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he Ithaca City School District's budget has been approved, and the three members of the board who were up for re-election received the most votes, retaining their positions on the board. Both Sabrina Draffen and Sophia Lux mounted grassroots campaigns and generated significant support on social media in the weeks leading up to the election. They were defeated by incumbents Patricia Wasyliw, Sean Eversley Bradwell and Christopher Malcolm. The results were released by Ithaca City School District Wednesday afternoon, then affirmed by the Board of Education in a vote on Thursday. The proposed 2020-2021 annual budget was approved by a vote of 5,526 to 1,682, representing a 76.66 percent vote to approve. The budget is $136,842,648. Voters also approved the use of $799,126 from the 2018 Capital Reserve fund by a vote of 5,606 to 1,563. That money will go towards buying additional buses and transit vans for the district: six full-size gasoline buses and three transit vans. It passed with 78.20 percent. The three incumbents secured the three highest vote totals, ensuring them another three-year term on the board. Bradwell received the most votes with 5,042, followed by Malcolm with 4,275 and Wasyliw with 3,709. The two challengers, Lux and Draffen, finished with 2,869 and 1,820 votes respectively. It’s unknown how many votes were submitted for fellow challenger Elizabeth Minor,, who withdrew. Staff R eports

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ayor Svante Myrick took to Facebook on June 18 to address the community about his steps moving forward regarding the Ithaca Police Department and local public safety in general, creating a task force that will deliver a list of potential changes for local policing by spring 2021. "I believe it's long past time that we fundamentally transform how we deliver our public safety services and our policing services here in the City of Ithaca," Myrick said in the Facebook Live session. "To that effect, I'm assembling a task force that I will lead personally. This City of Ithaca working group will have a broad mandate, which is both simple and enormous in its scope: to consult the public and deliver to Common Council by April 1, 2021 a set of recommendations for the Ithaca Police and all of our public safety programs that fundamentally reimagines them in a way that makes us all feel safer."

Myrick also announced the launch of the webpage www. cityofithaca.org/reinventpublicsafety, where people can sign up to participate as community advisors in surveys, meetings and feedback forums to make their voice heard directly to the city. Tompkins County Administrator Jason Molino and county Sheriff Derek Osborne are both also involved in the effort, as Myrick said they'd be "working to create a countywide coalition of municipalities to review and reform policing in our community." Acknowledging he didn't have all the answers and didn't want to dictate the direction of the task force to begin, he said the first agenda item will be to review public safety policies, especially use of force policies, then examine public safety funding and what alternatives money could go to. After that, Myrick said a priority of the task force would be demilitarizing local police forces, another popular sentiment among criminal justice reform

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activists. "Our police department cannot be an occupying force in our community," Myrick said. "They can't look like it, they can't act like it." Acknowledging the fraught relationship the Black community has with police departments, Myrick said he would draw upon his own experiences to inform some of the goals he'd have while leading the task force. "We are at higher risk of being on the wrong end of police violence, so this is real for me," Myrick said. Myrick credited the Ithaca Police Department with making strides to become more community-oriented, but said there isn't enough room for error considering the literally lethal stakes at play. He said he did support the department and recognized the need for police officers, perhaps a tacit acknowledgment of divergence from the momentumgathering "abolish the police"

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PHOTOGRAPHER County sees flood of absentee ballots due to outbreak By C a se y Mar tin

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The county expects diminished Election Day turnout after such high absentee ballot numbers. (Photo by Casey Martin) “I really enjoyed re-watching Avatar” -Mary C.

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of color walking in there, ask them why,” Brown said. “If you work in a system that you don’t see people of color, trans, LGBTQ, ask them why.” Patricia Rodriguez of the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition (TCIRC) spoke in front of the crowd about the issues immigrants face when placed in detention centers. “Much of what this

whole process reveals is that it’s so difficult, so impossible, such inhuman treatment in their home countries and here at these prisons,” Rodriguez said. “It’s very difficult to comprehend. What’s even more difficult is that the people that get to decide whether they stay or they go, most of what’s decided is that they need to stay inside

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Barbara Lifton has always been the Democratic choice since her first term. But with a competitive State Assembly race paired with judge and District Attorney elections, and considering the absentee ballot outreach, turnout could still be quite high. It’s already close to matching 2018’s turnout, which determined a competitive Democratic primary for the NY23rd Congressional District. In 2018, 9,114 total voters cast ballots in the NY23 race, compared to over 7,000 so far in 2020. The end of Election Day will also not bring much clarity to the various races: the thousands of absentee votes can’t be counted until July 1, and it will take nearly a week if not more to get through all the ballots, DeWitt said. “It remains to be seen,” DeWitt said. “I’ve never counted this volume. We’ll have a couple of scanners that can tabulate the vote, but I would suspect that it will probably take four or five days. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I think it’s going to take quite a while.” Complicating the count will be the long holiday weekend that will eliminate counting work after July 2 until July 6. “I’ve never had an election where 80 or 90 percent of the vote, who knows, is still outstanding after election day,” DeWitt said.

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in this year’s June elections. While a global pandemic threatened that, adjustments at the state level have helped mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus on voting, highlighted by expanding access to absentee ballots and the still

young early voting program. In total, DeWitt said 11,758 absentee ballots had been given out going into Election Day. As of late Monday, DeWitt said over 7,000 had been returned, with more sure to come during the Election Day session on Tuesday. According to DeWitt, 471 additional people voted at the two open locations during the week-long early voting period. While that may seem like a relatively small number, DeWitt said he was actually impressed with the usage considering the massive number of absentee ballots that were distributed. Perhaps the largest question will be what in-person voting figures look like amid a global pandemic. Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a set of executive orders to facilitate voting amid the coronavirus outbreak, the most significant of which required local boards of elections to mail absentee ballots to all eligible voters, likely boosting the number of people who opted to use an absentee ballot. “My sense is that it’s going to be quiet [on Election Day], but polls are going to be open,” DeWitt said on Monday. Turnout numbers wil be difficult to compare to previous election years for a few different reasons. It’s been 20 years since there was an open Democratic primary in the 125th Assembly District, since

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t least 100 or so people packed themselves into and around the Bernie Milton Pavilion on Friday to not only celebrate Juneteenth— a national commemoration of the end of when slaves in Texas learned of their freedom two years after the Emancipation Proclamation—but to also continue the discussion of the plight and fight to end the systematic oppression of people of color. In between the DJ’s playing music and the crowd’s call-and-response chants were several community members giving speeches on the struggle of people of color, and specifi-

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cally the Black community, and the changes that need to be made to end the struggle. The event, hosted by Decarcerate Tompkins County, was titled "Decriminalize, Demilitarize, Decarcerate Tompkins." Community activist Phoebe Brown,who also works for Alliance of Families for Justice—a local organization that supports families affected by the criminal justice system—spoke during the event, urging folks to harness the energy from rallies like this one and challenge the racial biases of establishments and systems. “If you walk in any place, and you don’t see a person

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Local doctors hope telehealth remains beyond outbreak

Local doctors hope that telehealth remains a viable option for patients going forward (photo online).

