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Guide to the Finger Lakes SUMMER ITHACA 2018

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CONTENTS

Cayuga Booze Cruise ��... 7

Wiemer Vineyards �� ... 19

Finger Lakes Footlights ��... 8-9

The Museums Of Corning �� ... 20

Well-Framed Surroundings �� 3

A guide to the area’s best in theater.

The Growth Of Cider �� ... 10-11

The Windmill Market ��... 21

FLX Rosé �� ... 12

At The Fair �� ... 22

Birds Of Prey �� ... 13

Summer Calendar ��... 23-29

A different way to enjoy the wine trail.

Checking out the region’s premiere glamping spot.

CSA Paradise ��... 4 Economic endurance through agriculture.

Hiking The Lakes ��... 5 Navigating the Finger Lakes region on foot.

Steamboats On Cayuga ��... 6 Back when nautical commerce ruled the lake.

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The lakes’ quietly cultivated boom industry.

Could this be the region’s new, best export?.

Where to find the predators in our skies.

A day on the farm.

The region’s hidden artistic Mecca.

A visit to the area’s quirkiest farmer’s market.

Journey down to Troy, PA this summer.

A comprehensive list of everything going on.

Food And Drink Guide �� ... 14-17 What to eat, what to drink and where to get it.

ADVERTISERS INDEX Americana Winery �� 13 Belhurst ��9 Benjamin Peters ��8 Bishops Carpet One �� 22 Cornell Summer Events ��6 Cayuga Medical Center �� 18 Chenango Tourism ��6 Child Dev Council �� 29 Cortland Repertory Theatre �� 10 CU Cooperative Extension �� 16 Cornell Summer Camps �� 6 Conifer Community �� 29 Danos on Seneca �� 14

Downtown Ithaca Alliance ��5 Diamonds New Deli �� 16 Dianes Downtown Auto ��25 Discovery Trail �� 4 Family Medicine �� 22 First Congregatinal Church ��26 Fingerlakes Beverage �� 17 Glenwood Pines �� 16 Handwork ��8 Hangar Theater �� 11 Hartley’s Campers ��25 Ithaca Community Childcare ��20 Ithaca Farmers Market ��3 The

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Ithaca Guitar Works �� 9 John Thomas Steakhouse �� 14 Johnson Museum ��3 Kendal at Ithaca ��7 Larkin Insurance ��25 Lee Newhart Insurance ��20 Levine Goulden & Thompson �� 22 Merry-Go Round Theatre �� 11 Museum of Earth �� 12 Myers Farm Distillary �� 15 Northeast Pediatrics ��20 Northside Wine and Spirits �� 12 Pattersons Auto Center ��25

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Planned Parenthood �� 21 Puddledockers Kayak Shop �� 3 Rasa Spa ��8 Saltonstall ��4 StoneCat Café �� 16

Taughnnock Falls Concerts �� 4 TC Action ��24 Tikkun V’or ��26 Toads Too ��25

Travis Hyde Properties �� 19 Treleaven Winery �� 15 Tompkins Trust Company �� 32

Approaching one of the premium tents at Firelight Camps.

Well-Framed Surroundings I N S I D E T H E REGION ’S P REM IERE GL AMPI NG SPOT By Gay Huddle

mma Frisch and husband, Bobby, opened Firelight Camps, their “glamping” destination in Ithaca, in 2014. Moving to Ithaca so Bobby could start graduate business studies at Cornell, the couple decided to start a new venture here in Ithaca, instead of going with their original plan, which was to be closer to New York City. Emma Frisch has built her culinary career over many years, beginning as a chef and food blogger. In 2014 she appeared on the television cooking show, “Food Network Star.” She also recently published her first cookbook, “Feast by Firelight” which is a lushly photographed book highlighting the joys of cooking outdoors, and provides recipes for everyday meals with friends and family, such as Wild Elephant Snack Bars, Smoked Salmon Spread, Burnt Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese, Piggies in Pajamas and Grilled Hawaiian Pizza, to name a few. (You can actually visit emma@emmafrisch. com for information on how to purchase the book, and you can also visit Emma’s Facebook page.) “We realized this is where we lived, we love it here, we have a supportive community, and if we are going to make this work we should do it close to home in a place we believe in,” Emma says. Not only is their business thriving, but their family has expanded with the addition of daughter, Ayla, and a new baby on the way. The 19 tents that comprise Firelight Camps are located on the grounds behind La Tourelle Resort and Spa, 1150 Danby Road. The platform tents are furnished with hardwood floors, a king or queen bed with plush linens and safari-inspired furniture. Each tent includes a private balcony where guests can sit and relax with a good book, a mug of coffee or an evening cocktail. In the morning a complimentary, locally-sourced continental breakfast is served from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m. in the tented lobby, and includes pastries, fresh bagels, fruit, yogurt, house granola, oatmeal, hard-boiled

eggs, juices, tea, coffee and milk. Gluten-free and vegan options are available. During your stay, you might like to walk the trails of Buttermilks Falls State Park, have a heavenly treatment at August Moon Spa (which is a short walk from the tents), visit the many famed Finger Lakes vineyards, or relax in a hammock under a forest canopy. The communal camp fires are lit in the outdoor lounge area at sundown, while a complimentary tasting with Finger Lakes craft beverages awaits you at the bar. Homemade s’mores are always available, as are an assortment of games including bocce ball. The Firelight Camps lobby tent is completely furnished, and includes a front desk reception, where guests can check-in, find trail maps, and learn about regional and local activities from the Camp Host. Freshly brewed Firelight coffee, hot water and tea are offered at the beverage station. Canteens can be refilled at the water dispenser and there is even a phone charging station. Firelight Camp founders, Emma and Bobby, opened their first hotel in Matagalpa, Nicaragua in the heart of coffee country. The couple’s friend, Nicaraguan coffee farmer, Enrique Ferrufino, who manages Proyecto Aurora, a group of coffee farmers dedicated to reinvesting a percentage of their profits in sustainable growing practices, sends his coffee beans to Copper House Coffee in Ithaca, where owner Jesse Harriot roasts a special Firelight Camps blend. The camp store includes Firelight Camps homemade s’more kits and trail snacks, Firelight Camps apparel and other outdoorinspired necessities. Firelight Camps is also available to host weddings, group meetings, reunions or retreats. For reservations and general inquires please go to reservations@firelightcamps.com or call 607-229-1644 Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Reservations are open May 11 through November 4. The

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Adventures all year long! STEAMBOAT LANDING Saturdays April-Dec Sundays May-Nov Thursdays June-Aug

DEWITT PARK

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EAST HILL PLAZA Wednesdays May-Oct

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EXPLORE SCIENCE, NATURE AND CULTURE

Discover Ithaca – Discover the World Discover your favorite Animal Ambassador at the Cayuga Nature Center this summer!

Cayuga Nature Center Cornell Botanic Gardens Cornell Lab of Ornithology The History Center Johnson Museum of Art Museum of the Earth Sciencenter Tompkins County Public Library

A LOOK AT T HE REG IO N’S WE B O F CSA’S By Peggy Haine

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Saltonstall 2018 work by Dara Engler, ‘18

Open studios + readings

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts saltonstall.org

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Taughannock Falls State Park 2018 Summer Concert Series July 7

Iron Horse Southern Rock

July 14 Radio London 60s & 70s Rock July 21 The Fall Creek Brass Band Big Band Fun July 28 Jorge Cuevas and the Caribe Band All-Stars Salsa, Latin Jazz Aug. 4 Aug. 11

Answer the Muse Soulful, Theatrical

The Burns Sisters American Folk

Aug. 18 Go-Gone Original Music Aug. 25

Support Provided by: Tompkins Trust Company The Tompkins Insurance Agencies The Cayuga Lake Wine Trail Schedule subject to change call

