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Events
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The 2003 division of Glimmerglass Opera runs through Aug. 26 at the Alice Busch Opera Theater, State Highway 80, (607) 547-2255, www.glimmerglass.org, and will accommodate performances of Mozart's ''Don Giovanni,'' Offenbach's ''Bluebeard,'' Handel's ''Orlando'' and Robert Kurka's ''Good Soldier Schweik.'' Tickets are $28 to $104 for exceptional nonsubscriber seating. Conductors and added associates of the music agents present chargeless opera previews an hour afore anniversary performance. Theater set changeovers amid matinee and atramentous performances can be beheld at no allegation from the balustrade with a affiliate of the assembly staff. No performances Wednesdays.
The Hall of Fame Weekend takes abode July 26 to 28, (607) 547-7200, www.baseballhalloffame.org. The aboriginal day appearance a trivia affairs in which admirers analysis their baseball ability adjoin a console of allegorical players. Tickets amount $10. The Induction Ceremony is on July 27 at 1:30 p.m. on the breadth of the adjacent Clark Sports Center, with 40 to 50 antecedent inductees abiding to account this year's class, Gary Carter and Eddie Murray; free. A absolute or backyard armchair is recommended.
On July 19, the Barbecue and Pops Benefit Concert presents the Binghamton Philharmonic at Hyde Hall in Glimmerglass State Park; (607) 547-5098, www.hydehall.org. The atramentous begins with a barbecue at 5:30, followed at 7:30 by a affairs of Gould, Borodin and Sousa, amid others, with Terry Blaine and Mark Shane as bedfellow artists, and fireworks. Tickets for the concert are $30; $40 for both barbecue and concert.
The Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, accustomed in 1869, joins the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society to present its anniversary Railfan weekend on Aug. 2 and 3 at the Milford Depot, (607) 432-2429, www.lrhs.com. Vintage abuse cars, accessories and locomotives will be on display. Caboose and ''track speeder'' (small car acclimated to carriage workers) rides are $10.
Aug. 15 to 17 are the dates for the Anniversary Sheepdog Trials at the Robert F. Clark Field. The antagonism for acceleration and accomplishment in herding sheep begins at 8 a.m. for dogs and their handlers, who appear from the eastern United States and Canada. Acceptance is $3 for the three-day event.
Sightseeing
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More than 150 years of baseball history are on affectation at the Civic Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 25 Capital Street, (607) 547-7200, www .baseballhalloffame.org. Timelines trace the civic amusement with added than 165,000 artifacts, from an 1858 New York Knickerbockers' baseball to Ozzie Smith's 2002 Hall of Fame plaque. Exhibits accommodate the Hall of Fame Gallery, the 500 Home Run Club, and Women in Baseball, which tells the adventure of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The Perez-Steele Art Gallery contains works depicting the action by Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol and others. Accessible circadian in summer 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; to 5 p.m. the blow of the year. Acceptance is $9.50; $4 for ages 7 to 12; beneath 7 free.
The Fenimore Art Museum, on Basin Road, (888) 547-1450, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org, houses accomplished examples of Hudson River School paintings by such artists as Asher B. Durand and Thomas Cole; folk art, including paintings, bolt and carvings; and the adorning arts. Of appropriate absorption is the Cooper Room, with artifacts from the activity of James Fenimore Cooper, and the American Indian Wing apartment the Thaw Collection, which opened in 1995 and offers a ample overview of North American Indian art. Its superb accumulating of added than 800 pieces includes assets by Chief Atramentous Hawk, of the Lakota tribe, now advised one of the abundant American Indian artists of the 19th century, and a acclaimed Kwakiutl Potlatch amount (1880-1895). Accessible circadian mid-May through October 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; accepted admission, $9.
The Farmers' Museum, aloof beyond the artery from the Fenimore Art Museum on Basin Road, (888) 547-1450, www.farmersmuseum.org, contains added than 23,000 artifacts depicting acreage activity in axial New York in the 19th century. Exhibits accommodate a alive blacksmith shop, creamery, smokehouse and a absolute accumulating of tools. ''America's Greatest Hoax,'' the Cardiff Giant, is a limestone abstraction of a declared biblical behemothic that generated abundant accurate and accepted absorption in 1869. Many of the buildings, including the Capital Barn (1918), are congenital from built-in stone; about 20 board structures, best dating from afore 1845, were confused from farms in the area. Accessible circadian mid-May through September 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Renovations are in advance at Hyde Hall, Glimmerglass State Park, (888) 472-9002, www.hydehall .org, one of the better houses congenital in the United States amid the Revolution and the Civil War. George Clarke, a descendent of landed English gentry, capital a country abode agnate to those of his adolescence in Britain; started in 1817, it appropriate 17 years to complete. Its 50 apartment accommodate a wine apartment and chapel; about alone 4 of the 54 are beneath advance at one time. Acceptance is $7. Accessible circadian mid-May through October 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where to Stay
The Landmark Inn, 64 Chestnut Street, (607) 547-7225, fax (607) 547-7240, www.landmarkinnbnb.com, about 1856, opened in May afterwards all-encompassing renovations. Floors are chestnut, amber and cherry, and the accoutrement antiques. There are nine rooms, anniversary with air-conditioning, clandestine bath, cable TV, blast and accelerated Internet service. One ablution has a multihead shower, addition a Jacuzzi. Doubles: $150 to $175, with abounding breakfast.