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken us into a Twilight Zone-esque realm of existence where alcoholic beverages can be delivered to our doors; the 9-to-5 office model has been proven outdated; and we’ve been given the time and privilege to question the practicality of many of the laws and habits that governed our lives before. In this liminal world, everything’s being reconsidered, like telehealth, for example. Before COVID, telemedicine was rarely used. Despite being a cost-effective, accessible and 21st-century alternative to the traditional inperson doctor’s appointment, there were hurdles to setting it up: workflow reconfiguration, high startup costs, patient interest and varying coverage policies across insurers made it extremely difficult to use. It was a complicated system to integrate into a practice, let alone navigate on a day-to-day basis. But on March 17, when Governor Cuomo announced the statewide lockdown and revealed his 10-Point Plan, point eight leaned on telehealth as an essential tool to curb the spread of the virus. The federal government followed suit,

waiving various requirements and/or limitations to utilizing telehealth. Since then, both moves revealed the utility of telehealth as a tool in the healthcare industry. But as states begin to reopen, it looks like telehealth’s viability as an in-person appointment alternative may be short-lived, ending as soon as the state of emergency does. Existing parity laws, nationally, meant to guide usage of telemedicine, are actually the greatest obstacle to utilizing it. In an article for Filter Magazine, Dr. Elizabeth Ryan and the staff at REACH, a stigmafree healthcare provider located in Ithaca, said they were worried they’d end up with low patient volume as telehealth looks poised to be phased out. Since many of its patients already struggled with drug addiction or special health needs, they were concerned by what a lack of access to proper treatment might result in. Currently, there are only 10 states that offer “true” parity laws (New York isn’t one), according to a Foley report. Parity laws are designed to ensure that healthcare plans cover telehealth appointments at the same percentage as in-person

appointments, thereby incentivizing healthcare providers to invest in telehealth care but, in New York, the opposite has happened. Low payment and reimbursement rates among health insurers has caused providers to either turn away from telehealth as a reliable, profitable healthcare tool or bear the revenue loss. Many end up choosing the former. “Without payment parity, a health plan could unilaterally decide to pay network providers for telehealth services at 50 percent of the reimbursement rate that the health plan pays the provider for an identical in-person service,” states the Foley report. “This is not a theoretical risk, [it] actually occurred when New York implemented its broad telehealth coverage law, which did not include any language regarding payment/reimbursement rates.” Failing parity laws can be seen as one of the major contributing factors to decreases in-patient volume across all medical practices following the start of COVID-19. Having little experience with or no existing telehealth service in place, health care providers and thereby patients were left at a severe disadvantage in March as the government turned to the inoperative alternative as a solution. The government had essentially passed the responsibility of patient care onto an ill-prepared healthcare system. Patients have demonstrated a commitment to receiving healthcare when given the opportunity through alternative means not previously seen in traditional healthcare routes. In a Harvard University study, performed with the healthcare technology company Phreesia, researchers revealed the devastating impact COVID-19 was having on U.S. outpatient care. The study revealed that in the wake of the state of emergency order, primary care outpatient care had dropped by nearly 50 percent, among the lowest. Specialty practices saw the highest drops. The study also says that as in-person visits dropped drastically, telemedicine visits rose rapidly in April before plateauing over the last three weeks. The decrease in telehealth visits is due to the reopening of practices nationally as more

doctors return to in-person treatment. The team at REACH credited the federal waiver with saving their practice, and, very likely, many of their patient’s lives. REACH, which caters to NY residents in over 26 counties, said that without the barriers to implementing the telemedicine, they were able to switch their entire practice over to telemedicine and they’ve since seen results they never expected. After establishing a telehealth option, they took on 53 new patients in April. Samantha Stevenson, Practice Manager at REACH, said that the staff spent 10 days switching the entire practice over to the telemedicine app Doxy.me, but not worrying about navigating health insurance policies has allowed them to focus on what’s important— providing care to patients. “Now that we’re recognizing that we can truly save people’s lives, we can’t go back. Morally. Ethically. We cannot go back,” said Stevenson. Over 90 percent of REACH’s client base uses Medicaid: they say that it’s also part of their mission. They are one of the few practices in the area that takes Medicaid and prescribes Suboxone and Buprenorphine. Acknowledging the spike in patient care, they can’t go back to the way things were, but there’s also very little money in providing the service. “If we go back to the way things were before COVID, none of the types of visits we do are covered by parity,” says Ryan, “and there’s a common misconception that Medicaid pays for services — it approves services, but it doesn’t pay well. A 40-minute appointment can often end with a $14 reimbursement, not even enough to cover a decent fraction of a salary. I think it’s all or nothing for us. It’s not going to be okay if they give us 50 percent of an in-person visit. It’s not okay if they keep the parity, but the patients have to be at a doctor’s office to receive treatment. That defeats the purpose.” “The incentives are wrong in American healthcare and this is one small way that has accidentally gone in our favor, and we need it to continue.”

▶ Thumbs Up - Tompkins County overall should be congratulated for being able to avoid the type of widespread outbreak that took place in other parts of New York, and even elsewhere in central New York, like Tioga County. As of Tuesday, Tompkins County only had two remaining active COVID-19 cases, and while we can keep our fingers crossed for the next several months, the first part of the outbreak has been mostly avoided. ▶ Thumbs Down - Through no fault of anyone’s, we will have to wait quite a while before results are returned in Tuesday’s elections, likely for at least 10 days and maybe as much as two weeks due to state absentee ballot rules. It’s an unfortunate wait and likely to lead to some confusion for voters used to knowing the results of elections just hours after polls close. ▶ Seen - Cornell University appears to be moving closer to a re-opening plan after the submission of several reports set to guide President Martha Pollack’s final decision. A course of action is set to be announced some time in early July which will likely lay out if Cornell will be in-person or remote for fall semester. Ithaca College has already announced they will be returning in-person on Oct. 5.

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S u s a n Mu lt e r , Tow n of It h ac a ome Wisconsin residents stood in line for hours to vote in their primary election. According to The Guardian at least 50 of them have since tested positive for COVID-19. Imagine what could happen when millions vote in November. If we want to have secure, efficient voting without risking our heath, we must make plans now. Nonpartisan organizations like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are among many promoting legislation to enable voting by mail. There are television ads advocating such. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota introduced and Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon cosponsors S.3529, the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act (NDEBA) of 2020. It lets people vote by absentee ballot during the virus. We can support it by urging Senators Gillibrand and Schumer plus Congressman Reed to push for it. Sadly, however, President Trump thinks absentee voting invites fraud and has recently threatened to withhold funds from Michigan and Nevada for enabling voting by mail. Thus the likelihood of NDEBA passing both houses of Congress and being signed by the President is zero.

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By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e Fortunately, another option is executive orders by governors. Gov. Cuomo used one to enable us to vote safely by absentee ballot in our June primary in New York; Gov. Gavin Newsom has done the same for California for November. He takes personal responsibility for preventing people from risking their lives in order to vote. There is much we can do to promote this solution. Thank Cuomo for his executive order enabling us to vote by absentee ballot in June and ask him to do the same for November. Contact friends across the country to urge their governor to do that, too. Ask them to urge organizations from churches to county legislatures to join the effort. Approach officers in the National Association of Governors to challenge their members to bring safety to their constituents by enabling voting by absentee ballot, state by state. With a concerted, coordinated effort we can do this and make a difference. We simply have to, because democracy is at stake.