Movie Under the Stars Silent movie shown under the stars at the concert stage

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he letters stand for “community supported agriculture,” but what’s that? According to Aaron Munzer, who with his wife Kara Cusolito runs Plowbreak Farm in Hector, a CSA is “a small investment in your health and wellbeing, and in the economic health of the area, preserving farmland and the agricultural economy of our area.” You buy a season’s share in the farm, and allow the farmer to plan, buy seed, prepare the ground, and plant the crops. Whether your yen is for fruit, vegetables plain or exotic, bread, dairy products, bread, pasta, and pastries, or flowers for your table, there’s a CSA for you, perhaps two or three. And if you’ve no time, space, or inclination for gardening, they’ll keep you in freshest roughage with a local pedigree. We checked in with a few of them to see what’s new on offer this year. One of the joys of summer is watching families coming out of the Sweet Land Farm fields north of Trumansburg, carrying bouquets almost as big as their children, starting with peonies, and following the season through to head-sized sunflowers. A bit later in the summer, farmer Paul Martin promises strawberries, edamame, raspberries, cherry tomatoes, sauce tomatoes, tomatillos, basil, and more for the picking. Inside, already picked and clean, is a cornucopia of leafy greens, roots, tubers, tomatoes, eggplants, garlic, and, new this year, spring fennel, scallions, and more. Now in its eleventh season and with about 300 members, Martin and his merry crew of Tompkins County living-wage employees labored to move two large hoop houses this spring (no small feat) to make life cozier and more nourishing for tomatoes, basil, peppers, cucumbers, basil, eggplant, and even more basil. They also provide space for other CSAs to sell at their twice-weekly farm pickups, including Black Pearl Farm (feta and sheep’s milk yogurt), Wide Awake Bakery (bread, pastries, pasta), and Wellspring Farm (mushrooms). Together, Chaw Chang and Lucy Garrison are a force behind Stick and Stone Farm, on Route 96 close to Ithaca, a central pick-up spot for the Full Plate collective. This year they are working on easy-to-pick raised beds made with locally grown locust logs, and their you-picks will include flowers and culinary herbs like chives, oregano, sage, thyme, bergamot, and hyssop, as well as flowering rudbeckias, lupines, ornamental grasses and lobelia... and that’s just the beginning. They’ve also planted nearly an acre of sugar snap

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ADULTS (Left to Right) Sara Worden ( Full Plate CSA Coordinator) Lucy Garrison, Chaw Chang, (Stick and Stone Farm) Lauren Mckinzey (Black Pearl Creamery) KIDS (Left to Right) Ezra, Rhoda, Greta, Baby Luca, Ada, and Remy. (photo: Casey Martin) peas, cherry tomatoes, sauce tomatoes, basil, hot peppers and spice peppers, including Aji Dulce, an heirloom from Puerto Rico; Trinidad Perfume, a non-hot habanero type, and plenty of shishitos, ground cherries, tomatillos, and okra. Remembrance Farm supplies the collective with wonderful salad greens, providing a salady bed for the collective’s onions, tomatoes, peppers, pickling cucumbers, winter and summer squashes, melons, beets, carrots, scallions, peas, green beans, cauliflower, kohlrabi, and four kinds of kale. Remembrance’s Nathaniel and Emily Thompson are excited about a new venture: they are milking their herd of Devon and Kerry cows and will be providing a pasteurized milk share for Full Plate members this summer. According to Nathaniel Thompson, the cows are 100 percent grass-fed and certified organic/biodynamic, and a basic share will be ½ gallon of milk per week. Remembrance Farm and Stick and Stone are the two main farms in the Full Plate Collective, but other farms provide special crops including potatoes from Three Stone farms and Hillside Farm and onions, leeks, Italian eggplants and slicing cucumbers from Blue Heron Farm. Side pickups at the collective include offerings from the Fingerlakes Fruit Bowl, Wide Awake Bakery, Double A Mushroom Farm, and Black Pearl Creamery. Among the most recently developed CSAs is TC3 Farm, adjoining the TC3 campus, and overseen by Todd McLane, who also teaches sustainable farming and food systems. The CSA, now in its fifth season, offers a free-choice sliding scale pickup with two share sizes, regular and deluxe, and two share options, full season or fall only. McLane is proud of the farm’s 150 different varieties of vegetables, herbs, and fruit, including strawberries, currants, and elderberries. Looking for more information, a specific sort of CSA, or a CSA near you? Check out the directory at http://ccetompkins.org/agriculture/ buy-local/csa-directory.

Hiking Through The Lakes N AVIGAT IN G T HE REGION BY FOOT By Lori Sonken

A runner on the Black Diamond Trail. (Photo: Casey Martin)

ozens of trails crisscross the Finger Lakes region, making Ithaca an ideal destination for all types of hikers, including families wanting to take a simple stroll in the woods and those desiring a vigorous workout. “My favorite places to hike include our local state parks, especially Upper Treman with the stunning views of Lucifer Falls and the heights and meandering trails along the water in Fillmore Glen, “ said Sigrid Connors, a volunteer with the Cayuga Trails Club (CTC). The CTC offers easy, moderate and strenuous hikes – all posted on the club’s website at cayugatrailsclub.org. Connors leads three to six-mile-long hikes, each lasting from one to three hours. For those looking to take a simple walk, the 230-acre sanctuary surrounding the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at 139 Sapsucker Woods Road in Ithaca features four miles of flat trails and boardwalks. Another favorite, albeit steeper, spot is the Sweedler Preserve, an area protecting 3,000 feet of land bordering Lick Brook. Hemlock, oak, maple and white pine trees dot the landscape and along with waterfalls. Sweedler is one of 34 preserves, including many with hiking trails, conserved by the Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT). Details about FLLT’s preserves can be found at gofingerlakes.org. To get to the Sweedler Preserve, take Route 13 south. Turn left on Sandbank Road just after Buttermilk Falls State Park. At the intersection, bear right on Town Line Road. Park on the right side of the road and follow the white trail. For those desiring a longer but rela-

tively gentle slope, there’s the approximately 8.4-mile-long Black Diamond trail following part of the railroad line formerly operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad that ran from New York City to Buffalo from 1896-1959. Accessible to hikers, bikers, runners and dog walkers throughout the year, the trail starts at Cass Park, just behind the Ithaca Children’s Garden, and runs to Taughannock Falls State Park. “Depending on the time and the day you can chose solitude or have plenty of company,” said Connors. She has spotted red-bellied woodpeckers, bald eagles, osprey and deer along the trail. For those wanting something more strenuous, the Abbott Loop in Danby State Forest is a good place to go. “The loop is a rigorous, uphill and downhill jaunt over eight miles long that will give you a workout,” and features a scenic view of Newfield and West Danby from “The Pinnacles,” said Gary Mallow, CTC president. Cliff and Doris Abbott negotiated with the Department of Environmental Conservation to win approval of the trail in the 1980s. The Abbotts flagged, marked and cut much of the trail themselves, with help from volunteers. The loop is divided into two segments – a 4.8-mile western section and a 4-mile-long eastern section. “I love seeing the pretty wildflowers along the trail in spring and summer,” said Barbara Nussbaum. She and her husband, Michael, are volunteers responsible for maintaining the western section. To access the trailhead, take Route 96 B east to Danby. Head south on Michigan Hollow Road. Go approximately 3.5 miles and park on the right, at the trail’s south crossing marked with an orange blaze. Nussbaum enjoys leading all-day hikes covering 10-12 miles for the Finger Lakes Trail Conference and the CTC. She is working on completing for the second time the entire 585-mile-long Finger Lakes Trails traversing from the Allegany State Park near the Pennsylvania/New York border to the Catskills region. Gary Mallow, CTC president, likes the physical challenge associated with hiking as well as the mental aspects, such as “getting away from traffic, noise, the concerns of work and family and life. You enter a different world if you’re in the woods on the right day when the weather is good, the trees are leafing out and the birds are serenading you.” His favorite places include areas of the Danby State Forest and Shinadagin State Forest he maintains for the CTC and the FLTC. He also likes the abundant bird life and active beaver encampment at the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve, owned, preserved and maintained by the FLLT. “Hiking can be like a wonderful meditation and it is easier – at least for me – than sitting still for half an hour or longer,” Nussbaum said. The

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When Steamboats Ruled Cayuga

Destination CHENANGO!

TI PPI NG OUR H AT TO T HE ARE A’S NAUT ICAL LEG ACY By Charley Githler

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Cornell Summer Events

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PERFORMANCES Tuesdays in Klarman Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. July 10 July 17 July 24 July 31

Eloise & Co Arise & Go Paul Merrill Theatre Street Productions ..

