‘Cooperstown Stuff’ Abounds This Weekend

This is a weekend for “Cooperstown stuff,” tried and true perennials looked forward to with anticipation.

•Friday, July 11, is the Presbyterian Church Ice Cream Social, 5-8 p.m., the Brookwood Garden Plant Sale & Flea Market, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (also Saturday and Sunday), and the Pierstown Variety Show, 7:30 p.m. at the grange.

The Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival opens its 10th season with “Nature Calls,” animal-inspired pieces by Schubert, Saint-Saens and others, at 7:30 p.m. at The Farmer’s Museum. The same performers warmed up the same concert to rave reviews the other day at An Appalachian Summer Festival in North Carolina.

Here’s a new entry (a future tradition?): Band on the Beach, “Chalk Dust Torture,” made up of teachers from Canajoharie, 5-8:30 p.m. at Glimmerglass State Park.

•Saturday, July 12, is the not-to-be-missed Otsego Lake Festival, featuring the Stoddard
Hollow String Band and Ecology Barge Tours, conducted by the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station. Everyone involved in the lake’s preservation will be there in Lake Front Park, manning information booths.

The Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival continues its opening weekend with the Family Music Fest featuring the celebrated Parker String Quartet, at 11 a.m. in Templeton Hall. And the annual Fly Creek United Methodist Church’s country auction will be underway north of the blinker. 9 a.m. preview, with bidding under way at 10.

• Sunday, July 13, the annual Junior Livestock Show, always much-anticipated, will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Iroquois Farm, followed by a BBQ, then an ice-cream social.
Activities continue through Tuesday afternoon. Watch kids handle animals they’ve raised.

The Middlefield Historical Society, fresh off last weekend’s Community Day, is hosting tours of the National Register Historic District hamlet 1-4 p.m.

The music festival opening weekend culminates with the Parker String Quartet performing Haydn, Janacek and Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. at The Farmers’ Museum.

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