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ven when the students of Ithaca College and Cornell University are out of town, their massive impact during the school year keeps them on the minds of residents throughout Ithaca.

Never was that more obvious than Wednesday’s Planning and Economic Development meeting, where South Hill residents arrived en masse, armed with pre-written comments that were both extensive and vivid on the creeping student population in their neighborhood.

Residents talked about owneroccupied housing rapidly evaporating from the area, ushering in more and more landlords who consequently bring with them students, most of whom are Ithaca College undergraduates.

Most commenters appeared to consider the recently purchased property at 217 Columbia Street as the neighborhood’s tipping point. The term “student ghettos” was thrown around more than once as well.

An important aspect to note is that most of the residents who spoke at the meeting didn’t seem overtly hostile to the idea of the student presence in the neighborhood, but clearly feel that before more student housing is encouraged, some form of guidelines need to be in place.

PEDC Chair Seph Murtagh and Mayor Svante Myrick both expressed tepid support for a moratorium on all housing until a neighborhood plan is approved.

They noted that enforcing a ban only on “student-focused housing” would be “discriminatory and illegal.” Alderperson George McGonigal also endorsed a possible moratorium, while Alderp ers on C y nt h ia Broc k s a id zoning changes might be a preferable method for fixing the South Hill situation, avoiding a potentially burdensome study process (which would accompany a moratorium) on the city planning staff. continued on page 4

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Scenes from Sunday’s vigils.

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tanding in the echoes of cries for action across the country in the wake of the events taking place in Charlottesville Virginia last weekend, Ithaca took once again to the parks and Commons, but this time striking a different tone.

Gathering nearly 200 attendees at two separate events on Sunday, the vigils for Charlottesville differed from the similar showings of solidarity in the past in that the mix of anger, sorrow and fear mixed into mutual understanding that attendees had to leave geared for action.

“I’m afraid. I’m afraid,” local activist Phoebe Brown said. “That young lady yesterday is dead because we allowed and opened up. All our hands are dirty. We allowed this to happen.”

Calls to action were a plenty, building on a renewed energy and fury being seen across the country since this weekend.

“You’re here because you’re tired of seeing the same results, but I don’t see people doing different things,” Fabina Colon, Director of the Multicultural Resource Center, said.

Most of the speakers of mixed races a nd relig ions pleaded

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with those assembled, whom were largely white, to recognize their privilege and use it to solve instances of racism. Many pointed to local instances of gentrification and recalled their own encounters with racism.

Several other vigils took place across the region as well in Syracuse, Binghamton, Geneva and Hornell over the last few days.

The end of the second vigil in Ithaca ended with the dwindled remains of the original crowd joining hands, some black in white, telling their neighbor what they wished for them and would they would do to insure it tomorrow and onward.

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one will feature hardcovers for $1 each, paperbacks for $0.50 each and all children’s books at half price. The following day, hours will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and work on a Bring Your Own Bag format, with the price to fill a large bag full of books just $2. (A small goes for $1). ▶ The Living Wage Press Conference is coming up.

Alternatives Federal Credit Union will be announcing its 2017 Living Wage Study, including a panel discussion and refreshments at The Space @ GreenStar at 10 a.m. this Friday.

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Relations and Development at Alternatives, will include: • Eric Levine, Acting CEO, General Counsel Alternatives FCU • Megan Ward, A Living Wage employee • Pete Meyers, Tompkins County Workers Center • Deb Dietrich, ED of OAR (a small not for profit that works with formerly incarcerated people) a Certified Living Wage Employer Alternatives released the first Living Wage Study in 1994 and has updated the study biennially.

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PHOTOGRAPHER CrossFamous: Ithaca Resident Places 20th at CrossFit Games

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What is your number 1 tip for returning student drivers?

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“Don’t take anything for granted. Traffic might be alittle different than you remember it!” ­— Gabe Tavares

“Don’t be a jerk! Use your head and we’ll all be just fine.” ­—Kira Royball

“ Good luck finding parking! ” ­—Alen Quints

or some people, one hour in the g ym might not be enough. Or two. Or three.

Perhaps even four isn’t sufficient.

CrossFit athlete—and co-owner of CrossFit Pallas in Ithaca—Tim Paulson needs a little bit more than that. His schedule demands an entire day lifting iron and treading polyurethane, a work ethic that paid off for him earlier this month.

From August 3-6, Paulson competed in the Reebok CrossFit Games, held in Madison, Wisconsin. The games—the sport’s biggest stage—is an international competition featuring athletes from South America to Australia competing in the ten domains of physical competence CrossFit puts emphasis on. To qualify, Paulson advanced through the CrossFit Open, and then the CrossFit East Regional in Albany. Over four days, Paulson worked through and endured each workout, ultimately placing 20th out of 40 competitors in the individual male group. “It was a pretty incredible experience,” says Paulson. “It’s something I’ve been working towards for like five years now, training for it to try and qualify. This was the first year that I was able to do so.”

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The zoning changes, which she said would offer a more efficient solution to the problem than a full moratorium, would include limiting parcels of land to one primary dwelling, and if additional dwelling structures are desired the landowner must apply for a variance. This, Brock said, would give the neighborhood and the city more safeguards against landlords simply building multiple dwellings on a single parcel, turning what might have been a three-person property into far more than that.

The moratorium demanded by the crowd rings a bit familiar to a similarly-intentioned ban (though not at all the same) that was recently extended in the Town of Ithaca, in which

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career as a CrossFit athlete, Paulson, an imposing figure at 6’1 and just over 200 lbs., is also the coowner of the CrossFit Pallas gym with co-owner Eamon Coyne. The 7,000 square foot facility, which is located on Cherry St., is an upgrade from the business’s modest beginnings: a two car garage across the street from Ithaca Bakery. CrossFit Pallas moved into its current location in 2015, having been in the smaller 1,000 square foot gym since October of 2012.

The new facility, which is full service and equipped with locker and accessory rooms, is just one of 10,000 CrossFit affiliates worldwide since the athletic discipline was first developed by Greg Glassman in 2000. “It’s definitely one of the nicer CrossFit facilities in the Northeast,” Paulson says. “It’s something we’re very proud of.”

Though originally from the Philadelphia bedroom community of Media, Pennsylvania, Paulson has been in Ithaca for nearly a decade. In 2012, he earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting with Summa Cum Laude from

Ithaca College, and then graduated with an MBA from IC a year-and-a-half later. During his undergraduate years, Paulson competed on the Ithaca College hockey team where he met Coyne, who introduced him to CrossFit in the spring of 2011. “After I was into it for a few months, it became a competitive outlet,” recounts Paulson, who began his competitive CrossFit career later that fall.

“I was a hockey player for all my life, so once that was out of my life, I wanted something to help replace that, and found competitive CrossFit that way.”

Although CrossFit athletes must be proficient in each of the ten recognized fitness domains, many have certain areas in which they excel. “A lot of CrossFit athletes, you’ll notice, are definitely stronger in a couple categories than others,” says Paulson. “And that’s kind of the fun part about CrossFit: whether you use it as just a general fitness methodology, or

whether you’re trying to compete, you’re always trying to improve all ten.”

This constant desire to advance one’s skills in each of the ten domains is the reason why many athletes find CrossFit so intriguing — it’s the motivating factor in their training: their main adversary is their own selves. “You’re a lways ma k ing progress, but you’re never mastering anything.

And for a lot of people, they like that approach to fitness and life,” Paulson explains.

Paulson is very driven, and his daily schedule, which is nothing short of impressive, is a testament to his motivation. Most days start around 4:30 a.m., his first of several classes coming at 6:00 a.m. before a couple hours of solo training and officework. Then, he’ll typically return to his personal training again in the afternoon. He’ll head home, attend to more business matters, and spend

duplex home construction has been halted as the town’s Planning Committee examines better methods of regulation and oversight for landlords who rent, whether to students or not.

T h e d e v e l o p e r, C h a r l e y O’Conner of Modern Living Rentals, did also address the crowd, in an apparent attempt to extend an olive branch. He said he simply saw the property listed for sale and pounced, and claimed he didn’t know the proposal would ruffle as many feathers as it did.

Next Thursday in City Hall at 5:30 p.m. there will be a meeting held specifically about the project at 217 Columbia, during which O’Conner said he hoped to clear the air between him and some of the neighbors, and indicated a willingness to tweak the plan in the interest of placation.

McGoniga l drew the most

applause of any official addressing the crowd when he castigated Ithaca College for not housing their own students, saying “The best housing for students is on campus,” and noting that Cornell is building more housing while IC has not announced any plans to do so.

There was also some criticism levied at the area’s zoning (R1 and R2 Districts), which allows and even focuses on one- and two-bedroom houses. Jed Sheckler, a resident, said there’s either a problem with the zoning itself, or the ability to enforce it on the part of the city.

“We love the neighborhood, and we want to be able to stay,” he said. “My concern is that I walk and drive through these areas every day, witnessing what’s happening [...] Having read the zoning laws, it feels as if the laws

aren’t being enforced as they were intended or as they exist.”

Another sentiment that was repeated throughout the session was that South Hill residents felt like they had been alerting the city to an increasingly deteriorating situation. One woman, who declined to give her name, was not hopeful about the results of the meeting but spoke emotionally regardless.

“I have been down here so many times, that I’m not optimistic about this. The city gives lip service to neighborhoods [...]

I don’t think any of us are against increased density or trying to make our city a place to accommodate different people. But we don’t have to make it an ugly, uninhabitable place to live.”

Timothy Paulson, during competition.

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Keeping Watch On The Area’s Creeks An extended, more in-depth version of this article appears on Ithaca.com.

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nyone familiar with the issues of nutrient contamination in the waters of Cayuga Lake is familiar with the work of Bill Hecht.

Soaring in an airplane high over the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes, Hecht has gained renown among environmentalists and viewers of environmental report cover sheets for years now, his breathtaking aerial images of the lake’s watershed capturing the awe-striking beauty of the region from on high. But it’s his shots after the rain – when the creeks that feed the lakes are raging – that his most consequential observations are made: the documenting of large amounts of phosphorus and nitrogen-rich sediment from the farms and developments upstream rushing into the lake.

It’s this phenomenon that, in recent weeks, has largely been attributed to a sudden rise in nuisance algal blooms in Cayuga Lake, an international phenomenon that – while not directly correlated with nutrient runoff – has anecdotally been stated as a contributing factor in their presence among those in the scientific community.

The issue is nobody – beyond circumstantial evidence – seems to be able to prove it definitively.

W here A l ga l Bl ooms Come From Though little is known about the biology of the bacteria that make up nuisance and harmful algal blooms – referred to colloquially as HABs and NABs – it has long been a foregone fact that the introduction of phosphorus and nitrogen-rich sediments from agricultural activities up streams play at least a contributing factor in the growth of algal blooms. Similar phenom-

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the evening with his wife, who works as a physical therapist in Elmira. Rinse, repeat.

Paulson’s mindset towards training and conditioning is also very attentive to nutrition. He recently began his diet, which is centered around a “counting your macros” approach – tracking how one’s carbs, fats, and proteins

ena have been recorded in waters from Seneca Lake to the mouth of the Mississippi River, whose upriver agricultural activities have been attributed as the cause of massive, oxygen-deprived “dead zones” created by algal blooms appearing in the Gulf Of Mexico, which have been documented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 1985. (the record, recorded this month by the NOAA, was more than 8,776 square miles in size; roughly the size of New Jersey.)

However, it’s tough to completely attribute algal bloom appearances to the presence of phosphorus despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s own stance that phosphorus is the leading cause of algal blooms: in Owasco Lake, a waterbody similarly troubled with toxic algae for years, phosphorous levels have been below the DEC’s threshold for action even in years when harmful algae has made an appearance.

This presents a frustrating happenstance for observers of nutrient levels in the creeks: they see smoke, they smell smoke but – without the data to prove it – they have no cause to scream “fire.” “That seems like it could correlate, but the data is not there,” said Claire Weston, a community outreach coordinator with the certified lab, the Community Science Center, which monitors nutrient levels in the creeks both regionally and in the south end of Cayuga Lake. “We do data, so we can’t say anything about cause and effect, which is a frustrating situation.”

Yet , for t he hea lt h of t he lake observed by CSI scientists, the question of agriculture as a compounding factor behind the amount of nutrients entering the lake has been observed by CSI as well. Based on a decade of data compiled by the institute, while some locations like the extensively forested and under-developed Six Mile Creek has the lowest level of nutrients out of all the streams, places like Fa ll Creek which, though forested in some places, have higher levels of nutrient runoff and e.coli as monitored by CSI

scientists at 15 locations along its primarily agriculturally-oriented lineations. Then you have locations like Lansing’s Salmon Creek, where runoff and phosphorus content in its waters is largely predicated by rainwater levels, probably because of the “tiling” – a method of planting meant to divert rainwater from the soil and prevent the drowning of crops or muddying the soil – of the farm fields along its route. This phenomena has been proven by the findings of CSI itself, which in a presentation to the community in May showed phosphorus contents of some creeks in the Cayuga Lake watershed to increase up to more than nine times base levels following a storm.

This is particularly bad, Lambert said, in the areas CSI is not monitoring: the land up the lake in Cay uga and Seneca Counties, home to some of the most productive farmland in all of the Northeast. These farms, called Confined Animal Feeding Operations, can have up to 1,600 head of cows confined to small areas that, while highly productive, are regulated by a strong legal framework under New York State Law to manage their manure, store it properly and spread it on the ground as a fertilizer under highly-standardized conditions only the larger farms can afford compliance with. But, somehow, it hasn’t seemed to work. The reason itself goes back nearly 50 years ago to the 1972 passage of the Clean Water Act, when farming activities were considered to be exempt from the law for fear of economic hardship.

break down throughout the day – after having followed a Paleo diet for about two years. Paulson enlists the help of a nutrition coach from Pro Energy Nutrition, whose job it is to write nutrition programming for the CrossFit athlete. “From sun up, to sundown, they tell me exactly what to eat and when,” says Paulson. “It’s all healthy stuff, obviously, but it’s not really a specific diet approach, because athletes eat a lot of carbs.

I eat rice and all that stuff.”

As a CrossFit athlete, Paulson is on the rise. But the sport itself has been growing in prominence as well. Asked about the sport’s upward trajectory, Paulson replied, “Absolutely, the games have been growing. CrossFit, as a whole, and the CrossFit Games, have been growing at a very rapid pace over the last decade or so.”

What’s fueled this growth is the popularity of CrossFit as an every-

Ru noff A n d The Law

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Weston (left) and Penningroth, at CSI’s lab on Brown Road near the Tompkins County Airport.

Though laws at the state level can be made stricter under the law and local governments have the right to pass ordinances limiting the activities of these farms, for political reasons these have largely not come to pass: instead, the state has worked to skirt the pressure through subsidy programs which have increased rapidly in the past three decades.

This has been recognized: Based on several years of research, the DEC is confident “excess nutrients,” aka cow poop from these fields, are a significant if contributing factor behind harmful algal blooms and as such, funding to offset economic hardships incurred by large farms commanded nearly $50 million in the state’s 2017 budget. However, this oftentimes is not enough to keep pace with the volatile nature of the food market. For example: in return for taking 10 percent of their farmable land adjacent to a creek out of production for a summer, they’ll get some sort of kickback for the land they don’t farm. Unfortunately, the federal and state programs in place to do that often can’t keep pace with fluctuations in the market, rendering the subsidy null and void if, for instance, the value of a prospective soy crop outweighs the public subsidy that farmer would otherwise get.

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day fitness regimen, creating a sort of grassroots movement, which the games then gives worldwide representation to. “There are so many people that do and believe in CrossFit now,” Paulson says.

“They love watching the highest level athletes in their sport—in their chosen lifestyle—compete.”

▶ Sunday’s Charlottesville Vigil It’s been a tragic few years in America and, every time something bad happens, the community responds and gathers together to talk it out. But Sunday’s meetings had a different tone than many of the other ones before: where some of these events previous had sadness on display, even, at times, rage and an unwillingness to have a dialogue, Sunday’s seemed to have the attitude of a willingness to work and fully confront the issues that have brought us to where we are today.

To this editorial board, we consider that an astounding accomplishment.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Get ready for a lot of strangers coming to your neighborhood AirBnBs are bound to be POPPIN’ next weekend when all the students move in next weekend. Oh, you forgot, didn’t you? Well we didn’t.

Brace yourselves. ▶ This week’s top stories on Ithaca.com are:

1) Residents of South Hill want a break from students 2) Trumansburg Community Recreation looks for a home 3) Conversations with a winemaker 4) Feed the 5,000 returns to Candor 5) Women’ Swimmin’ to go on despite recent algal blooms

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Affordable Child Care Matters T

Pay equ i t y a n d ch i l d c a r e shou l d ta k e pr ior i t y | By Dav i d S h a pi ro he average household income in Tompkins County is about $53,000 a year.

Families are routinely challenged to make decisions regarding the quality of child care they want for their children, the price they can afford to pay, and the sacrifices they want to make in their own careers.

The right to high-quality child care should be universal, regardless of income, and there are a number of important factors that relate to highquality child care. Child care programs with high outcomes generally have lower child to adult ratios, employ staff that are compensated higher, and ensure the staff receive ongoing training. These programs cost more – sometimes as much as your rent or mortgage payment - and many middle-class families, and those earning less, are forced to settle for programs that do not make the same investments in their programs and staff.

From age zero to three, a child’s brain experiences an incredible degree of development.

The development of the brain is influenced by many factors, including a child’s relationships, experiences and environment. Families that are forced to choose lesser quality programs, simply because of their income, may also be settling for fewer experiences and relationships, and a limited environment to learn and play. This indicates a systematic inequity that demands intervention.

The lack of investment in our child care system also leads to inequity in wages, predominantly for women. According to a 2014 Pew research on social and demographic trends, the

percentage of mothers who stay home with their young children has steadily increased since 1993. This trend, I suggest, is largely due to the rising costs of child care. In Tompkins County, many families are forced to make decisions to keep one parent home, most often the mother.

The decision – to quit a job – often leads to the unintended consequence of being unable to resume a career. Parents returning to the workforce may face bias in the resume review process. Many who return to the workforce after spending several years raising children are often forced to accept entry level positions. This experience, disproportionately felt by women, contributes to the gender pay gap.

The lack of investment in our child care system has other implications related to pay equity for women. The child care industry itself is staffed predominantly by women, and most child care workers are not paid a living wage.

Most child care programs cannot afford to pay a living wage if they also want to provide an affordable service.

Child care in our community is underresourced. In fact, much of the money allocated through our legislature is only in response to New York State mandates. I believe in allocating additional discretionary money into the child care system. If elected, I will pursue an agenda that values women and children and invests resources into the care of children.

David Shapiro is a candidate for Tompkins County legislature and director of Family & Children’s Services in Ithaca.

Ithaca Notes

Bugless Idyll

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t was an outdoor barbecue, where barbecues are best held, made possible by the fact that it wasn’t raining. This was in the Poconos last weekend.

It has rained there a lot there this season, my hosts said. They rented a tent for this bash, just in case.

It has rained a lot here, too. I heard on the radio last week that most of the Finger Lakes region got twice as much rain this July as last, and one particular area – I didn’t catch exactly where – got more rain in July than all of last year. (At least I think this was the report. It was the morning news and, before coffee, I was a little groggy.)

We all know it has rained a lot.

We’ve had flash flooding all around, with the formation of two notable new ponds – one in the middle of the Trumansburg Fairgrounds, during GrassRoots Festival, and one in the parking lot of the Shops at Ithaca Mall, which eventually made its way inside – A little unnatural, they were both widely photographed and posted online.

Downtown has been largely spared, puzzlingly so considering that water seeks low levels, but maybe most of it was absorbed by land in runs downhill.

I live a block from Six Mile Creek downtown, and there’s been plenty of rushing water, but no overf low, nor even close. The parking lot at Weg-

man’s, adjacent to the inlet and low-slung, is prone to flooding, but that hasn’t happened yet either this season.

Proximity to water is often a strong selling point for real estate, but not, historically, in Ithaca’s moistest part, the West End (where Wegman’s abides; near where I do).