LECTURES Wednesdays in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, 7:00 p.m. July 11 July 18 July 25 August 1

Dava Sobel Karen Pastorello Glenn Altschuler Karen Levy

CONCERTS Fridays on the Arts Quad, 7:00 p.m. June 29 July 6 July 13 July 20 July 27 August 3

Sim Redmond Band Radio London MAQ El Rumbon Laila Belle NEO Project

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s lovely as Stewart Park now is, there was a time for about ten years around the turn of the 20th century when the park (then ‘Renwick Park’) and its steamboat pier was the premier recreation destination in the city. Without doubt the golden age of Cayuga Lake steamboat excursions, there has probably been no time before or since when more Ithacans have spent as much time on or near the lake. The full Steamboat Era on Cayuga Lake was a period of 90 years or so, from the 1820s to the 1910s, and for most of that time, steamboats were much more about commerce than pleasure. Once the lake was connected at its northern end to the Erie Canal in 1828, steamboats afforded the quickest and most reliable means of transportation of freight and passengers, and handled most of the business for the lake communities and the port of Ithaca, except during the winter months. Lake boats ran on regular schedules, crisscrossing the lake, from one end of the lake to the other in about five hours with several stops along the way. In Ithaca, the commercial waterfront in the West End was a bustling hub of activity in the 19th century. The long segment of the Inlet extending from the State and Brindley Street area north to ‘Steamboat Landing’ where the Farmer’s Market is now, was Ithaca’s port. It requires some imagination to conjure up today. Picture the area without Route 13, or the Flood Control Channel. Inlet Island wasn’t an island, but a contiguous portion of the land lying to the west of the Inlet. It was choked with canal boats and lined with commercial structures. A look at the Sanborn map of Ithaca from 1893 shows grain elevators, warehouses, lumber yards, coal sheds, grain elevators and machine shops lining both sides of the waterway. And piloting a boat to the steamboat landing was tricky back then, as sand bars in the Inlet shifted and changed. Kids and loafers seemed to always be hanging around, offering shouted unsolicited advice to the captains. It was the steamboats that would tow as many 20 canal barges at a time the length of the lake all in a single line, to be transferred to the canal at Cayuga, near the north end of the lake. And by the 1870s it wouldn’t have been unusual for the steamboats to have also handled hundreds of passengers on the lake every day during the season. Business boomed, for a while. The most prosperous part of this commercial period lasted from 1865, after the Civil War, to the late 1880s, when there were at least a half dozen boats working the lake. With the rise of the railroads, though, particularly by the 1880s, the importance of the Erie Canal declined, and so did the steamboats on Cayuga Lake. But, there were important social changes happening at the same time, and this breathed life into the waning steamboat business in the 1890s. It was a brief, but captivating moment in time. The ‘weekend’, as we think of it, wasn’t

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really a thing quite yet. But, people were starting to seek out leisure time and activities, and while in the 1890s the average work week was 60 hours, factory managers, store clerks and office workers, of whom there were now more than ever, were taking half days on Saturday, and so were their families. And so, in the 1880s, several local men bought 40 acres of swampy property at the very south end of Cayuga Lake from the estate of James Renwick. The plan was to develop an amusement park and take advantage of Ithaca’s streetcar system on weekends and holidays. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape architecture firm, Renwick Park opened in June, 1894, and was a sensational hit. It had a boat landing, a zoo, a swimming beach, a carousel and a performance pavilion for bands and entertainment. There were electric lights, and there was dancing. It was just a five-cent trolley ride from downtown. Perhaps most significantly, Renwick Park had a pier that was a launching point for pleasure excursions on the Cayuga Lake steamboats. The park and the popularity of steamboat rides reflected a change in the way the lake was seen. Until then, it was viewed as an avenue of transportation of people and freight rather than for recreation. On July 10 1896, the Ithaca Daily Journal advertised Sato Sunetan and his wife at the Renwick Beach Amusement Pavilion providing entertainment in the form of ‘Japanese mysteries and Hindoo feats’, as well as the musical duo Will and Maud Edison. Apparently Mr. Edison was ‘the acknowledged champion of the world on the tuneful and difficult English concertina’. Such entertainment could be had for a nickel. Just below are the ads and schedules for the steamboats Frontenac, Ithaca, Almy and Beula, leaving variously from the steamboat (Ithaca) landing, Renwick pier or the pier at West Buffalo Street. Round trips to Cayuga could be had for between 15 and 25 cents, though a season ticket on the Frontenac or Ithaca was three dollars. It’s tempting and easy to romanticize the whole thing. The photographs of the park and the pier show people dressed for promenading, and an ensemble band in the bandstand. People are clearly having fun. There was swimming where now there are weeds and muddy water. Yet, the water quality at Renwick Park was likely worse than it is today. The tanneries and factories of Ithaca discharged their chemicals and waste into the creeks that flowed into the lake. To compound the situation, Ithaca had no sewer system until the turn of the twentieth century. The first 200 houses were hooked up in 1896, but the system spread slowly and unevenly. Raw sewage was pumped directly into Cascadilla Creek and Cayuga Lake until 1908, and even then, sewage treatment as we think of it was not put in place until decades later. It was not at all unheard of for swimmers to come into contact with solid specimens of raw sewage even well into the twentieth century.

Cayuga Booze Cruise A J O U RN EY OF F THE B EATEN WI NE TR AI L By Nick Reynolds

Rick Eleck, boarding his boat. (Photo: Nick Reynolds)

oca Cola began as a failed tonic to ease headaches. Play Doh was originally intended to act as a wallpaper cleaner. Twitter was the result of a hackathon meant to spur innovation at a podcasting company – a quick idea that ended up being a global force. 76749 Kendal Dog Ad for Ithaca Times and T: 10 x 5.5 Accidental businesses happen, have

been proven time and time again to occasionally result in major success. However common on a massive scale, it’s a bit more rare to stumble upon more local businesses that started by accident, many of which stem from people’s long-held livelihoods, personal savings and long-term planning.

In this story, we look at retired music teacher and local boat captain Rick Eleck, whose successful wine cruise business began with a coworker’s persistence, a group discount deal and a boating license. In the late 2000s, Hilary Church, a technology teacher and fellow faculty member at Cortland High, kept bugging him to get a captain’s license because, as Eleck later found out, if a student brought along four friends, they’d get a discount on the licensing. After caving to Church’s urging (and having to haggle with the instructor to get in on the deal) Eleck got his captain’s license and that summer, began looking around the lakes for captain’s positions. With no answers. And so, in 2009, Eleck bought his first boat – a 16-passenger rig outfit with life jackets appropriated from the Staten Island Ferry – reached out to a few wineries on Cayuga Lake and began cruising its waters, hitting the lake six times that summer out of his home port of Myers Park Marina in Lansing. Times have changed since that first cruise. Eleck has three employees, allowing them the flexibility to run tours all week long. That old boat, along with the impersonal feel of its expansive hull, is gone, replaced with a speedy deck boat and a custom, triple-pontooned boat built by Grumman Boats in Marathon, New York by the husband of a co-worker, designed with every detail geared toward industry best practices for effective booze cruises – fitted with movable armrests, rolling tables that double as coolers and a stain-proof floor, as well as an enclosed canopy from the stern to just forward of the captain’s seat. Starting off with less than a full work week of deck time for the entire summer nine years ago, Eleck’s Schools Out Boat Tours did 130 wine cruises last year, and expects to do around 150 this year. Eleck, recently retired and optimistic

about the future, thinks they can do even more, and has spent his spring connecting with even more B&Bs and wineries, as well as reaching out to numerous publications to establish something once seen as a word-of-mouth business into a more established brand. He figures the experience he offers will sell itself. Eleck focuses on bringing guests to wineries that not only have good wines, but good customer service as well. The group will hit three to four wineries over a six hour cruise with a mix of VIP experiences, tours and tastings, all of which were subject to test runs and scrutiny by Eleck himself – all tasting fees and tips included. The group also offers two-hour sunset cruises “to nowhere,” where people can bring their own snacks and drinks onboard. “We’re not just a taxi service,” he added. “It’s a full tour. But we say just as much or as little as our passengers want.” Eleck estimates around 85 percent of his clientele consists of tourists, mostly from the midAtlantic states into New England, Pennsylvania and in some cases, Ohio. Some will even come to region as a destination to meet friends, speaking volumes to the evolving tourism industry in the Finger Lakes, something Eleck attributes to a significant share of his success. “They’re choosing to go to the Finger Lakes and taste wine here,” Eleck, a resident since 1984, said. “And they end up in our boats. That speaks volumes to the quality of the experience we now have here in the Finger Lakes. We’re a destination now – not a side trip. And we’re a part of it.”