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ges in wide range were represented by organizers who spoke this month at the Juneteenth rally for racial justice at the Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Ithaca Commons. The rally, one of many such across the country, in Ithaca was called “De-Criminalize, De-Militarize, De-Carcerate. “ It called for reform of police and prison systems, with historical and continuing instances in the U.S. of bias and violence against people of color. Phoebe Brown is 65. She has worked as a community activist in Ithaca most of her life. At the rally she described personally, as a woman of color, a lifetime of daily worry and concern for the safety of her family, perpetually facing systemic racial persecution. “I want to thank my ancestors for preparing us for this day,” Ms. Brown said, speaking of racism’s long and brutal legacy. Meanwhile, she said, “I am so happy with the young people today” for their widespread and growing activism. Savannah Gonzalez is a teenager, a student at the New Roots Charter School. She spoke of a young lifetime of political involvement, describing recent actions as part of the history of struggle and insurrection Brown cited, and not “a trend. Black lives are not a trend.” Taili Mugambee is 46. “The same age as George Floyd,” he noted from the stage. George Floyd was killed last month in Minneapolis when a grocery store called police with an allegation of a black man in possession of a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. Mr. Floyd, a black man, had been in the store. Police apprehended Floyd on the street. They handcuffed him face down on the ground. A white officer put his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than seven minutes, stopping his breathing and killing him. Three other officers stood by watching and preventing intervention from onlookers. Mr. Mugambee spoke of a police killing three weeks later in Atlanta of Rayshard Brooks, a black man who had fallen asleep in his car at a Wendy’s restaurant. Engaged by police and fearful of his safety, he attempted to flee. He died when an officer shot him in the back. “A twenty dollar bill. A Wendy’s,” Mugambee said. “Send somebody else other than someone with a gun.” Mugambee spoke of a society where a person of color is regarded “as a criminal

before a human being,” and police use violence without reason, sanction, or control. Mugambee served in the Marine Corps. “We had rules of engagement,” he said, referring to strict, codified limits on how and when force may be used, and raising the issue of the lack of such training, or even awareness, among domestic police forces. Meanwhile, Mugambee said, with the cover of “the war on drugs,” which he described as “a set-up,” police forces are increasingly militaristic in capacity, and the judicial system increasingly inured to their violations, and inimical to the freedoms and protection of people of color as a vulnerable, even targeted, population. Relatedly, with what the government has called another war, this time on terrorism, military-style forces were brought to larger American cities, as ostensible likely targets. In recent years, the federal government has funded such units even in small cities, including Ithaca. The Ithaca Police Department has a SWAT team. The acronym stands for “Special Weapons And Tactics.” Generally these units are equipped with specialized weapons such as submachine guns, assault rifles, riot guns, stun grenades, and tear gas. They employ armored vehicles, heavy body armor, and ballistic shields. Needful call for such weapons and tactics in Ithaca is unclear. The potential for tragic misuse of such force, meanwhile, is quite clear; so is its basic malignancy. Its maintenance is no doubt expensive, and adverse to real social needs. Without any real need for them, SWAT units are presumably sometimes used inappropriately, whether from misjudgment, actual malice, or simply to justify their existence. The latest media report I have found of a SWAT operation in Ithaca is from October 2019. It took place at West Village Apartments. The apartments are home to a sizable proportion of Ithaca’s community of color. The incident was described as “a reported fight possibly involving a knife.” A man “surrendered and was taken into custody without instance.” The report says the man apprehended by the militarized SWAT team was 46 years old. The same as Taili Mugambee; the same as George Floyd.

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movement that has arisen in the wake of the Minneapolis Police's killing of George Floyd and the protests that generated. "I'm proud of the progress our department has made," he said. "But I acknowledge that it is not yet perfect, and perfection must be our goal. So to create a new dynamic, one that makes our community safer and our police more respected for the work they do, we have to do this work." Of course, Ithaca Police Department hasn't been free of allegations of brutality. In last year's infamous Commons incident in April, police's actions were called an "overreaction" by Judge John C. Rowley as he dismissed the charges against Rose DeGroat, who along with friend Cadji Ferguson were thrown to the ground and arrested by Ithaca police after an altercation with a separate group. Both were later cleared of wrongdoing. Body-camera footage later showed police with a knee on DeGroat's head as she was pinned down, and Myrick apologized months later for

IPD's behavior. No officers were punished as a result of the incident. Myrick reiterated that the police's budget has only slowly grown over the last 10 years, and again praised the direction the police have taken over that time. Myrick also noted that IPD has been hit by similar cutbacks as the city ‑due to the city's revenue shortfalls ‑eliminating six staff positions, representing about 10 percent of the total force, from the city budget. "You can't expect the department to do more with less, so we have to do something different," Myrick said. "I will confess that this process is going to be lengthy. It's going to take many months and will need a lot of input." Some collaborators Myrick said would likely be involved in the process: Community Leaders of Color, Black Lives Matter, the Public Safety and Information Commission, the Community Police Board, Mutual Aid Tompkins, the Police Benevolent Association, neighborhood groups, student organizations, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, other municipalities, etc. M att Butler

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those detention centers, incarcerated, for a longer time.” “There are few judges with records of negative cases that are so high that it’s almost 95 percent, 98 percent of the cases are decided as a ‘no,’ which means eventual deportation,” she added. “This has to change, and I think opening up our homes to them is so important. Thanks to those in this community, and you know who you are, that have already opened their home. These are people that have suffered so much already, who face racism, who face discrimination, who face abuse, and we will never really know what they have gone through. […] We can, though, begin to think together how to end this unjust, abusive system that affects Black, Brown, indigenous, Asian people, and so many more.” Dr. Aloja Airewele, a program leader for the Energy Warriors Career Pathways program, which provides youth with career avenues into the green-energy field, also spoke at the rally, recounting a tale involving a farmer, a mousetrap and a collection of animals. The story goes as follows: one night, the farmer sets up a mousetrap on his and his family’s farm. Some of the mice saw the trap, ran over to the other animals on the farm—pigs, sheep and chicken—and said to them, “There’s a mousetrap in the farm,” to which the pigs, sheep and chicken respond with, “What is that to me?” “Well, come morning, the trap actually caught a […] snake, and it had not died,” Airewele said. “The farmer’s wife went to check and was stunned by the snake. So they rushed out to the hospital, and when people came with the farmer, he got some lamb chops, and where do you get them? From the sheep. So he got some sheep and

he killed them. What does the mousetrap have to do with the sheep? When the bill came, the farmer needed to sell some chicken that you find in the grocery store.” Airewele said the message he was trying to convey with the tale was that “all our children are simply our children.” “For years, I’ve been working with our young people who are in detention centers, who are incarcerated, and coming out from them,” he said. “What we have discovered is that because of our negligence of taking care of the most basic human genes, the things that humanize all of us. Wouldn’t you be pained if you knew that a child had broken into a car just to get money to buy hot dogs for his siblings, and that that child ends up in a detention center, and we are going to spend four times the amount we would’ve spent for that child to be in school and the child is still going to come out not being able to use a calculator?” “When we close our eyes and say, ‘What is that to me? What does a mousetrap have to do with me? What does the incarceration of a child from the West Village have to do with someone that lives in Cayuga Heights?’ that is the most stupid attitude to have if you are a human being,” he added. Airewele also discussed the importance of prioritizing the well-being of children in the country. “How can you spend trillions of dollars to go look for a Taliban in Afghanistan, and you will not spend billions to give food to your children right here,” he said. “If there is any prayer which you pray, ‘Please God, give America wisdom and common sense.’” A n d r e w S u l l i va n

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YOUR LETTERS Tompkins County Democratic Committee issues statement in support of Black Lives Matter goals The TCDC shares in the communal outrage at the killings of Rayshard Brooks, Tony McDade, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Stephon Clark, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Andy Lopez, Oscar Grant, and so many others, who died at the hands of those that are sworn to protect and serve. These killings are emblematic of the everyday harassment that black, brown, and LGBTQ+ communities face when just trying to live a normal life. This systemic racism has been ingrained into every aspect of American culture and must stop. We need to do better. We, as individuals and as an organization, have failed to take action on the horrors that many in our community face daily. It is time to end aggressive stops and searches, violent treatment of arrestees from minority groups, and brutal police suppression of citizens exercising their rights of free speech and peaceful assembly. We support the goals of Black Lives Matter. This is a moment in which the TCDC can make the correct choices, and we invite your input. We commit to doing the work to make our committee more welcoming and accessible to all people, including those who are currently not represented or underrepresented on the TCDC. Renate Ferro Tompkins County Democratic Committee

