 or visit occainfo.org/calendar/cabin-fever-fest-snowshoe-hike/
SEED SWAP – 10 – 11 a.m. Exchange seeds and discuss plans for the coming growing season with the Otsego County Master Gardeners. Kinney Memorial Library, 3140 Co. Rd. 11, Hartwick. Call 518-234-4303, ext. 119 or visit cceschoharie-otsego.org/events/2018/01/27/national-seed-swap-day
BOOK COLLECTION – 9 a.m. – Noon. Donate your gently used books to be sold at the FOVL Book Sale during the Winter Carnival. Cooperstown Village Library, Fair St. entrance. Call 607-547-8344 or visit www.facebook.com/VillageLibraryOfCooperstown/
POKER RALLY SIGN-UP – 9 – 11 a.m. Enter the Annual Jim Vanriper Memorial Snowmobile Poker Rally. Drawing begins at 6 p.m. Genesee Restaurant 38 Lake St., Richfield Springs. Visit www.thisiscooperstown.com/events/annual-richfield-springs-winter-carnival
QUILT ENTRIES – 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Deadline for Quilters to drop off entries for the CAA Quilt Show. Cooperstown Art Association. Call 607-547-2709 or visit www.cooperstownart.com
THEATER – 10 a.m. Presenting “A Year With Frog and Toad: The Musical,” by Willie & Robert Reale. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College Oneonta. Admission, $10. Call 607-431-4227 or visit www.hartwick.edu/news/hartwick-theatre-arts-presents-year-frog-toad-musical/
OPERA – 12:55 p.m. See Puccini’s “Tosca” streaming live from The Met. Tickets, $20/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-431-2080 or visit foothillspac.org/index.php/shows/metropolitan-opera-in-hd/
AUTHOR PRESENTATION – 1 p.m. Activist Doug Gladstone, author of “A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB & The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve,” to address the Cliff Kachline chapter of SABR on how retirees like Thomas Bruno and Steve Grilli have been hosed out of MLB pensions. The Bullpen Theater, The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. Call 518-817-8253 or e-mail abittercupofcoffee@gmail.com
WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980 or visit hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/
THEATER – 2 p.m. Presenting “A Year With Frog and Toad: The Musical,” by Willie & Robert Reale. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College Oneonta. Admission, $10. Call 607-431-4227 or visit www.hartwick.edu/news/hartwick-theatre-arts-presents-year-frog-toad-musical/
FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. Showing “Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri,”. Tickets $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Visit oneonta.campuslabs.com/engage/event/1750673
THEATER – 8 p.m. Presenting “Love, Loss, And What I Wore.” The Production Center, The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-432-5407 or visit foothillspac.org