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Cornell Talks Building Community: OAR Builds Transitional Home More Housing, Future Of East Hill Plaza

sta nd i ng-room on ly crowd in the East Hill Office Building listened to the preliminary focuses of Cornell firm East Hill Village Partners, the team looking for input on possible changes for the East Hill Plaza area. There was indeed no shortage of public voices with input present, as nearly 100 people crammed into the meeting, eager to gauge the impact on their community a new development project could have. Leyland Alliance will serve as the project lead, along with EdR Collegiate Housing and Charter Real Estate and Development. That team was chosen by Cornell University, under the aforementioned moniker East Hill Village Partners. Urban Design Associates is charged with designing the plan. Cornell’s Campus Master Plan, introduced in 2008, stated an intention to remake the plaza into East Hill Village, which would provide more housing for the Cornell population as well as more mixed-use spaces that could benefit the surrounding neighborhoods. The school owns most of the land on which the plaza sits. “In large part, this is really about housing,” Senior Director of Cornell Real Estate in Faci l it ies S er v ices Jeremy Thomas said of the school’s intentions. “And in addition, it’s about the type of community that people want.” Thomas emphasized Cornell’s desire to hear the public’s voice, and that they understand the Plaza’s importance to the community. Whitham Planning and Design is coordinating the plan on a local level. Scott Whitham said they will be working to hold several continued on page 4

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oming back into society out of a cycle of incarceration or addiction isn’t something easily done alone. According to most modern research, it requires support and a roof over one’s head, a slew of transitional services that, in many communities, is a missing part of the housing equation. Af ter years of dreaming and several years of planning, Opportunities, Alternatives And Resources of Tompkins County – a local inmate advocacy organization – is building what they hope will serve toward filling at least part of this gap at 626 West Buffalo Street, working to turn an old apartment house into a place where former inmates

and addicts can rebuild their lives in an environment built for success. On Satu rday, a small group of volunteers were on t he propert y picking up brush and beginning re nov at ion s on the house which, in the coming months, will soon be not only a sober home to four transitioning individuals, but additional office space for the organization’s various advocacy efforts and a 17’ by 30’ community “clubhouse” to be used for programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcot ics A nony mous, OA R’s college-prep programming

T a k e ▶ Asparaganza is this weekend and, as far as we know, is the area’s premier celebration of asparagus. Vegstivities kick off Saturday, May 27 at 3 p.m., leading into five hours of live music, beer and cider tastings, family-friendly activities and, of course, asparagus. Entry is free, and activities are free but, as the event does take place on a farm (Technically the Finger Lakes Cider House, located at

and a number of other services needed to help people in need break the cycle of dependency and delinquency. The home, which will be funded through $60,000 in count y housing f unds a nd OAR’s own, modest coffers, will be open and operating sometime this year, depending on when the work gets done. Contin u ed on pg. 4

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4017 Hickok Rd, Interlaken) you’re asked to leave your pets at home. ▶ Juneteenth is coming up! Southside Community Center, Inc. will kick off its annual Juneteenth Festival with aBlock Party Festival on Friday, June 16 from 4 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 305 South Plain Street followed by a list of events to fill the weekend. The theme this year is theme for 2017 is Stay Woke!Committing to social consciousness and community.

For more information, to be a vendor, and/or volunteer please email: southsidejuneteenth@ gmail.com or call 607-273-4190. ▶ A Veteran’s Job Fair is happening Thursday, May 25 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at TheSpace@Greenstar. Veterans and the general public are invited. The goal of this event is to provide career opportunities to our local veterans their families and to the general public.

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he Tompk ins Count y Legislature voted May 16 to establish the county’s financial goal and fiscal targets and guidelines for the 2018 budget, setting the maximum tax levy possible while staying under the estimated tax cap.

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“I’ve been waiting years for this,” OAR’s director, Deborah Dietrich, said, smiling amidst the f lurry of activity around her. “We’ve been seeing how the lack of stable housing, substandard housing, is a huge barrier to turning your life around. And we’ve known that for almost a decade. So finally we’ll see if taking away that barrier makes for more success.” For t he pa st f ive yea rs , Dietrich has been traveling from seminar to seminar, compiling the best concepts from transitional housing programs from around the country in an effort to create the image of what she pictures the ideal home to be. With the help of volunteer Frank Brittain – whose background in drug counseling is extensive – the organization will develop a suite of individualized pro-

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gramming to create an on-the- four individuals but also for ground, one-on-one approach the greater community, helpto reentry, offering opportu- ing to guide those looking to nities either to train for a job break their own cycles. It’s a or go back to school all while modest start, and though the overcoming t heir persona l neighbors have been spoken issues in a safe, sober environ- to and Dietrich plans to host ment free of the negative influ- monthly meetings over desence of life on the streets. ert between residents and the “This is a ‘creneighborhood a t e c o m mu n i t y ’ to fully immerse “I’ve been reentry program,” the home into the Brittain said. “...the waiting years com mu n it y, she program is based acknowledges that for this.” a rou nd persona l this bold first step discipline and i s one c a r r y i n g self-intention. It’s intended some degree of uncertainty, to make sure you’re making and will likely be tweaked as these changes for yourself. The time goes on. concept is to take people from “I think it’s an experiment,” a cycle of treatment centers to said Dietrich. “We’re minimizthe streets to the jail, to find ing risk the best way we can.” what those people are missing “We’re trying to make sure in their lives that keeps them this isn’t separate from the from a comfortable life, and community. It’s an idealistic, identify the skills they need dreamer’s notion sure, but we’ll and help them build those up.” see how it works.” The home w i l l be f u l ly–Nick Reynolds staffed, a venue not just for the individual growth of those

public forums on the future of the location. The meeting included a public conversation segment, basically a way for people to converse with each other about the strengths and weaknesses of East Hill Plaza today and their future visions for it, then present their points to the project’s leaders. The forum was part of the ongoing efforts to keep the public more involved in the process-- the team noted they had heard plenty of feedback about the previous Maplewood redevelopment request i ng more public input in future action. G e n e r a l l y, t h e g r o u p s offered similar criticisms and praise of the current East Hill Plaza. Retaining locally owned restaurants and businesses and the Mirabito gas station, paired with a general resistance to chain restaurants were fairly common themes throughout each group. The P&C Fresh grocery store and Rite Aid were praised for their convenience, though some recommended renovations to improve aesthetics. Negatives about t he site related primarily to its looks and accessibility. Some felt there is too much space taken by empty parking lot, others mentioned a lack of creative landscaping or green space. Traffic patterns when entering and exiting the plaza, particularly at the intersection of Mitchell Street and Pine Tree Road, were termed “dangerous” by some. As for future vision suggestions, utilization of green energy such as solar panels and charging stations for electric cars was mentioned quite frequently. Making the area more pedestrian- and bike-friendly and increasing bus service was a point for one group, hopefully assuaging the accessibility issues. Predictably, affordable housing was also a popular suggestion, and a desire for a wider variety of businesses was nearly universal among the groups. Other suggestions included a playground, a dog park, a bike rental facility and paths connecting the surrounding neighborhoods. –Matt Butler

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Report: 98% Of Ithacan’s Income Goes To Life Expenses

onths after the conclusion of the threeday Tompkins County Housing Summit, the county planning office has the makings of a path forward into addressing what, for years, has been dubbed an affordability crisis in the county’s housing market. A first draft of the County’s Housing Strategy – a broad, overarching prescription for Tompkins County’s insufficient housing stock – was released to the public this week, outlining how many housing units are needed to satisfy countywide demands, who those units should be for and how they should be created. The plan, the county’s second since the release of the 2007 housing strategy, accompanied a listening session at the Tompkins County Public Library, and

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istrator. A handful of not-forprofit agencies will receive an additional two percent cost of living increase in funding. The agencies seeking funding beyond the status quo will make their requests to the legislature at budget meetings this fall. T he ta x lev y i ncludes a $410,000 increase in the amount added to the County’s contingent fund. The contingent fund currently built into the 2018 budget totals about $1.5 million compared to last year’s contingent fund of $930,000, which was a lmost entirely spent, according to Mareane. Mareane said he and the County Legislators agreed that a larger cushion was necessary this year. “I can’t recall a time of greater uncertainty other than the Great Recession,” Mareane said. “There are a lot of unknowns confronting us, some from Washington, some local.” He said local unk nowns include the impending results of an ongoing study regarding the Tompkins County Jail, add-

calls for the creation of nearly 4,000 diverse units of housing over the next eight years, efforts to encourage a comprehensive overhaul of zoning countywide, and an increasingly active effort to monitor the local housing stock in real time, covering everything from home prices to accurate vacancy rate calculations, which have proved elusive. On Wednesday, county planners met with members of the community at the Tompkins County Library where they presented the strategy, answered questions and gathered additional input from county residents – and a crowd that feaing that regardless of whether the county decides to board out inmates to other counties, increase the size of the jail, or add more alternatives to incarceration, the solution is bound to cost the county more. Later in the budget process legislators will have a better idea of how the cushion should be used, whether it goes to funding county agencies or is used to reduce the property tax levy, said Mareane. In addition to the local issues at play, policies coming out of Washington are also a factor. “Changes in Medicaid are the most concerning,” Mareane said. “If there is a defunding of medicaid, those kinds of cuts have a way of finding their way to county government in New York state.” Not a ll legislators agree with the two budget resolutions that were passed at the most recent meeting. Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) said she doesn’t think the increase in the levy is enough. “I think what we’re going to see from state and federal government is unrivaled compared to what we’ve seen in past decades when it comes to what we’re going to be asked to pick up,” she said.

“I don’t understand how a two-percent raise is enough to meet t he cost of l iv i ng increase,” she added, “but it’s not enough to address anything in our housing strategy. It’s not enough to ensure greater oversight over the quality of our water and ground; it’s not enough to address climate change, or to move forward with our diversity and inclusion initiatives.” Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) voted against the proposed guidelines and targets but did not provide a reason for her decision, though she did vote in favor of the targets and guidelines. Legislator Dooley Kiefer voted against both resolutions. She made a motion to change the title of the resolution regarding the “financial goal” to “tax levy guideline” instead, which failed. Mareane will present the Legislature with his proposed budget in the fall, after which the legislators will hold a series of budget meetings to hear presentations and overbudget requests from county agencies.

ith housing development pl a n n i ng taking place at the county library and East Hill Plaza development input being taken at Cornell, another group gathered at Coltivare to look at these issues in a macro sense: the affordability crisis in New York. The event, hosted by the Robert Mercer-backed transparency and anti-corruption a d vo c a c y g roup, R e c l a i m New York, gathered around 20 attendees from across the county, each concerned about the growing cost of living and statewide population stagnation. “I’m a conser vative. I’m concerned how New York has fallen, how all the businesses have left,” Rocco Lucente, an attendee from Dryden, said. “I really just want more information to try and wake people up as to what’s happening here.” According to George Phillips, Reclaim New York’s Southern Tier Regional Director (and AP U.S. History Teacher by trade), what holds true for most of the state is a bleak economic situation driven by high taxes and high corruption. Phillips’ presentation notes that 33 percent of income for the median household income in Ithaca is spent on taxes. On top of that, Phillips estimates that that same family spends another 62 percent on basic living expenses such as gas, water, heat and food. Phillips accredits most of the disconnect to corruption in Albany, where a Siena College poll showed a staggering 93 percent of respondents agreeing there’s a corruption problem at the state level. “Could we get 93 percent of people in New York to agree on anything? Mets or Yankees? Giants or Jets?,” Phillips said.

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tured representatives from the county legislature, Common Council and local nonprofits like the Rescue Mission and The Community Foundation – to field ideas for the plan itself and further refine the direction the county would take in order to address the region’s housing issues, whether it were plans to address gentrification, combating NIMBYism, or merely identifying the adequate financing sources to make these units happen. continued on page 11

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Ups&Downs ▶ Graduation Weekends Well guys, we did it. We made it another year. While we’ll miss the benefits of students being in town – the good bands who aim to capitalize on the college crowd, the young volunteers giving their time to local organizations and the cultural value of an active college campus – we’re looking forward to some peace and quiet and perhaps the possibility of holding an “indoor voice” style conversation while out on the town during summer weekends. ▶ The closing of Hal’s Deli After nearly 60 years in business, it’s finally over for the venerated sandwich and bagel shop downtown. While you have to acknowledge the city is changing and handing itself off to a new generation of business owners and professionals, it’s never easy to say goodbye. We’ll miss you, Hal’s. Thanks for 56 great years.

Heard&Seen ▶ New faces at The Ithaca Times/Finger Lakes Community Newspapers We are pleased to welcome a couple new faces to our offices here at 109 N. Cayuga Street. Jamie Swinnerton, a former news reporter for WHCU Radio, has joined the team as chief of our northern community papers (Interlaken, Ovid and Trumansburg) and Vaughn Golden, our political columnist and a student at Ithaca College, is officially serving as a fulltime intern for our organization. Welcome!