Ways to improve local law enforcement Dear Members of the Law Enforcement Community, Many people appreciate the added risk taken by our first responders, including law enforcement, during the Coronavirus pandemic. The unknown and uncertainty caused by the pandemic are scary for all of us, but especially for those on the front lines. The experience of fear, uncertainty, and the unknown, is nothing new for communities of color. Whether they are in their homes or cars or asleep, when they venture out to jog, shop, ride their bikes, or to enjoy time with their friends, that fear, sense of risk and uncertainty are always with them. I am a privileged white woman who does not share this experience. Whether it’s in Minneapolis Minnesota, Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, NYC, or Ithaca and Tompkins County, racism in our country is alive and well including in our law enforcement system, whose J u ne

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members continue to oppress, impose fear on, act violently against, and kill members of communities of color, especially Black men. We are at a pivotal time in our country and in our community, a long time coming and way overdue. Black people are leading the force of change as they have been for years, supported by more white allies than ever before. We are calling for dramatic, transformational change to our system of law enforcement. Laws have already been signed in New York State related to police violence, disciplinary records, and investigations on police brutality. This is a small, critical first step, however, much more needs to happen. Legislation doesn’t change culture. Only people do! I am challenging members of law enforcement to be proactive and take the lead to embrace major change: -Accept that no matter how many “well-intentioned” or “good officers” there are, that the system of law enforcement is racist and biased in how it operates. -Defund yourselves and work collaboratively with leaders in communities of color to channel funds to mental health, employment programs, housing, education, and other human service programs to address and respond to community problems that you are not equipped or trained to handle. -Demilitarize yourselves and focus on serving and protecting rather than terrorizing the community with military-type vehicles, armor, and tactics. -Training must be focused on de-escalation not on imposing harm. -When fellow officers are talking or acting violently or inappropriately, even in private amongst yourselves, don’t stand back, intervene. -Eliminate the wall of silence and union contracts that make it impossible to discipline an abusive or violent officer. -Support independent community police boards with subpoena power to help you root out violent and discriminatory officers among your ranks. -Don’t hire candidates who will become violent officers. Review your department’s screening and hiring processes. Consider what kinds of backgrounds are inappropriate (military training) and develop a culture of nonviolence, respect, and anti-racism within the ranks. You have the power to change your culture, reimagine yourselves and do the right thing. It’s been done elsewhere like in Camden, New Jersey. Yours is not the only culture and system that requires drastic and dramatic transformation to root out violence and oppression against Black people in our county and in our nation. However, yours is one of the first that Black people locally encounter as violent and often deadly. Fran Spadafora Manzella Town of Ithaca

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Visiting Filmmakers Came to Shoot Silent Movies in Ithaca, 1914-1916

By Aaron Pichel

n the first week of August, 1914, Theodore “Ted” Wharton (18751931) welcomed to Ithaca an old friend – 37-year-old film director J. Searle Dawley (1877-1949) – as if he were a visiting dignitary. Earlier in the year, Ted had established his own fullfledged movie studio locally and he was eager to show off the town to Dawley with a grand tour by car of all the nearby scenic locations. Ted knew Dawley had come to Ithaca with a particular goal in mind: to shoot part of a four-reel feature movie, entitled One of Millions, in and around town that same week.

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Dawley and Ted were friends from their early filmmaking days at Thomas Edison’s studio. In 1907, when both men started at Edison’s company as scriptwriters and directors of one-reel shorts, Ted was 32 years old, just two years older than Dawley. Working at Edison’s then-new studio facilities in the Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx, the men churned out hundreds of one-reelers in the nascent days of cinema. They were proud to work for the era’s most important inventor, producer, and distributor of motion pictures, Thomas Edison himself. Dawley holds a place in cinema history for writing and directing Edison’s 1910 silent Frankenstein, a one-reel film adap24–30,

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tation (the first) of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. The film exists and you can find it online in a high-definition 2017 restoration with musical accompaniment. Ted Wharton left the Edison studio in 1909 for a stint at Kalem (another early film company based in New York City) on his way to other studios Pathé, then Essanay, and finally in 1914, to his own Ithaca studio. Dawley stayed on with Edison until 1912 when he left to follow his mentor, film pioneer and early Edison director Edwin S. Porter, to the then-newly founded Famous Players studio (which later became Paramount). By 1914, Dawley would temporarily leave his position at Famous Players to

partner with two high-rollers in the movie business, Frank L. Dyer (1870-1941) – Thomas Edison’s patent and personal attorney and company executive – and successful movie producer J. Parker Read, Jr. (1885-1942).2 The three men formed a movie production company called the Dyreda Art Film Corporation (amalgamating the first two letters of the partners’ last names, in order of their importance: Dyer, Read, and Dawley). Dawley had written and was directing Dyreda’s first feature production, the fervent four-reel anti-war drama, One of Millions. Dawley ventured to Ithaca ready for a whirlwind of work, and he had not come alone. He arrived in town with a full con-

D i r e c t o r J . S e a r l e Daw l e y, a n o l d f r i e n d o f Te d Wh a r t o n ’s f r o m t h e i r 1 9 0 7- 1 9 0 9. y e a r s t o g e t h e r at Th o m a s E d i s o n ’s m ov i e s t u d i o . tingent of actors, including stars Laura Sawyer (1885-1970), Maximillian Jurgens, Gertrude Norman (1848–1943), plus other company players. Dawley’s crew also included a 23-yearold cameraman, Irvin V. Willat (18901976), who was eager to learn more about filmmaking and ready to begin shooting the movie’s opening scenes of pastoral love and happiness. From what Dawley had heard of Ithaca as touted by Ted Wharton, Dawley knew it was just the place to capture those idyllic opening scenes. “J. Searle Dawley and his company of players arrived in Ithaca last night [Wednesday] and are now registered at the Clinton House” hotel, noted the Ithaca Journal. “Mr. Dawley and several members of his company took an automobile ride to the various scenic points about the city this morning to pick out places where he will take scenes. The Dawley company will remain here the rest of the week.” Ted Wharton likely loaned Dawley some crew and equipment during the shoot. The Dawley production took many exterior shots of the story’s central young couple luxuriating in Ithaca’s natural beauty. These scenes would begin the movie with a utopia of love to be upended when war is declared on the eve of the couple’s marriage. The trade magazine Moving Picture World noted that the film “...opens with a little pastoral in which Laura Sawyer plays a peasant girl who is loved and married by a soldier, played by Maximillian Jurgens. These scenes are insisted on by the producer for the contrast value later when he brings

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on his pictures of war that soon breaks in upon the bliss of these young people. War is declared on the wedding night and the husband has to take his gun and go.” In advance of the release of One of Millions to theaters on November 16, 1914, a full-page advertisement in Moving Picture World crowed that the movie was “the most impressive, touching indictment of the evils of war ever conceived. Produced by the poet of the screen, J. Searle Dawley, who made The Charge of the Light Brigade [1912] and countless other sensations.” By early June 1915, after producing several successful features, the Dyreda partners agreed to sell the young company in its entirety to a corporation controlled by the Metro studio, a forerunner of MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). With a tidy profit earned, the Dyreda partners watched as Metro quickly absorbed the company. Metro’s two biggest stars under contract during this period, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, were Ithaca acting alums from the very first 1913 summer production season in Ithaca with Ted Wharton for the Essanay studio. Such was the churning and intermingling of principals and participants in the early years of the movie business. Bushman and Bayne would return to Ithaca for Metro to shoot two features in 1917: The Adopted Son and God’s Outlaw, both westerns. Dawley himself would return to Ithaca in 1916, two years after his first foray, to produce and direct the five-reel feature Out of the Drifts for the Famous Players Film

