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Louis A. Presutti II • 1941-2016

Dreams Park’s Founder Redefined Cooperstown Youth-Baseball Camp’s Success Rivalled Hall Of Fame’s Sheen

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Senator Seward at work in his Otsego County office.

Presutti II bought the 90acre Clover Leaf Farm in Hartwick Seminary COOPERSTOWN from the Ingalls family and, in 1996, opened hen Lou Cooperstown Dreams Presutti was Park with his father’s just 5 or 6, vision in mind. That his dad began bringing first year, there were him to Cooperstown to six fields, four weeks visit the Baseball Hall of play and 114 teams, of Fame and to fish. His Dreams Park according to his younger Every kid should have a teams called Lou brother Joe. chance to play baseball Presutti simply By the time the son in Cooperstown, his dad “coach.” passed away Wednesday, would tell him, and the July 6, 2016, that had idea stuck. grown to 22 fields, 12 weeks of A half-century later, Louis A. play, 1,248 teams, 18,000 players and coaches, plus tens of thousands of family members and spectators. FOR TRIBUTE by brother “His dream, supported by his Joe Presutti, see Page A4 Please See PRESUTTI, A7 By JIM KEVLIN

Seward Runs For 16th Term In NY Senate

tsego County’s veteran state senator, Jim Seward, RMilford, Tuesday, July 12, submitted petitions with 3,800 signatures to run for a 16th two-year term. The senator, who has rebounded from a cancer scare in the spring, is being challenged by two Democrats, who will face each other in a primary Sept. 13. For more details, go to

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2017 SEASON: Glimmerglass Festival will offer Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” next year, in addition to “Scalia/Ginsburg,” on Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia’s friendship. ZOOMOBILE DUE: To help dramatize the story of Noah’s Ark, the Utica Zoomobile will pay a visit to the Cooperstown Ecumenical Council’s one-day Vacation Bible School 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at First Baptist Church, Elm Street. Register at www.cooperstownvbs. eventbrite.com or day-of .

Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts of tributes to Dreams Park founder Lou Presutti II from the Guenther Funeral Home’s website.

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Lou Presutti II poses with his wife, Linda, in 2010. He always gave her credit for his decision to follow through on his dream for a youth-baseball park in the Cooperstown area.

oach was an amazing person who loved his job and all the people around him no matter who they were. Despite his intimidating appearance he was the friendliest and most caring human being we have ever known. THE ARGUETA FAMILY Union, N.J.

Thousands Raised For Boden, Selover

Deluge Can’t Dampen Friends’ Ardor By LIBBY CUDMORE

NEW BREWERY: The Red Shed Brewery is planning a soft opening 2-6 p.m. LAURENS Friday and Saturday, July ow halfway through his treatment 15 and 16, at 817 Butterfor mantle cell non-Hodgkin’s lymbowl Road, Cherry Valley. phoma, Art Boden has been hitting the links to keep up his strength and spirits. “I feel like Art again,” he said. “I’ve put on

15 pounds, and playing golf is helping me condition myself and get stronger.” And even though it rained 3 inches on Saturday, July 9, the storm wasn’t enough to keep Cooperstown Friends Helping Friends help friends Boden and David Selover. “Everyone knows Art. He’s a beloved figure here,” said Matt Hazzard, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce execuPlease See FRIENDS, A6

I attended Dreams Park as a parent with my son in 2002. After that experience, came home and formed a team solely to attend CDP came up seven mores times, once with my son as coach. Such a great loss to the baseball community. HUNTER NICOLSON Virginia Beach, Va. He was a great guy and created the “dream come true” in his Please See TRIBUTES, A7

True In Final Stretch Of Rio Triathlon Bid By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

ven though she was racing halfway around the world at the ITU World Triathlon in Stockholm, Sweden, Olympic triathlete Sarah True still

found someone from her hometown cheering for her. “A family from Cooperstown happened to be in Stockholm as tourists!” she said. “They cheered me on and I got to meet them afterwards. Hopefully there will be some Cooperstown people Please See TRUE, B7

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LOCALS

Bidders Empty Cooperstown Motel At Pre-Razing Auction

Former Guinness Brand Specialist Leads Ommegang

Attending the auction were Bank of Cooperstown President Scott White, left, and Vin Russo, proprietor, Mickey’s Place, who showed a particular interest in the baseball memorabilia.

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The curious and bidders alike observe as James McFadden of McFadden & Sons, Sharon Springs, auctions off the contents of the Cooperstown Motel. CVS is acquiring the property with plans to put a drive-thru pharmacy there.

Ingalls Blueberry Hill Opening Day Monday, July 18th

oug Campbell, who helped market such high-end products as Guinness and Ketel One Vodka will join Brewery Ommegang as president, effective Aug. 1. Campbell, who comes to the Otsego County brewery from 12 years with Diageo, one of the world’s premium drink businesses (from Johnnie Walker to Tanqueray), will oversee the day-to-day operations at the Route 33 brewery plant in the Town of Middlefield, as well as spearhead all marketing initiatives. He succeeds Bill Wetmore, who is leaving to pursue other opportunities at the end of September, following a transition period. “It was important we find someone to carry on the torch who not only had the talent to take Brewery Ommegang into its future, but someone who wanted to put roots down in the Cooperstown community,” said Simon Thorpe, former Ommegang president who is now president of its parent company, Duvel Moortgat USA. “Doug brings a wealth of expertise in highend spirits & beer; a great passion for craft and our culture; and a desire to build on an already flourishing, iconic brewery that recently won Champion Brewery at the World Beer Cup 2016. We look forward to his contribution to the Duvel

Incoming Ommegang CEO Doug Campbell samples the product.

Moortgat US family over the coming years.” Doug has held a number of positions with Diageo. Most recently he was brand director for Ketel One Vodka and was previously brand director for Diageo-Guinness USA’s beer portfolio, which includes Guinness, Red Stripe, Smithwick’s and Harp. Doug also spent several years in brand management of other Diageo spirits brands, including Smirnoff and Jose Cuervo Tequila. Doug is a long-time craft beer enthusiast and an even longer follower and fan of Ommegang. He received his MBA from Wharton, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins, and his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. Doug, his wife Alison, and their three children will move to the Cooperstown area prior to the start of the school year.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 14-15, 2016 Jacob Holbert, Oxford, at right, is followed by Bryan Johnson, Edmeston, and his son Jordan, leading their competitors into beef cow competition. Kelly Steele, Cooperstown, makes friends with goat Jean Eugenia. “I came here for the hugs and kisses!” said Steele.

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or the 69th year, 750 of the best livestock and 250 youth exhibitors from Otsego and eight surrounding counties have been competing at the Iroquois Farm Showground south of Cooperstown in The Farmers’ Museum Junior Livestock Show, a Central New York summertime tradition. The celebration of youth in agriculture tested the skills of handlers ages 8 to 18 who presented dairy cows, beef, swine, dairy goats and sheep of various breeds that they own and care for and have prepared for competition. The show, the second largest youth competition in New York State, has been a collaboration with Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program since 1947.

HARVEST of TRADITION

Sandra Mravlja of Cooperstown Holstein, above, brushes her entry’s back to a fine sheen. Larry Kroon Jr., Springfield, left photo, and daughter Marijke guide nervous Tessa to get an award pin.

Emily Hammond, Otego, relaxes with her sister’s cow Nickie, before they head to beef cow judging.

