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ore t han one mont h after a ratepayer subsidy to the power plant ended, anti-fracking activists at both the local and national level are decrying a plan for the more than 60-year-old Cayuga Power Plant to continue burning coal on the site, a model that, since 2012, was believed to be unprofitable.

In a teleconference hosted by the environmentalist group Sierra Club on Thursday, activists from Fossil Free Tompkins, the local chapter of Mothers Out Front and water protection group Seneca Lake Guardian called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to derail a plan by Cayuga Power to continue burning coal on the site as it progresses toward a conversion to natural gas, raising the question of whether or not the alleged $4 million per month ratepayer subsidy was ever actually necessary or, if it was, at what point during the subsidies service life the plant began to operate profitably on coal.

Back in early 2012, the Cayuga Power Plant announced it was no longer profitable to operate and that it would be “mothballed,” or shut down temporarily to gauge the direction of the market, waiting to see whether the plant could be economically viable again. At the state level, New York State began the process of evaluating what would happen to the local energy grid if the plant were to shut down, finding in its review that on hot summer days, the transmission lines in Auburn wou ld overheat i f t he pla nt did not exist to provide power through a “back door” from the south on hot summer days.

To address this concern, the state instituted a surcharge on NYSEG customer’s electric bills – called a Reliability Support Surcharge (RSS) – in order to support and finance the ongoing operation of the plant while a decision was made on whether or not NYSEG customers should

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or 20 years, the Tompkins/ Tioga Cou nt y Cat holic Charities has been helping the members of the Ithaca community get back on their feet and, this week, they hosted an Open House to celebrate the accomplishments of the organization’s last 20 years.

During the Open House, people were able to visit the organization’s offices on West Buffalo Street and get a tour as well as be able to talk to volunteers and members of the organization about the different programs they do and how to get involved or get help.

The Catholic Charity is a non-profit organization that has strived to help those who fall in the limbo of social services — those who make just above the threshold to qualify for aid from the Department of Financial services — but who are still living paycheck to paycheck.

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sized that Catholic Charities help t hose of a l l fa it hs a nd backgrounds and that she and her staff are always striving for Catholic Charities to be a safe space for all people.

“The organization has always based itself on Catholic values which mean that we welcome everyone, of every faith and help everyone of every faith, nationality, and background,” Spear said.

A lot of the programs or aid provided by the Catholic Charities are privileges many people often take for granted. For example, providing people with personal hygiene packets with everyday items such as toothpaste and deodorant or helping people find something to wear for a job interview through the Charities clothing closet. Aid sometimes even comes in the simple form of providing a bus pass.

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give bus passed to new students to get to the colleges around Ithaca,” said Spear. “Why should transportation stif le someone getting an education.”

The program also exists for those who just got a new job and do not have a car to get there. A person can get help paying for the first few bus passed until their first paycheck comes in.

The organizations also advocates for better childcare subsidies to make it easier for single parents to take a job without having to worry about who will be taking care of their children while they work.

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pay to convert the plant to gas or upgrade the transmission lines between the plant and Auburn.

Ongoing since the summer of 2012, the surcharge was intended to buy some time to keep the plant operating in its needed capacity while a permanent solution to the reliability problem was figured out.

That subsidy ended on June 30 yet, despite plans to eventually convert the property to an “energy park” consisting of 18 megawatts of solar power and an undetermined amount of natural gas power by the state-imposed 2020 deadline, plant leadership recently announced it would continue to burn coal “as long as it is profitable.” Advocates claim this statement indicates that the ratepayer subsidy might not have been necessary.

“Despite their claim the power plant is unprofitable, it still remains open and continues to burn coal,” said David Alicea, Senior Organizing Representative for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. “The owners say they will continue burning coal as long as it’s economical, and they’re exploring their options to repower the plant to burn fracked gas.”

Plant leadership did not deny it had received the subsidy, only hinting that the plant was in the midst of a “dramatic transition.”

“As of June 30, Cayuga Operating Company is not operating with any subsidy from NYSEG and is current on all its environmental permits,” plant operator Jerry Goodenough wrote in an emailed statement. “We are proud of its operational and public safety record and the 70 IBEW employees who every day ensure there is enough power and grid reliability for our region and the State of New York. Our state and our country are going through a dramatic transition to a better energy future we all want.

Cayuga will play an integral role in this transition.”

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About a year ago, a decision was made that the transmission upgrades, not conversion to natural gas, made much more sense: it would cost less, cut costs for customers and, with plans for additional improvements to the transmission lines north of Auburn in the works, be a permanent solution to the reliability problem. But, the PSC noted, a conversion to natural gas would also be inefficient, the carbon 19 –26,

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T reduction benefits of a coal-gas conversion ultimately not being worth the trouble or the cost: according to a 2015 study by the Institute For Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a repowered Cayuga plant would require ongoing ratepayer-supplied subsidies totaling more than $265 million over the next decade and, beyond the 2027 end date of the proposed subsidy, could potentially require further subsidies.

T he ef for t , wh i le la rgely pursued to save the jobs of 70 employees and millions of dollars in taxes to both the town and local school district, was eventually shot down; the justification being it would put an undue and nonsensical burden on the ratepayers which was noted in a statement by Public Service Commission Chair Audrey Zibelman in a statement last February. While the PSC has yet to weigh in on this decision to work toward continued coal power, what’s happening now is that Cayuga Power has decided it will continue to burn coal for as long as it is economically feasible to do so, eventually converting to natural gas on their own dime.

This raises the question of whether or not the ratepayer subsidy – once considered crucial to the health of the plant – was ever actually necessary, the plant clearly on the financial footing to pursue a conversion once estimated to cost approximately $102 million.

“This subsidy was under the premise that if they did not get this money, the plant would close down,” Alicea said. “So now that subsidy is over, the fact the plant is still running really brings up the question of if they were making money in April, if they turned a profit in May… how far back do we go? How long can we tell if this was even needed? We just don’t know that. We want the governor and state officials to take a look at the books, whether they were making money, to find out if they really needed this or if they were using this subsidy to try and pad their profit line.”

“This is Cayuga’s new owners, new investors, who believe

there is money in converting the plant to natural gas on their own nickel to build a pipeline and add the new burner heads to allow them to burn natural gas… but now, they’re not even going to spend that money: they want to see if they can make this fly on coal.”

Riesling Power, a large Maryland-based subsidiary of Bicent Power, purchased the plant just as the state made the decision to deny the plant’s natural gas retrofit. In May, the company had created a new group, Cayuga Solar, that would bring 18 MW of solar energy production to the site, seizing on the upswing of an industry which was finally beginning to become prof itable. According to Goodenough, Cay uga Sola r made its f irst required filing with NYSERDA for Cayuga Solar earlier this week, adding that leadership continues to pursue a plan to repower Cayuga from coal to cleaner natural gas without a public subsidy. “ We w e r e h e a r t e n e d b y a recent poll showing that by a margin of 6 to 1, Tompkins County residents supported the vision of a new Cayuga powered by renewables and natural gas,” Goodenough wrote in a statement. (Weiser contested this, saying that the results could have been misleading and that people who support solar may not support natural gas) “Cayuga will be a model for the transition to a better energy future.”

The logistics of the natural gas conversion are still uncertain: how long something remains “profitable” really is an arbitrary length of time which, now, is surrounded by its own set of questions: coal prices are generally low at present, and while there is no plan for any pipeline to supply the plant (or an idea of who would supply it), all that is known is that something has to take place before 2020.

rying to shut down one of the city’s most attractive nuisances, Cornell University has offered to look into a pathway to shut down “Ezra’s Tunnel,” the remains of a a circa 1832 waterway constructed by Ezra Cornell himself above Ithaca Falls that provided power for much of the city’s early industry.

No longer feeding anything, the tunnel today – positioned in a precarious spot above the city-owned gorge far below the Stewart Avenue bridge – has become a popular destination for teens and college kids willing to take the chance to reach it. Accessible by Willard Way, the entrance to the tunnel slides by an overlook positioned over a precarious 80 foot drop and a forged pathway through craggy, industrial remains leading to the tunnel. The fencing is poor, safety measures are limited and, as the number of people who have gotten themselves injured or trapped on the gorge can attest, the tunnel as an attraction has become a liability.

The site remains popular: walking over the bridge, you can often look far below to people sunbathing on an adjacent – albeit crumbling – dam emblazoned with an “Ithaca Is Gorges” logo. But, a representative said, instances of treks onto the dangerous site have “been getting worse.” As such, Cornell now wants to “get the ball rolling” on closing off the tunnel in a way that still allows EMS access.

One possible solution could be installing a large, heavy gate – such as those put in place on closed mine shafts – that could only be broken by something such as a set of bolt cutters. But a cost and potential solutions still need discussing.

“It’s difficult to make decisions and plans without knowing what might be workable and what might be the cost,” said Todd Bittner, a representative from the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

City officials at Wednesday’s Planning and Economic Development Committee agreed to schedule a time to visit the site to brainstorm various fixes to work toward keeping people out.

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fter decades in the local as Dennis described it, she was political fray, Jim Den- working to stop the Cayuga Salt nis – county legislator for Mine expansion, a stance Dennis the Town of Ulysses and parts of said was slanted “against workEnfield and Ithaca since 2006 – is ing families.” (Though, he notes, calling it quits. his position on the Tompkins It’s retirement time for a County IDA, which granted the few legislators, after all, joining mine a tax break, was a stance incumbent legislators Dooley many in the party would find Kiefer, Peter Stein and Carol unsavory.)

Chock in the exit lane this elecBut was it t he lack of a n tion cycle. He turns 75 years old endorsement that prompted him in August, a capstone year in a to drop out? Would anything life spent primarily as a school have changed? teacher and, since the ‘70s, has “Oh no,” said Dennis, seated been an active participant in his at a table at The Falls Restaulocal government, with stints on rant in Trumansburg on a recent both city council and the legisla- rainy afternoon. “It’s totally based ture to his credit. on that feeling I have on my own It’s a proud enough career life… I will have spent 25 years in for anybody, enough accom- local government between here plished in his day for anyone to and the city, I have grandchilfeel comfort in walking away. But dren everywhere – New York, the announcement does seem Vermont, here – I’ve said enough strange, considering Dennis had times in my life ‘I have to go to a recently announced he would be meeting.’ It seemed like an easy running for re-election on May 4 decision, though I know there and had been actively distribut- are people who think there might ing literature up until a few weeks have been pressure for me. There ago. really wasn’t.” “ T he re h ave Personally and “Frankly, I been several professionally, didn’t need things I’ve been Dennis’ time has a part of for the Donald Trump c o m e , a s t e a d y last eleven-and-acoming off getting elected hand half years, and I’d the steering wheel to make me like to see them at something of a to completion,” fork in the road want to stay Den n i s s a id i n o f To m p k i n s and get elected an interview on County’s history. again.”

WR FI CommuBeyond two longnity Radio three time members weeks ago. of the legislature But then the writing on the leaving, County Administrator wall started to come along. On Joe Mareane – one of the county’s June 1, the Town of Ithaca Demo- most successful – is retiring durcrats endorsed Anne Koreman – a ing a period of mandated governpolitical newcomer and his oppo- ment consolidation. Experience nent in the Democratic primary is disappearing under the uncer– over Dennis. Several weeks tainty of future budgets crafted later, the local Working Fami- under the shaky budget policies lies Party – whom Dennis had of national budget director Mick never pursued the endorsement Mulvaney and a Donald Trump of before – gave their endorse- White House; a challenge that ment to Koreman even though, has prompted a massive class of

newcomers to try their hand at the highest level of local politics.

He said there’s something to be said for other people stepping up and being willing to contribute but, given their collective inexperience, he does have some misgivings, especially given their motivation for running: Local government, he said, isn’t just about fighting decisions handed down from the federal government. In his eye, this is one year the incumbents can’t afford to lose. Noting the potential loss of a two party system that lends itself to a government with true checks on opposing perspectives, Dennis – at the peril of razzling his fellow Democrats – said he hopes Republican members of the legislature like Mike Sigler and David McKenna can hold their seats.

“If you asked me first why all these people are running; they’re all fighting the Trump presidency,” Dennis said. “I may not understand it, but when I read the Tompkins County Progressives stuff, they’re all Bernie people who don’t like the direction the country is taking. And that’s fine. But if I want to change the country, I don’t run for county legislature, I run for Tom Reed’s seat.”

At the county level, it’s a precarious period in local government. With massive shifts in the tax base coming from a power plant closing in Lansing and

development raging across the county, realism and nuance is essential – informed decision making vital. He relates to his experience chairing the IDA, making controversial decisions on new development in the face of community backlash: a sentiment latched onto by a new crop of progressive candidates calling for bottom-up financing of affordable housing and a movement to decarcerate the Tompkins County Jail for increased attention to alternatives, despite the budgetary limitations inherent in the world of social services.

(DSS, Dennis notes, is already the county’s largest department.)

As the conversation wound down, someone came across the restaurant floor, stopping by the table. “You’re giving it up?”

He looked up, a sandwich he’d ordered 20 minutes earlier still untouched. “I am giving it up.”

“Well what are you going to do?”

He gestured around the room.

“I’m going to hang out here, hang out with my grandchildren, you know. Whatever.”

He smiles again. “I’ll think of something.”

started up two major projects: a house called “A Place to Stay, ”and the Refugee Resettlement Program.