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A ffor da bl e hou si ng p ol icy is pro -dev e l opm e n t, pro -a bat e m e n t p ol icy arlier this week, The Ithaca Times staff attended three separate meetings of great consequence in the lives of Tompkins County residents. At three separate venues in town, discussions were held on the amount of money we’re losing each year to fund the grievous crime of committing life in Tompkins County (98 percent of the average joe’s income gone, according to our hosts which, in Tompkins County, is mostly due to taxes and housing), the county’s plans on addressing the housing crisis (long story short: build more of it) and Cornell’s plans to finally (!) build the housing to meet the demands of the same people the university often brags lend to the vibrancy and sustained economic success of the county. Knowing the aches that come with each uptick in assessment value from the constant complaints of residents and the knowledge gleaned from my status as a renter unwilling to leave his apartment not for lack of options (there are lots of open, cheap rooms on East Hill, after all) but for a lack of better, affordable situations to land myself in over mine. Reading through these pieces and recalling the discussions I’ve had with people over the years, I began to see the interplay between each of these topics, all the while distinctively in tune with the politics and sentiments of most of our county’s residents on local development. From comments on spoiling “the rural-like” nature of their Northside neighborhood to granting tax abatements to devel-

opers eyeing a market willing to shell out high rents, all wondering where their stimulus was to be found in a city of soaring tax bills and a nation of languishing incomes, I relived just about every reason given on why not to build, or why not to skirt out on taxes we deserve. It’s our money, and we need it now – I get it. Hearing the rationale given by our local Industrial Development Agency for providing these abatements – the promise of big payoffs by way of a net tax base growth down the road – is one met by skepticism by many. We never get an explanation, it seems, of why we don’t invest in the type of housing we seem to really need – affordable housing – or making a more aggressive approach on inclusionary zoning which, as revealed at one of these meetings earlier this week, is an initiative that has made almost no progress at all in the past several years. Covering this myself, I tend to wonder the same types of things as well. After all, as keynote speaker Christopher Coes told us at the Housing Summit in November, we should work toward cultivating the type of development we want. Then again, given the estimates of the county that we will need 4,000 more units of housing within the next decade to meet workforce demand, we’re rather short on time in considering what we want beyond affordable housing. And to minimize the number contin u ed on page 7

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lot of Sunday mornings I tune in the “Nonesuch” show on WVBR. I guess many others do the same, as the show has been aired for almost fifty years. It broadcasts from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Its signature is “Music in the Folk Tradition,” although the tradition is loosely defined, reminiscent of the old blues musician who said, when asked if the blues was folk music, “I ain’t never heard it sung by no horse.” On Nonesuch, that standard applies for practically any style you can name. The hosting is split between a morning and an afternoon d.j. Afternoons rotate among a cast of four or so. The morning jock, pretty consistently for the past half-decade or so, has been Nicholas Hill. Until recently. This month, Nicholas fell ill to a stroke.

YourLetters A Note On Emojis And Anonymity On the Ithaca Times website, you may have noticed we have added emojis to each of our stories in order to allow people to “react” to the news. Earlier this week, it was revealed that a Cornell student who had gone missing last week was found dead and, the news being the news, we published it on our site. People reacted using these emoji buttons and – while many expressed sadness – at least ten people felt it appropriate to remark on the news as humorous, something we will unabashedly call out as a vile response to a family’s tragedy. Over the weekend, we got this letter to the editor, and saw it fit to publish the exchange.

’m an alum of Cornell and recently read the article on your site about the student who passed away this week. I was a little disturbed by these reaction emojis which seem like they were impor ted from facebook. It seems a little inappropriate when I see that multiple people have reacted with the laughing or ‘heart eyes’ emoji on an article about a young person dying in the gorges. I’m all for freedom of speech but please consider modifying the whole ‘React’ feature for certain articles like this out of respect for the young person’s family and friends.. Jennifer Gass Cornell ‘13

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I’m a friend of his, at least to talk to when out and about, although I think Nicholas has about a thousand such friends, as he is a supremely lovely and engaging guy. I don’t know any more about his condition than what his wife has posted online. I hope and trust I don’t violate any privacy when I relate what she wrote, that Nicholas suffered a stroke that was “major, to the left hemisphere of his brain,” but that “he has made great strides … it feels like we are out of the critical stage and on the long and rocky road to recovery.” This past Sunday I tuned in to the show at about 10:05, to a Bob Dylan song, then another, then a third. I smiled, thinking this must be a tip of the hat from the subbing d.j. to Nicholas, who dearly loves Bob Dylan. Nicholas has probably played on Our response: Hey there Jennifer, thanks for your email and I’m really glad you sent it. This particular incident has been a challenging one to balance editorially, and I’m really glad you acknowledged that in your email. I want to come out straight up and say a few things. I hate covering crime, for numerous reasons (read any comment section, and you’ll see why: people who don’t know anything about a person will say lots of things and the media – for lack of time – never takes any time to look into someone’s unique circumstances.) I hate covering the drug trade or crimes of mental illness – outside of public safety concerns in the public interest – and shy from it whenever necessarry, often for the same reason. And I hate covering things like this, because I know, somewhere out there, someone’s parents are watching all this unfold. Where some were keeping their ear to the police scanner, we backed off. I didn’t want to be the person to break this news. Af ter all, it was rather unusual a Cornell student went missing during finals week. We knew what must have happened. I was in no rush to break someone’s heart. But, in the chance he was missing (w e honestly knew nothing until the Cornell alert went out) we reported it with due diligence and waited until Cornell themselves informed the family and released the news. We needed to follow up, considering we’d reported on his disappearance earlier, and so we did.

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air every song Dylan ever recorded. If there’s ever a 500-CD outtake collection, he will eventually cover that too. A few Mays ago, maybe five, not on Dylan’s exact birthday, but around it, Nicholas played three solid hours of Dylan’s music, “because he is alive.” I liked that, because generally you only hear accolades to musicians when they die. Tributes to the dead are necessary, but to the living are lovely. Give me the flowers while I’m alive, you know? I like Bob Dylan, though not like Nicholas, so I don’t think much about meanings to his songs, but a few years ago, when I owned a CD and record store (where, probably, I first met Nicholas), a musician friend stopped in and was talking about Dylan, and puzzling over the song title “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry,” noting that the lyrics to the song provide little understanding of it. I had never really weighed it, but it seemed pretty clear to me. YourLetters contin u ed from page 6

Perusing the comment sections of other outlets who broke the news, I was absolutely appalled. Some of the things people said – sometimes racist, terrible things – were completely out of line. The fact people decided to negatively use something we – an outlet whose focus is not on news like this – have in place to increase reader engagement and gauge how people feel about a certain topic is frankly, disgusting and I agree with your stance on it, absolutely. The emoji thing is an experiment and honestly, it has been helpful to us. But in my personal opinion, I think people who could find themselves “ laughing” in a situation like this should be shamed and exposed, and I suppose we’ll have to have a discussion on eliminating anonymous submissions period. Thanks for your email, –N

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he “Mr. Titus” mentioned in this article is the brother of my maternal 3x great grandmother. David Sands Titus (1801-1879). He arrived in Cayuga from Dutchess County in 1829 with his young family

The title means life is essentially sad. Not necessarily bad, just sad. How much in life reliably makes us laugh? Not much. But all it takes to make us sad is something as mundane as a train: lonesome whistle, hard click-clack, moving away. A clearer title would be, “There Are Very Few Things In Life To Fill Us With Unexpected Joy, Yet Even The Random Thought Of An Ordinary Means Of Transportation (For Just One Example) Can Fill Us With Devastating Sorrow For No Good Reason,” but that would be too long. Maybe this song exegesis is so obvious that it’s not even an observation, and I should have run it by a few people before running it in this column, but so be it. Actually, at the moment I’m only interested in running it by Nicholas, to see what he’ll say. I hope and trust that will happen soon. Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly. and his pregnant sister Lydia H. Titus Downing and her husband, Obadiah, my 3x great grandparents. Along with them came David’s hired man -a freed slave named Nicholas Bogart. David became close friends with William Henry Seward and Nicholas was hired by Seward as a coachman. Nicholas worked for Seward and his family all of his life. David ran an inn in the Village of Cayuga which served as a bank, a post office, a jail and a place for travelers to sleep. The inn burned to the ground in 1900. Deborah Plugh

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’m sure he didn’t send it back and say it was a mistake, did he? Seems Tompkins County is awash in dishonest Republicans like this one and Reed who has trouble keeping his office checkbook and his personal checkbook separate. Sherry Ruhanen

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of people moving away or losing their homes completely during that time, we’d ideally like to get to that point as fast as possible. Accomplishing this, unfortunate in the short run but potentially brilliant in the long run, is by putting your investment into the project with the greatest multiplier effect on the market. You could argue granting abatements to projects that pledge themselves to be affordable is the best way to get to this point of affordability. But I would counter-argue that type of investment would have little, if no impact on the top of the market, no relief for owners of single family homeowners or adults forced into small, substandard apartments at a price that would net you a life of relative luxury in Cortland or Elmira. You need to aim big. It was why City Centre, with its nearly 200 pricy apartments, was granted a $9 million tax abatement: though impossible to gauge its ability to lure people from converted singlefamily homes into its luxurious nine-story confines, it will undoubtedly book itself solid, easing up some pressure on the rest of us. A really great piece written earlier this week by San Francisco resident and economics professor Noah Smith captures this perfectly, writing for Bloomberg that the price of an apartment is not “written into its walls,” but informed by the market around it. For some people, they assume rents will skyrocket by way of induced demand, that an expensive apartment may elevate those around it. However in this case, he argues, trickle-down investment might be a good thing: “Suppose there are 2,000 people in a city, living in 2,000 apartments,” he writes. “One quarter of the people are rich, and rent apartments for $4,000 apiece. Three quarters are poor, and rent apartments for $1,000 apiece. The median rent is therefore $1000. Now build 400 fancy new luxury apartments that rent for $5,000 each. And suppose no new people move to the city. All 500 rich people move into the fancy new $5,000 places, leaving their old $4000 places vacant. The previously-$4,000 apartments fall in price to $2,000, and 500 poor people move into them, leaving 500 of their apartments vacant. These are used as second apartments, storage, or whatever. The rent of the 1,500 apartments that used to all cost $1,000 falls to $900 because of this drop in demand for low-end apartments. The median rent of the city’s 2,400 apartments is now $900, down from $1,000 before.” The county has estimated a demand it needs to meet. Knowing the nature of the Ithaca and Tompkins County economy, as good as we are we are no San Francisco or New York City. Our job numbers – as wonky and hard to read as they are – are fairly consistent and likely won’t change if we house a few more of the people already working here in jobs that already exist. And if you’re mad about that and mad that we’re losing a couple million dollars in tax dollars a year we never even had in the first place, I guess that’s your right. But I’d want to see how mad you are when those people’s rents might help to pay a couple hundred dollars in taxes you’re paying on your suddenly lucrative wood frame house. Th e

Week Of 5/14-5/20 By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly Assemblywoman Lifton cosponsored several pieces of legislation that passed the assembly last week in relation to voting reform. Lifton spoke on the floor of the assembly in support of a bill establishing a plan for early voting in New York. The bill would require localities to run precincts for early voting eight days prior to the election. Opponents to the measure have said that the cost on the localities is too high, but Lifton says she believes the cost is minimal and should be absorbed by the state. In addition to the early voting bill, measures to establish an online voter registration system and a way to register through state applications such as a driver’s license passed. Those bills currently await approval by the Senate rules committee, but it is uncertain whether they will make it to the floor for a vote. In addition to the voting bills, the assembly once again passed the New York Health Act which would establish single payer healthcare in the state. Lifton notes that public support and activism has increased around the bill, but it’s still not enough to move the senate which has killed the bill every year since 1992.

Tom O’Mara NY State Senate State Senator O’Mara sponsored a senate bill which successfully passed the assembly this week to establish the Paint Stewardship program. The program seeks to remove the responsibility to dispose of architectural paint from the state onto the industry that creates it. That entails any paint manufacturer doing business in New York to create a non-profit to register with the DEC at a cost of $10,000 each. From there the paint is given an environmental impact assessment and essentially taxed based on that number from the DEC. O’Mara also cosponsored a bill that seeks to alleviate financial pressure on small rural communities by allowing them to designate certain highways as “low-use” and therefore avoid regular maintenance. That bill passed the senate successfully.

Tom Reed U.S. Congress Congressman Reed is sponsoring a bill in the house to deliver tax cre dit s to cover o ut of p o cke t expenses for family caregivers. Reed, who volunteers in hospice in Washington, said the Credit for Caring Act seeks to alleviate the burden that’s associated for caring for a loved one during an end-of-life period. The credit would give a max of $3,000 nonrefundable credit each caregiver. Reed also commented on last week’s developments on the Trump administration’s appointment of former FBI director Robert Mueller to lead the investigation into the administration’s ties to Russia. “If that brings some more confidence in the process for the American people I think that’s a wise course that’s been undertaken by the administration and the justice department,” Reed said. “As this goes forward, again we’re going to defer to the facts, we’re going to the defer to the evidence as we deal with these issues.”