Book a trip at http://fingerlakeswinecruises.com

Exploring Ithaca’s spectacular landscape with her trusty pal, Tasha, gives Loretta great scenery and even better company. Whether she’s hiking to the heart of the gorge or just taking in the falls, she always enjoys the natural beauty of the area. Living on the 105-acre campus of Kendal at Ithaca not only keeps Loretta connected to the places and companions she loves, but the care she may need someday. And, from here, the story just keeps getting better. Come for a visit and tell us your story. Call 800-253-6325 877-891-7709 or go to kai.kendal.org kai.kendal.org/IT2 to learn more.

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he Hangar Theatre (607-273-ARTS (2787) opens its summer season with Fortune (June 14- 23). Maude, a Brooklyn fortune-teller, has an uncanny ability to actually predict the future for her clients. However, when a despondent accountant talks her into an after-hours reading, she is compelled to lie about his unfortunate future to save his life and her little fib, though, has an unforeseen impact on both of their lives. In 1920s Chicago (June 28-July 14), there aren’t many paths to fame for women. But as Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart discover, murder is one of them. Based on the true stories of the “merry murderesses of death row,” these two vamps compete with each other to become the nation’s sweetheart, prove their innocence, and prove that corruption never goes out of fashion. Fresh from its New York run, Ithaca native and IC alum Kate Hamill’s fresh new take on the Jane Austen classic Pride & Prejudice (July 19-28) remains true to the original text while bringing great verve to the story of the Bennet sisters, who must land the right husband. Follow Liz, Jane, Bingley and Darcy as they traverse the trials of societal expectations. 15 years ago, Nora Helmer walked out on her husband, her children and her life, to discover who she is. Now, she’s come home. Witness her hilarious and heart-break homecoming in A Doll’s House, Part 2 (August 2-11), the play that reunites Nora with her husband, her maid, and the daughter she left behind. Currently, the Hangar Theatre is slated to be the first American theatre to stage this show since its successful Broadway run. In Xanadu (August 16-September 1), Zeus’ daughters, the Muses, task themselves to inspire the greatest Venetian artist of all time. But instead of traveling to Venice, Italy, they find themselves in 1980s Venice Beach, California. Undeterred, Clio chooses Sonny, a sidewalk chalk muralist and roller-skater extraor-

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dinaire, as the perfect candidate. Together, they embark on a great artistic journey to restore the mythical roller-skating rink Xanadu. Tom Stoppard’s comedy Rough Crossing (June 6-16) opens Cortland Repertory Theatre’s (607) 756-2627; toll-free 800-4276160) summer season. In the suites of a luxury liner, the playwrights of a soon-to-open hit Broadway comedy are simultaneously trying to write and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the stuttering composer is madly in love with the leading lady, who may or may not be flirting with the (much older) leading man. Toss in a not-so-helpful cabin steward who can only seem to walk straight when seas are rough. Saturday Night Fever (June 20-July 7) is based on John Badham’s iconic 1977 film, featuring Grammy Award winning songs by the Bee Gees. Tony Manero is in a dead end job at a Brooklyn paint store, but he comes to life at “2001 Odyssey”, the local disco where he is the king of the dance floor. Sparks fly when he enters a dance competition with newcomer Stephanie Mangano, and the hot disco songs speak for themselves: “Jive Talkin’”, “If I Can’t Have You”, “Boogie Shoes”, “More Than A Woman”, “How Deep Is Your Love” and “Night Fever” and “Stayin’ Alive”. The show contains adult language and situations. Newsies (July 11-28) is Disney’s highenergy, exciting movie musical, live on stage. In New York City, 1899, Jack Kelly and his ragtag team of newsboys make a meager living selling newspapers on the city streets. But when the prices of “papes” are hiked and the newsies are hung out to dry, there is nothing left to do but “open the gates and seize the day!” The Newsies organize a strike against Joseph Pulitzer, the greedy publisher of the New York World. In Dorothy Meets Alice, or The Wizard of Wonderland (July 14, 19 and 20) two of literature’s most famous young ladies meet for the first time. When a young student puts off his book report until the last minute, he suddenly finds himself in a strange place somewhere

between Oz and Wonderland and becomes responsible for unscrambling the stories and steering the familiar characters (the Cowardly Lion, the Mad Hatter, the Scarecrow, the White Rabbit, and more) to their ultimate destinations, all while avoiding the Wicked Witch and the Red Queen An American classic by Thornton Wilder, the Pulitzer Prize winning Our Town (August 1-11) is staged for the first time at CRT. Widely considered the greatest American play ever written, the audience follows the small New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Breathtaking in its simplicity, the play focuses on the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and start their own lives. Women in Jeopardy! (August 15-25) is Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club a vibrant new comedy about three best friends who are anything but “in jeopardy”. 40-something divorcees Jo and Mary are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new boyfriend, and not just because he’s a weirdo dentist. Thanks to the disappearance of his hygienist, they suspect that he might be a serial killer! This play contains adult language and situations. CRT’s final show of the season, The Rat Pack Lounge (August 29-September 8) will be held at CRT Downtown (24 - 26 Port Watson Street), not the Little York Pavilion. Frank, Dean and Sammy are back, though they might not look quite like how you remember them!

is an imaginative, fiercely independent, stubborn, loving, dramatic, orphan girl who’s constantly getting herself into unintended trouble. Her story unfolds when she is mistakenly sent to live with siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert on their family farm, Green Gables and her journey continues as she finds her way within a community that teaches her lessons about family, friendship, self-discovery and what it means to truly belong. Based on the classic film, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (August 1 – August 22) is a joyous song and tap dancing musical features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy and a parade of hit songs including “Blue Skies,” “Easter Parade,” “Steppin’ Out With My Baby,” “Heat Wave,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Shaking the Blues Away” and more. Everyone is a suspect in Murder For Two (August 29 – September 15). This smart, fastpaced 90-minute musical comedy whodunit is performed by two actors, each of whom play 13 characters and virtuoso piano. These guys put the “laughter” in “manslaughter.” Help solve the case as you journey through suspense, hilarity, pratfalls, dueling piano playing and the perfect blend of music, mayhem and murder. Beehive (September 21 – October 6) is a tribute to the women of 1960’s rock, pop and soul music – from the Shirelles to the Supremes, from Diana Ross to Aretha Franklin, from Tina Turner to Janis Joplin. This musical celebrates the talent, soul and power

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“Newsies.” This charming, song-filled musical mixes It’s a Wonderful Life with Ocean’s Eleven. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. are up in heaven, but God tells them they left some unfinished business back on earth. It seems Frank made an unfulfilled promise to Vic, the owner of the Rat Pack Lounge. Now he and the boys have one night to make things right by helping Vic realize his dreams. The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse (6877 East Lake Road, Auburn, NY 13021 (315) 255-17851-800-457-8897) kicks off its 60th Anniversary Season with Mamma Mia! (June 6 – June 27): A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. This enchanting musical about love, laughter and friendship is set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Greek islands and underscored by ABBA’s timeless songs, including “Dancing Queen,” “Super Trouper,” “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,” “Voulez Vous,” “The Winner Takes It All” and the title hit. In Anne of Green Gables (July 5 – July 25), a new musical direct from four sold out performances at The PiTCH!, Anne Shirley

of the women who characterized a decade and whose songbooks and legacies are still celebrated around the world. Reminisce with hit songs like “Where the Boys Are,” “Natural Woman,” “Proud Mary,” “To Sir With Love,” “Goldfinger” and more! (1-800-457-8897) The Ithaca Shakespeare Company (Allan H. Treman State Marine Park) pairs two of the Bard’s comedies in a double bill for the first time since 2011. In The Taming Of The Shrew (July 12, 14, 20, 22, 26, 28 at 6 pm), Shakespeare’s greatest battle of the sexes like you’ve never seen it before. ISC’s production aims to turn the traditional approach on its head by incorporating material from the little-known sequel written by Shakespeare’s successor, The Tamer Tamed. As You Like It (July 13, 15, 19, 21, 27, 29 at 6 pm) is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedies, featuring one of his strongest and most resourceful heroines, an epic wrestling match, a love quadrangle, music and dance. The