A Place to Stay is a four bedroom house where women can have a place to sleep and live until they get back on their feet.

It’s designed for short stays, but there have been cases where women stay for eight months.

Spear explained that women are allowed to stay there for as long at they need to.

“We provide them with whatever treatment they need to get

back on their feet, we help them try and find a job, we also assist them to try and get their own apartment in the future,” Spear said.

The Refugee Resettlement Program began with the commitment to bring in and help 50 refugees within the next year.

Although it has been a great year, Spear said that their biggest accomplishment throughout the past 20 years has been filling the gap for people who cannot get help from the government but are still scraping by and do not

have access to the same opportunities others of a better economic standing have.

“There is really nowhere else where they can go to get the services that we provide,” Spear said.

Moving forward, Spear said that the organization wants to set in place employment services for people who want to find jobs as well do more advocacy work around the idea of a living wage.

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might hinder the ability even to take the job because it’s an extra cost that a paycheck might no make up for,” Spear said.

Catholic Charities also provides assistance in not-so-everyday ways as well. They help children going through child abuse cases. There is also a program to help young fathers become more involved and engaged with their children lives.

This year, the non-profit has

▶ Streets And Facilities If you’ve been driving down Cayuga Street this week, you may have noticed a lot of caution tape outside the offices of The Ithaca Times. This roadwork project, part of The City of Ithaca’s Cayuga Street Enhancement Project, was meant to remove planters, widen the sidewalks and generally, make everything more awesome. And so, city crews have been jackhammering in front of our office for the past week, leaving a gaping hole on the ground in front of our office, leading down into the basement.

Well, last week, the rain fell. Hard. And our unprotected basement flooded.

So, we at the Times would just like to thank the taxpayers for financing the cleanup of this little mishap.

Heard&Seen ▶ Happy Grassroots It’s the best music week of the year. If you haven’t looked yet, we have some killer recommendations for you on who to see over at Ithaca.com. ▶ This Week’s Top Stories On Ithaca.com : 1) Cornell Wants To Close “Ezra’s Tunnel” (And Other City Notes) 2) See Inside The Ithaca Times’ Flooded Basement 3) Invisible Hands 4) Celebrating community, an anniversary, and the Dalai Lama 5) Cornell University terminates contract with Nike

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The Future Of Local Incarceration I How w e g ot h e r e is bec au se of u s . | By R e e d St e be rge r n July 2016, the New York State Commission on Corrections announced its plans to revoke a variance that has allowed Tompkins County to double-bunk inmates, rooming more people in fewer rooms in order to avoid either sending inmates to jails outside of the county, or constructing a larger jail. New York State’s suggested alternative to the variance, in the words of the Tompkins County Administrator in a July 2016 press release, was a “45-bed addition to the Jail, [which] would likely cost $10-$12 million.

At that price, County property taxes would increase by $1.2-$1.4 million, or as much as 3 percent, to cover annual debt payments and the cost of new staff.”

Not only was the cost of the State’s suggestion exceedingly high, but it was out of step with Tompkins County’s progressive efforts.

The county has long utilized a broad range of alternatives to incarceration (ATI’s), programs that avoid the often ineffective and dubiously moral use of incarceration to address low level offenses, crimes of poverty, drug addiction, and mental health.

Thus, in August 2016, the Jail Study Committee was formed. The committee chose a consulting firm specializing in ATI/jail expansion assessments, and work began to answer the specific question, “Can we reduce our jail population using alternatives to incarceration?”

This month, the Jail Study Committee released its report, having reached a welcome conclusion: No jail expansion is needed. Through alternatives to incarceration, the population can remain low enough to reduce board-outs to a minimum and avoid adding more beds.

The executive summary is a readable ten pages, and, in my opinion, expresses a progressive, community-focused path forward that will shrink the footprint of local incarceration.

How W e Got Here: The Pa r a digm Shift

While the scope of the Jail Study itself was limited – can we reduce our jail population using ATI’s – a community conversation emerged around a far more fundamental question: How does our government respect and uphold the inherent dignity, freedom and rights of our neighbors, family members, coworkers and friends? Is incarceration, with a long legacy traceable through Jim Crow Laws and Slavery, the mechanism our community will use to address matters of poverty, public health and mental health? How do we ensure that race isn’t the determining factor for incarceration in our community? And moreover, how do we align our approach to these issues with the progressive values that our community is proud of?

This fundamental conversation is in the context of over a decade of community-led efforts to tirelessly push the public and our government to engage with an urgency matching the scope of the challenge.

Efforts are wide ranging, including projects like Understand to Overcome (U2O), United Against Hate, the Talking Circles on Race and Racism, the Community Read of Chaos or Community, the Building Bridges Initiative, as contin u ed on page 7

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Second Homes

By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

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and recently bought a house, but missed the climate and cultura of Los Angeles, and their families.

They have a newborn now and maybe that sealed the deal. Their parents have already traveled here multiple times for the baby, and that was probably a good infusion of reality for long-term plans.

The dinner was at the home of two friends who sympathized: a married couple with two pre-school children who spend a lot of time on the road every year visiting her family near Cooperstown, and his in Virginia. Holidays can take some strategizing and smoothing of ruff led familial feathers on one side or the other in the competition for trips “home,” as it were, as if Ithaca isn’t that (it certainly is for the couple, who also recently bought a house).

One would think that a place of such transience as Ithaca would be easy to get to and from, but it Ithaca is famously described isn’t. as “centrally isolated.” It’s We have no train service. ironic, considering Cornell Air travel is limited and expenUniversity’s claim (no doubt sive. Bus service goes through a barren and miniscule station true) of comprising every which actually shuts at night, nation in the world. That’s a though buses keep arriving. lot of connection for such a far- The roads in a radius of 30 miles are antiquated, hilly, off place. and narrow, and pass through rural hamlets with sensible emigrants.

The next day, I went to a goodbye din- but stultifying speed zones (and some ner for a couple of friends leaving Ithaca, cunning traps) en route to any actual moving back to California. The tension highway (the main connection from of two homes proved too much for them. here to the nearest interstate is one-lane udging by my own experience and sense, I would bet Ithaca has the highest percentage of residents with a second home elsewhere of any city in the U.S. Not a brick and mortar home that they own (a good percentage of Ithacans don’t even own their homes here), but a place of kith and kin – friends and family – where they once lived and still visit regularly, and call home to some degree.

This past Saturday I met someone who just moved here a second time from the Midwest, which she went back to for a while after stints here and in Europe and California. This kind of yo-yo move of away and back, away and back is not uncommon in Ithaca, which regularly re-integrates its own erstwhile

They had friends and good work here,

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hanks to Steve Lawrence for the well deserved tribute to Tommy Grady in the July 12th issue.

I had the pleasure of playing with “Grady” as we referred to him, on the great Rongo slo-pitch teams of the late 70’s and early 80’s, and later for a Slotteo’s team in the nineties, and still later on a Seniors league team in the first decade of this century. On each team Tommy played hard, and was competitive to the hilt. But the nice part of Tommy was, once the game was over, it was over. He personified what amateur softball was- fun and camaraderie. Then it was back to our lives. As a local contractor, I collaborated with Tommy on a few jobs, and found the same sense of diligence and dedication to his craft that he displayed on the ball fields. But when work was done, he was all about enjoying his time off. Could we all be so lucky? I was

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always amazed at Tommy’s passion for softball. After a long summer of games, and usually then play-off games ( often watched by hundreds of people at Cass Park), the season would end and most of his teammates would have had enough. Not Grady. He would be running down fly balls in the Cass Park outfield in the Fall league that existed during Ithaca’s softball heyday.

And this was just slo-pitch. He was the only person I knew that played in a fast pitch league and a slo-pitch league at the same time. A remarkable skill if you consider the two different bat speeds. But that was what was special about him, he just couldn’t get enough softball, or of life. Now that he’s gone, there will be something missing on those Cass Park ball fields. Should there not be a memorial in place for him there? Especially one with a that pony tail.

–Thomas H. Mann, Ithaca

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all the way).

Ithaca is famously described as “centrally isolated.” It’s ironic, considering Cornell University’s claim (no doubt true) of comprising every nation in the world. That’s a lot of connection for such a far-off place.

A lot of those nations are pretty distant, of course, but even New York City and environs - a major source of many Ithacan ex-pats - can seem so.

Recently I was talking to a cop here, about something one needs to talk to cops about, and he said, “You’re not from around here, are you.” It was a “said,” not “asked.”

“Why, my accent?” I asked. He indicated affirmative.

I realized I had a connection here I might exploit to good value. “No,“ I said.

“Brooklyn. East Flatbush. You?” “The Island,” he said. “Oceanside.”

“Ah,” I said. I paused. “Miss the beach?”

He grimaced forlornly. “You know it,” he said.

You would have thought we were talking about the old country. Maybe we

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So What Happened That Month?

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ow that this United States has established the position of Liar In Chief, Donald Trump, this gives us reason to examine lying as a way of living one’s life, especially when the lies told are easily refuted by blatant evidence to the contrary. At Cornell, on the last Friday of January, there were a series of fifty forums presented by The People’s School with a selection of different subjects, allowing forty-five minutes for each discussion. Topics ranged from talks about Palestine to talks about being politically effective, during the three or four hours that this event was held. The one topic which most attracted me was led by Professor Allen Carlson and was titled: “Living In Truth In A Post-Truth Age”. The lounge, where this was held, was filled to capacity with students who found this subject most disturbing. Here at the local level, Ithaca does have one liar of repute and authority, as a scholar and organizer. Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a noted biologist, has done much to write and speak of the dangers of fracking. Indeed she has put money given her from the Heinz Award to establish NYAF, New Yorkers Against Fracking.

And, Dr. Steingraber is indeed one of four people who is in charge of running this organization; but she has shown an unwillingness to take any responsibility for its operation when some activity of this organization has gone awry. The incident that tested Steingra-

were. The rest of the conversation went pretty favorably for me.

Another irony is that our city is named for Ithaca (or Ithaka) in Greece, home of mythology’s Odysseus, maybe literature’s most famous traveler.

Odysseus left his kingship in Ithaca to wage war against Troy. When the war was over, he had a dickens of a time getting home. That was his real story.

The trip back took ten years. It involved ghosts, curses, shipwrecks, and other problems.

He had to blind a cyclops who was eating his men. Subsequently, a sorceress turned some of his crew into pigs.

The god of the sun, Helios, threatened to take the sun from the Earth over a rhubarb with him. That took some fixing.

Odysseus could probably have tolerated the inconveniences of our Ithaca.

He was a man of myth, after all. Meanwhile, best wishes to us all in our travels here and back, between our first and other homes.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears bi-weekly. ber involved the canceling of a NYAF scheduled event by a PAID employee of NYAF, Sarah Kelsen. This PAID employee, on her own whim, decided to cancel a scheduled event, at the last minute without any warning, without any explanation, and certainly not a declared personal emergency. Now as one who drove some distance to participate in this event, and who planned his day around this event, I was rather bothered about this bold cancellation, cancellation without adequate notice.

So, I talked with Dr. Steingraber and indeed she mouthed the understandable apology using the word “sorry”. But what followed from Steingraber was not what gives meaning to this word. The word “sorry” carries two implicit meanings: 1) That this should not have happened; 2) That I, who is using the word sorry, shall see that it does not happen, again.

This simple and meaningful action, Steingraber was not willing to do and when I pressed her on it, she told me, under no uncertain terms, that she did not want to talk about this ever again. And, as a matter of fact, Steingraber did not want me to contact her again, ever. Heaven forbid that I should hold Dr. Steingraber true to her word of “sorry”, which she was so willing to enunciate. This attitude and action by Dr. Sandra Steingraber is, of

course, what we frequently see in our politicians and “masters of industry”; they mouth the words but refuse to do the actions which give meaning to the glibly stated words.

–David Kauber, Aurora

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well the Ultimate ReEntry Opportunity Initiative, Opportunities Alternatives and Resources (OAR), and CCE ReEntry. More recently, local chapters of national groups like Black Lives Matter and Showing Up for Racial Justice have emerged, as well as the massive, 30+ organization coalition, The New Jim Crow Community Read, which have continued the push. Taken together, these projects have engaged literally thousands of residents.

The result of these community efforts is a decisive cultural shift in support of socially just solutions to community problems and away from systems like mass incarceration. It is now nearly common sense that incarceration is not an effective or equitable tool for the suite of social problems it attempts to address.

But beyond common sense, there have been tangible outcomes. In a June 2017 Jail Study Committee Meeting, Captain Ray Bunce, who supervises the Tompkins County Jail, was asked to explain why our jail population is the lowest it’s been in years. His answer was clear.

First, there is public scrutiny of every aspect of the process. Second, our alternatives to incarceration are working.

We must remember what we know for sure: Public engagement is absolutely essential in bringing about the positive changes we need, and in sustaining the cultural shift we have built over the past 10 years and more. I encourage members of the public to continue attending the Jail Study and Public Safety Committee meetings. I encourage the public to demand better, more frequent and more easily accessible information about the progress we are making towards our government’s stated goals.

Culture shift is not without its challenges.

For those of us who are white and middle class (myself included), conversations about incarceration often evoke feelings of guilt and prompt behaviors of defensive outlash. For those who have lived the experience of incarceration, justified frustration often bursts out at the incremental nature of change and the minimization or misunderstanding of the deep trauma incarceration produces. The conversation can become a battle, over tone, decorum, and nitpicking the complex constellation of facts (ie. The recent debate: Is there or isn’t there a proposed jail expansion?).

