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I HAVE A DREAM

Delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, in the March on Washington D.C. for Civil Rights

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on their promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials

and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood., I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning My country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring. And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvacious peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.”

These are the words that moved a nation. We believe they are the best way to remember Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday, January 18th.

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espite having a small agenda, a lengthy discussion about how the City of Ithaca could better enforce its zoning laws dominated the Planning and Economic Development Committee’s first meeting of the new year. Some problems have arisen with landlords overcrowding apartments or renting apartments that have been condemned by code enforcement. Along with the entire PEDC Committee, they were joined by most of the members of the Common Council, City Prosecutor Robert Sarachan, and Director of Code Enforcement Mike Niechwiadowicz. Some of the points they brought up were about a single residence on Thurston Avenue, which was rented out to several members of the Cornell University wrestling team. Many members of the committee have found that this is becoming a problem, however, First Ward Alderperson Cynthia Brock flipped this. She said that instead of viewing this as a problem, perhaps this should be viewed as something the committee needs to tackle head-on. Brock also stated that since there is a demand for this kind of market that buildings accommodating, perhaps, these are the kinds of developments that the City of Ithaca should be potentially investing in. Mayor Svante Myrick proposed starting an ad hoc committee that looks out for the rights of renters in Ithaca. Most other officials in attendance agreed with the suggestion. While discussing the penalties, the process of fining landlords came up, as it is both laborious and somewhat timeconsuming. Sarachan said that

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Dredge the Creek

Cascadilla Creek dredging project begins to take shape

uring the winter months, Cascadilla Creek has created problems with ice jams at the Route 13 bridge. To alleviate this frequent issue, the City of Ithaca is working to dredge the creek from Route 13 to its mouth, where it empties into the Cayuga Inlet. Even though this project has been in the works for some time now, it still has quite a way to go before the actual dredging begins. For now, Department of Public Works Superintendent Mike Thorne is confident that the work will begin by the end of this year and continue into early 2020. Around 18,000 cubic yards are being dredged from the creek, in addition to a sediment trap being installed. A recent survey of the creek has discovered just what work needs to be done to keep ice jams from reoccurring. “We’ve talked to the DEC and let them know what we are

planning on doing,” Thorne said. “The U.S.G.S. [United States Geographic Survey] has done a recent bathymetric survey so we know what the bottom of the creek looks like geometrically. We have a consultant that has designed a proposed dredging prism, which is what the shape of the bottom of the channel will look like when we’re done. Based on that, we have come up with a volume of sediment we’re going to be removing from the creek. We’re working with the adjacent property owner to see if we can use their property to store the sediments until they’re dried out enough to be put into trucks and taken off site. Again, a lot of the little details still need to be worked out but we are still planning on dredging a year from now.” Agreements from the neighboring property owners are still in the works, the search for a location to dispose of the sediment continues, and the

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determination of where to put the sediment trap still has to be found. Thorne said that once the sediment has been completely dried out, it will probably be taken to either an abandoned mine or an abandoned quarry. For several years now, this project has been a necessity to conclude the lengthy history of ice jams that form at the mouth of Cascadilla Creek. According to Thorne, some of the gravel bars that have developed have been there for several years. “If you look at Cascadilla Creek when the lake is low, you’ll see a lot of gravel bars that actually stick up in the mouth of Cascadilla Creek, so we want to remove those,” said Thorne. “In the past when we’ve had ice jam problems, the ice will flow down Cascadilla Creek and will get caught on these gravel bars and start building up an ice jam from that point. Those gravel bars have been there for a number of years, at least five years, but probably a lot longer. Navigation along Cascadilla Creek has also been impacted. We’ve been getting reports from marina owners, in the past year or so, that boats are starting to bottom out.” Lisa Nicholas, deputy director of Planning and Economic Development, said that acquiring the necessary $2 million of funding was not a difficult part of this elaborate process. “We got money through the continued on page 30

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Contract Dispute stops Harold’s Square construction

disagreement between developer David Lubin and the construction team working on the project halted work on the downtown Harold’s Square development starting Jan. 3, according to a statement sent out by the construction company.

tributed to Taylor the Builders representatives. “There were significant design changes since the project started which had an impact on all of the trades (plumbing, heating, electrical, etc.). Taylor and its subcontractors needed to have those changes incorporated

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Harold’s Square construction on the Commons paused Jan. 3 after contractual disagreements. (Photo by Matt Butler)

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The statement, distributed by Geoff Cook, director of business development for Taylor, the Builders, said the stoppage was a result of design modifications and a resulting contract dispute. “Unfortunately due to changes in design, we could not proceed further until changes in our contract were made,” the statement read, at-

into their contracts to continue, and the development team did not want to proceed in that direction at this time.” How, or if, this impacts the timeline of completion for Harold’s Square is not yet clear. The development was first proposed in 2008, but took years to finally secure approval from the city and just broke ground in early 2018. Once completed,

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ince the plan to shut down the L Train in New York City for 15 months was brought up last year, people have been scrambling to find alternative plans for their commutes. Considering that the L Train doesn’t share its line with other trains, planning a commute around it can seem impossible. But New Yorkers were given a stay of inconvenience when Governor Andrew Cuomo stepped in last week to stop the shutdown and keep the L Train open after years of saying otherwise.

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Cuomo consulted with leading engineering experts about what could be done to ensure that many commuters were able to make the journey from Canarsie, Brooklyn to 14th Street, one of Manhattan’s many bustling thoroughfares. As many as 300,000 people, according to a report from AM New York, rely on that line every day. With the shutdown, commuters would have been displaced onto train lines that are already overflowing with passengers as well as crowded buses. However, for

the project would bring 108 apartments to the Commons, along with office space. Lubin said in an email that he had discussed the situation with City of Ithaca officials and that another construction manager has been hired, with work potentially restarting later this week. According to an email sent by Jim Dentinger, president of McGuire Development Company (also involved with Harold’s Square), LeChase Construction has been hired to replace Taylor, and the delay shouldn’t impact the Fall 2019 completion deadline. Dentinger said many of the same workers and subcontractors who were working on the project will continue to do so with a new construction manager, which will hopefully mitigate any chance of a long delay. “In these situations, which are rare, the subcontractors pick up where they left off and the project moves forward,” Dentinger said. “It’ll be pretty seamless, probably not even noticeable.” Karl Schuler, president of Taylor, the Builders, described the delay as more of an impasse, citing that there were too many design changes being made to continue. Some that came to Schuler’s mind were structural, heating, flooring and plumbing changes, to name a few. Schuler said all construction workers who were working at Harold’s Square through Taylor, the Builders have been moved to other construction projects.

Despite the postponement, Schuler said the project will likely start back up again soon, though that remains to be seen. “The new development team from Buffalo has different ideas and many design changes were made, and after discussing the options and the difficulties getting compensated through the project, Taylor and the subcontractor trades found they were unable to proceed with the project under the current terms of their contracts,” the statement from Taylor, the Builders continued. “Ownership was unwilling to formalize their new designs when confronted with the associated costs, so on January 3rd we had to let them know that we could not continue under the current terms.” Dentinger said he didn’t want to comment extensively on the design changes that were made and which caused Taylor to depart the project. He did say the design changes weren’t major and that the project wasn’t losing any units. Dentinger would not comment specifically on potential litigation from the situation. “We just had a different opinion about communication, and I’ll leave it at that,” Dentinger said. “On any project, there’s typically clarifications of the design, which is very normal. So again, I would leave it as a communication issue of what expectations were on both sides.”

L Train commuters, this is not an uncommon occurrence. Throughout the last 15 years, the L Train has been the victim of multiple service disruptions, due to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) implementing communication-based train control, meaning the trains would be driverless. This latest shutdown, though, is to repair the damage done to the 14th Street Tunnel from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Several other tunnels that carry subway lines under the East River into Brooklyn were damaged, but those repairs were not as bad as those necessary on the L Train line. Cuomo assembled a team of advisors to help with the project, two of

whom are actually just up the hill in Ithaca: Cornell University civil and environmental engineering professor Thomas O’Rourke, and Lance Collins, the dean of engineering at Cornell University. O’Rourke was brought onto the project in December by Collins and he was soon immersed in ideas for keeping the tunnel open without having to close down the entire line. “The main solution was to recognize that the electrical cables and signal cables could be taken from their current location, which is in what we call a duct bank,” O’Rourke said, referring to the

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Speakeasy: Nydia Boyd leaves Southside to pursue her art

ydia Boyd always knew her time at Southside Community Center would be temporary, but she wanted to work somewhere she could have an impact on her native neighborhood. Now, Boyd has decided to turn her attention to… well, she’s not sure yet. She said she likes that aspect of it. There’s plenty of formulations the rest of her life could take, particularly with photography that has gotten her freelance work in national publications. She said she feels good about the position Southside is in now, which has comforted her as she prepares to leave, though she will still be there for several months as they search for and train a new executive director. The Ithaca Times sat down with Boyd to talk about her experience at Southside and its importance in Ithaca’s black community. Ithaca Times: You’re deeply involved in art, is that what’s next for you? Nydia Boyd: When I first agreed to be acting executive director and then full time executive director, I said, “Okay, I’ll do it, but [only] if I can maintain my art career at the same time.” So, being in this position was never something that was going to be super long-term. But I knew that if I could make both of those work, then I could be here. I think I did that successfully, but I think also that at times I had to choose doing things for Southside over doing things for the art career. So, since that’s what I’ve been dedicated to and what I’ve been studying this whole time, I’d really like to immerse myself fully in that art world. IT: What is your proudest moment at Southside? NB: There have been a lot, but I think one of the moments that I’m most excited about was the Juneteenth festival this year. I remember going to Juneteenth as a child [...] It was so cool because Juneteenth felt like an old Juneteenth from when I was a kid. It was really

nice to have that excitement in the community and have so many people here, and we had a great list of performers, and so that was really exciting to feel the energy and to feel people coming out. It’s taken a bit of time to get people reinvested in Southside, and that, to me, was a big sign of that. IT: What is your biggest regret, something you haven’t been able to accomplish since you got here? NB: I wish that I could have been present in programming more. There would’ve been much more stuff that I would’ve wanted to do around photography and stuff, even just myself. There are things that I am specifically interested in teaching, and sharing with people. This summer I got to teach a class for Ithaca College’s MFA program, so I mixed their MFA students with kids from the center, and so we had a really great class. IT: In terms of stuff you would pass on to the next executive director, what is the most significant thing they need to know about Southside? NB: I’ve spent a great deal of time figuring out [how] a community center is relevant and stays

relevant—a community center that has historically been here to serve the needs of black folks in Ithaca. So, how do we stay relevant in 2018 and 2019, especially in Ithaca and especially in a world that is becoming a bit more color blind each day? So, how do we speak to the importance of a specific space, while also changing with the neighborhood and changing with the times? So, speaking back to things that are going on in Ithaca—gentrification, issues with jobs and employment, issues with food justice—being here and knowing that we serve some of Ithaca’s most underserved people. IT: Nia Nunn said a year ago one of the missions for you all at the time was “reminding the public of Southside’s worth.” Do you think you’ve made progress on that? NB: I think we have. That’s

what I was speaking to with Juneteenth, was the reinvestment of the people in Southside— that’s what is most important. I think that we definitely do get a bit of recognition that we didn’t even get last year. In a funny way, I always say that I think people have “put some respect on our name” [channeling Birdman’s infamous quote], which was

what we were looking for. We knew there was so much life here, and so much history here, and we just wanted to breathe into that. I think we’ve done that.

▶▶ Thumbs Up - To New York State for taking another step toward widespread and much needed voter reforms this week with the approval of early voting, which didn’t previously exist in the state, as well as erasing the need to justify an absentee ballot. Governor Andrew Cuomo intends to sign the bills into law, by all accounts, and state Democrats will have one of their first victories of their new majority reign.

IT: This is probably the most prominent black institution in Ithaca. How much pressure does that put on you guys, that you are the main resource for black people who feel forgotten in such a white place?

▶▶ Thumbs Up - To Ithaca Festival for reaching its goal of $30,000 necessary to fund the festival for at least another year while organizers pursue long-term, more stable funding sources. It was always likely the festival, which serves as the de facto summer kick-off, would meet its goal but good to see them succeed.

NB: It’s tough, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about that. There’s a lot of things to consider. One of the big ones is the gentrification of this neighborhood: black people and non-white people have been pushed to the West End, to multiple housing complexes in the outskirts of town. So the interaction with Southside and even the [St. James] AME Zion church becomes different because you’re not just walking outside of your house and coming here. You’re having to travel here. So when I say, “Be relevant,” we have to have things that get you here [...] I think that puts a bit of pressure in that sense, to actually still pull in people from the population that we’ve historically served, being interesting to them, and them believing in us that we have the resources here, and that there’s this sense of family. In the community at large, there’s some pressure on us too, because in a predominantly white space, when people want to access or provide programming for or want black people included, they come here. Sometimes they think that we have all those answers, and oftentimes we don’t. We’re trying to figure it out like everyone else.