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Spectacular Cideries

credit cards. But no matter how you look at it, the Finger Lakes was among the first to produce a dry, wine-like apple product for sale when Autumn Stoscheck, known as Finger Lakes cider’s “foremother,” registered Eve’s Cidery in 2002 as the first in the area licensed to make hard cider. She and others searched out and planted apple trees they thought might be appropriate to the craft. Now scientists are

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eritage cider? Farmhouse cider? Orchardbased cider? What’s in a name? All these describe a fermented drink made from cider-specific and heirloom apple varieties, frequently grown on the cidery’s site, fermented dry or near-dry, bottled still or bubbly, and marked by a good balance of fruit, tannins, and acids. Finger Lakes cider makers, considered some of the finest in the country, are achieving critical acclaim for their products. The birth of Finger Lakes cideries seems to have happened in the blink of an eye. Ten years ago there were three registered in the State of New York. Now, there are more than ninety. Seeing cider’s potential, many of the large beer companies took a break from snatching up small craft breweries, and rushed into the cider game, producing canned, appley alco-pops targeted at beer drinkers. To further complicate things, according to professor of horticulture emeritus and cidermaker Ian Merwin, “In the wine world there are wine coolers that are distinct from wine. And in the cider world the cider equivalents of wine coolers can be, and are, called cider. . . but they are very different products.” So, for the uninitiated, it’s confusing. Meanwhile, those who consider cider more wine-like, prefer it on the dry side, and pair it with food are voting with their

Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller of the Finger Lakes Cider House, located at 4017 Hickok Rd in Interlaken. (Photo: Casey Martin)

seeking to refine choices. According to Cornell orchard manager and Redbyrd Cider co-owner Eric Shatt, “There’s a lot of research right now from an apple production standpoint.” This includes research currently being conducted at Cornell by Professor Greg Peck. Said Shatt, “We’re coming to a more definitive list of apples that produce yield, flavor, and other characteristics that we’re looking for.” Jenn Smith, executive director of the New York Cider Association, notes that there has been a shift in market share. “At the industry level where we’re seeing sales growth, and where we’re seeing cider continue to edge into the market share of fine wine and craft beer,” she said, “the macro producers’ sales trajectories are slowing down, and the number of smaller producers and their volume is increasing.” According to a recent Nielsen study of the 2017 cider market commissioned by the United States Association of Cider Makers, national brands – mostly the “big boys of the beer world” – saw an 11.5 percent decline in sales, while regional brands saw a 30 percent increase. For Finger Lakes cider makers, that’s spectacular! Women have played an active role in Finger Lakes cider making, with the likes of Autumn Stoscheck (Eve’s Cidery), Melissa Madden (Kite & String Cider), Jackie Merwin (Black Diamond Cider), and Deva Maas (Redbyrd Cider) actively involved in the various aspects of cider making, promotion, and sales. Stoscheck led the charge for getting cider onto high-end NYC restaurants, a result of weekly trips to city greenmarkets where she introduced consumers and chefs to this new/old quaff. “For the first decade most of what we were doing was explaining to people that yes,

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doesn’t fit in with that style.” Stoscheck sums it up: “Even at this early stage, the Finger Lakes is emerging as one of the most exciting cider regions in the world. That’s because right from the start we’ve had a great community, not only of producers, but of growers, mentors and aficionados who have set the bar for quality really high. As more cider orchards come into bearing, I think consumers will have more of an opportunity to taste their way through the microclimates of Finger Lakes apple growing geography in a meaningful way. . . What they are tasting is new and unfamiliar and yet they can immediately recognize that it’s something beautiful, something that was made with care and reflects the land the apples were grown on, something with weight and complexity that’s also totally refreshing, something with structure and balance that will pair amazingly with food.”

A sample flight of different ciders at the Finger Lakes Cider House. in fact what we were making had alcohol in it and no, it wasn’t sweet,” she said. Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller of the Finger Lakes Cider House have been promoting not only their own dozen-or-more Kite & String Cider products, but also those of other Finger Lakes producers, including Redbyrd, Black Diamond, and Eve’s, and, recently, a Hudson Valley cidery. Madden, with Stoscheck a founder of the annual Finger Lakes Cider Week, now in its seventh year, is encouraged by the reaction of first-time cider drinkers, some of whom have been arriving recently via Uber and Lyft. “They’re routinely surprised by how much they like cider when they’re given a chance to taste through a range,” she said. “Having a really good experience is a great starting point for getting them to be advocates for elevated craft, sustainable agriculture – it’s the whole farmto-table movement.” Cider makers, among them Stoscheck, South Hill Ciders Steve Selin, and New York Cider’s Steve Daughhetee, credit Merwin and long-time amateur Peter Hoover (full disclosure: he’s my husband) with mentoring and motivating them, as they contemplated best trees to plant, a tasted through still and bubbly dry ciders, and accompanied Hoover on his Tom Sawyer-like annual fall apple foraging and pressing parties. You can head north on 96 or 89 for evi-

dence of the wineries, breweries, distilleries, and cideries of late bursting forth from vineyards, farms, hop yards, and orchards. The state’s most recent count of boozeries rang in at 715, and many of the best, including our cideries, call the Finger Lakes region home. According to the New York Cider Association executive director, Jenn Smith, “Finger Lakes cider benefits from the identity of the Finger Lakes as the source of exceptional craft beverages, particularly fine wines. . .I can’t think of a Finger Lakes [cider] producer who

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Waaaaaaaay Back: A Short, Sketchy History We suspect cider may have originated in the forests of central Asia where Malus sieversii, the original apple, got its start. Over the years, the cider-making craft established itself in areas of France, Spain, and England, each with its own cider style. Evidently, there were no apples in the New World until the first of them arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. And what did the pilgrims have to eat on their crossing? The Mayflower’s manifest included biscuits, beer, salt, salt pork, oats, peas, wheat, butter, mustard seed, ling or cod fish, “good cheese”, vinegar, aqua-vitae, rice, bacon, and (ta-da!) – cider. So we figure it must have been important to them. John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed, plantsman and real estate speculator, helped spread apple trees westward in the 18th century. Fast forward to mid-nineteenth-century Ithaca, when Cornell’s first students, bored with merely burning down outhouses for fun, took pleasure in raiding the Flea Hollow (now Forest Home) cider mill on Saturday nights. So we know that cider has been produced in this area at least since the mid-19th century, perhaps longer; it was claimed to have been safer to drink than well water, and was considered an essential part of farmhands’ pay. But it took a hit during Prohibition, after which the popularity of beer nearly wiped it out. Until now. Professor emeritus and cider maker Ian Merwin cites the changes in cider making with renewed appreciation, saying “People are getting more sophisticated about what cider should and can be.”

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Rosé – The Next Big Thing? LOCAL TAKE JOI NS OT HE R WO RLD - CLASS FLX E XP O RTS By Matt Butler