Yet this is how the conversation must take place. To play a public role is to open yourself to ad hominem character attack, not only from political opponents but from allies who on any other day of the week are your biggest champions. I’ve facilitated meetings that have brought together respected public employees, impacted community members, community advocates with decades of successful work behind them,

all united behind a vision of challenging our system of incarceration – and there too, emotions run high.

At the end of the day, those who channel this energy will play a part in building an inclusive public process where even those who fundamentally disagree with each other can make their essential contributions to the process of change. I chose this work for myself long before I decided to run for office, and it’s the role any candidate or elected official should be prepared to take on.

Reed Steberger is a candidate for Tompkins County Legislature, opposing jail study committee chair Rich John.

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News Quick Hits Legislature Debates Name of New Culture/History Building When it comes to naming a stately historic building, is it better to be imaginative and clever or clear and to the point?

Legislators pondered that and other questions at a recent meeting as they tried to decide whether to adopt the suggested name for the building on the Ithaca Commons that is about to become home to eight local organizations, At a meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature July 6, the legislature argued whether the county was rushing into an important decision and voted down a proposal to rename the Tompkins Trust Company building the Tompkins Center for History and Culture.

The issue is likely to come up again at the Legislature meeting July 18.

(The results of that meeting will not be available until after we go to print; for an updated version of this story, including the outcome of the meeting, visit Ithaca.com.)

County officials learn about DSS housing programs Members of Tompkins County’s Health And Human Services Committee heard the second of their series of meetings with local officials examining different aspects of the housing crisis on Monday, this time focusing on housing options available to those relying on the Department of Social Services. Presented by Commissioner Patricia Carey, the discussion meandered through both the supply and demand of DSS services as they pertain to the housing equation as well as the types of mechanisms in place the department has to negotiate with in order to get people placed into temporary assistance programs: the primary safety net available to those who may have lost a job, are unable to work or finding it simply impossible to make ends meet. The county-applied state program currently assists 666 cases in Tompkins County, of which 196 are full families between two and nine members.

What happened to Capitol Project? We moved it online until state-level politics begins again. Visit Ithaca.com to see what your local elected officials are up to.

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One Afternoon In Seneca Falls

One afternoon to reflect on battles won, and battles left to go.

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young boy pointed up above him to one of the hundreds of plaques adorning the walls. The small photo squeezed between type was of Ida B. Wells, best known for fighting to stop the lynching of African Americans and inducted to the Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls in 1988.

The boy had already seen the museum, marveling at two separate globes that detailed what careers women could hold and what ones men could hold in the 19th Century — “but there’s less for girls,” he said — and his parents were showing him around the village of Seneca Falls, known for being the birthplace of women’s rights.

Ida, his parents said, is his sister’s namesake; as is Ida Tarbell, honored in 2000 for her investigative journalism work.

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The young boy knew little of gender equality issues, still being at an age where the opposite gender doesn’t yet have “cooties.” His parents, of course, know a little more.

Their parents know even more than that.

There are some alive today who lived in an era where women’s rights were even more limited than they are today. And there are some who can say they lived when women weren’t even allowed to vote.

The year 2017 marks 100 years of women’s suffrage in New York, one of the first states to make the move behind a plethora of strong women and the men who stood behind them, using their leverage to vote it in. Every year Seneca Falls celebrates Convention Days, honoring the women who convened in 1848 to “discuss the 19 –26,

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social, civil and religious condition and rights of women.” This past weekend it celebrated not only that convention with a theme of “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” but also the noteworthy accomplishment of voting, an occasion Tompkins County has acknowledged by declaring the calendar year the “Year of Women.”

The three-day event highlighted with various sessions how far women have come, how far they have to go and what it will take for them to get there as highlighted by a keynote speech from HeForShe founder Elizabeth Nyamayaro, who encourages an inclusive fight for gender equality.

As the young boy saw examples of toys throughout the ages made for girls and boys specifically, it is an issue that has an effect on us all.

How Fa r Women H av e Come

Three years before the federal government ratified the 19th Amendment, giving some American women suffrage, the state of New York beat Congress to the punch. This year, celebrations are being held across the state to mark the 100 year anniversary of New York women being granted the right to vote. But the story of women’s suffrage didn’t start 100 years ago; it started much earlier.

The first Women’s Rights Convention was held right here in New York in Seneca Falls in July of 1848. A group of 300 individuals, men and women, came together to discuss the unequal social and political conditions that women were living in. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M’Clintock, Jane Hunt and Martha Coffin Wright were the organizers of the conven-

tion. Each a writer, activist and organizer determined to fight for equal rights for women. Susan B. Anthony, another prominent suffragette, is often mistaken to have been involved with the Seneca Falls Convention, but it wasn’t until 1851 that she and Stanton met and began their work together.

The discussions held at the convention led to the creation of a document fashioned after the Declaration of Independence, but this one was for the independence of women from a society ruled by men. Among the 12 resolutions put into the Declaration of Sentiments, the resolution to give women the right to vote was the only one to meet resistance. But Stanton and her fellow organizers and supporters were convinced that the only way to reach true equality women would have to be able to give input on the laws that they were to obey. Frederick Douglas, a prominent civil rights activist, abolitionist, and powerful speaker, seconded Stanton’s motion for women’s suffrage.

Douglas helped produce copies of the Declaration and was one of 100 people, including 32 men, to sign it.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal,” the declaration states. The document goes on to cover several of the ways that women of the time were not equal to men: they could not own land or property or land and had to turn any wages they made over to their husbands; women were only permitted into a few occupations and were not paid nearly as much as any male counterparts; women were not permitted to a full college education; and women were not permitted to hold leadership roles in any church. But the declaration was not simply a list of social and political inequalities, it was a demand for action, stating “because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights,

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we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.” The activists of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention knew their work was not done, and they promised to continue the fight in the halls of government, at the pulpit, and in the press, until their message embraced every part of the country.

Now, Wesleyan Chapel, where the historical convention was held, is the home of Women’s Rights National Historical Park, and the site of this year’s Convention Days celebrating a century of women’s suffrage in New York. For three days, starting Friday July 14, the continued struggles and hard fought gains for women’s rights were once again discussed.

How Fa r Women H av e to Go

With the Declaration of Sentiments etched into stone directly below her, water cascading around the letters toiled over so tirelessly 169 years ago, Elizabeth Nyamayaro detailed the modern day woman’s work for equality and the key to pushing it forward during the keynote address at the Convention Days at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls Saturday morning.

Nyamayaro founded HeForShe in 2014, an initiative that brings men to the table in the fight for gender equality and that garnered global attention when actress Emma Watson, who played Hermione in Harry Potter, backed it when addressing the United Nations that year. The video went viral and both men and women have been “counted in” as standing in support the movement ever since.

“HeForShe exists because as most of you know, creating real and lasting change requires all of us; all genders working together,” Nyamayaro said at the close of her 20-minute speech. “This is good news for a number of reasons.

Because if we’re all equal, when we’re all equal, creating change doesn’t belong to some of us. It belongs to everyone. In so many ways, HeForShe is a story about all of us.”

Though women’s suffrage was enacted 100 years ago in New York, a monumental step that is being formally celebrated in Tompkins County as it declared 2017 “The Year of the Woman,” there are still major issues to work toward. Behind where Nyamayaro was standing to deliver her speech, up on the second floor of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park Visitor Center, is an interactive “Equal

Pay for Equal Work” exhibit that shows the pay discrepancies between men and women as well as ethnicities within various careers. As one woman told Nyamayaro after her speech, while she met with attendees, “I’m still living that 79 cents life,” noting the average amount a woman makes per every dollar a man makes.

Nyamayaro, who is the senior advisor to the Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, spoke of the organization’s work in Iceland as the country intents to achieve gender equality by 2020. She said one in every eight men in the nation declared themselves “HeForShe” and she realized awareness is one thing. “Concrete action” needs to be the next step, which is where men come into play.

The Declaration of Sentiments was signed by 68 women in 1848. At the end of the signatures, and engraved on the wall to the far right of Nyamayaro as she gave her speech, is a list of 32 men who added their names to the document under “the gentlemen present in favor of this new movement.”

Seeing as it was men who held the right to vote, as well as other rights, their support behind these women was necessary.

The same remains true today.

“When you look at the history, the issue of gender equality has often been seen as a woman issue and has been led by women for women,” Nyamayaro told the Ithaca Times after her speech. “And that has gotten us a very long way but progress is very slow and in fact in some countries, progress is going backward.”

Nyamayaro, a native of Zimbabwe who suffered from malnourishment as a child, said she thinks the biggest thing moving forward is to include every party possible in the work for equality, including men who have the power to make those concrete moves.

“Let’s make this an inclusive movement because everyone has a gender at the end of the da and it’s gender equality so it should really mean equality for everyone,” she said.

While New York was ahead of the movement then and in some ways is still now in the way women are treated and accepted in comparison to other states and regions, Nyamayaro said it’s about “everybody trying to get to the finishing line.”

“We recognize that men still hold the power, right?” she said. “And so rather than the male bashing, how do we actually engage them as actually players and be part of the solution.” •

Themes

By Isabella Grullon-Paz A century later, to celebrate women’s suffrage in New York, the Women’s Rights National Historic Park put together three days to discuss the future of gender equality all around the idea of intersectional feminism.

Intersectional feminism highlights that women of all races and socioeconomic status’ need different forms of gender equality.

Certain groups of women have multilayered facets of discrimination that must be dealt with due to either the color of their skin, their social class, their sexual orientation, or dozens of other identities.

Intersectional feminism recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all feminism, and that idea was spread out between three separate themes throughout the weekend.

“Women’s Rights National Historical Park tells the story of the first Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, preserves the site of the convention, and the homes of the organizers, and the history of civil rights, human rights, and equality are global struggles that continue today,” explained Noemi Ghazala, the Park ’s superintendent.

During the conference the Park wanted to highlight, through three themes — the effects of violent conflicts, Native American culture and the continuous plight for gender equality — the idea that gender struggles are global.

The events for each day catered around titles of the days. Friday focused on how war, poverty, and violence globally impact wom en more so than m en . T he day centered around the mission of the nonprofit, non-partisan association, Angry Mother for Peace, that has been educating women since 1967 in how to take an active role in eliminating war as a dominant method to reach peace.

The organization’s 50th year anniversary correlate d with the we ekend of the Th e

convention. Throughout Friday the group spread their message of the permeant deceleration of peace, and their ideas of Peace homework. Peace homework is essentially writing to elected officials in government to express the desire for peace within the theme of women’s rights as a way for women to be involved in the political process.

On Saturday, the convention celebrated Indigenous Woman’s Day. “As a national park, preserving history, we are obligated to hold to the integrity of history, including a history that has left a blemish on our national narrative,” Ghazala said. “By declaring Indigenous Women’s Day, we are acknowledging untold and forgotten history: that indigenous women were the models for the 1848 convention.”

The Women’s Rights Convention was inspired by the political and social power status of Iroquois women within their tribes.

Traditionally, Iroquois women selected a tribe’s chief, meaning that they had the right to vote for their leaders long before American women could do the same.

The final day of the convention focused on the idea that there is a lot still to do in regards to women’s rights. “‘We are the one’s we’ve been waiting’ for is a saying but an unnamed Hopi. It is a reminder to citizens that many of the issues affecting women in 1848 are still affecting women today,” Ghazala said.

Discussions were held around the idea that as women, we still have work to do.

Women still make less to every dollar a man makes, are more likely to experience sexual assault and violence, and are fighting for a right to be heard in politics every single day.

The fight for women’s rights continues.

Ghazala wanted to end the convention with a reminder that history is relevant today, and that we must learn to form it.

“It is our goal that all three themes remind the public that national parks are relevant spaces for dialogue,” Ghazala said. •

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ost of us who have played competitive sports have had a coach or two that we looked at and said – or, more likely thought – “Do you really know of what you speak? It appears you have not picked up a glove (or stick, or ball) in 40 years.”

In fact, I recall a humiliating experience in youth baseball, when our team’s head coach could not hit the ball out of the infield for warm-ups and, when the assistant coach stepped in to pinch-hit, he couldn’t even hit the ball, forcing the opposing coach to take over. That was embarrassing.

The players on the Cornell men’s lacrosse team roster likely cannot relate, especially when they are listening to the advice put forth by Assistant Coach Connor Buczek.

To say that Buczek is not an over-thehill coach would be an accurate statement, given he was recently selected to play in his second consecutive Major League Lacrosse All-Star game. The game was held in Sacramento, and was broadcast on the CBS Sports network.

Buczek had a great All-Star weekend, as he won one of the marquee events at the All-Star Skills Competition and, playing for the Stripes squad, scored the goal that put the game into overtime. The OT session ended when his teammate, Myles Jones, found the net to win it 21-20 over the Stars squad.

Like the NBA All-Star weekend (which has its 3-point and Slam Dunk contests) and MLB (which has its Home Run Derby), MLL has an All-Star Skills Competition.

The most coveted prize is the Hardest Shot award, and Buczek won bragging rights until next year’s competition by winning it with a blistering 112 mile-per-hour shot.

Imagine trying to stop that shot (10 mph faster than a Major League Baseball fastball) from 30-40 feet away.

