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Randy Johnson Opens Fenimore Art Museum Photography Exhibition

Randy Johnson Opens Fenimore Art Museum Photography Exhibition By WRILEY NELSONCOOPERSTOWN Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson visited the Fenimore Art Museum on Thursday, March 30 to open his first solo photography exhibition. “Randy Johnson: Storytelling in Photographs” features about 30 prints from Johnson’s trips across East Africa. Johnson is best known for his exceptionally long and successful pitching career, but photography is his passion. He began taking photos in high school and studied photojournalism at the University of Southern…

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Videotaping Set Off Elephant Rampage

Videotaping Set Off Elephant Rampage County Treasurer Ruffles Ecaped County Treasurer Allen Ruffles, just returned from a year in East Africa as a sergeant in the Army Reserves, said the only time he felt in danger was when he was videotaping this herd that wandered past his unit’s bivouac in Uganda.  This is a still from the video.  The elephants noticed him and charged, but Ruffles, who returned to Cooperstown from his one-year assignment last Sunday, was able to take…