The surplus of water below ground in the West End is tough on construction, and for a long time the water above ground was considered unhealthy, a breeding ground for insects and diseases.

Cholera and typhoid are no longer an issue here (they were, even into the early twentieth century), and I wonder to what degree insects were, because they’re not much of a problem now.

I thought about this in the Poconos, because our outdoor party was planned to end before dusk, when (we were warned by our hosts) mosquitoes would make it untenable.

I wondered if the caution was overblown, because in Ithaca we socialize outside on summer nights with nary a mite. I haven’t even thought about mosquitoes in years. And aren’t they more prevalent in low-lying areas with water, like here, than in the mountains?

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The Audacity Of Their Mendacity S Eva luat i ng R ec l a i m New Yor k’s C l a i ms | By D e bor a h Daws on

everal months ago, the organiz a t i o n “ R e c l a i m N e w Yo r k ” appeared in Tompkins County, touting a “New York Af fordabilit y Crisis Report (Tompkins County Edition).” Reclaim’s report asserted that our residents have no more than 11 percent of their gross income left over after paying the costs of waking up in Tompkins County. Reclaim defines these “Wake-Up Costs,” as the total of income, property, sales, and excise taxes, plus basic living expenses like mortgage payments/rent, food, transportation, energy, utilities, and insurance. According to the Report, high “Wake-Up Costs” in Tompkins County are directly attributable to layers of government, bureaucracy, failed policy, and political corruption, presumably in Albany. The Report doesn’t exactly say

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how Albany is responsible for the cost of basic living expenses, but assures us that Reclaim has “synthesized hundreds of studies and data points using a new model to isolate interactions with government” that make it clear that State government is crushing us here in Tompkins County.

Let’s examine one of Reclaim’s oftpublicized examples of what it calls the Affordability Crisis in Tompkins County: a family of four in the City of Ithaca making $92,846 per year. Reclaim has asserted that “a whopping 34 percent” of that family’s income goes to pay its taxes – a burden for which Reclaim blames Albany. However, by Reclaim’s own calculations, over half of that (18 percent) goes to pay income taxes (the lion’s share of which are Federal), and the next largest piece (11 percent) goes

dozen or so industrial-sized citronella candles spread around and about, our party at dusk was a scene of swatting and swearing. We retreated inside in haste. A few guests left altogether.

I heard someone at a car door yell, “Quick, let me in!” like at a zombie apocalypse. Of course, this was perhaps appropriate, because technically, like zombies, mosquitoes eat you.

I remember a Richard Pryor routine with him portraying a character called Mudbone, an old man from the Mississippi delta, talking about floods, saying that when there’s enough of it, you can’t stop water from going where it wants to. We re-learn this periodically in our region, and I guess it is true for much of nature, like mosquitoes at barbecues.

I once heard another comic define nature as anything that, if it got into your house, you would kill. This is a little harsh for Ithaca, so let’s say

would remove.

Ithaca is a benign place. We have no hurricanes, tornadoes, mudslides, earthquakes, droughts, killing heat, crippling blizzards, or widespread floods. There’s no cholera or typhoid anymore. Predatory wildlife keeps its distance. There are barely any insects biting us.

Driving home from the Poconos, I hit thick mountain fog and pelting rain at the start, before miles to go for Route 81, or even 380. I steered through it with itchy, blood-sucked arms. I thought maybe next year this party should be in Ithaca, our bugless, blessed idyll.

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College Prep ATI launch (8/9/17, A By The Books Approach To Re-Entry). For readers not familiar with CIU, our new College Prep ATI (Alternative to Incarceration) is a collaboration between OAR, City of Ithaca Courts, Tompkins County Probation, T-S-T BOCES and TC3. The program is open to any formerly and currently court-involved person.

To the best of my knowledge, this is the only Alternative to Incarceration program in NYS (and possibly the nation) where a city court considers college preparation and college enrollment in lieu of community service and, in some cases, in lieu of incarceration. As the article pointed out, court-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals who attend college rarely return to prison. Additionally, CIU students typically choose Human Service careers with significant community giveback.

We are pleased to announce that this Fall 2017 semester, 27 CIU students will attend college, primarily at TC3. All 12 students who completed this summer’s College Prep ATI will enroll, six this Fall 2017 and six for the Spring 2018.

This semester, five CIU students will receive TC3’s Pathways Scholarships granting $1,750 to full-time students over four semesters.

This ground-breaking work has been made possible through the generous support of the Division of Criminal Justice Services, the Schaef fer Family

Death Of A Student

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he summer of 2017 is about to come to an end.

Every summer in August, I meet and have dinner with my educator friends. We talk about the previous school year’s ups and downs. Always, in the conversation the sad stuff comes up. The students who died. Their loss is always felt for the remainder of the school year. Their memory strong, like their still ours until the school year ends. Then we let them go, but never forgotten.

Then the conversation shifts to the current summer. I hold my breath hoping that while I was out of town nothing tragic has happened to a student.

As I sit with a fella educator, I learn that a student I met this past year while subbing in a local high school, just died in an accident. The minute I hear his name, like in a school photo, I see his face. I remember talking to him in the school’s cafeteria. We engage in small conversations, about school and his interests. I’m lucky.

Over the years, I can remember the students I’ve lost. Each time a new name gets added, all the other student’s losses come crashing into my mind. I feel quiet inside. It makes me want to go for a long walk and sit alone. There are no words.

After my evening with friends, I drive home, past Cayuga Lake and I think of this young man and I’m sad.

Sad for all the students who cross our path as educators, for too brief a moment.

–Debra Silva-Rivera, Ithaca

To Clarify...

College Initiative Upstate (CIU) staff and students send sincere thanks to the Ithaca Times for covering our

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.

Foundation, the Legacy Foundation, with additional contributions from TCAT, DSS Child Protective Unit and local businesses including Cinemapolis, Dunkin’ Donuts, Ithaca Bakery, Starbucks, Tops and Walmart.

Benay Rubenstein,

–Benay Rubenstein Director , College Initiative Upstate, a project of OAR

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to property taxes, which are largely driven by the fact that around 60 percent of the City’s real property is owned by tax-exempt entities. Reclaim also calculates that basic liv ing expenses will eat up anot her 63 percent of this Ithaca family’s income, and implies that this is also the fault of government. However, the biggest single chunk of basic living expenses is a mortgage payment or rent, which is often 25 percent or more of gross income. In the City of Ithaca, these costs are driven by location, scarcity, and the upward pressure on real estate prices and rents created by market demand attributable to CU and IC students and faculty – although Reclaim fails to even mention these factors.

In June, Reclaim began targeting Tompkins County government as well as Albany.

In a blog post on its website, Reclaim asserted that county officials were “trampling” the rights of towns and their residents by imposing (or extending) a moratorium on natural gas in Lansing. So let’s get our facts straight here: yes, there is a moratorium on new natural gas hook-ups in Lansing, but it was initiated by NYSEG and approved by the Public Service Commission because of a gas pressure/reliability issue that arises on high demand days. One possible solution to the pressure issue was the West Dryden Pipeline proposed by NYSEG, a proposal that has been vigorously resisted by the Dryden residents who would be directly affected by its construction – not by County Legislators. The County’s Energy and Economic Development Task Force issued its Final Report in June 2016, and urged NYSEG to find another solution to the gas pressure issues in Lansing, one that did not require a pipeline. The Task Force Report did not push NYSEG or the PSC to extend the ban on natural gas in Lansing.

These facts about the natural gas ban were reported in a June 28 post on Ithaca. com. Nevertheless, Reclaim’s “Southern Tier Regional Director,” George Phillips, submitted a Guest Opinion (“Natural Gas Ban Will Hurt Lansing”) which ran in the July 26 issue of the Ithaca Times. Phillips’ article stated that “[t]he County’s Energy and Economic Development Task Force (EEDTF) have called on New York State’s Public Service (PSC) to extend a moratorium on natural gas going to these new homes [in Lansing].”

Just in case you and/or Mr. Phillips missed the correction of his false narrative that appeared on Ithaca.com on June 28, the Ithaca Times published a correction in its August 2 edition, stating that “[t]he Task Force simply agreed with the state extension of the moratorium while it pursued alternatives to the West Dryden Pipeline: it did not specifically call for one.” However, the August 2 edition of the Lansing Ledger carried a Letter to the Editor (“Natural Gas Ban is Albany, County Putting Politics Before Local Community”), from Mr. Phillips, which was virtually identical to the Op-Ed in the July 26 Ithaca Times, and made the same false assertion that the EEDTF had called on the PSC to extend the Lansing gas moratorium. (Editor’s note: Th e

Due to an internal miscommunication, a correction in The Times was not passed along to the Lansing Ledger – we regret the error.)

At this point, can there be any doubt that Mr. Phillips and Reclaim are willfully lying about the EEDTF’s role with respect to the gas moratorium?

There are plenty of problems with the availability and distribution of natural gas hook-ups for new construction throughout Tompkins County, and I acknowledge that these problems will be difficult to solve, in part because they have become extremely politicized. Any path to a solution must star t w it h t he fact. Natura l gas moves through Tompk ins Count y from south to north, so, on high demand days, heavy gas use south of Lansing, and particularly in the Town and City of Ithaca, drains gas pressure in Lansing. The West Dryden Pipeline offered a possible solution, but the Town of Dryden doesn’t want a pipeline, and even Reclaim would seem to agree that the Town has the right to say no. The County’s EEDTF urged NYSEG to come up with a “non-pipe” solution, and it has: on July 19, NYSEG filed a petition with the PSC to construct a natural gas compressor pilot project in Lansing that would address pressure and reliability issues for existing natural gas users.

The petition states that, if it is approved, “NYSEG will issue a Non-Pipe Alternative RFP which will seek proposals to address not only the pressure/reliability issues present in the area, but also address the pending demands for additional gas in the area, as well as to allow for additional future growth in gas utilization in the area.” Meanwhile, the existing gas moratorium does not preclude new residential development in Lansing, which can be built using heat pumps.

A recent study commissioned by the Park Foundation and the Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County concludes that using heat pumps in residential construction is not significantly more expensive in the short term, and is more efficient and less expensive over the long term.

There is no doubt that Tompkins County is moving through a problematic transition period in its energy economy. False narratives propounded by a clearly politically motivated organization like Reclaim New York do not serve to facilitate solutions.

Despite Reclaim’s wont to describe itself as a “non-partisan” organization, it clearly has a partisan agenda.

One of its tax returns lists Steve Bannon, members of the Mercer family (major financial supporters of Ted Cruz and Rob Astorino), and Tom Basile (former Executive Director of New York’s Republican Party) among its officers and directors. Its website blog posts relentlessly attack the Democratic leadership in Albany and elsewhere around the State. It has proven itself to be a less than honest source of information about Tompkins County government.

Please evaluate its narratives in the context of its agenda and its leadership.

Deborah Dawson is a Lansing resident and a candidate for the Tompkins County Legislature.

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t was a warm, quiet late summer night last Thursday on West State Street, a muted hum of conversation coming from the window of a street-facing apartment. A car alarm sounded at one point, though it was soon silenced. Dog walkers abound traipsed down the sidewalk and, near the intersection, glasses clink from The Rook.

The normal “bar dump” crowd filtered through the area around 1 a.m., cackling with laughter among each other. A short time after, a man stumbled from a doorway across the street to the bike-rack outside of Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS) making a clumsy, half-hearted attempt to steal a locked-up bike before conceding defeat and wandering away, meandering past a small group chatting over cigarettes on the corner; a plume of smoke perpetually rising above them.

“She’s turning tricks,” says one man as he passes, pointing to a woman climbing silently into a car that had pulled over.

All in all, it was a fairly peaceful evening,

perhaps one of the more tranquil the neighborhood has seen this summer. It painted a prettier portrait than the raucous environment presented at a June 26 meeting at the Kitchen Theatre, just steps down the block.

Organized by some members of the community, the meeting was attended by about a dozen local business owners and residents, along with Common Council member Seph Murtagh, two members of the Ithaca Police Department (Including Acting IPD Chief Pete Tyler), the Mayor’s Chief of Staff Dan Cogan and Tammy Baker, of Family and Children’s Services. Bill Rusen, the CEO of CARS, was also there as a community representative. It served as part gripe session, part brainstorming discussion about addressing the neighborhood’s problems that some of the community attendees’ felt had worsened, with only the impending colder weather as relief in sight.

Two primary sentiments arose in that neighborhood meeting: they were tired of the constant problems, fed up with feeling like they were shouldering much of the bur-

den. But they were also anxious about what could come if they did nothing; a further escalation of the issues on the corner possible if they continued unchecked.

It’s not as if there has been a sea change of some sort that brought about the neighborhood’s current situation, or that city and police officials haven’t had ample time to react. John Tadros, owner of John’s Convenience Store, said the area has been perpetually troubled since he moved in 17 years ago, subject to frequent visits by local law enforcement or emergency services responding to everything from nuisance calls or open container violations to more serious incidents, like assault or overdoses.

“It’s overdue, believe me,” Tadros said of the more vocal, recent community backlash to the criminal element. “We were planning on writing something to the Mayor [...] They said they were going to do their best. Something has to get done, because it can’t keep going like this.”

Since the beginning of 2014, Tompkins County Dispatch has registered 242 calls to

respond to two addresses associated with the corner of State and Plain, 90 of which came between January 1st to July 8th in 2017. The most common reasons for the calls are listed as trespassing and harassment, IPD chalking up the rest to the use or sale of drugs, the open consumption of alcohol, fights and prostitution stemming from activities within a two to three block range from the State and Plain intersection.

At the Kitchen Theatre, Managing Director Stephen Nunley said the biggest concern – beyond the obvious need for his patrons’ safety – is a need for people to feel comfortable while coming down to enjoy a show, especially since he caters to an older crowd. Nunley recently had two audience members retreat back into the lobby of the theater after a show, unnerved by a scuffle taking place across the street.

Other times Nunley, who first aired his grievances at the June meeting of the Common Council, has had to convince drinkers to leave the sidewalk in front of the theater, mentioning he once called the police after

One troubled corner is growing in popularity.

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finding someone unconscious behind his building. The community meeting provided him with some clarity as to the attitude of his neighbors, knowing that he wasn’t the only person who was noticing the disturbances.

“Everybody seems to be on the same page, but nobody knows quite what to do,” Nunley said. “We all feel like it’s getting

spot across Route 13,” Nunley said, sounding hopeful. “Those are reputable business moving into this neighborhood, which is a good thing [...] You just don’t want people scared to come down here.”

Lila Donaruma owns The Rook Bar and Restaurant on West State Street, which opened in early 2016. Her business is in position to be most affected by the outdoor

hours by closing one hour earlier on weekdays and shutting down entirely for weekends. One local hair stylist, who preferred to keep their business’ name out of the story, locks their doors during appointments.

Acting quickly to react to the June 26 meeting, Tyler circulated an internal email the next day to all the officers in IPD, laying out a new strategy for the neighborhood and

fect, as police response and presence in the wake of the meeting was universally praised by business owners surrounding the area with particular thanks to Tyler, who spent an hour the day of the meeting on the street in the neighborhood talking to people. The praise comes with a caveat, though: while police may be there more often, sometimes all that means is the crime hides for a little

to the point where something worse could happen.”

This is the quagmire the community, the government and the police find themselves in. The area has significant crime issues that belie its size, hurting business and upsetting residents. But, anecdotally, it’s also not accurate to characterize the block as a warzone to be avoided at all costs. Plenty of people still catch a show at the Kitchen Theatre, grab a drink at The Rook, or schedule a session at the Hands of Fate Tattoo Parlor.

The community’s urgency, rather, is about stopping the situation at its head in order

street activity, with table seating out front of the restaurant that Donaruma said she has considered putting away due to consistent problems that occasionally add up to an unsettling atmosphere for her diners.

Donaruma knows people who feel unsafe enough to avoid the area, and there have been times when she will tend to needs in the restaurant’s outside section herself because she doesn’t want to send her employees outside. Despite the cops’ advice, she usually doesn’t call them when she has problems, opting instead to shoo people away herself from the front of the restaurant

issuing a four-week challenge to the ranks.

“For everyone in uniform, taking a few minutes each shift to have a visible presence in the area,” Tyler’s email said. “By that, I mean parking and walking in and around the State and Plain area to include alleyways, etc. Taking a zero tolerance approach to violations, but a tolerant and outgoing approach to everything else. Talk to pedestrians, business owners and if you don’t know people, introduce yourself.”

The email further states that it is an opportunity to address a “very visible problem in this city that will take every officer from

while, ducking into a hidden corner or behind a building, only to re-emerge when all is clear.

IPD is, by its own admission, stretched thin. A banner was recently hung outside of headquarters bellowing for new applicants, serving as much to invite resumes as an indirect confirmation of rumors that the department is not operating at nearly full capacity.

IPD officer and spokesperson Jamie Williamson said the department is at “Mission Critical,” meaning they can only scrape together enough manpower to provide the

to reverse course on the fate of the neighborhood, taking advantage of the increased economic interest that has begun to trickle into the other end of the neighborhood that will ensure the long-term viability of the burgeoning economic corridor on West State Street.

“Holt Architects is now in this block, and Elmira Savings Bank just opened up that

if it becomes too unruly.

The situation has led to problems for other businesses as well; Nunley said this summer there have been two incidents of car burglaries in the Kitchen Theatre’s parking lot, inspiring him to look into adding additional lighting around the outside of the building or the parking lot. Tadros decided to curtail his convenience store’s business

the top down to stabilize.” Tyler encouraged his officers to be creative when patrolling the area, specifically citing the presence of K9 units and bicycle officers as especially capable of influence in the area.

“Staff, you are authorized to do whatever you think is appropriate to have an impact,” Tyler wrote.

The new initiative seemed to have an ef-

“bare minimum” of services to the city they’re charged with serving. Four officers are currently in field training, two are on long-term disability leave and four spots are entirely empty, leaving the department with just 59 available police officers – 10 bodies shy of their staffing appropriation and 15 percent short of a full force.

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services to one specific person or one specific group, all because of our staffing crisis,” Williamson said. “The public deserves more, the public demands more, and rightfully so. We just don’t have the resources right now to give them what they deserve and what they demand.”

Murtagh, who represents the Second District where the neighborhood is, said the police staffing issues date back to around 2012, when the nationwide recession truly caught up to Ithaca. At that time, nine police officer positions were cut from the funding appropriation for IPD, which the department has gradually gained back over the last five years, most of which came when Mayor Svante Myrick issued the “Plan for Excellence in Policing” in 2014, which included six new police officer additions. Even then, the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association was sharply critical that the new positions were only recouping what they had lost two years prior.

Complicating the matter, Murtagh said, is the high cost of hiring extra police officers. He said one of the main ways to free up money would be to increase property taxes, a move that would seem toxic in a city with an already-high cost of living and a citizenry prone to pounce in anger if housing becomes less affordable.

After a shooting on the Commons in April followed by two robberies elsewhere downtown the following week, Tyler announced a redoubling of the police’s presence on the Commons and around the center of the city. But until they made enough noise to get a sit-down meeting, people in the State-Plain neighborhood – just three blocks down from the city’s soul – felt forgotten.

“Something happens on the Commons, and there’s all this political pressure,” Murtagh said, referring to the different reactions when things happen on the Commons versus away. “Then the police say ‘Okay, we’re going to focus on the Commons.’ But then things are still happening elsewhere.”

Williamson acknowledged that some residents around the city might feel as if they don’t get the same amount or quality of police protection as places like the Commons, which serves not only as the economic engine but the aesthetic face of Ithaca.

One oft-repeated point throughout the reporting of this story is that frequently, the problems don’t emanate solely from people who actually live in the buildings or blocks that are the focus of their ire. One resident, who chose to remain anonymous, has dealt first-hand with much of the problems as-

sociated with living there – people jumping through his yard while attempting a speedy getaway, late night screaming matches outside his windows, finding needles. Still, he walks through the neighborhood every day, usually making some type of short but amiable conversation as he passes people hanging out on the stoop or standing on the curb.

There’s a few bad apples, of course but, for the most part, the community and the police blame the trouble on people from out of town or other parts of Ithaca drawn to the neighborhood due to its reputation, thinking they have a spot to drink and carouse without much interference. It’s an unfortunate self-fulfilling prophecy: as the reputation grows, more people flock to the area and eventually cause problems if they come for the wrong reasons.