Buczek (Cornell class of ’15) didn’t have much time to relax, joining fellow Big Red legend Rob Pannell (class of ’13) at the tryouts for the U.S. National Team, held at the U.S. Lacrosse headquarters in Maryland.

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LOST YOUR APPETITE? Loss of appetite among seniors, called “anorexia of aging,” is relatively common among elderly adults. As a result of this condition, about 15% to 20% of seniors unintentionally lose weight. While loss of appetite can be driven by emotional issues, no exact cause has been identified until recently. Researchers originally thought reduced production of a hormone called “ghrelin,” which tells us when we are hungry, was the cause. Now, however, a new study points to the hormone peptide YY (PYY) as the cause. Researchers found that after eating a meal, seniors over the age of 80 demonstrated greater production of PYY than a group of younger adults. More research is needed to fully understand PYY’s role in unwanted weight loss.

We provide nutritious, delicious meals and snacks that appeal to our senior residents. Staying vital and living well are achievable goals at Kendal at Ithaca. In an environment designed to eliminate physical stresses and support your efforts to maintain strength and balance, sticking to a routine is easier, especially with the encouragement and company of friends.

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York Lizards. Pannell was the Ivy League’s first-ever three-time Player of the Year, and he also won the Tewaaraton Trophy; college lacrosse’s version of the Heisman Trophy.

Pannell and Buczek will both continue their quest to make the National Team when they return with the Training Team to Maryland over the Labor Day weekend.

The final roster will be pared from 49 to 23, and the U.S. will compete in the World Championships in Netanya, Israel next summer.

I tracked Buczek down here in Ithaca on Monday, as the Big Red lacrosse camp got underway. I asked him to describe a typical, crazy week in the life of a 24 year-old pro athlete, and he said, “Well, my (MLL) job started on June 1st, in Florida (he plays for the Florida Launch) and on June 2nd, I was in New York. On June 3rd, I was in Dallas, and then at the end of the week I was in Seattle and Victoria.” I asked if, given the fact that he is an All-Star level professional athlete, he traveled in his own private jet, and for a moment he thought I was serious. He realized I was joking, and said, “All commercial flights.”

This month is also a wild one for Connor, as he is in the thick of the MLL season, yet summer is Prime Time for lacrosse camps and coaches live and die, so to speak, by ferreting out the next generation of players. “I will do two, sometimes three camps a week,” Connor offered. “We evaluate talent from New Jersey to Long Island to a lot of other places, but obviously, the more local the better.”

Being at the camp registration was a lot of fun, as some of the parents were in awe to meet Richie Moran, and the kids were thrilled to meet Buczek. As we were wrapping it up, I asked Connor if he would, at age 80, have Moran’s stamina. “I sure hope so,” he said. “So far, so good… I’m grateful that I’m getting stronger athletically, and coaching helps my game immensely. It’s going well.”

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at teo Wyl lya mz is t he personif icat ion of t he phrase “the man behind the curtain.” The 49-yearold is the main creative mind between local Twitter bulletin board #Twithaca and has been a regular local name in technology education and marketing since he moved to the area in the early 2000’s, but the “sociotechnology” expert’s to show for it. method is a bit different than others and all Among his ventures are several local and the more successful. even global brands, a list which includes “I find marketing and advertising very hair stylists, Hammerstone Carpentry interesting and mostly I hate it,” Wyllyamz School, Network for Greater Living and says. “I kind of revile it and I pick it apart Finger Lake Orthodontics Group. He says and I critically analyze it and I think that a many of his clients are long term partners lot of it is so dumbed down.” that he says often come in with very surface Wyllyamz’s outlook wouldn’t necessar- level assumptions about how to use the ily be considered odd if it were not for one most common community building toolfairly critical fact; he’s a strategic marketing social media. adviser. For him, there’s a cynical – almost “What they don’t necessarily see is the comedic – interaction between traditional difference between social media marketing forms of advertising and their recipients. and mass media marketing,” Wyllyamz Despite every television “but wait, there’s says. “Mass media is about broadcasting. more ad” trying to sell anything from shake What we call one to many. You’re sitting we i g ht s t o s h a m my there with a microphone cloths, Wyllyamz thinks or behind a typewriter “Mass media is there’s a far more effiand you’re talking with about broadcasting. cient way to advertise a kind of one way commubrand, product or serWhat we call one to nication, you’re putting vice and that’s one he many... you’re talking something out there for does for his own busiwith kind of one way someone to consume. ness as well. media marketing communication, you’re Social “I don’t do it in a way isn’t like that at all, but that’s typical,” Wyllyamz putting something out people tend to approach notes. “I do it in a way there for someone to it that way.” that I believe and what I Instead, Wyllyamz consume.” try to teach brands and builds not only a brand businesses to do is to be with his clients, but a creating a community around their brand, way for a community to form around it. and that community is composed of con- For example, Finger Lakes Orthodontics versations.” almost quadrupled their Facebook page Though that may set Wyllyamz, who has audience by focusing less on the often a lengthy career in managing technology as uncomfortable experience of orthodontics well as teaching it, apart from a stereotypi- work and more on the business’ ‘comfort cal state school marketing professor, he says dog’ that greets patrons at its locations. he has a steady and successful flow of clients

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Wyllyamz, at home. His cat, Mr. Spot, is pictured in the background. (Photo: Vaughn Golden)

Wyllyamz says once the group made that change to focus on dogs instead of drills they instantly began getting local, regional and even national media attention as well not because of their uniform logo and clean looking ads, but because people began talking about the dog.

Conversation and community oriented marketing isn’t a newfangled outshoot of social media, and if anything is more of an advent of small town businesses, but the introduction of the social media “world” provides a whole new level of complication, but also ease, to the task.

Wyllyamz says that often his clients feel the need to “get on social media because that’s what everyone’s doing,” but that, in addition to falling into the trap of a one-way, broadcast-like, style of communication, brands and organizations should start conversations between their audience instead.

“People are on Facebook every day. Why are they there? They aren’t there to get your brand message commercial post,” Wyllyamz says.

So, instead, he recommends that his clients produce content that people want to recognize, share and be a part of. For example, Wyllyamz is a big fan of outdoor gear from REI and recognizes he’s more likely to connect with other REI fans on

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social media instead of to the store’s advertisements. In summary, it’s understanding customers’ interactions with each other on social media platforms that make a more profound marketing impact than just “being on social media.”

“Those changes, to me, are profound, but people are being swept along by those changes and aren’t really paying attention to those changes and to the fact that the way we were doing things five years ago and a lot different than the ways we’re going to be doing things five, 10, 20, 25 years from now,” Wyllyamz says.

As for Wyllyamz, he says at this point in his career, he’s seen enough of the technology field landscape first hand that his focus is now more on educating others- drawing parallels to a retired baseball player becoming a coach. That doesn’t mean he’s taking time off though. He just moved into a new home, has two kids, is the owner and cooperator of the Twitter tool #Twithaca and well as several other projects on the side. It’s keeping this busy lifestyle that keeps him, his conversations and in turn his business going.

“To me, there’s a big relationship between how I interact with people in the community and how I work,” he says. “They very much overlap and there’s a very much big fuzzy, blurry edge on the end of that.”

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he Ithaca Business Index hit another all-time high in May, rising to a level of 173.92 from a revised mark of 171.34 in April. Gains in retail sales, and home sales, drove the index higher. Hotel room demand and help wanted advertising were down just a tad. Employment and the labor force were unchanged. The index was 1.5 percent higher than in April and 8.0 percent higher than May 2016.

The number of jobs in the Ithaca metropolitan area was unchanged from April to May on a seasonally adjusted basis. This is good news since it implies that the robust gains earlier in the year are sticking. Similarly, the County labor force held steady in May after tacking on gains earlier in

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Retail sales in Tompkins County have been up and down over the past four years.

However, sales have been up more than

down in 2017. Compared to April, retail volume was up 1.7 percent. Compared to a year ago retail volume was up 3.1 percent.

Hotel stays in Ithaca fell 4.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in May. Compared to May 2016, hotel room demand was up 2.8 percent. The leisure and hospitality sector in Ithaca is not large, but it has been growing slowly and steadily over the past two years. We are keeping an eye on hotel room demand to discern how the recent increase in the supply of rooms will affect the industry.

Ithaca realtors sold 66 homes in May for a seasonally adjusted gain of 18.1 percent over April. Compared to May 2016 home sales were up 1.2 percent. Home prices increased over the year. The median home sold for $239,000 compared to $234,000 in May 2016.

Help-wanted advertising pared back 6.5 percent in May, giving back all of April’s gains. Compared to May 2016, help-wanted advertising was up 11.6 percent. Changes in help wanted advertising can signal future changes in employment.

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May data is that prior gains seem to be consolidating. For instance, employment was unchanged, but that is after solid gains in the first four months of the year.

The tourism sector is growing slowly but steadily. And now it appears as if retail sales might perk up a bit.

The Ithaca Business Index grew by 2.8 percent in 2016, implying economic growth of that amount. Between 2011 and 2015 the average annual growth rate was 1.0 percent. The Ithaca economy is on track to grow 4.0 percent in 2017.

Elia Kacapyr is a professor of economics at Ithaca College.

More information about the Ithaca Business Index can be found at https://www. ithaca.edu/hs/depts/economics/tcdex/

In January 1985 the Ithaca Business Index stood at 100.00. In May 2017 the Index reads 173.92. This means that the Tompkins County economy has grown 73.92 percent in those 389 months.

From 1985 until 1989, the Ithaca metro region grew at a rapid clip. The average annual growth rate was 5.7 percent. The Ithaca Business Index reached a peak of 130.78 in April 1989.

A recession brought the Index down to a level of 111.70 in April 1992. This 36 month slide was much longer and more severe than the national recession which lasted only 8 months.

Since then, the County economy has recovered, but annual growth rates of 1.5 percent are more typical these days. The most recent recession started in March 2008 and ended in July 2009.

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B usiness T imes the retirement of Jim Byrnes, a longtime Ithaca resident and leader of Tompkins Financial Corporation.

The endowment is administered by the Legacy Foundation, a local not-forprofit trust. The vision of the Legacy Foundation, which began in 1945, is a commitment to “improving the quality of life in Tompkins County for those who come after us.” Since 1986, the Awards for Excellence program has recognized more than 253 individuals or groups with awards totaling more than $360,000..

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tion President James Brown presented the awards at a reception at the bank’s main office on Monday, June 26.

“I look forward to these awards every year; this is what being a community bank is about,” said Hartz. “The Trust Company, through the Legacy Foundation, is proud to honor and support the work of this year’s recipients. Their dedication to improving our community through volunteerism promoting the arts, culture, education, and simply helping those in need is truly extraordinary, and demonstrates the mission of the Foundation by improving the quality of life for so many in Tompkins County.”

The James J. Byrnes Awards for Excellence program was established during the bank’s Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1986 as a means of sharing its success with community members who have helped to enrich the quality of life in Tompkins County. In 2014, the Awards for Excellence program was renamed the James J. Byrnes Awards for Excellence to honor

Tompkins Trust Company Donates $12,000 to Local Non-profits Tompkins Trust Company honored six individuals and two groups with “James J. Byrnes Awards for Excellence” for their outstanding volunteer service to the community.

Twelve thousand dollars was donated to local charitable organizations from the bank’s endowment fund through the Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County.

The honorees each designated their $1,500 award to not-for-profit organizations of their choice.

This year’s honorees are the Child Development Council, Amy Little of Ithaca, Benay Rubenstein of Ithaca, the Dryden Youth Opportunity Fund, Nancy Myers of Ithaca, Janet Krizek of Ithaca, Roberta Wallitt of Ithaca, and Skip Hewitt of Ithaca.

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ursuits of the American dream, whether its achievement or a conceptual understanding of what it stands for, has seemingly forever been the white rabbit of philosophers, historians and the common man alike.

It was once the stuff of abstract dreams of poverty to prosperity held by the huddled masses of the early 20th century; the new start yearned for by the dumb tough who sought to tame the west. For countless thousands, the American dream has been defined as a gamble, a true sketch of opportunity and triumph in the American canon: it’s the final objective achieved only by persistence, the seizure of opportunities however slim and, ultimately, blind dumb luck.

It was in the pursuit of this hope that Jacob Yaple – the first white settler of Tompkins County – was compelled to the foot of Cayuga Lake to stake his new home, a miniscule tale of success counted along countless others in the taming of New York State’s rugged frontier.

It has long been acknowledged that Yaple, who with the Dumond and Hinepaugh families, were the first to take the land after the eradication and displacement of the Cayuga amid the heat of the Revolutionary War. But it was the story of how they got there – one that had never been told before – that inspired SUNY Cortland professor Charles Yaple, a descendent of Jacob’s, to chase down the truth in his newest book, Jacob’s Land.

Written over the course of five years, Jacob’s Land tells the story not just of the Yaple family story – a chronicle of their arrival and establishment in the American colonies – but of the times they lived in. The book’s goals are ambitious, an effort to not only tell the story of one poor immigrant family’s quest for land (just a small piece of the tens of thousands of families who would come to reshape the continent over the coming century) but a quest to bring the forces that were – the interests of New York State’s first governor, the Iroquois people, and the settlers taking their lives in their hands to pursue the dream – together, crafting a comprehensive narrative of what the whirlwind of revolution meant at the smallest level of American society.