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n July 20, 1916, Charles Henry Hull, a professor of history at Cornell and an Ithaca native, lamented in a letter to the city’s Board of Commerce the diminishing options for “boys” who “want to swim and ought to swim”: Forty years ago, there were plenty of swimming holes about Ithaca where boys swarmed in summer. Today they are mostly closed. Eddy dam and the buttonhook at Fall Creek by filling; “rock bottom” by the approach of residences; Free Hollow (spoiled when the new Beebe dam flooded it) is properly preserved as part of a water supply; the pool under the Ithaca fall also has fallen under governmental interference with the spontaneous ways of boys. It is a sad tale. The backdrop for this elegy was a proposal to create a city park from the lands around Six Mile Creek, meant to anchor a larger network showcasing the area’s natural charms. But one cannot help appreciating the undertones: the pining for days of better swimming in the 1870s; the emphasis on the health of boys; the swipe at “governmental interference.” To the satisfaction of Professor Hull and other city boosters, the plan went forward, and on May 15, 1917, the opening of Six Mile Glen Park was heralded by a marching band and spade-wielding volunteers who trekked toward the creek, entering at Ferris Place, to clear brush and spruce up the landscaping. City officials marked the occasion by declaring a halfholiday. Robert Treman (1858-1937), the local corporate leader, gifted the tract, as he would later do for Enfield Glen (now Treman) and Buttermilk Falls parks. But whereas those other parks have endured over decades as state lands, Six Mile Creek eventually fell into disuse. Six Mile Creek is one of six streams that converge at the southern shores of Cayuga Lake. It is also the siltiest, having been the terminus of the region’s glacial movements and the repository of carried natural debris. The other streams are Fall, Cascadilla, Buttermilk, and Enfield creeks, along with the Cayuga Lake Inlet. These are joined by Salmon Creek up the east shore of the lake, Taughannock Creek up the west. According to one newspaper account, the name Six Mile Creek was likely coined by a white settler marking the distance between a Cayuga Nation crossing-point over the stream and the trail’s Cayuga

Tompkins Cortland Community College along with their arts faculty —the creek then flows through Caroline, Slaterville Springs, and Brooktondale, before reaching Ithaca and emptying into the lake. A rather pastoral photograph of one factory is published in the 1866 text Scenery in Ithaca and the Headwaters of Cayuga Lake, preserved in Tompkins County historian Carol Kammen’s 2008 brief history of Ithaca. In the late 1800s, the evidently curative spring at Slaterville attracted visitors to the Fountain House and Slaterville House hotels. As a period advertisement remarked, the Fountain House “has become a very popular summer resort, because of the beautiful scenery that surrounds it, the pure atmosphere, and its Magnetic Mineral Water,” the “proper use” of which was said to “[cure] Sciatic Rheumatism, Chronic Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neuralgia, Kidney Complaints, Nervous Diseases, and General Debility.” Over time, perceptions of the creek’s therapeutic

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mills, a cider mill, and various factories churned along the banks of the creek, whose headwaters are located in the Town of Dryden. As illustrated in an interactive exhibit on display through August at the History Center—developed by students at

powers receded, however, and Slaterville Springs lost its cachet as a spa town. The creek came to resemble the space we know todaytoday’s contours in the first decade of the 20th century, marked by three dams and two reservoirs. In 1903, the first to be completed—now known informally as Second Dam (or the 30-foot dam)—was located roughly at the midpoint of the preserve. It was during construction of this dam that contaminated water likely led to a typhoid epidemic in Ithaca, prompting emergency efforts to sanitize the city’s water. Van Natta Dam (aka First Dam), the closest to town, was built reinforced in 1907. And Third Dam (the 60-foot dam), along with the water filtration plant near Giles Street, was finished in 1911. To this day, Third Dam supplies the city’s drinking water. (A new filtration plant on the current site, 202 Water Street, is slated to open in the next few months.) Beyond these pragmatic uses, early

would be from 2 to 10 p.m., honoring a “new city ordinance prohibiting bathing between the hours of 10 at night and 7 o’clock in the morning.” Pretty permissive by today’s standards, to be sure—but one wonders if our friend Professor Hull might have winced at the creep toward overregulation. I have yet to discover when sanctioned swimming ended at Van Natta, although Donna Eschenbrenner, archivist at the History Center—whose support was indispensable to the writing of this piece— remembers talking a few years ago with a woman “possibly in her seventies” who recalled swimming as a girl in the creek with lifeguards, placing us perhaps in the 1940s. My wife’s aunt Mary Benson, 98 (Cornell ’41), tantalizing a source as she seemed, could not confirm swimming at Van Natta either. Our story resumes in the early 1970s, when “unsavory types roamed the trails,” deterring women and others from venturing into the natural area. Separately, around this same time, a city employee inspecting water pipes in the gorge spotted surveyors’ flags, indicating plans for dePHOTOS: C ASEY M A RT I N velopment. Concerned activists hurried to protect the land, aided they have.” by the New York State American RevoAll of which leads us to that momenlution Bicentennial Commission. The tous opening, May 15, almost precisely a eventual cleanup effort, according to land hundred years ago. Christened “Commusteward Elizabeth Mulholland (1908– nity Day,” it occurred just a month after 1997), for whom the flower preserve the United States entered the First World within the creek is named, was formidaWar. Planners had promoted the event energeticallyspiritedly, including on post- ble, requiring the hauling out of massive amounts of trash. ers displayed at Rothschild’s department In the ensuing decades, the city has store, on what was then the Wilgus Block, taken further conservationist steps, inat the corner of State and Tioga Streets— cluding through the creation in 1996 of the site of today’s Center Ithaca mall. a Six Mile Creek Conservation District, These planners had high ambitions for approved by the Ithaca town board, prothe Six Mile Glen Park: swimming areas, tecting more than 1,000 acres between bathhouses, ball fields, playgrounds, and Slaterville and Coddington Roads. In gardens, along with hiking trails. 1999, the Natural Areas Commission, a But after May of 1917, news reports on preservation group, purchased forty acres the creek virtually disappear from what was then the Ithaca Journal-News. A brief of creek land to be safeguarded in perpetuity. story from July 6, 1925, does inform us Several years ago, Harry Littell, a TC3 helpfully of the hiring of T. J. Shannon, professor of photography who helped coformerly a state motor vehicle inspecordinate the current History Center extor, as the summer lifeguard at the Van hibit, highlighted an idiosyncrasy in the Natta swimming area. Swimming hours 20th-century Ithacans rhapsodized on the scenery in the gorge and the need to open it up to visitors from near and far. One writer proffered in 1917, “Here is a ravine of . . . generous proportions . . . which invites the townsman by easy route into the midst of a wild domain lying almost at his door. No more fitting and distinctive memorial to the peculiar genius of Ithaca could be provided than a park which would render this tract easily accessible and a public recreation ground for all time.” Robert Treman himself expressed the optimistic aspiration that the park would help “result in Ithaca being the most attractive and beautiful spot in the country.” Others, such as the landscape architect Warren H. Manning, framed the scenario in more explicitly economic terms: “I have been working for many years to get the people of Ithaca to realize the natural beauty which they have about them, and I believe that the sooner definite steps are taken the quicker the people of Ithaca will realize the tremendous asset

creek’s appeal. He did so by capturing in a series of photographs (also then displayed at the History Center) the encounter between nature and industry. And, it’s true, a walk in the creek involves a fair share of tramping over utility pipes, some of them graffiti-tagged. Those sunbathing at the base of Van Natta Dam behold a crumbling, boarded-up, multistory mill. But these industrial remnants don’t deter creek enthusiasts of all varieties, from primary-school naturalists, to pullers of invasive species such as the Japanese knotweed, to weed smokers, to impressionist painters. No conversation about the creek, however, is complete without mention of swimming, which is technically illegal, based on City of Ithaca statute, but practiced on all sorts of levels. (Wading is permitted.) On warm days, you’ll see families floating in the water by the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve entrance off Giles Street, sometimes accompanied by inner tubes or even the occasional life preserver. Longtime Ithacans find their spots for secluded refreshment deeper into the trails, sometimes unclothed, as at Potter’s Falls. Last August, protesting Common Council efforts to add language enforcing the ban, a vocal such contingent memorably held a “swim-in” at Second Dam. Then there are the partiers. In recent years, a proliferation of “cliff jumping” YouTube videos has drawn pleasure-seeking youths, sometimes from out of state, with their music-blasting generators and various intoxicants. In summer of 2015, Eric Richardson, a 20-year-old graduate of Cortland High School, died in a jumping accident at Second Dam. Area residents, ruing the noise, the trash, and the drunkenness introduced by these revelers, petitioned the city last year to enact parking restrictions around the preserve’s Mulholland entrance. This, possibly along with increased funds for natural areas oversight and a greater presence of volunteers engaged in invasiveplant removal and other such activities, appears to have had an effect. According to Cynthia Brock, a Common Council alderperson in Ithaca’s First Ward, the drop-off in disturbances was “like somebody flipped a switch,” based on anecdotal reports from residents. Brock, for her part, has staked out an independent position on swimming in the creek, as compared to other local legislators. She suggests that, whatever the negative publicity generated by the partiers, “most people enjoy more natural experiTh e

ences in the creek without supervision. As a community,” she continues, “we need to protect public access to these experiences,” which shouldn’t be reserved “for those who are wealthy enough to own a lakefront property or own a boat.” She notes further that better signage and trail maintenance could improve access and potentially save lives. But officials such as Roxy Johnston, the watershed coordinator at the City of Ithaca Water Treatment Plant, cite the high turbidity of the creek water, dangers to the ecosystem, and legal issues to merit keeping a ban tightly in place. As for the overall place of the creek in the Ithaca landscape, the late Deborah Tall puts it well in her classic work of local nonfiction, From Where We Stand: “From where we live, it’s a five-minute walk to a city-center pedestrian mall; five minutes in the other direction and we’re in a wildflower preserve beside a deep gorge and rushing creek, seemingly miles from human effort, for all you can hear or see.” Littell, the photography professor, praises this accessibility but mentions a downside. “Lately,” he says, the place “sometimes feels more like Central Park than a hidden jewel.” This is no doubt true, occasionallyespecially on those first hot days, for us Ithacans. But the New Yorkers I’ve taken to the creek would protest. As we walked along Giles Street toward the park entrance one afternoon in July, one friend turned to me and said, “You never breathe air like this in the city.” •

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pproximately 22 Gimme! Coffee baristas will have the opportunity to vote in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election on the question of whether or not to organize a union to negotiate a contract in their workplaces on Wednesday, May 31st in Ithaca. The election will be for non-managerial baristas at the W. State/MLK Street location (where the election for all 4 stores will be held); the N. Cayuga Street location; the Gates Hall location on Cornell's campus and the Trumansburg location. Pete Meyers, Coordinator of the Tompkins County Workers' Center (TCWC), says: "The excitement the baristas have around the potential unionizing of their workplace is impressive and contagious. It is inspiring how these workers are especially interested in organizing the larger

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Phillips and Reclaim New York seeks to stymie that number by way of a concept they call citizen ownership, where citizens take a hard look at their localities by going to local board meetings, petition and speak out for local issues, and FOIL for local expenditures, stating initiatives like citizen-driven oversight drives transparency. “We hope everybody here observes the affordability crisis,” Phillips said. “The businesses are leaving, the people are leaving too. It’s linked to our high taxes. We hope that everyone walks away here realizing that corruption in a problem and that transparency could hopefully help fight corruption in the state. We want people to be a citizen owner, to be engaged in the government.” “Our dream for New York State is for every one of those 2,500 towns and school districts to have a citizen owner that looks at its checkbook and talks to its local government.” “I’m an open guy,” said Nathan Busby, another attendee from Dryden. “I tell people what they need to hear and I think government should be the same way. You need to be honest with people you’re taking money from and tell them where it’s going and what it’s being used for.” Reclaim NY hosted the event leading up to the release of a fully-fledged report on the affordability crisis and its detailed effect on Tompkins County. The report accredits a general eco-

industry of Hospitality Workers throughout our community. The TCWC has, for 15 years, operated a Worker's Rights Hotline – which the Gimme! Coffee workers engaged with to find resources to start their union effort – through which we've received a disproportionate amount of complaints from hospitality workers about their treatment in the workplace. These issues, in the final analysis, will most likely only be resolved collectively by workers organizing together in their joint selfinterest.” Gary Bonadonna, Manager of Workers United/Rochester Regional Joint Board, and the union that is organizing with the Gimme! Coffee baristas had this to say: "We are honored to be working with Gimme! Coffee workers. They are a dedicated, creative and inspirational group. Unions to be relevant in today’s workforce must assist workers to organize in the growing but low wage service sector economy. Deunionization of our society led by the Walmarts of this world is not a healthy thing. I also want to praise the enlightened management of Gimme! Coffee. Too often employers wage war against their workers who want to organize. Gimme! Coffee management, led by CEO Kevin Cuddeback, brews justice with their great coffee.”

nomic decline in the Southern Tier to a loss of manufacturing sectors while other regions in the state continue to develop and therefore put Albany’s spending one step ahead. “Unlike Long Island or the Lower Hudson Valley that have higher incomes and larger tax bases, unfunded mandates are bankrupting county and town governments in the Southern Tier to the point where some can’t even afford a paint job on public buildings since a large portion of their budget is spent on Albany’s various mandates,” the report reads. “The methodology of the Affordability Crisis Report takes all the taxes you pay and then it combines it with expenses,” Reclaim New York Communications Director, Doug Kellogg said. “It’s a great set of tax data because it includes property taxes and excise taxes, the income taxes, the sales taxes. Then adds on basics like food, gas, energy, then gives you a perspective on what it costs you.” The report itself examines something called the “wake-up cost,” for each municipality in the county, calculating the average resident’s tax burden and how much money they are left after taxes and basic costs, like food and gas. In Ithaca, the report reads, the median income-earning family makes $46,423 per year and, after basica expenses, are left with just 2-percent of that after paying their total tax burden, an amount of just $80 per month for a range of additional expenses and saving. – Va u g h n G o l d e n