Hair products for cows? It’s a bigger business than you think. Shannon Sears, Cherry Valley, prepares her cow for showing. After the cow mousse is used to spike up and hold the hair along the spine for judging, it is then colored black to match the cow’s coloration. Hilda Wilcox, Cooperstown, watches the judging of milk cows.

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Perspectives

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EDITORIAL

Privatized Tourism Promotion Is Working. Get On With It

he may have done it in a ham-fisted way, but Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Otsego County Board of Representatives chair, had a point. With $446,000 in 2015 county bed tax revenues going to Destination Marketing of Otsego County (of a total $1.74 million generated, up 17 percent over three years), some of it should be used to promote activities outside Cooperstown, Oneonta and the Route 28 corridor in between. The DMOC leadership – Chairman Jim Miles, The Otesaga general manager, and Ken Meifert, Hall of Fame vice president for development – are nothing if not realists. They got the message. Links to Richfield Springs, Cherry Valley and beyond are being added to www.thisiscooperstown.com, plus calendar items. Wide-ranging photo shoots are planned. The DMOC’s mission remains steadfastly “head in beds,” as it should be. But Miles, in an interview, pointed out that, if events outside the main

Tourism Office was administering its own promotion, to $1.74 million in 2015. And, with the warm spring, indications are it will go even higher this year. At the same time, the county contribution to tourism promotion as a percentage of the bed-tax total dropped from 30.5 percent to 25.6 percent. Miles also pointed out that I ♥ NY money and grants from foundations are adding another $200,000 a year to Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal the promotion kitty. DMOC Chairman Jim Miles reviews the latest Meanwhile, revenue at data on positive trends in tourism locally in his the major hotels that provide office at The Otesaga. data to Smith Travel Retourism corridor are suf– Intergovernmental Affairs search has risen from $21.7 ficient to keep visitors in Committee, Administration million in 2013 to $25 milthe county one more day Committee – only to have lion in 2015, or 22 percent. – Springfield’s famed the matter tabled or ignored Other charts in the MilesFourth of July parade, for at the full board’s monthly Meifert presentation show instance, or the September meeting. shoulder-season occupancy kite festival in Cherry Val• and revenue rising, another ley – promoting them fits What further settles the area where Kathy Clark has the DMOC mission. Prequestion is the masterful expressed interest. cisely right, (and adept). report Miles and Meifert The increases are coming That should settle it – it gave at the county board’s mostly through sophisticatbeing an excruciating gaunt- monthly meeting on the 6th. ed Internet marketing, from let DMOC has been put Every indicator is up, and Boston to Buffalo and south through over the past four up convincingly. to Philadelphia. While the months, twice having to go Annual bed-tax revenues response rate may seem through the county board’s rose from $1.48 million miniscule (well below 1 pertortuous committee system in 2013, when the county cent), that’s the web market-

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ing game: Hit huge amounts of potential customers so a sliver becomes a lot. The DMOC and Adworkshop – DMOC affirmed its support for the Lake Placid ad agency after another round of RFPs – get it. And Otsego County government and taxpayers are benefiting. (Miles told the county board last week tourism revenues save local taxpayers an average $900 a year.) • Two lessons. One, Chairman Clark needs to express herself more bluntly upfront on boards where she represents the county board. She blindsided DMOC, as she did Otsego Now earlier in the year, twice claiming a

lack of transparency or responsiveness – mystifying, since she’s on both boards. Her instincts are right; but she must follow through more forcefully and avoid these last-minute crises. Two, privatization works. The DMOC executive director is Deb Taylor, who’s just as excellent now as she was when she was county tourism director. What’s changed is the board is populated by people – there’s a third “m”, Fly Creek Cider Mill’s Bill Michaels, and a fourth, Camilla Morris of Oneonta’s Eastern Travel, and others – whose companies directly benefit from DMOC’s success. That’s motivation. Now, let’s get on with it. Miles and Meifert’s July 6 presentation was totally convincing. The IGA and Admin committees should rubber-stamp a contract renewal. (Five years or three? Split it at four, if necessary.) And the full board, unanimously, should follow through when it next meets Aug. 3. Something’s working. Let’s not gum it up.

JOE PRESUTTI A BROTHER’S TRIBUTE

Brother Lou Presutti’s Love Touches 50,000-Plus Lives At Dreams Park Annually

y brother Lou and ball tournament park in I loved each other Cooperstown. Our travel very much. Our time and miles together brotherly bond grew during gave us the opportunity to the endless hours and thouformulate his ideas and turn sands of miles the many pieces we spent travof his vision into eling together what we referred from 1981 to as “The Park.” to 2007. Our In 1989, travel time halfway through ignited many those 14 years of deep and travel together, meaningful my brother Lou conversations, came to Cleveas did diverse land, Ohio, to experiences, stay with me so such as parwe could start to ticipating in develop a master Boy Scout plan that would fundraisers, bring his visionbeing solicited Brothers Lou and ary dream for Joe Presutti in to appear in “The Park” into group hug at Dreams commercials Park. fruition. and looking My brother for the next had an amazing new product to market. passion for life that spilled In 1982, my brother over into his dream of buildinvited me to share in his ing a nationally recognized vision and dream of buildyouth baseball complex ing a national youth base- and that passion mesmer-

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ized everyone we spoke to about the plans. I was blessed that he had asked me to be a part of his dream and then he told me, it’s time to put words into action. So we started reaching out to everyone that would listen; telling

them intoxicating stories of the pieces of the puzzle that would eventually turn his dream of “The Park” into a reality. This dream also brought our families together in ways that we never would have imagined. This made

my brother happy because his desire was to include all of our family in his vision. My brother Lou was a true family man and made sure that his children spent summers and holidays with our parents (their grandparents) in Olean – where

they could also spend time with their aunts, uncles and cousins and my children. The good times we all had at “Grandma’s” and “Grandpa’s” house were deeply important in strengthening our whole family. Please See BROTHERS, A6

LETTERS

Gay, Straight, People Born The Way They Are Born To the Editor: I’d like to comment on Mr. Kabat’s letter in the July 7-8 edition of your paper. Roughly 92 percent of all serial killers are male: Should men consider gender reassignment? Men are overwhelmingly more involved with physical violence than women: Is gender reassignment the solution here also? Yes, this sounds ridiculous – as ridiculous are your suggestion that homosexual people should “change.” If we are made in God’s image, then whatever way we “are” should be accepted. I am unclear on why this isn’t incredibly obvious or why this should threaten anyone. The letter mentions suicide rates. It has nothing to do with the inherent violence among homosexuals and everything to do with the continual struggle to be authentically who they are, who God has made them. And you wonder why the rates are so high in this population? Please. Repression can beget frustration which can breed violence and acting

out. If we want this particular violence to stop, why not acknowledge the humanity of the population? And by the way, the suicide rate for LGBTQ teens and young adults is five times greater than the general population (about 20 percent). At a time in their lives, when hormones are running amok and the search for individuality and self kicks into high gear, the pressures of being gay can be overwhelming, depending on the atmosphere surrounding the individual. Will they still love me? Am I a freak? What’s wrong with me? All common thoughts for all teens. But then add in the confusion and fear of realizing you are “different.” Little wonder suicides happen. Research has shown that a supportive and understanding environment can make a huge difference. The letter also seems to demonstrate a subtle sexism – it would seem that you have only addressed male homosexuals - and addressed a stereotype at that. And this stereotype has shaped your idea of “who” a gay person is.

