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<br /> toric sites fear they are being loved to death . it , " says Dorothy Height . The 88-year- ;A,4 "" , _' ' =-= _ 4
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<br /> Last year , Cooperstown became part of a old grande dame and chairman since , - i
<br /> 15 000-acre historic district that includes 1957 of the National Council for Negro }° - ' i
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<br /> the village , Otsego Lake , and surrounding Women is referring to her organization ' s , : : . _,_; :, ; '; .w ,. ���
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<br /> handling visitors . Efforts are under way to Pennsylvania Avenue , what Height calls
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<br /> preserve local farms : One strategy encour- the corridor of power . Every inaugural ILL
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<br /> producing milk to free-ran e veal , medici - Abraham Lincoln satin its lobby to pose
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<br /> big-city tastes . " We' re not trying to turn away the five -dollar bill . The council took out i
<br /> new jobs , " says Frey of Otsego 2000 . " But an $ 8 . 2 million mortgage to buythe _
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<br /> we do want year-round jobs that will sustain place in 1995 , and it ' s barely been `" -
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<br /> campaign to a off the balance . " SmartE.
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<br /> Meanwhile , the pilgrims keep coming . pay ' `, '� '"' {:" ._"`
<br /> The hottest issue in Cooperstown right now women own , " the group ' s president , I [ j
<br /> is Baseball World , a summer cam proposed Jane E . Smith , likes to say . "They don ' t rent . " Already $ 2 million has beenTJ
<br /> b Chicago White Sox co-owner Eddie Ein - given to the payoff fund ; he deadline the women gave themselves is Sept . '
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<br /> horn that would displace a stretch of historic 12 . This building is our tenure , says Smith . When you walk into it , you ; " ; ,, 3
<br /> farmland along the highway south of town . experience the richness of history . " : r
<br /> While Einhorn waits for a building permit , he �11I
<br /> is already operating the camp in Oneonta , He ' s the George Clooney of the Chesapeake Bay . . l
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<br /> a larger town 20 miles away that has inter- Shipshape Captain Wade Murphy g � ;
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<br /> the summer , and a Class A affiliate of the took a grant from the state to raise the Rebecca T. Ruark, the bay' s oldest
<br /> Detroit Tigers . But Einhorn probably isn 't working skipjack . And it took six months and $ 60 , 000 to get her sailing again . ^t
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<br /> interested in Oneonta , and neither are his Repairs began at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum ; carpenters donated '
<br /> customers . For them , it' s all about playing 200 hours of restoration work . Murphy accepted new sails from the makers of ' a ?
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