While Williamson said the neighborhood around Plain and State Street has historically been a priority area for local police officers, it is not the most popular visit for officers; that ignominious title belongs to the East Hill area and Cornell, though those calls are mostly parking violations or loud parties. The question of why the area is marred by drugs, drinking and fights seems to have a different answer depending on who’s being asked. Williamson calls it the “million dollar question” and said if police knew the true roots, they would have put a stop to it long ago. Some locals argue area housing reform is needed, others think it’s just happenstance – if it wasn’t happening in that neighborhood, it would be in another. The vulnerable population that some of West State Street’s entities attract, such as those who are clients of CARS, Tompkins County Social Services and the Southern Tier AIDS Program, also may factor in.

Future solutions, too, are unclear. Ithaca’s cold winters mean a less than hospitable outdoor environment for public drinking and the like, but when the seasons turn and the weather warms up again, what then?

And while the police’s efforts and receptiveness have seemed successful to a certain extent, it’s tough to imagine the department being able to sustain an increased focus on the Commons, a more community-based approach in the two-to-three block radius around West State Street and Plain Street, and the strain that comes along with the incoming 30,000 students merely weeks away from descending on the city.

The neighborhood-wide game of cat and mouse will continue for the foreseeable future.

A look at Saltonstall’s upcoming open house

By Christie Citranglo

A haven for artists began with raw ambition.

Constance Saltonstall, a photographer and visual artist in Ithaca, sought to create a foundation in the community that would allow artists to retreat and meditate on their works. The benefits of having a space to be creative without the distractions of day jobs, everyday chores or responsibilities itself seemed like a far off dream, but Saltonstall yearned for its inception.

About one year before she died, Saltonstall sat down with her childhood friend and her lawyer to create a foundation for the arts in Ithaca. In creating the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Saltonstall focused her energy on a residency — so much so that she built the main house a year and a half before her passing in 1995. A cash endowment, her house and 200 acres of property went into the founding of the organization.

When the foundation took off in 1996, artists from the New York area began to apply for the summer residency program. Completed through a process of blind jurors, five artists become residents each month between May and September. This gives each participant the opportunity to tackle daunting projects, completely isolated from the distractions that likely hinder them.

Each month, Saltonstall welcomes artists from a range of disciplines. In August, the foundation featured two writers — prose writer Elisabeth Anton and poetry writer Kit Frick— photographer Allison Beondé and visual artists Kit Warren and Lesley Wamsley. The upcoming open house will showcase the works of these artists, beginning with readings from the authors and finishing with an open gallery.

“The open houses are a newer thing; they’re definitely an institutionalized public program,” said Lesley Williams, executive director of Saltonstall. “And it’s really the only opportunity we have to show the public what we do and what happens here.”

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A mystery brews in the sands of New Mexico. Since 1947 and resurfacing in the ’70s, the UFO sighting in Roswell has been buried in rumors and conspiracy theories. Several stories and newspaper clippings capture different narratives, and the only truth is that there may not be any truth.

Photographer in residence Allison Beondé’s collection of works titled 1947 Roswell is an experimental documentary using stills from Roswell, New Mexico, and other parts of the country. The images stand in for what happened — or may have happened — during the Roswell incident.

“I’m pretty interested in these small journalistic stories and small moments that sort of become national news, or things that become local mythologies,” Beondé said. “My most recent work is based on the Roswell UFO incident in the 1970s and the young couple who supposedly saw the UFO crash. I’m not taking the sci-fi route, but I’m following the narrative of the couple over the course of about a year.”

1947 Roswell relies on abstraction to propel the narrative forward. The photographs on display are nearly as ambiguous as the UFO sighting — a different take on a part of history most people are a bit familiar with. The mythology comes to life and Beondé embraces mystery, yet the reality of the city of Roswell remains constant.

For many of the photos, Beondé relied on a camera she built herself. It resembles the structure of a box camera, designed in such a way that she could easily pack and assemble the camera outdoors, on-site. The images were made by “directly exposing the photographic

paper to the light within the camera and processing in the darkroom,” Beondé said.

In addition to her snapshots, Beondé also incorporates vintage photos from Roswell.

Small, black-and-white images of shacks and cars are mixed with the blue skies and sienna sands: the current reality weaved into the mythological past.

“Bringing in past imagery with new imagery and mixing it with abstraction — that sort of has a more metaphorical meaning behind it and is produced on site,” she said. “It just felt really organic to work with different imagery and convey sort of the bigger contexts that I was thinking about it.”

Beondé continued her work on 1947 Roswell during her time at Saltonstall, and her photos will be on exhibition at the open house. She’s also been working on a small book for this documentary, serving as a gallery of her photos.

“I’m doing a lot of image work now to try to convey the physical objects on paper,” Beondé said. “There’s a lot of work that goes into taking a physical object, making it digital and making it feel physical again.”

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Science, art and words swirl together — not only in the mind of artist Kit Warren, but also on microscope slides in laboratories.

Warren works on canvasses, but she works with tiny subjects. Her paintings zoom in on what would be seen under a microscope. Tiny golden dots morph together to create a large image, splattered with a mix of bright colors in the background.

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From top to bottom (Photos provided by Allison Beondé): A skyline shot from “1947 Roswell”; A billboard moves the Roswell narrative forward, capturing mystery; A dog and a horse in the fields of New Mexico; Beondé sets up her self-designed camera.

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to no mention of alumnae or current female students within the university’s history. Writer Elisabeth Anton sought to change that.

An alumna from Yale University, Anton was disappointed in her alma mater for the lack of representation of women in its history.

“I got the idea at one of my Yale reunions: they had a whole big table of Yale paraphernalia and they had all these books — like big history books, coffee table books — about Yale,” Anton said. “There were about eight, and I was leafing through all of them when I noticed there was not one mention of women in any of them. I thought it wasn’t possible, but it was.”

Anton is in the process of bringing awareness to the women in Yale’s history. Her nonfiction project aims to celebrate 50 years of women at Yale. She will be focusing on campus life and huge historical events, mixing together newspaper clips and interviews with alumnae.

“Younger generations of women don’t fully realize the kinds of sacrifices women have made to get where we are,” Anton said. “And where we are isn’t that far.”

Along with Anton, another writer in residence, Kit Frick, will also be doing a reading at the open house. Frick is currently living in Brooklyn and is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Echo, Echo, Light and Kill Your Darlings, Clementine. Frick is the author of the young adult novel See All the Stars, and she will be writing a second young adult novel that will be published in 2019.

Frick is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and she received her Bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and she also received an MFA from Syracuse University. Frick has a strong background in editing as she is a Senior Editor at Black Lawrence Press.

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“I’m working on a different sort of body of work, which is instead of using lines in words it’s golden, little dots,” Warren said. “These paintings are smaller and much more lyrical. They are vaguely map-like.”

While at Saltonstall, Warren continued to work on her microscopic paintings, but she also took the time to experiment with text on large canvasses. One of her latest pieces combines the words and phrases her Facebook friends have posted online, playing on casual conversation in the context of politics and Warren’s everyday life.

“I’m not a psychologically oriented painter: I don’t think of it in terms of feelings or showing how I’m feeling,” Warren said. “I approach it more as thinking about the world. Instead of expressing an emotion about something, I’m often taking a thought or an idea and kind of working around that: I’m thinking about it visually with marks and strokes.”

Warren has taken her background as a child of science and applied it to her work — perhaps not in the psychological sense, but in the sense of her details.

“All of my work is so slow because it’s so detailed,” Warren said. “And overall, arts and sciences are pretty close.”

In addition to Warren, another visual artist in residence at Saltonstall is Lesley Wamsley.

Wamsley’s work, like Warren’s, focuses on the tiny details. In her series Likeable, Wamsley crafts images of braided hair strung together with ribbons but detached from a body. Each strand of hair is visible in the works: a microscopic look on a canvas that appears to be close up.

Both Wamsley and Warren will be featured at Saltonstall’s open gallery.

Saltonstall Open House will take place from 2-4 p.m.

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Saltonstall also offers a do-it-yourself retreat program for New York artists between October and April.

There is no application process. If interested, email a statement of purpose to artscolony@saltonstall.org with preferred dates and studio/apartment.

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he city of Ithaca is nestled between two campuses: Cornell University and Ithaca College meaning that it is surrounded by two cultural and political incubators.

There are certain advantages of moving into a college town, other than bars providing cheap drinks. One of the best things about living in a college town is all the free — or at least very accessible — concerts, and performances and access to political panels and discussions that are available not only to the students but their residents of the town as well.

Concerts

Ithaca College first started out as a music conservatory, and today, the Whalen School of Music is ranked as one of the best in the country. Every week, the school hosts free concerts featuring performances ranging from the classical Symphony Orchestra to string quarters and jazz bands. One of the more popular performances is the Gamer Symphony Orchestra, which takes music from video games and turns them into classical music. The ensemble’s goal has always been to bring video game music to a wider audience and show it as a legitimate art form, according to the Orchestra’s website.

There is a full listing of concerts for the upcoming year on the Whalen’s School of Music concert calendar. Most concerts continue well into the fall because of the various music summer camps held at the college.

Cornell’s Department of Music also hosts concerts throughout the academic year around the campus’ various stages and chapels. All of these performances are free and open to the public unless stated otherwise. The department also hosts a Visiting Artist Program that allows the community to experience a variety of musicians from all over the country — and sometimes even international performances — right in Ithaca.

Theater and Stage Performances

Dillingham Theater houses the Department of Theater Arts at Ithaca College.

With three stages to showcase students talent the department continuously has performances, but Throughout the year it features six Main Stage productions.

Every year there are three performances per semester. In the fall there are two plays and a musical, and in the spring there are two plays and an opera. Some of the featured performances of the year are Angels in America , a Pulitzer Prize winner for drama in 1993 subtitled “a gay fantasia on national themes;”; In the Red and Brown Water, the story of a girl becoming a woman using the Bourbon iconography of West Africa; and Cendrillon, the opera version of Cinderella.

Season passes for main stage productions cost $42 for the general public, but there is discount packages available for senior citizens, alumni, faculty, and staff. Tickets and events can be found on the department’s website.

Dance companies at Ithaca College also make use of the Dillingham stages for their show cases as well as host dance recitals throughout the semester.

Cornell University has its own theater arts season at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, but the center is for so much more than theater. It is Cornell’s prime arts hub, hosting a variety of not only stage performances but also film screenings, dance recitals, and conferences throughout the year.

In the fall, audiences can expect plays that resemble current day political climates such as Hamlet Wakes Up Late, and discussions on contemporary black media.

A complete list of performances as well as ticket sales is on the center’s website.

Forums and Politics

Both Cornell and Ithaca College are very politically active campus’ and are continuously featuring authors, political speakers, panels, and artist to engage the campus in political discussions and figure out how to address issues such as race, class, policy and media issues today. All opinions are welcome, and both schools host a variety of people to talk on the subject. Most of these events are open to the public unless stated other wise.

Most events will begin to roll out at the semester begins, but some departments are already setting up talks for the fall like the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives at Cornell. On Sept 12, the Office will be hosting “Saving the Dream for All,” a secure on how the law is a power weapon to create racial inequality or equality in the United States.

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here are few things more crucial than knowing where to get a good cup of coffee— like maybe what hospital to go to when a person if over caffeinated. Ithaca has a great selection and variety of coffee shops and coffee suppliers around the town.

Most coffee shops in and around the Commons, Downtown area or Collegetown feature coffee sold by local vendors such as Gimme Coffee, Copper Horse Coffee or Forty Weight Coffee. All three companies import their coffee beans from places like Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Guatemala and roast their beans to the body and toast they want them to have. The preparation of the coffee is essential, however, and every shop has its vibe and buys its selection of roasts that make all shops in and around town something unique.

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For a hipster vibe, yet a traditional and bolder taste Press Bay alley is a great mix of a sophisticated space and a strong cup of coffee.

This is an ideal place for those who like more of a bitter than a sweet cup. Their espresso is one of the better made and served ones in the area. It brings out the flavors of the coffee and can have you wired and ready for the day for hours. It is one of the few places that serves it’s espresso with carbonated water on the side for a consumer to clean their palette before having the coffee: this highlights the taste of the very strong brew.

The caffeinated Instagrammer would find themselves at home at Catty Chatty Coffee and Juice Co. The quaint shop on Eddy Street in Collegetown is bright, orange, and picture perfect. The coffee itself it bold without being bitter and is served in a variety of creative ways. It is the only place to make an Iced Cappuccino that does not water down the foam or the coffee itself.

A standard order at Catty Chatty Coffee Co. (Photo: Isabella Grullon Paz)

If you’re looking for something more homemade, Dolce Delight up Danby Road is a perfect cozy spot. They have a rotating selection of coffees from Gimme, Keuka Coffee Roasters, and their own Dolce Roast. It is a great spot for long-winded conversation over breakfast sandwiches and “pretty mugs” of coffee. The shop gives you a mug where you can pick your coffee of choice. The elections vary in body, taste and roast branding from medium roast with chocolate undertones to light roast with vanilla and fruity tastes.

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you can dish out any work that needs to get done without being bothered. It also has a tattoo parlor in the back if someone is feeling extra creative. The great thing about The Shop is that they have traditional drinks like a Macchiato, Espresso or Americano, but also give customers the chance to add flavor shots and mix and match to create drinks right at the counter. It pleases both traditional drinkers and the new wave of flavorful drinkers.

For the on-the-goer, Short Stop deli provides a variety of different coffees from all over the world. Do not let the convenience store appearance to fool you; it is one of the only places it town to have certified Colombian coffee, and they do a great job of brewing it too. The deli takes conveience store coffee and sandwiches to the next level, giving you a hometown feel and price but with a great taste. Your morning quicky doesn’t have to be accompanied by tasteless coffee.

The classic yet humble coffee connoisseur would appreciate the Coal Yard Cafe, a rocker-house vibe on Maple Avenue.

It’s sort of a hidden gem, that doesn’t stick out, which just makes it all the better. The Cafe comes with an espresso bar and is the only shop in town that makes their drinks with in traditional Northern Italian style.

The Cafe also has a selection of sandwiches, creative salads and weekly dinner special from 5-8 p.m.

Clockwise: The interior space at The Shop, an overview of the coffee station at the Coal Yard Café, a typical coffee cup at Shortstop Deli and a lux breakfast order at Dolce Delight.

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For those who like some variety, the broadest selection of caffeinated drinks can be found at Collegetown Bagels. Good if you’re looking for something a little more elaborate, this Ithaca standby has a ton of creativelynamed drinks to choose from (and if you’re looking for a snack on the side.).

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Ithaca’s Secrets The area has lots of secret spots to explore

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Ithaca, for instance, has plenty of them, ranging from the innocent (a particular hotel in town – not saying who – having the best fish fry in town) to the downright macabre (Cornell’s collection of human brains in the basement of Uris Hall comes to mind), little gems that keep us inspired to discover brand new things in our backyard every day. With Ithaca and Tompkins County consisting of 492 square miles of lush woodlands, gorges and other quirky spaces, there are enough secrets about to keep one exploring for years.

They say in the information age, there really are no secrets anymore. Some of the sites we explored aren’t really “secrets,” either; this reporter passing adventurous teenagers and laughing families on many of these trips. But if you’re interested in seeing something spectacular you otherwise may not have, these little gems littered across the Tompkins County geography may pique your interest. With regards to Carl Sagan’s house (too inaccessible) and Sunset Park (underappreciated, but not so secret), here are six of our favorites.

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nder a lot of recent scrutiny lately due to all the dangerous incidents in the gorge of Ithaca Falls, Ezra’s tunnel is one of the more spectacular hidden gems on the landscape. Hidden away on the lip of the falls, the tunnel serves as a relic of Ithaca’s once proud industrial past and is also one of its most dangerous. (the ruins of Ithaca Gun and its smokestack – located just blocks away – is up there. We could not confirm if there is, in fact, a ladder within the smokestack as rumor has it.)

The tunnel’s origins lie with the birth of Ithaca industry, where early capitalists looking to make their fortune looked to harness the power of the land along the shores of its rushing creeks and thundering waterfalls. At the site of the present Lake Street Bridge by Ithaca Falls, a saw mill was first constructed

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Top: Ezra’s Tunnel, from above Ithaca Falls. Left: The rope used to scale down the shale wall into the tunnel entrance, pictured right.

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in 1812, an oil mill appearing high up above the falls in 1817. A foundry, plaster mill and distillery followed shortly after.

In 1827, Jeremiah Beebe purchased one of the flouring mills at the lip of the falls. Fed by a wooden flume, Beebe intended to reconstruct the mill and improve its efficiency to take advantage of the city’s growing presence on the trade network fed by the Erie Canal.

He hired Ezra Cornell to manage it and, to improve its power, replaced the wooden flume with an engineered raceway carved into the cliff. 12 feet high, 13 feet wide and 200 feet long, the tunnel was completed in 1832 where

it powered milling operations at the falls until 1926; the year Cornell University purchased the property and demolished the plant.

Today, only a skeleton remains of the old plant and, though tricky to access and extremely sketchy to enter, it is still possible to get into the tunnel and above the falls.

(Though, we should note, a superior view of the falls can actually be had at the Willard Way overlook located directly above the tunnel.) Walking down the street, you should see the overlook straight ahead and, entering the overlook area, an old prayer chapel to your right and a graffiti-littered concrete structure at your left. Past the concrete building is a rugged, rooted path that comes to a 10-foot high shale wall, the only safety measure in place a tattered rope tied to a tree trunk. Scale the wall and you’ll find yourself inside the former lock of the mill; the tunnel straight ahead of you. Walk through it and a plywood ramp will help you scale the concrete wall onto the gorge floor below the Stewart Avenue bridge. The time for this passageway is limited: after several fatal incidents at the gorge and an extremely difficult rescue of a teenager off the gorge wall in 2016, Cornell University has approached the city to work out a plan to permanently close the tunnel.

Given its positioning, turning it into a park and facilitating safe access to this little gem might be easier said than done, but we can

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In the meantime if you’re interested in tunnels, Cornell University has several beneath its campus: one connecting Olin and Uris Libraries and a tunnel running from the Plant Science Building to Weill Hall, beneath Tower Road.

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It’s also a place without an address: though it’s listed as being at the bottom of Bolton Point Road, you’ll quickly find if you punch the location into your GPS that this is not the case: the actual way to this spot is to drive down Blackchin Boulevard where, at the very bottom, you’ll find a small parking lot, a spectacular lake view and an unassuming, gated access road leading into the woods below. This is the way you want to go.

While paved, the road is steep and leads you down past a wooded ravine down to the Cayuga Lake shoreline. At its base, you’ll find a set of railroad tracks and an anonymous Bolton Point facility surrounded by chain link fence. If you turn to your left headed south (keep in mind, you are technically trespassing on Norfolk Southern Railroad property), you’ll pass by some swamplands to your right and towering cliffs to your left. At

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the swamp’s end, the woods subside, the lake opens up and, to your right, you’ll see a gravel buffer separating the standing water from the lake. This spot here, a short run down from the railbed, is Poison Ivy Point.

Long considered to be a waypoint on the unrealized dream of the Cayuga Blueway Trail proposed in 2013 the site, due to the joys of bureaucracy, has gone largely unfacilitated and today, is strewn with logs and trash either washed up on shore or left by unscrupulous visitors. Up until just several years ago when development cleared the hills and brought the Blackchin Boulevard loop down the hill, access was through a relatively wild woodland and, because of the railroad, the development of a real trail to reach the spot has been a pipe dream at very least, even though the point is actually owned by the Village of Lansing.

There is a plus side to these factors, however: because of its seclusion and protected by reams of paperwork and the protracted negotiations to come, the site stands as one of the few truly wild spots left on the lakeshore.

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Technically, swimming here is not permitted – as such, there is no lifeguard on duty and, in the past, people have been ticketed for swimming here. Yet, on any warm afternoon in the summer you may see as many as 50 people up and down the river, from young children splasing about in the shallow parts of the creek to adults frolicking in the deepest waters downstream.