Entertainingly told over the course of 431

meticulously researched pages, Jacob’s Land is more than just a genealogy: it is a muchneeded story needing to be told in an already incomplete history of Ithaca’s earliest settlers explaining not only why they came, but where they came from, why they chose to stay and how the resilience and energy of those first families allowed them to respond – and prosper

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– under forces beyond their control: finding success under the pursuit of a dream that, in a rough land, can break many men.

Throughout the book, Yaple tries to allude to how the structures of American society were eventually set up. The way we did business then, Yaple hints, is contrary to the idea of America as the land of opportunity: it was still a society of the haves and have nots, where political capital, education and wealth defined one’s chances to make it in the new world, much like it does today.

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“In a way, it is the same thing now,” Yaple said. “Huge corporations ruled all – in Jacob’s day, it was the king – and once the war was over, you had the government trying to get hold of things, to get revenue to make the government work. To do that, you needed people to create wealth.”

In Yaple’s efforts, he set out to attempt to tell that story from as personal a level as possible. But genealogies – the telling of one’s own story – is a risky undertaking, a task that puts someone in the position of defining the narrative of their family’s place in the world for the rest of history. The story of those early years in the Yaple family history remains largely untold and, speaking for them in any capacity of consequence, it could potentially contribute to the negativity of the “telephone effect” that can often occur through loose interpretations of history. While some actions he could place by intuition and a general knowledge of society at the time, Yaple was particularly careful not to state any action taken by any of the players in the book unless he could verify it.

As such, the book is discerningly researched.

Beyond his reading the works of local historians and many trips to the History Center of Tompkins County, Yaple’s journeys took him to the archives in places like Ulster County and Washington D.C. (to verify war records), trips to the state archives and the Revolutionary War Museum in Albany and Saratoga Springs, and the Syracuse University archives, where Yaple discovered the Moses Dewitt papers – the original diaries from when Dewitt was surveying the state in the military tract arrangement that would eventually displace Yaple from his land – that he said nobody who’d written about Ithaca’s history seems to have referenced before.

Any liberties he took with the actions and motivations of the players in the book were inspired largely by the first hand accounts he used to form his understanding of the colonial frontier: the letters of George Washington and George Clinton, military accounts of General Sullivan, John Cantine and their soldiers, Isabel Kelsey’s book on Joseph Brant based on his own writings.

That’s not to say there aren’t some shortcomings: the history of the Native Americans, whose land was taken as a selfdefense mechanism by General Washington’s army in a scorched-earth campaign that crippled the Iroquois, was never told completely; a tale Yaple said was truly difficult to nail down.

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Was Simeon Dewitt a crook? Or were the families “So much of their story was never covered in primary who first settled this land, his ancestors, just ignorant documents,” Yaple said. “[...] The Native Americans got squatters? a raw deal: they were mistreated and taken advantage of. v2.28 At times, Yaple wonders if he made Jacob out to They’re angry about that still today. I suppose I would Type in the MLS # at: be too much of a hero: conquering the land, realizing be too. But sometimes, some of the books writing about the American dream, overcoming desperate poverty these days from the Native American side exaggerate a from their arrival to the continent in 1754 to eventually little bit. Some claim they didn’t take scalps. Of course a wealthy mill owner. He was kind to people – they did. So did the Americans. Terrible things were done become v2.28 .zagpad.com because a supervisor of the poor and were kind to the by both sides.” natives in Ulster County. But he was also responsible for In that regard, Yaple also ponders his own biases: Jacob’s Type in the MLS # at:Land Continued from Page 15

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the slashing of the forest, one of the first to lay an axe in the destruction of the environment.

Then again history, Yaple said, isn’t always written in black and white.

“Desperate times make people do desperate things,” Finger Estate Section Yaple said. “And desperate people doLakes evenReal more desperate things. Sometimes evil things. One way I look at history is people have good and bad in them; sometimes circumstances bring out the best, other times it brings out the worst [...] I tried to avoid bias.” • Finger Lakes Real Estate Section

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Much Ado About Something

Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III Impress

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ragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!” sang the actors of the Hangar’s fizzy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Meanwhile, several hundred yards away, on the banks of the inlet, this was

of nature, boar, tiger, cur, spider, devil, foul toad, and (my favorite) hedgehog.

And every actor since has had to play him twisted in mind and body.

Though short, Richard was fair enough, his scoliosis not noticeably distorting.

make their mark: Erik Lucas’s powerful Buckingham; Annabelle Beaver’s Elizabeth, widow of King Edward IV (Bob Arco), who finally goes toe-to-toe with him.

Amidst a large cast, Sandra Sackey is furiously formidable as Margaret, widow of Henry VI — eloquently cursing nearly all in this tangled web of warfare.

(In reality she was off in France, but no matter; this is revisionist history.) Birch Snyder Robertson carries himself regally as the doomed young prince.

Director Stephen Ponton provides both helpful program notes and a prologue clearly introducing each character; his staging is solid, especially haunting in the choral scene of Margaret’s curse. On opening night, pacing was somewhat off, and rather slow during Clarence’s (John Keese) scenes, but this will probably tighten.

AmarA*jk’s stone wall set switches nicely for the next eve’s Much Ado About Nothing, the central throne replaced by an inviting painted landscape. Set in Italy, this comedy has another brotherbetraying villain (Erik Hambury, unnecessarily overacting as Don John) and disturbing sexual inequality (a woman thought false can be publically shamed). But otherwise, it’s a merry romp and spirited verbal battle of the sexes between Beatrice (a headstrong Molly Makowiec) and Benedict (a charming John Keese, full-voiced and brilliantly comical).

Under Amina Omari’s nimble

direction, the ensemble of nobles and commoners swarm the stage, briskly unfolding this tale of romance avoided and thwarted. As the elder statesmen, Rick Mertens, Dave Dietrich and A.J. Sage do good service; Sandra Sackey returns as a vivid scoundrel, Borachio.

Scorned at the altar by a duped Claudio (Adrian Amador), gentle Hero dutifully feigns death till all is resolved. Samantha Sloma plays her vigorously but lacks vocal guidance, squawking and squeaking her lines.

Omari doubles the clever wordplay by inserting physical comedy at every turn, nowhere so outrageously as in the antics of constable Dogberry, master of malapropism (veteran clown Kyle Schantz-Hilton), and his sidekick Verges (a wonderfully nebbishy Bryan VanCampen). Soothing music threads throughout, with period tunes sung by The Ravenettes, and all discord melts away in an excellent dance (by Karen Koyanagi) at the concluding nuptials. The audience leaves smiling — all’s well that ends well. • Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

William Shakespeare’s Richard III, directed

by Stephen Ponton, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Amina Omari. Ithaca Shakespeare Company at Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, through July 30, 6 p.m.

Tickets at ithacashakespeare.org •.

The Ithaca Shakspeare Company’s outdoor stage at Treman Park. (Photo provided)

actually unrolling, as Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s summer season began last weekend, featuring Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing in repertory.

Performances continue outdoors in the lovely Treman Park space through the end of July.

With Richard III, the company completes its cycle of the history plays and offers a portrait of Shakespeare’s most notorious villain. The 1597 quarto effectively summed the plot: “the tragedy of King Richard the third. Containing, his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes: his tyranicall usurpation: with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserved death.”

Shakespeare knew what his audience (and patrons) wanted. Coming on the heels of the even bloodier Titus Andronicus, Richard III gives vent to that king’s nasty reputation (fed by Sir Thomas More) and foul appearance (hunchback, withered arm, short leg). Over the course of this play, his enemies voice their disgust, calling him dog, son of hell, slave

His brothers were guilty of some his supposed misdeeds; the young princes’ disappearance was never explained; his wife died naturally; and in his brief two years two months as king, Richard did some legislative good. But Shakespeare is spinning Tudor myth, and so a total wretch he must be. His defeat by Richmond, the future Henry VII, ended decades of civil war and began the Tudor dynasty.

Daniel Wisniewski (previously Macduff) plays him superbly, fair of face but warped of body, fierce and focused, with a warrior’s courage. He creates a complex, virile villain most expressively, whether smarting visibly under the final rejection of his mother (Judith Andrew) or wooing grieving widows with a honeyed tongue. The Bard has given him all the best lines, after all.

Once crowned, Richard has external elegance to match his will (credit Lauren Cowdery’s excellent costumes), with sumptuous regal robes ominously threatening to entangle him. Wisniewski’s Richard dominates the play, but others

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thaca restaurateur Lex Chutintaramond Jamie and Curtis have made many has a well-established pattern: he changes since they became owners. The opens a restaurant and sells it to a key most obvious is the menu, where the employee and then total numbers of moves on to a new selections has been venture. He opened reduced from about Thai Cuisine in 60 different options 1989, Just A Taste to just over three in 1990, Madeline’s dozen, providing an in 1997, and ZaZa’s opportunity for the Cucina in 2002. All cooks to concentrate four restaurants are on less items and now operating with make each one better different owners. than if they had to In the case of prepare a wide variety ZaZa’s, Lex sold of dishes from a the establishment myriad of ingredients. to Curtis Radcliffe To help make up in September 2015. for the loss of about Photo: Casey Martin Curtis had been 24 selections and to the executive chef take advantage of from 2007-2012 and seasonal availabilities, continues in that capacity. Jamie Jensen, there are daily specials. Soups don’t appear who joined Curtis as co-owner in April, on the menu but one is prepared every had been general manager from 2011-2014 day and there is usually an appetizer or and now serves as the “front of the house antipasti and an entrée special. On a recent manager” and wine buyer. visit I ordered the appetizer special — a stage

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By Br yan VanC ampe n Footloose, adapted by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie; based on the 1984 film; directed by Mark Reynolds; choreography by Clare Cook; music direction by Christopher Blasting. At CRT through July 29.

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rue Confession: Back when Fall Creek Pictures ran repertory double bill programs (and because I wanted to spend time with a terrific lady) I saw a double-feature of two films I’d never seen: Flashdance (1983) and Footloose (1984).

To be honest, nothing I saw helped me account for these movies’ popularity. I thought that Footloose in particular seemed randomly welded together with something for everyone: Kenny Loggins pop, an R&B number by Deniece Williams, and a Bonnie Tyler belter.

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The show follows the line of the film closely. It’s all about this Chicago kid named Ren (Dan Lusardi) who moves with his mother (Rebecca McGraw) to a Midwest town called Bomont. It takes Ren about a half hour to figure out that the town has outlawed dancing — never mind that the musical numbers that get him this information require dancing, but…

I certainly saw people’s’ heads bopping during the show’s opening title number and “Holding Out For a Hero” and “Let’s Hear It For The Boy,” but there wasn’t much interest in anything else. Too bad there’s not much there. The book feels like it was

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house cured-salmon on toast — similar to a bruschetta. The salmon was cured in the kitchen with a dry rub of sugar, salt, herbs and spices, flavors the fish absorbs over a few days or weeks. Prepared differently than a typical smoked salmon, the flavor isn’t masked, highlighting the high quality of the fish. An appetizer I particularly like is Brussels sprouts, which are halved and cooked with a tasty seasoning of bacon, sherry and pine nuts.The entrée special I selected the same evening was a half game hen. Unlike many hens, it had plenty of meat, and was served on a bed of orzo. It was delicious.

A less obvious change made by the owners is the large, industrial pasta machine Curtis imported from Italy enabling him to make all the pasta from scratch which he does every day. Curtis has reached out to a local farm for eggs and uses 30-dozen each week just to prepare the pasta. Fourteen of the 38 menu items are in the Fresh Pasta section and include a variety of ingredients including lobster, shrimp, clams, olives, and a short rib with root vegetables. The pasta dishes range from $17-22, and the portions are generous.

There are three parmesan entrees: veal, chicken and eggplant and the combination of melted cheeses used for toppings is creamy and delicious. The prices, $18-22, are all the more reasonable because the portions are huge — easily enough for the next day’s lunch. I have ordered chicken parmesan many times and the meat has never been dried out from overcooking.

The tasty bread that accompanies the meal is house made Foccacia, created

from their own sourdough starter and the accompanying olive oil infusion includes lemon zest, fresh basil and a touch of garlic.

A dessert menu offers a standard selection with most priced at $7-8.

A new bar menu has recently been introduced, featuring nine lighter items served in smaller portions at a lower cost than the main menu. I can recommend the meatball (2) sliders which are housemade and served on a small bun with tomato jam and a black pepper aioli, at a fairly modest $12.

There is a good selection of fairly priced wines available. Although most are Italian there are also selections from several other countries and from the Finger Lakes and California. If you’re in the mood for a mixed drink, you’ll have no problem finding a house cocktail that should please you.

Not all of the changes originate in the kitchen. In the dining room the works of a local artist now hang on the walls and are changed every two months and a guitar player strums unobtrusively every Wednesday night. Each time the pictures are changed there’s a Gallery Night where the new artist explains his/her creations, complimentary hors d’oeuvres are served, and a new and creative cocktail is featured.

We are fortunate to have a large selection of restaurants in the greater Ithaca area and ZaZa’s is already one of the best.

With the enthusiasm and expertise of the new co-owners, I’m sure it will get even better. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits.

Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

written in the 1950s, and all the new songs character lights out for the outskirts of written to patch the show together are town clad in a camisole and Daisy Dukes, not just unmemorable: they feel as if they McCormack stakes her claim as the show’s were arbitrarily purchased at a Broadway true spitfire; her singing and movements song fire sale. The whole show feels like it throughout are top-notch. was ordered from The actors playing the Column A and heavy-handedly written Column B. adults — Jan Labellarte, There are other Bill Lee, Nancy Kane problems with the as the school principal production. Lusardi Harriet Clark, Tanner certainly moves well Effinger as Coach Roger when it’s time to Dunbar and Lilli Komurek dance, but his singing — do what they can. voice lacks the power Jeremy Parker of projection, and portrays Moore’s wife, Vi, when the show as does Rebecca McGraw, requires Ren to belt who plays Ren’s mother it out, Lusardi doesn’t Ethel. As on-again/offhave the air. Michael again lovebirds Rusty and Jones as the Rev. Willard, Helen Regula Shaw Moore, father and Phil Sloves make their to the rebellious Cortland Rep debuts and Ariel, fakes out his Aaron Jacobs plays Ariel’s (Photo provided) own character with redneck boyfriend Chuck. a stiff and awkward Bomont’s teens are played performance, and by performing interns he also has pitch and volume problems.

Michael Dikegoros, Caiti Marlowe, Grant At times, the mixing of the actor’s Paylor, McKena Silva and Claire Sorlie, microphones was so poor that when joined by Giovanni Da Silva, Logan Mortier Lusardi and McGraw sing a counterand Anthony Wright, recently seen in La melody against the ensemble, they can Cage Aux hardly be understood in CRT’s intimate Folles. • pavilion space.

Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., with 2 Haley McCormack as Ariel has no p.m. matinees available on Friday, Sunday, such projection problems, and when the Tuesday and July 19, 23 and 26.

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ow in his late 50s, Gerald Metcalf feels beaten down by life. Albert, his partner of over 30 years, is dying of prostate cancer. He has a meaningless job in Springfield, Massachusetts. His only help in taking care of his partner is Albert’s sister, Angel Malkasian, who resents Gerald’s place in her brother’s life. Since moving to Springfield, he is cut off from other friends.

But he still has his sense of humor, and the arrival of a new friend and possible romance, the much younger hospice worker named Andy Helmer, is about to propel him out of the closet and into his life’s third act.

Arthur Bicknell calls his latest play, Easy Out, a comedy. It’s a comedy rooted in pain — comedy’s hand-maiden.

Not only death and homophobia, but a history of abuse (in both Gerald and Angel’s lives) haunt the script. As does the hope of new beginnings. There are

also Dungeons and Dragons, Glade airfreshener, a chain-saw, a magnificent cake and God’s own stereo system.

Variety’s review of Bicknell’s play My Great Dead Sister said, “Bicknell has succeeded in shaping all his characters into interesting human beings, totally believable, easily identifiable, and in so doing has created an absorbing, moving play that lingers in memory long after the final curtain.”

Having started off as an actor and playwright in NYC after graduation from Ithaca College, Bicknell left theater for a long stretch. When he and Rachel Hockett, both Ithaca natives, connected at an Ithaca High School reunion, they made the decision to return to their hometown, and to theater; thus was Homecoming Players born.

Hockett, Homecoming’s Artistic Director, directs Easy Out. Bringing the three characters to exuberant life are Homecoming veterans Chris Nickerson

as Gerald, Elizabeth Livesay as Angel and member of the Stockade division at the Mike Davie as Andy.

Adirondack Athletic Camp for Boys.

While Gerald is the comic type that I have no athletic skills. I suck at all might be described as a milquetoast sports, especially softball.…. I haven’t (with a compensating ironic wit), Angel discovered yet that I’m funny and smart is a hilarious force of nature, a comic and compassionate or that there is indeed virago. As Bicknell describes her on her any value whatsoever in having any of entrance: “In her late 40s, and desperately these obscure characteristics. This is a attempting to keep up with the Jones’s, sports camp. We play sports here. All day who, in this particular case, are a wealthy long. …At the moment I am stepping Armenian family she married into up to bat for one of the camp’s horrible, several years ago. Her hair is platinum horrible softball games…[chants of and teased.

‘Easy Out’] That’s Her nails me. ‘Easy Out.’ are long and Sometimes I am candied. She just ‘Hey, Faggot,’ steadily chews but for these on a wad of softball games, at Nicorette least, ‘Easy Out’ is gum. She has what everybody bedazzled chants — including most every the councilors — article of whenever I step up clothing to bat.” she wears, Watch Gerald including step up to bat a denim for a new life in jacket with Bicknell’s new the legend comedy. • ‘The Tribe Has Spoken’ The Homecoming Gerald and Albert in “Easy Out” (Photo provided) emblazoned on Players close their its back.” Angel’s fifth season with this entrance line is fully staged world typical for her: “Fuck me in the tits on the premiere with performances at the Kitchen cross!”

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It’s a suburban map, but also one that is Masha Ryskin’s Far Away But Close is not quite complete, scattered or confused a personal favorite, due to its sensitivity to or in the process of coming into being. detail. Two square abstract prints sit side Phyllis McGibbon’s Veronica Imprint (After by side, obscured by a layer of handmade Dürer) presents cord embroidered into paper that floats silk, creating above each. The top a drawing of layers are crinkled chaotic lines, depicting Ink Shop’s Exhibit is complex and thought-proviking and worn, torn at parts with lines arms reaching printed on top of outward to

By Ambe r D onof r io them irregularly. The wring fabric piece is ghostly in a in perhaps way; one questions a domestic he notion of place is something that Pamela Drix, which is up at the Ink Shop what is hidden. scene. In surrounds our everyday experience, downtown until the end of the month.

It appears like a Constructing binding us to the environments in Composed of a multitude of works in makeshift interior Place I, Nina which we inhabit. It is omnipresent, though varying media (though predominantly space, a mental Earley cut an not always recognized in its existence, an prints), the show explores issues of space, a memory or abstract print element of both present time and memory habitation, entropy and structure, hitting hesitation. into various that is, along with us, ever-changing even upon questions of identity and formation In Blueprint by strips and in the most imperceptible of ways. Place as well. While the artworks exhibited Drix herself, blue rectangles Part of Here There: Poetics of Place (Photo provided) manifests in physical landscape, but also downstairs in the CSMA hallway are cyanotypes cut into that she then in more internal subjective and emotional more traditional in their two-dimensional house-like pentagonal stitched realms. presentation, venturing upstairs to the shapes are pinned to together The complexities of place-ness is Ink Shop’s studio is surprising, exhibiting the wall, orderly and yet a touch disorderly. with vertical lines that cross the spaces, the basis behind HereThere: Poetics of a dynamic array of works that cross A grid is drawn at parts, while elsewhere reconnecting the pieces to come together Place, a show curated by local printmaker media forms into experimental, and even only outlines of the houses are present. again, although doing so haphazardly, perhaps creating a new space entirely from the pieces. Finally, perhaps the most straightforward work in the show is Greenwood CT by Jacob Crook. A blackand-white mezzotint print of a street at night, power lines stretch over the road and streetlamps cast their soft glow, beautifully Sunset Music Series every executed.

Thursday 6–8pm, rain or Aside from the Ink Shop, another shine on our deck show of prints is also in the area this July, similarly exploring place but doing so with literary influence in mind. Strangers Gate Revisited, a small show up at Buffalo Street Books, is not the most mind-blowing exhibition around. However, the story behind it is unique. Initially shown in a pop-up gallery in Manhattan as part of the launch of author Jeffrey F. Barken’s novel the Lonely Boys in New York in 2015, Rt 79 Ithaca • 607-272-WINE All the prints (created by artist Dara Lorenzo) are depictions and interpretations of the fiction’s text, illustrating rainy nights and the chaos of New York City streets in a story that deals with political upheaval and transpiring terrorism. All in all, the artworks are not entirely inspiring on their own, as they appear almost contrived and a bit incomplete. Pow in the City is the most dynamic piece among them, the Empire State Building in the center, framed by guns like raindrops in the sky, pointed CORNELIA LAEMMLI ORTH downward. But surely the artistic choices ITHACA’S ORCHESTRA SINCE 1976 behind the prints — the fact that they appear to be printed on newsprint with their imagery a bit murky — were done SUBSCRIBE NOW! A NEW ERA BEGINS with the novel’s rough aesthetic in mind. At 2017-2018 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS the very least, to see visual and written art forms intersect is a welcome collaboration Tatiana Tessman, Piano / Peter Bond, Trumpet and hopefully one that will happen more often in the future, bringing together Edgar Meyer, Double Bass literature lovers and visual art enthusiasts Mozart’s Requiem with Ithaca College Choir and Janet Galván alike. • art

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By Br yan VanC ampe n Spider-Man: Homecoming, directed by Jon Watts, playing at Regal Stadium 14; Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s “The Fantastic Four”, written and directed by Marty Langford, now on Showtime.

I’ve been wishing for a Spider-Man movie since I was 7, so maybe I’m not the most critical voice when it comes to the movie adventures of the web-slinger. I mean, I ripped the Andrew Garfield movies and still bought them on Blu-Ray. I’d watch a movie where Spider-Man eats an egg salad sandwich, backs up his hard drive and takes a nap.

Luckily, Spider-Man: Homecoming is a lot more entertaining than that, and since the film continues stories established in Captain America: Civil War, which introduced Tom Holland as the third cinematic incarnation of the character, it’s not just a Spider-Man movie, but also Iron Man 4. I thought Tobey Maguire made a

clearly the new reboot plans on keeping Peter in school.

My only quibble is that Peter’s schooland home-life scenes have a humor and vitality missing from these films’ increasingly generic CG action set pieces.

But when we see Holland in the suit, zipping around NYC to the tune of the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop,” well, that feels like the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man I loved when I was 7.

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great Peter Parker, but not a great SpiderMan, and Garfield was a great Spider-Man but not a great Peter Parker. The best superhero movies are the ones where you’re just as invested in the alter ego, where you’re not tapping your watch waiting for some guy to put the suit on. Holland gets the perfect balance; seven movies in, it feels like we have finally met the character.

Jon Watts’ film, from a screenplay cowritten by two Community heavy hitters, Chris McKenna Erik Sommers, feels more like a hip John Hughes high school comedy than a generic superhero story. We’re just as invested in Peter trying to prove his mettle to sponsor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) as we are in his day-to-days at school. He’s balancing fighting the Vulture (Michael Keaton) with homework, making huge mistakes and alienating himself from his best friend, Ned (Jacob Batalon), and would-be girlfriend, Liz (Laura Harrier).

Where the first two versions of Spider-Man graduated him from high school early on,

to the notion that Corman’s film was never meant to be seen.

Stories of cost-cutting and cheapness abound: any film about Corman’s ’90s output has plenty of stories about his condemned lumber yard which he used as soundstages, and Rebecca Staab, the actress playing Sue Storm, tries to justify the lowrent costumes by saying they would have been home-made anyway. To add insult to injury, the cast were out on the convention circuit promoting the movie with their own money when the word came down that the film would not be released.

It may not have had a proper release, but thanks to a fan in a

It’s hard to imagine that so much time, effort and staffing could go into the making of a movie that never got released, but that’s just what happened when Bernd Eichinger, a German producer approached exploitation king Roger Corman about producing a very lowbudget film of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four. The making — and ultimately the unmaking — of that movie is told for the first time Spider-Man/Peter Parker pauses for a moment. in Doomed! The Untold (Photo provided) Story of Roger Corman’s “The Hollywood Fantastic Four.” dubbing Aside from Eichinger facility, and the screenwriters, just about everyone bootleg copies flourished on the convention else involved gets their say. Though circuit, and now you can see it on YouTube. everyone knew they were low on funds and As cheesy as it is, the 1994 Fantastic production value, they worked hard to do Four has a spirit of fun that Fox’s three the best they could, and they take exception behemoth-budgeted FF flicks never had. •

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Blending jazz, ballet, and musical theatre dance styles with popular music, Dégagé (disengage) follows the story of The Dancer as she becomes the artist-in-residence in a hospice. Inspired by the patients and their unique stories, The Dancer comes to terms with her own artistry and humanity.

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing.

Sean Dillman | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Kip & Richy | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | (Spiritual) Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Folk, Jazz, Gospel) Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups.

GrassRoots Kickoff Party | 9:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg |

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Sound Over Seneca | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rt 414, Burdett | (Country, Soul) John Bolger Band | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Blues, Swing, R&B) CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill

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7/22 Saturday

Seneca Jam 60’s Woodstock Music Tribute to Perform at Rock Stream Vineyards on Sat. July 22nd at Rock Stock event | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Rock Stream Vineyards, 162 Fir Tree Point Rd, Rock Stream | (‘60s) Under Construction | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Goose Watch Winery, 5480 State Rt 89, Romulus | Devon Franks | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Country) Aaron DeRuyter Band | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Two

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Cool Club of Hector | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Stonecat Café, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jazz) Telephone Party | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Soul, Pop)

7/25 Tuesday

West Hillbillies | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock) Irish Music Session | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) . concert

7/19 Wednesday

Krockathon with Korn, Stone Sour, Skillet, Yelawolf, Ded | 6:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | (Nu-Meal, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop) Hunt For Hunter @ Ithaca Beer Co. Summer Music Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Ithaca Beer Co, 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | It’s our Summer Music Series! Every Wednesday will be joined in our Beer Garden by local musicians playing original tunes

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from 6-8pm.This Wednesday, welcome Hunt For Hunter! Hunt for Hunter is a folk-rock duo based in Brooklyn, comprised of Michael Hunter on violin/ guitar/vocals and Ian Hunt on cajon/ guitar/vocals.

