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Episode #198 January 11, 2009
Exploring the arts, entertainment
and heritage of our region.
The
Scene
Weekly
with Mark Werchowski
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It's been over three years since we last featured Dolgeville, so we thought we'd head back up to that area. We learned some new things -like in nearby Salisbury is New York's largest snowmobile club. We found out Salisbury is on a little plateau which gives them a little extra shot of snow during the winter months. We also stopped in to Lyndon Lyons Greenhouses -it's always nice to pop in for some balmy tropical air!
Thanks for traveling with us, Lance and Sharry
Baseball fans inspired the formation of the Cooperstown Bat Company in 1981. In 1991 it grew into its very own building in Fly Creek. Here raw billets of wood are turned into personalized one-of-a-kind baseball bats. The retail store is located at 118 Main St., Cooperstown.
Longeretta Law Firm
298 Genesee St., Utica
735-6162
Road Trip to Dolgeville and Salisbury
The Adirondack Spirit of Giving
Knitters from the Old Forge area, including members of the Pointed Pine Quilters, have knitted hundreds of hats and mittens to keep needy children in the Utica area warm this winter. Old Forge Hardware is the drop-off point and also donates yarn to knitters. Volunteers of the annual Clothe-a-Child project met at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and matched up hundreds of coats, hats and mittens, preparing them for distribution to needy children in the Utica area.
The Christ Child Society is a national organization that is devoted to caring for needy children. The organization was founded in 1887 and has over 31 chapters throughout the United States.
Or write:
Kellogg St. Productions
30 Kellogg Street
Clinton, NY 13323
or call 315-853-7133
Richard has always served Dino's meatballs with his homemade spaghetti sauce. Tony Ferrucci and his partners started the business in the late 1960s and it has flourished into a successful business supplying, Price Chopper, Hannaford, and Chanatry's with sausage and meatballs.
Be sure to Call ahead during severe weather
Early settlers chose the area because of the water supply of the East Canada Creek. A bridge built over the creek gave the village its fist name, Green's Bridge, later the community became known as Brockett's Bridge.
Brockett's Bridge over the East Canada
Alfred Dolge arrived in Brockett's Bridge in 1874 prospecting for
spruce wood to be used for piano sounding boards. He purchased
property and began manufacturing operations which later
developed into felt mills. Eventually, he built felt mills, made felt
shoes, autoharps, piano cases, piano sounding boards, piano
hammers, and ran lumber yards. He built a railroad, laid out the
village, built two schools, installed an electric system, a water
system, sewage, a fire department , a free library, a concert hall, a gymnasium, public parks, a newspaper and pioneered in a pension and profit sharing system for employees. In 1887 the citizens unanimously petitioned the authorities at Washington to change the name of the place from Brockett's Bridge to Dolgeville.
Alfred Dolge, local industrialist
Previously owned by the Daniel Green Shoe Company, the factory complex was originally built by Alfred Dolge who desired earnestly to establish an ideal society for his factory workers. The corner stone of this unique structure was set in place on July of 1882.
In 1881, Daniel Green, a young traveling shoe salesman, visited Dolgeville. Daniel Green was shown a pair of felt shoes fashioned from waste pieces of piano felt which had been made in the Dolgeville Felt Mill. Impressed by the warmth and comfort of the slippers, Daniel Green took a pair back with him to his home in Canastota to show his brother William. They returned to Dolgeville and met Mr. Dolge to see if they could arrange for them to manufacture felt shoes and slippers to sell to the shoe trade. Mr Dolge agreed to make all the felt footwear and gave Daniel Green the sole agency.
The Dolgeville-Manheim Museum is located in the former Alfred Dolge Hose Co. No. 1 fire station. Fire fighting in Dolgeville dates back to the year 1879, when this village was known as Brocketts Bridge. The forming of the first fire fighting company is credited to Alfred Dolge, the founder of the village. This organization was nothing more than a bucket brigade, but what it lacked in equipment it made up in enthusiasm, and it was only a couple of years later when the fire department became a reality.
Dolgeville-Manheim Museum
Alfred's Ye Olde Cottage Hotel
79 S. Main St. 429-9646
Escape the winter cold with a tour of Lyndon Lyon Greenhouses. They have been a worldwide distributor of top quality African Violets and companion plants since 1954.
Mohawk Valley Living
Fan Special
Free dessert with entree
Today only (Jan., 11 2009)
Open today for lunch and dinner
Dino's Sausage & Meat Co
722 Catherine St, Utica
(315) 732-2661
Don't miss Leon Etienne!
January 16th, 7:00pm at MVCC
1101 Sherman Drive, Utica
Call (315) 735-2945 for tickets
$10 in advance, $15 at the door
Salisbury Riderunners Snowmobile Club
Opening Reception
"Stanley Redux"
Sculptures by Pamela Niskanen
Wed., Jan. 14th 5-6:30pm
Stanley Theatre New Gallery
Matt Cross
Tramontane
Jan. 14 at 8:30pm
and
Joel's Steakhouse
Jan. 16 at 7:30pm
Pete Rose
Jan 16 at 7pm
Methodist Church, Ilion
Dropdown
Jan 16 at 10pm
Pillars, Oneonta
Charlie
Jan 16& 17 at 10:15pm
Devereaux, Utica
The Elders
Celtic Rock -$25
Jan 17 at 7pm
Capital, Rome