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This modest getaway certainly feels like it: just off the road on the fringes of the Cornell Botanical Gardens’ Arboretum, this secret swimming hole becomes a little more obvious on the hottest days of the summer, when the gravel lot at its entrance fills up with cars; a dead giveaway to this small treasure on Forest Home’s share of Fall Creek.

Buffered by a small dam, this flattened out area of the creek offers calm waters and a cool dip with a trek no more strenuous than walking down a short, unmarked path to the water. (obscured by the brush but marked by a small sign, the 15 foot walk shouldn’t bother anyone.)

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or as long as Ithaca has existed, humans have tried to control its waters.

In 1907, a dam was built at Wells Falls on the city’s south hill along Six Mile Creek at the site of a former mill, an area which now was once the primary drawing point of the City of Ithaca’s water supply (the Ithaca Reservoir, a popular – if illegal – swimming hole further upstream now serves that purpose). This is where you’ll see the remains of the city’s first hydro plant, looming high above a pitted gorge. This is Van Natta’s Dam, known to some by its more whimsical name of Businessman’s Falls.

One of the city’s most striking scenes, the image of an old, boarded up mill turnedelectric plant in a secluded gorge is as striking as any in the city: at one point, it was actually considered for rehabilitation, with a proposal

Swimmers at Flat Rock,on a recent afternoon.

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to replace turbines in and renovate the structure in order to have it produce power completed for the city in 1989. The thing is, it’s actually somewhat off the beaten path.

The easiest way to get here is by going up Giles Street where, at some point, you will seen a green gate blocking a gravel road. Go past it. You’ll find it soon enough.

Oh, and if your legs are feeling restless?

Further up the Six Mile gorge is some spectacular scenery. We highly recommend taking the South Hill Recreation Way to experience that. (Pick up the trail at the corner of Hudson Street and Coddington Road.)

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The state’s forests decimated by the turn of the 20th Century, conservationists warned that extreme action should be taken in order to preserve New York’s timber supply; thus starting the era of reforestation and laying the groundwork for the New York State Forest System.

By the 1920s, times were changing in New York State. Many of the farms in New York were on marginal land, and as better land became available out west, agriculture began to decline. When the Great Depression hit, many farmers could no longer make a living on their worn out, unproductive land.

In 1929 and 1931 respectively, the State Reforestation Act and the Hewitt Amendment were passed, allowing the New York State Conservation Department to acquire land outside the Forest Preserve to be used for reforestation. These State Reforestation Areas, consisting of not less than 500 acres of contiguous land, were to be “forever devoted to reforestation and the establishment and maintenance thereon of forests for watershed protection, the production of timber and for recreation and kindred purposes.”

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community of farmers in Danby called Bald Hill.

First settled in the mid-1800s, Bald Hill was once a community of more than two dozen families lining a stretch of road by the Point O’ Rocks in what is now the Danby State Forest. For several generations, they lived and worked the land, building two schoolhouses and even establishing their own graveyard.

But as times changed, the families abandoned the area and the planting began. The last holdout left in 1949.

Now overgrown, you can still peruse the forest floor and occasionally find the ruins of old houses. One prominent example, on the north end of the road, features a nearly-intact root cellar, while a cattle ramp on the hill’s southern end still sits in good shape.

And, if you’re curious, there still is a graveyard up there – well manicured and well-cared for – where you can pay the area’s former residents a visit.

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Take the pathway behind the Lofts At Six Mile Creek and keep walking all the way to the corner of the parking lot behind Gateway Commons, on State Street. Then keep walking to the edge of the parking lot and, past the pavement, you’ll find a beaten path through a flowered meadow leading down into the gorge. If you descend, what you’ll find is a breathtaking, untouched swatch of creekbed that presents a striking contrast of built and natural environment. Definitely a hideout created just for amateur photographers.

If you proceed further up the creek, there’s a pretty cool bridge to hang out under, too.

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The lighthouse at the entrance to the Cayuga Inlet is one of these perfect places.

Not the flashiest of water-traffic hazard notification apparatuses, a lighthouse was constructed where Treman Marine Park now exists in 1917, a waypoint for barges coming from the Seneca and Cayuga Canals by way of the Erie Canal to find their way into Ithaca and into the reaches of southern New York State. A decade later, the light was relocated to its present position at the opening to the Cayuga Inlet (painted white) and a breakwater, painted red, was installed adjacent; presenting a clear pathway into the city.

To get a clear shot, follow the gravel path on the shoreline of the municipal golf course until you reach a gray concrete building and the woodland. There, you will see a lightly-maintained path, which will wind you through the woods and bring you to a crumbling concrete walkway, which stretches for 200 yards or so and brings you to the lighthouse. The walk itself is not hazardous and the water beside the path is not too deep, but we would recommend anyone with a fear of water proceed down the way with caution.

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thaca, with the intellectual capital provided by two world-class writing departments on two hills, is no stranger to literary greatness. Numerous luminaries of the written word have come to settle down in – or be inspired by – the city, either basing their work on its streets and gorges, using the scenery as a backdrop to their work or, simply, passing through.

Based, in part, on an obscure 1986 pamphlet penned by Ithaca Journal writer Deborah Schoch along with colleague and illustrator, Jack Sherman ( who went on to be art director for Newsday) this Literary Walking Tour of Ithaca has been updated to include some more contemporary names as well as some more obscure writers you might have missed.

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uthor: E.B. White A Address: Corner Of State and Aurora Street, Ithaca Hotel

In the Fall of 1917, E.B. White arrived in Ithaca before the start of his freshman year at Cornell on the Lehigh Valley railroad. It took him a while to actually make it up hill, though: White became so entrenched in downtown life he actually registered late for classes. When he settled in, he later made a home at Sheldon Court. He chronicled the journey in a letter, writing: “We flew through a countryside buried under two inches of new-fallen snow. The hills, all bonneted, were like little alps; and toward twilight, everything turned blue – hills, snow and sky… we were in Ithaca.”

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uthor: Charles Thompson A Address: The Chanticleer

In the upstairs room that today, often plays host to Ithaca Underground shows, a character in his book Halfway Down The Stairs, plays his saxophone. A product of the beat generation that Cornell notably birthed numerous laureates

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of the era in, the book is a chronicle of a lost generation, described by Kirkus Reviews as having an “an aura of inevitable dissolution and inexplicable instability.” His descriptions of Greek Life on campus were so accute, they were cited in University of New Hampshire professor Blake Gumprecht’s papers on the character of the American college town.

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uthor: Various A Address: 123 W. State Street – The Ithaca Journal

The newspaper has been referenced in the work of several different authors, albeit under different names. In the book “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me,” a book set partly in Ithaca authored by beat legend Richard Fariña, the paper is referred to as “The Athene Globe,” while Alison Lurie dubs the paper the “Corinth Courier,” in The War Between The Tates. In “Baby,” by Robert Lieberman, the Journal writes “60-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth To Child.” This turns out to not be true, one character responding “Ah – the Journal

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To be concise, some names were omitted.

Other names worth mentioning: Alison Lurie, Megan Shull, Diane Ackerman, Robert Mrazek, Gordon Bonnet. An interactive, more extensive map will be available online.

always gets its facts screwed up.”

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uthor: Alex Haley A Address: Cascadilla and Albany Street

This is the home where the revered author, born August 1, 1921, spent the first six weeks of his life as his father completed a master’s degree in agriculture at Cornell. He actually spent most of his boyhood in Henning, Tennessee.

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.R. Ammons, Vladimir Nabokov A Address: Cascadilla Falls

One of the best known poems by Ammons, this piece describes the beauty of a gorge which, in any book referencing Ithaca as a setting, often serves as a common motif in describing the community. “…oh/I do/not know where I am going/that I can live my life/by this single creek,” he once wrote and, for many, that’s true.

Nabokov referenced the gorge in one of his pieces and, in renowned local author Alison Lurie’s book, ‘The War Between The Tates, Lurie notes “…here in Corinth, because of its unique geological history, the means of suicide are always at hand.”

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uthor: William Kennedy A Address: Ithaca Cemetery

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uthor: Richard Fariña A Address: Various

The year before taking a sabbatical year from his position at Cornell in his home at 105 Cascadilla Park, William Kennedy referenced the cemetery beside his home in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Ironweed, as the Saint Agnes Cemetery, writing “riding up the winding road of the Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of a rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods.”

Set in a loose version of Ithaca, Fariñas seminal beat literary classic references many key spaces

in vintage Collegetown or, as he called it, “Lairville,” including Guido’s Grill, based upon Johnny’s Big Red Grill at 202 Dryden Road., where musicians Harry Chapin and Paul Yarrow (Peter, Paul And Mary) once worked.

These are near his real life rental homes at 226 Linden Avenue and 301 College Avenue, just down the street from the porch of his friend’s home at 109 College Avenue, where he once partied with the reclusive Thomas Pynchon, a good friend of his.

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uthor: Thomas Pynchon A Address: Libe Slope, Cornell Campus

Pynchon begins one of his most famous novels here, opening his book with the following serene image: “…A sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.” Notoriously reclusive, his files as a student are under lock and key because living alumni’s records are carefully guarded by the university’s records division. However little is known about him, we do know that, in 1957, he called 702 E. Buffalo Street his home.

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uthor: Toni Morrison A Address: Sheldon Court

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Address: Cayuga Heights

This was the home of Toni Morrison, who arrived at Cornell to get her master’s degree in English in 1953. Two years later, she produced what was later described by her as a “shaky” thesis on the theme of suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. She went on to teach english at Texas Southern University and her alma mater, Howard University, for nine years, before moving to Syracuse in a role at Random House, starting an editing career that would last until 1970.

Famously featuring dialogue picked up from

schoolgirls riding Ithaca’s buses, Lolita was finished at Nabokov’s 1953 home at 971 E. State Street, where the book was famously saved from incineration by his wife who insisted the work be published. All told, the author lived in about ten different homes while living in Ithaca: Previously, he had lived at 802 E. Seneca Street, a place he lived several years as a professor at Cornell before going on to spend his years in a handful of different homes in Cayuga Heights until 1959.

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uthor: Kurt Vonnegut A Address: 109 Williams Street.

Kurt Vonnegut worked for the Cornell Daily Sun and lived at 109 Williams Street. The rest is not important.

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uthor: Pearl Buck A Address: 614 Wyckoff Road

A resident of Ithaca from 1932 to 1933 Buck, fresh off the success of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, was settled in town while her husband studied at Cornell. The newspapers made a big deal about it as, during that time, she was working on a new novel, tentatively titled “The Patriot,” which was published in 1939 to rave reviews. Years before, she lived at 22 Forest Home Drive from 1924-1925.

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uthor: William Snodgrass A Address: Hector Street (address unknown)

Called “one of the important formalist poets of his generation” by his contemporary, Cornell English professor Alice Fulton, Snodgrass was highly prolific in his more than 80 years. Though Cornell has been home to many a reputable name, Snodgrass committed his daily life’s routine to print in the Spring, 1958 edition of the Paris Review in his poem, “The Campus On The Hill,” which referenced the neighborhood.

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uthor: James McConkey A Address: Cornell

A well-known writer of nonfiction narratives, McConkey has seen his work land in The New Yorker and numerous other well-respected publications. Much of his work deals with practical Christianity and the more meditative aspects of life itself. It should also be noted his legacy will often return to his work shaping the modern Cornell Writing Department, where he taught from 1956 to 1992. He turned 95 last year.

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Author: Richard J. Price Address: Cornell

Schooled in Ithaca, it was always assumed that Price’s novel “The Breaks,” a story of the selfdestruction of a failed law school candidate, was set in Ithaca at the fictionalized Upstate New York University, Simon Straight – a university resembling the likes of Cornell, where the writer completed his bachelor’s degree. He’s written numerous books and screenplays including 1986’s The Color Of Money, which was nominated for an Oscar.

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uthor: Grace Miller White A Address: West End

Incredibly well-received upon its release in 1909, Miller White’s novel “Tess Of Storm Country” takes place in and around Ithaca and focuses primarily on the class struggles inherent in the city’s impoverished Rhine district, filled with the desperately poor and sick. The book, long forgotten until recently, was a sensation, resulting in about four films based on it including 1914’s “Tess In Storm Country,’ which

was later added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Most recently, it was adapted into a play and performed at the Cherry Art Space – right on land where the book was based – in 2016.

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One of the most influential writers of the late20th century, Wallace was born in Ithaca to Sally Jean Wallace and former Cornell philosophy professor James Donald Wallace. Like the children of many in higher education, he moved away at a young age, moving to Champaign, Illinois in the fourth grade when his father accepted a professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In addition to his novels, he has written for the likes of Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, GQ , Harper’s Magazine, Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire and The Atlantic, among others.

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Better known locally for helping to found Lehman Alternative School, poet and New School professor David Lehman is a longtime part-time resident of Ithaca, splitting his time between here and New York City. One of the nation’s best-known poets, Lehman initiated the 28-volume strong Best American Poetry anthology series and, in his own career, has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has received an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

His wife, Stacey Harwood-Lehman, is also a decorated poet on her own right and, until recently, served as a policy analyst for the New York State Public Service Commission.

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Born and raised in Troy, New York, Fulton arrived in Ithaca in 1980 to study in Cornell University’s Creative Writing Program. Her first book, Dance Script with Electric Ballerina, was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W. D. Snodgrass for the Associated Writing Program’s publication prize in 1982. Largely known for her poetry, she was named winner of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 2002.

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an Swanstrom became only the 10th there has been. I knew there was something head football coach in Ithaca College here that was tangible, that we could grab onto history – and only the third since 1967 (and) that we could move forward with.

– when he was announced to the position in You and your wife, Kristin, have two December after longtime head coach Mike young children: 5-year-old Harrison and Welch officially retired. A 2005 graduate of 3-year-old Ellie. What has Ithaca been like Division III Rhodes College, Texas native for the family so far?

Swanstrom comes to South Hill after most It’s great. The kids are living a dream, recently spending three seasons as quarterback you know what I mean? It’s just an outdoor coach and recruiting coordinator at the wonderland for them. And they love running University of Pennsylvania, in the Ivy League. around. They’re the filthiest kids on the planet.

His connections to the school aren’t Every single day we pick them up from their obvious, but they are there day care right down the through the small world of road (from Ithaca College) “I wanted to be a college coaching – this coach head coach. I wanted and it’s wild. It’s very, very knows this coach, who knows to be in a place where different than living in Philly this coach at that school that (Philadelphia, where Penn is you can win and you plays them, essentially. As located). can compete and Swanstrom said, “it just kind The honest truth is, the historically that’s of parlayed the whole thing ability to get around and to been done here.” together, really.” function on a day-to-day In between dodging basis is game changing. It’s construction on campus and allowed me to be more present running around during the final month before as a father and has taken a lot of practices officially begin, Swanstrom sat pressure off my wife. Just the down with the Ithaca Times to talk ability to move and function about the Bombers program is drastically different than in his temporary office nearly Philly. bare if not for a large TV for film review.

You were announced as the Why Ithaca College? next football coach What’s the draw to this in December and school and position? officially started I wanted to be a head Jan. 3. What are coach. I wanted to be in a and were the place where you can win first steps and and you can compete and what are your historically that’s been goals right done here. As a young now? coach who was looking at The steps head coaching jobs, people and the structure who were really interested in of football for me me were in situations that were really never change. completely different as far as And I’ve been here there had never been a history long enough of winning (and) there had already where it never been a pattern of d o e s n’t winning. And h e r e

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feel completely new. We’re in a situation where our staff has gotten together, we’re building some continuity and (we’re) moving forward.

Really the goals and the structure of our goals are pretty simple: we want to win every home game. We want to win the Cortaca Jug. And we want to win the Liberty League. I feel like if you handle those three things on a yearin, year-out basis then if you have the opportunity Recent and the chance to Results get to the playoffs we’ll reshuffle the deck and start 2016 5-5, 4-4 maneuvering our goals.

2015 4-6, 2-6 But the reality is we’re a 2014 7-4, 6-2 sub-.500 team the past two 2013 9-3, 6-1 years (5-5 last season and 4-6 2012 6-4, 4-3 in 2015) and we got to get back on track in the 2011 4-6, 2-5 direction of what Ithaca football is 2010 6-4, 3-2 known to be.

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2007 8-3, 4-2 Yeah. Very excited to play in an environment 2006 7-3, 4-2 like that. Even coming from the Ivy League and playing Division I football and coaching there we weren’t getting 15,000 fans to a game or 12,000 – I mean occasionally we would – but to create an atmosphere like that is going to be very uniquely different. So I’m pretty excited about it and we’re excited to play, to continue the history and, you know, apparently we got some work to do (having not won the Jug since 2009). So we’re up for the challenge.

For that casual football fan, what are some of the keys – maybe not Xs and Os – you’re looking for in your team this season to have a successful campaign?

Most of it would be behind-the-scenes stuff with our team: the structure of our team and the culture of our team. Really the kind of the thing we’re looking at is we just want to

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You coached current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck at Stratford High School in Texas and Atlanta Falcons quarterback Alek Torgersen, who was picked up after the 2017 draft, at Penn. Do you keep in touch with those guys? What have you taken away from coaching them that you carry today?

With Andrew, I was a child. There was minimal to zero that I could impart to him.

He was an NFL quarterback when I was with him, so it was basically just staying out of his way. But we had a good relationship. I was the quarterback at Stratford when he was a young kid who lived in the area, so growing up in Texas, in our community our high school program was a big deal. The guys who were playing on our varsity team were really pretty strong guys in the community. So he knew who I was and we had a good relationship.

But it’s one of those deals where you’re coaching an NFL quarterback and I didn’t really know much of anything. So I just kind of hung out with him. I gave him some tips here and there [laugh] but it was more peer related than actual coaching.

And then Alek, I mean we have a real deal relationship. I actually just texted him last night because he left for Atlanta (July 19) to go back to the Falcons. So I just texted him to see how he was doing. I’m in constant contact with Alek for sure. Our relationship is pretty strong.

For more with Swanstrom, including what has stuck with him from “hanging out” with Luck and coaching Torgersen and what playing in the German Professional League was like, see Ithaca.com/sports this week or pick up a copy of one of the Finger Lakes Community Newspapers, either at the Ithaca Times offices at 109 N. Cayuga Street or in the many villages and towns we serve.

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s a sports-mad kid growing up in the caption: “Ed Marinaro of Cornell.” I stared at 1960’s, I couldn’t wait to get to the it for a few minutes, and it dawned on me… mailbox every week to see if my dad’s Ithaca, New York, was getting to be like that Sports Illustrated magazine had arrived. The far-away land of L.A., where sports legends magazine transported a small-town kid to were made. The high school football team the Big Time, and by the time the late ‘60’s was among the state’s premier programs, the arrived, the term “Sports Dynasty” had found Cornell hockey team had recently completed its way into the lexicon. the only undefeated season in NCAA Division I saw photos of the great O.J. Simpson, and 1 history, the Big Red lacrosse team had won I read about the iconic U.S.C. teams for whom the inaugural D-1 national championship “The Juice” carried the tournament, ball. I wondered why and the Lew Alcindor had felt Marinarothe need to change led football his name to Kareem team was the Abdul-Jabbar, but cream of the I – like every other crop in the Ivy basketball fan I knew – League. was in awe of his famed I talked to Sky Hook, and we my longtime wondered if the Bruins friend Terry of U.C.L.A. would ever Cullen, who lose a game. has been What a joy it a r o u n d would have been to C o r n e l l travel to see these guys Athletics for play. I mean, if your most of his photo was on the cover life. His dad, of Sports Illustrated, Bob Cullen, you were superhuman, was a beloved and I had to admit that coach on East it made sense that you Hill, the Terry would live and play laughed when in that larger-Thanhe recalled, “I Life place known as was the varsity Ed Marinaro, on Sports Illustrated.

California, 3,000 miles football away. mascot in 1953!”

Then, one day in 1971, I wore a look of Terry was around for a few years as a youth, disbelief when that coveted Sports Illustrated went off to serve our country in Vietnam, arrived and the cover featured a photo of and returned to join the staff of the Sprint a guy who played a mere 30 miles from my (then known as the 150’s) Football team. hometown of Owego, N.Y. The cover read, He still serves as the program’s top guy, and “A New Rampage of Running Backs,” and it he remembers the 1970 varsity season well. featured a full-color photo of a fierce looking “Marinaro led the nation in rushing,” Terry halfback –wearing number 44 – and the recalled, “and he came in second in the

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Heisman voting.” Marinaro’s achievement was all the more impressive, Cullen points out, due to the fact that he had an abbreviated varsity career. “Freshmen were ineligible to play in the Ivy League then,” Terry offered.