Company, that forerunner of the enduring Paramount of today. The dramatic photograph above was used in the title and credit sequence of One of Millions, as designed by cinematographer Irvin Willat. When interviewed as part of the American Film Institute’s Oral History Program in 1971, Willat pulled out a black and white version of the photograph and recalled: “This was a main title which I made ... for director J. Searle Dawley for the picture One of Millions. The curtain was down – I ran all my titles across the curtain, double exposed. As the titles finished, the audience noticed blood oozing under the curtain and down the steps, forming by stop-motion photography – the word WAR. As the curtain raised, you could see the raped and murdered girl and the blood – WAR! The picture depicted the horrors of war, and my main title got a lot of attention.” Dawley pushed Willat into directing movies during the filming of one of Dyreda’s 1915 features, directed by Dawley and starring silent movie star Mary Miles Minter. “The first scenes I ever directed,” recalled Willat in the interview almost 60 years later, “were on the Mary Miles Minter picture Always in the Way. We were running behind schedule, so in order to get

lie Dove (1903-1997), a woman not wellknown today but who, in her time, was a huge sensation. Willat directed Dove in her seventh film, All the Brothers Were Valiant, in 1923 and they married the same year. In 1927, industrialist and movie producer Howard Hughes met Willat’s wife and fell for her, hard. What Hughes wanted, he intended to get. So Willat and Dove divorced. Film historian Robert S. Birchard explained the unorthodox “arrangements:” “According to Willat, in a conversation he did not wish to be taped, Hughes offered Dove a five-picture contract at $50,000 a picture if she would ‘remove herself from all marital entanglements.’ Dove left Willat to take up Hughes’s offer on and off screen.”11 Hughes opted to offer cash to Willat, as well. “Sometime afterwards on a Sunday afternoon,” Birchard detailed, “Hughes’s aide Noah Dietrich drove up to Willat’s house with a suitcase filled with $326,000.” Hughes tendered the huge sum to Willat, as a form of recompense. “I didn’t ask for the money,” Willat recalled, “but I figured he stole my wife, what the hell, I’ll take it.” Hollywood’s gossip mill churned. “Rumours floated around town that Willat

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had ‘sold’ Dove to Hughes,” film historian Birchard noted. “What few doors remained open to Willat in Hollywood suddenly closed for good.” Billie Dove had a torrid three-year romance with Howard Hughes and was engaged to marry him, but she broke off the relationship. For the record, Dove outlived all the men who “bought and sold” her. She was

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an actress, pilot, poet, and painter who lived until 1997, aged 94, spending her retirement years at the Motion Picture and Television Country House in Woodland Hills, California where she died of pneumonia on New Year’s Eve. Movie director J. Searle Dawley returned to Ithaca in January, 1916 to film an Alpine romantic melodrama entitled Out of the Drifts for the Famous Players company. Arriving in town again with a full company of actors and crew, Dawley shot for almost two weeks. He not only had access to all that wintry Ithaca had to offer, but he also had full use of the Wharton studios in Renwick (now Stewart) Park. The Ithaca Journal reported the details: “The Famous Players’ Company, which is enacting scenes in Ithaca is now using the Renwick studio of Wharton, Inc. through the courtesy of that company. So impressed has J. Searle Dawley... become with the natural scenic advantage around Ithaca that he has decided to keep the company here for ten additional days.

The company constructed a log cabin in the gorge below Taughannock Falls, to be used as headquarters for the winter scenes in that vicinity. The play is a love plot and deals with winter life in Switzerland. The background furnished by the deep gorge at Taughannock Falls and the huge precipices furnishes an admirable imitation of the Alps and Mt. St. Bernard, according to the directors in charge. The company had three St. Bernard dogs and some mountain goats and lambs, sent here especially for the picture. Included in the equipment also are skis, toboggans, snowshoes, etc., and all facilities necessary for an idealistic “Switzerland” picture. As anyone familiar with Ithaca weather would know, the elements did not always cooperate. “The entire company made one trip to the north in search of ‘snow stuff,’” noted the Motion Picture News trade journal, “but was prevented from getting many important scenes by a heavy rainfall which swept away the great part of the snow.” Dawley filmed what scenes he could, headed back to New York City for other work with the company and crew, and planned to return to Ithaca at the next big snowfall.

Soon enough Ithaca’s winter accommodated. “Marquerite Clark, Director J. Searle Dawley and the other members of the Out of the Drifts company have returned to Ithaca,” reported Motion Picture News, “to take advantage of the recent big storm in obtaining the scenes for the big Alpine story in which the diminutive star is soon to make her appearance.” When the movie was edited and ready for release, one trade journal gave the movie a glowing recommendation. “Out of the Drifts is distinctly a pleasing picture. Its romance is not of the usual sort,” commented reviewer Peter Milne. “Marguerite Clark is quite the most refreshing and wholesome appearing actress that the screen has seen for many, many days. These extraordinary pleasing personal gifts of hers show to great advantage in Out of the Drifts.” One additional personal gift acquired in Ithaca: Marguerite learned to ski for the snow scenes. Ithaca’s scenic beauty even received particular mention by the reviewer: “The locations in which the Alpine scenes are set are impressive and beautiful,” Milne noted. “Snow-clad, pine mountains furnish backgrounds of grandeur, that suggests the locale in a most realistic degree.

The camera work in these scenes is also exceptional.” Silent movie cinematographer and Edison studio alum Ned Van Buren (1882-1969) ensured the right photographic look for the production. Another reviewer, from the Motography trade journal, praised “the presence of Marguerite Clark in the fullness of her captivating influence and the exquisite photographic effects.” And Ithaca got a shout-out: “The quantity of strikingly picturesque snow scenes and the sheer delight of that charm which the spectator experiences when witnessing a Marguerite Clark picture will be considered ample return by those attracted to the theater showing Out of the Drifts.” The charismatic female lead Marguerite Clark (1883-1940) was a huge star for years with the Famous Players-Paramount company. She traveled to Ithaca in 1916 with her older sister Cora Clark for the Out of the Drifts shoot. The sisterly companionship made the moviemaking fun. Marguerite had played the role of Snow White in the first Broadway production in 1912 and reprised her role in the movie adaptation of the wellcontinued on page 12

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the actual ceremony. In fact, it was only until the day that graduation was supposed to happen that he realized he was actually quite “bummed out” about not she would see them getting to have that again. final celebration. “That initial “I wasn’t excited weekend was a about the ceremony flurry of gooditself, but I was byes,” she said. “It excited to see was very strange everyone together,” because we had he said. a couple of days “It was having my where everything friends meet my was happening and parents. It was gothen three weeks of ing to be a chance nothing. I was like The Arts Quad was the first place some Cornell seniors went after to see my friends ‘I’d rather be doing learning school was closing-- to scream. (Photo by Casey Martin) because I won’t see problem sets than them in one place sitting here and for the spring graduation ceremony, had again. It was weird how I didn’t realize that knitting a scarf.’” a very different experience. He is curuntil the day of.” However, during those final days where rently in the San Juan Islands as a project Amrit Hingorani had a similar realizaeveryone was still on campus, Stanton also manager for Cornell’s CORALS program, tion as the graduation date got closer. stated that she “had never felt prouder of in which he was a participant in 2018. “I never was super excited about graduCornell [than] at that time.” Although the students in the program ation […] but as [the date] started getting “I obviously don’t know the entire were sent home in March, he stayed and closer, I realized now I kind of want it, senior class but it was cool to see everyone conducted classes from the island. really badly,” he said. “Maybe that feeling being like ‘We just want to enjoy [these “Being out here is pretty awesome,” he would have just happened anyway with last moments] on our terms,’” she said. “If said, showing the view from his desk. it getting closer. Maybe it was now that I we were going to leave, it was because we When Pillai Hausner left in the fall, he decided to, and that was really heartwarm- had originally planned on returning in the can’t have it—that one last hurrah with all my close friends.” ing.” spring to say goodbye to everyone, even Arjun Pillai Hausner, who graduated though he had never thought much about in the fall but was planning on returning continued on page 12

