Not long after we moved to the village, we realized that Cooperstown is a matriarchy and that the preferred sport of the matriarchs is wing-shooting. The late, great Bunny Hamilton introduced us to Anne Logan, the grand dame of the town, who asked me if I shot.…
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Letter from Chip Northrup Inventions abound Cooperstown is famous as the birthplace of the Morse Code, the invention of organ transplants, and now, the invention of the Army’s new method of training soldiers to hit moving targets. About ten years ago, Chip Northrup, a Texan that summers in Cooperstown, went to the Cooperstown Sportsmen’s Association to learn skeet shooting. In order to hit the clay pigeon, you have to know how far in front to point the shotgun, called the…
