The Longest, Though Very Beautiful, Day of My Life

  I see the ads for all the things you can do in Cooperstown, and I'm reminded of the week I spent a day and night there. It seemed like a week.
   It came about because of a conflict in Hoosic Valley school activities. The Senior Band Concert was scheduled for an evening during the weekend of the Yorkers Convention in Cooperstown. The students in both organizations, and there were several, had to make a choice, to go to the weekend convention or to fulfill their commitment to participating in the band concert. A dilemma to be sure, but that's life. As it turned out, most of the students torn by the decision  chose to attend the Yorkers convention. Danny thought it unfair because the band would definitely suffer from the loss of several of the junior and senior musicians. Yet he wanted to attend the Yorkers event as that was the culmination of the year. What to do?
  Dave and I solved the problem, at least in part, by driving him to Cooperstown AFTER the band concert. We all stayed  at a motel for the night.  Because he had taken the bus on the trip to Cooperstown, he was not permitted to ride home in it either. At least that's my recollection. I remember dropping him off at the Yorkers facility near the break of dawn, very early anyway.
   So now Dave and I  had the whole glorious day to spend in Cooperstown, waiting until it was time to pick Danny up. What do we do?
   After breakfast, which was early, we toured Cooperstown. Of course the Baseball Hall of Fame. I had been there a few times before, and didn't have any acute interest in baseball, but it was something to do. There are numerous displays and galleries, which we walked through. It was off season for baseball so the visitors were sparse; we were out of there in less than 45 minutes, if that.
  Next?  We walked through the town and then to the water, sat on the dock for a while, and waited until we could justify eating lunch. Even Dave wasn't hungry.
After lunch, we still had hours to wait. We found a movie theater in town, most likely the only one. Jurassic Park was playing, and it's a pretty long movie, but we were out of there and it was still early afternoon, with hours to wait. I honestly can't remember if we'd checked out of our motel. We must have, but I'm sure I wanted to go back and fall asleep, just to pass the time.
P.S.  That marking period, the band teacher was Miss DeLong, and Danny received a final grade of 106.