Seniors Reflect on Their Last Moments as Cornell Undergraduates

t seems that almost every Cornell University senior will remember where they were and what they were doing on Friday, March 13, when they found out that in-person instruction had ended, the next three weeks of school were cancelled, and the likely potential that normal senior traditions would not be happening as usual. (“It was Friday the 13th, I should have known,” joked Caitlin Stanton). Three months later, several students reflected on their final moments on campus as undergraduates and what it was like leaving in such an unprecedented way. After receiving the first email from Cornell on Tuesday, which had stated inperson classes were going to be cancelled after spring break, Stanton originally thought the email was a joke. “I thought somebody had replicated the Cornell letterhead,” she said. After confirming that the email was real, she and her friends decided to walk to the Arts Quad because there were “a bunch of people screaming.” “It sounded like fun,” she said. Although Stanton knew she would be returning to Cornell for graduate school in the fall, she stated it was still hard to say goodbye to friends, not knowing when

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Hingorani, who participated in a wide variety of different extracurriculars, vividly remembers receiving the Friday email and immediately afterwards going to his last paintball practice. “I had just found out I was seeing [some of my teammates] for the last time, potentially ever,” he said. However, Hingorani said one upside was that it was nice to not have as busy of a schedule and to get to “take advantage of Ithaca” for a few months before leaving. He went hiking at the Buttermilk Falls Trails, had social-distanced picnics with

talk with a professor “about life and the future.” “Having a two month cool down to experience Ithaca and not really be running like a chicken with no head to paintball and frisbee to lab, it gave me a decent time to say bye,” Hingorani said. However, a few days after he left Ithaca in May, Hingorani found out he had gotten a one-year position in a Cornell lab and would be returning in the fall. “I was finally ready to say goodbye to Cornell," he said, “and now I know I have to do it all over again.” Marin Langlieb

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known fairy tale in 1916 for Famous Players-Paramount. J. Searle Dawley directed and Creighton Hale, another Ithaca acting alum, co-starred (as the Prince). The Snow White movie made a strong impact on a fifteen-year-old Walt Disney when he saw it in January, 1917. “My impression of the picture has stayed with me through the years,” Disney wrote to an old friend decades later, “and I know it played a big part in selecting Snow White for my first feature production,” released in 1937.

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The 1916 Snow White – long thought lost – was rediscovered when an original nitrate release print was found in Holland in 1992. It has been restored and preserved at the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, NY. Experienced stage and screen actress Marguerite Clark Marguerite, who started in theater around 1900, transitioned to the movie business in 1914 at age 31 after her years on the stage. She retired from the acting profession in 1921 at age 38 when she married. Clark stood 4’10” tall and easily played ingenue roles and romantic leads throughout her several decades in theater and film. Clark has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since its inception in 1960; she was among the very first silent movie stars to be honored. Director J. Searle Dawley’s long-standing friendship with Ted Wharton set the stage for Dawley’s two filmmaking sojourns to Ithaca. During each of his visits – for One of Millions in 1914 and Out of the Drifts in 1916 – Dawley used Taughannock Falls as a backdrop for on-screen drama. Ithaca’s considerable variety of natural landscapes, lakes, gorges, waterfalls, and other visual interest made it a movie-making magnet. The Ithaca area was lovingly captured for the screen with hand-cranked movie cameras (long before the days of electric motor-driven cameras) by producers, directors, and companies of import in these early years of silent cinema. With the Wharton brothers in town, Ithaca’s beautiful landscapes and resources were widely put to use for exciting and pioneering movie-making. Sadly, neither of Dawley’s features nor the 1916 newsreels shot in Ithaca survive today. The vast majority of silent movies have not survived the ravages of time, especially because of the unstable nitrate film stock. Hope springs eternal that Dawley’s Ithaca movies might turn up in an attic or an archive – a dream as yet unfulfilled. Special thanks to historical consultant Terry Harbin (founder of Ithaca Made Movies) for his years of invaluable devotion to Ithaca silent movie history and research, for his sharing of the fruits of his work with everyone, and for his valuable editorial assistance and fine-tuning. Thanks to S.K. List, Gail Dennis, and Naminata Diabate for editorial contributions. All footnotes and references can be found in the online version of this article.

An interview on Ithaca lore and local culture

By Adam Messinger

he Fossil Guy. The Mushroom Guy. Or maybe better known as the Sculpture Head Guy. Jim Sherpa is the man within the white house on Giles St. that keeps watch over Second Dam. Known most for his large sculptures of heads and animals, including but not limited to a lion and a tarantula, along with Bill Murray and Pee Wee Herman, Sherpa contains multitudes and could lay claim to the title of Ithaca’s Renaissance Man. When I first greeted Sherpa at his home, he was working on a painting that, at the time, was just a red circle on a grey slab. He had aspirations to turn it into a Statue of Liberty motif that reflects the current state of America. “I want people to know that ‘Liberals’ stand for liberty—for everyone, even you” he said. “‘Conservatives’ conserve. Everything. For themselves.” Sherpa early on expressed a desire to understand how things work. A former theater

arts major, whose foundational talents led him to where I found him on a sunny Thursday afternoon, quickly launched into a discussion of the local flora and fauna, complete with Latin phrasings. In addition to his artwork that is as much a part of the architecture of the home as the shutters and nailed-on street numbers, Sherpa is an avid explorer of Ithaca’s woods and gorges. He has spent time cataloguing fossils around the area including what he described as our “City Fossil:” the plumalina plumaria. In his pursuits, Sherpa has begun to understand what Ithaca was like long before any of us were around. “I’m just a curious person,” he said. “I like to know things.” A commission-based sculptor, he has spent most of his time recently focused on his other pursuits outside of his art due to the lack of public events for his sculptures to be featured at during the shutdowns. In the past, his work has appeared at Reggae Fest, Carmen Road Artist Quarters (CRAQ), and has been attached to bikes and floats to ride in parades and other events in the surrounding areas. Besides the absence of work, quarantine has been a relatively smooth transition for him. “I’m not particularly overly social,” he said.

Jim Sherpa’s house on Giles Street, featuring his papier mache creations. (Photo by Adam Messinger)

“I’m sociable, but I don’t need to be around a lot of people. So it hasn’t been terrible for me.” During our interview, three cars slowed down to take a picture or to get a better look at some of the work that was on display. The house is almost like a local landmark, its exterior marked with sculptures that lend themselves to creating their own local lore. But Sherpa, instead of leaning into the Boo Radley potential for local mythology, truly cares about the town he lives in and the street he has taken to protecting from people who threaten the natural sanctity by throwing out glass bottles and blocking the sidewalks, making it unsafe for pedestrians. “I just want everyone to have a good time,” he said. “I’m not about hassling. I want everyone to be safe.” Before coming to Ithaca, Sherpa moved to Oswego after leaving his theater arts major early, a decision he admits was a bit of a politicontinued on page 14

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cal statement that he now regrets with a laugh. “It was just a way to stick my thumb up at the system and say ‘I earned it, but don’t need your piece of junk paper,’” he said. “Maybe not my best choice.” Sherpa was drawn to the theater early on. Growing up in Syracuse, he performed in local shows and cabarets put on by his church. “I was much acclaimed for playing crazy people, so I stopped acting when people thought that I was like the people I was playing,” he laughed. “But theater is the closest to my roots that I can get.” After leaving school and moving to Oswego, he lived in a self-described little shack that overlooked a river. The shack had just a wood stove with no running water or insulation, but still possessed a certain charm, according to Sherpa. Before long, Sherpa and a friend of his, nicknamed “Colorblind James,” formed a jug band named “The Water Street Boys” after the little shack in Oswego. The band, which featured Sherpa singing and also playing the washtub bass, was a form of performance art and an expression of Sherpa’s feelings at the time. “I was just a punk kid,” he said. “And me and my friends just scavenged all this sh*t and made everything beautiful out of the most amazing stuff.” Much of Sherpa’s life deservedly belongs in a book. He talked of hitchhiking

