The Setting
The Fenimore Museum sits on Lake Otsego as it flows (at you) into the Susquehanna River. In 1779, these waters bore Clinton’s flotilla to join Sullivan at Iroquoia’s edge. With Indians gone, Lake Otsego became J.F. Cooper’s “Glimmerglass,” and today it ports Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Note: Searing visions of Sullivan/Clinton by Haudenosaunee Artists at the 5th Iroquois Biennial Art Exhibition, curated by Peter Jemison, at the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, NY (ended 12/31/05)