Honored repeatedly by the New York Press Association, writer Jim Atwell shares his shift from college dean to a sweatshirt-and-denims guy. These days he’s at home in Fly Creek—just three miles from Cooperstown's National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Come celebrate—
• country life and people • central New York’s beauty, history, culture • a middle-aged widower’s fresh start
Live the past and present of a classic rural hamlet.
See Jim’s fumbling start in farming prodded by 80-year-old neighbor Arrie Hecox.
Share his steady entry into hamlet life and even into the Cooperstown’s “smokeless industry,” baseball tourism.
Witness his ham-handed proposal to Anne, their marriage in a sheep field, and Fly Creek’s gift of an old-fashioned shivaree.
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