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down to New settled in BrookOrleans and tondale in 1989, getting caught in and after a while blizzards before he relocated finding his footto his current ing down south house of iconic and eventually status. bringing down “I love the the Water Street culture and Boys to usher music here,” he in their brand said. “There are of style and so many people performance doing so many complete with good things their Golden and they are so Age-inspired talented.” outfits. In his time, “You can’t he has seen the be involved city of Ithaca with a scene in begin to take New Orleans form with a without it being range of positive Papier mache spider (Photo by Adam Messinger) theatrical,” he and negative joked. “After we effects on the showed up, all community. But the street musiSherpa has alcians started dressing better and making ways remained an integral and unique part a lot more money. This one guy even of the town that seems like an extension of thanked us.” himself and his values. Sherpa eventually ended up in New After years of designing sets for local Mexico, where his adventures continued performance groups like the Kitchen in the form of an escaped kidnapping, a Theatre and Ithaca Ballet, with some of Native American revolt, and residing next the designs beginning to take form on his to a nudist colony. But so begins with any lawn, he was approached by a friend with traveler, life started to take form around a unique request. him. In Sherpa’s case, his daughter was “We need a giant five-foot head of Phil born and he moved back to the east coast Collins,” he said, imitating his friend on with his new family. They eventually the phone. “I said, ‘yeah, so why are you

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calling me?’” Since the Collins head, which was papier-mâché on top of chicken wire, Sherpa has developed his own unique strategy to ensure that the heads stay dry even in the gloomiest and harshest of the Ithaca seasons. He calls it “déJim-mâché” a process similar to papier-mâché that uses old flannel fabric soaked in a mixture of old paint and glue that is layered over the frame to shape the object. Some of the creations light up, slide on cables, and are moveable. “I think most of the time I’m always most proud of the ones I just finished,” he said when asked about which ones are his favorite. “But I’d probably say the lion and Bill Murray overall.” He credits his own version of Bill Murray in “Ghostbusters” as helping him to bring back some of his painting skills that had been lost overtime. Mr. Murray can still be seen on his lawn behind the trees and army of knick-knacks. Even though Sherpa is unaware of the effect he has had on the culture of Ithaca and the association his house and his art have for so many people in their connection to the town, there is a feeling that he will always be here. In some ways Ithaca is Gorges, but also Ithaca is the Mushroom Guy. Ithaca is the Sculpture Head Guy. And Ithaca always will be a reflection of our local lore. From the Twelve Tribes, to the stories of Kurt Cobain’s ashes and Nabokov almost burning “Lolita” on East State St., Ithaca is and always will be our stories.

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“Tigers Are Not Afraid,” a gripping gang-centered horror film. (Photo online)

had not heard of filmmaker Issa López until she was a guest on two of my favorite movie podcasts,

“The Movies That Made Me” and Fangoria’s “Post Mortem,” to promote the DVD release of her first horror film, “Tigers Are

Not Afraid” (2017, Filmadora NacionalPeligrosa, 83 min.) The flick sounded intriguing, so I picked it up and watched it. Working with an ensemble cast of children with little acting experience, López has crafted a gritty, handheld documentary-style street film that might be too tough and heart-wrenching to watch were it not for the touches of magical realism that run throughout. “Tigers Are Not Afraid” is about Estrella (Paola Lara), a young girl living in a city devastated by the Mexican drug wars. Just as a teacher gifts her with three pieces of magic chalk that will grant her three wishes, school is indefinitely suspended. She comes home to find her mother missing, and takes refuge with a gang of street orphans squatting in an industrial warehouse; one of the orphan boys has stolen a gun and iphone from the local crime boss’s top henchman. This cinematic tale is an odd but effective blend of squalor and magic: when Estrella comes home to an empty apartment, a trail of blood like a red cord follows her, a cool surreal touch very reminiscent of Guillermo del Toro. The film works, yes, but my DVD copy didn’t have a Spanish version of the film with subtitles, which I would have preferred, just a version with teenagers dubbing the voices of the much younger kids in the film. There’s a 45-minute behind the scenes documentary showing the filming of the cast using their actual voices that, even on DVD video, has a power that the dubbed soundtrack does not. The “teen”

soundtrack really does harm the film’s potential, so while I’m recommending “Tigers Are Not Afraid,” try to find a version with the original soundtrack. *** “Gretel & Hansel” (2020, Orion-United Artists Releasing, 87 min.) brings a fresh gender take, eerie ambiance and enough story twists to justify yet another version of the Brothers Grimm folk tale. As the title tells, this time the balance shifts towards Gretel (Sophia Lillis, “It Chapter One and Two”), orphaned with her brother Hansel (Sam Leakey). Working from a script by Rob Hayes, director Oz Perkins—son of Anthony Perkins—establishes a grey, forbidding fairytale world that Gretel must make her way through. Perkins is not a fan of coverage and editing, preferring to let his camera follow characters through an environment in long moving masters without cutting, and there are shots of Lillis wandering through the witch’s cottage that are very reminiscent stylistically of Roger Corman’s 1960’s cycle of Edgar Allan Poe films. And let it be said that Alice Krige as the witch is every bit as creepy and disturbing as her turn as the Borg Queen in “Star Trek First Contact” in 1996. Also recommended: “Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything,” “Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis,” “Marc Maron: End Times Fun,” “Have a Nice Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics” and “Bojack Horseman” on Netflix.

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The Wendy Chronicles

Hangar production enjoyable despite tech problems By Barbara Ad am s

n Saturday evening, scenes and passages from the works of playwright Wendy Wasserstein were featured as the Hangar Theatre’s second virtual streaming offering. “Uncommon Excerpts and Others: The Wendy Chronicles” was assembled and co-directed, with Shirley Serotsky, by artistic director Michael Barakiva, who had worked for and was mentored by Wasserstein early in his career. Coming full circle, he noted, as a young Wasserstein herself had been mentored by longtime Hangar artistic director Robert Moss. The show opens with actors reading from the preface to “An American Daughter” (1997) and continues with scenes from that play and more familiar ones––Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Heidi Chronicles” (1988), “Uncommon Women and Others” (1977) and “The Sisters Rosensweig” (1992). There are also selections from letters and essays; these

are mostly read rather than performed from memory by the 15 actors, which has a somewhat distancing effect. The mingling of comic/ dramatic scenes and straightforward, informational and sometimes prosaic prose also keeps us detached, working against an emotional connection. Collaged or fragmentary construction isn’t new, of course, and it’s appearing often lately as a favored structural device in online videos. But rather than creatively juxtaposing, its use here feels more like a commemorative memorial than a cohesive dramatic event. Some scenes are amusing if predictable (“Boy Meets Girl”); others, such as the longer exchange between Heidi and her old friend Peter, achieve real narrative power. Revealed in one extended passage, Wasserstein’s attempts at pregnancy in her 40s and the eventual birth of her daughter are sobering but contrast wildly with the light social wit of other sections––a theatrical smorgasbord where odd combinations