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The idea of the strategy – in an area where student employment is a large proportion of the workforce – is to accommodate for all housing needs across each unique demographic in the community. Building off an assessment released last fall calling for approximately 1,100 beds coming online by 2021, Tompkins County seems to have followed the lead of recommendations outlined by the Danter Company’s Housing Needs Assessment in gauging housing need. Though more than 2,000 beds have come online in the past decade, by the county’s count, adequately fulfilling housing demand in Tompkins County will require, countywide, 580 workforce housing units to come online per year to meet the need by the year 2025, on top of the annual creation of 70 assisted living beds – a slow-growing segment of the housing market – and an undetermined number of student and low-income beds. (Student housing growth, it was noted, should match enrollment growth at the local colleges.) According to the new Housing Strategy, 200 of those workforce units would consist of rental units (of which demand is high in the $800-$1,300 per month bracket), for people earning 50 percent to 100 percent of the area’s median income: $59,000 per household or $28,000 per capita, according to the 2015 U.S.Census. The rest of the demand is expected to be met with a mix of owned units to not only offer opportunities for those without a viable option to buy, but to capture approximately 10 percent of the more than 15,000 people who commute into Tompkins County each day (approximately 25 percent of the workforce, according to a recent report). While most of those would be priced above the $200,000 price point (not including 45 of the 80 condominiums called for in the plan, of which there is also fair demand), approximately 90 of those homes, by county estimates, would need to stay between $150,000 and $200,000 – a rather difficult price point to build at in the current market – to meet the necessary demand. While a detailed analysis has yet to be performed, it is estimated that 350 of these beds – not including student housing – would need to come online in the City of Ithaca, the rest coming by way of new development in established and emerging nodes (places like the four corners section of Lansing or Varna, for example), suburban areas like Lansing or Cayuga Heights and, to a lesser degree, rural centers like Jacksonville or Freeville, which could likely accommodate 30 units out of the overall demand. This type of nodal development, senior planner Megan McDonald said, has been discussed with planning staffs countywide and will serve to reduce the type of sprawl on country roads and on former farm fields that has been occurring. Though there is a focus for where development can take place, with many communities – like Lansing – already crafting new plans to focus on centralized housing development and form-based zoning to define neighborhood

character, actually making it happen will take a multi-pronged approach. In carrying out its housing strategy, the county is looking toward a campaign of engineering a pro-development atmosphere in line with the 2015 County Comprehensive Plan to encourage those who actually have land-use authority – the municipalities themselves – to buy into the plan. Data Col l ection

While the Housing Strategy outlines in definitive terms what is required to meet the county’s housing needs, the plan also acknowledges the unknown factors in county housing – whether by sheer abstraction in topics like gentrification and housing discrimination, or a simple lack of data, like a true portrait of the county’s wage

gap – that need to be further explored in order to accurately gauge housing needs in the county. One area the county plans to improve its record keeping is in the way it monitors the local housing stock, tracking everything from the quantity and pricing brackets of rental housing to the parity created by Fair Housing initiatives and the prominence of companies like Airbnb (which has risen greatly in private housing in neighborhoods like Fall Creek) in the county, seeking to see if further regulations or legislation are needed to ensure fair housing for all. In doing this, the county announced its intent to collaborate with stakeholders in the housing world to identify these solutions and, hopefully, work more effectively toward the goals outlined in the plan.

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It should be noted, however, the county can only do so much – whether through subsidy or creating more stringent processes for developers in order to get “the kind of development we want” – to make this happen. Ultimately, the execution of the plan lies with getting everyone on board, if not able to create the development they want through the creation of thoughtful zoning codes. In the meantime, the county plans to take on input from the community and, through May 31, the planning office will be accepting comments to help inform the plan to be submitted to the county legislature in June. The expectation is the plan will be adopted sometime in summer.

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no fear or unfamiliarity with numbers, Granison said he’s well-suited to taking this task on. “I realize the budget is going to be tight and I realize there might be more demand than supply,” Granison said. “But if you at least have someone in office who cares about these issues, we can think of creative ways of dealing with them. I realize roads ed by legislator Carol Chock, who chose and bridges have to be done, but we might not to seek re-election this year. Compet- be able to put off a bridge repair in favor of ing in one of the county’s more active races funding social services. That’s something I this year, he will – so far – have nonprofit can see as working.” leader David The child Shapiro and of two union community members, activist CaroGranison – a l i na Osor io first-generaGi l to comtion college pete against student who come the majore d i n Democratic government pr i ma r y on at Ha r v a rd September before mov12 . W hy he ing onto chose a more receiv i ng a contentious l aw d e g r e e route to pubf rom D u k e lic ser vice University – t h a n , s a y, named both running for h i s b a c kCommon ground and Counci l or his analytical Henry Granison with partner Mary Beth Grant. the School skills as assets Board is one primarily of interest, Grani- he would bring into his role on the legislason’s focus lying primarily with the pres- ture and, though he’s a political newcomer, ervation of social services facing massive said he feels those traits would serve him cuts in the age of Trump. well in conquering the learning curve Given his background in fiscal law and faced by most legislative newbies.

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t’s a story that, county-wide, seems to hold true for just about everybody running in this year’s crowded County Legislature field: A boisterous real estate developer wins the presidency, shock sets in and, like has happened for nearly a dozen first-time candidates this year, a run for office is announced. Henry Granison, Tompkins Cortland Community adjunct faculty member, onetime law school admissions counselor at Cornell and, in his younger days, a former staffer for House Judiciary chairman Peter Rodino (who helped lead impeachment proceedings of then-president Richard Nixon) is no exception to this story, receiving the same wake-up call others have over the past several months. Considering a run for office for some time, 2017, he said, was the year everything seemed to fall in line. “I’m 55 years old now and this is really my one shot to be involved, to really put myself out there, be part of the process and to help turn things around to the extent I can,” said Granison. Self-identifying as a Progressive Democrat, the Belle Sherman declared his run for County Legislature’s Third District back in April to vie for the seat to be vacat-

“I expect to learn on the job a lot,” said Granison. “Nobody has the perfect skillset for any of these positions, but I do believe my analytical experience as well as my background dealing with corporate law puts me in a position to deal with the numbers. I’m not afraid of numbers, and I feel I can be very well-situated with that realm.” Though he said he feels he could be discerning in examining the minutiae of county policy, he said he understands the role and responsibility of serving his constituency as a strong voice on the legislature. Like many candidates looking to build a platform, Granison said he would go door-to-door, explaining his pitch and getting other people’s input on the issues, potentially forming a community group to submit their thoughts on issues. Granison said he wants to do “more than just make announcements” on goings-on in the county: he wants to engage people, whether through broadcasts on Facebook Live, in-person meetings or other means. And above all, he wants the feedback loop to be an open one. “I might be the most annoying legislator you’ll ever elect, because I’ll be asking lots of questions,” Granison said. “But I think that’s going to be my way of dealing with people, to put myself out there through the neighborhood associations to really get out to people and get some feedback.” –Nick Reynolds

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iven this week’s column is dedicated to Eddie Joseph and Ted MacCarrick – two local softball legends that died last week at age 80 and 77 respectively – you might be inclined to ask, “When did these guys play, in the 1960s?” Yes, in fact they did, but if you take a look at a column I wrote about the Over55 league in June of last year, you will see that Eddie and Ted were still at it. That’s what we call fight: both men played up until last year and Mike Richmond – who played with Ted on the Syracuse Cyclone Over-70 team for many years – told me, “Ted was one of the first guys to send in his check for the team fees this year. He was so sick, but if he was still here he was ready to play.” Mike added, “Ted’s wife asked him if he was sure he wanted to write that check, and he said ‘Yes, it’s the right thing to do. I’m going to get better.’ He sent it in and he said it made him feel better than he had felt in some time.” In Richmond’s words, it didn’t matter where Ted was in the batting order or where he played in the field, he was flexible, he was reliable, and he “was one of the best teammates I ever had.” That is high praise from a man who still plays elite-level national senior tournaments in his late 70’s, and who has had hundreds of teammates. Paul MacCarrick is Ted ’s son, and anyone who has taken one of Paul’s spinning classes knows that Ted’s demand for everyone around him to reach deeper has been passed down to a new generation. Paul told me, “My dad was a Trumansburg Hall of Fame inductee in high school, and an MVP in football, basketball and baseball. I learned early that whatever you do, you push hard.” Paul laughed about a framed collection of baseball cards at the Glenwood Pines. “Dad is on a card as a player, and I am on one as a scorekeeper! It was 1977.” Paul added, “The premise of every conversation was ‘You’ll have good days and bad days,

Eddie Joseph, wearing the Yankees cap.

but you have to work hard every day and do your best.’ He passed that down to his kids and grandkids.” When talking about Eddie Joseph, Mike Richmond told me, “Eddie always hit the ball really well, and his sons, Dan and Doug are both really good ballplayers too.” (I wrote about Doug last year in that Over-55 column, but Dan – a spring chicken at 54 – was not yet eligible to play on that team.) I spoke to Doug after Eddie passed, and he said “My dad and I first played together for the Lowe’s Soft Water Over-30 team many years ago, and he really treasured that experience. In fact, we won the title and he still has that trophy on his wall.” Doug also played on that local Over-55 team with his father (who owned and operated Eddie’s Super Service) and recalled, “He was with us in Hazelton, PA at the Senior Nationals, we won that tournament 2 years in a row, and then we went to the Worlds in Florida.” Doug was doubly saddened last week when Ted passed 3 days after Eddie, and he offered, “Ted was like a second father to me. I worked for him at Auto Body Works, I played on that team in the Ithaca City League, and when he created a Father/Son team, we all played together.” Doug mentioned another local legend – Roger Schnock – stating “Roger wrote to us and said ‘Not many people gave me any advice I ever took, but when Eddie Joseph talked, I listened.’” Doug talked about his dad’s half century-plus in the game, and said “He played in Baton Rouge, Florida, Cape Cod, New Jersey… he loved his softball.” He added, “There was an Over-70 tournament in Elmira last week, and everyone gathered on the mound to honor my dad.” Referencing the upcoming Nationals, Doug said, In fact, I have a room reserved for my dad, and I won’t cancel it. We did a lot together, and I have no regrets. I just wish it could have been longer.”

Artificial Brain headlines OneFest

OneFest Ithaca Day 1: Friday, May 26, 6:00 p.m., Artificial Brain, Die Choking, Sulaco, Escuela, Disparo!, Water Bears; Day 2: Saturday, May 27, 11:30 a.m., Kayo Dot, Ascend/Descend, Death Vacation, Ides, Dialysis, Monolith, Talk Hard, Spazzare, Oppressor Oppressor, Noise Deck and many more

n Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi epic Alien, and the currently playing, Alien: Covenant, exploring the dynamics of A.I., human evolution and extra-terrestrial life, are some of the grander themes pondered. The human species is perpetually threatened for universal superiority, both intellectually and physically. Long Island’s technical death metal behemoths, Artificial Brain, are masterfully adept in toying with these conceptual, human vs. A.I., battles. The band’s newest record, Infrared Horizon, sees a universe where robots and cyborgs have outlived humans. The story is grand, the group’s sound otherworldly. Even without any knowledge of the narrative, the music is a dizzying sojourn where one can feel distant universes collapsing and expanding. “Ultimately, it’s not a warning,” drummer Keith Abrami noted. “I’ve already come to my own conclusions about the world I live in and the people I share it with. I think Infrared Horizon is just maybe an expression of frustration and dis-

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content. It’s more of a ‘this is bullshit’, than a ‘hey, maybe we should pay attention to the nonsense our species specializes in.” The group’s dazzling instrumentation continuously parallels its bold themes (both technically and organically), making for a dynamic overall presentation. The music can feel infinitely maze-like, but there’s a spirit fluttering around in there that’s purely grounded: A spark of earthdust always sweeping up through the apocalyptic winds. “I always tell people that I’d probably go insane if I didn’t have drums to clear my head,” Abrami explained. “Playing heavy metal is an amazing way to detach from reality for a little bit, and let my anger flow through me in a healthy and creative way.” The band’s 2014 debut, Labyrinth Constellation, was a densely positioned take on hypertechnical death metal, joyfully suffocating and immensely quick. Infrared Horizon sees a new portal forming, a place where space is widening like the alien growing inside (and eventually bursting out of) John Hurt’s character in Alien. The band is breaking through its initial layer, coalescing with swing. “Groove is king,” Abrami said. “It’s what people remember. It’s what you bob your head to. There are so many emotionless death metal bands out there that are (extremely) talented

Artificial Brain hanging in the zone (Photo: Amy Mills)

and proficient, but leave me extremely bored. Sometimes I can’t even get through a whole record. Adding grooves not only makes playing in Artificial Brain fun, it makes it more unique.” The organic quality to Artificial Brain is noteworthy. The sound can be overtly sharp, like the rigid architecture on the spaceship, U.S.S. Sulaco (Aliens), while still remaining round and bubbly like the varying colors of a distant nebula. It’s the combination of the two forms that is remarkable…but not surprising; the group contains some super-heavyweights of the extreme metal genre. Including Abrami, who’s drummed with fellow tech-deathers, Pyrrhon, Artificial Brain includes Samuel Smith from Gath Smane on bass; guitarist Dan Gargiulo of the Boston-based thrash/death legends Revocation; guitarist Oleg Zalmann of the Cali-based brutal death drudgers Severed Savior; and Buckshot Facelift and Afterbirth vocalist Will Smith. This is a collective that floats high above the outer-world in terms of vision and ascendance. There’s infinite uniqueness to the group, and some crossover as well. continued on page 16