▶▶ Heard - Thanks to Jaime Cone, the Ithaca Times office is now outfitted with a perfectly suitable coffee machine capable of making the classic drip-style coffee or utilizing a Keurig. Unfortunately, designer Marshall Hopkins tried to break the machine during his first use, but thankfully it prevailed. Productivity will increase tenfold in the office, we guarantee. ▶▶ The most popular stories this week on Ithaca.com are... 1. Vogel named Trumansburg Person of the Year 2. Dispute stops Harold’s Square construction, for now 3. Family escapes Linn Street house fire 4. Music and Love: The story of Franklin Henry, Jr. 5. After 2018 defeat, Mitrano sheds light on new campaign

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By Da n K l e i n, Tom pk i n s C ou n t y L e gisl at u r e m e m be r of biodiversity in og it or leave Tompkins County. it? That is the There a re on ly 2 question besmall pieces of oldfore the Tompkins growth forest left in County Legislature the County – each right now. approximately 30 Tompkins acres. County owns 550 W hen I t h i n k acres of forest in about the governNewfield and Carmenta l act ions oline. These trees 10 0 yea rs a go to have been g rowset aside land that i ng for 80 yea rs. could have otherUnfortunately, wise been prof itthe County plans ably developed, I to lo g t h i s pu b am inspired. Think licly-owned land, about what a gift t hereby dest royStewart Park, Treing the beauty and m a n , Ta u g h a n integrity of these nock, and Butterforests, buildm i l k Fa l l s S t at e ing logging roads Pa rk s a re to u s . into roadless areas, Tompkins County is in the unique posidegrading the quality of the soils, and releasing large amounts of stored green- tion to create a lasting gift to future generations, and it won’t cost taxpayers anyhouse gases back to the atmosphere. I a m a member of t he Tompk i ns thing. Some of the proponents of logging on County Legislature and instead propose to let the land mature into old-growth forest. Old-growth forest is the rarest piece continued on page 7

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ore than most U.S. states, New York has certain foods emblematic of it: bagels, knishes, egg creams, pastrami, hot dogs, wings, spiedies, cheesecake, pizza. Among them, up and down the state, pizza is no doubt the most prevalent. Pizza is universal, of course, but there is a distinct variety actually called New York-style. There is a counterpart in the U.S. called Chicago-style. To the extent this makes a rivalry, New Yorkers don’t deign to notice or care. Of course, New Yorkers generally don’t chew over many (or any?) would-be civic rivalries. What is there to consider? New York has the Empire State Building. It has Niagara Falls. It has the Statue of Liberty. It has Broadway. It has the Brooklyn Bridge. It has a resident superhero, Spiderman, who comes from Queens. Who does Chicago have, Mike Ditka? A New Yorker will note that Chicago doesn’t have any superheroes, and doesn’t have any pizza, either, no matter what they call that bready stuff they eat. For the record, New York-style is thin, with a crisp crust, and can be held aloft without sagging, and cracked down the middle so the triangular slice can be folded lengthwise, and eaten with one hand. Chicago-style is baked in a deep pan and resembles cake. It is thick and doughy, and a particularly acerbic New

Yorker might say yes, as are its proponents, but that would be rude, even for a truculent chauvinist. Ithaca is tolerant, not chauvinistic, with residents from all over the country and the world because of its colleges, and for years one of its most popular pizza restaurants featured Chicago-style deep dish, as odd as that might be in the heart of the Empire State. Key to this anomaly, though, is the word “restaurant.” Rootsy New Yorkers will more generally frequent pizza “parlors,” austere establishments with formica tables, certainly no tablecloths, and not even cutlery, serving the handheld variety with an informality and brisk readiness New Yorkers will love, as long as the product is good. Downtown Ithaca is fortunate in having a number of such emporia. I’ve been to them all, and they’re all good, but very different, at least in feel, which of course is important with anything axiomatic of New York. In pizza parlors, as with people (at least fervid New Yorkers), personality counts. I don’t wish to play favorites, and certainly will not name them, but I will say this: my fondness for a place, while of course depending mostly on the quality of the fare, is also contingent on whether, upon entering, I am greeted with the phrase, “Hello my friend.” To specify: those three words, continued on page 7

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epresentative Tom Reed appears not to understand the meaning of the word represent. What else can be the explanation for his total lack of representation on behalf of his constituents? Do the good people NY’s 23rd want him to do nothing while the Trump shutdown of our government becomes the longest in our nation’s history? How does this approach help to “make America great again”? As his employers we the people expect Mr. Reed as our employee, to do his job, which is to fulfill his oath of office and keep the government open. His loyalty and allegiance should be to our constitution and our country first, not to his dear leader Trump, whose reckless and authoritarian actions are truly a national security threat that Mr. Reed fully supports with his compliance and complacency. Should we not expect more from our elected representative? If Mr. Reed doesn’t want to govern and legislate, then why did he run for reelection? If Mr. Reed is anti-government then why choose to be 6 T

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a member of Congress? Why waste our time and our tax dollars if Mr. Reed never had any good faith intentions to actually do the job for which he was hired to do? Why is he allowed to continue to collect his tax payer funded paycheck and his future pension when federal workers are being bankrupted by his failure to do his job? Do your job Mr. Reed or resign and let’s send someone to Congress who will. Liam F. O’Kane

n 1-10-19, Representative Tom Reed sent an email to his constituents titled “This is a Crisis.” In it he made several statements that I find extremely ignorant. 1. Reed said that the president’s address to America on The Wall “laid out common sense reasons to secure our southern border.” I (reluctantly) watched the president’s speech and heard nothing continued on page 7

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preferably with no discernible comma in the utterance, almost as if it’s just one word: “Hellomyfriend.” There aren’t many other places you’ll be greeted that way, with those words. Are there any at all? Certainly not a restaurant, whether or not it serves pizza. It’s strictly a pizza parlor thing. Last week I went into a parlor downtown for a slice and got this greeting: ”Hellomyfriend, whatcanIgetforyou?” I immediately felt happy, relaxed, and at home. I sat down and had a plain slice, delivered to my table. After the slice, I wanted a cappuccino (not a latte: cappuccino), and went to a fine, high-end coffee house, where I don’t go frequently but love it when I do, because it is among the best in the country, and maybe the world, although I am not abroad often enough to know.

Entering the place, I wondered, what are the odds of the counter person saying “Hello my friend”? Even with a comma? Maybe a million to one? That wasn’t the greeting, of course. I don’t remember exactly what it was: probably something along the lines of “How are you,” without a detectable question mark. It was fine, though. Traits and purposes differ. Coffee houses have Olympian detachment. Pizza parlors, at their best, have hoi polloi camaraderie. Life is a bouquet, but roses are not blue, and violets are not red. It makes one realize how ordained but varied beauty and excellence can be. Ithaca is lucky to have plenty of these qualities within its community and among its businesses. Do yourself a favor, venture out and partake.

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the County Legislature are claiming that cutting down the trees will actually slow down climate change. They are basing this on the idea that younger trees remove carbon more quickly from the atmosphere than older trees. This is a very iffy proposition which science has been disproving in recent years. But even if what they say is true, the new small trees will need a very long time to “catch up” to the amount of carbon the large older trees were storing. One study estimated that “catch-up” time at 200 years. There are no plans to plant new trees in the logged areas. The recent United Nations report on climate change said that we may be feeling large impacts of our fouled atmosphere within 12 years. Those are 12 years during which our trees could be storing carbon if we left them standing. The follow-up to the UN report by the National Academy of Sciences said that the easiest solution we currently have to climate change is keeping the carbon stored in trees and the soil where it is, and plant even more trees. There are also questions about the ash trees and their imminent demise at the hands of an insect called the emerald ash borer. If we were able to go in with solar powered helicopters and pluck out each ash tree, I might support their removal. But the reality of commercial logging is that roads will be built into the forest, soil structure will be destroyed, and large numbers of other trees will be damaged and destroyed in this effort to get to the ash trees. Leaving the ash trees is not in any way “bad” for the forest. In fact, if we are ever going to find an ash tree resistant to this insect, the way to do that is to leave the ash standing and see if any survive the infestation. Some of the land is in red pine planta-

tions. Although it may have been a mistake in the 1930’s to plant a monoculture of this native tree, nature is taking care of this for us. These plantations are at the end of their lives, and you can see numerous places on our County-owned lands where the pines have blown down, and beautiful mixed hardwood saplings are thriving. If we log these plantations, we will destroy all the young trees that are getting ready to take over, setting the clock back 15 years. The estimated profit to the County to log would be $40,000. We should not log this land because County government is in a unique position to establish old-growth forests, and oldgrowth is special and rare. We should not log because these trees help fight climate change. We should not log because once you log, you cannot un-log. Old-growth forests need 200 years or so to become the special habitat that they are, and by definition, there needs to be minimal human intervention. We should not log because the idea that we make a forest “healthier” by logging is a false concept that does not stand up to scrutiny. We should not log this publicly-owned land because we have inherited this gift from the past, and we owe it to the future to pass it on. We would be foolish to squander this inheritance. The County’s Planning, Development, and Environmental Quality Committee is scheduled to vote on this topic on January 24 at 2:00. Much more information can be found at tompkinsoldgrowth.org.

“common sense,” just a rehash of dozens of points he’s made about the need for the wall that 57 percent of Americans disagree with. 2. He talked about parents grieving for their children who died due to heroin overdoses. Opioids, not heroin is the crisis that our nation needs to fight. And the Opioid epidemic is a 100% USA-made problem. It doesn’t come over the border. It is produced in abundance by US Pharmaceutical companies and liberally distributed without oversight to Pharmacies that abuse the prescribing laws. No Border Wall needed on that, Mr. Reed. Just more regulation on the Pharmaceutical companies and their distribution network. Regulation is not a dirty word. Regulation is “common sense.” 3. In his email, Reed conflates the 9/11 tragedy with terrorists coming across the Mexico border. I’m always amazed at how Republicans love to talk about terrorists coming over the Mexico border. The 9/11 terrorists who slipped illegally into the U.S. came through Canada, not Mexico. 4. Reed “urge(s) politicians on both sides of the aisle to be proactive instead of reactive in finding a solution to this growing crisis”. What crisis? Whatever is happening at the southern border was created by Donald J. Trump. Get rid of Trump and get rid of the crisis! Proactive action…THAT starts with Tom Reed and his party. The border situation SHOULD NOT cause a government shut-down. That issue belongs to Trump, and can only be tamed by Republicans standing up for America by taking the border wall out of the budget discussions. The government can get back to work, and its employees removed from the stresses a shut-down has imposed on them. That is achieved by reopening the government and removing the wall as an item that shuts down our government. Our southern border may need to be shorn up in places, and policies may need revision, but the wall is NOT the answer. Republicans need to listen to the MAJORITY of Americans who think the wall is a waste of money and a hare-brained notion of our very inept president. It’s NOT an emergency, it’s NOT a crisis, it’s a political mess created by a president and those who support him, including Mr. Reed. Rosemary Adelewitz Ithaca, NY

ere is the big problem for Democrats: The Republicans are correct when they say that we have not had a new idea for the past 50 years. They are also right when they say that we have had no real national platform/ agenda that we stand for. I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but at least I have a platform/agenda that I stand for. I want the federal government to do more and spend more to help our citizens Ja n ua ry

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who are poor, near-poor, lower-middleclass, and middle-class who are struggling to survive and to pay their bills. I want the national Democratic Party to be the way that it was in the 1960s when we cared more about all of these people and fought harder to make life better for all of them. The problem with the national Democrats is that they have offered no way to pay for anything that would help to make life better for us. So, we are stuck, and have been spinning our wheels for the past 50 years doing virtually nothing to help anyone. It’s no wonder why people are sick and tired of us. We haven’t offered anything new or different. I’m a Democrat, and I am also sick and tired of us. The only way to get the revenue to actually do something big to help Americans is something that the national Democrats seem to lack the courage and bravery to advocate for. So I will. Donald Trump proposed it in 1999. Look it up. The only way to get the revenue to fund my platform/agenda is to pass a National Wealth Tax. If you want to play “Robin Hood” (as I do) you have to tax WEALTH because that’s where the big bucks are. So, I advocate for the passage of a National Wealth Tax of 10% on all individuals with a net-wealth and net-worth of $10 million and higher. This will affect less than 1% of our population. If we want to have a Canadian-style national health insurance program which will cover and help 99% of all Americans, this is the only way to come up with the money to pay for it. Stewart B. Epstein NYDIA BOYD Contin u ed From Page 6

which is actually where the work that I’m most known for, called ‘The Girl Who Spun Gold,’ originated from. I felt so guilty leaving these girls. I felt so selfish [...] But then, when that work started to get out into the world, [with] the response that I got from so many people in terms of seeing themselves in the work, the work resonating with them and the work being powerful to them as black girls and women, I realized that making photography and making art has the ability to touch so many people. So, that’s the kind of thing that I’m trying to work with in my head. My work revolves around issues around social justice, race, gender, class and sexuality. I’m working on the outside in something that seems personal, but something that touches so many people. So, I’ve been trying to stick with that, to negate any feelings that I’m leaving the community. Because, that was my goal, to come and work in the community where I was raised. Now, it’s just time to move on. And if I’m not in Ithaca, I’ll always come back to the Southside. M att Butler

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Meet the New Boss Martin Stallone wants to bridge the gap between patient care and administration By M att Bu tler 8â€ƒ T

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new face will be occupying the office of President and CEO of Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health System in 2019, as Martin Stallone takes over the position from the outgoing John Rudd. But with an avowed emphasis on staying involved clinically with patients, Stallone sounds like he might spend less time physically occupying said office than the average hospital administrator. Rudd announced in October that he would be retiring as the CEO of CMC and Cayuga Health Systems, effective in the fall of 2019. His successor, Stallone, was named at the same time, moving up from medical director of the hospitalist program to the CEO role. Stallone holds degrees in molecular biology from Cornell University, an M.D. and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, along with a Master’s degree in national security from the National War College at National Defense University, located in Washington, D.C. Rudd said knowing Stallone was his replacement was comforting in the announcement. “I am very pleased that the board has appointed Dr. Stallone as my successor,” Rudd said. “He is well prepared to guide our entire organization forward and continue the focus on our mission of improving the health of our communities by delivering the highest quality of health care in a safe, compassionate, and sustainable manner, one person at a time.” Stallone’s connection to the area goes back decades: he’s a Cornell University grad himself, and his wife’s father is a former Cornell professor. In 2009, Stallone found himself returning to Ithaca after searching for a job that would provide the opportunity to mix clinical and administrative experience led him to CMC. The hospital was searching for someone to fill the Hospitalist Director role, and Stallone said he was “blown away” by the hospital’s “very progressive program development and community relationship-building.” Additionally, he said he was impressed with opportunities for growth and upwards mobility afforded to CMC physicians; coincidentally, 10 years later he’s the hospital’s president and CEO. While he has now reached the top of the administrative ladder at CMC, Stallone does seem adamant that he wants to keep a clinical presence at the hospital. While granting the triteness of the sentiment, Stallone said the healing and caring aspects of medicine were the fuel that

brought him to the field initially and have kept him engaged ever since. He’s confident that as long as he keeps a hand in the clinical side of the hospital’s operations, including continuing to see and interact

the nursing staff, but regardless, Stallone sounds unwilling to endorse or support any type of organizing among the hospital’s medical staff. When asked if he would support unionization efforts if presented with them again, he said no, instead positing that more can be done without union involvement. “I would find it unnecessary and counterproductive to what we could do without it,” Stallone said. “I think of a union as useful in certain environments, and this is not one of them [...] We do a lot, and we’ll continue to do a lot, of asking our employees to be part of the care system that they operate within. So if someone came and asked me that, I would ask ‘What is the root cause of why you want to unionize, and is there a better way?’” Asking their employees to continue to have a voice in the hospital’s methods of patient care would take the form of giving them a seat at the table when medical and treatment strategies are being discussed, according C E O a n d P r e s i d e n t o f C ay u g a M e d i c a l to Stallone. In his mind, a C e n t e r , D r . M a r t i n S ta l l o n e doctor is made up of equal parts scientist, teacher and social worker, needing to with patients when it’s possible, will prebalance each element to be the most efvent the administrative parts of the posifective. The administration, on the other tion from overpowering his passion for hand, is there solely to allow doctors, nurshealthcare. In doing so, Stallone said he es and other medical staff to best carry out would ensure that he is able to more effec- their jobs, furthering the clinical mission tively address concerns fielded from both of the hospital. other doctors and hospital staffers as well In particular, Stallone wanted to point as from patients staying at the hospital as out that he feels hospital administrations well. are best viewed in the context of service to “I’ve committed to maintain my cliniand protection of the clinical staff instead cal credentials,” Stallone said. “This new of being two distinctly separate bodies. position is going to require a lot of attenBeing CEO, it would likely be easier to tion and focus. But the relationships I’ll be removed from clinical staff work, but have with the medical staff and the ability it sounds like Stallone would prefer to be to know how the hospital is running from a bridge between the administrative and the eyes of a patient are both important in- clinical side instead of just the adminisformation to have.” trative head. That’s the best path toward Relationships with the medical staff effective communication and a healthy rewill certainly be a crucial part of Stallationship between the two sides and thus lone’s reign. CMC was cited for infractions the best method for beneficial medicine, by the National Labor Relations Board he feels. in 2018. There’s no indication of how the “The administration is here to protect situation has impacted CMC’s relationthe clinicians,” Stallone said. “The adminship with its staff members, particularly istration serves the clinicians who help paJa n ua ry

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tients. That’s my attitude toward administration, and so [as long as] I’m doing that, administration is a good thing.” Stallone will also be overseeing the most significant CMC foray into downtown Ithaca to date, fortifying its status as the flagship medical provider for Ithaca and Tompkins County. Tentative plans were brought before the city’s Planning and Economic Development Committee in October which would secure CMC a spot in Ithaca’s “gateway,” and expand the hospital’s downtown presence and service capabilities. The incoming CEO acknowledged the importance of establishing a downtown location that might be able to more conveniently serve the city’s center, and certainly the most densely populous part of Tompkins County, with the added bonus of the housing and mixed use aspects of the project, separate from whatever medical facility is eventually built there, which will theoretically create surplus value to the city as well. Overall, Stallone said he wants to make sure hospital staff are focused on patient care above all else, and views his role as CEO as meant to facilitate their ability to do so. He also said the hospital is working to become Planetree-certified, which would mean satisfying five criteria (promote engagement; connect values and actions; implement partnerships; knowing and understanding the cultural needs of patients and staff members and making evidence-based improvements) laid out to enhance the hospital’s strategy of remaining patient focused and emphasizing a “partnership” of sorts between all those involved in the healthcare process. “Every role in the hospital has to have a role in excellent patient care, whether you are a receptionist or a nurse or a physical therapist or whatever, everything we do is in support, directly or indirectly, of patients who are in need,” Stallone said. “That’s why everything we do has to be person- and patient-centered. We’re working on a certification called Planetree that concentrates on person-centeredness, and I really believe in that, that everything we do has to be for the benefit of those we serve. Moreover, we need to take care of the servers. That’s where my job is important, because I have to look after the interests of all the people who need to be well to take care of the people who are unwell. It’s a tall order, but it’s an organization of human beings taking care of other human beings.”