“Ed broke Steve Owens’ (Oklahoma) 4-year career rushing record in only 3 seasons.”

As for the Ithaca High football team, Cullen calls the Little Red “by far the best high school football team I have ever seen.” Coached by the legendary Joe Moresco, the Little Red featured a cast of characters that would not only dominate in high school, but would go on to very solid college careers.

Cullen said, “Tom Parr was the quarterback, and he went to Colgate where he led the nation in offense. Tom Snickenberger was a running back, and went to Dartmouth, his brother Walt was a wideout who went to Princeton and Steve Webster was a tremendous running back.”

Gary Hunter played on those teams, and he recalled, “My sophomore year, 1967, we were 6-2, in ’68 we were 7-1, and then we went undefeated in 1969. They didn’t lose a game for four more years.” Gary, who played at Morgan State College, is still a part-time coach at Ithaca High 50 years after first digging in on the gridiron.

The Cornell men’s ice hockey team was, as stated, the only NCAA Division 1 team to complete an unbeaten, untied season. Ned Harkness was the head coach (he also coached lacrosse), and the team, with players like Brian McCutcheon (who would later coach the Big Red), Brian Cropper, John Hughes and Dan Lodboa, would defeat Clarkson 6-4 at the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid to cap off that historic run, and a few weeks later, Harkness

would vacate his position to assume the head coaching position for the Detroit Red Wings.

He left the position in capable hands, as Dick Bertrand - whose playing career had come to an end just two months prior as a tri-captain for the Big Red - was named head coach. It is also safe to say that Harkness felt confident that the lacrosse team would be okay as well.

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A year and a half earlier, it had come to Harkness’ attention that there was a high school lacrosse coach on Long Island that was lighting a fire under his players and building a dynasty of his own. Harkness approached Athletic Director Bob Kane (who would later become the President of the United States Olympic Committee) and put forth his opinion that despite the fact that this young coach by the name of Richie Moran was only 31 years old and had no collegiate coaching experience, he should be persuaded to move his young family to Ithaca and join the Big Red coaching staff. After a few weeks as an assistant coach, Moran Joe Moresco, 1970 was offered the head coaching job, and in 1970 – Moran’s second year as head coach – Cornell lacrosse ran the proverbial table on the way to the first of their three undefeated seasons. There was no postseason national championship tournament at the time, so when the national title was decided by a group of men in a room, the Cornell team felt slighted. The following year, a tournament was instituted, and the Big Red put to rest any uncertainty as to which team was the NCAA’s preeminent program. That national championship was the first of three, and it further cemented Cornell’s place on the national sports map.

Community Listings Area Attractions

Visitor information

Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau 904 East Shore Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-1313; (800) 284-8422 (toll-free) www.visitithaca.com Downtown Ithaca Alliance 171 East State St. Center Ithaca Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-8679 Downtownithaca.com The Downtown Ithaca Business Improvement District is a New York state-chartered not-forprofit organization charged with the revitalization, development, promotion and management of downtown Ithaca.

The Ithaca Times 109 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-7000 Ithaca.com

Shopping

DeWitt Mall 215 N. Cayuga St. Ithaca, NY 607-273-6464 In this smoothly converted brick building, you’ll find the worldfamous Moosewood Restaurant, the comfortable (and delicious) DeWitt Café, GreenStar Oasis natural foods market, Cat’s Pajamas, Ithaca GuitarWorks and other retail stores.

East Hill Plaza 327 Pine Tree Road Ithaca, NY 607-277-1111 An outdoor complex that includes Burger King, Collegetown Bagels, local banks and more.

Ithaca Commons Ithaca, NY The epicenter of Ithaca—located between N. Aurora and S. Cayuga Streets, and East and West State Streets—includes restaurants, clothing stores, art galleries, book stores, record stores, and much, much more.

Ithaca Farmers’ Market Steamboat Landing off Third Street Ithaca, NY 14851 (607) 273-7109 Ithaca’s can’t-miss Farmers’ Market wraps up its indoor winter market at the Space at Greenstar, 700 W. Buffalo St., on March 25. Then, it’s back to its rightful outdoor venues in and around Ithaca, notably at Steamboat

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May 7 to October 29. Deep into the fall, from November 4 through December 16, the market reduces its hours on Saturdays to 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Plus be sure to check out the Tuesday markets in DeWitt Park, and the Wednesday market in East Hill Plaza. There has also been a Thursday night market added from June 29 to September 28, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

See Ithacamarket.com for hours and vendor informatin The Shops at Ithaca Mall 40 Catherwood Road off North Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 607-257-5338 www.theShopsatIthacaMall.com This is home to the “big-box” national retailers such as Target, Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Old Navy.

Around the back you’ll find Regal Cinemas, usually showing all the mainstream national releases, often on several screens.

The Triphammer Marketplace 2255 North Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 607-273-6851 www.triphammermarketplace.com The variety of retail, dining and service offerings at the Triphammer Marketplace include Ithaca Bakery, Ithaca Coffee Company, Gene’s Barbershop, Finger Lakes ReUse, Triphammer Laundromat and much more.

Supermarkets Greenstar Cooperative Market 701 W. Buffalo St. Ithaca, NY (607) 273-9392 This market features organic produce and homeopathic products and a cheap yearly membership.

Greenstar DeWitt Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8213 P&C Fresh 315 Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-5836 This is a large full-service, up-market store that is within walking distance of Cornell graduate housing.

Tops Friendly Market 710 S. Meadow St. Ithaca, NY (607) 275-8041 2300 N. Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY (607) 257-4952 You’ll find a wide selection of ethnic ingredients, sushi and an excellent bakery that meets the cooking needs of our diverse and cuisine-conscious community.

Wegmans 500 South Meadow St. Ithaca, NY (607) 277-5800

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And if you need a break from the aisles, there’s also a café, sushi bar and several buffet tables offering a variety of choices. Open 24 hours.

Win Li Supermarket 374 Elmira Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-6790 This is the largest Asian market in the Ithaca area. They have fresh meats, fish and produce as well as a wide variety of processed foods and specialty items.

Wineries Cayuga Wine Trail 2770 County Road Romulus, NY 14541 (800) 684-5217 See cayugawinetrail.com for a listing of the 16 wineries on both sides of Cayuga Lake. The region is most wellknown for its Rieslings and Cabernet Francs. But recently some wineries have begun to focus on Pinot Noir and Lemberger, both cool temperate weather vinifera grapes.

Ports of New York 815 Taber Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 220-6317 www.portsofnewyork.com/ Located along the Cayuga Inlet in the Northside neighborhood. A scion of Maison La Bouche of France and a producer of Meleau Specialty Wines, includes ports and other fortified wines.

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Six Mile Creek Vineyard 1551 Slaterville Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-9463 or toll-free (800) 260-0612 www.sixmilecreek.com Ithaca’s own winery features an especially lovely setting to enjoy memorable wines styled to a variety of preferences. A new line of distilled specialties, including Vodka, Limoncella and Grappa add to the tasting experience.

Arts & Entertainment

Cinemas

number of live music concerts, paired with films - a decidedly delicious treat.

Regal Cinemas @ Ithaca Mall 40 Catherwood Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (844) 462-7342 Catch the latest Hollywood hit on one of 15 screens. Stadium seating means that beehive hairdo won’t get in your way.

Galleries Community School of Music & Arts 330 East State St. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-1474 www.csma-ithaca.org Aside from the “Music” side of this community school, CSMA houses excellent art by many local artists in its many galleries and halways. With an emphasis on collagorative ventures with lesser-known artist groups, the galleries feature experimental, daring and aesthetically pleasing work.

Corners Gallery 903 Hanshaw Road #3 Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-5756 Located just minutes from Cornell University, the Corners Gallery specializes in Ithaca art by Ithaca artists. Here you’ll find paintings, prints and photographs depicting scenes of Ithaca, Cornell, and the Finger Lakes by local, regional and national artists.

Creative Space Gallery 126 East State Street South Hill Business Campus Ithaca, New York (607) 274-3330 The Creative Space Gallery is a satellite of the Ithaca College Art

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Cinemapolis 120 E. Green St. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-6115 www.cinemapolis.org Independent theater features art and indie movies, showcases local filmmakers and hosts film festivals.

Cornell Cinema 104 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3522 www.cinema.cornell.edu Screening over 300 films a year, seven nights a week, Cornell Cinema runs the gamut with classic Hollywood cinema, international movies, cult classics, documentaries and experimental films as well as Ithaca premiers. They also book a fair

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Eye Gallery 126 E. State St. Fl 2nd www.eyeithaca.com Eye Gallery showcases photography, painting, sculpture, comic art, ceramics, and themed shows. Gallery shows begin again on April 7th with a group show called Streetwise that will feature Paul Chatem, Josh Hart, Jim Garmhausen, and Sue Limbert.

Found in Ithaca Gallery 227 Cherry St. Ithaca, NY Phone: 607-319-5078 Foundinithaca.com This is an intimate art space that showcases works of local and regional artists in all media. They emphasize artists that have a connection to “found” materials, imagery or material culture.

Handwork 102 W. State/MLK St. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-9400 This unique cooperative of craftspeople and artists in downtown Ithaca features crafts and fine art made by members from all around the country. Members are required to work in the store several days a month and “sales clerks” are actually working craftspeople, so don’t hesitate to ask them about the work.

The Ink Shop Printmaking Center 330 East State St. 2nd Floor Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-3884 www.ink-shop.org

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Previously located on a second floor walkup on West State Street, the Ink Shop relocated to CSMA last year, where they can now show their studio and print-related works with space and care.

Ithaca College: Handwerker Gallery 1170 Gannett Center 953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-3018 This gallery is located on Ithaca College’s campus, but it’s worth the trek up the South Hill; sometimes featuring the work of faculty, sometimes by students or sometimes the curations of a mix of the two, the workveers on the cutting-edge and contemporary. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesdays.

State of the Art 120 W. State St. #2 Ithaca, NY 14850-5441 (607) 277-1626 www.soag.org This members’ only gallery features rotating exhibitions on a roughly monthly basis. The space is lovely and intimate; works are carefully hung in between the two separate exhibition spaces. Expect high-quality work from artists both regional, national and international.

Museums

Cornell University Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-2473 The CUMV Ornithology Collection currently consists of approximately 38,300 round skins, 700 flat skins, 1,000 spread wings, 5,500 skeletons, 1,400 fluid-preserved specimens, 3,200 egg sets, 590 nests, and 1,000 uncatalogued mounts.

History Center Tompkins County 401 East State St. Ithaca, NY 14850-4400 (607) 273-8284 With extensive and informative exhibits on aspects of Ithaca’s colorful history—everything from Ithaca’s boating history, to its most wild women—there’s much to be learned here. Look also for special events like downtown walks, festivals and silent film screenings.

Johnson Museum of Art 114 Central Ave Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 255-6464 www.museums.cornell.edu

An internationally-renowned institution—and housed in a stunning building, designed by iconic architect I.M. Pei—the Johnson Museum is one of Cornell’s shining stars. Free and open to the public, exhibits range from avant-garde video art to iconic Impressionist works.

Museum of the Earth 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6623 www.museumoftheearth.org This natural history museum takes care of a collection of about 2-3 million specimens. Family friendly and bustling with energy, the views of Cayuga Lake aren’t bad, either.

Sciencenter 601 1st St. Ithaca, NY 14850-3507 (607) 272-0600 www.sciencenter.org This kid friendly non-profit educational organization will appeal to the kid in every adult, too. This is a place where fun and science come together. Expect a large amount of interaction to go with your serving size of learning.

Theaters

The Actors’ Workshop of Ithaca 105 Harvard Place Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 339-9999 www.actorsworkshop.biz Performances are at a variety of venues around the area. The choice of plays does not hesitate to grapple with social issues. This is essentially an acting school that regularly stages productions.

Hangar Theatre P.O. Box 205 Ithaca, NY 14851 Phone: (607) 273-8588 www.hangartheatre.org The Hangar Theatre puts on a plethora of different productions during their season, including musicals, comedies, dramas, classics and regional premieres.

Ithaca College Theatre 953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-3345 Ithaca College brings to the stage stories from the 17th century right up into the 21st, reaffirming live theatre’s power to delight and inspire, provoke and activate.

Kitchen Theatre 417 W. Martin Luther King St./W. State St. Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 272-0403 (admin office) (607) 272-0570 (for tickets) With stage classics, regional and world premieres, family fare an oneperson shows, the Theatre is a great place to catch up on culture.

State Theatre of Ithaca 107 West State Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-8283 www.stateofithaca.org Music, ballets and plays grace the stage at State Theatre, along with some comedy and movies as well.

On March 18, for an example of the variety, Apocalypse Now will be shown, weeks after a One-Man Star Wars Trilogy and weeks before an Evening with Jackson Browne in April.

Schwartz Center of Performing Arts 430 College Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-2758 (box office manager) (607) 254-2787 (tickets) This regionally recognized cultural facility hosts a wide variety of performance within its three performance spaces, dance theatre and studios, film editing and production suites, film forum, classrooms and shops. There’s an excellent range of film, theater, dance and live music.

Festivals

Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Weekend Early March through the summer.

Select studies are open on the first Saturday of each month. On October 7-8 and 14-15, all studies will be open to the public.

Friends of the Library Book Sale Spring 2018 dates: The first three weekends of May Fall 2017 dates- October 7-9, 14-16, 21-24 Each year, the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library holds two book sales, one in the Spring and another in the Fall, to benefit organizations working for literacy in Tompkins County. Our special partners in this are Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) and the Finger Lakes Library System (FLLS). The number of items available for each sale usually exceeds 250,000. Books, audio books, CDs, DVDs, records, puzzles, and games are items found at the Book Sales.

Children’s Corner is especially wellstocked and Collector’s Corner is a

separate area housing many unique items of special interest which are priced individually. The Friends Book Sale is held at 509 Esty Street, Ithaca.

From Meadow Street, Esty is the first left after Ithaca Bakery. From Fulton Street, it is the first left after Purity Ice Cream.

One Fest Ithaca Late May Ithacaunderground.org One Fest is a musical festival put on

by Ithaca Undergound showcasing two stages of metal, punk, hardcore, and noise - featuring regional and local extreme bands and artists.

Ithaca Festival- 41st anniversary First weekend of June Downtown Ithaca, and the Commons This 41 year running festival of music and art is somewhat of an Ithaca tradition. With more live music than you can shake a stick at — both on The Commons and at Stewart Park — this weekend-long festival celebrates the richness of Ithaca’s social and artistic culture, with its highlight being the endlessly bizarre and joyous parade the first Thursday evening of the festival.

Juneteenth Celebration Late June Southside Community Center 305 Plain Street Ithaca, NY (607) 273-4190 An annual celebration of this national event symbolizing the end of slavery — a day-long event involving music performances, a street fair, food and crafts vendors, and more at the Southside Community Center.

Downtown Summer Concert Series Late June through mid-September The Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850 Listen to free live music every Thursday evening on the Commons.

Local musicians perform all different styles, from classical to folk to rock to jazz.

Grass Roots Festival Late July 59 E Main St., Trumansburg, NY 14886 (607) 387-5098 www.grassrootsfest.org The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance started a long time back as a concert to benefit local AIDS support organization AIDSwork at the State Theater in Ithaca. GrassRoots is held the second last weekend in July. It is held at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds in

• Over 1000 different beers, hard ciders and malternatives in stock • Over 200 gourmet sodas • 10 Beers, 1 hard cider, and 1 soda on tap for growler fills • Keg Beer • NOW OPEN! New Redemption Center!

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Trumansburg New York, located about 10 miles north of Ithaca NY on Rt. 96 on the west side of Cayuga Lake in the very scenic Finger Lakes region of central New York.

Ithaca Artist Market Early August Each year, Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County organizes and facilitates a summer and winter juried show and sale of work by local artists. Artists exhibit paintings, drawings, photographs, collage, prints and sculpture. The Ithaca Artists’ Market has become a summer fixture after 20 years.

Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival September 29-October 1 Downtown Ithaca Commons Vendors, musicians and performers take to the Commons for this festival celebrating all things apples.

First Peoples Festival Early October DeWitt park, Ithaca, NY 14850 The Multicultural Resource Center’s First Peoples’ Festival will take place in partnership with Ithaca’s Apple Harvest Festival which occurs in October throughout the Commons area. The First Peoples’ Festival is a celebration of indigenous peoples of New York State featuring traditional music, crafts, displays and foods. Festival-goers will have an opportunity to learn more about the traditions of First Peoples’ and to unlearn the stereotypes learned about their culture.

Ithaca Ice Festival December 7-9 Area artists break out their chainsaws and irons – seriously – and carve ice sculptures all around the Commons for the annual ice-carving competition. This wintery festival also includes the annual Chowder Cookoff, which is held on Saturday and features area restaurants. Dress warm.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration January 2018 In partnership with the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) and many

other community organizations, The MLK Day of Celebration takes place at GIAC on Martin Luther King Day every January. Workshops, children’s activities, music and a free community luncheon all staffed by volunteers makes this a day on, not a day off.

Winter Recess February 2018 During Winter Recess, Ithaca opens its doors to the pre-K-12 community, offering you a chance to relax, refresh and renew among friends in a city built on education. You’ll discover a discounted week of outdoor recreation, indoor relaxation and entertaining education. We’ve put the whole city on sale, just for you.

Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off February 2018 Don’t get this event confused with the Chowder Cook-off in December (what can we say – we like our hearty soups). Local restaurants vie for Best Chili and other items in the People’s Choice, Vegetarian & Meat, and the Official Judging competition. Events include Chili Tasting, Mechanical Bull Riding, Chili Idol Karaoke, Iron Chef, Farmers Market, Wine & Beer Tasting, Music, Contests and Prizes.

Book/Record Stores

Alphabet Soup 171 The Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-6885 Angry Mom Records 115 East State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 319-4953 Autumn Leaves Bookstore 115 The Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8239 Barnes and Noble 614 South Meadow St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6784 The Bookery 215 N. Cayuga St. (Dewitt Mall), Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 273-5055 Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga Street (Dewitt Mall), Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8246 www.buffalostreetbooks.com Colophon Books 205 North Aurora St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-5608 www.colophonbooks.us Comics for Collectors 207 N. Aurora St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-3007

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Baker Park This park is a neighborhood passive park located in the triangle formed where Elmira Road, South Plain Street and Park Street meet. Baker Park has several large shade trees, an open lawn area, and benches.

Brindley Park Brindley Park is the only remaining piece of the former Inlet Neighborhood Community Center

which was built in the 1930’s in response to the social and recreational needs of Inlet neighborhood residents at the junction of Buffalo and Brindley Streets for use as a park.

Bryant Park Development of East Hill began in earnest in 1908. The land was developed by the Bryant Land company in collaboration with attorney / developer Jared T. Newman, who was then Mayor of Ithaca. 45 Acres of the old Bryant

Farm were subdivided into 161 building lots. Three open spaces were incorporated into the subdivision: Bryant Park, Maplewood Park and Campbell Park, of which only Bryant park and Maplewood Park survived.

Today Bryant Park is located in the triangle formed by Bryant Avenue, Irving Place and Ithaca Road Buttermilk Falls State Park 112 Buttermilk Falls road Ithaca, New York 14850

(607) 273-2440, (607) 273-5761 (summer), (800) 456-2267 (reservations) Buttermilk Falls State Park takes its name from the foaming cascade formed by Buttermilk Creek as it flows down the steep valley side toward Cayuga Lake. The upper park has a small lake, hiking trails through woodlands and along the gorge and rim, picnic areas and playing fields. The lower park has a campground, pool and playing fields, beyond which is Larch Meadows.

Larch Meadows is a moist, shady glen and wetland area through which a nature trail winds. Park activities, including tours through Buttermilk gorge, are offered weekly from July 4th through Labor Day. Park open all year. Camping season from midMay to mid-October. Swimming area opens on June 20th All trails close November 10. Deer hunting, bow only, is permitted in season. Located on Route 13, south of Ithaca.