As with any culture, the more lurid the custom/activity, the more we hear about it – and this has no bearing on the majority of a culture’s population. Westboro Church’s hateful behavior does not mean all Christians are vile and compassionless. A serial rapist does not mean all men are rapists. And the letter writer is wrong. There IS no choice as to sexual preference. We are born the way we are born, and to suppress who one is spits in the face of the Creator and twists the soul. And while I applaud the offer to speak “confidentially, compassionately, and without condemning,” the very words used illustrate the writer’s feelings about homosexuality. Who needs permission to be who they really are? To be promised that they won’t be condemned? Frankly, with the state of the world these days, I would think the writer could find something more vital and serious to rally against. Two black men shot to death over the past 48 hours comes immediately to mind. LINDA RANDALL Oneonta

Hateful Speech Makes It More Likely Violence Will Occur To the Editor: Americans are heartbroken by the cycle of senseless hate-based violence over the past year. We’ve witnessed nine churchgoers murdered because they were African American; 49 club patrons massacred because they were gay; and now five law enforcement officers ambushed because they were white cops.

Many of us are frustrated and convinced there’s nothing we can do to help, but in fact we can all be part of the solution. These events, whether they’re called hate crimes or terrorism, have common elements. They target groups of people based upon race, religion or sexual orientation and are motivated by hatred of the “other.”

We are blessed to live in a safe and mostly harmonious area, but the symptoms of hate and division exist here as well and we can all work to counter them. In just last week’s edition of this newspaper, a letter to the editor was printed which used the recent Orlando attacks (the worst mass killing of gays since the Holocaust) as cause to peddle long-discredited

falsehoods about the attack itself and about the LGBT community. While the author has likely never committed physical violence against anyone, his speech serves to dehumanize and demonize millions of people based upon one characteristic. This type of hateful speech makes it more likely that violence Please See STAMMEL, A6

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

A horse thief was shot by his pursuer, upon the mountain, near the borough of Wilkes-Barre, Penn. on the 28th ult. Suicide – On the 3rd inst. Mr. Noah Young, of Hanover Township, New Jersey, was found hanging on an apple tree in his orchard. Mr. Knight, keeper of a public house at Bangor, District of Maine, was stabbed by an Indian of the Penobscot tribe, on the evening of the 27th ult., and died in a few minutes. The spots on the Sun which were seen in April and May last, are again said to be visible to the naked eye, and may be viewed in the morning, soon after sun rising. From New Orleans – It is with pleasure we announce to our friends in the north and west that the water has entirely receded from our city, and that the damages sustained will be trifling to what was expected when the embankment or levee first broke. July 18, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

Resuscitation from drowning – A boy of about eight years of age fell into the river at Haverhill Massachusetts and his body was not recovered until it had been under water all of ten minutes. He was then taken to a dwelling house nearby where the application of warm blankets and gentle friction had the desired effect of restoring life, though to all appearance the child was dead, his face and hands having become discolored, and pulsation ceased. Dr. Spofford of the Haverhill Gazette says: “Many persons, in the case of a drowned person, are disposed as the first relief, to roll the body on a barrel, the consequence of which, in our opinion, is certain death, if any chance of life is remaining. We believe that not one in a hundred would be restored by this method, where the application of warmth, in any manner, by blankets, or a warm bed, will restore ninety-nine in a hundred.” July 12, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

Concert – A concert of vocal and instrumental music will be given by Les Brimmer’s band of Minstrels at Bowne Hall, on Saturday evening next. Those who like good music and would “laugh and grow fat,” will of course be on hand. The leader is known as the great Banjo player of the country; his company comprises five performers. Soda – The soda fountain at the Iron Clad is in full play,

crat – Light Green; Independence League – Canary; American Party – Terra Cotta; Prohibition – Mandarin; National Progressive – Light Blue; Socialist – Buff. July 19, 1916

10 YEARS AGO

75 YEARS AGO

Dr. Tidmarsh, conductor of the Cooperstown Community Sings has added a number of new songs to the list of favorites which were used for the sings last year. These are the new songs: “There’ll Always Be An England,” “My Sister and I” (a song of two refugee children), “Stars and Stripes Forever,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “The Erie Canal,” “Vesper Hymn,” “Prayer of Thanksgiving,” “In the Good Old July 7, 2006 Summertime,” and “Keep on Hopin’.” July16, 1941

furnishing the best drink for hot weather. A great triumph in the Strawberry line was achieved on Monday last when Mr. W.H. Collins of “Lakelands” sent to this office a basket of “Triomphe de Gands,” There were only 40 berries and yet they filled a quart measure heaping full. In flavor they are not excelled by any other berry. July 13, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

Baseball – The Worcester team was the opponent of the Athletics in their second game, played last Saturday. And now the Richfield boys and Worcesters can hold a mutual meeting of sympathy, for again were the Athletics victorious. When the Worcester team arrived in town, it was observed that in some unaccountable manner, Baldwin and Van Wie, battery if the Schenevus team, and also Ennis, third baseman of the same team, had become mixed in with the Worcester players – so the general opinion prevailed that our boys would have to “play ball.” The game was entirely free from all “kicking” and was very pleasantly played, the Athletics winning 10-2 by good hard hitting, Giles excelling at the bat. A request we are asked to lay before those who attend the baseball games: Do not address any remarks to the players while the game is in progress – they should hear only the voices of their captains. July 16, 1891

100 YEARS AGO

New provisions of the Election Law – The colors for the ballots to be used by the different parties at the primary elections this fall have been designated by the Secretary of State. They will be as follows: Republican – Cherry; Demo-

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50 YEARS AGO

The New York State Historical Association hopes to let contracts this summer and to start construction in the fall of a proposed new library building on the Association grounds near Fenimore House. Half a million dollars is available for the project. The library building will relieve crowding in The Fenimore House which now contains the library. The new facility will include a new and large classroom, which can be divided into two separate rooms for use by the Graduate program operated by the State University College at Oneonta and NYSHA. It will also provide space for books, staff, storage and book repair. July 13, 1966

25 YEARS AGO

A long-lost historic marker was returned to its home Tuesday and rededicated. The sign which marks the site of James Fenimore Cooper’s Otsego Hall on the Indian Hunter statue from 1897 to 1940 was discovered last winter in the attic of the village office building by village trustee Hugh MacDougall. MacDougall also serves as Secretary of the James Fenimore Cooper Society. The sign was evidently removed and put in storage in 1940 when the Indian Hunter statue was moved from the Cooper Grounds to Lakefront Park to make way for the statue of James Fenimore Cooper. After MacDougall rediscovered the plaque, Tom Heitz, Librarian at the Hall of Fame’s National Baseball Library and MacDougall had the sign completely renovated and mounted on the base of the statue of James Fenimore Cooper with assistance from the Leatherstocking Corporation. July 10, 1991

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After Golf Tourney, 250 Honor Boden, Selover At Cornfield Hall FRIENDS/From A1

Son Art Boden and dad Art Boden discuss club selection during the Friends Helping Friends golf tourney.