The Jamie Notarthomas Experience | 6:30 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Aurora Village Park, ,Aurora | The Jamie Notarthomas Experience will return for another performance by beautiful Cayuga Lake in the Aurora Village Park.

A gifted songwriter, Jamie combines thoughtful, provocative and sometimes humorous lyrics with a soulful, broad vocal range to reach the minds and hearts of his audience.

Elvis Costello & the Imposters | 7:00 PM, 7/21 Friday | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown | (Punk, Rock, Pop) Pelotones | 7:00 PM, 7/21 Friday | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | A favorite of social dancers throughout the Finger Lakes, The Pelotones play in a wide range of styles, from swing, jazz, and R&B to rock-and-roll and country. A lot of their repertoire is original, written

Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | Chris Dresser leads a band of seasoned country music artists as they cover all the greatest standards. Don’t miss this fantastic night of great country music on a mid-Summer’s night. Enjoy beer specials all evening and find some great dinner chow to accompany this wonderful musical treat!

Dr. K Paul Kempkes | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Seneca Harbor Station, 3 N Franklin St, Watkins Glen | Dr. K, Solo guitar with attitude. Favorite songs by Steely Dan, Supertramp, Springsteen, all the way to The Ramones.

7/20 Thursday

GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance | Through Sunday, 7/23 | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | (See grassrootsfest.org for schedule) Live Music at the Market with Park Doing & Friends! | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Brookton’s Market, 491 Brooktondale Road, Brooktondale | Come enjoy some live music in beautiful Brooktondale. Local musician Park Doing will be performing solo guitar music at Brookton’s Market from 6-9 p.m. every other Thursday, all summer long. The Market has a sandwich deli, natural groceries and 22 local beers and ciders on tap for your enjoyment during the show.

Kenny Neal - Summer Concert Series - Norwich | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Thursday | East Side Park, 1 East Main St., Norwich | Bring a chair or blanket to sit on unless you plan to be on your feet dancing! Coolers welcome though open container laws will be in effect. *Rain location - Chenango County Council of the Arts Auditorium, 27 West Main St, Norwich, NY. Change

“The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography” takes a look into the life of photographer Elsa Dorfman. She is known for her Polaroid photos, taken in large format. Now playing at Cinemapolis (Photo provided) by frontman Wayne Gottlieb (vocals) and Alex Specker (lead guitar, vocals).

Completing the quartet are bassist Harry Aceto and drummer Michael Wellen.

The Soulful Blues of Gerard Burke Returns To The Boathouse | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/21 Friday | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | If you missed the debut performance of this talented blues solo guitarist this past winter, this is your chance to enjoy some great Delta Blues done in that traditional style that made the Blues a purely American art form.

7/22 Saturday

Chris Dresser & Long Hard Ride | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday |

CC Ryder | 7:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Waverly Storefront Theatre, 324 Broad Street, Waverly | The Waverly Storefront Theatre will host CC Ryder as she releases her debut album, Earth Day Rising LIVE. Ryder is a soulful singer/ songwriter who specializes in folk influenced rock music with a personalized message.

7/23 Sunday

Music & Mimosas | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Live music from Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom. Serving up fresh mimosas as well as wine and beer by the glass and bottle.

Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Almost Heaven is a high-energy journey through the life and times of an accomplished, often underrated artist, whose career spanned some of the more challenging times in American history. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., plus Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, 7/20 Thursday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted

by Comedy FLOPs) ComedyFLOps & The Dock Present: Thursday Night Comedy - All You Can Eat Improv! | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Thursday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join us for ComedyFLOPs bi-weekly All You Can Eat Improv show! Alternating with stand-up comedy, the FLOPs are partnering with The Dock to make Thursday the night for comedy in Ithaca. Each month we support a different community based charity.

July’s charity is: Community School of Music and Arts.

Footloose | 7:30 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Footloose is directed by Mark Reynolds, who helmed last summer’s The Kitchen Witches and CRT’s children’s shows Pinocchio and this year’s The Velveteen Rabbit. Footloose is an explosive rock and roll musical that sizzles with the same spirit of youth, rebellion and romance as experienced in the hit movie starring Kevin Bacon.

Ophelia | 7/21 Friday | Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St, Auburn | A modern day, folk-rock adaptation of Hamlet told entirely from Ophelia’s perspective.

Part of Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival’s New Musicals Series, The PiTCH, which is partnered with Moondog’s Lounge.

The Vagina Monologues | 8:00 PM, 7/21 Friday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | A whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices.

Performed with a cast of community members: Emma Bauso, Beth Beer Cuddy, Amy Doyle, Rhoda OverstreetWilson, Gwen Webber-McLeod, Sarah Yaw. Peril Of The Purloined Pirate Plunder | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 480 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Musical Melodrama. Also

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7/25 Tuesday

Sons of a Beach: Jimmy Buffett Tribute | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Barnstormer Winery, 4184 Route 14, Rock Stream | Sons of a Beach: Jimmy Buffett Tribute will perform at Barnstormer Winery. Sons of a Beach performs songs of Jimmy Buffett and a wide variety of party songs and features veteran musicians Rob Lane on guitars & vocals and Ray Fitzgerald on drums & percussion.

Music in the Hollow: Terrapin Station | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead Tribute, Progressive Rock, Blues, Rock)

Film Blind Chance Screening: World Cinema | 5:30 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Blind Chance is a Polish film following three separate, successive storylines related to a man running after a train and how a single, seemingly-ordinary event could influence the rest of his life.

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Friday, 7/21 to Thursday, 7/27.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Beatriz at Dinner| A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client’s dinner party after her car breaks down. | 83 mins R | The Hero | An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality. | 93 mins R | The Beguiled | At a girls’ school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tension, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events. | 93 mins R | The Little Hours | A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages.

Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation. | 90 mins R | Moka | A grieving woman pursues a couple who she suspects of killing her son in a hit-and-run.. | 89 mins R| The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography | A look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman. | 76 mins R | Regal Ithaca

Wednesday, 7/19 , to Tuesday, 7/25. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Spider-Man: Homecoming | Several months after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens while fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges. | 133 mins PG-13 | Despicable Me 3 | Gru meets his long-lost charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist. | 90 mins PG | The House | A dad convinces his friends to start an illegal casino in his basement after he and his wife spend their daughter’s college fund.| 88 mins R | Baby Driver | After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. | 113 mins R | War for the Planet of the Apes | After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.| 140 mins PG-13 |

Wish Upon | A teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them. | 90 mins PG-13 | The Big Sick | A couple deals with their cultural differences as their relationship grows. | 120 mins R | Dunkirk | Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.| 116 mins PG-13 | Girls Trip | When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. | 122 mins R | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. | 137 mins PG-13

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Casita del Polaris, Ithaca, Thursday, July 20, 8 p.m.

Auburn Public Theater, Friday, July 21, 8 p.m.

Soul, jazz and funk all in one. NEO Project jams and dances, feeding off of its audience’s enthusiasm. NEO will be playing a jazzy set at Casita del Polaris on Thursday, mixing some old favorites and some original work all in one. The band is also masters of improv, so expect some jamming out along with put-together tunes. The grooves are just as soulful as they are melodic.

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Back by popular demand, Auburn Public Theater will do one performance of Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” 8 p.m. Friday, July 21. The play features a wide variety of female voices, ranging from a 6-year-old girl to a woman witnessing her granddaughter being born. The play has also won an Obie award and removes the taboos surrounding femininity and the female body.

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Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Richard III: The Winter Of Our Discontent | 6:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The grand finale in ISC’s epic series of Shakespeare’s English history plays. The Wars of the Roses are over, the house of York has been victorious, and England is at peace...until Richard of Gloucester begins maneuvering against his own family to take the throne for himself.

Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing | 6:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | When Don Pedro and his soldiers arrive in sunny Messina for some much-needed R & R, love blossoms, and Beatrice and Benedick rekindle their merry war of wit. Don Pedro attempts to out-do Cupid by tricking Beatrice and Benedick into falling in love with each other, while Don John and his drunken henchmen scheme to ruin the marriage of their hated rival.

Parade | 7:30 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Based on the fascinating true story and courtroom drama surrounding the famous trial of Leo Frank, Parade is a powerful and compelling musical that captures a storied moment in American history.

Dégagé | 7:30 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blending jazz, ballet and musical theatre dance styles with popular music, Dégagé tells the story of The Dancer as she becomes the artistin-residence in a hospice. Inspired by the patients and their unique stories, The Dancer comes to terms with her own artistry and humanity. A world premiere that intertwines dance with theatre and shows us how we can all just let go.

Galumpha | 7:30 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Formed in 2002 by Andy Horowitz and Greg O’Brien, Galumpha delivers a fast-paced, athletic brand of movement, distinctive for its ingenuity.

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Notices Varna After School Program Enrolling Now | Enrolling PreK-5th grade now for 2017-2018! High-quality care, play-based and STEAM learning, ICSD transportation provided, sibling discount, DSS support welcome, full day programs during school vacations and more! (607) 272-2658 VASP@ VarnaCommunityAssociation.org www.

VarnaAfterSchoolProgram.com Candor’s Farmers Market | 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, , Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more.

Candorfarmersmkt@gmail.com Open Mike Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/21 Friday | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade baked goods. Contact Arron Bound by telephone at (607) 844-1500 or by email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 7/22 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, go to the club’s website, http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 7/24 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | A social knitting club open to all skill levels.

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music and dance workshops leading up to the 27th Annual GrassRoots Festival. The workshops, along with themed nightly dinners and dances, will immerse attendants and prepare them for Trumansburg’s famous music festival. Many of the GrassRoots performers will be giving lessons, including Donna The Buffalo, Driftwood, The Horseflies and more.

(Photo: Dave Burbank) Maker Lab with 3D Printing & Circuit Machine | 3:30 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | Try-It Wheel Workshop | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 7/21 Friday | Clay School of Ithaca, South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Rd, Suite 28, Ithaca | Date night, girls’ night or just not ready to commit to a series of classes, this two-hour session will give you a taste of working on the potter’s wheel with no strings attached. This workshop is designed for those interested in a one night experience.

Terrarium Building Workshop | 3:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites tabletop gardeners of all ages to celebrate the Build a Better World Summer Reading Program by creating their own succulent terrarium. This intergenerational program

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Can’t make it to GrassRoots? No problem. The Pelotones will give you your dose of swing, jazz, R&B originals at 7 p.m., July 21, on the Cornell Arts Quad. Most of their songs are written by frontmen Wayne Gottlieb and Alex Specker.

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Game on Summer: Worldbuilding | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/24 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In celebration of Summer Reading 2017, Tompkins County Public Library will host Game On Summer: Worldbuilding, a special program for tween and teen role-playing game enthusiasts. Hosted

by Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro and Library Page Joah Bierkamper, these free sessions will focus on worldbuilding for RPGs, such as Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Burning Wheel and World of Darkness.

Teens will have an opportunity to run and join games while connecting with other gamers.

Cartoonime: Drawing Cartoons & Anime | 5:00 PM-6:15 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | One Seventy One Cedar Arts Center, 171 Cedar St, Corning | For ages 8-12, though older students are also welcome. Learn to draw your favorite cartoon and anime characters at this workshop.

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LEGO Night | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | The LEGO table will be open, come in for some building time. We’ll also have the Duplos out in a quieter area for our younger builders.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Istanbul Turkish Kitchen, 311 Third St, Ithaca | Join in on the fun and be a sociable single! RSVP at kristiana.kalab@gmail. com Heliodelic Topography: Expressions of Sun-drenched Forms | 7/20 Thursday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | View the gallery by appointment.

Montezuma Birdwatching Van Tour | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 Rt 89, Savannah | The summer is full of young birds learning about life outside their nests. Join us for a tour of Montezuma’s birding hotspots as we look for raptors, waterfowl, shorebirds and songbirds and observe how dedicated parents prepare their young for the fall migration.

Skaneateles’ Curbstone Festival and Sidewalk Sales | 9:00 AM-8:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Village of Skaneateles, , | Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. This year, more than 30 merchants are scheduled to take part.

Book Talk: “New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State” The History Center in Tompkins County , Saturday, July 22, 2 p.m.

Author Karen Johnson-Weiner will present a talk on her latest book. Her work highlights the diversity and presence of Amish communities in New York State, drawing on 25 years of research. (Photo provided)

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Twin Tiers Honor Flight: 2nd Annual Motorcycle Ride | 9:00 AM, 7/22 Saturday | Finger Lakes HarleyDavidson, 6033 State Route 13, Alpine Junction | The ride will be escorted from Finger Lakes Harley-Davidson, through Watkins Glen and up the east side of Seneca Lake. There will be a short break in Ovid. The route will continue down the west side of Cayuga Lake, through Ithaca and then end back at Finger Lakes Harley-Davidson.

Sterling Renaissance Festival | 10:00 AM-7:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Farden Road, Sterling | The Sterling Renaissance Festival is one of the oldest and most successful producers of professional interactive entertainment in the world. Thrill to the excitement of over 100 stage and street performers, professional actors, comedians and musicians who whimsically recreate an authentic English Renaissance village for you to experience.