Sports & Recreation

Golf Courses

Country Club of Ithaca 189 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850-2601 (607) 257-0010 www.countryclubofithaca.com The 18-hole, par-72 course at the Country Club of Ithaca facility features 6,595 yards of golf from the longest tees. Designed by Geoffrey S. Cornish, ASGCA, the Ithaca golf course opened in 1900.

Newman Golf Course 10 Pier Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6262 The 9-hole “Newman” course at the Newman Municipal Golf Course features 3,055 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 36 . The course rating is 35.2 and it has a slope rating of 113. Newman golf course opened in 1935. There are men’s and women’s tees, and it has an 18hole rating of 70.3. Reservations are required on weekends and holidays.

Other sports areas: Alex Haley Pool (GIAC) 408 N. Albany St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-3622 or (607) 277-6169 Bowl O Drome 401 Third St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 256-2695 Cass Park Pool 701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-1090 Helen Newman Bowling Lanes Cradit Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 255-4200 Ithaca Skate Park Meadow Street and Wood Street Ithaca, NY 14850 Ithaca Swimming Club Inc. 124 Uptown Road, Ithaca, NY 148501631 (607) 266-9574 Allen H. Treman State Marine Park Just north of Cass Park, off Route 89 Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-3440, (607) 272-1460 (marina office, summer) Allan H. Treman State Park is one of the largest inland marinas in New York State. It boasts 370 seasonal, 30 transient and 30 dry boat slips. The park has picnic areas and playing fields and provides access to the Barge Canal and Seneca Lake. It is a marina only, there is no camping available and it is not the same as Robert H. Treman State Park. Allen Treman Park is located on Route 89, north of Ithaca, on the western shore and southern end of Cayuga Lake Auburn Park The park is actively used all year by residents of the neighborhood.

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Cass Park 701 Taughannock Blvd.

Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-1090 Cass Park is a regionally active park used heavily by residents from all parts of Tompkins County. In addition to the ice rink, and swimming pool, there are four tennis courts, 20 athletic fields, four of them lighted, playground equipment, an exercise trail, and a large picnic pavilion.

botanical garden features 14 specialty gardens.

DeWitt Park De Witt Park, the oldest park in the City of Ithaca, is at the corner of Buffalo and Cayuga streets. Before it became known as De Witt Park, it was called Public Square Park. The park contains several war monuments, including monuments honoring local residents who served in

called Enfield Glen as its scenic highlight.

Winding trails follow the gorge past 12 waterfalls, including the 115-foot Lucifer Falls, to where visitors can see a mile-anda-half down the wooded gorge as it winds its way to the lower park. Campers can choose from tent or RV sites or cabins.

Enjoy nine miles of hiking trails, or swim in a stream-fed pool beneath a waterfall.

Swimming is allowed in lifeguarded area only. Open year round. Camping season

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Government & Local institutions

Th e C a r o u s e l at S t e wa r t Pa r k ( P h o t o : M a r s h a l l H o p k i n s) Columbia Street Park Columbia Street Park is located between Columbia Street and Hillview Place, across the street from Hillview Park. This park is heavily vegetated and contains a stairway which connects to Hillview Park.

Conway Park Conway Park shows up as public land as early as 1835. The park was known for decades as Lafayette Park, being renamed Conway Park in 1920 to honor of former City of Ithaca Alderman Michael Conway, who died in action in France with the American Expeditionary Forces. Today Conway Park is an active neighborhood park located at the triangle of Cascadilla Street, Madison Street and Third Street. It has a half basketball court with three hoops, a play structure, and a large lawn area used for informal play. The play structure was built, using Community Development Block Grant moneys, by residents of the surrounding neighborhood in the spring of 1997.

Cornell Botanic Gardens 124 Comstock Knoll Drive Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 255-2400 As the arboretum, botanical garden, and natural areas of Cornell University, Cornell Botanic Gardens has a lot to offer – 40 natural areas spanning nearly 4300 acres of rich and diverse habitats. Collections include maples, oaks, crabapples, conifers, dogwoods, urban trees, and other species in a 150-acre pastoral setting. Specialty gardens in the arboretum include the Zucker Flowering Shrub Collection and the Treman Woodland walk. The 25-acre

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at the end of the gorge trail. Campsites and cabins overlook Cayuga Lake, with marina, boat launch and beach nearby.

Boat Launch Site not suitable for any type of sailboat. The park also offers organized activities including tours through the Taughannock Gorge and summer concerts along the lakefront. Open year round.

Camping season runs from April 24th to mid-October. The rim trail closes in winter; the gorge trail remains open.

Thompson Park Thompson Park is a small, triangularshaped neighborhood park on North Cayuga Street. It is primarily used for passive park uses, although it has been known as an outdoor volleyball site.

Titus Flats/Ithaca Skate Park Titus Flats is located on South Meadow Street and Wood Street. It is a neighborhood active park with a full basketball court, a handball court, four softball fields, and a playground that was the result of a community build effort, funded by a Community Development Block Grant in 1994. Ithaca Skate Park is the first public concrete skatepark in CNY. Titus Triangle Titus Triangle is a small neighborhood passive park located in the triangle formed

by Fair Street, South Street and Six Mile Creek.

Washington Park The City blocks surrounding the park was laid out in 1832 by Simeon De Witt and his son Varick De Witt. By the end of the century homes were built on all the streets around the park. (For more information see De Witt Park) The park has been under municipal authority since 1847. It is located in a square created by Washington Street, Court Street, Park Street and Buffalo Street.

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The Civil War, WWI, WWII, The Korean War and the Vietnam War. Each year on Veteran’s Day, De Witt park is home to ceremonies honoring these local heroes.

Hillview Park Hillview Park is located on the corner of Turner Place, Columbia Street, South Aurora Street and Hillview Place. This park is heavily vegetated, with many large trees, and contains two small play fields with a backstop Ithaca Falls Natural Area Ithaca has many beautiful gorges and waterfalls. One of the most famous is Ithaca Falls, which is 150 feet high and 175 feet wide. These stunning falls are visible from Lake Street, a short walk from downtown or Cornell.

McDaniels Park McDaniels Park was donated to the City of Ithaca by Cornell University Professor Laurence McDaniels. He lived next to the land that is known today as McDaniels Park. He donated a portion of his land to the City for use as a park a few years before his death. This Park is a neighborhood passive park. The entrance is located at the intersection of Hook Place and Warren Road. The park is heavily vegetated with trees and shrubs. It contains benches, a picnic table and a grill.

Robert H. Treman State Park 105 Enfield Falls Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-3440, (800) 456-2267 (reservations) Robert H. Treman State Park is an area of wild beauty, with the rugged gorge

runs from mid-May to November 30.

All gorge trails close November 10. Bow hunting for deer is permitted in season.

Located on Route 13, 5 miles south of Ithaca, on Route 327. South end of Cayuga Lake.

Stewart Park Stewart Park Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Stewart Park is a regionally active park with several facilities including tennis courts, a playground with several play structures including a carousel, athletic fields, a duck pond, a spray pool, a municipal golf course, and a bird sanctuary. Swimming is no longer allowed due to pollution and turbidity.

Strawberry Fields The history of Strawberry Fields is connected to the Belle Sherman Elementary school off Mitchell Street in Ithaca. Previously, the land was owned by the City of Ithaca School District. In 1940 and in 1960, apartment complexes had been proposed for this land. On July 21, 1970, a 9.9 acre parcel was sold to the City for park use.

Taughannock Falls State Park 2221 Taughannock Road Trumansburg, NY 14886 (607) 387-6739, (800) 456-2267 (reservations) Taughannock Falls State Park’s namesake waterfall is one of the outstanding natural attractions of the Northeast. Taughannock Falls plunges 215 feet past rocky cliffs that tower nearly 400 feet above the gorge.

Gorge and rim trails offer spectacular views from above the falls and from below

Municipal Government City of Ithaca 108 Green Street Ithaca, NY (607) 274-6570 www.cityofithaca.org Town of Ithaca 215 N. Tioga Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-1721 (Town Hall); (607) 2731656 (Public Works Facility) www.town.ithaca.ny.us/ Located on beautiful Cayuga Lake, the Town of Ithaca is home to about 20,000 residents and is home to Cornell University and Ithaca College.

Village of Cayuga Heights 836 Hanshaw Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-1238 www.cayuga-heights.ny.us/ A largely residential suburb located next to the Cornell campus within the town of Ithaca. It has one shopping area called Community Corners and ready access to shopping in the adjacent village of Lansing.

Tompkins County County Clerk 320 N. Tioga Street, Main Courthouse (607) 274-5431 www.tompkinscounty.gov

Higher Education

Cornell University General Information: (607) 254-4636 www.cornell.edu Ithaca College General Information: (607) 274-3011 www.ithaca.edu Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) 170 North St.

Dryden, NY (607) 844-8211 www.tc3.edu Empire State College (Ithaca office) 118 N. Tioga Street – Suite 502 Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-4536 or 4537

Education

Ithaca City School District 400 Lake Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-2101 www.icsd.k12.ny.us Grades K-12 are served in 12 school buildings, and the district has a total enrollment of approximately 5,500 students. The schools include: Ithaca High School (grades 9-12); Lehman Alternative Community School (grades 6-12); Boynton Middle School and DeWitt Middle School (grades 6-8); Belle Sherman Elementary School, Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, Caroline Elementary School, Cayuga Heights Elementary School, Enfield Elementary School, Fall Creek Elementary School, Northeast Elementary School and South Hill Elementary School (grades K-5, some with pre-K programs).

New Roots Charter School 116 North Cayuga Street P.O. Box 936 Ithaca NY 14851 (607) 882-9220 www.newrootsschool.org A high school (grades 9-12) charter school, tied to the Ithaca City School District, New Roots is open to all students in Tompkins County. Curriculum is focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Students will earn a Regents diploma.

Cascadilla School 116 Summit Avenue Ithaca, NY 14850-4734 (607) 272-3110 www.cascadillaschool.org Cascadilla School is a preparatory school in Ithaca. It was founded in 1876 as a boys’ preparatory school for Cornell University. Serves as a high school, grades 9 through post graduate.

Parking Parking in Downtown Ithaca is easy because you have a number of options. You can park on the street or in garages for your convenience.

Parking is FREE on evenings after 8:00pm, on weekends, and special holidays on the street. In the Garages, parking is FREE on weekends.

On-Street Parking The City of Ithaca has installed pay stations downtown in order to provide multiple payment options.

These have replaced traditional coin meters. Parking pay stations accept cash, coin and debit/ATM or credit cards.

How Parking Kiosks Work: These pay stations use license plate recognition technology to track your parking, so you will need to know your license plate when you go to pay at the machine. Pay stations are currenly located 1 station per every street block, but will soon increase to 2 per street block (one on each side of the street). For your rconvenience, you can also receive notification by text or phone call when your time is running out. Follow the prompts on the screen to enter your phone number. You can also pay for parking on your smartphone by setting up a Park Mobile* account either on your phone through the app store (Apple and Android) or online at a computer.

Street Parking Rates: At metered spaces, the hourly rate is $1.50/hr with a minimum 1 hour

purchase when paying with ATM/ credit card. You can purchase smaller time increments using cash or coin only. *Park Mobile parking trasactions are subject to a convenience fee ($0.300.35 per transaction depending on Park Mobile subscription rate) Parking in Garages The parking garages charge $1.00 an hour to park between the hours of 3:00am and 8:00pm. The parking attendant is on duty at the garages until 11:30pm to collect any parking fees that may have accrued between these hours. You can pre-purchase hourly tokens/tickets for garage parking at $0.65/hr through the City Chamberlain’s office inside City Hall.

Cayuga Street Parking Garage 235 S. Cayuga St. Ithaca, NY 14850-5509 (607) 273-0205 Long-term parking is offered by the Cayuga Street Garage located between Green and Clinton streets in downtown Ithaca. It’s $69 per month.

Dryden Road Parking Garage Dryden Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Seneca Street Garage East Seneca Stret Ithaca, NY 14850 Green Street Garage Green Street Ithaca, NY 14850

Waste Removal Services The City of Ithaca provides a trash collection service for residents within the City limits, and trash is collected once a week. To determine the day of collection for your address, please call the Streets and Facilities Division office at 272-1718. Office hours are Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Residents need to place trash at the curb the night before the scheduled collection day as the crews start their day at 4 a.m. Criteria for placement of trash is as follows: Trash cans or plastic bags may be used.

There are no specific rules governing the type of can or bag that may used.

Trash Tags Trash collection is paid for through the purchase of trash tags. Residents can purchase tags at City Hall or at any of the local grocery stores.

Full Tags are for up to 35 pounds of trash. One tag is $3.75 while a sheet is $22.50. Whole tag strips are to be used; tags torn in half will not be accepted. One tag is needed for each can or each bag of trash that is placed at the curb. If more than one bag of trash is put in a can, be sure that the total weight of all the bags does not exceed the weight on the tag. The tag must be placed around the neck of the bag or on the bag itself. If trash cans are used, be sure to place the tag on the handle of the can so that it can be readily seen by the collectors. The weight of a can containing multiple bags/tags cannot exceed 50 pounds.

Recycling Recycling is collected in the City of Ithaca every other week on the same day as trash collection. More information about recycling can be obtained by calling the Tompkins County Solid Waste Division at (607) 273-6632. There is no fee or tag needed for this service, and Recycling bins may be obtained at 122 Commercial Avenue, Ithaca, NY. The Solid Waste Division Web site is www.tompkins-co.org/solidwaste/ main.html.

Yard Waste Note: Leaves and grass clippings are not to be raked into the street.

Yard waste is collected in the City of Ithaca on a regular basis from April 1through late fall. Once snow falls, crews work on snow removal and yard waste collection is suspended.

There is $1.50 fee per can or bundle for yard waste collection. Tags can be purchased from the City Chamberlain office at City Hall across Green Street from the public library.

Yard waste is collected every other week on the weeks opposite recycling weeks.

Yard waste may also be taken to the Tompkins County Solid Waste Management Division at 122 Commercial Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Criteria for placement of yard waste is: Only natural materials are considered yard waste (grass, leaves, branches, brush and the like). Yard waste must be placed in garbage cans (with the lids off) or in untied plastic bags. All brush must be tied in bundles. No brush or branches can be longer than four feet in length, and no branch can be larger than two inches in diameter. No bundle or container should exceed 50 pounds.

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Tompkins County Board of Elections 128 East Buffalo Street Ithaca, New York 14850 (607) 274-5522 www.tompkinscountyny.gov/boe Voting in the City of Ithaca takes place in five different wards, with several polling places in each ward.

Polling places are based on Election Districts. The election district is not the same as your County Legislative District number, but is printed on the voter registration acknowledgement card. Call the Board of Elections office for more information.

City of Ithaca polling places: FIRST WARD District 1 & 2 – Lehman Alternative School, 111 Chestnut St. District 3 – Titus Towers II, 798 S. Plain Street District 4 & 5 – South Hill School, 520 Hudson Street SECOND WARD District 1 & 3 – GIAC, W. Court Street District 2 – Titus Towers II, 798 S. Plain St. District 4 – Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St. THIRD WARD District 1, 2 and 3 – Belle Sherman Annex, Cornell Street FOURTH WARD District 1 – St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave. FIFTH WARD District 1, 2 – Fall Creek School, King and Aurora Street District 3 – Alice Cook House, Steward and University avenues Town of Ithaca polling places District 1 – Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road District 2 – Town of Ithaca Public Works office, 106 Seven Mile Dr. District 3, 12 – College Circle Community Center, 1033 Danby Rd. District 4, 11 – Ellis Hollow Apartments, 1028 Ellis Hollow Rd., East entrance District 5, 6 – BOCES, 555 Warren Road District 7 – Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N. Triphammer Rd. District 8, 9 – First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd. District 10 – Linderman Creek II Community Bldg., 201 Cypress Court

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www.library.cornell.edu The libraries offers guest borrowing privileges to qualifying individuals (see below). Users should apply at the Library Public Services Office, 116 Olin Library, and provide the appropriate documentation. Users applying for contract college Privilege Cards should apply at Mann Library.

Fees are payable by cash, check or credit card. Hours: see www.library. cornell.edu for individual library hours.

Ithaca College Library 1201 Gannett Center Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-3182 Hours vary by season, people should check the library’s Web site — www. ithaca.edu/library — for hours.

The library is open to the public for browsing, but only students and college staff may check out materials or access the databases.

Tompkins County Public Library 101 E. Green St. Ithaca, NY 14850-5613 (607) 272-4557 Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays: 1-5 p.m March 12 through May 14 and September 17 through November 12. (Otherwise closed on Sundays.)

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TRANSPORTATION

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport 72 Brown Road Ithaca, NY 14850-1248 (607) 257-0456 www.flyithaca.com Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport is owned and operated by Tompkins County. Airline services available at the airport: Delta Air Lines Direct service from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport to Detroit. Delta Reservations: (800) 221-1212 American Airlines Service from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport to its hub in Philadelphia.

American Airlines Reservations: 1-800-433-7300 Local Customer Service: (607) 2570808 United Airlines United Reservations: (800) 864-8331 Arrivals & Departures: (800) 8246200 TCAT – Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Inc. 737 Willow Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-7433 www.tcatbus.com The fare is based on where you board, not your destination or how far you travel. Single-ride trips originating in rural areas (Zone 2) cost more than trips originating in the Greater Ithaca area (Zone 1). Those fares are $2.50. Single-ride fares that originate in the Greater Ithaca Area (Zone 1) are $1.50, whether traveling in either zone.

Ithaca Dispatch Inc. 615 5 Mile Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-7777, (607) 277-CABS, 277-TAXI toll-free at (888) 321-1149.

Operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week Ithaca Dispatch, Inc. operates Ithaca’s largest taxi fleet. The company dispatches for University Taxi, Yellow Cab and Cayuga Taxi, in the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County and surrounding areas. Employees are fully licensed taxi drivers. It also provide delivery service for small and large packages, short or long distances. University Taxi, Yellow Cab and Cayuga Taxi are licensed by the City of Ithaca Police Department.

Collegetown Cab 704 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 588-8888 or (607) 592-1478 Green Hornet Taxi Greenhornettaxicab.com Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 280-3779

HEALTHCARE Tompkins County Health Dept.

55 Brown Road Ithaca, NY (607) 274-6674 www.tompkinscounty.gov Tompkins County Environmental Health Division (607) 274-6688 Bridges/Cornell Heights 407 Wyckoff Ave. Ithaca, NY (607) 257-5777 Family-style rental housing with coordinated aide service.

Cayuga Medical Center 101 Dates Dr. Ithaca, NY (607) 274-4011 www.cayugamed.org Cayuga Medical Center houses 204 beds, employs over 1,200 health-care professionals, and has a medical staff of more than 200 affiliated physicians.

Convenient Care (Cayuga Medical Center Branch) 10 Arrowwood Dr. (off Warren Rd.) Ithaca, NY (607) 274-4150 Five Star Urgent Care 740 South Meadow Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 319-4563 Guthrie Medical Group 1780 Hanshaw Road Ithaca, NY (607) 257-5858 Ithaca Health Alliance 521 West Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 330-1253 The Ithaca Health Alliance is a nonprofit community health organization which helps members pool their resources in order to create community health care.

Kendal at Ithaca 2230 N. Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY (607) 266-5300 A continuing care retirement community situated on 106 acres in the heart of the Finger Lakes District.

Longview, an Ithacare community 1 Bella Vista Drive Ithaca, NY (607) 375-6300 A residential senior community offering both independent apartments and assisted living located in the Finger Lakes region, high on South Hill overlooking Cayuga Lake.

