Cooperstown Central School sports reports, Hartwick College's dedication of its new Belonging Center, a call from the Rotary Club of Cooperstown for funding applications and Shock-toberest are among the topics discussed in this week's news briefs.…
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Harry Bradshaw Matthews
This Saturday, September 20, the Yager Museum of Art and Culture at Hartwick College will open two new exhibitions, "The Study of One Thing: The Zen Arts of Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei" and "Memorializing the Underground Railroad: The Harry Bradshaw Matthews Collection."…
“This marker helps bring to light Oneonta’s role as a central location in New York of anti-slavery activism and a site on the Freedom Trail in the 19th century,” Micucci wrote via e-mail. “As a historian, it makes me incredibly proud to be able to commemorate and celebrate Oneonta’s significance and the many abolitionists, like E.R. Ford, who challenged and advocated for an end to slavery and helped those escaped enslaved people in need.”…
The webinar was one of three which, along with a traveling exhibit and a live guide, has been paid for by a grant from Humanities New York. Matthews spoke for about an hour on the role of villages and towns in Otsego and Delaware counties in the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.…
Featuring water-related and historical games, crafts, and activities, "World of Water" will run from 12:30-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 18 through Thursday, February 20. This event is free and open to the public.…
The Rev. Stacey Mitchell, pastor of UUSO, said, “We are so honored to host the NAACP celebration this year” and welcomed an audience of nearly 200 people. There was standing room only in the church. Poletta Louis, president of the local NAACP chapter, announced the theme of the 2025 MLK celebration as “Mission Possible: Protecting Freedom, Justice and Democracy.”…
Amtrak’s A. Philip Randolph Employee Resource Group hosted six Juneteenth celebrations at train stations in different American cities at noon on Thursday, June 15. The guest speaker at the event in the Washington, D.C. Union Station was historian and genealogist Harry Bradshaw Matthews, retired associate dean and director of Intercultural Affairs at Hartwick College. He is the founding president of the United Stated Colored Troops Institute and a member of the SUNY Oneonta Foundation board of directors.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Oldest Otsego County Race Continues WINTER CARNIVAL – All Day. Info at www.cooperstownwintercarnival.com WINTER RACE – 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Annual 5k/10k Bob Smullens Race through Cooperstown. Oldest continuously held race in Otsego County. Cost, $20/person. Registration 10:30 a.m. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800, ext. 111 or visit www.clarksportscenter.com/events/2020-bob-smullens-5k10k-race/ …
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, JAN. 15 Museum Tours For MLK Day MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY – Visit www.thekingcenter.org/meaning-king-holiday to learn more. CELEBRATION – 9 a.m. Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the museum. Features guided tours, opportunity to learn about Jackie Robinson & Roberto Clemente. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-7200 or visit baseballhall.org/node/15910?date=0 FILM & DISCUSSION – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Showing civil rights film “Martin Luther King, I Have A Dream,” with Harry Bradshaw Matthews as facilitator. Location TBA. Call 607-431-4428…
Hearts Felt, Tongues Spoke, Hands Acted By JIM KEVLIN•allotsego.com Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21 COOPERSTOWN – Who around here has heard of Isaac Newton Arnold? Yet, elected to Congress from Illinois in 1860, the Hartwick native served as the “eyes and ears” on Capitol Hill for the new president, Abraham Lincoln. As a congressman, Arnold introduced the bill that freed the slaves in Washington, D.C., and the Florida territory. Later, he introduced the bill that in 1865 became the Thirteenth…