Finger Lakes Cheese Festival | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Sunset View Creamery, 4970 County Road 14, Odessa | Bringing together the best in Finger Lakes produced cheeses from the different members of the Finger Lakes Cheese Alliance as well as the best in homemade jams, jellies, baked goods, peanut butters, salsas, vegetables, art, wine, beer and cider. Live music all day, tons of food for every palate.

Ithaca is Foodies Culinary Tours | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Join us for a narrated, guided walking tour showcasing a variety of Ithaca’s restaurants as well as historical, architectural and cultural points of interest. Enjoy six delicious food tastings — enough for a full lunch — while we learn about the food you’re enjoying and the people who make it. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free diets are welcome. Visit www. ithacaisfoodies.com for more info and to purchase tickets.

Classic Car Show & 20th Anniversary Celebration | 1:00 PM-6:00 PM, 7/22 Saturday | Goose Watch Winery, 5480 State Rt 89, Romulus | Celebrate 20 years of excellence with this special event featuring a classic car show. Enjoy the beauty of classic cars along our lake view vineyards in addition to live music and lawn games. Info at goosewatch. com/events/classic-car-show/ Sterling Renaissance Festival | 10:00 AM-7:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday |

Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Farden Road, Sterling | The Sterling Renaissance Festival is one of the oldest and most successful producers of professional interactive entertainment in the world. Thrill to the excitement of over 100 stage and street performers, professional actors, comedians and musicians who whimsically recreate an authentic English Renaissance village for you to experience.

A Night With The Spirits | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | Join Nationally Renowned Psychic Medium, Medical Intuitive and Healer, Dr. Franky Porcaro RMT Mi of Balanced Holistic and her partner, Sharon LaPier, an Animal Communicator of Happy Horses of NY, for a Night with the Spirits. Dr. Franky will be connecting with spirit and guides to share messages from passed loved ones, psychic messages regarding past, present and future information and medical intuitive readings. Sharon will be there helping you connect with pets who may have passed on or assist with current pet issues.

Broome County Fair | 7/25 Tuesday | Broome County Fairgrounds, 51 Grand Stand Blvd., Whitney Point | Tractor Pulls, Carnival Pulls, Motorcycle Stunts, Demolition Derbies, Live Music, Deliciously Sweet and Savory Foods, Contests and Livestock Auctions. Info and complete lineup at broomecountyfairny.com

Kids Yoga Storytime | 10:00 AM, 7/19 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 3 through 10 are invited to join the Tompkins County Public Library and yoga instructor Diane Hamilton for a special, weekly Yoga Storytime. Yoga Storytime will delight active young book lovers by bringing favorite stories to life with yoga poses. No yoga experience or mat is required, but comfortable clothing is recommended.

Huff & Puff: A Pig Tale | 6:30 PM, 7/20 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Bring a chair or blanket to sit on and join us for this fun retelling of The Three Little Pigs.

Summer Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 7/21 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These fun filled programs will include stories, songs, rhymes,

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Formed in 2002 by Andy Horowitz and Greg O’Brien, Galumpha delivers a fast-paced, athletic brand of movement, distinctive for its ingenuity. Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, the three performers create a sensory feast of images ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. Come see this dance crew over at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Cornell University.

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baby sign language and early literacy tips. Baby Storytime sessions will be immediately followed by an hour-long Baby and Toddler Playtime, designed to encouraged socialization and hands-on learning through informal free-play. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Summer Family Storytime | 11:00 AM-11:30 AM, 7/22 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills at Summer Family Storytime.

Toddler Play Group | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Enjoy free-play and parent chat time at Lodi Point. Bring a snack or lunch. In the event of rain, the group will meet at the library. Telephone 607-869-3031 for information.

Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, , Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market.

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

Health Psychological Assessments and Occupational Therapy Interventions for Children | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Cayuga Wellness Center, 310 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Learn about psychological assessments that identify the strengths and needs of a child or teen, self-advocacy and treatment interventions, and how to shape the home environment to provide therapeutic opportunities every day.

Tai Chi Wellness | 8:45 AM-9:45 AM, 7/20 Thursday | 171 Cedar Arts Ctr, 171 Cedar St, Corning | Learn Tai Chi and stay fit this summer.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, 7/22 Saturday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating.

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

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Sharon Knight and Winter, 7 p.m. Saturday, July 22, Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar Take a trip to a different dimension: a dimension of folk and fairytale.

Sharon Knight and Winter’s music blurs reality and fantasy, taking listeners to a realm of mysticism enriched by acoustic sounds. Originally inspired by Irish bands and British folk music, Knight and Winter conjure up sounds with delicate string instrumentals and bewitching vocals.

Playing music since she was 18, Knight has created four albums with Winter, her music collaborator. Her songs fall under “Neo-folk Romantique,” but lately Knight’s work has developed an original sound that transports listeners to another world.

“Winter and I are both fascinated with the idea that the living world has many more secret depths than we usually experience,” Knight said. “We love nature, and see all of nature as a living

Yoga Farm | 8:00 AM-10:45 AM, 7/23 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm.

Mid-Day Mindfulness Sessions | 12:00 PM-12:30 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by psychotherapist and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Anna Salamone, RN, LCSW, these sessions will encourage participants to shift out of automatic pilot mode and observe the workings of the mind, body and emotions.

Science Smith Woods Guided Walks | 10:00 AM, 7/22 Saturday | Smith Woods , 8899 Falls Road , Trumansburg | Join us for a guided hike through Smith Woods, led by Cornell biologist Dr. Marvin Pritts. Smith Woods is an old growth forest, which means that it has had little disturbance and contains communities of plants and animals, sometimes even rare species that are not found in

being.”

In her latest album, Portals, Knight explores what it means to experience life through a critical lens. Instead of living the daily grind of the 9-5 job and daily commute, Knight sought to live against the norm — and her music reflects that.

Swirls of enchantment twist and turn around Knight’s vocals. While she has left behind traditional Celtic music over the years, Knight now incorporates spirits of the Middle East, traditional rock and themes of mysticism into her songs.

Nature is also an inspiration for her work, and it serves as a pathway to another world.

“The secret, inner world of nature can be seen as an ‘Otherworld’ of sorts, existing side by side with our everyday world,” Knight said. “Portals explores the idea that certain things can serve as portals to this Otherworld — a strand of melody on a violin, the scent of our lover’s skin, a mysterious jewel — can all open gateways to memory, wonder and magic.”

And what makes each track even more spellbinding are the stories behind them. When performing live, Knight said she tells different stories about each song before she plays them. This helps to immerse the audience, she said, fully transporting them through the portals of her music. These stories aren’t recorded on her albums, which makes them exclusive to her shows and her audiences.

younger forests. Hikers should meet at 10 a.m. at the Smith Woods sign, corner of Falls Rd and Cemetery Rd, 5 min from the Trumansburg Fairgrounds.

Bring your family! (but please, no pets).

Guided Gorge Hikes | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Fall Creek Gorge, across from Johnson Art Museum; Cascadilla Gorge, Treman Triangle Park, University Avenue or Linn Street, Ithaca | Come explore Ithaca’s gorges with Cornell’s knowledgeable Gorge Stewards. Fall Creek Gorge Hikes: Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m., meet at the information sign on University Avenue across from the Johnson Art Museum. Cascadilla Gorge Hikes: Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00 p.m., meet at the information sign in Treman Triangle Park, off Linn Street in downtown Ithaca. The hikes are moderately strenuous, including walking on uneven surfaces, inclines, and plenty of stairs. Tours will not run in inclement weather.

Garden Tours | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/23 Sunday | Cornell Botanic Gardens Nevin Welcome Center, 125 Comstock Knoll, Ithaca | Enjoy a guided tour and

Sharon Knight and Winter (Photo: EMB Studios) Traveling from the San Francisco Bay Area, Knight will bring songs for “poets, adventurers and lovers of mystery” to Ithaca. And what more appropriate venue than the Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar. “We are frequently told that we weave a spell of enchantment around

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

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

Drop-In and Volunteer! | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/25 Tuesday | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center (Parking Lot), 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | Tuesdays are drop-in volunteer nights this summer at Cornell Botanic Gardens! Stop by and unwind from your day with some evening weeding therapy. Meet new people, learn about plants from a knowledgeable staff horticulturist, and help keep our gardens looking beautiful. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your own garden gloves and hand tools, if you have them.

our listeners — which is great because this is exactly what we hope to do: give folks a few hours where they can slip through these portals and into a world of wonder and magic,” Knight said. “Folks also tell us the love we share is palpable when we play, and that gives them a feeling of living in a fairy tale.”•

PM, 7/19 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 Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. This class is open to all levels and all bodies.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/19 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Pickleball at the Ithaca

Ongoing Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30

Art Celebrating Suffrage: Kindling the Flame | Cazenovia Public Library, 100 Albany St, Cazenovia | Art exhibit celebrating suffrage.

Self Determination | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Exhibit featuring new paintings by GC Myers.

CC Ryder Album Release and concert,

The Central New York Playhouse, Friday, July 21, through Saturday, August 5

The Waverly Storefront Theatre, Saturday, July 22, 7 p.m.

Green Day’s American Idiot comes to the Central New York Playhouse in Dewitt and will run 10 shows. The musical includes every song off of Green Day’s album, and it has won two Tony awards. Directed by Liam Fitzpatrick, characters Johnny, Tunny and Will struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world.

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CC Ryder is releasing her first album, and she’s celebrating with a concert at 7 p.m., Saturday, July 22, at the Waverly Storefront Theatre. Ryder is a soulful singer/songwriter who specializes in folk influenced rock music with a personalized message. The show will feature musical acts, refreshments and CDs for sale.

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Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020.

Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #93677.

May perform any combination of tasks related to the production and harvesting of apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, and apricots including pruning, thinning, hoeing, baiting, irrigating, mowing, fertilizing, and harvesting. Workers will be using straight and stepladders and will be required to lift approximately 50lbs while descending and ascending ladders on a sustained basis. At least two months experience in duties listed above.

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pesticides under supervision of certified applicator, irrigating, harvesting, grading and loading of fruit. May use hand tools such as shovels and rakes, hoes, pruning saws and shears, hammers, ladders and picking buckets. May use saws and other powered equipment to repair bulk

pruning trees. Work may be performed in rain or extremely hot/cold conditions.

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boxes. May be asked to help operate, adjust and maintain farm machinery. May use saws and other powered equipment to repair bulk bins. One month’s experience in work listed required.

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’ve driven by and admired this regal Victorian beauty for years, and seeing inside the first time, it did not disappoint. Its woodwork and deep moldings have been carefully preserved and the owners have updated kitchen and bathrooms with a bow to the home’s original style. The home has been added to over the years, and three small porches give a choice of entries.

The rooms are spacious and well proportioned, most of them with 10-foot-high ceilings and tall, elegant windows let in plenty of light. According to the Tompkins County Assessor, the house offers 2,460 square feet of usable living space.

Enter by way of the 15-foot by 15-foot kitchen, with its bountiful cabinets, secondary butler’s sink, pair of wall-mounted 5070 Buck Hill Road (Photo: Peggy Haine) ovens, smooth-surfaced electric cooktop and double sink with windows peering out over the grounds. There’s plenty of room for on chilly winter evenings. Off the living a breakfast table or a kitchen island or, on a room is a study with a cozy three-piece bay TGIF evening, for an impromptu waltz with window (I see a window seat eventually the cook. Step into a good-sized dining finding its way here), built-in bookshelves room, and from there, into a large mudand wainscoting. A secondary parlor, with room with shelving adequate to store all its sound-tamping rose-colored wall-toyour cleaning supplies and special-occasion wall carpeting and invitation from another serving platters, supplemental slow cooktriptych bay window could also be used as ers, chafing dishes, waffle makers, and the a main-level master. There’s an updated full fondue sets you can’t bear to part with. bath on the main floor as well.

From the dining room, sashay through Upstairs are three decent-sized bedFrench doors to a massive deck ringed by rooms — two in the front of the house, white-stained cedar railings. A tall weepand a third with a bonus room, built into ing cherry tree drapes over a corner, and an addition. A lower ceiling along with a the view of nearby fields is bucolic and second set of stairs leading from the third peaceful. From the front of the house, bedroom to the kitchen intimate that this where a porch swing hangs from one of was once servants’ quarters. But these days the property’s yard-wide specimen maple that bedroom hides behind the bonus and walnut trees, trees that must have been roome. A short bike ride from beautiful planted when the home was built in 1870, downtown Perry City with its community you overlook a new barn and a field where Before youthis setcharming foot in that firstis open of artists, place only a few neighbors’ horses feed and frolic. Nearly miles from Trumansburg, and just a few house, get prequalified for a mortgage four acres of your own leaves plenty of more from Ithaca.what • you can afford. and know exactly room for the vine-covered barn/garage, board-and-batten-sided storage shed, offer plenty of loan charming guest house and as many flower At AWe Glance and vegetable gardens as you’ve got time to options and special programs for Price: $295,000 plant and tend. A pretty stream murmurs first-time homebuyers. through the property, and is accessible for Location: 5 070 Buck Hill Road fishing and tadpole hunting via a set of Trumansburg, NY And decisions take minutes, not days. wooden stairs.

School District: Trumansburg Central Happy shopping.* The living room entry features a brass MLS#: 310724 door knocker, and the centerpiece of the Contact: Kathleen Markowski living room, with its warm, wide-planked Apply online or talk(Kat) to one of our Phone: 607.342.0778 pine floors, is a tiled woodstove, a magnet Mortgage Officers today.

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