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Golden Arches in the Sky The story of McDonald’s By Br yan VanC ampe n The Founder, directed by John Lee Hancock, available on home video.

id I ever tell you about Henry’s Hamburgers out on Elmira Road? I never did, because when we were kids we always begged our parents to take us McDonald’s or A&W out on Elmira every time we went to eat. (According to my dad, the A&W had incredibly slow service, nothing like the one in Cortland.) My dad also told me that Henry’s Hamburgers was the place to go eat back in those days, at least until the first Ithaca McDonald’s priced them out of business. It makes me wonder many other small towns around the country succumbed to the tyranny of the Golden Arches. Even now it bothers me when I’m in the middle of nowhere and the only choices seem to be the same fast food places. I have this all on good authority when I saw The Founder a few months ago, and I was all set to tell you about my dad, fast

food and the demise of Henry’s Hamburgers, when a funny thing happened: the movie left town. Well, it’s on DVD now, no nothing’s wasted, I suppose. With this film and Saving Mr. Banks, John Lee Hancock has been crafting a neat little subgenre in exploring odd corners of American pop culture. Billions of people are served at Mickey D’s but so few actually know the story of the influential franchise. The Founder is a fascinating look at that story….and the perils of going into business with a guy like Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton). Keaton plays Kroc with every ounce of that con man charm he’s brought to everything he’s done from Night Shift to Gung Ho. We first meet Kroc, a dogged but failed peddler of multi-head milkshake mixers, driving from town to town, staying in fleabag motels, setting up his portable record player at night, drinking cheap booze and listening to Andrew Carnegie records. Then he gets an order for six mixers from these two brothers out in California. He figures through a variety of viewpoints beyond my own as the narrator. I did this on Labyrinth Constellation sometimes as well, and usually attribute different voices to the dialogue parts.” You’d think something like an Artificial Brain song would take an extended time to construct. And while some compositions are lengthy procedures (“Ash Eclipse” took

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“When I write for Revocation I try to convey a (mostly) different feeling,” Gargiulo noted. “They’re two different bands so I want to be conscious of what that entails. I have a lot of freedom in both outfits though, and there’s probably more crossover than people realize. There are a few riffs I wrote for Revocation that ended up in Artificial Brain songs. You can pick them out if you really listen close enough.” “Artificial Brain challenges me with every song in terms of timing and technicality,” Smith added. “The guys are inspired by a lot of music that I was unaccustomed to before I joined the band. It’s been an awakening.” Smith is an intense force, both in the studio (Above) Bassist and singer Paul J. Herzog of Die Choking (Photo: Jess Rechand in concert. Wearing cyborg-ish sunglasses on steiner (Right) Death Vacation vocalist Michele Mancuso (Photo: facebook) stage and commanding it like few others, his vocal style veers from guttural months,” noted Gargiulo), the majority of shreds to nexus-hell shrieks and everything material is written quickly and efficiently. in between. Smith’s variance is due to the “Surprisingly, they don’t take too long band’s narrative-driven records, which to create,” Abrami explained. “We try not Smith writes all the lyrics for. to over analyze parts, because I think if we “Certain lines are written as dialogue did, we’d probably never finish [laughs]. and certain lines are written as a part of the There’s something satisfying about trying narrative,” Smith explained. “Throughout to keep things simple. We don’t really have the course of the album, lyrics are delivered much time together as a band, so practices 16

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that for a mistake, so he drives out to check out this McDonald’s place. Kroc gets all the credit these days for taking the franchise public, but as compelling and seductive as he is, the story of the McDonalds brothers is equally as fascinating, and largely unknown today. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch are terrific as the brothers; in one of the film’s most interesting sequences, they tell Kroc how they chalked out the restaurant on a basketball court and then studied efficiency as their workers moved around the space, a process they repeated till they had the perfect timing down. have to be concise. We trust each other, and we give each other freedom to come up with parts.” In the end of Alien, Sigourney Weaver’s character Ellen Ripley must figure out how to destroy/abort the resting alien that has snuck onto her escape pod. Similarly,

Artificial Brian is masterful in the art of both adaption and swift thinking. With little time together they create elaborate worlds that travel deep into the crevices of one’s mind. The band alters space and time with their progressive nuance and infinitely adept musicality. These guys rule!

Michael Keaton stars in “The Founder” (Photo provided)

As I said, Keaton works that charm so that you’re rooting for Kroc, until a point comes where he starts crossing lines and changing too many aspects of the restaurants, and all that charm goes sour. Kroc figures out where the real money is – the real estate – and slowly drives the brothers out of their own business. Laura Dern plays Kroc’s first wife and Linda Cardellini plays his much more saavy second wife Something to think about the next time you pass those Golden Arches…•

OneFest 2017 (A Quick Guide) Artificial Brain headlines the first day of OneFest Ithaca, with supporting help from death grinders Die Chocking (ridiculously fast, ridiculously fun); Rochester psychedelic grind and death veterans, Sulaco (these guys rip hard); Ithaca grindcore trio, Escuela (see them before they go on a massive coast-to-coast summer tour); Australia grindcore outfit Disparo (mean and lean), and Ithaca-based psychedelic sludge quartet, Water Bears. Day two is an all-out affair starting at 11:30 a.m. with two decks full of death, grind, avant-garde, experimental, hardcore, thrash, noise and power electronics. Boston’s avant-garde post, progressive, and chamber wizards, Kayo Dot, led by Toby Driver, headlines a ridiculously deep show with support from Boston-based hardcore punks Ascend/Descend; New Jersey grinders Death Vacation (fronted by the always inspiring Michele Mancuso); New Jersey thrash/punks Ides (tight and dirty); Syracuse hardcore champs Dialysis (fronted by Hex Records founder Ryan Canavan); Ithaca doom sorcerers Monolith, Rochester grindcore outfit Hallucination Realized (really mind-numbingly fast); Buffalo classic hardcore renegades Onpoint; Ithaca-based psych-doom and prog sludgers Spazzare, punk rockers White Crime, Oppressor Oppressor; and a noise deck on the outside stage with 11 artists including Climax Denial, Peter J. Woods, Sparklebomb any many more. Pretty much nowhere else to be this weekend than at The Haunt. •

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The Foreign Beauty of Nature Flower photography at Mockingbird Paperie

in his words: lies. But although this falsity may seem in direct contrast to the initial intent behind photography’s invention, this does not mean it is wholly without its benefits. On view in Mockingbird Paperie downtown this month is Something New, a selection of still-life photographs by local artist Susan C. Larkin that use

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recently came across a book of work by the German photographer Stefan Hunstein, which included awe-evoking portraits of Arctic landscape. At the end of the book was a manifesto the artist wrote, perhaps functioning as his artist statement, that seemed almost at odds with the work, or more specifically with its medium. “The reality which photography proclaims in constantly renewing variations is a lie,” Hunstein began. “The photo strips the objects of their own language: it declares triumphantly what they are. Photography reproduces the world only in its appearance; it does not recognize things; it neither looks behind them nor between them, only at them...The lens is not objective.” Contrary to the age-old debate arguing that photography is a mechanical process depleting artists of their personal touch or intent (and therefore concluding that photography is not art due to its propensity for capturing real life images directly with light rather than using other media), Hunstein proposes just opposite. Photographs, it seems, are not just copies of life, but saturated with imposed meaning, context, and individual perspective. In this day and age, particularly in a time where advertisements with connoted meanings pervade such a large portion of our everyday existence, this sort of statement is nothing new. Of course photography can be art, and of course

(Above) Susan L. Larkin’s “Araneus diadematus: Cross Orb Weaver” (Right) “Cana indica: Indian Shoot (Photos : Artist’s website)

as an art writer in particular I of anyone might preach the notion that photography and other artworks carry depth far beyond their surface. What’s interesting about Hunstein’s statement, however, is its undertones of reproach. To him it seems, a photograph is never what it says it is, is never the objects it claims to depict. Photographs instead are fictitious,

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flowers in particular as muses for work. Close up and focused on textures, colors, and forms, the show could be viewed either shallowly (taken as is: beautiful and joyous) or more intensely (reveling in its detail and surprisingly dramatic effect). Araneus diadematus: Cross Orb Weaver studies a spider on its web. The photo is in black and white, juxtaposing the light strands of the web with the stark blackness behind it. The spider is tense,

waiting. It’s so close up that each tiny hair on its body is visible, intensified by light. Its form is thus dissected and reassembled anew. It is beautiful in a way, haunting in a way. Cana indica: Indian Shoot is a similar situation: a black and white photographic close-up of the plant that provides a new perspective. Drained of its usual color, what’s left is the dry veins of its pods snapping open, the crinkles that constitute their shape. While the color photographs in the show, such as the drooping elegance of Fuchsia and the softly curved petals and blazing orange center of Magnolia grandiflora, could easily be called beautiful thanks to their intense hues and familiarity, Cana indica is a different case, a different kind of beauty. Taking away color allows a new presence, a sharpness and a foreign quality. The photograph is no longer the object but a semblance of it, intensified. Perhaps this is what Hunstein meant when he said a photograph is not entirely a documentation of the object photographed. It is, instead, a separate entity, its own situation. Still, as with the photos in this show, photography’s separation can also be its strength, as it allows viewers to view real life objects anew. Larkin’s work is intriguing in its own right, but it is particularly special in its ability to refresh viewers’ excitement about the natural world, a perspective that could then be brought back out into nature itself, promoting new appreciation for flowers and plants and the live things that surround us. Photography may not produce exact and objective reproductions of what the camera sees, but it is definitely an extension of the objects photographed. Photographs remind us what makes the world interesting, oftentimes what makes it beautiful. •

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they blow up out of. Ironically, it was in direct response to said world, that the band coalesced. “When we started out we were sort of reacting to a lot of the big dumb rock that was all around us at the time,” singer John McCrea explained. “We set out to be small, to do less, and I think in that way we really did succeed.” Before Fashion Nugget went Gold in ‘96, and the band become a household name (these guys are going to be the next Phish, a high school friend once famously told me), the group spent years working on their oddball compositions in bars and clubs up and down the West Coast. Those were the days. “During that process we realized a lot about the songs,” McCrea noted. “We’d get to play this weird s--- to drunk people, and I really miss those days. I don’t think success has to directly influence the writing process, but what does happen is the structure of the business changes, and you’re left with much less time for the artistic process.” After a six-year gap between studio albums, the band released Showroom of Compassion in 2011, to wide acclaim. Amazingly, the group’s sound was as indifferent

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ashamed of myself.” Another reason for the DIY approach was McCrea’s relationship with big-business music. He’d had enough. “The music business is total bull---“, he explained. “Oppressive from top to bottom. You go into major debt when making a record and nobody’s ever gotten a good deal from a record label. Doing it yourself is the way to go.” CAKE is still rolling through the hills as a singular expression. Unchanged (artistically and sonically) after all these years, it’s nice to listen to such timelessly precise and odd music. The band has a sort of floaty, unpretentious charm to them. Angles can be sharp, and they can be soft too. It’s a place where country can feel comfortable sharing the stage with funk, rock, hip-hop and Mariachi. “I’m happy with what we’ve done,” McCrea said. “I didn’t set out with any ridiculous ambitions and goals – I thought I’d be happy to just to be in a band that plays shows and makes enough money to eat some food. And we did that, and it was exhilarating. •

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Touring Downtown Eateries A sampling from Ithaca foodies By Peg g y Haine

hen local epicures Sarah Barden and Seth Wraight took a food tour in Bar Harbour, Maine, it sparked one of those “bright idea!” light bulbs. Why couldn’t they give such a tour in their Ithaca home base, with its record number of restaurants per capita, oddball food history and unparalleled walkability? They tossed around the idea, drafted restaurateurs, put up a web site, and hit the streets – their business, Ithaca Is Foodies Culinary Tours, was born. The audience for their venture, they agree, is everybody. “We’ve designed the tour to appeal to visitors and locals alike. You can go on vacation in your own town, learn something new, go to places you haven’t been. This is our way, too, to help introduce visitors and newcomers to Ithaca, and for them to meet some new people. It’s a good activity for families, groups of people, guests from out of town, students, and their parents,” said Barden. “Each tour,” she said, is a carefully curated experience designed to entertain, educate, and satisfy adventurous appetites.” A couple of Saturdays back, an occasional drizzle couldn’t dampen the spirits of six hardy Ithaca foodies off on a culinary jaunt in Ithaca’s restaurant-rich downtown. Led by Wraight, who served as interlocutor, and Barden, stepping in as crowd wrangler, the small group consisted of a remarkably good cross-section of the local population: one student, a faculty couple (scientists), a pair of enthusiastic townies, aunt and niece, one of whom was a former restaurateur, and your correspondent. The objective was to introduce us to interesting and iconic downtown eateries, fleshed out by a walking tour and brief history of Ithaca’s downtown and Commons area. Our tour began at the iconic vegetarian restaurant, Moosewood, where we were delighted to re-learn that there is no charge for street parking on Saturdays. Wraight, who had clearly done his homework, told us that the Moosewood collective, in business since 1973, has been composting for 40 years, which must be some sort of local restaurant record. The collective is also the recipient of three James Beard Awards, two for cookbooks and a third for best regional restaurant. We sampled a couple of soups, and then the omnivores among us tasted an asparagus-feta fritter with a bright beet and lemon sauce, and the vegans enjoyed wasabi-edamame hummus with rice crackers. There was much getting-to-know-you conversation, and even a bit of plate sharing. At another venue, gathered around a high table whose centerpiece was a Pirates of the Caribbean chess set, we gobbled

down Panini sandwiches: vegan Reubens made with Susie’s Seitan, a Daiya cheese based in taro root, vegan mayo, the restaurant’s own coleslaw, and I think there was a tomato wedged in there somewhere. They were gooey and delicious. After a brief explanation of the physics