2014, a coalition of he Finger Lakes 29 rosé producing boasts an extenwineries throughout sive list of winerthe region who can ies that have long gather to test and been a popular destrade tips on each tination for summer unique product from tourism to the area, the Discover’s memdotting the central bers, organized by New York region with Dan Mitchell from 30 different visiting Fox Run Vineyards options. in Penn Yan. It was a Over the last few natural fit, since the years, dry rosé has wineries in central emerged as a summer New York are closer favorite in the Finger to collaborators Lakes, building a folthan competitors, lowing both in the Pallischeck said, region and to a wider but it’s helped form audience as a young a network of sorts flagship for the region. to boost dry rosé’s As popularity for the notoriety. drink increased, a As for the wine slew of Finger Lakes itself, Pallischeck wineries have jumped said the geography into the rosé producand climate of cention business, includtral New York has ing Sheldrake Point played a significant Winery in Ovid, who role in yielding the has emerged as one specific taste of dry of the region’s leaders rosé up here. While since its first producother wine-production 20 years ago. ing hubs, like Italy, The return on Portugal, France or investment wasn’t even parts of the quick, though, as United States, priseveral other winermarily have warmies during that time weather climates started and stopped almost year-round, dry rosé producNew York’s cold tion due to its stillseason can actually nascent popularity have an interesting stateside. Historically, influence on the way rosé production was wines turn out postlimited to European A delicious bottle of Sheldrake Point Rosé. production. production, primar“Traditionally, ily France, before garcool climate wines nering a foothold in are typically going to be lower in alcohol and other European countries like Italy and Por- higher in acid,” she said, explaining that the tugal. But as America’s wine tastes and prefer- regional climate can have a fairly significant ences evolved, Sheldrake Point has seen a vast impact on the wine’s content and characterisincrease in interest in their dry rosé, as have tics. “Also, with lower alcohol, it allows you to the dozens of other wineries in central New enjoy a little bit more, with less repercussions, York and even elsewhere in the state, led by if you know what I mean.” Long Island. While its appeal is still somewhat seasonal Pallischeck said around 2010 dry rosé because of its light texture, Sheldrake Point started to gain some momentum, but it truly Winery Marketing and Sales Manager Kyle picked up over the last five years or so, when Pallischeck said there has been a more recent wine drinkers started to notice the value of movement to expand the drink to other times pink wine, rosé’s informal title, from a saccha- of year as well, particularly during the harsh rine treat to something that could be comfort- winters central New York endures. ably mixed with different foods, it garnered “Now that it’s gained in popularity, a lot a much wider appeal. Since they had been of people are also recognizing that it’s not consistently producing small batches of the necessarily just a summer-time drink, it’s product for so long, Sheldrake was able to fill nice to have on-hand in the winter because that new demand fairly seamlessly. It’s quickly it’s immensely food friendly and can sort of become a third of their total wine production, remind you of the days of summer,” Pallischand Sheldrake put out 2600 cases of dry rosé in eck said. Her personal favorite dish to pair with the last two years. dry rosé is a strawberry salad with chèvre goat The popularity, and the effort to spread cheese from Interlaken’s Lively Run Dairy. the word, resulted in Discover Dry rosé in

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his time of year, the Finger Lakes region offers great opportunities to see the majestic taloned creatures we know as raptors: hawks, ospreys, eagle and falcons to name a few. There are about 20 species of raptors or birds of prey, including owls, that can be found in the region. Some species, like red-tailed hawks, are widespread and abundant and can be viewed most anywhere. Other species, such as the American Kestrel, are found in specific habitats and have been on the decline in this area, noted Marc Devokaitis, associate editor of Living Bird Magazine from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. But generally in the Tompkins County area, raptors, as well as other birds, are plentiful. One of the reasons is because the region is part of the Atlantic Flyway, a key migratory route for North American birds. The area contains so many migration stopovers, breeding territories and overwintering sites that more than 20 “Important Birding Areas” have been identified here.The Cornell Lab of Ornithology as well as many bird clubs, land trusts and nature centers throughout the region make it a premier place for bird-watching. Birds, particularly raptors, thrive here as well in most ecosystems they inhabit because they are effective hunters, Devokaitis said. “It’s a combination of traits including keen eyesight, swift and/or maneuverable flight, and strong talons” Devokaitis said. “ For nocturnal owls, add highly adapted hearing to the mix.” Ornithology actually defines a raptor, or a bird of prey as a bird that has very good eyesight for finding food, strong feet for holding food and a strong curved beak for tearing flesh. Those curved talons are literally killer, for prey, that is. Allaboutbirds.org gives an overview about the most popular raptors in the region: we’ve included some facts about each species. We also used the interactive site eBird.org to tell you where to find them. eBird.org provides an map where you can enter the species and location to learn about the best places to watch for your favorite raptors, or any other kind of bird. You can even put in the time of year and number of years to search to really narrow down the likelihood of having a top-notch birding experience. We included some of the hotspots: you can find others using the website. Bald Eagle: The bald eagle has been the national emblem of the United States since 1782 and has flourished under protection. These regal

birds aren’t really bald, but their white-feathered heads gleam in contrast to their deep brown body and wings. They fly in solitude, but they often chase other birds for their food. Rather the do their own fishing, bald eagles often go after other creatures’ catches. An eagle may even snatch a fish directly out of an osprey’s talons. To find them, head for water, where they will do their own fishing when they can’t find one to steal. Where they are: Stewart Park: Stewart Park, Myers Point, Dryden Lake, Stevenson Road Game Farm and Compost,

Monkey Run Southwest and Cornell University’s Beebe Lake. Cooper’s Hawk: Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, cooper’s hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high-speed pursuit of other birds. They prowl above a forest edge or field using just a few stilf wingbeats followed by a glide. Finding a cooper’s hawk is a matter of having an eagle-eye. They are common but stealthy, and smaller than other common hawks. With their smaller lookalike, the sharpshinned hawk, cooper’s hawks make for tricky identifications. Where they are: Sapsucker Woods Wilson Trail, Sunset Park, Caswell Road Grasslands, Roy H. Park Preserve North and the Ithaca Reservoir. Osprey: Unique among North American raptors for its diet of live fish and the ability to dive into the water to catch them, ospreys are common sights on shorelines, waterways and on their large stick nests, white heads gleaming. Ospreys do well around humans; they readily build their nests on manmade structures such as utility poles, channel markers, duck blinds and nest platforms designed especially for them. The platforms have become an important tool in re-establishing ospreys in areas where they had disappeared. Where they are:Taughannock Falls State Park along the lakeshore east of the creek, Cornell University’s Beebe Lake and Palmer Woods, Salt Point Nature Preserve and Sapsucker Woods Wilson Trail North. Red Tail Hawk: Probably the most common hawk in North America, they can be seen most anywhere, above open fields slowly turning circles on their broad, rounded wings or perched on utility poles or wires, eyes fixed on the ground to catch the movements of a vole or rabbit. The birds are amazing adapted for life in the air. The red-tailed hawk is one of the largest birds that can be seen in North America, yet even the biggest female weigh only about three pounds. A similar-sized small dog might weigh 10 times that Where they are: Taughannock Falls State Park along the North Rim Trail, East Ithaca Recreation Way, Eldridge Wildlife Preserve, Fischer Old Growth Forest and Mulholland Wildlife Preserve.

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Community Restaurant: 10 Main St., Cortland, NY 607-7565441. Steak, Seafood, Greek & Italian Specialties. Oldest Restaurant, established 1930 Crystal Lake Café: Located at Americana Vineyards & Winery, 4367 E. Covert Rd., Interlaken, NY 14847. Specializing in gourmet sandwiches, paninis, soups and desserts. Take it to go call for hours 607- 387-6804. Derek’s Restaurant and BBQ Call for hours 3631 Tichenor Rd. Hector New York 607-546-4294 Breakfast and real deal BBQ. The Dock: 415 Taughannock Blvd. Ithaca’s premiere live music venue, located at the foot of Cayuga Lake. Kitchen and bar open daily, Late Brunch served on the weekends, and Happy Hour served 4–7 PM weekdays. Dryden Hotel: 42 W. Main St., Dryden, (607) 844-8293. Open Sun. 7 a.m.-midnight; Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. - 1 a.m. Classic pub menu. Fat Jack’s BBQ: 344 Elmira Rd, Ithaca, 607-319-0920. Open 7 days a week. Ribs, pulled pork, burnt ends, chicken, burgers, and Sam’iches. Gateway BBQ Kitchen: 301 E. State St. Ithaca’s BEST Beef Brisket and Barbeque. Located in the Gateway Plaza downtown. Opens at 11 am Tuesday–Sunday! Ginny Lee Cafe at Wagner Vineyards: 9322 State Route 414, Lodi NY (14 miles north of Watkins Glen) Vista overlooking Seneca Lake. Menus designed to complement and enhance medalwinning wines and craft beers. Starters, soups, salads, deli and hot sandwiches, personal pizzas. Open Daily 11am - 4pm May - October. Call for seasonal hours Nov-April. Reservations appreciated 607-582-6574. Heights Restaurant and H Bar: 903 Hanshaw Rd. (Community Corners), 257-4144. Hours: lunch M-Fr 11:30am-2:30pm, dinner M-Th 5-9pm, Fr-Sa, 5-10pm. American with Mediterranean flair. Charcoal grilled steak and seafood, pasta, pizza. Hollywood Restaurant: 27 Groton Ave., Cortland. 753-3242. Open 7 days a week, 11:30am-10pm Sunday noon-9pm. ItalianAmerican cuisine. Casual atmosphere, 1940s decor. VISA/MC/AmEx accepted. Jack’s Grill: 120 Dryden Road, Ithaca (Collegetown) M-F 8am-2am Sat & Sun 8am-3am 256-5225 Knapp Vineyard Restaurant: Open seasonally April to October, weekends in November. 869-9271 On the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail. Lakeside Restaurant: West Lake Rd., Rt. 54A, 8 mi. north of Hammondsport, 868-3636. Lunches through October 1st Sat - Sun 11 am - 4 pm. Dinners Wed -Fri 5pm-9pm, Sat & sun 5 pm - 10 pm. Louie’s Lunch: Located on Cornell Campus, 500 Thurston Ave., Ithaca. 257-4649. All-American food. Open daily: 11am-3am. Luna Inspired Street Food, 310 Stewart Ave. 256-5862; 713 N. Aurora St. 269-6139. A brick and mortar, quick service restaurant inspired by street vendors, carts and trucks from across the country and the globe. Max’s Grill & Sports Bar: 222 S. Cayuga St. 607-272-1000. Featuring homemade food and specials at the bar everyday 4-11, large drink menu. Monks on the Commons: 120 Aurora St, 272-2222. Open SunThurs, 6:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat, 6:30am-1am. Our menu is crafted by our in-house chefs. We offer down home cooking prepared with love, elevated by our home-grown ingredients and delivered with style. Northstar House: Local cuisine with style. 202 East Falls Street; Ithaca, NY (607)216-8580; Hours: Mon 7-11pm Tues-Thurs & Sun 4-11pm Fri-Sat 4-12am. Pokeland, 206B Dryden Road. At Pokeland, we are committed to