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Taylor Day, a former Ithaca High School player, is one example of the local connections of TC3’s roster. (Photo provided)

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TC3’s Day talks about her path from Little Red to college ball By Ste ve L aw re nc e

all me “Old School,” but I get excited when I look at a community college’s sports team roster. I like to see athletes from the community. I know a coach’s job is to put the best athletes from the college’s student population on the field, or court, or diamond, but I love to write about local athletes. Imagine my glee when I received an email from Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), detailing the women’s basketball team’s big win over Broome Community College. The email contained this line: “Taylor Day (Brooktondale/Ithaca H.S.) led the team in scoring with 16 points to go with 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals.” I reached out to Taylor, and she was kind enough to bring me up to speed on her experience as a TC3 Panther. Backing up, I asked Day about her pathway to becoming a collegiate athlete,

and she said she had grown up playing in AAU leagues coached by Jeff Gorski, the coach of the Ithaca High School girls team, and played up and down the east coast. After a solid career as a four year varsity player for the Little Red, Taylor was recruited to play at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, but those plans did not come to fruition. She is now a 2-year starter at TC3, and I asked her about the adjustments necessary to play the college game. “Well, for one thing, the players are bigger,” the 5’11” frontcourt player offered. “They are also a lot quicker. It’s definitely a different style of play.” Day has made some other adjustments as well. “As a second-year player, I have tried hard to work on my leadership skills,” she said. “We have eleven players on the team, and many of them are freshmen.”

Taylor made another astute observation, saying, “In high school and A.A.U. ball, you play with the same players for several years. At a 2-year school, you have to learn to play with your teammates quickly.” So far this season, Day has started all nine of the Panthers’ games, and is averaging 15 points per game. She is also contributing in other stat categories, as she has pulled down 34 defensive rebounds, a few offensive boards and blocked five shots. Looking forward, she said, “I definitely plan to transfer to a SUNY school and keep playing.” She has visited SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and hopes to check out more campuses and get a sense of the chemistry of several other teams. “I’m undecided right now,” Day said. “I have been recruited by several schools, and I want to take the time to visit several of them.” ••• In perusing the TC3 men’s roster, I saw that listed among the names of players from some of the state’s biggest and best programs was Ithaca High alum Zachary Peacock. Peacock is a freshman, and has seen limited playing time thus far, but he has played in three games and has contrib-

uted to numerous stat lines. ••• An update on a local basketball player who grabbed a lot of headlines a few years ago… Jeff Foote was a decent player at Spencer-Van Etten, and when he graduated, he was seven feet tall but had yet to fill out. He went to St. Bonaventure, got pushed around a lot, and saw little success. He transferred to Cornell, gained 60 pounds of muscle in 3 years (while, astoundingly, adding 5 inches to his vertical jump) and helped lead the Big Red to three Ivy League titles and a historic appearance in the NCAA Sweet 16. After a game in which the Big Red nearly upset the legendary Kansas Jayhawks in Kansas, the Jayhawks’ head coach Bill Self said, “Cornell has a big man who can play with anyone on the country.” Foote had a solid pro career in Europe, played a bit in the NBA, but has now traded in his gym clothes for more business-like attire. I saw him over the holidays, and he looks great. He graduated from the University of Miami Law School, he passed the Florida Bar, and when I asked him if my S-VE school tax dollars got him where he is, he laughed.

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ICE WINES Frozen grapes? No problem. Page 16 WHERE ALL THE BIRDS AT? Rising tides, certain doom, less birds? Page 18 FIRST FRIDAYS Gallery events abound during the winter season. Page 15 DINNER AND SOUP PARTIES Get together and huddle up for warmth. Page 14 WINTER CALENDAR The select guide to this seasonâ€™s events. Page 20

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5. Toggenburg Mountain Winter Sports miles east of Syracuse. Downhill, snowboarding and snow Center (315) 683-5842 — Fabius. 5 lifts, 21 trails. tubing. Rates: Adult day lift ticket $24, $18 for juniors 12 Skiing and snowboarding. Open daily with night skiing and under. Instructional programs available. Mon-Sat. Rates: $55 day $50 4 hrs $30 1hrs. College Rate (with ID) $15. 2. Greek Peak (888) 353-5707 — 2000 NYS Route 392, Cortland, NY. 33 trails, train park, half pipe, tubing center. 6. Gore Mountain Ski Area (518) 251-5026 — Rates: $70 adult full day lift ticket, $66 14 & under. Night North Creek. 15 lifts, 107 trails. Downhill and cross-counpass $43. try skiing, snowboarding. Open daily. Rates: Mid-week: adults $80; teens (13-19) and seniors (65-69) $62; seniors 3. Labrador Mountain (607) 842-6204 — Truxton, (70+) $42; juniors (7-12) $44. Weekends and holidays: NY. 250 skiable acres, 6 lifts, 4 base lodges. Provides adults $88; teens (13-19) and seniors (65-69) $66, seniors skiing and snowboarding. 3000 foot terrain park, 300 foot (70+) $42; juniors (7-12) $50. half-pipe. Rates: $59 8hr, $54 4hr, $44 for juniors. (12 & under). Instructional programs available. 7. McCauley Mountain (315) 369-3225 — Old Forge. Six lifts, 21 trails. Downhill and cross-country 4. Song Mountain (315) 696-5711 — Tully. Five skiing, snowboarding. Open daily, but closed Tuesday. lifts, 24 trails, Skiing and boarding. Open daily with night Weekday rates, adults $20 full-day, $15; seniors (60-69), skiing. Rates: $59 8hrs, $54 4hrs.; Juniors: $44 8hrs, Under students & military, $15 full-day. Weekend rates, adults 6 $15 8 hrs. $32, night lift pass. $30 full-day, $25 half-day; seniors (60-69), students & military, $25 full-day, $20 half-day. 8. Snow Ridge (315) 348-8456 — Turin. Seven lifts, 21 trails, halfpipe. Open Wed.-Sun. Lift tickets $15-$48. Call for all other lift prices.

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10 miles north of Rome. Skiing, snowboarding, children’s — Baldwinsville, 650 acres of woods, 4 trails 1-3 miles programs, ski team, beginners specials programs. All-day long open for skiers. $5 per car, $20 per bus. Trails for rates: adults, $43 (weekends and holidays), $35 (weekwalkers also available — snowshoe rentals available. On days); Juniors – 12 and under, $37 and $31. Instructional the Web: www.onondagacountyparks.com/beaver-lakeprograms available. nature-center 10. Whiteface Mountain (518) 946-2223 — 14. Highland Forest County Park (315) 683-5550 Wilmington, NY, 7 miles from Lake Placid. Skiing, — 11 miles east of Tully, exit 14 off Rt. 81. Various hiking snowboarding. Biggest vertical drop in the east. Daycare and cross-country trails. More than 30 skiable acres. 4 Center. Instructional programs available. Day Passes major cross-country runs. Skiing day pass $10 adults and (Peak season): $92, adults; $72, teens and seniors; juniors $5 for children. Lodge, with food, open to general public (7-12), $58; 6 and under, free, 70+ must be acquired at on weekends. Horse-drawn sleigh rides through February. Whiteface Mountain. www.whiteface.com. Rentals available. Web: onondagacountyparks.com/ highland-forest 11. Bristol Mountain (585) 374-6000 — Canandaigua. Six Lifts, 34 slopes, 138 skiable acres. Skiing and 15. Podunk X/C Ski (607) 387-6716 — 9147 St. Rt. snowboarding available. Open daily with night skiing. 96., Interlaken. Ski shop, sales, trades, rentals, trails, Rates (8hr): $65, adults; $53, juniors and seniors (70+). beginner instruction. Closed Mondays. Open 10-4 all other days. 12. Hunter Mountain (800) 486-8376 — Hunter, NY. Skiing, snowtubing. 240 skiable acres. 35 miles of trails. On the Web, www.huntermtn.com. Rates: From $61–$79

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Ithaca’s winters are notorious. They produce some gorgeous sights, for sure, but those pleasing sights come at a price: the temperature. Ithaca winters are cold, and filled with precipitation. But single digit temperatures and some white powder don’t have to ruin the fun times. There’s plenty to do in and around Ithaca, whether it involves bearing the cold, like ice fishing and skiing, or avoiding it entirely, like going to a show or learning a new meal

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to cook. In fact, winter can give you the chance to try something you wouldn’t normally think of during warmer months. So check out inside for the Ithaca Times’ 2019 Winter Times edition, which includes some dinner party/soup advice, a guide on the upcoming First Friday events, a look at the impact that climate change might have on bird watching in the area and the ice wines of the Finger Lakes.

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This article was originally printed in the January 20, 2010 issue of the Ithaca Times.) The sledding area at Taughannock Falls State Park that people call “Rice Hill” was not actually owned by the Rice family. According to the Tompkins County clerk’s office, Alan, Robert and Ruth Chase transferred the deed to a farmhouse and 67 acres of land over to “the people of New York” on Oct. 27, 1964. “The Chase farmhouse is park housing now,” noted Joe Baldwin, a Trumansburg native and an active researcher and writer for the Ulysses Historical Society. continued on page 19

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Dinner Party STRESS-FREE DINNER PARTY COMBATS THE BLAHS By Peg g y Ha i n e

uring Ithaca’s overcast winter months described perfectly in the Horseflies’ tune, “I Live Where It’s Grey,” it’s easy to become isolated, lonely, depressed. Ugh! Meanwhile, the warm cheer of the casual dinner party seems to be gasping its last breaths. What a waste of potential good conversation, connection, education and even flirtation amidst a gathering of friends and soon-to-be friends. While most of us may judge ourselves as hurting for time, space, adequate seating and dining accoutrements, or cooking skills, our space can probably accommodate more people than we’d expect, and making a hearty pot of soup for the occasion is a breeze. The Salvation Army, Trumansburg’s Gemm Shop, Ithaca ReUse, Mimi’s Attic, or any of the other fabulous local second-hand shops are your best resources for all of these, and mismatched tableware has its own caché. Add a couple candlesticks, because no matter what’s on the menu, candlelight makes both the comestibles and the guests look beautiful. If a guest is lovely enough to bring flowers, trim the stems short and stuff them in a low container so diners can see and speak with one another. Serve at table or buffet style, whichever suits your layout, and encourage guests to switch places for dessert in order to refresh the conversation. So I’m suggesting that, no matter how rudimentary your cooking skills, how challenging our entertainment space and supplies, how meager your budgets, throwing a weeknight soup supper is a good investment in mental health. Here’s how it goes: Day One: Put together a menu and a guest list with a couple of backups, just in case. A perfect number is six to eight. More than that and you’ve got two or three conversations going simultaneously, and things can get loud and confusing, or die entirely. Fewer than that, and energy can be diminished. For a guest list, mix couples and singles. Invite people who have different outlooks and will gently challenge each other, or, if you have one of these rare birds, a friend who

Hearty Winter Rotary Root Soup (Recipe can also include kielbasa or Italian sausage rounds)

2 tablespoon olive oil 1 large onion, chopped

5 stalks of kale or collards, thick stems removed, chopped

2 garlic cloves, chopped

2 stalks of celery

2 tablespoon tomato paste

1 28-ounce can of plum tomatoes

3 good-sized carrots, chopped

1 teaspoon oregano

1 large rutabaga, diced

1 teaspoon ground cumin

2-3 turnips, diced

Salt and freshly ground or crushed pepper

1 celery root, diced

2 tablespoons cider or balsamic vinegar

2 large skin-on potatoes, diced

1-2 tablespoons sugar or honey

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can challenge nearly anyone, but who also knows when to knock it off. A little tension is not a bad thing, but inviting a couple in the process of breaking up may throw a pall over the proceedings. Beware! Day Two: Make your calls, texts, or knock on a few doors. If your friends have any social skills, they’ll ask if they can bring something. Your job is to provide a main dish—in this case a hearty soup or stew— and to delegate appetizers, salad, dessert, or wine, beer, cider, or all of the above. Do not delegate the appetizers to a friend you know to be habitually late. Suggest items that will compliment your main dish. Day Three: Hit the second-hand joints for anything your table is missing. The Salvation Army store has a good selection of flatware, hidden in a small cabinet facing the checkout desk—it took me years to find it. The store is also a good source for dishes, bowls, glasses, and stemware. Paper napkins are fine. Clear as much as you can out of your refrigerator and off dining surfaces to make room for what’s coming. Day Four: Get your shopping list in order, including candles, and hit the supermarket, your CSA, or specialty shops (the Piggery, the winter Farmers Market, and the Brookton Market spring to mind), prep all your ingredients, and find room for them in the fridge. Day Five: Dinner night. Put together the basics for your soup, tidy up your entertainment space, set the table or plan your buffet, find some decent background music soft enough to enable conversation, make yourself presentable and take a few moments to meditate. Breathe! A half-glass of wine may help. Half an hour before guests are scheduled to arrive, finish your cooking, wash or hide dirty dishes, open a bottle or two of wine or cider for guests, and get ready to have a cozy evening replete with good food, good friends and good conversation.

