The Cooperstown Bicentennial Committee will host the event from 5 to 7 p.m. in the third-floor ballroom of the village office building.

Dr. Wendell Tripp and village historian Hugh MacDougall will speak, as will students in of the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

The presentation will also feature a video of older residents in the village speaking about their experiences growing up in Cooperstown. Fourth-graders from Cooperstown Central School interviewed residents of the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home and selected village residents last month while being filmed by older students from the school’s new media team.

The residents were asked about the changes they witnessed in the village over the years and about life during the Great Depression and World War II.

There will also be an exhibition of artápertaining to the bicentennial by CCS elementary students.

The event culminates with a special concert by members of the Cooperstown Community Band, introducing an original march written for the Cooperstown Centennial in 1907 by J.B. Cohen, titled, "The Cooperstown March and Two Step."

They will also play another original march composed in 1970 by Norman Stoddard, former director of the Band, titled, "Cooperstown Community Band March."

The public is cordially invited to attend and refreshments will be served, organizers said.