Sarah Barden and Seth Wraight (Photo: Allison Usavage)

of ice-cream-making, we sampled frozen banana shakes made with cocoa powder, peanut butter, soy milk, agave syrup – they were cold, wet, filling, and sweet – a liquid

Elvis special -- served with washable steel straws to curtail the amount of junk sent to the landfill. A walk to the next venue was peppered with local history and lore, and while most of us had been in town for awhile and thought we knew the place well, there were some surprising, well researched bits of information provided by Wraight. We walked, stopped to eat, walked some more, stopped to eat and drink again, tasted some delicious foods – locally raised elk, ciders and beers, as well as high-end food components, had a tour of a state-ofthe-art kitchen that had us all wanting one, and, of course, the icing on the cake was dessert at Madeline’s. In our 1.1-mile walk, we hoped to have walked off some of it, continued on page 21

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The Times Were a Changin’ Cornell grad’s tale of his awakening By Nick Re y nol d s

ollege has a strange way of changing people. It’s a time where someone grows into themselves – a human metamorphosis – the safe confines of the college campus serving as a sort of cocoon where people have the freedom to learn, become better versions of themselves, having a safe space to experiment under the duress of grown-up responsibility without the consequences of the unpredictable world beyond the campus walls. But what happens when the world begins to turn itself inside out, when it descends into chaos? When even the thickest walls begin to crumble under the forces of change? Hofstra professor Steve Kussin, a reporter for CBS New York and a Cornell grad, was there when the walls of one of America’s most revered academic institutions began to shake, the vulnerability of a society exposed for all to see. Blood runs red for most of us. For the Kussin family, they’ll tell you their hue is more of a Carnelian, the influence of the university’s stone towers woven into the family DNA. Kussin’s parents, both school teachers, met there in 1939. His three sons, all members of the Big Red family, attended class there, building on the legacy their father had continued when he stepped onto the Ithaca campus in 1965. It was a natural fit for Kussin who, as a child, would often come upstate with his parents to attend summer seminars on

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sin said. “That didn’t matter anymore.” The world was changing drastically during the four years Kussin was on campus, the tumultuous transformation of a society coming on the waves of bloody conflict, changing sensibilities and a cultural uprising so strong, it could topple even the staunchest stalwarts of a previous generation’s straight-laced society. The ‘60s saw a loss of innocence at every single level of society, taken from a generation by way of a new war, a movement

for civil rights and the rise of the women’s liberation movement. Times were changing, and the soul of the school’s population outgrowing the staid walls of a conservative institution and the change on campus precipitated by changes in the world. It was living through this period of change that inspired Kussin to write his

book, The Five Freshmen, a semi-autobiographical account of the years where Cornell finally fell to the shifting winds of the outside world. The book details the experience of five friends – five freshmen – and the ways they coped with the war’s escalation over their four years on campus, documenting their transition from Animal House-style fraternity hijinks to the fullblown sentiments of protest and dissent: a chronicle that covers everything from sticking matchbooks in the doorframes to the gun-toting students who took Willard Straight hall in ‘69, holding Kussin’s father hostage. Throughout the more than 460 pages, Kussin details five separate perspectives on a brewing sense of unrest, following an anti-war sentiment that eventually exploded into a movement that defined a generation. It started creeping into the music, the carefree love songs that are the stuff of today’s golden oldies stations to the protest songs and raunch violence of rock and roll that served as a soundtrack of a generation at war. To document the terror and uncertainty of this time takes multiple angles. For Kussin, telling the story of the ‘60s through five different voices was the best way for him to tell it, creating four other characters (other than himself) to effectively explore the different faces and perspectives on the war, in doing so creating a more perfect portrait of people’s thoughts and feelings during a time of convoluted transformation. Each student handles it differently, from the everyman on the Dean’s List – Kip – who gets ripped from his girlfriend and his education on a one way ticket to the rice paddies, to Dwayne, a black student on campus during a time of tumult and unrest. This captures what the news clippings and the textbooks never could: the fright and the fury, covering everything from his own father being held hostage that consequential morning in April of ‘69 to the night of the draft, where one unlucky draw could mark the end of your education, if not a death sentence. “One of the worst nights of my life. That was a death watch,” Kussin recalls. “Picture yourself sitting in a room with a bunch of guys and their girlfriends… it was almost like a bingo game. Numbers are pulled out of a hat. Someone has to be number one. I was lucky, I was number 319 which, for the time being, meant I was safe. But nobody was ever really safe.” “You could be sitting in a lecture class wondering, ‘where’s Nick?’ only to find out the draft board had called him. That’s what life was like then.” That’s not to say it’s a totally heavy book, Kussin taking some time to inject some of the levity of his college years into the heft of the book’s 464 pages. He documents those four years the way they were, covering every step of his years. It’s a full painting of the period, his phrasing striking a contrast of discovering joy within a time of tension, the grays of a confused post-adolescence blended effectively with shades of hope and fear. It’s a story of a time, Kussin said, needing to be remembered. •

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Bevin O’Gara comes to the Kitchen Theatre By Je nny S chulte

n July 1, award-winning director Bevin O’Gara will take her talents from Boston to Ithaca and begin as the Kitchen Theatre Company’s new artistic director. Currently the associate producer of Boston’s Huntington Theatre, O’Gara won the Lois Roach Award in 2011 for an outstanding commitment to the Boston theatre community. Her direction of the play Tribes in 2014 also won both the Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards for Best Play. O’Gara will be the Kitchen Theatre Company’s first new artistic director since 1997, when the recently departed Rachel Lampert started her twenty-season career with the company. The Ithaca Times recently spoke with O’Gara. Ithaca Times: What prompted this move to Ithaca and the Kitchen Theatre Company? Why the jump from big city to small? Bevin O’Gara: It’s been my dream to run a theatre company for pretty much as long as I can remember, and I’ve been on the lookout for the right home for myself for the last few years now. Then I saw the posting for the Kitchen, and I knew I had found it. Artistically, the work I do matches the Kitchen perfectly. My work is bold, intimate and engaging — the mission of the theatre. I’ve also heard so many great things about the Ithaca area. Everyone I know who has come to school in the region has either come back or wanted to come back. When my husband and I arrived in town for my first interview, we instantly felt at home: he found a brewpub where he could hang out and I walked through the doors of the Kitchen and knew it was where we were destined to be. While Boston has been home for my entire adult life and I’ve been very happy here, it’s time for a change, time for new adventures to begin. My parents are up in Dorset, Vermont, and it’s one of my favorite places in the world. Ithaca feels like it has the best of both places: great people, great restaurants, beautiful sights, and a real sense of community. IT: What role do you think theatre can, or should, play in a community? BO: I have always said it’s the job of a regional theatre to represent the best of that region while also bringing the best of the national scene into a regional focus. The duty of the artist is to represent and build community, and theatre allows for us to see that we’re all in this together. It unites us, teaches us, and exposes us to new ways of seeing the world by making us see ourselves in the “other.” And that pushes us to ask hard questions. (Well, good theatre does all that, anyway.)

Theatre creates community, and community creates the need for theatre. There would be no theatre without the connection between performer and artist, and there would be no community without conversation and the exchange of ideas. The Kitchen is exactly that. IT: Do you have any specific goals for your work with the KTC?

loved seeing musicals in this small playhouse close to our home on Long Island. There, I got to see the show and meet the actors after, and they would sign our programs. I even had one of my birthday parties there. I also attribute a lot of my love for storytelling to a series called the Faerie Tale Theatre Collection. The series featured live action interpretations of all the great (and some not so great) fairytales. The actors in them were all big names (not that I really understood who they were at the time); folks like Robin Williams as the Frog Prince or Bernadette Peters as Sleeping Beauty. So I got to see and appreciate great acting at a young age. Getting to see some of these stories “staged” next to the Disney films I was exposed to, or the books my parents read to me, helped me discover the beauty of interpretation — what it really means for a story to be able to be told in multiple fashions and still be compelling. I think I was one of my only friends that saw Disney’s The Little Mermaid and realized that it had a “Hollywood” ending, and that in the original story, things didn’t turn out so great for Ariel — she ends up turned into sea foam. Read the whole interview at ithaca.com

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BO: First I need to figure out how it all works there. Each theatre is its own unique beast, and the Kitchen is no exception. My first set of goals is to get to know the community and artists who have made the theatre the success that it is. There’s such a great foundation to build off of, but I still need to know a little more about the lay of the land, and learn a little bit more about what Ithaca wants the Kitchen to be. Then I can figure out how my goals and the goals of the community align. I’m passionate about new work and want to continue the theatre’s commitment to that, but also push further with how we’re making that happen. It’s very important for plays to get second and third productions with the playwright present in rehearsals, and I’m working on creating programs that will support that. I’d love to see a new work that we develop here move onto another theatre, or to work with other similar theatres to support the development of a play. That’s something you’ll likely see early on in my time at the Kitchen. IT: When and how did you first become interested in theatre? BO: When I was very young, I used to stage full productions in my backyard. I had a group of friends who were the actors, and there came a point where “Valerie and Melissa could only come over if we promised not to make our parents sit through a play.” My father took me to a few Broadway shows when I was little, but I also really

but we were pleasantly full. There is a wide variety of types of food, beginning with appetizers and heading through to dessert. And as we learned on the tour, special dietary needs can usually be accommodated, with pre-selected vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options at every stop. Barden and Wraight also offer private tours for corporate team building, birthday parties, wedding parties, and university groups, and while the regular tour takes place on Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., they are willing to provide special tours during the week. The couple, both area natives, met through their 4H activities as kids, and found themselves close by at college with a shared love of public service, food, and Ithaca, and the rest is history. In their alternate lives, Wraight serves on the 4H Program Development Committee and is a community mentor for Ithaca High School’s Code Red Robotics (“It’s good to give back to programs that gave us so much,” he said), and is a manufacturing engineer at BorgWarner. Barden plays Ultimate Frisbee, is an organizer for Ithaca Area Ultimate Alliance, and, while she has done catering, resale, and gallery work, now works as a leasing consultant for an apartment complex. They are nothing if not well organized, enthusiastic, and personable, and they have done their homework. As an added bonus, each member of the tour received a booklet with a discount coupon for each the establishments we visited. Their “storefront” is on line, so it’s easy to purchase tickets in advance. Wondering what to do with your out-of-town guests? Stuck for a Father’s Day, birthday, or anniversary gift? Check out their web site, www. ithacaisfoodies.com. • Th e

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Music & Mimosas | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | 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.

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Ridley Scott’s newest addition to his Alien saga, “Alien Covenant”, sees a space crew heading towards the distant planet Origae-6, with hope of repopulation. The ship is monitored by the synthetic Walter (Michael Fassbender) and sees their journey take some continuously unfortunate turns. They wind up on a strange planet where they encounter some terrifying Neomorphs, eventually running into the original synthetic, David (Fassbender as well). A.I. terror, alien insanity, horror and sci-fi mastery ensues. This is a strong and powerful new film and Scott proves himself once again as one of sci-fi’s greatest auteurs. (Showing all week long at Regal Ithaca) (Photo provided) Cynthia Clarey | 7:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Performing her acclaimed cabaret What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

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5736 NY-414, Hector | 38 minute film by Vincent Mondillo and Richard Master examining the economics of the US Health Care system. Followed by panel and Q&A. Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website: www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Application for Ithaca Artist Market | Information and Applications are available on www.artspartner.org for artists of all mediums. The event is a juried show and sale of art, with food, wine, beer, and jazz at the beautiful Farmers Market. Deadline: June 20th. Tai Chi for Arthritis | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 5/25 Thursday | Candor Emergency Squad, 58 Main Street, Candor | Job Fair for Veterans (Also Open to the General Public) | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 5/25 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St, Ithaca | The American Legion Post 770 of Trumansburg, NY proudly presents a Job Fair for Veterans and their families. It is also open to the general public. The Job Fair will be hosted at The Space @ GreenStar on W. Buffalo Street in Ithaca, NY. All job seekers will be entered into drawings for door prizes. Many employers are expected, including Borg Warner, Veterans Administration, Cornell University, Tompkins Trust Company, and more. Like our Facebook page for updates on more employers and door prizes. Please pre-register at http:// jobfairforveterans.com and be eligible for a special door prize when you attend the event. New Roots Charter School Spaghetti Dinner | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 5/25 Thursday | St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, 120 W Seneca St, Ithaca | The meal includes salad and dessert with gluten free and vegan options. Fellowship Meal with Bible Study | 6:00 PM, 5/25 Thursday | Bostwick Auction, 1121 Route 96, Candor | For more information, Pastor Ed Hart @ 607-761-4313 or hartmail64@yahoo. com Lions Chicken BBQ

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of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner. | 98 mins R | The Lovers | Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance. | 94 mins R | Colossal | A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she’s suffering. | 109 mins R | The Lost City of Z | A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s | 141 mins PG-13 | A Quiet Passion | The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. | 125 mins PG-13 | Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman’s life dramatically changes for better and worse. | 118 mins R | |

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Stage Deathtrap | Through May 28 | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Sidney Bruhl is a successful playwright lately plagued by a series of flops. When a sure-fired hit drops into his hands courtesy of a young student, Bruhl concocts a devilish plan that twists and turns its roller coaster course right through to the final moments. As spellbinding and entertaining as ever, Ira Levin’s hit play is an ingeniously plotted theatrical thriller that makes for screams and laughter. Info at syracusestage.org Flying | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Runs May 27 – June 19. Drawn from oral histories and memoirs of women who served as WASP’s (Women’s Air Service Pilots) in WWII, Flying is based on the women who flew fighter planes and bombers to help train male pilots in the art of aerial dogfighting.