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The specialty of the house, angel biscuit aliment pudding with Bavarian cream, is served every morning at the four-room Green Angel Inn, 81 Basin Street, (607) 547-1080, fax (607) 544-1441, www.greenapple inn.com. Anniversary allowance has cable TV, air-conditioning and clandestine ablution with claw-foot tub; décor ranges from Victorian Romantic with a four-poster canopied bifold bed to a sports burden with a locker from Fenway Park. Doubles: $175.
Guests accumulate for algid tea anniversary afternoon on the balustrade at the Inn at Cooperstown, 16 Chestnut Street, (607) 547-5756, fax (607) 547-8779, www.innatcooperstown.com, a accomplished archetype of Second Empire architecture. The house, advised by Henry J. Hardenbergh, artist of the Plaza Auberge and Dakota Apartments in New York, is on the Civic Register of Historic Places. The inn has 17 alluringly busy rooms, anniversary with air-conditioning and clandestine bath. TV and buzz are accessible in a sitting allowance and baby appointment allowance only. A mix of antiques and reproductions and balk floors accompaniment oil paintings in the accepted areas. Doubles: $185, with Continental breakfast.
Budget: The Basin Front Motel, 10 Fair Street, (607) 547-9511, www.lake frontmotelandrestaurant.com, is on Otsego Lake, a block from Capital Street. There are 47 simple, adequate rooms, all with air-conditioning and cable TV. Doubles from $115.
Guests of the Basin 'n Pines Motel, 7102 State Highway 80, (607) 547-2790, www.cooperstown.net/lake-n-pines, aloof account from Glimmerglass Opera, can adore the sundeck by the basin and calm or alfresco pools. Many of the 39 apartment were congenital recently; all accept air-conditioning, cableTV. Doubles, $155.
Luxury: The Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Basin Street, (800) 348-6222, fax (607) 547-9675, www.otesaga.com, is the admirable auberge of Cooperstown, with a wide-columned balustrade overlooking the hotel's Leatherstocking Golf Course and Otsego Lake, and ample interiors with aerial ceilings. Amenities accommodate the Georgian Revival capital dining room, which offers daily-changing menus; a acrimonious pool; basin pond from the dock; tennis and golf. The 136 large, comfortable apartment accept four-poster beds and ablaze blush schemes; bathrooms accept basement sinks and colossal tubs. Bifold ante of $355 to $390 accommodate breakfast and dinner.
Where to Eat
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Alfresco beach dining on a cedar-accented balustrade and an all-embracing all-embracing card are the draws at the Blue Mingo Grill, 6098 West Basin Road (Route 80), (607) 547-7496. Circadian specials accommodate beef saté with peanut sauce, and brittle atramentous sea bass with mango salsa and passion-fruit sauce. Banquet for two with wine, $90; anxiety recommended. Accessible circadian for cafeteria and dinner.
Portabello's, (607) 547-5145, aloof alfresco the apple at 6027 State Highway 28, is an informal, candlelit place. Mediterranean entrees accommodate herb-crusted swordfish with auto escapade sauce, and pan-seared dogie chop with brandy alacrity sauce. There's alive piano music on Friday and Saturday. Anxiety recommended, abnormally for alfresco seating. Meal for two with wine, $90. Accessible nightly for dinner.
Mark Loewenguth describes the book at his Hoffman Lane Bistro, 2 Hoffman Lane, (607) 547-7055, as a melting pot, with dishes alignment from a archetypal meatloaf to yellowfin adolescent au poivre. Potted rhododendrons and black-and-white photographs of upstate architectonics actualize a accidental mood. It's aloof off Capital Street, with alfresco basement and a abounding cafeteria menu. Accessible daily. About $50 for banquet for two with wine.
Cafe Milano, 22 Chestnut Street, (607) 544-1222, accessible back January, has become a bounded admired with offerings such as dogie paillard caprese and capellini puttanesca in a accidental setting; walls of stuccolike Venetian adhesive accommodate a Tuscan look. Banquet for two with wine, $50. Lunch, banquet daily; anxiety recommended.
The Doubleday Cafe, 93 Capital Street, (607) 547-5468, aloof up the artery from Doubleday Field, is abounding with baseball memorabilia. Beer and wine are served at the bar. Dinners ambit from a alternative of burgers to abounding entrees including charbroiled or begrimed steak and grilled, broiled or begrimed angle of the day. Breakfast, cafeteria and banquet daily. Banquet for two with wine, $30.
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