Talk:Cooperstown, New York

message: Why are the metric units listed first? R'son-W 19:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metric? 

message: **There absolutely was a Woolworths on Main Street in Cooperstown. It was there is the 90s. I am not sure when it opened or when it closed, but during the 6 years I lived in the area (1991-1997) the Woolworths on Main street was a favorite stop for my young daughter. They had cafe which has a counter with swivel stools where we'd have breakfast, and they had photos with Santa at Christmastime. It had two floors with a wide staircase going to a lower floor which sold tools and outdoor items**  
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:60A8:6D00:C0C3:653E:475C:8EB8 (talk) 02:27, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your additions and corrections to the article. As a teenager, I lived in Cooperstown part-time from 1970 to 1977 and was distressed by the many changes to the town fabric that I found when visiting again in the late 90s. Main Street in particular changed from a true village environment which happened to play host to the Baseball Hall of Fame to a tourist attraction site that focused on the Hall of Fame. Clearly there is still a substantial financial base to the area, as can be seen with the new Clark Gym and other improvements, but the loss of necessities of small town Main Streets, which took place elsewhere in the 60s and 70s, finally seemed to catch up with Cooperstown in the 80s and 90s. I can't imagine that this hasn't led to changes in satisfaction of town residents who, while I was there, had everything they needed within walking distance of home - grocery, hardware, clothing, toys, movies, and so forth. Drgitlow 01:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, my first year there, in 1970, was Danny's last year running his market. At that point, it was just to the left of Newberry's (as viewed from the street). He was a very sweet and warm gentleman, and I recall that much of his store was quite old-fashioned, with him or his staff pulling down items from high shelves in response to customer requests. From your comment, it sounds like he moved his store there after Newberry's came into town, yes? Drgitlow 01:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woolworths or Newberrys 

message: The overall entry for Cooperstown needs some modifications with entries. I'll start with taking this action to delete this entry: 'It also contains Cooperstown Dreams Park, a youth baseball tournament'. 
The 'Cooperstown Dreams Park' is not located whatsoever in the Village or Township. It is located in the district of Hartwick Seminary which is in excess of 4 miles south of the Village. --Kellsboro Jack 16:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Modifications

message: To find true authenticity as an Upstate New York Writer one must wander around our lakes and cool mountains and gather a sense of the history from the small churchyards and old stone walls. W.W. Lord was such and I removed the pejorative reference from the Bostonian Poe. 
The Botendaddy was born at Mary Imogene Basset in 1961, a true-born Yankee Cooperstownian.
To be fair, we need some standards for who is to be considered a Cooperstown writer. Lauren Groff for example makes Cooperstown the centerpiece of her novel "The Monsters of Templeton". She was born and raised in Cooperstown. She is legit. In my view, you must be: 
1. born in Cooperstown, or 
2. spent the majority of your writing career in Cooperstown, including being published while a resident, with Cooperstown being a topic of some of your works, or 
3. lived for a signficant portion of your life in Cooperstown and a significant portion of your published work (not blogging) must be devoted to Cooperstown, its history, its famous citizens and so forth or
4. are otherwise generally recognized by literary critics and/or scholars as a Cooperstown writer.
If one's works honestly fit none of the above, then one has a lot of writing to do to be considered along with Cooper and Lord and Groff.
I am the  Botendaddy 03:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cooperstown Writers

message: There are quite a few residents of Cooperstown who feel that the Clark Foundation and Jane herself have turned Cooperstown from a small town with a lot of class and character that happens to have a baseball museum, into a baseball-hawking tourist dump. Can you objectively call them "good stewards" when so many people would strongly disagree with that statement?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.173.205.152 (talk) 05:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Responded on user's talk page. --JBC3 (talk) 20:19, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Clark Family- Bias in this Section 

message: William Cooper was not a judge when he bought the land and founded the village. That position came later, as did his election to the state legislature.Parkwells (talk) 05:50, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Cooper

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message: "It ran a close third in annual attendance to the Hall of Fame and Farmers' Museum" - In the village, in the US, in the world, among farmers; museums, among all museums, among US tourist attractions? Kdammers (talk) 20:29, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty obvious the sentence is referring to the museums discussed in the passage. oknazevad (talk) 04:10, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  In what group?