Notices Ultimate (Frisbee) Summer League | Interested in Ultimate Frisbee? Summer league registration is open through May 27, league starts in early June. All levels of experience welcome, including novices – show up and play. Go to http://iaua.com/e/sl2017 to register or learn more. Networking@Rev: Women in Entrepreneurship | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E. State Street, Ithaca | Hear from local speakers Mary Opperman (Cornell’s Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer), Heather Lane (local entrepreneur and owner of Purity Ice Cream), and Bob Case (Business Banking Relationship Manager, M&T Bank) Ihaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Chili’s, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | RSVP lldalve24@ yahoo.com Energy Smart Community/ Smart Meters Public Meeting | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Village of Cayuga Heights Courthouse, 836 Hanshaw Rd, Ithaca | Questions? Contact Rosalyn Bandy, Energy Smart Communities Liaison, at rb667@cornell. edu or call (607) 220-3563. Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point | 7:00 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Valois Logan Hector Fire Department,

Learning Rainwater Harvesting | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 5/25 Thursday | CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Learn how to set up your own rainwater harvesting system to conserve water and be ready for the next drought! Sean Dembrosky will give a slide presentation on how his nursery, Edible Acres, thrived during last summer’s drought by using harvested rainwater. Toastmasters.org Cayuga Club Meeting | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/30 Tuesday | Riley Robb Hall room 205, 111 Wing Drive (Cornell Campus), Ithaca | Toastmasters clubs help their members gain skill and confidence in public speaking in a mutually supportive, friendly, fun environment with great mentorship. Come visit a meeting (or several) and learn how to develop your communication skills and leadership potential.

Special Events GlassFest 2017 | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Runs May 25–28. The eighth annual GlassFest is a four-day celebration of glass and the fire arts in America’s Crystal City. Information, please visit glassfest.org. Spring Bird Quest | Varying Locations | Runs Memorial Day Weekend –May 27-29. Mark Chao, Land Trust volunteer, will lead five birding trips on FLLT preserves during Memorial Day weekend! May 27 at 8:00 amLindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve - May 28 at 8:00 am – Bock-Harvey

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Former Kahn-Family Fellow at the Ink Shop Printmaking Studio recipient, Scout Dunbar’s current showing at CSMA entitled “In The Ring” is a universe unto itself. Her work here is sandy, ancient Egypt-like, with abstract forms recalling Paul Klee and early Vasily Kandinsky. Along with a gallery full of prints, there are some beautiful little sculptures that are arguably the highlights of the show.

The 8th annual Glassfest celebrates glass and the fine arts in spectacular fashion. The festival draws thousands of visitors to downtown Corning ever year, and this one is shaping out to be one of the best yet. The Glass Ribbon Cutting ceremony starts things off on Thursday followed by three days of live glassmaking, glass exhibits, fine art, wine and craft beer, live music, fireworks and so much more. (Photo: Cagwin Photography)

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Fundraiser | 11:00 AM, 5/28 Sunday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The menu consists of Cornell style chicken, salt potatoes, cole slaw, beverage and cookie. All proceeds from the event will be used to fund sight, hearing and youth projects including the pre-school children Vision Screening program. Memorial Day Parade | 10:00 AM, 5/29 Monday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Ave, Candor | Marchers will start at the Legion building on Spencer Road at 10 AM and march down Main Street. When they reach the lower bridge there will be a ceremony honoring Navy personnel who died in service to our country.

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Counties! Participants get a free copy of their credit report and meet housing professionals including lenders, attorneys, real estate agents and home inspectors.The May class starts Wednesday, May 3 and runs weekly until May 24. Email hbe@ithacanhs. org for more information or visit www. ithacanhs.org Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 8:00 AM-10:45 AM, 5/28 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. You are invited to join the entire event, and you are equally welcome to join at the top of the hour at 8, 9, or 10am.

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The Sterling Stage Folkfest runs Thursday, May 25 through Sunday, May 28, with a plethora of dynamic performers including (clockwise from very top): Primate Fiasco, a band that forges contemporary Americana, jazz, folk and swing in a unique and wild way; Ryan Montbleau Band, the popular guitarist’s full on rock band that pulses with energy; and Upstate Rubdown, an acoustic septet that feels organic and free and brings abundant propulsion. This is looking like one great festival. (Sterling Stage Kampitheater, 274 Kent Rd, Sterling, NY) (Photos provided) blends art, science and humor to tell the story of Helicoprion, the prehistoric shark nicknamed the “Buzz Saw Killer”.

Kids STEAM Book Club | 3:45 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 8-12 are invited to explore science, technology, engineering, art and math through lively book discussions and hands-on activities. For more information, contact Kate DeVoe at (607) 272-4557 extension 277

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Forest Preserve - May 28 at 10:00 am – Stevenson Forest Preserve - May 29 at 6:30 am – Goetchius Wetland Preserve - May 29 at 8:30 am – Roy H. Park Preserve. Info available at www. fllt.org/spring-bird-quest/ Hunger Hero Competition | 5:30 PM-7:30 P M, 5/25 Thursday | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca | Are you the next Hunger Hero? Join Collegetown Bagels and United Way of Tompkins County to help United Way of Tompkins County support their Hunger and Food Security. The winning sandwich will be added to the menus at CTB and Ithaca Bakery. 2300° | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/25 Thursday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | At 2300° Fahrenheit, hot glass gets interesting—and so do things at The Corning Museum of Glass. Enjoy glassmaking demonstrations, live music, and great food and drink. Grand Re-Opening: Check It Out Thrift Shop | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 5/26 Friday | Check It Out Thrift Shop, 6069 Turnpike Road, Trumansburg | Runs Friday, May 26th and Saturday, and May 27th from 9 am. - 2 p.m. and every. Run by and for the Mecklenburg United Methodist Church. Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 5/26 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd., Ithaca | Sit, sing, and drum around this new moon Fire on Friday. We will be gifting the Munay- Ki Daykeeper’s Rite at this fire, to heal and bring balance to the world. This transformational fire is free and open to the public. Donations accepted to keep these fires going. Info at www. connecting2spirit.com/ or call Susan (607) 229-5161 Majorpalooza Downtown | 10:00 AM-10:00 PM, 5/28 Sunday | Downtown Auburn | Annual fundraiser and 5K. Student musicians from Perform4Purpose will be entertaining 5K participants on South Street. A variety of food options will be offered by the mobile catering business Villano’s & also by the local Italian heritage club Ciao. Prison City Pub & Brewery will provide attendees 21+ with craft & domestic canned beer and wine. The Buzz Saw Sharks of Long Ago | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 5/30 Tuesday | Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Exhibition On-Display May 19th through September 4th, 2017. The Buzz Saw Sharks of Long Ago exhibition

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Health Pilates for Strong Bones | 4:15 PM-5:30 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Cayuga Pilates, Ithaca | Pilates for Strong Bones is a challenging and safe Pilates-based workout for individuals who have experienced bone loss or are concerned about their bone health. Based on the latest exercise science for improving bone density, the workout focuses on improving core and overall muscle strength, flexibility, and balance using mat-based core

exercises with props and hand and ankle weights. Class size is limited. For more information: www.cayugapilates. com, call 607-592-2272 or email: cayugapilates@gmail.com. Home Buyer U | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 5/24 Wednesday | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, 115 W. Clinton St., Ithaca | Home Buyer U MAY: The Homebuyer Class at Ithaca NHS helps homebuyers learn the homebuying process step-by-step. Plus, INHS offers down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time buyers in Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins

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Remember Larry David’s sandwich in Curb Your Enthusiasm (white fish, sable, onions and cream cheese), surely you can do better than that. Join Collegetown Bagels and United Way of Tompkins County to help support UWTC’s Hunger and Food Security initiative. Submit your idea for the best possible sandwich and if chosen, it will be added to CTB’s and Ithaca Bakery’s menus.

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Tree Phenology Walk Series | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 5/25 Thursday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Every Thursday through November 2 from 10:30 - 11:00 am. Join the Cayuga Nature Center for our series of weekly citizen science walks to observe and collect data on seasonal changes in trees. Rain or shine, we will monitor when buds break, leaves emerge, flowers bloom, fruits ripen, and when leaves change color and fall. For more information, contact Ingrid at zabel@priweb.org or (607) 273-6623 x22. Animal Encounters: Feeding Series | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 5/27 Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center , 1420 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Foxes and turtles and lizards. Oh my! Discover all of the Amazing Animal Ambassadors that call the Cayuga Nature Center home every Saturday at noon! Our Animal Care staff will be on hand to answer all of your questions as part of our series of public feedings

Ongoing Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 5/ 24 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies. Open Hearts

Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 5/ 24 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/ 24 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/ Tarot Salon Ithaca | 7:30 PM, 5/ 29 Monday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Tarot Salon Ithaca is a co-manifested space for all who are drawn to, enchanted by, and create with Tarot. Come share your insights, engage in discussion, exchange readings, and explore Tarot in a supportive community setting. Every last Monday of the month, beginning March 28, 2016. The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/ 30 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us!

Art \ongoing CAP ArtSpace |171 E State St, Center Ithaca | Bill Benson: Looking Inside And Out | Bill is interested in the beauty of the landscape we live in and to that end, as a painter, he wants to use every available technique in producing his emotional response to that landscape Cellar d’Or |136 E State St | Rachel Philipson, Photographs of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a very recent trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico to visit her mother’s family, Rachel Philipson put together a series of photographs. Her images show the silent corners of San Juan and how nature touches the city. Collegetown Bagels | 203 N Aurora St | Courtney Beglin, Chaos Theory: Murmur. This collection explores the ordered chaos that composes all living organisms, utilizing ornithological

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The Haunt, Thursday, May 25, 8:00 p.m. The Toronto-based progressive funk outfit, After Funk, get after their namesake in purposeful ways. The band is careful to keep visionary propulsion a part of each riff and jam they conjure. The group’s sound is abundant in ‘70s groove, neojam tendency; and front man and keyboardist Yarick Allwood showcases a dynamic and soulful voice, bringing funk to a new level - often in experimental and booty-shaking ways. (Photo: Pascal Zois Blue Phoenix Productions)

anatomy and formation as a case study. Cornell Lab of Ornithology | 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Free Spirits: Bird Photography by Marie Read : Acclaimed local wildlife photographer Marie Read celebrates the beauty of birds with an exhibition, Free Spirits. Through August Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road Ithaca | “Collision of Realms”. A two person exhibit featuring paintings and works on paper by Marianne Van Lent and Masha Ryskin. Collision of Realms will be on view through June 22. Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E State St, Ithaca | “In the Ring by Scout Dunbar.” The Ink Shop presents In the Ring by Scout Dunbar at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) gallery. Through the exploration of pattern, mark-making, line, and material, Scout uses memory as a tool to re-visit childhood. Elevator Music and Art Gallery at New Roots School | 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | “Nuevo Durango” by Caroline Snyder. Nuevo Durango is a small Maya village located deep in the tropical dry forest of southern Mexico. A few years ago, Caroline went on a biological research trip there with the New Roots upper-school science teacher, David Streib. Decorum-Too | 215 N Cayuga Street, The DeWitt Mall | Sue Hertz, Views from Here and There. This show comprises an array of oil paintings of different sizes depicting local and non-local scenes. eye Gallery | 126 E State St, Ithaca | Erin Deneuville, “She Makes It Extraordinary”. Oil portrait artist Erin Deneuville will exhibit at eye Ithaca from May 5 – 28th Gimmie! Coffee | 506 W State St | “Art with Heart” | Children and community members learn new techniques in order to draw and paint portraits of black, brown and tan people and supportive allies. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | “Empathy Academy: Social Practice and the Problem of Objects” (through May 28) / “Escaping the Ordinary: Artistic Imagination in Early Modern Prints” (through May 28) / Identity Crisis: Reflecting On Public and Private LIfe in Contemporary Javanese Photography” (through June 11) / “The War to End All Wars” (through June 11) / Leo Villareal “Cosmos” (ongoing) | www.museum. cornell.edu

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by Christopher J. Harrington