we might be playing mini-golf with all this rain!” The Friends Helping Friends benefit golf tournament at the Colonial Ridge Golf Course in Laurens was delayed two hours because of Saturday’s deluge, accompanied by flash-flood warnings. Gathered inside the clubhouse, golfers kept their spirits high by playing cards, eating bagels and donuts from Schneider’s Bakery, and drinking coffee from Stagecoach – and a Bloody Mary or two. “I’ve known David forever, but we hadn’t talked in awhile,” said Hazzard. “It was great to have a chance to catch up with him.” Friends Helping Friends Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal began last year, when Hazzard Co-honoree David Selover, right, attended with girlfriend Natasha Scharf was battling non-Hodgkin’s and her son Max. At right, organizer Matt Hazzard, who suffered a similar lymphoma. “A bunch of my non-Hodgkins lymphoma, hugs co-honoree Boden. friends put it together, and I let 110 players still got out there evening at the Cornfield Hall in thousand dollars” were raised them on the condition that we for a round. “The courses were Fly Creek, 250 people showed for both Selover and Boden. Dreams Park.” do it for someone else the next a mess!” said Hazzard. “But a up, dining on Brooks BBQ (Hazzard declined to give the With humble beginnings, my year,” he said. “And this year, few of us managed to play the and bidding on auction items, exact amount). nephew Louis (my brother’s we found two perfect benefiwhole course, and my team including a kayak, vacations “What we raised will be son) and a few passionate bud- ciaries.” won 19 under par. We gave and even a pan of fresh baked very helpful to both their dies, oversaw initial construcHazzard has been cancerthe prize money back to the cookies every week for a year. families,” he said. “And we’re tion of “The Park” that started free since last December. fundraiser.” 1980s tribute band Flux Capac- looking for a few people next with six fields, four weeks of But even with wet greens At the benefit dinner that itor played and, in all, “several year to celebrate.” play with 114 teams. The Park and impromptu water traps, grew expeditiously year after year to 22 fields, 12 weeks of play and over 1,248 teams. Those numbers equate to more than 18,000 players and coaches, not counting family and spectators. Today 50,000+ lives are touched every year at “Cooperstown Dreams Park.” For me, my brother’s deep love is that culmination of 68 years of memories. In the last conversation I had with my brother Lou, he asked me how I was 607-547-5740•607-547-6000 (fax) and what I was doing. I replied 157 Main Street “good,” and that I was fishing. Cooperstown, NY 13326 He asked me how the fish were biting and I said “good.” As we E-Mail: info@hubbellsrealestate.com finished our conversation his Web Site: www.hubbellsrealestate.com last words to me were, “We’ll talk soon.” Cooperstown Village Goodbye my dearest brother Lou. I love you and know how much you loved me. You will be missed by all. Love, Your brother Joe.

tive director. “We’ve been talking a lot, since I also had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and he calls me his big brother.” He continued, “As soon as you start talking to David, you realize that he is a really great guy,” he said. “The day isn’t about golf, it’s about these two guys. Everyone is here for the right reasons.” “This is an absolutely amazing community,” said Selover, a Cooperstown native who has been battling a brain tumor for two years. “I’m blown away by the support, even though

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My brother knew that “The Park” was not going to be an easy accomplishment, but his deep passion was much bigger than any doubt. With due diligence, endless hours, and unstoppable drive and tenacity we began to develop a workable system to realize “The Park” and forged ahead. We initially started marketing to youth baseball teams, and in 1989 we arranged for a Russian baseball team to travel to Florida to play baseball – featuring coach Tommy Lasorda. We also established fundraisers with companies like Hershey’s and MNCB Bank in efforts to help monetize travel expenses for teams to play ball at “The Park.” In 1990, my brother and I, along with a few other passionate visionaries who offered to help us, started getting very serious about our marketing efforts. We talked to parents, coaches, players, communities, leagues, teams and anyone who would listen, and started signing up teams to play in our national youth baseball tournaments, which is officially known today as “Cooperstown

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will occur and makes our community less safe. So what can we do to help? First, we have a duty, especially those of us in leadership roles, to reject hate speech that targets groups of people and defines them as inferior. We should shun politicians who cynically attempt to play on people’s fear and who seek to promote themselves by stoking division and hatred of disfavored groups. When these horrific events do occur, we must resist the urge to pick one “side” or the other and to engage in partisan talking points. Those radicals who commit violence seek to incite wars of race or religion and our engaging in the heated rhetoric between “teams” only gives them what they want and breaks down the bonds that join us all together as Americans. We can also try to learn more from individuals who are different from us. People of different races, religions and sexual orientations are vital to the fabric of our Otsego County community. They are your co-workers and neighbors; they work in our schools, hospitals, and corporations; volunteer in local clubs, houses of worship, and non-profits; and are your local elected officials. Instead of lecturing from a position of ignorance about people from other groups, speak with individuals from those groups and allow them to share their perspective and cul-

ture. You may be surprised how much you have in common. Reducing hate and division is important to enhancing our community’s safety and quality of life and is also essential in promoting our long-term economic health. Oneonta grew up as a railroad town and was dependent on laborers from a variety of nationalities and ethnicities. Our diversity helped to make Oneonta the most prosperous local economy and continues to be important. We rely on diverse students and tourists from all over and we must be seen as a welcoming community to continue to attract them. Our county continues to try to lure large companies that will supply good-paying jobs, but these corporations only re-locate to areas where their diverse workforces will be supported. We also have a great opportunity to attract young entrepreneurs and professionals ready to leave the more expensive cities but these individuals will only come here if Otsego County shows that it is open and accepting to outsiders and diversity. These events have been deeply upsetting to all of us but they offer us an opportunity to grow as people and as a community. We must continue to value each other’s differences and also seek common ground. The future of our country and community depend on it. ANDREW STAMMEL County Representative, D-4

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Dreams Park, not to mention other successful ventures. CARL and LINDA VENO Salisbury, N.C. Mr. Presutti was an incredible man, and I will never forget the time we were able to spend chatting when we were at Dreams Park with my oldest grandson three years ago. I was looking forward to getting to chat with him again as we will be coming up later this week to begin my youngest grandson’s tournament play at Dreams Park. The boys have been looking forward to coming for 3 years since our last visit. Coach is a legend in real time. His dream supported by his wife has given hundreds of baseball players and coaches the time of their lives. He will always be remembered for great man he was. Coach Lou we’ll be playing our hearts out for you next week. TERRY CROSS Tallahassee, Fla.

Coach Presutti had that special trait enabling him to make every person he met feel important. Lou made a very strong positive impression on every young baseball player he met at Cooperstown and that is a lasting legacy of the highest order. A life well lived. BOB HAARDE Sudbury, Mass.

I remember so many positive things he taught me growing up as a kid playing Little League baseball in Salisbury. Whether it be about life itself or the game of baseball. As a kid he was someone that you could look up to and respect. ADAMS AMES Salisbury, N.C. As a coach, he would challenge me to be the best I could be on the field and in life! On the field or in my office at work … He taught many life lessons and one I learned from “Coach” is that in order for