Planned Parenthood 620 W. Seneca Street

Ithaca, NY (607) 273-1513 Cortland Regional Medical Center 134 Homer Ave. Cortland, NY (607) 756-3500 American Legion 1231 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-1129

ORganizations & clubs American Red Cross 618 West State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6684 Big Brothers Big Sisters 1 James L Gibbs Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8364 Cayuga Bird Club c/o Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (800) 843-2473 Cayuga Trails Club P.O. Box 754, Ithaca, NY 14851-0754 Family & Children’s Service of Ithaca 127 W. State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-7494 Finger Lakes Independence Center 215 Fifth St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-2433 Finger Lakes Land Trust 202 East Court Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 275-9487 Foodnet Meals on Wheels 2422 N. Triphammer road, Ithaca, NY 14850-1014 (607) 266-9553 GIAC 301 West Court St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-3622 Human Services Coalition 171 E. State/MLK Jr. Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8686 Ithaca Community Recovery Inc. 518 W.Seneca St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 216-8754 LifeLong 119 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-1511 Love Living At Home www.lovelivingathome.org (607) 319-0162 Tompkins Community Action 701 Spencer Rd, Ithaca 14850 (607) 273-8816 309 S. Corn St., Ithaca 14850 (supportive housing services) (607) 216-0457 Tompkins County Workers’ Center 115 E. Martin uther King Jr. St./The Commons Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 269-0409 Tompkins Workforce New York 171 E. State St. #241 Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-7570 United Way 313 North Aurora St. #2, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-6286 Veterans of Foreign Wars 423 W. State St. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-5222 YMCA 50 W. Graham Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-0101

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Activism with Soulful Beats

Artist Zeshan B fights the system with soul music

His feelings toward protests and activism today are further intensified through his Muslim upbringing and constant attention to the institutionalized racism around him. He also knew Sandra Bland in high school, and her death in 2015 further sparked inspiration for his album along with other protests boiling and brewing through the U.S.

By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o Zeshan B, 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, at The Haunt.

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group of musicians in suits, ties and black dresses emerge from a garage door inside of a studio.

They walk forward and take position at their respective instruments: drums, guitar, trumpets and other soul staples.

Afterward comes Zeshan B, and between ever y handful of steps, footage from today’s Black Lives Matter protests juxtaposed alongside the Civil Rights rallies of the 1960s appears — then just as quickly disappears.

So sets the stage for Zeshan’s soul cover of George Perkins and the Silver Stars’ “Cryin’ in the Streets,” a song that served as a response to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Although it’s been nearly 50 years since the song’s original debut, Zeshan breathes a new American life back into it.

A nd t hat’s what’s poigna nt about Zeshan’s work: it’s truly American, or rather what America claims it’s supposed

to be. As a f irst-generation MuslimAmerican with parents who immigrated from India to Chicago, Zeshan was surrounded by diverse cultures throughout his childhood.

“I grew up with the whole Asian part w it h parents who like R&B and folk music and black music,” Zeshan said.

“We have a dad who was a journalist that wrote about the civil rights movement and black literary movements — I’m just a sum of all those parts.”

On his latest album, Vetted, Zeshan presents some original work alongside his “Cryin’ in the Streets” cover. He uses his full voice to fill out each song, belting out lyrics in English, Urdu and Punjabi, paying homage to his Indian roots and his American upbringing.

Through each foot-tapping tune, there rings a sense of activism and revolution.

The party and funk that’s associated with soul then becomes juxtaposed with feelings of contempt for the current political climate: an artistic response to the rumblings in the nation.

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“I was ma k ing this a lbum around the time a girl who I knew growing up, Sandra Bland, had died — I knew her through a group of friends in high school.

I’m not going to say we were super tight, but I knew her,” Zeshan said. ”And when I think about that turbulence that personified [the Civil Rights Movement] is still going on around me here, too, and still is as we are seeing in Charlottesville right now — I just I gotta do something.”

Through soul, Zeshan continues to protest and speak out. He also performs his songs as a form of gratefulness to the groups of Americans that helped fight for his rights as a Muslim-American.

“My parents were able to come and do their thing here in America because of what black people, and Latinos and Native Americans did. Because of the struggles they faced, they created the path for people like my folks,” Zeshan said.

“For me it’s a debt of gratitude. I think we are seeing the true face of America now; things have always been this way, and it’s just now on surface, especially with a nefarious power structure and nefarious government that is fanning the flames.”

Zeshan continues to pour his soul into his music, even when the prospects of the future feel just as hopeless as the past.

“These t hings are sti l l going on,” Zeshan said. “An elderly black person once told me between what happened in the ’60s: some things have changed for the better, he said a lot of things have changed for the worst, and most things have just remained the same.” •

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like all the pieces were everywhere.”

Relax and enjoy wine & spirits Scatof Distinction with a spectacular terbrained view from our covered deck. as they Minutes from Downtown we re , t he Six Mile Creek Surfer Blood returns to Ithaca after three years new album itself was – Band 6-8pm

By Nick Re y nol d s in its own Doolin O’dey way – a 2-4pm meditation Surfer Blood, 9 p.m. Thursday, label, their founding guitarist, Thomas Fekete, died of cancer, on Pitts’ own songwriting abilAug. 17, The Haunt a major setback for a group that ity. While their last album, Editor’s Note: The following is an seemed poised to reclaim the 1000 Palms, was a sophisticated release packed with a numversion of the story. To ground it had given up.

Rt 79 Ithaca • 607-272-WINE abridged It’s been an odd year for ber of technically proficient read the full article, visit ithaca. the band since, with two new songs critics praised as showing com. members – guitarist Michael glimmers of promise from their McCleary and bassist Lindsey raucous debut, the album also lot of time on the road 2017 Annual Unitarian Society really gives a guy a lot of Mills (who are alumni of the seemed to serve as a statement same Florida high school Pitts of self-worth and of proving the time to sort things out.

It’s probably a good thing and drummer Tyler Schwarz band’s abilities in the shadow of that rock band Surfer Blood has attended) – onstage with them so much doubt (it was also the for the first time in a long time. first album where t-he band was had plenty of it to their credit.

Corner of Aurora and Buffalo, But after an almost perfect “finally good at their instruThe band comes to Ithaca – downtown Ithaca ments,” Pitts said). While not their first visit since a 2014 runthrough with We Are Scientists Saturday, August 19 9-4 – on the heels of a tumultuous Sunday, August 20 10-4 (half price) couple of years and a non-stop Monday, August 21 10-2 (donations/free) tour schedule that, in the past couple of months, has featured Great Stuff for Great Prices! a pair of national jaunts in support of their newest album, Housewares, clothing, toys, appliances, Snowdonia. It’s been a roufurniture, tools, and much more! tine for the group ever since the band was first catapulted from house party renown to its pegging as one of the next big things in rock music four years ago; a carbon copy of the grind to be expected from any band crawling its way up the ladder The band Surfer Blood, underwater. (Photo provided) to renown and success: the type Please print in color in the August 17th paperthe group once had – and then lost.

(1/16 size - vertical 2.4” x 2.7”) “I don’t think we’ve ever arc of the rock and roll canon, as highly produced as some really taken a break longer than from meteoric rise to unprec- of the band’s work with Wara few months in the seven years edented lows, the band – and ner Bros., it was impossible not we’ve been doing this,” said Pitts – seem to finally be at ease: to acknowledge the polish on guitarist and lead vocalist John the group has seen two tours its songwriting, its ambitious Paul Pitts from his home in together, they have their first compositions embellished with California on one of those rare album under their belt and, the studio magic of concerted for the first time in a while, the layering and overdubs meant recesses.

It’s been an interesting run magnifying glass has been lifted to show off the band’s studio for the band ever since 2010’s on a band that, at one point, was chops.

And while the group’s latest breakout album, Astro Coast, a subject of intense scrutiny in album does offer some hints at propelled them to major label the music press.

“At first it kind of felt like we that – from the album’s sevenrenown and reviews in just about every major music pub- had just jumped out of a plane,” minute-long title track to the lication in the country. But, Pitts said. “When Mikey first modal sway in the guitarwork lately, things have quieted down joined the band (following the of Doppelganger – Snowdonia in the band’s world. After an release of Snowdonia), we were really tries to get back to the arrest on battery charges (that on the way to South By South- band’s Palm Beach origins: a were later dropped) and a num- west and I was literally teaching plain fun rock band who can ber of overly harsh reviews of him songs in the back of the sway just as easily between clean their slickly-produced, major van. He managed to learn them and breezy pop to grittier, grunlabel debut, Pythons, in a num- well enough to get through that gier passages that chug along ber of those same publications, week, but it was just a lot to take with frantic purpose. There’s a the group fell out of favor for a on. We had a new record com- really distinctive sound to this lot in the industry, eventually ing out, Tom was just going to one, a greater sense of urgency losing their deal with Warner be coming back to the band – as and anxiety in the rhythms hidBros. Then last year, after tour- it turns out, he wouldn’t end up den beneath the sunny, signaing in support of the band’s first coming back – and meanwhile ture sound the band has come album – 1000 Palms – follow- I was trying to teach someone to be known for. Beyond its ing their drop from the major every song at once. It just felt more complex tunes, the album music

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is rife with fun, simple three and four chord songs meant bring the band back to their sunny, rock and roll roots: getting back to the cathartic nature of music that’s loud, fast and fun with every song written with as many chords as there were live takes needed to record it.

Several albums in, Snowdonia is almost a referendum on a new juncture in the band’s maturation, one where a songwriter starts to think about what defines a band’s sound, what elements exactly makes a Surfer Blood song a Surfer Blood song. With two original members gone (Kevin Williams, their bassist, left the band to pursue a new career in 2015) the songwriting dynamic of the group completely changed, leaving Pitts alone to pound out the new album solo: in a way, he says, this wasn’t a Surfer Blood album; this was JP writing songs for himself.

“Taking that pressure off and the expectations off was really the only way to get the ball rolling,” said Pitts. “It was a completely new process… I’ve been living in California the last few years, living with my girlfriend and just hanging out in my weird little studio here. I just started writing chord progressions, lyrics, just recording demos; not thinking about it or over-editing anything. I think by not worrying about the pressure I was able to kind of come up with a whole new direction for the band.”

After some time to get acclimated and, most importantly, breathe a little bit, the band has hit a place of comfort in the monomyth of the American rock band. From the call to adventure that took them to unprecedented heights to a staring contest with the abyss, the band seems to have hit the stage of atonement; back to the beginning, all new members and an all new outlook. While their name might be the same, this is a whole new group with a whole new mindset: for the first time in a long time, the pressure is finally off.

“After everything that’s happened, from going to community college in 2010 to putting out a sensational record to getting on a major label – losing the major label – to seeing your best friend get sick and eventually pass on is… it’s hard to really care if you write a record that sells a million copies or doesn’t,” Pitts said. “I think at this point, I’ve seen how good and how terrible things can be in the life of a band.” •

Fresh Grass, Fresh Start

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gotta hand it to my buddy, Jeff Tilton.

He’s worked at the Ithaca Housing Authority for 37 years, spent the last 35 years as a high school football coach, just became a grandpa and, truth be told, many of the other guys at that stage of life are slowing down considerably.

Not Jeff. In addition to being “real life” friends, we are also Facebook friends, and I see frequent posts that convey that his love for the game of football and his belief that the sport can play a very positive role in the physical and emotional development of young athletes. He runs practices and clinics as often as he can, he transports some of his players to colleges to give them

“We have gone through the certification process with the Heads Up program, which teaches that the head should not be involved in tackling. In fact, Section IV is trying to get all its coaches to teach the Heads-Up program, and to get players to learn a rugby-style tackling technique that does not involve using the head.”

A lot of the national sports-radio conversation has hinted that getting moms on board is another piece of the puzzle. As a rule, mothers are not nearly as invested in football as are many fathers, and given moms are increasingly involved in family decision making, they are the focus of many of the new publicity efforts. “We’re

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a glimpse of what may lie ahead if they are willing to make it happen, and he is dedicated to staying on top of the latest information related to the safety of the young people he coaches.

This week, the Ithaca High Little Red football team started practice, and the sixth-year assistant coach is ready. The squad has a transfer from Lansing – junior Logan Boothe – who he is really pleased with so far; a “true quarterback with an unbelievable arm” who has “stepped up big time, helping out in the weight room and showing up to play in our seven-on-seven tournaments.”

Those seven-on-seven tournaments are organized primarily to develop and sharpen the passing game: there’s no tackling – played one-hand touch – and designed primarily to help the players learn the passing routes. Teams from Dryden, Groton, Lansing, Cortland, Waverly and Newark have put teams on the field, and Tilton and his fellow coaches are willing to do whatever they can to keep breathing life into the program and the sport.

“Football is getting a bad name in some circles,” Jeff said. “A lot of other sports see a significant number of concussions too, but given how high-profile the NFL is, and all the publicity surrounding that, it has hurt the sport.”

I asked how the coaching staff at Ithaca High is addressing that, and Tilton said,

trying to get moms to understand that we are doing everything we can to keep kids safe,” Tilton stated.

Given he has been coaching high school football for 36 years (30 at Newfield, as an assistant and as a head coach and six at Ithaca), Tilton’s certainly a veteran of the circuit. “Jeff Love – the head Modified coach – and I are the old guys, and the rest of the varsity staff (Chris Murphy, Al Raechek and Head Coach Kelly Gordon) are the youngsters,” he said. The JV coaches – Chad Rylott, Ian Valentine and Seth Cameron, and the Modified coaches are Love and Jim Yaggie – round out the staff.

It is no secret that Ithaca is a hotbed for lacrosse and hockey, and when so many kids specialize in those sports and are committed to them for 10-11 months a year, it obviously impacts the football numbers.

Young people are playing lacrosse tournaments all summer, and that just means that the football staff needs to work harder in their efforts to reach kids who will share their vision that Ithaca High football is worth their time and effort. The coaches know that social media is a big deal for these kids, and the team has a very active Facebook page and puts forth a big effort to make sure the players feel involved and valued. In Coach Tilton’s words, “We’re doing everything we can to get football back in Ithaca.”

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A Circus in the White House Djug Django’s newest song gets political

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Djug Django performs on stage. Their song “Orange Circus” comments on the current president.

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ou might know Ithaca jazz band Djug Django for the carnival-like mood the band creates in its residency at Lot 10. The group’s well known for its enthusiastic – and free – three-

hour-long swing dance spectaculars each Wednesday night, starting at 6 p.m. But it’s the carnival atmosphere of Donald Trump’s presidency that inspired the Ithaca jazz octet to compose a new song

called “Orange Circus,” a piece written and vocalized by guitarist-trombonist Dave Davies.

Djug Django features fiddler Eric Aceto, clarinetist Brian Earle, drummer Al Hartland, pianist Chad Lieberman, washtub bassist Jim Sherpa and guitarists Harry Aceto, Doug Robinson and Davies who doubles on trombone. The octet specializes in the music of Roma guitarist Jean Baptiste “Django” Reinhardt (1910-1953) who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France which also showcased fiddler Stephane Grappelli. Hot Club specialties revived by Djug Django included “Minor Swing,” “Honeysuckle Rose” and “Exactly Like You.” And they also play a handful of Dave Davies’ originals.

In April, less than three months after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the snappy octet debuted his newest song, “Orange Circus.” The song “pretty much wrote itself once I had the circus image in mind,” Davies said.

“It was in the beginning of Trump’s presidency when it was 24/7 Trump all the time, and there was a constant parade of spokespeople, like Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer,” Davies said. “The sheer chaotic volume seemed — and still seems — circus-like with a Fellini edge to it, so it was very easy to cast in verses.”

Djug Django guitarist Doug Robinson gives “Orange Circus” three thumbs up.

“The dancers love the song, too,” he said. “It’s a perky number with all the quirks Dave is famous for great groove, musical surprises and funny lyrics.”

As a finger-snapping rhythm percolates beneath the lyrics, the song’s initial stanzas set the scene while making colorful allusions to the obsequious Conway and the ill-fated Spicer: Everybody’s talking Radio is squawking All about ... the Orange Circus

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The comings and goings of presidential senior counselor Steve Bannon, whose position on the National Security Council was rescinded on April 5, is succinctly told in a couple stanzas: Trapeze guy startin’ to sweat They took away the safety net Might be blood At the Orange Circus They had a human cannonball He just sorta hit a wall Not cut out for the Orange Circus Davies — who admires the songwriting of such eclectic tunesmiths as Mose Allison, Colorblind James and Fats Waller — uses his lyrics to shed some light on the curious appeal of our well-coiffed 45th president.

You’ ll never forget the things you saw there No believing your eyes Yeah, scary sometimes Somethin’ bout the clown act Always keeps the tent packed Always somethin’ new At the Orange Circus…

Along the way, Davies inserted a short waltz segment as a bridge.

“That little waltz insert is an experiment which I’m still tweaking,” he said.

“I’m going for the calliope sound, circus background, a little out of tune and messy, but pressing forward, like looking under the hood and slamming it down after being horrified by what you saw.”

And, in the end, Davies’ song suggests that the Trump phenomenon may well pass swiftly into history, to be remembered as just another flash in the pan: If you look way over there You can see the dancing bear You’ve got to look hard at the Orange Circus

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They’ve got a talking lion Pretty sure he’s lyin’ You got to watch out At the Orange Circus

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Russ Tarby is the former music editor of the Syracuse New Times. He now writes for The Syncopated Times. •

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frightening and keeps springing surprise after gory surprise. Good luck trying to figure out how it all ends.

f pulp novelist Jim Thompson were around to see The Jerry Springer Show or Morton Downey Jr., he may have come up with something as twisted and back woods bleak as Trent Haaga’s 68 Kill.

Based on a novel unread by me and written by Bryan Smith, 68 Kill is strongly reminiscent of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985), an episode in which a passive-aggressive man suffers a seemingly endless night of violence and persecution in hip, scary downtown SoHo. (I was also reminded of movies like Ron Howard’s 1982 comedy Night Shift, starring Henry Winkler as a well-meaning doormat who finally learns to stand up for himself.)

In a nightmare white-trash world of trailer parks and grotty convenience stores, Matthew Gray Gubler stars in 68 Kill as Chip, a guy who pumps sewage for a living and tries to ignore the fact that his girlfriend, Liza (AnnaLynne McCord), is a sadistic, manipulative psycho who constantly berates and abuses him (not to mention having sex with her “sugar daddy,” who happens to be their landlord). When Liza finds out that the landlord has $68,000 hidden in a wall safe, she strong-arms Chip into helping her steal the money. Needless to say, things go bad and get worse, as corpses and hostages start piling up.

68 Kill is the product of IFC Midnight, a grittier off-brand of movie from IFC Films. It was adapted and directed

by Trent Haaga. I first became aware of Haaga when I saw Apocalypse Soon: The Making of Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, which he wrote and assistantdirected. The Troma production as documented was so fleabag and low-rent that I have never been able to stomach watching the actual film. (Frankly, I’ve seen pornography with better writing and production values.) Haaga also co-authored Make Your Own Damn Movie with Troma’s main madman, Lloyd Kaufman.

Luckily, Haaga has been able to escape from Troma and has soldiered on. There are two kinds of horror filmmakers: those who make a scary movie as a way of getting their foot in the door of the industry, and those who make scary movies because they love them; with titles under his belt like Hell Asylum (2002), Raving Maniacs (2005) and Cheap Thrills (2013), Haaga is clearly the latter.

68 Kill hurtles along like a bad dream, with a sick sense of humor, lots of blood and disturbing incidents. It plays like an anecdote that starts out funny, gets

Cinemapolis will also present a special one-night screening of the new documentary The Farthest on Tuesday, 7 p.m Aug. 22. The Farthest tells the stories of the people and events behind NASA’s Voyager mission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this August. Still going strong four decades after launch, each spacecraft carries an iconic golden record with greetings, music and images from Earth — a gift for any aliens that might one day find it. (The music included a Chuck Berry track, and SNL did a bit

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Shakespeare’s language has never felt so contemporary in this retelling of the most famous romance ever told. Fall in love all over again with this timeless story of fate, passion, and star-crossed lovers.

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back in the day where aliens contacted Earth with a message: “Send more Chuck Berry.”)

This one-night-only event will feature a special post-show discussion with Nick Sagan, contributor to the film and one of the voices on the famed golden records.

Sagan is a writer/producer of novels, screenplays, teleplays, comic books, animation episodes and computer games.