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printed brochures available for pick-up around town.) The State of the Art Gallery (120 West State St. #2) is downtown’s oldest dedicated exhibition space. This year they will be celebrating their 30th anniversary—an impressive feat by any standards and perhaps especially by local ones. Founded in 1989, the member run cooperative has consistently boasted some of Ithaca’s bestknown and accomplished artists. The current membership includes 28 artists working in the fields of painting, photography, sculpture, fabric, digital imagery and beyond. For February, the SOAG will be hosting a “Former Members Show” featuring 42 artists, several now deceased. It’s a rare and exciting gesture towards historical memory in a visual arts scene that lacks a sense of history. Notable figures and personal favorites include distinguished portrait painter William Benson, the late bronze figurative sculptor Gurdon Brewster, post-impressionist Leslie Brill (now of New York City), watercolorist Camille Doucet, photographer Dede Hatch, visionary still-life painter Stephan Phillips and Cornell University professor and conceptualist Buzz Spector. Many of these former members remain active in the area. Also to be included will be the well-known Barbara Mink, who has been exhibiting her own work—and occasionally that of others—in her home gallery for several years. Recently she and her husband Jack Goldman have reconfigured the Bookery (215 North Cayuga St.), which Goldman has operated in the DeWitt Mall since the late seventies, for the same purpose. January and February will feature Mink’s lushly worked abstract expressionist paintings while future months will highlight other local artists.

First Fridays A GUIDE TO ITHACA’S MAIN MONTHLY ARTS EVENT By Ar th ur Wh it m a n

n common with many arts communities, Ithaca’s runs a monthly gallery open house on a set date each month. Run by the Ithaca Downtown Alliance with sponsorship from the Tompkins Trust Company and the Community Arts Partnership, Gallery Night Ithaca hosts exhibit receptions from 5 to 8 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. Mostly located on or around the Commons, formal galleries are joined by a rotating group of more informal spaces: typically shops and

cafes. The event is free and the art-interested public is invited to meet and converse with artists and fellow aficionados while enjoying complimentary snacks and beverages. Most spaces rotate their exhibits every month with the art also viewable to the public during regular open hours. The next “First Friday” will be held on Feb. 1. Below are some highlights. (Up-to-date information will be published later this month on the Gallery Night Ithaca webpage as well as

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Located at the other side of the Commons from the SOAG, the Ink Shop Printmaking Center (330 East State St.) is another gem of the downtown art world. Like their peers across State Street, the Shop is member-run; unlike them peers across State Street they are also a working studio, affording space and equipment to select group of print artists as well as offering a rotating schedule of classes accessible to all. Owing to the multiple and lightweight nature of the printmaking as well as an ambitious history of networking, exhibits at the Shop have a more cosmopolitan quality, incorporating national and international as well as regional and member work. Next month will feature the latest installment of “I See You (IC/CU),” which highlights the Shop’s important connections with local academia. Member Gregory Page is an instructor at Cornell University while Pamela Drix and Patricia Hunsinger teach at Ithaca College. “See You” highlights student printmaking and if past years are any indication the work will be unusually strong. Located in Center Ithaca, the Community Arts Partnership’s CAP (171 East State St.) is another anchor of the downtown scene. Next month the space will feature “To Walk Invisible: Mastering the Cultural Code from African American Textiles from The Middle Passage to The Mims Family,” a selection of colorful quilts by local fiber artist Leanora Erica Mims. Inclusion of “craft” as well as more traditional fine art mediums is characteristic of the gallery, which is run by Tompkins County’s arts council. All in all, it’s a lively scene as well as a useful way of keeping track of local art in all its engaging diversity and often impressive quality.

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WINTER MAGIC THE GLORY OF TRUE ICE WINES

t’s early morning deep into December in the Finger Lakes. You are driving along one of the deserted wine routes in the region. The temperature is in the lower teens. The vineyards along the road look barren and desolate in the snowy landscape. Yet in the distance, you spy a few workers moving quickly along a row of vines, their breaths appearing as puffs of smoke. They couldn’t possibly be picking grapes. Those grapes must be frozen solid in this cold! Well, you are witnessing the beginning of the making of a truly magical wine: ice wine. Eiswein (ice wine in German) has been produced in Germany for centuries. Folklore pegged its origin to the 1790s in the Franconia region, when an early and harsh winter left the vintners with no choice but to make wine from the frozen grapes. Thus, Eiswein was born. Ice wine didn’t make its debut in the New World until 1972, when Walter Hainle, a German immigrant, made an ice wine by happenstance at his winery in British Columbia, the result of an unexpected early frost. In the early 1980s, Inniskillin Winery in Niagara-on-the Lake began purposefully leaving Vidal grapes on the vines to freeze. Soon after, those ice wines began winning international awards, and Canada— especially the Niagara area—became renowned for its ice wines. In America, the first ice wine was made in 1981 by Great Western, the pioneering sparkling wine producer located in Hammondsport in the Finger Lakes. Art Hunt, the affable and folksy owner of Hunt Country Vineyards, remembered tasting that Vidal and being amazed by its concentrated flavors. A year later, he happened to be walking in one of the Taylor Wine Company’s vineyards on a very cold day in late November and noticed that a block of grapes had not been picked yet. Hunt said, “So I went over and tried one of the frozen grapes and it tasted like the most amazing sorbet!” Eureka! Hunt had caught the ice wine bug. Art Hunt’s family settled in the western side of Keuka Lake back in 1820 and has been farming the land ever since. Their first vineyard was planted in 1902. In 1973, Hunt and his wife Joyce took over the family farm and grew grapes to sell to the Taylor Wine Company. But the bottom fell out after only a few years when Coca Cola, Taylor’s corporate parent, moved its wine operations to the West Coast, leaving its growers high and dry. By then, the wine market in America had shifted dramatically from sweet red wine to drier white wines as part of the nation-wide health movement. Not only were those growers left without a buyer for their grapes, their vineyards were saddled with

By D ave S it out-of-fashion wine grapes such as Concord and Dechaunac. Hunt knew that to survive, he had to sell his own wines. He founded Hunt Country Vineyards in 1981 and began replacing some of the old undesirable grape vines with more popular ones. In 1985, he field-grafted an acre of his vineyard with the Vidal grape. Vidal is a French hybrid grape bred to be winter-hardy and capable of ripening with high sugar content

“The first thing is, the grapes need to be clean, sound and quite ripe, so you can’t have an overcropped situation,” Hunt explained. Nettings are installed to drape over the vines to keep the grapes from being eaten by birds and deer. “We net the vines usually after the normal harvest is done,” Hunt added. “Otherwise, every bird in the county will be coming for dessert.” As the grape clusters hang on the vine, they

Winter harvest of frozen vidal grapes at Hunt County Vinyards (Photo: Matt Kelly)

even in cool climate. “In 1987, we had a full crop of Vidal and decided to leave them all to pick later for ice wine,” Hunt said. “Everything came out perfectly and the wine began winning awards once it was in the bottle.” With some interruptions caused by Mother Nature, Hunt has been producing ice wines since, and is the oldest continuing ice wine producer in the country. Making ice wine is full of inherent risks. Not all varietals are suitable in making ice wine. The grape berries need to have thick skin to weather the tough wintry conditions. Besides Vidal, cool-climate vinifera grapes such as Riesling, Gewürztraminer and Cabernet Franc are good candidates. Come fall, growers have to decide if they are going to leave some grapes on the vines to be picked later for ice wine. The

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darken in color and develop the plummy, raisiny and honey flavors. But perils abound. Rain could promote rot, high winds could pull the clusters right off the vines, sleet could damage the grapes and the weather might not cooperate. When the conditions are right, as temperatures drop down to 18 degrees Fahrenheit and below for a day or more, workers march out to the vineyard to collect the frozen bounty, each grape as hard as a marble. Hunt said they’ve never harvested ice wine grapes before Thanksgiving, and the wait sometimes stretches into January. The yield from ice wine grapes could be as low as 20 percent of what they would have produced as still wines. All these factors mean that ice wine is costly to make and not much gets made each vintage, if at all. It is no wonder that true ice wines are expensive, costing upwards of $30 per /

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half bottle (375 milliliters). But do remember, this is a wine to be sipped, so a little goes a long way. After harvest, the frozen grapes must be pressed immediately, in the cold, to prevent them from melting. A high-pressure basket press is routinely used to slowly push out the concentrated juice, while leaving the ice crystals behind. The process could take 8 to 12 hours to complete. Fermentation of grape juice with such high sugar contents is not smooth. Special yeast strains are often used and sometimes fermentation might stop all together and need to be restarted. What finally goes into the bottle is a wonderfully aromatic and sweet elixir that is not only a dessert wine, but dessert itself. I sat down with Art Hunt in his winery’s café to taste his 2016 Vidal Blanc Ice Wine. The grapes were not harvested until the first week of January. It was a monumental wine: medium golden in color, very ripe and tropical, beautifully honeyed, focused and delineated. The concentration of this wine is something to behold, as the ample lively acidity springs a vibrancy in the mouth. Even with its 19.8 percent residual sugar it does not come across as cloying; this majestic infant will develop for decades. I scored it 95 points. It won both the 2017 Jefferson Cup for Best Dessert Wine and the 2018 New York Wine Classic Best Ice Wine awards. In recent decades, a technological short-cut has been introduced to obviate the risks of exposing the grapes on the vines for such a long period of time. Grapes are picked at normal harvest times or shortly after. They are then sent to a commercial freezer facility, where they are frozen slowly. After that, the wine is made in the same process. By U.S. law, these post-harvest frozen wines cannot be called “ice wine.” You might see them labeled as “iced” wine, “ice-style” wine, or similar monikers. Only true frozenon-the-vine ice wines could be labeled as such. I have tasted numerous commerciallyfrozen dessert wines, and some of them were quite outstanding. They exhibit a purity and expression of fruit that is very alluring. But to me, the true or natural ice wines possess something more. Perhaps it’s the extra hangtime on the vines that creates that additional complexity and majesty, or maybe it’s the romance of those frozen grapes bravely standing up to the harshness of the elements. Regardless, there is magic in every sip. So, on a cold winter night, relish a glass of true ice wine, slowly, just like its long journey from the vine to your glass.

Chill Challenge ANNUAL CHILL CHALLENGE HITS $40K FUNDRAISING GOAL By Mat t B utle r

s has been not quite scientifically proven over and over again, the third time proved to be the charm for the Ithaca Chill Challenge in 2019, which was able to reach its lofty financial goals after its New Year’s Day event this year. As dozens came out to brave the winter cold to take the icy dip into Cayuga Lake at Stewart Park, donations poured in to the tune of $41,852, its highest donation yield in its four years and the first time the event has surpassed $40,000. The event is held each year to benefit Ithaca Community Recovery, located at 518 West Seneca St. in Ithaca, a small nonprofit that hosts and facilitates recovery meetings at the location and generally supports addiction recovery efforts of several kinds in Ithaca. Ithaca Community Recovery does not receive government funding, instead running on grant funding and rents from the groups who meet in the building. Challenge organizers Judy Epstein and Carol Miller have said the overall goal of the event is to keep the West Seneca Street location safe and operating, plus able to service its target community whenever necessary. Without government funding, Ithaca Community Recovery also relies heavily on fundraising, which was the impetus for the founding of the Chill Challenge. It’s host location is a very old building, requiring regular maintenance and the occasional large-scale repair.[ “We’ve been able to do a number of improvements as result of this fundraiser,” Miller said. “We’ve renovated the restrooms, we’ve put in two meeting rooms, we’re

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working on a new sewer, which is very expensive, as well as just maintaining the building.” This year’s top fundraising participants were entered as John Webster, Kaki and TMann, who raised $3,451, $2,916 and $2,280, respectively. As for teams, “When I dip, you dip, we dip” raised $5,111, while the Ithaca Yacht Club and St. Catherine Water both raised just over $4,000. In total, the event attracted 64 participants and 14 different teams, including from Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, Planned Parenthood and several others. Of course, the twist of the Chill Challenge is that a participant’s donors hold their fate in their hands: each donor can choose whether their donation goes toward the “dip” or “dodge” list; whichever list ends up with more money for each participant is what they have to do at the event. Either their donors have shown some mercy and let them stay dry and warm, or they must bear the frigid new year waters of Cayuga Lake. A rough estimate of the participant list shows 32 of the 64 participants had to take the dip as a result of their donors’ wishes, one of whom was Ithaca Police Department Chief Pete Tyler. Epstein and Miller were both once again spared an icy plunge as well, though they are ready for the challenge next year, or whenever it finally does come. “People say, ‘You need to go in, why haven’t you gone in?’” Miller said. “I’ll go in,” Epstein interrupted. “Just donate. I have friends that say I’m too old. We’ll see. I’ll prove them wrong.”

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Climate change is not for the birds LOW BIRD COUNT POINTS TO BIGGER TREND By Mat t B utle r

ird-watching is one of Ithaca’s most popular outdoor activities yearround, as migratory patterns mean hundreds of different bird species are present during different seasons throughout the year and provide the potential for a unique experience each trip. Yet that activity, like so many other parts of our daily lives, has been touched by climate change. As weather trends change, bird populations are being impacted significantly, leaving less and less to be observed through a pair of binoculars on peaceful mornings around the area as time goes on. Jody Enck, a member of the Cayuga Bird Club, lamented the loss of the “Dawn Chorus,” when birds of all species and sizes would greet the morning with songs. It’s one of the more noticeable changes Enck said he’s found over the last decade or so, which is symptomatic of the overall dissipation of bird population in the area. That may have been highlighted this month in the annual Christmas Bird Count, held on New Year’s Day, which saw lower numbers than normal, especially in comparison to a very high turnout in 2018. “There’s all this activity, and it used to be that you could go out and it would be really loud,” Enck said. “But the last decade or so it’s been getting less and less and less. I’m talking mostly in the spring, when birds are really singing and defending territory. Now you can go out and you hear long periods of silence. Maybe you hear one or two birds like warblers over there, and then there’s silence. And then you hear a woodthrush. But before, you couldn’t even tell how many birds you were hearing because there were just so many.” Enck said there’s a myriad of reasons for the population drop-off, but he cites three primary factors: the use of chemicals, like pesticides that diminish the amount of food birds are capable of feeding on; residential development that can often lead to habitat loss; and overall climate change. Specifically, climate change has caused something called a “mismatch,” according to John Fitzpatrick, the director of Cornell’s wellknown Ornithology Lab. The mismatch means the explosion of new-born insects, which are

Local Birder Jody Enck searches the woods for signs of flight (Photo: Casey Martin) Below (Photos: courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

normally the main food source for birds and their newly-hatching young, are actually being born too early due to warmer temperatures. By the time the birds get to their long-term location, the insects have matured, making them more difficult to catch and harder to digest for younger birds. Enck added that moisture distribution shifts resulting from climate change can also contribute to habitat modification, making some locations less suitable for birds that would normally stay there. The birds’ instincts aren’t able to adjust as quickly as the environment is changing around them. Beyond that, rising shore tides have hurt some species who inhabit coastal settings.