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wife Linda, has given hundreds of baseball players and coaches the time of their lives,” said Terry Cross of Tallahassee, Fla., in an online tribute. Cross brought his older grandson to play at Dreams Park, and this week was bringing a younger grandson, whom he hoped to introduce to “Coach.” “He will always be remembered for the great man he was.” Lou Presutti was born in 1941 in Olean in western New York and raised there, the son of Louis and Lena DiCerbo Presutti. His father was a foreman at Dresser Industries in nearby Belmont. Friday evenings, the son recalled of growing up, he would spend Friday evenings at his grandmother Nancy’s corner market, listening to baseball on the radio with his dad and four uncles. The five brothers played for the Belmont Athletics, the town team; baseball was part of family life. Young Lou attended Olean High School, then enlisted and served four years in the Army. Returning home, he married Linda Regal and settled in Leroy, near Rochester, pursuing business opportunities and raising a family. In 1986, he and Linda moved to Salisbury, N.C., where Dreams Park’s winter headquarters are located. (The Presuttis also bought a home in the village at the headwaters of the Susquehanna.) He never forgot his father’s vision and, even before the senior Presutti passed away in 1992, had begun 11 years of market research, applying skills he developed while target marketing for Procter & Gamble and similar consumer product companies. “All the arrows were pointing north,” he said in an interview with this newspaper in a 2010. As the boxes of data piled up in the Presuttis’ Salisbury home, Linda questioned her husband about his plans. He replied, “If we did this and we missed, I’d be packing groceries.” She said, “Don’t worry. Let’s do it.” Ever since, whenever Presutti was questioned about Dreams Park’s origins, he always gave his wife a full portion of the credit. As Dreams Park grew, the whole Cooperstown area was transformed. While the tourist economy had been dependent on the ebb and flow of Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekends, suddenly there was a dependable flow of business from Labor Day to Memorial Day. “There was a great financial impact on the village,” said one acquaintance, Frank Leo, proprietor of the Tunnicliff Inn at the flagpole and the Peppermill, the first restaurant on entering the village from the south. “Certainly it has had a real impact, not just on the retail makeup of Main Street, but also on lodging,” said Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz. “Holiday Inn, Country Inn & Suites, August Lodge – all have taken place since I moved here (in 2003).” Presutti himself told ESPN’s Jim Caple in 2013, “we generate more than 100,000 hotel bed nights a year within a 50mile radius of Cooperstown.” Many of those visitors are accommodated in homes that are rented out for the summer, spawning a whole new realestate management industry

exemplified by such companies as Cooperstown Stay. While that ate up year‘round rental housing, one reason for the drop in enrollment at Milford Central School in particular, from 600 to 400, retiring Superintendent of School Peter Livshin pointed to an upside: “Our students always had summer jobs.” The ambivalence was evident to some degree across the board. “Positive? Negative? I would say it depends on your point of view,” said Wendell Tripp, who was mayor in 1996 when Dreams Park arrived. “Those people whose economic interests depend on visitors would have a very positive feeling.” As a private company, Dreams Park’s financial data is closely held. But the New York Post reported in 2007 that Dreams Park was generating $12 million in business a year. In addition to Linda, his wife of 51 years, Presutti is survived by two daughters, Leslie McKillop and Laurie Presutti; a son, Louis III; grandchildren Matthew, John, Thomas, Cielle and Luc; a brother, Joseph, and two sisters, Nancy Presutti and Carme (Rocco) Cupolo. The local viewing was Friday afternoon, July 8, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home, and reportedly was well attended by Dreams Park employees and others. Further calling hours were Sunday afternoon, July 10, at the Guenther Funeral Home in Olean. After a 10 a.m. Monday, July 11, mass at St. John’s Catholic Church, interment was in St. Bonaventure Cemetery, Allegany. Reporters who wrote about Presutti often noted the strict discipline the owner brought to his undertaking, suspending young players for two days for violations ranging from wearing baseball caps backwards to playing with shirts untucked, the ESPN piece noted. Frank Leo, himself a military man (and former aide to Gen. Alexander Haig), said admiringly: “He was a straight shooter, a disciplinarian.” Said Katz, “He certainly was a guy with a strong personality. He had his way of looking at things, of instilling a desire to win, and to care. He was a very competitive guy on a mission.” Not all Presutti’s dreams came true. Early in this decade, he envisioned a chain of Dreams-Park-like facilities across the country. One was built in Newberry, Fla., but the city fathers parted way with Presutti, took over his Nations Park, renamed it Champions Park and ran it independently. He was also unable to bring like projects in Mooresville, N.C., and Louisville, Ky., to fruition. As time went on, Dreams Park became more self-sufficient, with onsite concessions and souvenir shops so players and their families didn’t need to leave the facility. At one time, there was reports of a possible 600-room hotel being built on site, but that also never came to pass. Presutti summed int up this way to ESPN’s Caple: “My purpose really was that I love this game so much and love what it will lend you if you allow it to. Because it’s just an incredible game of failure, and life is nothing more than failure. “It’s such a wonderful game of life.”

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SOMETHING DRAMATIC?: Check out Chekhov in Franklin Stage’s “We 3” adaptation of “The Three Sisters.” 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday, through July 31. Vibrant new production tells story of Olga, Masha and Irina. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.

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Norma Slewson holds up a bag from the former Elmore Feed Mill on Oneonta’s Market Street, torn down to build Foothills Performing Arts Center.

hen Jean Westcott was a child, she remembers going to the bank and getting a compliment on her dress. “This?” she told the clerk. “This is just an old feed sack.” These were the kind of stories that surfaced Sunday, July 10, when Lucy Kise, Laurens, shared her collection of feed sack quilts and fabrics to kick off the SwartLucy Kise’s Wilcox House Museum’s blouse was summer lecture series. With over 300 pieces a bag. in her collection, Kise, a member of the Susquehanna Valley Quilters, began her collection 30 years ago after finding examples in her Laurens home. “We found several dresses, as well as patterns,” she said. “I got some quilts from my friend’s mother, and I did some Please See SACKS, B3

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loft in the 1980s – the details change, but the experience is universal: young people trying to find themselves and each other, scrambling to make a living but believing anything is possible, except paying the rent. Some of us lived it, more wish they had; we all recognize it as a time of high spirits and empty wallets, delusions and delights. Henri Muger captured that experience in a series of stories in the 1840s that became the basis of “La boheme.” The opera was not an opening-night success, possibly because it unfolds in four vignettes rather than a Please See THORPE, B4

MUSIC OF THE HILLS: Kick it up for the Oneonta Soccer Club Saturday, July 16, 9 a.m.-sundown at the “Music of the City of the Hills” music fest. Vendors, food, refreshments and music all day! 9 a.m. Mike Herman Jazz and blues; 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Country Express bluegrass, honky tonk, country; 2-4 p.m. Just Throw Money Rock-n-Roll; 4:30-6:30 p.m. current country. $25 for the day, advance. ($30 day of show.). Wright National Soccer Campus, 18 Stadium Circle, Oneonta. FLY HIGH: NYKE Kite Festival with music, activities, food and dragon kites. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, July 16-17 Edgewood Mountain, 216 Crow Hill Rd, Laurens. Info, (607) 434-2380. OLD TIME BBQ: Fly Creek Area Historical Society Annual Chicken BBQ. 10 a.m., Sunday, July 17. Old time meeting and hymns under the tent, bagpipes from the Cemetery (after workshop and hymns); 11 a.m. chicken BBQ and pulled pork dinner, $10.50 adults, $7 children. The “Old Grange Building,” 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek. WINDFALL DUTCH BARN: Enjoy Cabaret with Edgewater. An evening of songs everyone will enjoy. 8 p.m.Sat., July 16: Cooperstown vocal duo Toby Wilcox and Emily DeSantis and acoustical piano. $10. Windfall Dutch Barn, Cty. Rte. 31, 5 miles north of East Springfield. Info, (518) 993-2239, kmacgreg@roadrunner. com, www.windfalldutchbarn.com

