S. M. Shaw

“ Although the varied charms of the landscapes surrounding Cooperstown, attractive in themselves, and rendered still more fascinating by the magic pen of Cooper, cannot fail to be sources of exquisite delight to all lovers of the beautiful in nature, it is the "Glimmerglass," haunted with the wraiths and shades of the creations of the great Novelist, lying as pure and fair as on creation’s first day,
that appeals most to’ the fancy and dwells longest in the mind. ”