“For fun we used to play in my backyard- tag, football, and baseball-because our family had not bought a tv yet,” said Tim. Tim Feury was being interviewed by Charlotte Feury his granddaughter. Mr. Feury is a 74 year old man who has lived in Cooperstown for 51 years. He has lived in Cooperstown for 21 years when he was growing up, and 30 after retiring. He now lives on 4 Chestnut Street in a white house that his dad lived in with his mom while Tim was in college. He grew up in a house on 53 Susquehanna with his mom , dad, and his sister, Ellen. He went to Cooperstown Central School from kindergarten to high school in the old building which was located where you can now find the Cooper Lane Apartments. His class was the last to attend school in the old building. He said, “ My parents and I used to drive on the lake when it was frozen.” He also said, “ When I was younger every Sunday all the children from the village would get together and watch cartoons on the tv in the fire house because we didn’t have televisions in our homes. Mr. Feury said in his interview that when he was growing up in Cooperstown he used to play basketball at the village gym. The gym used to be located in the building that is now part of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mr. Feury had a couple of jobs in Cooperstown before he went to college. He was a janitor at the Baseball Hall of Fame. He said, “When I used to work at the Hall of Fame we had to open all the windows when it was hot, but then we would have to close them all when a rainstorm came - and there were more than 25 windows!” Another job he had was as a camp supervisor at Glimmerglass. He says he was not a lifeguard because he was not a good enough swimmer, but he watched the kids in the water anyway. And another job was supervising kids on “Kids Day.” “Kids Day” was when all the kids went to Doubleday Field and played baseball in teams split by age. Mr. Tim Feury said in his interview, “Study and get good grades and you will succeed in life.” He said that means get good grades in school, get into a good college and you will do a lot of good things in your life. Now, he is still living in Cooperstown and his two children, who have grown into adults with children of their own, making Mr. Feury the grandfather of six grandchildren. Now Tim Feury walks around town and looks at all the sights that have changed. If you like these stories then listen to the full interview with Mr. Tim Feury.