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SCHENEVUS FIREMAN’S CARNIVAL – All day. Elk Creek Sky Divers, “Country Express” performs 7 – 11 p.m.. Spicy Pete’s original hot sausage. Ferris wheel, large mid-way, kiddie rides, merry-go-round. Free rides, kids under 10, while tickets last. Also Fri., Sat. Free parking/admission. Main St., Schenevus. BASTILLE DAY – 2-4 p.m. Celebrate Bastille Day in honor of the popular exhibition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Bohemian Paris. Entry included with admission; NYSHA members free. The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798

THURSDAY-Friday, JULY 14-15, 2016 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, fenimoreartmuseum.org SWEET ADELINES – 6:308 p.m. City of the Hills Sweet Adelines Chorus Performance. Ranging from Broadway musicals, movie scores, Irving Berlin classics, more. Benefits Unadilla Historical Association. Unadilla Community House Lawn, 193 Main St., Unadilla. Bring lawn chairs! DIG – 6:30 p.m. Otsego Co. Historical Association welcomes Stacia and Gary Norma to discuss archaeological dig at Jacob Lull tannery. Learn help, and enjoy dig each Friday and Sat. from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free, all welcome. Light refreshments served. Kin-

ney Memorial Library, Cty. Rte. 11, Hartwick. Info, Deb Mackenzie, (607) 293-6635. LEATHERSTOCKING JAZZ – 7 p.m. Big Band jazz at its finest, playing old standards and new sounds. Neahwa Park, Oneonta.l WORD THURSDAY – 7 p.m. Open mic followed by poets Carol and Richard Frost, longtime Otego residents, read from their books and new poetry. Bright Hill Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Info, www.brighthillpress.org, (607) 829-5055, wordthur@stny.rr.com THE THREE SISTERS – 8 p.m. Vibrant new production telling story of Olga, Masha and Irina. Through July 31, Sundays at 5

St. James Episcopal Church 305 Main Street, Oneonta 607-432-1458 Free admission! all are welcome!

p.m. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.

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SCHENEVUS FIREMAN’S CARNIVAL – All day. “Borderline” performs 1-11 p.m. Fireworks. Spicy Pete’s original hot sausage. Ferris wheel, large mid-way, kiddie rides, merry-goround. Free rides, kids under 10, while tickets last. Also Sat. Free parking/admission. Main St., Schenevus. FABULOUS FRIDAY – Noon-3 p.m., 5-8 p.m. Vintage postcards sale to benefit the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Oneonta History Center, 183 main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0960, info@OneontaHistory. org AMPUTEE SOFTBALL TEAM FUNDRAISER – 5-7 p.m. beer tasting & BBW; 7-10 p.m. Roundhouse Rockers. Nick Clark, amputee softball team player, will be in attendance. $25.00 per person. Oneonta Vets Club, 279

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Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, tickets (607) 432-0494 OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. “Paintings by Lisa Jacobson,” abstract painter. Free, all welcome. Refreshments served. The West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. Info, (9607) 2785454, www.westkc.org OPENING RECEPTION – 5-8 p.m. 81st Annual National Juried Art Exhibition with Juror Pete Russom . 5-7 p.m. preview party, 6 p.m. prizes awarded. Catering by Origins Cafe; music by Jeff Syman. Show through Aug. 19.

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Cooperstown Art Association galleries, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777. THE THREE SISTERS – 8 p.m. Vibrant new production telling story of Olga, Masha and Irina. Through July 31, Sundays at 5 p.m. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.

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FLY-IN BREAKFAST – 7:3011:30 a.m. Middlefield Volunteer Fire Dept. & EAA Chapter 1070 offer all-you-can-eat pancake/ egg/sausage breakfast. Drive-ins also welcome. $7.50 adults; $5 under age 12. Cooperstown/ Westville Airport, Rte. 166, Cooperstown. MUSIC OF THE HILLS – 9 a.m.-sundown. Music of the City of the Hills all-day music fest to benefit the Oneonta Soccer Club. 9 a.m. Mike Herman Jazz and blues; 11:30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m. Country Express bluegrass, honky tonk, country; 2-4 p.m. Just Throw Money rock-n-Roll; 4:30-6:30 p.m. current country. $25 for the day, advance. ($30 day of show.). Wright National Soccer Campus, Oneonta. SCHENEVUS FIREMAN’S CARNIVAL – All day. Chicken barbecue, noon. Chinese auction starts at noon; drawing at 2 p.m.; Gala parade, 6 p.m. “Dirt Road Express” 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Spicy Pete’s original hot sausage. Free rides, kids under 10, while tickets last. Free parking/ admission. Main St., Schenevus. MORE CALENDAR, B3

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Patterns Included Davy Crockett, Donald Duck SACKS/From B1 research. From there, I began looking at antique shows. I was really drawn to the colors.” With the widespread adoption of the sewing machine in the 1840s, companies began seeing that it was cheaper to make sacks to ship feed, flower and sugar in bags, rather than tins and barrels. And with the rise of American fabrics, the bags

could be made even more cheaply. At first, the sacks were white or beige, with the company’s logo – such as Oneonta’s Elmore Mill – printed on them. But in the 1920s, as the sacks were recycled into quilt pieces and dish towels, the makers got the idea to start printing the fabrics with pretty patterns. “The farmer’s wife would

end up going to the store with him to pick out the prettiest one!” said Kise. “A 100-pound sack was about one yard of fabric, so it took three sacks to make a dress, four to make a bed sheet.” To use the fabric, the farmer’s wife would first soak off the paper label, then pull out the stitching, which was often saved for knitting and crocheting. “You can tell a fabric was formerly a feed sack because of where you can see the stitching,” said Kise. “The first dress I made was out of feed sacks,” said Oneonta’s Lucille Wiggin. “Our egg man had the feed sacks in his trunk, so my sister and I would go out and look through until we found two that matched.” Sewing companies began selling pamphlets of feedsack patterns, and the Millard Avenue Presbyterian Church in Chicago even sent President Calvin Coolidge a pair of feed-sack pajamas. “I found this great ‘Gone

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With The Wind’ themed sack,” said Kise, passing around the fabric. “They made other novelty bags too, such as Davy Crockett or Donald Duck. There’s always something new I haven’t seen.” Other companies, such as Sarasota Sugar, printed doll patterns on their feed sacks, and Esther Bresee donated such a doll to the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. “At the height of the Depression, people couldn’t afford fabric, so they used what they could,” she said. After World War II, companies found it was cheaper to use heavy paper, and the use of feed sacks declined. But recently, quilters have rediscovered the fabric, and it has become a sought-after item at antique shows. “It used to be you could find feed sacks for a few dollars,” said Kise. “Now a 50-pound sack goes for $11. I’ve seen them on eBay for as much as $100.”