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One day of counting per year, like the New Year’s Day event, serves as a metric of sorts, but it’s not a greatly comprehensive statistic for measuring larger trends of birds, as it can be bumped up or down by something as simple as that day’s weather. For instance, Enck ascribes this year’s low numbers to the day’s relative mildness with high winds, particularly compared to 2018. Still, Enck said, the bad years like 2019 seem more significant to him than years with good figures, like 2018, because of the overall trends of decreasing populations that he has observed, and as has been researched extensively, “down” years seem more ominous. At this point, he said, it’s fair to say that there

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are fewer birds in the area, and it’s equally fair to wonder whether or not that can change. “It concerns me when we have a bad year with the Christmas bird count,” Enck said. “It makes me more concerned and anxious for next year. Are things going to recover? Are we going to go back to normal or not?” Plenty of research is being done to chart the long-term shifts of bird migratory patterns and how they might be impacted by rising temperatures globally. The most prominent example of this charting is eBird, a digital service offered by Cornell’s Ornithology Lab that diagrams population density of certain species throughout the year, showing movements and patterns during different seasons. Through the tool, which is publicly available, Fitzpatrick can see how different birds have already changed their seasonal behaviors, theoretically in response to changing temperatures along their normal routes. Climate change has necessitated at least one change in how birds are studied and the way conservation is approached, Fitzpatrick noted, pushing a more complete method to the forefront to better understand what harms birds are facing as the climate deviates from its norms. “What’s very clear in the field right now is that conservation of birds means paying attention to their full annual cycle,” Fitzpatrick said. “Not just where they breed, or where they winter, but what’s happening with migration as well.” Fitzpatrick said at this time, climate change having some significant impact on bird populations and their behavior; the only question is determining what that impact will be, and how severe its effect will be. This points to Enck’s nervousness about diminished bird count numbers: one year could be just a fluke, but it likely portends something larger. “There’s no question it’s going to affect bird numbers and bird distributions, we’re just now starting to see the edges of that,” Fitzpatrick said. “There’s a growing body of literature that is trying to project into the future what today’s community of birds is going to look like in 75 years, and some of those models predict it to be very different.”

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“We didn’t use it when I was a kid,” said John V. Rice. “It was a pasture that was cut up by fences going across it.” The fences made it impossible to sleigh ride on the hill. Instead the Rice kids rode their sleds down Rice Road. “This was before they started salting the roads, you know. We used to go down Rice Road to Taughannock Falls Road,” recalled Rice, “and then have enough speed to get over the knoll and down to Route 89. We’d get all the way down to the creek over the bridge. It was quite a ride.” Rice remembered in some detail the strategies employed to make it all the way down. “You had to start on the extreme inside corner at the top of the bend around the Chase house to make the curve,” he chuckled. Taughannock Falls Road bisects the park from Jacksonville Road to Rt. 89. Rice Road meets it just below the park manager’s house. Rice Road was named after John V. Rice’s grandfather, James E. Rice, the first professor of poultry science in the United States and for whom Rice Hall at Cornell is named. Rice is not sure why the park sledding hill is named for his family, except perhaps that the top of it is at Rice Road. His aunt, Adelaide Rice, has lived on Rice Road since the 1930s. “Somebody just told me that they call it ‘Rice Hill,’” she said. “I hadn’t known that. It wasn’t part of our property.” Her husband James E. Rice Jr. and his brothers inherited joint ownership of the 600-acre Rice farm, which is north of the sledding slope. “There used to be a road to the left of the house on the inside bend,” said John Rice, who still lives on Rice Road. “It kind of went down to the lake from there and then across Route 89 is the road down to our family cottage.” There is little trace of the road now. “The Chases sold the property to the state, but it was a sort of ‘sell it to us at this price or we’ll take it” kind of thing,’” Rice remembered. “Lyman Switzer built the ski lift,” said Baldwin. “It ran with a truck engine and there were two truck wheels at either end that served as pulleys.” Baldwin is talking about the rope tow that once ran up the north side of the slope. The poles and the shacks that house the pulleys are still there, but the lift is no longer functional. “It was a 1967 straight-six Chevy pickup engine,” recalled Jim Dunn, who worked as a seasonal employee at Taughannock Falls for three winters in the late 1980s and is now an assistant manager for several state parks. “We ran it in first gear. There was a short lever-that was the throttle-and two long levers-those were the brake and the clutch-and there were hydraulic cylinders for the brakes.” Dunn and another worker had to keep an eye on people using the tow. “Usually a kid would fall, and we’d stop it and wait for him to get clear,” he explained. “If there were a lot of people on the rope, then we had to shout to them to let go in order to get it going again.” Dunn isn’t sure how long the hill was used for sledding before the rope tow was installed, but he believes that Switzer built the tow in the early 1980s. “The state parks acquired Pinnacle Golf Course about then, and they had a ski area and a golf course,” he said. Dunn noted that the state never ran the ski area at Pinnacle, but that a Sno-Cat was brought up to Taughannock to groom the slopes. He never saw it move until it was finally hauled away to auction.

In Dunn’s recollection the conditions at the hill were decent only for a short period in January and February. “It was popular when the snow was good,” he said, “but it faces the sun, so it gets icy and the snow goes away.” He said that the rope tow ran mostly on weekends during those months and on snow days when school was closed. The park abandoned use of the rope towapparently soon after 1989, Dunn’s last winter there-in part because the rope was stolen once and then vandalized. “First we had a threestrand polypropylene rope, and someone stole the whole thing from the shed,” Dunn recounted. “Then we had a six-strand braided nylon rope. We ran it one year, then put it away. When we opened the shed, someone had unwrapped the coils and cut it.” The parks workers got splicing instructions from the manufacturer, shortened

the distance between the pulleys and used the rope again. There are also two small ponds at the top of the hill that are used primarily for ice skating. Dunn remembers using a homemade Zamboni to groom the ice in the late 1980s. “We had a water tank that we hauled around on a tractor,” he chuckled. “There was a pin-holed pile that we wrapped in cocoa matting. We dragged that behind the tractor, and the water would piddle out of the pipe, and the matting would smear it on the ice. It made a nice smooth surface.” Dunn reflected that the ponds are rarely frozen all winter anymore, never mind frozen thick enough to support a tractor. Cutbacks in the park’s budget have whittled away at the seasonal staffing at Taughannock. “We used to have three or four winter people,” said Farrington. “Last winter we were down to

one-and-a-half people, and this year we’re down to half a person through the winter.” Rice Hill has a small structure at the top that serves as a lodge for sledders and skiers to get warm. Although downhill skiing has been discontinued, cross-country ski trails form a loop with the sledding hill on the inside of it. “Some of the cross-country trails had gotten overgrown,” said Farrington. “Last summer we put in some bridges and opened them up again with a brush hog. We have our own now; we don’t have to borrow one from the other parks.” This rehabilitation has restored the entire multiuse loop to usability.

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Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Celebrating the centenary of his death. Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, and Roger Moseley, piano, perform a selection of songs, and students from the piano studio of Xak Bjerken/Ryan McCullough will perform solo works.

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1/16 Wednesday Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music Why? Performs Alopecia | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Highlights from the Permanent Collection | Ongoing | Everson Museum Of Art Of Syracuse And Onodaga, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse | Showcasing the depth of the Eversonís collection with 150 years of American art, from early nineteenth century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.

1/17 Thursday Taksim: Live Mid-East Music & Belly Dance | 5:30 PM, | Brookton’s Market, Brooktondale ComedyFLOPs | 7:00 PM, | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca “Take Ten” - Art Show | 12:00 PM, | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Ten gallery artists will kick off State of the Art’s 30th Anniversary with a show of paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and more! Show dates: January 3-27, 2019.

1/18 Friday Sundown Sally | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville Justin Roeland and the Nightswimmers’ Record Release Show w/special guests Bronwen Exter and Palleon | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10.00 - $25.00

Luminous Lakes painting by Brian S. Keeler | Ongoing| 171 Cedar Arts Ctr, 171 Cedar St, Corning | A selection of Keuka and Seneca Lake paintings.

1/19 Saturday Cosmic Joke Collective Presents Tom Waits Night | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca | The Cosmic Joke Collective presents the music of Tom Waits performed by a wide variety of local musicians and hosted by the Mighty Mickie Quinn | $5 Gutterpunk: Brian!, Motherwort, Joyous Shrub 666 | 7:30 PM, | BowlO-Drome, Ithaca | First gutterpunk show at the Ithaca Bowl O Drome.† 3 great bands and dusty visions from wrfi spinning between sets.† A Concert by the Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber singers | 7:30 PM, | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora Street, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers will give a performance of the Requiems of Gabriel Faure¥ and Maurice Durufle. Darci Lynne | 7:00 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Ventriloquist Darci Lynne is the youngest contestant to ever win Americaís Got Talent. (Re) Generation: Women Artists After 60 | All Day | Everson Museum Of Art, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse | Explores the creative and transformative power of age for women artists working and thriving in the contemporary art world. Women March in Seneca Falls 2019 | 10:00 AM, | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls

1/20 Sunday

string band from Ithaca, New York. We play dance music, fiddle tunes and songs inspired by American country music popular before it splintered off Blues, Bluegrass and Rock & Roll.

Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | $69.50/$64.50/$54.50/$32.50

Mike Titlebaum and Catherine Gale Jazz | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector | Saxophonist Mike Titlebaum and vocalist Catherine Gale lead a jazz group for an evening of great songs and beautiful, swinging jazz.

Urban Arts Crawl | 5:00 PM, | Downtown Corning, Corning

1/26 Saturday

Tommy Emmanuel, CGP, and John Knowles - Heartsongs Tour | 8:00PM| Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer |

Art Classes with Johanna | 1:00 PM, | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Each month there is a different topic. Art classes are open to emerging artists of all ages, though children younger than 12 need to be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited so please register ahead of time by calling Johanna at 607-659-7375.

Symphoria Masterworks Series: Brahms’ First | 7:30 PM, | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Twin sisters Michelle and Christina Naughton return to Syracuse to perform Bruch’s littleknown Double Piano Concerto. After intermission Lawrence Loh leads Symphoria in Brahms’ masterful Symphony No. 1. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0

1/24 Thursday Cory Wong (of Vulfpeck) w/s/g Emily C. Browning | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20.00

Mike Lee, piano and Wayne Lee, violin | 8:00 PM, | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Mike Lee, piano, and Wayne Lee, violin, present a program of early 20th century music, including Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, and the Debussy violin sonata.

Gaelic Storm | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Itís hard to imagine a band just coming into their own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes a true anomaly. A multi-national, Celtic juggernaut. | $22/$32 Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | $69.50/$64.50/$54.50/$32.50

Bill Engvall | 5:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo | Second show at 8:00PM.

1/25 Friday

Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | $13 - $15

Arthur and the Planetary Mix | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

1/27 Sunday

Terrapin Station | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

Long John and the Tights | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector | Long John and the Tights is an old time

Entends la douce nuit: An Evening of Debussy | 8:00 PM, | Barnes

Music’s Recreation : Counterpoint through the ages | 2:00 PM, | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Family friendly program of music by Music’s Recreation that explores the role of counterpoint in music from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Music from 20th-Century Vienna | 3:00 PM, | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Music from early 20th century Vienna, featuring Xak Bjerken and students performing Berg, Webern, Zemlinsky, and Scriabin. The Crossing Tour - Alejandro Escovedo Band with Don Antonio | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca

Walk the Moon | 8:00 PM, | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | w/s/g Bear Hands | $36 and up

1/29 Tuesday Rayland Baxter | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15.00 - $18.00

1/30 Wednesday Midday Music for Organ | 12:30 PM, | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Midday Music: Anna Steppler, organ; c.1727-1937, Sonatas by Bach and Hindemith

1/31 Thursday Taksim: Live Mid-East Music & Belly Dance | 8:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Hot Club of Cowtown | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $15-$20

Laura Ingalls Wilder | 3:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | Laura and her family travel across America in search of a place they can call home. Facing obstacles such as scarlet fever and eviction from their land, their pioneering spirit and family bonds are tested but never broken. This uplifting story of one of America’s most beloved authors comes to life in one of ArtsPowerís most popular musicals. | $8.00 $12.00

The Roommate | 7:30 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Runs Jan 27 - Feb 17, 2019. Meet Sharon, a fifty-something recent divorcee, and Robyn, her mysterious new roommate from the Bronx. As the two learn to live with each other (and their baggage) in Sharon’s Iowa City home, they start to see what’s missing in their lives. A laugh-out-loud comedy of moving boxes, new beginnings, questionable business ventures, and a little bit of marijuana.

Phil Jordan, Psychic Medium Live! | 3:00 PM, | The Hotel Ithaca, 222 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | We see you having a great time in the near future! Price includes hors d’oeuvres, dinner buffet, dessert and a group reading. | $45

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1/28 Monday Blues Jam with Bill Gregg | 7:00 PM, | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg | Resumes 1/28/19.* The format will be a round robin jam where each player can take a turn leading a song while others join in.

Thru Spectrums + Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $8 - $10 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Ward Stare and Jon Nakamatsu | 7:30 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19; Stravinsky: Rite of Spring First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca,

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2/2 Saturday Unlocking The Truth w/s/g Ire Clad, Break of Aggression | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10 Country Swagg | 8:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo Dana Fuchs | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $30-$35 First Saturday on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, | Art studios are open to you! Find the list of artists participating this month, and learn tons more at www.Arttrail.com. Itís cool to meet the artists and see their creative spaces!

2/7 Thursday A Far Cry with Simone Dinnerstein | 8:00 PM, | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | A Grammy-nominated, self-conducted string orchestra founded in 2007 by a tightly-knit collective of 17 young professional musicians join forces with pianist Simone Dinnerstein. They present a program of Bachís Goldberg Variations: a re-imagining of one of Bach’s greatest works, juxtaposing the original keyboard part with its orchestral embodiment, creating a world of sonic possibilities. | $19-$36 An evening with Andy McKee | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

The Roommate | 7:30 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | See 1/31.

2/9 Saturday Symphoria Pops Series: My Funny Valentine | 7:30 PM, | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Jazz classics, pop ballads, classical masterpieces and unforgettable numbers from stage and screen performed by Irelandís foremost trumpet player and vocalist ShÛna Henneberry. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0 The Andrew Collins Trio | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Mando-maestro Andrew Collins is joined by fellow Trio string-meisters Mike Mezzatesta and James McEleney to showcase a popular collision of folk, new acoustic roots, chambergrass and jazz, not to mention a dizzying number and energetic interplay of instruments on

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Comedian Kerry Coddett | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $10-$17

Gin Blossoms | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

Steven Wright | 8:00 PM, | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | A legendary master of the one liner, his standup is packed with tightly crafted jokes that he pumps out with the efficiency of a comedy machine. | $25-$45

Perform 4 Purpose: Winterfest 2019 | 4:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Four stages, over 30 performers! | $10

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella | 7:30 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | See 2/12.

2/14 Thursday Upstate w/s/g Honey Cave | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10.00 $12.00

2/12 Tuesday El Ten Eleven | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-18

Festival of Fire & Ice | 3:00 PM, | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Ithaca | An annual celebration of winter. Enjoy ice sculptures, sledding, hot chocolate, snow fort and den building, bonfires, and so much more! | Suggested $15 family donation or $5 individual donation.

Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra | 7:30 PM, | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton

Chili Cook-off Comedy Festival | 8:00 PM, | Hilton Garden Inn, 130 E Seneca St Lbby, Ithaca | The Ghost Pepper Comedy Show. Eat chili during the day, on The Commons. Then stay warm inside in the evening with Comedy on The Commons. | $10-$15

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella | 7:30 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | This lush production features an incredible orchestra, jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love, the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more, plus some surprising new twists!

2/10 Sunday

2/13 Wednesday

Horns and Ivory | 4:00 PM, | Scale House Brewery, Hector | Dino Losito on piano and Terry Light on horns.

Native Gardens | 7:30 PM, | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Running February 13 - March 3, 2019. Contact theater for additional showtimes. Take a semiretired Washington bureaucrat and his defense contractor wife, a young Chilean lawyer and his doctoral student wife, set them cheek by jowl in a border dispute over a couple of feet of property in a Georgetown backyard, and let the laughter begin. | $20-$39

Flute Recital: Allison Parramore, Second Flute, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:00 PM, | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Solo flute recital featuring Allison Parramore, second flutist of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra;Mary Holzhauer, piano; Kyle Armbrust, viola; and Nicholas Walker, double bass. Includes music by Casella, Karg-Elert,

The Un-Valentine’s Day Cabaret | 7:30 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | A humorous journey through failed relationships on the way to a happy ending finding real love at this musical cabaret! Nikki Schwarz and Travis Knapp are both graduates of the Ithaca College School of Music. They’ve performed together for over 6 years singing uplifting, multicultural music with the Honey Child Soul Quintet. | $10-$15

Kenny White | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Touring singer-songwriter. New album “Long List of Priors”. | GA $23 Running to Places Presents Newsies | 7:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | In this musical, homeless New York City newsboy Jack “Cowboy” Kelly befriends two newcomers to his trade, brothers David and Les Jacobs . When publisher Joseph Pulitzer sets new rules that make it harder for the young newspaper salesmen to make a buck, the boys go on strike. | $10.50 - $15.00

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella | 7:30 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | See 2/12.

The Roommate | 7:30 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | See 1/31.

Banff Mountain Centre Film Festival | 7:00 PM, | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, 230 Garden Ave, Ithaca | The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will exhilarate you with amazing big-screen stories. | $14 per night $24 Subscription ticket to both nights.

2/15 Friday Carole’s Kings | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | The iconic singer-songwriter Carole King gets a brand-new sound with this dynamic performance of the world’s first all-male Carole King tribute! This trio of incredibly talented New York City stage veterans performs a jam-packed evening of music, | $30 Lend Me A Tenor | 7:30 PM, | Elmira Little Theatre, 1000 Laurel St, Elmira | Contact theater for additional showtimes. It’s 1934 and world-famous opera star, Tito Morelli, is appearing

2/16 Saturday Binghamton Community Orchestra Winter Concert - “Distant Destinations” - Conducted by Dr. Timothy Perry | 7:00 PM, | Binghamton East Middle School, 167 E. Frederick St., Binghamton | $10-12 Carole’s Kings | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | See 2/15.| $30

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Symphoria Masterworks Series: Enigma Variations | 7:30 PM, | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | After beginning with Britten’s evocative seascape depictions, charismatic cellist Julie Albers is featured in Haydn’s elegantly delightful Cello Concerto No. 2. Elgar’s musical Enigma Variations, with its sublime “Nimrod” variation, concludes the performance. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0 Cheryl Wheeler w/ Kenny White | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca Ladysmith Black Mambazo | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | For over 50 years, South Africaís Five Time Grammy Award winners† Marc Cohn | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer Ruby Shooz | 8:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella | 2:00 PM & 7:30PM | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | See 2/12. Running to Places Presents Newsies | 2:00 PM & 7:00PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | See 2/15. | $10.50 - $15.00 Murder Mystery: Jazz Age Jeopardy! | 6:00 PM, | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136

Brown St., Ovid | Gather some friends for a casual, participatory game where everyone plays the role of guests at the Cat’s Meow Jazz Club at the height of the ‘20s. Secrets and gossip flow like cheap gin, until something terrible occurs! Refreshments and character sheets provided. Please contact the library to register, deadline February 9.

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2/22 Friday

Grateful Shred w/s/g Mapache | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-$17

Symphoria Spark Series: Mozart In The Jungle | 7:00 PM, | Sky Armory, 351 S. Clinton Street, Syracuse | Hear traditional and contemporary music from the popular Amazon series performed live by orchestra and chamber music ensembles at SKY Armory. | $25 to $20

Banff Mountain Centre Film Festival | 7:00 PM, | Bailey Hall Cornell University, 230 Garden Ave, Ithaca | See 2/15. | $14 per night $24 Subscription ticket to both nights.

The Medium and The Old Maid and the Thief | 8:00 PM, | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Two one-act operas by Carlo Menotti; thru March 2nd. Contact theater for additional showtimes. Themes of love, sin, greed and death are represented in these two tragic one-hour operas.

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2/20 Wednesday

Lend Me A Tenor | 2:00 PM, | Elmira Little Theatre, 1000 Laurel St, Elmira | See 2/15.| $17/$19

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | A pianist who has become a viral pop sensation after creating a series of clips for YouTube that finds him and his ad hoc group reworking 21st century pop hits in a variety of vintage styles.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella | 1:00 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | See 2/12. Running to Places Presents Newsies | 2:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | See 2/15. | $10.50 - $15.00 Art Classes with Johanna | 1:00 PM, | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Each month there is a different topic. Art classes are open to emerging artists of all ages, though children younger than 12 need to be accompanied by an adult. Space is lim-

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Air Supply | 8:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo All About Elvis with Rex Fowler | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | A project conceived and created by Rex Fowler of Aztec Two-Step fame, includes a screening of Fowler’s original short documentary film “200 CADILLACS” followed by a live concert featuring his band Rex & The Rockabilly Kings. | $20-$25

2/21 Thursday

Urban Arts Crawl | 5:00 PM, | Downtown Corning, Corning

Jontavious Willis | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | S | $15-$20

2/23 Saturday Symphoria Kids: A Melodic Life | 10:30 AM, | Inspiration Hall, 709 James St., Syracuse | Trace the life of Bob, a lighthearted melody from childhood to middle age. Bob experi-

Tom Papa | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country finding

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Jersey Boys | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Awardwinning true-life musical phenomenon. | $99/$79/$69/$49

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2/27 Wednesday

The Wailers w/s/g The Medicinals, DJ Mike Judah | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $25 - $30

Jersey Boys | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | See 2/26. | $99/$79/$69/$49

Winter Wedding Showcase by Sweet Bough Wedding Collective | 1:00 PM, | Argos Warehouse , 416 E. State Street, Ithaca | A multi-venue, crawl-style showcase of over 35 Ithaca-based wedding vendors on Sunday, February 24th from 1 - 4 PM, with a Meet the Vendors Cocktail Hour from 4 - 6 PM.| $5

2/28 Thursday

2/26 Tuesday Rachael and Vilray | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With simple arrangements and only a guitar for accompaniment, they perform original works and revive forgotten gems of the jazz big bands and western swing ensembles.

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Blackalicious | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20.00 - $25.00 Casting Crowns | 7:00 PM, | Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St, Binghamton | Family Life presents Casting Crowns Only Jesus Tour with Zach Williams and Austin French.† | $83/$53/$43 Jersey Boys | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | See 2/26.| $99/$79/$69/$49

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3/1 Friday Anderson East | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer James McMurtry | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca Vince Staples-Smile, You’re On Camera | 9:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | w/ JPEGMAFIA | $30 and up First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists and sometimes global ones, as well.

3/2 Saturday Mary Fahl, formerly of October Project | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $25-$28 Steve Earle | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca Darrah Carr Dance: Ceilidh- An Evening of Irish Music and Dance | 7:30 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Join the champion Irish step dancers of Darrah Carr Dance for a whirlwind celebration of Irish music and dance. Steve Martin & Martin Short | 8:00 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse

3/13 Wednesday

First Saturday on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, | Art studios are open to you! Find the list of artists participating this month, and learn tons more at www.Arttrail.com. Itís cool to meet the artists and see their creative spaces!

John Scofield’s Combo 66 | 8:00 PM, | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Scofield teams up with pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewart in Combo 66. | $19-$36

3/3 Sunday

3/9 Saturday

Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra - Classical Mystery Tour | 7:30 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | A tribute to The Beatles. | $20.00 - $45.00

Dark Hollow | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10 - $12

3/14 Thursday

Granville Automatic | 7:30 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Described as a modern-day Linda Ronstadt who writes songs the Associated Press calls “haunting tales of sorrow and perseverance.” | GA $20

Lucy Dacus w/s/g Mal Blum, Fenne Lilly | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15.00 - $18.00

Symphoria Masterworks VI: Schumann’s Rhenish | 7:30 PM, | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Principal flautist Xue Su is featured in Lowell Liebermann’s extraordinarily virtuosic Flute Concerto. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0

Punch Brothers | 8:00 PM, | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | w/s/g Gabriel Kahane | $30 and up

Horns and Ivory | 4:00 PM, | Scale House Brewery, Hector | Dino Losito on piano and Terry Light on horns. The Earls of Leicester | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer WWE Road to Wrestlemania | 7:00 PM, | The Oncenter, 800 South State St., Syracuse | AJ Styles vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship. Plus, Shinsuke Nakamura, The Miz, Charlotte Flair, Samoa Joe, The Miz, The Bar, The New Day, Asuka, Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode and many more. | $15 and up

3/7 Thursday The Red Hot Chilli Pipers | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A nine-piece ensemble consisting of pipers, guitarists, keyboards, and drummers.

3/8 Friday Donna The Buffalo | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

Comedian Bengt Washburn | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Born in Salt Lake City, Bengt presents the world through the eyes of a small town Mormon man gone slightly awry! Rated PG. | $20/$25

signature dual lead vocals from brothers Duane and Dave Keogh to create a unique form of high energy “West Coast Celtic” that remains in the heart and head long after the music stops. | $20 The Royale | 7:30 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Runs Mar 10 - Mar 31, 2019. It’s the height of Jim Crow era and Jay “The Sport” Jackson is fighting to be the first African American heavyweight world champion. Jay Leno | 8:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Family Concert | 4:00 PM, | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca

3/16 Saturday Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Partners in Time | 7:30 PM, | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, IC, Ithaca

Jeff Dunham: Passively Aggressive Tour | 7:00 PM, | The Oncenter, 800 South State St., Syracuse | Americaís favorite ventriloquist tours North America on his 60-city Passively Aggressive tour.

Indigo Girls | 8:00 PM, | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | $29-$49

3/15 Friday Bombino w/s/g Dead Messengers | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20.00 - $25.00

Harlem Globetrotters | 7:00 PM, | The Oncenter, 800 South State St., Syracuse

An Evening with George Winston | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca

3/10 Sunday

The Town Pants | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | A Vancouver BC-based band combining aspects of Irish traditional, folk, rock and roots Americana, fusing their

Harlem Globetrotters | 2:00 PM, | The Oncenter, 800 South State St., Syracuse

Syracuse City Ballet Presents Peter Pan | 6:00 PM, | Civic Centers Theaters At Oncenter, 421 Montgomery St, Syracuse | Fly with us to Never Never Land! Join Set to a stunning score, come ready to believe as all of your favorite characters dance onstage. As Tinkerbell spreads her magic dust, we see action and adventure around every corner. A wonderful story for families, filled with amazing dancing, high flying tricks, and of course a hint of comedy, Peter Pan is guaranteed to thrill audiences!

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A Spoonful of Poison - Mystery Dinner Theater | 6:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Murder? How terribly impolite! But that’s the problem everyone’s favorite nanny, Mary Popouts, must face! The Banks children are all grown up but Michael’s rise to the top of the Dependable Depository Bank has left a trail of mysterious deaths in its wake. | $50.00 for dinner, dessert, coffee and show! Jay Leno | 8:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo

3/17 Sunday Symphoria Casual Series: Musical Explorations | 3:00 PM, | St. Pauls Downtown, 220 East Fayette, Syracuse | This performance features musical explorations by Brahms into the work of Haydn, Arvo Part’s non-fixed instrumentation work and Mozart’s exploration of counterpoint, form and complexity in his Symphony No. 38. | $40 to $20 18 and under Free Syracuse City Ballet Presents Peter Pan | 12:00 PM & 4:00PM | Civic Centers Theaters At Oncenter, 421 Montgomery St, Syracuse | See 3/16.

3/18 Monday Something Rotten! | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Set in 1595, Nick and Nigel Bottom are two brothers who are desperate to write a hit play. When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the worldís very first musical!† | $30-$65

3/19 Tuesday

3/23 Saturday

3/27 Wednesday

Something Rotten! | 7:30 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | See 3/18 | $30-$65

Symphoria Pops Series: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial In Concert | 7:30 PM, | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Don’t miss Steven Spielberg’s cinematic masterpiece E.T. The Extra Terrestrial with John Williams’ Academy Award winning score performed live to picture, and experience the magic once more!| $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0

Celtic Woman - Ancient Land | 7:00 PM, | Civic Centers Theaters At Oncenter, 421 Montgomery St, Syracuse | Since its debut, global musical sensation Celtic Woman’s concerts continue to capture the hearts of an audience that spans the globe.

3/20 Wednesday We Banjo 3 | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer Pride and Prejudice | 7:30 PM, | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Runs March 20 - April 7. In the age of The Crown and Victoria, we go back to the Anglophile source with Kate Hamillís playful adaptation of Jane Austenís classic romance.† | $20-$39

3/22 Friday Christina and Michelle Naughton | 8:00 PM, | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The Naughtons bring a diverse program of four-hand and two piano repertoire featuring works by Debussy, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and more. | $19-$30 Loudon Wainwright III | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $35-$40 Pat Metheny - Side Eye Tour | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer A Spoonful of Poison - Mystery Dinner Theater | 6:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | See 3/16.| $50.00 for dinner, dessert, coffee and show! The Royale | 7:30 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | See 3/15.

Les Miserables | 7:30 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse Russian National Ballet: Giselle | 7:30 PM, | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton

Memories of Patsy - The Patsy Cline Tribute Show | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | The legendary Patsy Cline comes to life once again in the national touring show, Memories of Patsy. | Reserved seating $29-$39

3/28 Thursday Ricky Skaggs (with The Kentucky Thunder) | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

A Spoonful of Poison - Mystery Dinner Theater | 6:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | See 3/16. | $50.00 for dinner, dessert, coffee and show! 6th Annual Foodnet Mac ‘n Cheese Bowl | 11:30 AM, | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Benefit for†Foodnet Meals on Wheels. 20 local restaurants and vendors will be whipping up their version of everyone’s favorite comfort food. Who makes the best mac ‘n cheese in town? You decide! Taste them all and vote for your favorites! Come for the tastings, live music, raffles and more!

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Los Lobos | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

Clint Black | 8:00 PM, | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo

Jo Koy Break the Mold Tour | 7:30 PM, | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | The comedian pulls inspiration from his family, specifically his son, with material that has universal appeal.