His credits include the Kirkus-starred post-apocalyptic novel Idlewild, which Neil Gaiman hailed as “a rollercoaster ride of fusion fiction … the kind of book you simply don’t want to stop reading”; and several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

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Joe Bonamassa | 8:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | (Hard Rock, Blues, Rock)

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John Simon | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | (Family Night) Fall Creek Brass Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Ithaca Beer Co., 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | (Funk, Soul) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | (Spiritual) Doolin O’Dey | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jig, Waltz)

8/17 Thursday

Rhythm and Brews | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Classic Rock, Modern Rock) Nick Staver | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Blues) Park Doing & Friends | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Brookton’s Market, 491 Brooktondale Road, Brooktondale | Hot Dogs and Gin | 7:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | (Blues, Rock) Woolbright at Chanti Loft | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | (Indie, Acoustic) Sons of a Beach | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Corning Gaffer District, Bridge Street, Corning | (Jimmy Buffett

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Delta Mike Shaw Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Supermassive, The Alpha Fire, Burden My Surrender | 7:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Rock) Shotgun Wedding | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Southern rock, Country) The Darts | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Alternative, Rock) Mary Bentley Band | 9:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Acoustic) Under Construction | 9:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Landon’s Pub and Pizza, 110 W 4th St, Watkins Glen |

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Katie Ballantyne | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jazz) Scott Adams & Brett Beardslee | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Blues, Country, Funk, Folk) The Common Railers | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Folk, Bluegrass, Singer/songwriter) GoGone | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Americana Vineyards, 4367

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Iron Horse | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Myers Park, Lansing, 1 Lansing Park Rd, Lansing | Part of the

Thursday | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles | Instrumental and choral selections on the theme of eternity.

8/18 Friday

Devon Allman Band | 8:00 PM, 8/18 Friday | First Baptist Church of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer | (Blues, Rock, Southern Rock) The Skaneateles Festival: Go/Hear England! | 8:00 PM, 8/18 Friday | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles | Elgar: Violin Sonata, Tallis: Motets, Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs,

Adam Clark | 9:30 AM, 8/22 Tuesday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Pop, Rock, Singer/songwriter) ongoing Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music) The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae) Marc & Tom | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Irish Music Session | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | (Hosted by members of Traonach) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz

Now on exhibition at the CAP Art Space in Ithaca is the work of Peter Fortunato. His paitings are a collection of works titled “Recollection.”

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Honey Island Swamp Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | East Side Park, 1 East Main St, Norwich | (Americana) The Skaneateles Festival: The Great Beyond | 8:00 PM, 8/17

Britten: Divertimenti, Adès: Cardiac Arrest, The Beatles: song arrangements.

8/19 Saturday

The Skaneateles Festival: A Cabaret Evening with Ute Lemper | 7:30 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Robinson

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Simeon’s American Bistro Dean Zervos and Richard Avery, Owners Pavilion at Anyela’s Vineyards, 2433 West Lake Road, Skaneateles | starring in the musicals Cabaret and Chicago in New York, London, and Paris, chanteuse Ute Lemper now brings her all-star band to the Robinson Pavilion.

8/20 Sunday

Seneca Jam | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Toro Run Winery, 3050 Swick Rd, Ovid | The 1960s Woodstock tribute band will perform at Toro Run Winery.

Seneca Jam performs songs from the artists of Woodstock and the 60s era of music. For more info, visit www. facebook.com/SenecaJam Jazz Greats at Glenora Wine Cellars | 2:00 PM, 8/20 Sunday | Glenora Wine Cellars, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | Featuring Lindsay Webster and Grace Kelly (Jazz)

8/22 Tuesday

John Mayer | 7:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | (Blues, Rock, Pop)

Film Do I Sound Gay? | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Cortland Prevention Resources/LGBTQ Center, 73 Main St, Cortland | The Cortland LGBTQ Center will be showing the documentary

Do I Sound Gay? Part of the Men’s Group Meeting, which meets the third Wednesday of every month. For more information, please call (607) 756-8970 x261 or email Courtney Stafford at cstafford@fcscortland.org or Colin Albro at (607) 756-8970 x253 or email at calbro@fcscortland.org.

Train to Busan | 6:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will host a screening of the horror-thriller Train to Busan, Wednesday.

The Exterminating Angel | 5:30 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Part of World Cinema Thursday. Directed by Luis Buñuel, The Exterminating Angel follows a group of high-society friends who find themselves inexplicably unable to leave a mansion where they had gathered for dinner.

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Brigsby Bear | Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children’s TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James’s life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story. | 100 mins PG-13 || The Glass Castle | A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who’s an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children’s imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. | 127 mins PG-13 || An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. | 98 mins PG | The Little Hours | A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages.

Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation. | 90 mins R | Maudie | An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community. |

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Wednesday, 8/16 , to Tuesday, 8/22. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Spider-Man: Homecoming | Several months after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens while fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges. | 133 mins PG-13 | War for the Planet of the Apes | After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.| 140 mins PG-13 | s The Big Sick | A couple deals with their cultural differences as their relationship grows. | 120 mins R | Dunkirk | Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.| 116 mins PG-13 | Girls Trip | When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides

are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. | 122 mins R | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. | 137 mins PG-13 Atomic Blonde | An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. | 115 mins R | The Emoji Movie | Gene, a multiexpressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.| 86 mins PG | The Dark Tower | The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black | 95 mins PG-13 Kidnap | A mother stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.| 81 mins R || Detroit | Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.| 143 mins R || Annabelle: Creation | Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.| 109 mins R || The Nutjob 2: Nutty By Nature | Following the events of the first film, Surly and his friends must stop Oakton City’s mayor from destroying their home to make way for a dysfunctional amusement park.| 91 mins PG ||

ComedyFLOps | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join us for ComedyFLOPs bi-weekly All You Can Eat Improv show. Each month we support a different community based charity.

August’s charity is: Healthy Food For All. 1984 | 8:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse | 1984 is based on the dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. It is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Shows are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

Shakespeare’s R & J | 8:00 PM, 8/18 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Shakespeare’s language has never felt so contemporary in this retelling of the most famous romance ever told. Fall in love all over again with this timeless story of fate, chance, and star-crossed lovers. Adapted by the award winning playwright and director, Joe Calarco, an Ithaca College and Drama League/ Hangar Directing Fellowship alumnus.

Nana’s Naughty Knickers | 8/19 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | This comedy is written by written

by Katherine DiSavino and features a young woman excited to visit her grandmother — until shenaniga ns ensue. Evening showtimes at 7:30 p.m. and matinees at 2 p.m.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | 7:30 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | It’s the 1970s in a fictional town of Gilbert, Texas. Miss Mona and her girls are under fire from the religious televangelist Melvin P. Thorpe and, well, all hell breaks loose on the chicken ranch! Based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel, this funny, sexy, high energy song and dance comedy about the oldest profession will laugh you right out of your seat. ongoing Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted

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Chenango County Fairgrounds, Norwich Friday and Saturday, Aug. 18-19

Directed by Luis Buñuel, “The Exterminating Angel” follows a group of high-society, wealthy friends as they find themselves trapped in a mansion they gathered in for dinner. This film screening is part of the world cinema Thursday series, which allows participants to watch an discuss international, classic films. The series will come to a close in December, and it will run the third Thursday of each month. (Photo provided)

The Chenango Blues Festival celebrates its 25th year. Run by the Chenango Blues Association — an organization that fosters the appreciation of folk, blues, jazz and gospel music — The lineup this year will feature bands such as Muddy Magnolias, Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials, Ghost Town Blues Band and more. The festival will also have food from local restaurants and merchandise from vendors. (Photo provided)

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Notices Grand Recycle Sale | 08/19/17 | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | You’ll find rooms full of sporting goods, clothes, housewares, linens, crafts, books, electronics, furniture and lots more. The Unitarian Grand Recycle Sale opens it doors at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 19, and runs until 4 p.m. On Sunday, Aug. 20, hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with everything half price. On Monday, August 21, everything that remains is free or donation.

Rotary Harvest Food Collection | 08/19/17 | Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing, Ithaca | The Rotary Club of Ithaca is engaging in its 11th annual Rotary Harvest food collection during three weekends this summer.

On Saturdays, August 19, August 26, and September 2, volunteers from the Ithaca Rotary Club will gather at the Ithaca Farmers Market to gather donated produce and other fresh foods to supplement selected families’ meals.

Main Street Barbecue | 11:30 AM, 08/19/17 | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Trumansburg’s Rotary Club hosts a Cornell-recipe chicken barbecue fundraiser. Proceeds help support local funds (educational and arts grants, support of the local food pantry and more), and international funds (youth exchange scholarships, world health, polio eradication, disaster relief).

Ithaca Lions Club Chicken BBQ | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 08/20/17 | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Proceeds fund local sight, hearing, youth projects. ongoing

Books The Hangar Theatre is beginning its production of the play “Shakespeare’s R&J.” Written by Joe Calarco, a Hangar and Ithaca College alumnus, the play retells the story of Romeo and Juliet — but with an all-female cast.

(Photo: Rachel Philipson) wordpress.com/ Candor’s Farmers Market | 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, , Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more.

Candorfarmersmkt@gmail.com Open Mike Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/18 Friday | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade baked goods. Contact Arron Bound by telephone at (607) 844-1500 or by email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 8/19 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, go to the club’s website, http://

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Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball.

for a weekend of demonstrations and sales, plus a variety of store specials and specialty food items provided by our local merchants. Hassle free parking and continuous shuttle bus service from the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum and Pleasant Valley Wine Company.

6x6 Frenzy | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 08/18/17 | Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | The Seneca County Arts Council will hold its annual fundraiser, which gives participants a chance to view the work. Door prizes will also be at the event. For more information, visit www.artsinseneca. org.

Lansing Floats | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 08/19/17 | Myers Park, Lansing, 1 Lansing Park Rd, Lansing | Along with ice cream floats, there will be family-fun activities, including balloon creations by Cayuga Twister, decorating hands with henna, games and activities, and a small bounce house for the youngest family members. Rent a kayak, canoe, or paddleboard from Paddle-N-More for a ride on the lake and swim if the beach area is open.

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Pick Up Adult Coed Soccer | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us!

Special Events

Steuben County Fair | 08/16/17 | 15 E. Washington St, 15 E. Washington St, Bath | In its 198th year, the Steuben County Fair is the oldest continuouslyrunning fair in the United States. First

held in 1819, it has been held every year since without interruption. Info and schedule at steubencountyfair.org Worker/Organizer Bonanza | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 08/17/17 | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is inviting supporters, friends, and new acquaintances to an informal get-together at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, right above Autumn Leaves Used Books on the Ithaca Commons. Stop in at any point from 5:30-7:30 to chat with our staff, get familiar with current projects, and eat some pizza.

Chenango Blues Festival | 08/18/17 | Chenango County Fairgrounds, , Norwich | The Silver Anniversary of the Chenango Blues Festival will take place Aug. 18 and 19. The special lineup is headlined by collaborations that don’t often perform together.

Hammondsport Festival of Crafts | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 08/19/17 | Village Square, , Hammondsport | Annual festival which has over 125 crafters

Karaoke PRIDE Night,

K-House Karaoke Lounge & Suites, Ithaca, Thursday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m.

K-House has teamed up with Ithaca is Love for the Karaoke Pride Night. With 10 percent of all proceeds going to Ithaca is Love, a non-profit organization that works for the LGBT community, guests can sing the night away while also supporting a local organization focused on inclusivity.

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Summer Family Storytime | 11:00 AM-11:30 AM, 8/19 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills at Summer Family Storytime.

Jacob’s Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York’s Frontier Book Talk | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 8/19 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Join The History Center for a performance and a discussion of the book Jacob’s Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York’s Frontier by the author Charles Yaple.

Eclipse Storytime | 12:30 PM, 8/21 Monday | Dewitt Park, , Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse with a special Solar Eclipse in the Park all-ages storytime.

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Science Together: Making Predictions | 10:30 AM, 8/17 Thursday |Sciencenter, Ithaca | Explore chemical reactions using baking soda and vinegar.

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your toddlers and preschoolers as you explore science, through stories and self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn a different science process each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home.

Baby Signs With Jill Barbuti van Leuken | 12:30 PM-1:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Baby Signs With Jill Barbuti van Leuken is a weekly program designed to help caregivers communicate with their pre-verbal infants. Packed with baby play time, Baby Signs programs will teach gestures specially modified from American Sign Language for young learners.

Sciencenter Showtime! Mice Pee | 2:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Join Cornell neurobiologist Mike Sheehan to learn about mouse urine. Mice can recognize each other from their urine. Can you, too?

Science Together: Making Observations | 10:30 AM, 8/22 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Make observations about ice. Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you explore science through stories and self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn a different science process each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home. ongoing Summer Sprouts | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 8/16 Wednesday | Ithaca Children’s Garden, South End of Cass Park, Route 89, Ithaca | Story time at 10 a.m. in the garden. Experience the wonders of gardening through stories and hands-on gardening projects. Learn about gardens and the creatures that live there, then dig in with your own two hands!

Summer Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 8/18 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These fun filled programs will include stories, songs, rhymes, baby sign language and early literacy tips. Baby Storytime sessions will be immediately followed by an hour-long Baby and Toddler Playtime, designed to encouraged socialization and hands-on learning through informal free-play. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Summer Family Storytime | 11:00 AM-11:30 AM, 8/19 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101

“Jacob’s Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York’s Frontier” Book Talk History Center, Ithaca, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2 p.m.

The History Center will hold a performance and discussion of Charles Yaple’s newest book. The book dives into the history of New York’s frontier and the immigrants who occupied the land.

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East Green Street, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills at Summer Family Storytime.

Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market.

For more information, contact the library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

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Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies.

The Dragon’s Way | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | T-Fit Studio, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | A six-week fitness program designed for weight loss. For more information call or text Shawn Tubridy at (607) 279-6543.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 8/17 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey Leader 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, 8/19 Saturday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating.

No dues, fees, or weigh-ins. Long-term help for overeaters, undereaters and bulimics.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 8:00 AM-10:45 AM, 8/20 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm.

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Heads Up Fools Hill

by Christie Citranglo

Fools Hill Festival, Aug. 18-20 at Fools Hill in Spencer

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The musicians visiting Spencer this coming weekend have gathered from throughout the region to fill a roster of about one dozen groups who will grace the stage, bringing in a variety of tunes of numerous genres. Some of these names include local favorites, The Blind Spots and Noon Fifteen alongside some of Fools Hill’s signature acts, Garlic.Band and Technicolor Trailer Park.

The Ithaca Times has compiled a few bands to keep your ears open to this weekend at Fools Hill Festival.

Kitestring: From upstate New York, Kitestring crafts original tunes that range from American, blues and soul. It’s easy to dance and tap your feet to their

Mid-Day Mindfulness Sessions | 12:00 PM-12:30 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by psychotherapist and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Anna Salamone, RN, LCSW, these sessions will encourage participants to shift out of automatic pilot mode and observe the workings of the mind, body and emotions.

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Partial Solar Eclipse Viewing Party | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 8/21 Monday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Celebrate a partial eclipse of the sun.

The Sciencenter will provide special glasses for guests to borrow to safely watch the eclipse. Rain or shine, guests can explore the science of eclipses.

Come watch a live stream of NASA’s total solar eclipse broadcast. ongoing Tree Phenology Walk Series | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 8/17 Thursday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420

Another band coming to Fools Hill this weekend is Boogie Low, performing a rock acid, reggae fusion. (Photo: Jim Houle) beats, but they also specialize in stripped down acoustic music. Each of their songs embodies the mundane aspects of the human experience, from relationships to small plights in life. These seemingly bland stories reverberate through their music, bringing a new perspective to something old.

Ghost Peppers: Coming from the top side of the lakes in Victor, New York,

Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Nature Center for the weekly citizen science walks to observe and collect data on seasonal changes in trees.

Guided Gorge Hikes | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Fall Creek Gorge, across from Johnson Art Museum; Cascadilla Gorge, Treman Triangle Park, University Avenue or Linn Street, Ithaca | Come explore Ithaca’s gorges with Cornell’s knowledgeable Gorge Stewards. Fall Creek Gorge Hikes: Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m., meet at the information sign on University Avenue across from the Johnson Art Museum. Cascadilla Gorge Hikes: Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00 p.m., meet at the information sign in Treman Triangle Park, off Linn Street in downtown Ithaca.The hikes are moderately strenuous, including walking on uneven surfaces, inclines, and plenty of stairs. Tours will not run in inclement weather.

Garden Tours | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 8/19 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens Nevin Welcome Center, 125 Comstock Knoll, Ithaca | Enjoy a guided tour and

The Ghost Peppers play funky sets along with slow, jazzy tunes. With a total of six band members, all the bases of a bigband jazz are covered: keyboard/organ, bass, drums, guitar and saxophone. Their songs are reminiscent of something from a classic jazz cafe, mixed in with danceable classics like The Jackson Fives “I Want you Back.”

Dapper Dan: Dapper Dan jams

discover the beauty and diversity of our numerous gardens, including the Herb Garden, Flower Garden, Groundcover Collection, Tropical Container Display, and more. Tours are offered every Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine.

Actual tour content will vary from week to week, depending what’s in bloom and the interests of the group.

Drop-In and Volunteer! | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/22 Tuesday | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center (Parking Lot), 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | Tuesdays are drop-in volunteer nights this summer at Cornell Botanic Gardens! Stop by and unwind from your day with some evening weeding therapy. Meet new people, learn about plants from a knowledgeable staff horticulturist, and help keep our gardens looking beautiful. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your own garden gloves and hand tools, if you have them.

Art

Lust in the Wind | 6:00 PM, 8/16 Wednesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A Paint Nite

— and they jam to classics and original pieces with different twists and mixes. Although there is no “Dan” band member in Dapper Dan, the group is comprised of a bassist, two guitarists and one drummer, all of them contributing vocal ranges to the band. From just around the corner in Newfield, Dapper Dan brings tunes of old and new to the stage, promising some surprising and creative jams. •

Ithaca event. For more information, visit http://thedockithaca.com/events/.

Feather & Fur Opening | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/18 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Artists Shirley Hogg and Treacy Ziegler will share their depictions of animals and birds in paintings and bronze sculptures. ongoing Brook Long | 8/18 Friday | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Brook Long uses simple methods to fragment, arrange, construct and abstract architectural space. The use of transitional shifts evoke ambiguity within the spaces.

Angelo Paradiso | 8/18 Friday | The Vape Flavourium, 79 E Market St, Corning | Angelo will be showing his new series Space Fruit.

Brian Keeler | 8/18 Friday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Brian Keeler’s collection of paintings called On the Water will be on display until Aug. 31 at North Star Gallery.

Leah Armstrong | 8/18

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Hammondsport Festival of Crafts,

Sciencenter, Ithaca, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2 p.m.

Village Square, Hammondsport, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 19-20

Kids of all ages are invited to learn about the mysteries in something cool and yucky: mice urine. Cornell neurobiologist Mike Sheehan will give a lesson on mice urine, and how mice can identify each other based only on the smell of their urine.

(Photo provided)

This event is part of an annual celebration of crafts.

More than 125 crafters will gather for a weekend of demonstrations and sales, plus a variety of local merchants and food vendors. Discover the secrets of floral design or woodworking, learn how to work leather or quilt and much more.

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Ariana Olsen | 8/18 Friday | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Set of paintings. Artwork on display on both floors of Waffle Frolic.

Mariana Sforza | 8/18 Friday | BellaCapelli Salon and Day Spa, 28 W Market St, Corning | Sforza will be showing her Funky Flower series.

Peter Fortunato | 8/18 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Selected works by Peter Fortunato.

Eva M. Capobianco | 8/19 Saturday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Sculptures by Eva M. Capobianco on display through Aug. 27.

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MINDFULNESS-BASED

10% OFF any Service

STRESS REDUCTION

with Community Cash Coupon

at Island Health & Fitness

24/7 CLEANING Services

Free Orientation Sat. Sept. 9, 1:30pm

Triphammer Market Place

Reserve your seat: 279-4769, nickboyar.com

607-379-6210

like organic cantaloupe from Rolling Acres.

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in partnership with Cayuga Medical Center

This week at GreenStar we have 3,945 local products...

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Ship for Less

High Dusting * Windows/Awnings

607-227-3025

607-319-4002

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with a Camera Surveillance System

Same Day Service Available

drainage

24

Protect Your Home

Reliable and Affordable

landscape design + installation

snow removal

Men’s and Women’s Alterations

16– 2 2,

2017

LOCATED 15.6 miles

from GREENSTAR