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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL – 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Children ages 3-12. “Heroes: Amazing Stories of Faith.” Bible characters in costume,; a visit from the Utica Zoo Mobile; stories about Noah, Moses, Joshua and Jesus. Benefits Heifer International. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. Register online, cooperstownvbs. eventbrite.com KITE FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Dragon kites and more! High-flying artistry! Huge amoeba and trilobite kites, and more! Free admission, food vendors, kite activities for all ages. Also Sun. Edgewood Mountain, 216 Crow Hill Rd. Laurens. Info, (607) 434-2380. ART SALE – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Visiting artist Maryann Stow, formerly of Oneonta, shows and sells her original collaged and stamped cards and art at The Heritage Education Room, The Plains at Parish Homestead, 163 heritage Circle, Oneonta. Refreshments served. Info, (607) 432-0652. BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m. Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink. Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte

Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824 FREE FAMILY SATURDAY – 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. at Hanford Mills Museum. Special hands-on activities for families and tours and demonstrations of historic water-powered sawmill, gristmill and woodworking shop. Up to two adults admitted free when accompanied by a child (preschool through high school). 51 Cty. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Info, (607) 278-5744, www.hanfordmills.org HAUNTINGS – 6, 7, 8 p.m. Hyde Hall Hauntings! Experience Clarke family history up close and personal. Wednesdays through Aug. 10. $15 per person, reservations required. Hyde Hall National Landmark Historic Site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5475098, www.hydehall.org WINDFALL DUTCH BARN – 8 p.m. Cabaret with Edgewater. Cooperstown vocal duo Toby Wilcox and Emily DeSantis and acoustical piano. An evening of musical songs everyone will enjoy. $10. Windfall Dutch Barn, Cty. Rte. 31, 5 miles north of East Springfield. Info, (518) 9932239, kmacgreg@roadrunner. com, www.windfalldutchbarn.com MORE CALENDAR, B5

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Readings, Songs, and Music presented by artists of the Glimmerglass Festival and guests Hunter Enoch, baritone Hiromi Fukuda, piano Wynn Harmon, actor Daniel Miller, cello Heather Wittels, violin and Artistic Director Works of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Scriabin, arensky, Mussorgsky Readings of letters and poetry in translation $20 adults, $10 seniors, free under age 18

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Vigor, Breakneck Speed Characterize Glimmerglass’ ‘bohème’ THORPE/From B1 traditional plot, or because the audience of 1896 objected to the casual love-lives of the characters. But it didn’t take long for Puccini’s breathtaking flow of melody to win audiences worldwide. The Glimmerglass production, ably directed by E. Loren Meeker, is understated Belle Epoch, suitable for starving artists. The opening garret is soaring, bare, and convincingly cold as Rodolpho, a poet, and Marcello, a painter, struggle to work, later joined by Colline and Schaunard. The first chords of the orchestra herald the vigor and breakneck pace that will follow, but the real warmth in the room is generated

Quarter is a moment of sheer theater magic. In 25 seconds, the stage becomes a bustling crowd scene of children, pickpockets, peddlers, dancers, waiters, all bursting with song. Musetta, Marcello’s old flame, arrives in an explosion of noise and color and wins him back with her signature waltz. Vanessa Becerra, a gifted soprano with a flare for physical comedy, makes Musetta hilarious as well as seductive. Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival Glimmerglass has a Michael Brandenburg as Rodolfo and Raquel wealth of multi-talented González as Mimì embrace as “La bohème” heads singers who are as young toward a tragic ending. as the artists they porby the palpable rapport of her persistent cough hints at tray. Brian Vu (a buoyant friends who have shared a tragic end. Schaunard), Rhys Lloyd long nights and lean days. The movement in Act Talbot (droll philosopher Rodolpho meets Mimi and Two from the garret to an Colline) and Becerra are they quickly fall in love, but outdoor café in the Latin all Glimmerglass Young

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Artists returning for their second year. Michael Brandenburg (a sensitive tenor/poet), Hunter Enoch (choleric Marcello), and Raquel Gonzalez (Mimi, quietly poignant) were in the program last year and have now graduated to star status. Together they make a close-knit ensemble, moving confidently through Eric Sean Fogel’s playful and challenging choreography. The ending is sad – tuberculosis was like that in the Belle Epoch – but the exquisite orchestral recapitulation of all the happy times we shared in the early acts helps us to bear the pain. With friends like these young artists, and music like Puccini’s, we can all go home happy.

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DRUM WORKSHOP – 9:305:30 p.m. Two day build and play African hand drum workshop. Through July 17. Limited space. The Smithy, 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478671, www.smithyarts.org HAITIAN SONGSTRESS – 8 p.m. Emeline Michel, vocalist songwriter, performer, Red Cross Ambassador. Internationally acclaimed for her sophisticated yet uniquely Haitian sound— a fusion of pop, jazz, blues, American R&B, with Pan-Caribbean rhythms such as bossa nova, reggae, and samba, plus elements of traditional Haitian compas, twoubadou, rara, and rasin music. Charismatic live show, . $26 ($29 day of); $23 Member ($26 day of); $11 under 19. West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East

Meredith. Info, (607)278-5454, westkc.org/event/emeline-michel/info@westkc.org THE THREE SISTERS – 8 p.m. Vibrant new production telling story of Olga, Masha and Irina. Through July 31, Sundays at 5 p.m. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700. HONEST BROOK – 8 p.m. Horszowski Trio performs works by Schumann, Tower and Beethoven. Enjoy summer chamber music concert in a preserved dairy barn! $25 per person per concert K-12 free.Honest Brook Festival, 1885 Honest Brook Rd., off Rte. 28 between Delhi and Meredith. Info, tickets, (607) 746-3770, hbmf.org

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5:30 p.m. Two day build and play African hand drum workshop. Through July 17. Limited space. The Smithy, 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478671, www.smithyarts.org HISTORY BBQ – 10 a.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society Annual Chicken BBQ. 10 a.m. Old time meeting and hymns under the tent, bag pipes from the Cemetery (after workshop and hymns). 11 a.m. chicken BBQ and pulled pork dinner, $10.50 adults, $7 children. Brooks BBQ chicken, tickled pink pulled pork, homemade baked beans, potato and macaroni salads, coleslaw, dessert and beverages. Karoake! Fun, food and music. The “Old Grange Building,” 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek. KITE FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Dragon kites and more! High-flying artistry! Free admission, food vendors, kite activities for all ages. Edgewood Mountain, 216 Crow Hill Rd. Laurens. Info, (607) 434-2380.

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OBITUARIES Blake Dean Hayes, 66; Preservationist, Author