Jukebox the Ghost & The Mowgli’s | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20 - $23

John Davidson | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Is there anything John hasn’t done in his expansive career!? From Las Vegas showrooms to hosting The Hollywood Squares, That’s Incredible! and The Tonight Show. | $30

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Ithaca Ballet Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 3:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | Second show at 7:30PM. Story by William Shakespeare, Music by Felix Mendelssohn and Choreography by Lavinia Reid. Under the direction of Cindy Reid. | $10.00 - $22.00 Les Miserables | 7:30 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse

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7:30 PM, | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Boundary-defying violinist Rachel Barton Pine melds bravura passages, serene melodies and spicy Gypsy folk rhythms in Brahms’ popular Violin Concerto. Music Director Lawrence Loh leads Symphoria in Bruckner’s noble Symphony No. 4 after intermission. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0

4/1 Monday Experience Hendrix | 7:30 PM, | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Top guitarists from a variety of places on the rock-n-roll spectrum will take part in the 2019 Experience Hendrix Tour, led by Joe Satriani, Dave Mustaine, Jonny Lang, Dweezil Zappa and Taj Mahal. 2Cellos - Let There Be Cellos Tour | 8:00 PM, | Civic Centers Theaters At Oncenter, 421 Montgomery St,

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Syracuse | An international sensation since 2011, their rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” reached video viral fame on YouTube, Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, together known as 2CELLOS, have since created a name for themselves with their electric and dynamic playing style.

4/2 Tuesday Rock of Ages | 7:30 PM, | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | Broadway In Binghamton. Violet - by Brian Crawley, Music by Jeanine Tesori | 8:00 PM, | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Thru April 14th. Contact theater for additional showtimes. Set in the Deep South during the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows a young woman on a journey to be cured by a TV evangelist.

4/5 Friday Get the Led Out: The American Led Zeppelin | 8:00 PM, | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The Philadelphia-based group consists of six veteran musicians intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live, like you’ve never heard before. No wigs or fake English accents, GTLO brings what the audience wants -a high energy Zeppelin concert with an honest, heart-thumping intensity. | $28-$38 First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to

different local artists and sometimes global ones, as well.

4/15 Monday

4/6 Saturday

DakhaBrakha | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $25.00 - $30.00

Symphoria Spark Series: Firebird | 7:00 PM, | New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Boulevard, Syracuse | Symphoria performs Stravinsky’s The Firebird, featuring a unique collaboration with puppets from Open Hand Theater. | $25 to $20 First Saturday on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, | Art studios are open to you! Find the list of artists participating this month, and learn tons more at www.Arttrail.com. Itís cool to meet the artists and see their creative spaces!

4/7 Sunday Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: French Connections | 4:00 PM, | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood: Scared Scriptless | 7:00 PM, | Civic Centers Theaters At Oncenter, 421 Montgomery St, Syracuse | Armed with nothing but their sharp wit, the “Whose Line is it Anyway?” stars take to the stage with their uproarious live improv show.

4/11 Thursday Allman Betts Band | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

Spring Quartet: Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding, & Leo Genovese | 8:00 PM, | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | $19-$39

4/18 Thursday Andrea Gibson | 7:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Author of three collections of poetry and currently working on an illustrated collection of their most memorable quotes for Penguin (Winter 2018), Andrea (they/them/their) has also released seven (7) full-length albums.

4/19 Friday Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers | 8:00 PM, | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | $45-$65

4/21 Sunday Grounded | 7:30 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | by George Brant. An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. | $20-$45

4/23 Tuesday

4/12 Friday

Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Michael Francis and Yekwon Sunwoo | 7:30 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Michael Francis, Conductor, Yekwon Sunwoo, Piano. Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.

Marisol By Jose Rivera | 7:30 PM, | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | April 23rd-April 28th. Contact theater for additional showtimes. Angels are starting a revolution to overthrow God, and Marisol Perez, a Puerto Rican copy editor in Manhattan, finds herself caught in the crossfire.

David Bromberg Quintet | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

4/24 Wednesday

4/13 Saturday Symphoria Kids: Ferdinand | 10:30 AM, | Inspiration Hall, 709 James St, Syracuse | Music from Bizet’s descriptive music from Carmen comes alive when paired with Munro Leaf’s narrated story of Ferdinand the Bull and puppets from Open Hand Puppet Theatre. | $15. to $8. under 18 is free An Evening with The Golden Dragon Acrobats | 7:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today. | $25.00 - $35.00

Crystal Bowersox | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $20-$25 The Humans | 7:30 PM, | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Runs April 24 - May 12, 2019. Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. | $20-$39

Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca

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4/27 Saturday Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Brahms’ Requiem | 7:30 PM, | Orchestra Series @ Cornell University An evening of song and conversation with Peter Yarrow | 8:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer

4/28 Sunday Patty Larkin | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | $25-$30 Galumpha | 3:00 PM, | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment. The three performers create a sensory feast of images ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime, drawn together into a seamless whole, consistently bringing audiences to their feet. | $10.00 - $15.00

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4/30 Tuesday Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I | 7:00 PM, | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Set in 1860’s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.† | $30-$67

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Kate Hamill returns home with August production

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n adapting plays, many writers stay close to the original source material. Kate Hamill is not most writers. Hamill takes a different approach to older works that allows them to thrive and develop into somewhat unique works of their own. Hamill, an Ithaca native, has been in the national spotlight for her adaptations of works like Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility,” and Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” among many others. In describing this art, Hamill explains an approach that may have an unknown result. Her adaptation of “Little Women” will be appearing at the Hangar Theatre from Aug. 8 to 17. “I take a sort of radical approach to adaptation in that I think of it as a new play and not a recreation of what the novel is, because I am really interested in how those stories can change and adapt to today,” Hamill said. “I think of it as a collaboration between myself and an author who happens to be currently no longer with us. In this case, in the Hangar’s [Theatre] upcoming season, Louisa May Alcott is no longer with us but I was very interested in telling a story about American women and what it means to be a woman or not be a woman. And what it means to grow up when you’re forced into a sort of a very small box of accepted behaviors—and especially on American behaviors—at a time when the country is very torn by civil unrest.” Hamill’s first experience in theatre began

after she had a role in “The Crucible” at the Hangar Theatre when she was 14. She then obtained her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College. Soon after she graduated, she moved to New York City but was disheartened by a lack of strong female roles. Hamill found that even if there was a good female role in a certain play, it was secondary to the male lead of the play. She found this to be especially problematic in her favorite works, the classics. So, she took matters to the page and began giving new voices to these characters, a task guided by the plays themselves. “For me, the play teaches me what it wants it to be,” Hamill said. “I worry less about recreating some idea of what the characters from the novel are or how we tend to see the characters. It’s much less interesting to me than who these characters might be and they sort of find their voices as I write the play. In a weird way, it’s not a lot different from writing a completely new play from scratch, except that I have someone else’s voice sort of whispering in my ear.” While Hamill deals with adaptations, she has also written several original works that feature strong female-centric narratives. “I’ve written a bunch of stuff. I’m workshopping a play this month with a theatre company in San Diego called The Prostitute Play, which is a true story about a woman in 19th century England who is a very high-class sex worker who sued the most ruthless politician who tried to blackmail her, who then wrote a tell-all memoir about it,” Hamill said. “My god, that’s an interesting one to work on.” Currently, Hamill is working on two new adaptations, one of “The Scarlet Letter,” and the other of “A Christmas Carol.” In writing her plays, Hamill has found that sometimes the actual writing of a play is more in the

rewriting of it. With most ventures, there are some challenges, although Hamill faces each work head-on, determined to find the voice of the characters. Of all the plays that she has worked on, her favorite is an adaptation of “The Odyssey,” one of her favorite childhood books. “My father, when I was a little girl, used to tell me bedtime stories from ‘The Odyssey,’ which when you get to know ‘The Odyssey’ is really screwed up,” Hamill said. “I really enjoyed delving into that world, which of course is a very stereotypically male world. It was really fun to take my feminist lense to that.” Even though many of her plays are based on the classics, Hamill does have some contemporary plays in the works as well. One in particular is called “The Piper,” which is still in development. However, she has her own special reasons for adapting plenty of classic plays: an affinity for the heightened language commonly used in them. Most of the time, Hamill stars in her own plays. She is going to be starring in the world premiere of her adaptation of Little Women in New York City, which is being directed by Sarna Lapine. A highlight of being onstage, Hamill said, is that the butterflies-in-yourstomach feeling never goes away. For her, this is a barometer of where she’s at in her career. “I think the day that completely goes away you should question if you should be challenging yourself more,” Hamill said. “I mean, I’ve been in runs of my plays Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. I was in both of those shows for almost a year. They both had 9- or 10-month runs. That was eight shows a week and that was hundreds of shows, and every single time I was a little nervous. It never gets old. If you’re addicted to a little bit of nerves, I think you’d choose this profession.” Ja n ua ry

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rankly, beef or chicken I’m apbroth. At Saigon proaching Kitchen the broths this review with are hearty and some trepidation. contain generous I haven’t reviewed portions of meat Saigon Kitchen in and vermicelli. All about seven years pho is served with and during that a side dish of bean time it has become sprouts, lime slices, extremely popular, and large Thai basil both for eat in and leaves. These are take out. meant for diners On a recent to incorporate as Tuesday I arrived they see fit. Phos when it opened make for a most at 11:30 a.m. and satisfying, and about a half hour healthy, lunch. later, would-beIncidentally, several diners were waiting restaurants in the Saigon Kitchen is a favorite, for good reason, for tables in the engreater Ithaca area on State Street. Just make sure you can trance and outside, have jumped on the get a table. (Photo by Casey Martin) in the cold, on State national trend of Street. It didn’t serving a meal in matter what day I went, it was always the a bowl. In my opinion, none surpass the same. quality that Saigon Kitchen offers. So, you may be wondering: What’s the I was less enthusiastic about another cause for the trepidation? Well, the reshouse specialty: roti chicken. It was a taurant is small, having a capacity for only bit bland and visually unappealing. The about five dozen diners, and here I come, chicken bits mixed with scallions and onhaving never had anything but super ions were rather boring. Interestingly, my service and wonderful food, bringing it to server told me no one had ever ordered it the attention of thousands of Ithaca Times from her before and was anxious to hear readers. Perhaps I’m not doing the owners, what I thought of it. I wouldn’t discouror diners, any favors by helping to add to age anyone from choosing it, I just think the queue waiting for a table. If you believe there are many more outstanding options in the adage: All publicity is good publicon offer. ity, this is one case where it might not be Saigon Kitchen’s fried rice, although not true for these owners. exceptional, is most enjoyable. It’s mixed To illustrate the kind of spirit that with onions and egg along with finely emanates here, let me tell you about an ex- diced carrots and peas. perience I recently had at lunch. I ordered The Vietnamese steak is served as diced Saigon Flounder, one of the house special- pieces of beef cooked lightly with a tasty ties. Our server inquired about how spicy brown sauce, served medium rare, and ofI wanted it, and I requested the least spicy. fered on a bed of lettuce which, besides beThe fish came filleted and lightly breaded ing edible, offers some color enhancement. with a tamarind reduction, and when our There is no liquor license, and on server brought it to the table, she waited several occasions I’ve requested a slice of to see if I liked it. Although I was embarlemon to accompany my water. They don’t rassed, I did tell her it was too spicy for seem to have lemon, but various servers me. Without hesitation, she whisked it have brought me a dish with slices of lime, away and told me she’d bring me another, which worked just fine. I’ve also enjoyed without any spice except for the ginger pots of jasmine tea (I could also have chothat was included in the preparation. The sen green or oolong) which set me back a owner, seeing the empty space on the total of $2. Speaking of prices, everything table in front of me, came over to inquire on the menu is more than reasonable. All if she could help. When a new flounder lunch and dinner entrées fall into the $10 was delivered, it was tasty, juicy, perfectly to $14 category. cooked, and a joy to eat. (I should add that Sometimes it’s difficult to find a parkI assiduously avoid identifying myself to ing space on State Street between Corn restaurant staff and no one had a clue that and Meadow streets at lunch time. If the I was reviewing.) only negative issue that comes to mind is Among the other house specialties, the the occasional difficulty in parking, the various phos are terrific. Pho is a homebottom line for me is that this is one really made Vietnamese noodle soup made with fine restaurant.

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new year means new art shows and, as with any given month, as gallery night remains as popular as ever, Ithaca hit it off strong with this month’s batch of local artists set on filling downtown with color and thought. Trumansburg-based painter Domenica Brockman is one such artist, comfortably occupying the January slot at the Community Art Partnership (CAP) ArtSpace located in Center Ithaca. Displaying numerous new works, many of which inspired by a recent trip to Iceland, Brockman presents her own unique yet traditional take on abstract art, utilizing her preferred medium of encaustic paint on wood panels, with metal leaf frequently integrated as well. What this medium does is create smooth lines and surfaces when needed, while at other times presenting an additional sense of dimension and texture to the work, some of which protrudes from the wooden panels in a subtle but three-dimensional sense. It’s no surprise that Brockman often, as she herself has stated, uses her abstract work as a means of exploring and responding to outside landscapes and topographic terrain. Juxtaposed against the gridded uniformity of the wood panels, the simplistic partial circles and triangles that appear to make up much of Brockman’s preferred visual language stand out in stark declarations of presence, pocked with the brush-stroked texture of chance and human intent. Pinwheels is one work that is emblematic of the stylistic choices and aesthetic

that embody Brockman’s work as a whole. Made from various square wood panels that themselves create a larger square, the work is cut into parts that come together into a single composition. Each panel presents the quarter of a circle, but whether the interior or exterior edges of the shape is painted in varies from panel to panel. At the top are two panels side by side, each with black paint filling in the negative space to create an outline of two quarter-circles. Beneath, the lower portion of the composition is made of six smaller panels, each in rows of three. Three of the panels present quarter-circles that are filled in white; the other three have the negative space painted in, this time with red. Only one panel, in the bottom-most right corner, is filled in entirely with red negative space and black interior. The circle portions point in various directions, often in the opposite of what one might assume. What this produces is an abstract scene, much like a wavy path that draws your eyes across the piece. Despite its name, it’s almost the opposite of a pinwheel, linear rather than circular in composition. Or, perhaps, the two larger panels above are indicative of pinwheelesque corners, alluding to one rather than presenting one concretely. These same quarter circle panels make up nearly all pieces in the show, presented in various colors and arrangements that are bold in their simplistic natures. Yet somehow,

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despite the pieces not fitting together to create concrete imagery, each piece manages to carry its own interest, providing visual disruption that is also somehow harmonious and balanced. If the pieces don’t fit together as one might automatically expect, then from there, what can be created? A third of the show focuses directly on the artist’s trip to Iceland, drawing inspiration from geysers and volcanoes she likely witnessed while there. These pieces are the most concrete of any, presenting various triangular shapes as volcanoes and focused on a color palette of purples, blacks and golds. There are so many more artworks in this show than there is room to describe, but each manages to appear engaging and fun while also eliciting a sense of familiarity toward shapes for the viewer and exuding a refined intellect beneath the layers. Domenica Brockman’s art is on display through Jan. 28.