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use only the freshest sustainable, highest-quality sourced fish in our poke bowls. Our modern and unique twist on poke highlights prime cuts so we purposely do not pre-marinate, and we build your bowl to order. There are endless combinations of bases, sauces, and toppings for you to customize and enjoy. Open Sun-Thurs, 9am-11pm, Fri-Sat, 9am-11:30pm. The Rook: 404 W. State St. Delicious food. Smart drinks. Casual Atmosphere. Excellent Company. Open Tus-Sat, 5pm–12am. The Rose: Triphammer Mall, 257-5542. Hours: Lunch, M-Sa. 11:304pm, Dinner, M-Th 4-10pm; F-Sa 4-11pm. Burgers, fajitas, pasta, steaks, seafood. Casual dining, eclectic decor. Bar till 1am. Royal Court Restaurant: 529 S. Meadow St., 273-3022. Hours: T-F 7am-9pm, Sat 5-9pm. Happy hour 4-6pm. Steaks, seafood, fish fry Fridays, slow roasted prime rib Saturdays. Rulloff’s: 411 College Ave., 277-1700. Hours: Lunch, M-Fri, 11:30am-3pm, Dinner M-Sun, 4pm-10pm, Bruch Sat&Sun 10am3pm. Bar open to late nigh service. Rulloff’s offers a variety of new American inspired cuisine and craft beverages. Stella’s Barn- Country Comfort Restaurant: 564-9031; 1346 Elmira Rd. (Rt. 13) Newfield, NY; Hours: Mon-Fri 4-9pm Sat 11am-9pm. Tack Room Lounge serving Spirits Wine & Brew. Country comfort dining at its finest. Uncle Louie’s Backyard: 294 Tompkins St., Cortland. 607-7583062. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Waffle Frolic: 146 E. State St., The Commons. Offering fair trade coffee. Full espresso bar, breakfast, sandwiches, and entrees all day. Vegan and gluten-free options available. Wegmans Market Café: 500 S. Meadow St., Ithaca, 277-5800. Wings of life, salads, subs/sandwiches, cappuccino, pizza, sushi bar, Chinese Wokery and hot vegetarian buffet, hand carved sandwiches. Eat in or take out. Wings-Over-Ithaca: 121 Dryden Rd., Ithaca, 319-4664. Over 20 kinds of wings, boneless wings, ribs, 1/3 lb. burgers. Major credit cards accepted. Free delivery.

BAKERIES Ithaca Bakery 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca, (607) 273-7110 Great artisan bread, fresh salads, soups, creative sandwiches, coffee, delectable pastries, international cheeses & entrées. Wide-Awake Bakery 4361 Buck Hill Rd S, Trumansburg, (607) 387-9970 Makes many varieties of BREAD, PASTA, GRANOLA, PASTRIES, and COOKIES from scratch using local and organic ingredients. Available Sundays at the Ithaca Farmers Market, Wednesdays at the Trumansburg Market, as well as the Crust Fund bread CSA

BREW PUBS Nickel’s Pit BBQ Open 7 Days 607.210.4227 205-207 N. Franklin St., Watkins Glen, NY Authentic American BBQ. Featuring award winning Rooster Fish craft ales Red’s Place: 107 N Aurora St., Ithaca. 319-4468. A dining pub. Serving food Sun-Thurs 11:30am-10pm. Fri and Sat 11:30am12:00am. Craft beers and a gastropub menu. The Scale House Brewery and Pub: Live music Friday and Saturday Nights. Live Jazz every Sunday 6-8pm. Open 11am-11pm. 23 Cinema Drive, Small Mall, Ithaca, NY 14850 257-2757

BREWERIES WITH FOOD Crooked Rooster Brew Pub: 301 N. Franklin St. Watkins Glen, NY

14891 (607) 535-9797. “Home of Roosterfish Brewing Co.”. Grist Iron Brewing: 4880 NYS 414 Burdett 607-882-BREW. Small plates, Grinders, Hand Tossed Pizzas. Fresh and in-season ingredients are used from local sustainable sources. Serving our craft beer and regional crafts brews and an assortment of Seneca wines. Ithaca Beer Taproom W-Sun 12pm-9pm 122 Ithaca Beer Drive 607-273-0766 locally sourced cuisine, wood fired pizza, burgers, soups, sandwiches, award winning microbrew. Starkey’s Lookout: 5428 State Route 414, Dundee New York 607678-4043. Open 7 days, call for Hrs. Tapas paired with G.C. Starkey micro brews and Seneca Hayes, Twisted Screw wines. Two Goats Brewing: 5027 Route 414 Burdett, (607) 546-2337. Mon, Tues, Thurs 12 PM-10 PM, Fri-Sat 12 PM-12 AM. Wed. closed. Live music.

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CAFÉS / BISTROS Berta’s Cafe Wed-Sun 7am-2pm 3825 Main Street, Burdett 607546-7770 Breakfast and Lunch. All fresh ingredients. Café DeWitt: DeWitt Mall, 273-3473. Hours: M-Sa, 8:30am2:30pm, Sat & Su brunch 10am-2pm. Fresh salads, sandwiches, daily specials. Casual atmosphere, take-out available. Breakfast and lunch only. Café Gola Located in the Breazzano Family Center at 209-215 Dryden Rd., Ithaca. New Euro cafe in Collegetown offering pastries, expresso, coffee, paninis and salads. Grab and go! Open 7:30AM4PM. 607-319-0201 Carriage House Café: 305 Stewart Ave., Ithaca, 645-0152. Fresh, Seasonal menu featuring handmade breads and fresh baked pastries. Espresso and loose-leaf tea bar. Collegetown Bagels (3 locations): 415 College Ave., 273-0982; 203 N. Aurora St., 273-2848; East Hill Plaza 273-1036. Hours: Collegetown M-Su 6:30am-2am. Downtown M-Sun 6:30am-8pm; East Hill: M-Fri 6am-6pm, Sat 6:30am-6pm; Sun 7am-5pm. Made fresh daily: Many varieties of bagels; sandwiches. At College Avenue location, beer and wine, patio seating; salad bar at Aurora Street. Coltivare: 235 South Cayuga St. Ithaca, 607 882 2333. Unique farm to bistro restaurant. Local ingredients prepared creatively. Extensive selection of regional beverages. Open Sun-Tus, 5pm-9pm, WedSat, 5pm-10pm, Late night Fri & Sat, 10pm-12 am, Brunch Sat & Sun,10am-2pm. Closed Mondays. The Commons Kitchen: 124 East State St. (on The Commons) Ithaca Traditional American breakfast offerings with Moroccan lunch and dinner specials. Open Mon to Thu 8AM-9PM; Fri and Sat 8AM -10PM; Sun 8AM-4PM Creekside Café: 4 W. Main St., Trumansburg. (607) 342-8145. Wed.-Sat. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Breakfast served until noon, lunch, and a Sunday brunch. Gimme! Coffee: (1) 430 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca. 277-8393. (2) 506 W. State St., Ithaca. 273-0111. Open from 7am-9pm daily. (3) 7 East Main Street, Trumansburg, 387-3960. Hours 7 am-7 pm daily. Hazelnut Kitchen: 53 E. Main St, Trumansburg. 607-387-4433. Open Thurs-Mon for dinner only. Local farm-driven American bistro highlighting the region’s finest ingredients. Nightly specials