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mash haphazardly. And the content is now also nostalgic. Wasserstein had a prolific and celebrated career up till her death in 2006, at 55, from lymphoma. Born in 1950, she grew up affected by the limiting cultural definitions of womanhood from that generation, which she questioned throughout her work and life. She was a key voice of Second Wave Feminism, and this production immerses us in that world and mindset. It’s like stepping back into the past, which is both interesting and problematic: all the shortcomings of the period are exposed, akin to looking at old photos in which your clothing and hairstyle now seem appalling or ludicrous. As much as I myself enjoyed Wasserstein’s plays as they emerged, speaking to issues of identity and relationships and personal agency, I find they don’t say as much now. Too often the context feels dated; the awarenesses limited; the issues not so consequential. Even the legendary Wasserstein humor doesn’t always work; the topical cultural references seem too easy. And toward the end of the show, Wasserstein’s intentionally hammy version of “Medea” was delivered, with its comical happy ending––full of visual and verbal clichés, it was, well, sophomoric. Also, unfortunately, this production was not as technically smooth as the Hangar’s previous one: The streaming was interrupted a few times for all viewers; the sound from some actors’ laptops was often irritatingly tinny; and despite my access to strong internet, the screen image

ranged from clear to highly fuzzy. Overall, these pervasive technical challenges alone drastically reduced one’s experience––like trying to listen to a favorite sonata while standing in a drenching rainstorm. And doing that for two-and-a-half hours. Still, the Hangar is commendably working to bring artists and their voices to us in this taxing time. Equity actors featured were Ben Cherry, Gisela Chipe, Carol Halstead, Laura Heisler, Linda Marie Larson, Manu Narayan and Shona Tucker. Other cast members, many of them new young faces, included Ranana Chernin, Ann Dang, Sirus Desnoes, Lauren Fraites, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Erin Lockett, Angelica Miguel and Phanesia Pharel. For some, it was their own first exposure to Wasserstein’s work. It always takes a village to raise a production, and right now that village is nationwide: the actors were joining from across the country––California to New York. Beyond location, as the audience, we come to each show with multiple perspectives and personal histories. My own response is unquestionably conditioned by my lived experiences. I do prefer full productions to excerpts. And these days I’m eager for new voices––so am very much looking forward to the Hangar’s next show, on July 11: Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ “Queens Girl in the World.” For Hangar productions: Tickets $20, students $10: (607) 273-ARTS Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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6/26 Friday Stratcat Willie & The Strays Featuring Brian Spencer | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

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Geneva Music Festival Virtual Season - Michelle Cann and Geoffrey Herd on composer Florence Price | 7:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Pianist Michelle Cann and violinist Geoffrey Herd discuss Florence Priceís amalgamation of German romanticism and African American traditional music and dance in creating the unique musical idioms in her Piano Concerto and Five Folk Songs in Counterpoint. Visit genevamusicfestival.com. Ani Kavafian, A Life in Music | 7:00 PM, 6/26 Friday | GMF director Geoffrey Herd sits down with violinist Ani Kavafian to discuss her long and varied career. Kavafian is an artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Professor at the Yale School of Music. She has

performed in many of the worldís great concert halls and has soloed with nearly every major orchestra in the United States. Visit genevamusicfestival.com. Concert in a Car! | 6:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | Dwyer Memorial Park, 6799 Little York Lake Road, Preble | Featuring live music from Charley Orlando, Los Blancos, and Digger Jones. | $40/vehicle Amy Beth Anders Live Stream Concert | 7:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Amy is a singer/songwriter, a classically-trained and jazztrained pianist, classical flautist, and ukulele player whose songwriting combines elements of folk, jazz, rock, pop, and classical music. She will be playing a mix of originals and some covers by musicians who’ve inspired her: Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, and Jackson Browne.

Art EMERGENCE | All Day 6/24 Wednesday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Emergence, an exhibition by eight gallery members, will be online thru June. The gallery is closed until further notice because of COVID-19 but you can see a window exhibition of the participating artists: Mary Ann Bowman, Patricia Brown, Don Ellis, Daniel McPheeters, Diane Newton, Diana Ozolins, Patty Porter, and Nancy Ridenour. Collective Consciousness | All Day 6/25 Thursday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The first virtual art show experience produced by the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts and the Cayuga Arts Collective. The show runs through August 6. Curated by Marina Delaney and Domenica Brockman. Online and Through the Window | All Day 7/1 Wednesday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | ìOnline and Through the Window,î an exhibition of photographs by Jan Kather and David Watkins, Jr. This show is virtual/online. On exhibit is work derived from their studies of the botanical world and natural landscape. View at www.soagithaca.org. July

Virtual Cinemapolis: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things | All Day 6/26 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Tracing the story of Ella Fitzgeraldís life, this documentary film exploreshow her music became a soundtrack for a tumultuous century. (89 mins NR) | 72 hour rental available for $12 1-August 2, 2020. Additional contact info: † www.jankatherphotography. com and http://www.davidwatkinsjrphotography.com Virtual Downtown Ithaca Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 7/3 Friday | Community Arts Partnership, 171The Commons/Center Ithaca, Ithaca | The CAP ArtSpace exhibit will feature Treacy Ziegler and Gary Weisman. There will be online exhibits, plus video and artist talks.

Movies Virtual Cinemapolis: Itís All Right To Be Woman Theater | 7:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | From 1970 ñ 1976 Itís All Right To Be Woman Theater inspired audiences as they performed in non-traditional performance spaces in New York City, traveled to womenís centers, colleges and universities, and were seen on PBS. These eleven women not only developed a new style of experimental theater, but they also contributed to the movement that is now known as Second Wave Feminism. This documentary shows a vitally needed picture of 1970ís, which is now being addressed in the historical record. (86 mins NR) | 5 day rental for $10

Virtual Cinemapolis: The Last Tree | All Day 6/26 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | The semi-autobiographical story of Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. In his teens, Femi is struggling with the culture and values of his new environment. Femi must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London during the early 00s. (98 mins NR) | 48 hour rental available for $10 Virtual Cinemapolis: for they know not what they do | All Day 6/26 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | In the wake of the Supreme Court case legalizing marriage equality, the Right has launched a new campaign to limit the rights of LGBTQ citizens across the country. In collaboration with religious conservatives, politicians are invoking both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution in their arguments for the ëreligious freedomí to openly discriminate. By telling the stories of four families struggling with these issues, FTKNWTD offers healing, clarity and understanding to those caught in

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TCPL Summer Reading Program Launch w/ Moreland the Magician | 2:00 PM, 6/27 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Morelandís Virtual Magic Show is recommended for kids ages 4 through 10; families can register online. This yearís summer reading theme is ìImagine Your Story,î a celebration of fairy tales, folklore, mythology, and sharing your own unique story and voice.

Directing for the Stage - Virtual Workshop | 7:00 PM, 6/25 Thursday | (for 10th Grade-Adult). Lead teacher: Hangar Theatre Associate Artistic Director Shirley Serotsky. An introduction to the rehearsal and production process from the directorís point of view. In 6 sessions, the class will provide an overview of the directorís process through text analysis, exercises, and discussion, and include topics like establishing point of view, communicating with designers, and working with actors. | $75 Special Spring Writes Readings | 7:00 PM, 6/28 Sunday | A Community Arts Partnership virtual event. Local writers and a songwriter/singer will read (and sing) to us via Zoom.† Featuring: Jen Tennant, Dr. Nia Nunn, Melanie Conroy-Goldman, Sorayya Khan, SingTrece & Kenneth McLaurin, Bob Proehl, Emily Sanders Hopkins, and Yvonne Fisher. Visit†http://artspartner. org/content/view/spring-writes to register.

Kids First Aid for Kids | 10:30 AM, 6/25 Thursday | Seneca Falls Library, Online virtual program, Seneca Falls | Prepare kids ages 8-12 for basic first aid emergencies in this 1-1/2 hour

Newfield Library Summer Reading Kickoff: Puppet Palooza | 6:00 PM, 6/30 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Join local puppeteer Scott Hitz, whose work has been featured on Broadway and Sesame Street for this fun-forall-ages virtual event. Please register for this Zoom event.†607-564-3594

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