William A. Guilfoile, 84; Public Relations Director At Baseball Hall Of Fame

CHERRY VALLEY – Blake Dean Hayes, 66, author and historic preservationist at nationally known museums and sites, passed COOPERSTOWN – Bill of Fame, eventually becomaway peacefully at his home Guilfoile, 84, head of the ing its vice president. An in Cherry Valley, on July National Baseball Hall of avid fisherman, Bill spent 18 7, 2016, among family and Fame’s Public Relations years in Cooperstown until friends. Office from 1979 to 1996, retirement. He was born on March then a vice president, passed During his tenure in base- 28, 1950, to Gerald (Gerry) away peacefully Saturday, ball, Bill was part of many Hayes and Harriette Hayes, July 9, 2016, in South Bend, memorable moments, such of Sidney. He graduated Ind. as the 1961 Mantle/Maris from Sidney High School William J. Guilfoile was home run chase, Roberto (1968) and received a B.A. born in Fond du Lac, Wisc., Clemente’s 3,000th hit and in history from SUNY on Nov. 5, 1931. He was the Hall of Fame’s 50th anAlbany. He then studied president of his senior class niversary. preservation technology at at Notre Dame, graduating He and Loretta then St. Lawrence College in magna cum laude in 1954. moved back to Fond du Lac Brockville, Ont., and purBill enlisted in the Navy, where he joined the faculty sued a career in historical graduated from Officer’s of Marian University as an preservation, restoration and Candidate School in Newinstructor in public relations. museum work. port, R.I., and was assigned Bill was predeceased Blake worked for Georto the USS Tanner at the by his mother and father, gia Agrirama, Tifton, Ga., Brooklyn Navy Yard. In Leota A. nee Siewert and and The Henry Ford Mu1955 the Tanner sailed to the Walter William Guilfoile. seum & Greenfield Village, Arctic to survey the polar He is survived by his wife Dearborn, Mich. His many ice cap for the first nuclear Loretta Daughter Ann and restoration projects included submarine, Nautilus. He three sons, Peter, Thomas the Harvey Firestone Farm was honorably discharged in and Kevin, their spouses and 1958. 10 grandchildren. Also a He married Loretta White brother and his wife in Fond Raymond Lawlor; on Nov. 9, 1957, in BrookRetired Electrician, du Lac. lyn, and they returned to In lieu of flowers the Ump At Dreams Pk. Fond du Lac, where he family requests you conjoined AC Nielsen doing COOPERSTOWN – Raysider making a donation to: marketing and research. In mond C. Lawlor, 73, a career Alzheimer’s & Dementia 1960, he joined the New electrician who umpired at Services of Northern IndiYork Yankees as assistant Dreams Park after retiring ana, 922 E. Colfax, South public relations director. Ten Bend, Indiana 46617 www. to Cooperstown in 2000, years later he became assisalzni.org; Center for Hospice passed away early Saturday tant to the general manager morning, July 9, 2016, at Care, www.centerforhosand public relations director Bassett Hospital, due to compice.org or Quinn Memory for the Pittsburgh Pirates, plications from an illness. Care, Holy Cross Village, where he remained for nine Born in Jersey City, N.J., Notre Dame, Indiana. 46556. years. on May 23, 1943, Ray was Kaniewski Funeral Home is He then joined the staff at in charge of arrangements. a son of John and Harriet the National Baseball Hall (Arps) Lawlor. At a young age his family moved to Florida where he spent most of his childhood. He moved back to the New York/New Jersey area where he worked for over 40 years as an electrician. For a time he owned and operated his own company, Aladdin Electric, based in SayreGrandma loved her farm, her family, ville, N.J. A member of the and playing her old guitar. National Electrical Union #4, he worked in later years as an Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time electrical inspector for both to find out what made your loved one special. commercial and residential Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding properties in New York. a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, On Nov. 8, 1986, Ray we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as married Beverly Heady in unique as she was. a ceremony at Ladentown United Methodist Church in Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home Pomona. Since 2000 they 14 Grand Street, Oneonta • 607-432-6821 have resided in Cooperstown. www.grummonsfuneralhome.com In his leisure, Ray enjoyed playing tennis, fishing and deep sea diving. He also served as a baseball umpire for local schools and at Cooperstown Dreams Park, and loved watching a variety of sports as well as going to the casino. Ray is survived by his wife of 30 years, Beverly; a daughter, Beth; son Bill and fiancé Nellie; stepson Clayton and wife, Sherry; four grandchildren, Katelyn, Brendan, Ashley and Eric; two brothers-in-law, Stan and wife Cathy and Bill and wife Terry; as well as many nieces and nephews. Calling hours are 2-4 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home. A memorial service will be 4 p.m. that afternoon at the funeral home, with the Rev. Betsy Jay, Chaplain, Bassett chaplain, officiating.

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& House, the Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion House, a 1940s diner and gas station, the Wright Brothers’ Home and 1960s Motown Recording Studio. He was a co-creator of the Henry Ford Museum’s “American Automobile” and “Made in America” exhibits. After returning to Cherry Valley, he gathered a number of museum professionals into The Cherry Valley Group. With CVG, he created interpretive and master plans, exhibits and staff training for historic

sites, museums and nonprofit organizations throughout the Northeast, South and Midwest. Blake was active in preserving and promoting local historic sites and organizations. He served on numerous community boards and preservation organizations in Tifton, Ga., Ypsilanti, Mich., Greenbay, Wisc., and especially Cherry Valley. He received the prestigious John T. Schlebecker Award from the Association of Living History, Farm & Agricultural Museums, a professional organization in which he contributed many volunteer hours. Blake was known for his humor, hospitality, good cooking, gardening, frugality, curmudgeonly tendencies and memorable ear stands, Cowardly Lion impersonations and Wizard of Oz reenactments. His is survived by his

loving wife Lorraine Bosma of Cherry Valley; daughter Rebecca Gross (Ryan) of Middleboro, Mass.; son Ashley Hayes of Chapel Hill, N.C.; stepsons Loren Sutton of Boston, Brian Sutton of Los Angeles, and Will Sutton of Cherry Valley; son in spirit Jared Fruth; three granddaughters; sister Dolores Breunig (Franz) of Sidney; brother Keith Hayes (Carol) of Prince George, Va. Blake also maintained close friendships with his former wife, Martha Camp, of Ecuador, and former wife and colleague, Mary Seelhorst, of Ypsilanti. He enjoyed his many nieces and nephews and his favorite cat, Kitty Ga-Ga. Contributions in his memory may be sent to The Cherry Valley Community Facilities Corp. for old school maintenance at PO Box 66, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Alice M. Tomasi, 87; Owned 2 Local Hotels RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Alice Marie Tomasi, 87, who operated two local hotels, passed away peacefully with her loving family by her side on Saturday, July 9, 2016, in Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown. She was born on Dec. 13, 1928, in Cooperstown, daughter of the late Charles and Frances (Trask) Jennings. She was raised and educated in Cooperstown and was she was a graduate of Cooperstown Central School. At one time she was married to James Tomasi. He passed away in the 1970’s. Alice moved to Richfield Springs in 1975 from Fly Creek. She owned and operated the Oaksville

Hotel and the Fly Creek Hotel retiring in 1983. Ms. Tomasi had a strong faith in God and was a member of the Alice Tomasi Schuyler Lake Universalist Church, and the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary, Post 616, Richfield Springs. Surviving are two daughters, Patricia Brunner and her husband Clifford of Cooperstown, Karen Harrison and her husband Kevin of Ballston Spa, six grandchildren Amy Parr and her husband Keith, Cliff Brunner Jr. and his wife Natasha,

Lisa Lippitt and her husband Matt, Stacey Lindgren, Gregory Hext and his wife Marilyn, Kristen Hext and her partner Luke Bailey, five great-grandchildren, Jerimiah Parr, Sarah, Parr, Hazel Lippitt, Abraham Lippitt, and Kayla Ramirez, one brother Ronald Jennings and his wife Edie of Cooperstown and a sister-inlaw, Mildred Jennings. Funeral service for Ms Tomasi, will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, July 15 in J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home, 40 West James Street, Richfield Springs with the Reverend Rick Kinney, pastor of the Schuyler Lake Universalist Church officiating.

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Tuesday, July 19

BASSETT HISTORY – 2 p.m. Dr. John S. Davis, M.D. previews his history of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, prior to Fall book publication. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-0600. LAKEFRONT CONCERT SERIES – 7 p.m. Michael MacDonald, solo acoustic 6 and 12 string classic rock from the 60s, 70s, and 80s -- a variety of classics! Free, all welcome. Bring a lawn chair, blanket, your dancing shoes! Lakefront Park, Cooperstown. SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY – 7 p.m. Springfield Library Association meeting to plan for Town-wide garage sale, basket raffle and bake sale to benefit the library. Springfield Library, Springfield Center. Info, (315) 858-5802. THE THREE SISTERS – 8 p.m. Vibrant new production telling story of Olga, Masha and Irina. Through July 31, Sundays at 5 p.m. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.

Wednesday, July 20

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