Lee Harvey Osmond, Saturday, May 27, 9:00 p.m., The Dock

om Wilson, who currently goes under the moniker Lee Harvey Osmond, has been one of Canada’s most artistically-inclined musicians the past three and half decades. From his psychobilly days with the Florida Razors, to the deep blues and funk of his ‘90s alt-rock band Junkhoue, Wilson’s been a dude with some serious range, bent on moving through the abyss. “Ever since I was four years old I wanted to be an artist,” Wilson said while making his way through the wild forests of Oregon a few weeks ago. “Some kids dream of being astronauts, I wanted to be an artist. If I die in Eugene tonight, I’ll die satisfied, because I chased what I believed in.” Wilson’s a straight up dude, a guy with a lot of experience and an infinite amount of gusto. The artistic process is his life, and he creates in the full moon of its creative bloom. He’s both a throw-

Hilton Garden Inn | 130 E Seneca St | “My Hearts Content, through the Lens”. Photography by Aniiyah Christina Klock The Ink Shop Printmaking Center | 330 E State St, 2nd floor of CSMA | “Blinded by Truisms” by Skye Schirmer. The Ink Shop Printmaking Center will show Blinded by the Truisms, a series of paintings and monoprints by Skye Schirmer. Skye aims to mirror the ways in which we recycle and transform memories and experiences via social media. The images are crass yet intimate statements, blunt insights into specific moments in time that can still be relatable to the viewer. Kendal | 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Marian Loveland’s new paintings (through May) Kevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens | 124 Comstock Knoll Rd. | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Forest Series: Mized media paintings depicting designs in nature. Kitchen Theatre | 514 W State St | “Mirage”:

back, and a futurist. “We’re all born with the right attitude,” he noted. “We’re all born artists. It’s just that over time you got your churches, businesses and politics continuously breaking you down. There’s this constant need to control people and it’s insane. Over time you risk losing sight of your originality.” Wilson’s a visual artist and literary writer as well. He’s currently writing a book for Random House and just exhibited some paintings at a national gallery. Music is really just an extension of his creative totality, a continuation of his eternal journey. His latest record, 2015’s Beautiful Scars, is a psychedelic folk behemoth, with deep weight and a starry personal twinge. “I wrote the new album very fast,” he explained. “My girlfriend was like ‘you got to get this stuff out of you’. So I basically wrote it in bed.” The record’s got an epic hue to its layering: like a time capsule pouring in slow motion in some strange desert. “I wanted it to represent the moment,” Wilson mused. “I don’t see myself as evolving necessarily; it’s more about taking steps. I feel the same way about creativity. You write these moments down to build something, someplace you can always travel back to.” As a Canadian musician, Wilson’s got a unique take on Americans and their relationship with music. It’s something

Paintings by John Lyon Paul. John’s paintings emerge from a kinesthetic awareness also evident in his sculptures. His use of color and line, with their pulse, vibration, and rhythms, invite the viewer to enter and travel them. Lifelong | 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Life in a Different Art. Susan Stolov began to paint 12 years ago. A professional classical musician for most of her life, this is the first public exhibition of her visual art. Working in watercolor and acrylic, Susan has captured images of family life, her beloved cats, and still life scenes. In the future, she plans to venture into oils and (perhaps) contemporary themes. The exhibit will be up through May and June. Lot 10 | 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Robert Sikora | Paintings. Mockingbird Paperie | 142 E State St | Susan C. Larkin: Artist’s statement: “I want my camera to be an x-ray machine—capable of looking through the walls of a pod to the seeds inside. If that can’t happen, I think about what I could do with back light. Can I show the outline of a plant with light from

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Wilson says is quite remarkable. “One of the major differences between that line on the map is that music is very much an important part of American’s lives,” he said. “They get quite worked up for their music, and it’s cool to experience it.” But Canada has its benefits as well. “I’m happy to be Canadian,” Wilson laughed. “If my grandson breaks his arm I can get it fixed. If I want some nice Indica to put me to sleep, I can get that too.” Wilson’s music has a spiritual quality to it that makes one dream of the open

behind? Or perhaps celebrate the color? I am seeking the details people see every day but so often fail to notice.” Padma Center for Natural Therapies | 126 W State St | 114 W Buffalo St | Donald Cook, “Recent Work”. Donald Cook has worked as an artist for over 40 years, and began illustrating books for children in 1989. His best known titles are, “Abe Lincoln’s Hat,” “Pirates,” and “The Bravest Dog Ever, the True Story of Balto.” Press Cafe | 118 W Green St | Recent Digital Collage Work by Ken C. Hill State of the Art Gallery | 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Margaret Nelson, EPHEMERA: Based on an ephemeral process, suminagashi, that results in a monotype (a print that exists as only a single copy); and she played on the idea of the transience of intellectual life to create the texts that accompany her prints. Connie Zehr, ECHO: A small glass and sand pedestal installation, is the photographed object she’s used to develop multiple panel prints Sunny Days of Ithaca | Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | “McGraw House

road and of sunshine and hope. Even when it’s dark (which it often is), there’s a massive ray of light streaming through his sound, a confident and sparkling light. “I’m not a hippie,” he laughs. “But I think love is very important. This world takes our confidence away every day. My belief is that love can change the world. We forget that we have this power.” •

Creates!” McGraw House, a Senior Residential Center in the heart of downtown Ithaca, has its share of creative people. Artists working in oils, acrylics, watercolors, collage, photography and mask creation were among the twenty-two residents sharing in a recent in-house exhibit – a sampling of which will be on display for this month Ten Forward Cafe | 115 E State St, 2nd floor of Autumn Leaves | “Folk Art & Sculpture” by Arnold Bradshaw. Arnold’s Gallery Night debut featuring several new series he has been developing over the last two years. Tompkins County Public Library | 101 East Green Street | “Mapping Tompkins: A Community Exhibit. A commemorative project designed to showcase, for our and future generations, what it means to live, work and study in Tompkins County. Local residents were asked to illustrate a pre-printed map of Tompkins County, highlighting the places that are important in their lives– from where to find the best ice cream to where you met your spouse, to

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The Range, Friday, May 26, 9:00 p.m.

Baltimore’s synth-pop magicians Future Islands are like bottled lighting. Genres are completely thrown out the window with this magical trio (they tour with a drummer), as the group moves with honestly through something like the past and the future, forging new worlds and real meanings. Front man Samuel T. Herring is a vision: part Morrissey, part Sinatra, and part Sid Vicious, dancing around like no other.

The Fly Rods are one of the Ithaca’s most real bands, forging a noisy southern rock with a hard scrabbled Americana. The sound will conjure Neil Young and Crazy Horse, as well as infinite night skies with beer and smoke from eternal campfires. The band’s last record, “Catch & Release” was a gritty little gem with songs ranging from low down rockers (“Johnny Dowd”) to pysch-folk drifters (“What I Know is True”). (Photo: Heather Ainsworth)

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the places you play, worship, shop or explore. “More Than A Book”: Works by Janet Edwards, Kumi Korf, Lee-Ellen Marvin, Maude Rith, Laura Robert, Teresa Yatsko; and books from the collections of Susan Currie and Tom Burns. Curated by Maude Rith. Books can be more than the physical holder of a story or of information: they can contain the memories of its owner: of their childhood, of the mother who read that book to them, of the lover who gave the book. Upstairs Studio || Upstairs Studio, 15 Main Street, Trumansburg | “Postcards of Resistance” showcases the creative, grassroots effort in Trumansburg following the National Women’s March. Thurs 5-7, Sat and Sun. 1-3.

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400/Employment Atlas Farm LLC

Deerfield, MA needs 3 temporary workers 6/1/1017 to 12/31/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants apply at Franklin/Hampshire Career Center, One Arch Place, Greenfield, MA 01301 413-774-4361 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8773029. Growing vegetables crops including planting, weeding, harvesting and packing. Applicants must be able to lift 50 lbs. boxes for extended periods of time and work while crouching or kneeling on the ground for extended periods of time. One month experience required in duties listed.

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Volante Farms, Inc.

Needham MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2017 to 11/30/2017, work tools, supplies, and equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the workday. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.28 per hr. Applicants apply at Employment & Training Resources, 275 Prospect St. Norwood, MA 02062 781-769-4120, or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8730236. May perform any combination of the following tasks: planting, cultivating, and harvesting of vegetables and fruits, work as a crew member. Dump seeds into hopper of planter towed by tractor. Rides on planter pushing debris from seed sprouts that discharge seeds into plowed furrow. May operate farm equipment. Plant roots and bulbs using hoes and trowel. Cover plants with plastic to prevent frost damage. Weed and thinning blocks of plants. Transplanting seedlings using hand transplanter. Closes and ties leaves over heads of cauliflower. Picks, cuts, pulls, and lifts crops to harvest them. Ties vegetables in bunches. May be identified with work assigned such as blocking, cutting, stringing, irrigating various crops. Transplanting, moving, spacing of flats. Carts and trucks plants to and from greenhouse floors and benches. Washing vegetables, cleaning barns, farmstand, and greenhouse. Setting up and breaking down farmstand. Cutting down trees, pruning trees and bunching brush. 1 month experience required in fruit and vegetable duties listed

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GUILFORD, CT needs 10 temporary workers 6/1/2017 to 11/1/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. 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 860-2636020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #86568. Diversified fruit and vegetable farm. General duties include: seeding, transplanting, writing labels for transplants, weeding, thinning, cultivating and pruning, less than 15% of the season; planting 15% of the season; harvesting, picking and packing by hand various crops such as leafy vegetables, legumes, squash, tomatoes root crops, berries, apples, peaches and pears 70% of the season. Other duties include weeding, cutting, and arranging cut-flowers, use of hand tools, setting up, operating and/ or repairing farm machinery and fencing. Ability to withstand prolonged exposure to variable weather conditions; also required to bend, stoop or stand for extended periods and lift and carry 50 pounds on a frequent basis. 1 month experience required in work listed. The %’s listed are estimates. Workers may spend 0-100% of their time performing any of the activities listed

Boys in Berries LLC dba Ward’s Berry Farm

Sharon, MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2017 to 11/1/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants apply at, Employment & Training Resources, 275 Prospect St. Norwood, MA 781-769-4120 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8734871. Work may include, but not limited to: Plant, cultivate and harvest various crops such as, but not limited to vegetables, fruits, horticultural specialties and field crops. Use hand tools, such as, but not limited to, shovels, hoes, pruning shears, knives, and ladders. Duties may include but are not limited to, tilling the soil, applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, thinning, pruning, applying general use pesticides under the supervision of a licensed applicator, picking, cutting, cleaning sorting, packing processing, and handling harvested products. May set up operate and repair farm machinery, repair fences and farm buildings, also may participate in irrigation activities. Work is usually performed outdoors, sometimes under hot or cold and/or wet conditions. Work requires workers to bend, stoop, lift and carry up to 50 lbs on a frequent basis. Duties may require working off the ground at heights up to 20 ft using ladders or climbing. Requires 30 days experience in fruit and vegetable duties listed

employment Clearview Farm

Sterling, MA needs 2 temporary workers 5/1/2017 to 10/15/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 1 days or 50% of the wok contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.28 pr hr. Applicants apply at: North Central Career Center 1-978-537-1481 or apply for the job a the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #859-841. Harvest Workers may perform any combination of tasks related to the cultivation, maintenance and especially Harvesting of fruit trees. Duties include, preparing soil, pruning, and pulling bush, picking rocks, weeding, and hand thinning. Harvesting carefully and selectively, grading, packing, and loading of fruit. May use hand tools such as shovels, rakes, hoe’s and pruning saws and shears, hammers, ladders and picking buckets. May us saws, hammers and other equipment to repair bulk harvest containers. May be asked to help operate, adjust and maintain farm machinery. One Month’s experience in duties listed is required.

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Exterior House Painter

Work through Oct. Construction experience. Vehicle a must. Prefer non-smoker. 607-227-6145

Hindigner Farm

Hamden, CT needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2017 to 10/20/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.28 per hr. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for te job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #86573. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of apples, pears, peaches, prunes, plums, and vegetables including, but not limited to, driving, operating, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading and packing. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. 1 months experience in duties listed required.

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F/T Print Room Operator position available with T-S-T BOCES Print Shop 5/22/1. Must have experience with commercial printing equipment. Hourly Project Assistant(s) positions also available working in the Print Shop F/T, temporary through 09/27/17. Detailed job postings listed on the BOCES website www.tstboces.org and Careerbuilder. com Apply online by 05/18/17 at: www. tompkinscountyny.gov/personnel TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, Phone (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)697-8273, Email: hr@tstboces.iorg

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West Brookfield, MA needs 2 temporary workers 5/20/2017 to 12/20/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence a the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period $12.28 per hr. Applicants apply at Workforce Career Center, 508-765-6430 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8651351. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit for sale, including, but not limited to, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, mowing, harvesting, grading, packing. Harvest apples using a ladder and picking bucket. Worker will be required to lift approximately 50 pounds while ascending and descending ladder on a sustained basis. Perform general farm labor such as picking rocks, hoeing weeds, pruning. May use farm equipment that relates to the cited task and use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. Work is performed out doors rain or shine., hot or colt. One month experience required in duties listed

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Harvard, MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/12/2017 to 11/1/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and sustenance is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed 3/4/ of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. Applicants apply at North Central Career Center, 978-5431481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8759872. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivation and processing of fruit and vegetable crops, including, but not limited to, driving or operating farm machines, maintaining buildings, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing and harvesting. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. 1 month experience in duties listed required.

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