Regatta, BASE Race, Hall of Fame Classic Weekend Highlights It’s a wet and wild weekend as the annual General Clinton Canoe Regatta brings everyone out to the shores – and waters – of the Susquehanna River. Though races run all weekend, the big one kicks off at 6 a.m. Monday, May 26. Follow the racers down the river, then enjoy a barbeque in Bainbridge. Brookwood Point, 6000 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown. Info www.canoeregatta.org. • The 11th annual Hall of Fame…
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ONAQUAGA REDISCOVERED • PART I Native Fled Iroquois HQ Year Before Dam Blew Up By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The more than 3,000 paddlers in this weekend’s 59th annual General Clinton Regatta can compete with a clear conscience. Its namesake Gen. James Clinton, who blew up the dam at Cooperstown in 1779 so the waters could carry his 200-bateaux flotilla swiftly down the Susquehanna to Onaquaga, didn’t destroy the Iroquois village there. He found one building…
55TH CLINTON RACE UNDERWAY Collier Family Adding To 75 Regatta Finishes The Cooperstown Colliers today are looking to add to the family’s tally of 75 finishes since 1979 in the annual General Clinton Canoe Regatta, underway today for the 55th year from Brookwood Point on Otsego Lake down the Susquehanna River to Bainbridge. And not just dad Steve Collier with daughter Jessica, seen above passing Council Rock at the river’s source. At Council Rock Park in Cooperstown, mom Evelyn, in…