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08-14-25
135 YEARS AGO: (Ed. Note: The following passage describes a Minstrel show performed in blackface by members of the Cooperstown baseball team) A large and appreciative audience greeted the young men who gave the Concert and Entertainment on Tuesday evening in the Village Hall for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Almost every number of the program called for an encore, the many topical songs being especially appreciated. The boys composing the Charleston Blues, by their brilliant performance elicited a…
110 YEARS AGO: Decline in Passenger Traffic—The number of travelers over the Delaware & Hudson lines is far below normal and the decrease is felt all over the system. Through-travel between Albany and Rouses Point, as reported on the June statement, shows a deplorable loss of 31 percent as compared with last year. The group of trains running between Albany and Rutland earned 23 percent less than they did last June. Between Albany and Binghamton, earnings are 15 percent off,…
HISTORY—6:30 p.m. “Stories Behind the Stars: Otsego County’s World War II Fallen.” Presented by the Otsego County Historical Association. Free. Refreshments to follow. Kinney Memorial Library, 3140 County Highway 11, Hartwick. (607) 293-7950 or https://www.facebook.com/OtsegoCountyHistorical/…
Jim Atwell's walk through the world began on August 17, 1938, in Annapolis, MD, as the son of Catherine Geraci Atwell and Tilden O. Atwell and the younger brother of Tilden O. Atwell, Jr. Jim was baptized at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Annapolis and received his early education at St. Mary's Elementary and High Schools, graduating in 1956.…