in order for someone to be fined, the matter has to be brought to court first but that is pretty much the limit of their power. Fifth Ward Alderperson Laura Lewis described it accurately, as a catch-22. Sarachan spoke about some suggestions to clean up language in the zoning laws that would ensure landlords are prosecuted and rightfully receive the fines that they incur. Niechwiadowicz commented that oftentimes there can be several people listed on a lease, but technicalities such as how long they occupied the space can disqualify them from being considered an occupant. The second suggestion was that the penalty for over-occupancy should be a separate violation in the zoning code. Third is that a penalty should be instituted for anyone renting a condemned apartment. Both Niechwiadowicz and Sarachan spoke about how many landlords take the condemned signs off of certain apartments

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Radio London | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

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Cosmic Joke Collective Presents Tom Waits Night | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca | $5

Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Ray McNamara’s WednesRay Monk’s Raysidency | 7:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Why? Performs Alopecia | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Gutterpunk: Brian!, Motherwort, Joyous Shrub 666 | 7:30 PM, | BowlO-Drome, Ithaca Not From Brooklyn | 8:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg Keele Tris | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Personal Blend w/s/g Ray McNamara of Big Mean Sound Machine | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

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1/20 Sunday

Taksim: Live Mid-East Music & Belly Dance | 5:30 PM, | Brookton’s Market, Brooktondale

Gerard Burke | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Funk Night | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

1/18 Friday Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Sundown Sally | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville Gerard Burke | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca Justin Roeland and the Nightswimmers’ Record Release Show w/special guests Bronwen Exter and Palleon | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10.00 - $25.00 Jen Cork | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Mike Titlebaum and Catherine Gale Jazz | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca The Inner Crazy | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Dennis Winge | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

1/22 Tuesday Live Banjo Music with John Bunge | 6:00 PM, | Brookton’s Market, Brooktondale Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Concerts/Recitals

Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber singers | 7:30 PM, 1/19 Saturday | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora Street, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers will give a performance of the Requiems of Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle. | Tickets: Adults: $20 in advance, $25 at the door; Students: $5; Groups of 10 or more $10 each; Children 12 and under: Free; An A Cappella Afternoon | 2:00 PM, 1/20 Sunday | Christ Episcopal Church, 1393 Main Street, Willard | Three a cappella groups will be featured in the next concert of the Lake Country Hometown Music Series - So Noted, Zest, and Old Spice. Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM, 1/20 Sunday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Mozart Rossini Schubert | Adults, $25; Seniors, $20; College & Grade-school Students Free

minutes, having to add more shows. She is a young ventriloquist who is inspiring the next generation to keep it alive. Second Annual Salt City Drag Battle | 8:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | They’re back! Mrs. Kasha Davis and Miss Darienne Lake return to Syracuse Stage to host an evening of drag, drinks and dancing.

Film Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus. The Great Buster: A Celebration | 1/22, 7:00PM | Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovic. Cinemapolis

Stage ComedyFLOPs | 7:00 PM, 1/17 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Bam! It’s Magic | 7:00 PM, 1/18 Friday and 1/19 Saturday| Schorr Family Firehouse Stage, 48 Willow St, Johnson City | Starring Endicott native Alexander Boyce. Darci Lynne | 7:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Ventriloquist Darci Lynne is the youngest contestant to ever win America’s Got Talent. Following AGT, she sold out her headlining show in six

Week of Friday, January 18, 2019 through Thursday, January 24, 2019. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. On The Basis Of Sex | The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.|120 mins PG-13

of a crime while carrying their first child. |119 mins R

Holmes and Doctor Watson. | 89 mins PG-13

The Favourite| In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. |119 mins R

Vice | The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. | 132 mins R

Mary Queen of Scots| Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. |124 mins R A Star is Born | A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. |135 mins R Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 1/16 through Tuesday, 1/22. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. * Replicas*| A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident. |107 mins PG-13 Dragon Ball Super: Broly*| Goku and Vegeta encounter Broly, a Saiyan warrior unlike any fighter they’ve faced before. |100 mins PG Glass*| Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. |129 mins PG-13 The Upside | A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who’s hired to help him. | 125 mins PG-13 A Dog’s Way Home | A dog travels 400 miles in search of her owner. |96 mins PG

Ben Is Back | A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family’s home on Christmas Eve. |103 mins R

Escape Room | Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive. |100 mins PG-13

If Beale Street Could Talk | A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent

Holmes and Watson | A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mysteries featuring Sherlock

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Mary Poppins Returns | Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael’s children through a difficult time in their lives. |130 mins PG Aquaman | Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and be a hero to the world. |143 mins PG-13 Bumblebee | On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battlescarred and broken. |113 mins PG-13 Second Act | A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do. |103 mins PG-13 The Mule | A 90-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel. |116 mins R Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse | Miles Morales becomes the SpiderMan of his reality and crosses paths with his counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat to all reality. | 117 mins PG Green Book | A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | 130 mins PG-13 The Grinch | | 90 mins PG

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Art Highlights from the Permanent Collection | Ongoing | Everson Museum Of Art, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse | Showcasing the depth of the Everson’s collection with 150 years of American art, from early nineteenth century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart. “Take Ten” - Art Show | Ongoing | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Ten gallery artists will kick off State of the Art’s 30th Anniversary with a show of paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and more! Show dates: January 3-27, 2019. Luminous Lakes painting by Brian S. Keeler | Ongoing | 171 Cedar Arts Ctr, 171 Cedar St, Corning | A selection of Keuka and Seneca Lake paintings. Annual Print Sale and 20th Int’l Mini-Print Exhibit | Ongoing | Ink Shop Printmaking Center, 330 E.State / MLK Street (2nd floor CSMA bldg), Ithaca | Our collection of prints is extensive and represents some of the

best printmakers around. These make great gifts. We are always encouraging people to support the Arts by buying more Art! (Re) Generation: Women Artists After 60 | Ongoing| Everson Museum Of Art, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse | Explores the creative and transformative power of age for women artists working and thriving in the contemporary art world.

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Frenemies for Suffrage: Stanton, Gage, Anthony | 2:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Meet author Mary E. Corey, a SUNY emeritus professor of history and Seneca Falls native, as she discusses the inevitable fireworks between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony who worked closely together for 40 years in the Suffrage movement. Corey will introduce and sign her new book, “The Political Life and Times of Matilda Joslyn Gage” at the event.

Art Splash! Exploring Abstract Art | 1:00 PM, 1/20 Sunday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Open to all ages. Class limit is 15 - so call 6597375 to register.

Women March in Seneca Falls 2019 | 10:00 AM, 1/19 Saturday | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Rally, March and Feminist Music Fest.

Drop-In Art Series | 5:30 PM, 1/22 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At these drop-in sessions, people can stop by to see what artist Laura Rowley has planned. These hands-on sessions do not require registration, and are first come, first served. Youngsters ages 12 to 15 are permitted with an adult, and ages 16 and over are welcome solo.

Women’s March Syracuse | 10:00 AM, 1/19 Saturday | James M. Hanley Federal Building, 100 S. Clinton St., Syracuse |

Drawing Class at the Ulysses Philomathic Library | 6:00 PM, 1/22 Tuesday | Ulyssess Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | This class is for adults and indepen-

Dessert Dance with the Contradictions | 7:30 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), 330 East State/ML King, Jr. Street (just east of Ithaca Commons), Ithaca | A feast of music, dancing, friends, and fabulous desserts are all part of the delectable Dance and Dessert Potluck hosted each winter by Hands Four Dancers of Ithaca. | $8-10

American Girl Book Club: Addy Walker | 3:30 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Addy Saves the Day

Kids Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 1/16 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Sciencenter Science Together | 3:00 PM Wednesdays and Fridays;

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10:30 AM Tuesdays and Thursdays | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers through self-guided, hands-on activities like playing with flubber, using tools to sift through sand, magnet fishing, and more! | General admission fees apply

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. | General admission fees apply

Creative Dance Program for Children and Their Caregivers | 11:00 AM, 1/17 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For children ages 3 to 10, along with their caregivers, a weekly creative dance class series with local instructor Amanda Moretti. Participants will learn basic steps, balancing techniques, and whole body expression.

LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children are invited to attend this weekly LEGO brick building program, which encourages them to use their imaginations or LEGO books from the TCPL collection to create their own LEGO art. The Library provides building bricks, and all creations are displayed at the Library for one week.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 1/18 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week! Happy Talk | 10:30 AM, 1/18 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Parents and caregivers can learn baby sign and early communication strategies. Designed for babies aged four to 18 months and their caregivers. Makerspace Projects | 3:30 PM, 1/18 Friday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | 1/18 = Slime; Suited for grades 6-12. Winter Comics Camp | 10:30 AM, 1/19 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Led by comic artist Ten Van Winkle. Designed for children ages 8 to 13, the course will include lessons on all aspects of making comics, including drawing, character creation, and storytelling. Children of all abilities are welcome. Nanotechnology: The Science of Small with CCMR | 12:30 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | The Cornell Center for Materials Research program will be full of hands-on discoveries and stories. Recommended for children ages 5 and up. Bam! It’s Magic for Kids | 2:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Schorr Family Firehouse Stage, 48 Willow St, Johnson City | Featuring the talents of John Reid.

Roblox Party | 10:30 AM, 1/21 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Suitable for children ages 8 to 12, this celebration of the world of Roblox is a part of TCPL’s Winter Adventure. Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 1/22 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather. Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 1/22 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun. There is a different theme each week.

Notices Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | 1/16: Richard Kiely, Ithaca Rotarian and Senior Fellow for program evaluation in Cornellís Office of Engagement Initiatives: Ethical Engagement at Home and Abroad | $15 Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 1/16 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 Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | Dinner: The Antlers. Host: Allen Q., RSVP: allenq3@ lightlink.com

FAITH AND PRACTICE: NON-VIOLENCE, SYMBOLIC DISARMAMENT AND THE KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES ACTION SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 4:00PM

Friends Meetinghouse, 120 Third St., Ithaca | Local peace activist Clare Grady will deliver this talk followed by ample time for questions and discussion. (photo: provided)

Soups and Stews | 7:00 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | Classrooms@Greenstar, 702 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come enjoy a full meal of hearty vegetarian soups and stews with professional chef Anita Devine. Recipes provided. Open to the public, registration required - sign up online at www.greenstar.coop or call 273-9392. | $15 for GreenStar members/$20 for non-members Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 1/16 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.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 1/19 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. 2019 GIAC MLK Community Breakfast | 9:00 AM, 1/19 Saturday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This year the featured speaker is Mayor Svante L.

by McLean Church Women’s Fellowship | Adults $10 Kids 6-12 $5 5 and under FREE Finding Your Finnish Roots on the Internet. | 1:00 PM, 1/20 Sunday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Lecture following a potluck lunch. Lasagna Dinner | 4:00 PM, 1/21 Monday | Newfield United Methodist Church, 227 Main Street, Newfield | Includes Meat Lasagna, Salad, Bread, Beverage and Dessert. Eat in or Take out. Proceeds benefit the Church. | $9

Homeschool Writing Club | 12:00 PM, 1/22 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N. Main Street, PO Box 410, Ovid | Learn writing techniques and grammar tips as we create fictional stories and share ideas in this five part class.†Please contact the library to register.

Health Yoga for Beginners | 9:00 AM, 1/16 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136

Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. Preparing for the 2019 Lyme Disease Season | 7:00 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | Classrooms@Greenstar, 702 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to make a tick removal kit and tick repellent and what to do if you get

Community Game Night | 6:30 PM, 1/17 Thursday | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Community Game Night is a welcoming, inclusive gathering for people to play board games and card games. All ages are welcome. Bring a game to play or play a game someone else brought. Enter through the green door on Court St, or the door by Dewitt Park. We are downstairs in Dodds Hall.

Open Mic Night | 7:00 PM, 1/18 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: (607) 844-1500 or email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com.

Gentle Chair Yoga Series for Seniors | 12:00 PM, 1/18 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This program focuses on gentle yoga made accessible by the use of a chair for support. The series is designed to help improve posture, flexibility, energy, and stability. Caregiver Support Group | 12:15 PM, 1/18 Friday | The Courtyards at Bethany Village, 3005 Watkins Rd., Horseheads | Opioid Overdose Training | 3:00 PM, 1/18 Friday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Learn how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and how to correctly administer intranasal Naloxone.† If you know someone at risk for an opioid overdose, then this training is for you!† Must preregister by calling the Seneca Falls Library at (315) 568-8265 x2.

Beginner Maple Production Workshop | 6:00 PM, 1/17 Thursday | Vince’s Park, Corner of Rte 318 and 5&20, Seneca Falls | Registration required: 315-539-9251; jlw24@cornell. edu, or online www.senecacountycce. org. | $15 per family or farm

Jump Start Your Job Search Strategy | 9:00 AM, 1/18 Friday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Looking for a new job can be overwhelming. Come to learn about current tools available to help organize and conduct an effective job search; the basics of how and where to look for a job will be included. We will also acquaint you with the many resources available through our office to help you in your job search.

Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Monthly class about using essential oils for natural health and home care.

Try Yoga! | 10:00 AM, 1/19 Saturday | Fay’s Fitness, 41 Owego Rd, Candor | Sample Gentle Yoga moves by Instructor Elise Phillips of Harmony Massage & Yoga. Everyone Welcome! RSVP Encouraged. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 1/20 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray. Move. Sit. Connect.

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Myrick. | $4/$5/$15 Faith and Practice: Non-Violence, Symbolic Disarmament and the Kings Bay Plowshares Action | 4:00 PM, 1/19 Saturday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | A talk by local peace activist and one of the Plowshares activists, Clare Grady. McLean Community Church Roast Pork Dinner | 4:30 PM, 1/19 Saturday | McLean Community Church, 50 Church St, McLean | Served Family Style. Take Outs available! Sponsored

Dryden Community Center Cafe Annual Membership Meeting and Open House | 7:00 PM, 1/21 Monday | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Social Networking | 9:00 AM, 1/22 Tuesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | You will learn how to take advantage of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter in your job search. This workshop provides general guidance on building a presentable profile and presence.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 1/20 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca |

Brown St., Ovid | Join Ann Mittermeyer for Anusara Yoga; a heart-oriented Hatha Yoga emphasizing good body alignment principles. Free class, donations appreciated. Registration required.

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Mid-Day Mindfulness Meditation | 12:15 PM, 1/16 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These sessions will encourage participants to shift out of “automatic pilot” mode and observe the workings of the mind, body, and emotions.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 1/17 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 1/17 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield |

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Community School of Music and Art, 330 E. State St., Ithaca | A feast of music, dancing, friends, and fabulous desserts are all part of the delectable “Dance and Dessert Potluck” hosted each winter by Hands Four Dancers of Ithaca. Contra dancing will be followed by a dessert potluck and couples dances: swing, schottisch, hambo, & waltz. The steps are simple and each dance will be taught by a panoply of talented local callers. (photo: provided)

Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | It’s a veritable “who’s who” of local musical talent coming out to celebrate an iconic American singer-songwriter - so many that we can only list last names to fit them all in! Arzac, Beeler, Exter, Hitz, Hoyt, Lowe, Lupowitz, Marshall, Minson, Myers, Natoli, Joshford, Riley, Schuster, Scott, Stark, Turback & Quinn! (photo: Facebook)

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