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Louisa May Alcott

‘AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING’

‘AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING’ Editor’s Note: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), celebrated for the classic, “Little Women,” was the prolific author of 14 novels, dozens of short stories, and many other essays and tracts. Here, for the holiday, is “An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving.” By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT SIXTY YEARS AGO, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love,…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.