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Ithaca Coffee Company: Variety of local goods and gifts. Local Gift Baskets and artisanal cheese selection at Triphammer location, homebrewing supplies at Gateway. House roasted coffee packaged or bulk, espresso bar and cafe with food. Taverns with craft beer selection on tap and bottled to carry out. Triphammer Marketplace 257-2626; Gateway 311 E. Green St. 273-7800. Open 7 days/week. Simeon’s on the Commons: 224 E. State St. Ithaca. (607) 2722212. Tues. - Thurs. 5 p.m. - 11 p.m.; Fri. - Sat. 5 p.m. - 1 a.m. Sun. 5 p.m. - 11 a.m. Large and small plates of meat and seafood. Oyster raw bar. The Shop: 312 E. Seneca St. Ithaca, NY; 273-5028 Serving coffee, espresso, and tea. Live music, free internet! Stonecat Café: 5315 Route 414, Hector NY 14841. 607-546-5000. Organic, Regional Cuisine. Open W-Su, April-Nov. Serving Lunch 123, Dinner 5-9. Live Jazz Brunch on Sundays from 10:30-3. Reservations highly recommended Thirsty Owl Bistro: 6799 Elm Beach Rd., off Rt. 89-20 min. north of Ithaca, 20 min. south of Seneca Falls, 607-869-5805. Bistro menu includes lighter fare, seasonal specials and desserts. View of Cayuga Lake. Open seasonally. Ventosa Vineyards Café: 3440 Rte. 96A, Geneva, NY. 315-7190000. Hours: 11-5pm; Wed live music and food until 9pm. Open year-round-extended summer hours. Serving lunch daily in a beautiful Tuscan setting overlooking vineyards and Seneca Lake. Village Tavern Restaurant & Inn: On the Village Square, Hammondsport, 569-2528. Open seven days: 11:30am-3pm (lunch),

3-4:30pm (bistro menu), 5pm-9:30pm (dinner); F & Sa dinners till 10:30pm. Extensive Finger Lakes wine list. Wine Spectator Award.

CONTINENTAL Dano’s Heuriger on Seneca: 9564 Rte 414 south Lodi, N.Y. 582-7555. European dining, overlooking Seneca Lake. Casual atmosphere. Seasonal menu with vegetarian offerings. Homemade Viennese desserts. Featuring Finger Lakes wines and beer. *Call ahead for Season Hours Just a Taste Wine & Tapas Bar: 116 N. Aurora St., 277-WINE. 50 wines available by the glass; 30 international beers. International menu of tapas, salads, entrées, and homemade desserts. Outdoor dining. All major credit cards. Dinner only. Suzanne Fine Regional Cuisine: 9013 Route 414, Lodi, NY 607582-7545. Country Elegant Dining in a 1903 farmhouse overlooking Seneca Lake. Open for dinner and for special group celebrations. 2008 Wine Spectator Award and a Frommer’s Top Ten Restaurant in NY State. Veraisons Restaurant at The Inn at Glenora Wine Cellars: 5435 Rt. 14, Dundee, NY 14837. 1-800-243-5513. Open year round. Fine dining served with award winning wines in a relaxed atmosphere, overlooking beautiful Seneca Lake.

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DiBella’s Subs, 222 Elmira Road. 264-2432. 10-10 seven days. Classic American Subs served with classic American substance. Gorgers Subs: 116 w. State Ithaca 319 5046 Mon-Sat 11-9 Good to Go!: Trumansburg Market 21 E Main Trumansburg 3878646 Open Mon-Fri 7-7, Sat. 9- Natural goods grocery & deli. Homemade soup & sandwiches. Breakfast all day. Eat in or take-out. Ithaca Bakery: Built on fresh ingredients: sandwiches, homemade entrees and salads, artisan breads and bagels, pastries, cheeses, fair-trade coffee. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Grab & Go Platters. Local delivery available. Two Ithaca Locations: 400 N. Meadow St. 607-273-7110 Sun-Thu 6am-8pm, Sat 6am-9pm. Triphammer Marketplace 2255 N. Triphammer Rd 607-257-2255 Mon-Sat 6:30am-7:30pm, Sun 7am-6pm. Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich Shop: 122 N. Aurora St 607.645.0075. Fast delivery until 3:10am. Catering. Shortstop Deli: 204 W. Seneca St., 273-1030. Hours: open 24 hours every day. Grocery/Deli—custom-made sandwiches, subs; low carb, no carb options. Homemade baked bread, seven variety of soup & chili, made fresh every day. Ice cream.

DINERS Classic Chef’s: State Route 14, 1 mile south of Watkins Glen State Park between Watkins Glen and Montour Falls. Open 7 Days. Home cooked meals. Breakfast All Day! Freddy’s Place: Newfield’s Main St. Diner. 206 Main St., Newfield NY, 607-564-9050. Mon-Fri 6am-1pm. Sat & Sun 6am-2pm. Full breakfast, hamburgers, homemade soup. Lincoln Street Diner: 309 E. Lincoln St., Ithaca. 216-1616. M-F 6am-2pm, Sat.: 7am-1pm, closed Sun. Queen Diner: 48 North St., Dryden, (607) 844-5060. Mon. - Sat. 7 a.m. - 9 a.m.; Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. State Diner: 428 W. State St., 272-6189. Greek specialties, breakfast anytime. Friendly atmosphere.

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Lunch specials. Asian Noodle House: 204 Dryden Rd., Ithaca. 607-272-9106. Hours: Mon-Sun 11:30am-9pm. Serving Asian noodles and cuisine with unwavering commitment to flavor! BoL: 224 East State St. (on The Commons) Ithaca. (607) 280-9807 Modern style, Asian influenced soups and salads. All Fresh. Vegan and Gluten Free options. Tue-Sun 11:30AM to 9PM Capital Corner: 140 W. State St., Ithaca, NY. 272-7350 Original Chinese food; Open 7 Days a week; Mon-Th 11am-11pm; Fri-Sat 11am-11:30pm Sun 12noon-11:30pm Eat In • Take out • Free Delivery Jade Garden: 108 S. Meadow St. 272-8880. Mon-Sat 11am10:30pm. Lunch buffet, dinner buffet. Eat in, deliver, or take out. Szechuan, Hunan and Cantonese style food. Major credit cards accepted. Ling Ling: 222 Elmira Rd. Closed Sunday, Ithaca Shopping Plaza 272-0718; and Ling Ling Gardens at East Hill Plaza, 273-1668. Hours: M-Th 11am-10pm, Fri & Sa 11am-11pm, Su noon-10pm. Take-out and Eat-In Chinese restaurant. Szechwan, Hunan and Cantonese. Serving beer & wine. Madeline’s: Corner of N. Aurora and E. State, The Commons, 2772253. Open for dinner 7 days, starting 5pm. Seasonal patio dining, premium wines & spirits. “East meets West” cuisine. Gourmet desserts made in-house. Major credit cards accepted. Reservations recommended. Main Moon Chinese Buffet: 401 Elmira Rd., Butter milk Falls Plaza, 277-3399. Hours: Su-Th 11:30am-9:30pm; F-Sa 11:30am10:30pm. Buffet table, 180 items that change daily. Carry-out. VISA, MC, Discover, AmEx. Serving Chinese/American Cuisine. Mia Tapas Bar and Restaurant: 130 E. State St. Ithaca. 607-2772000. Sophisticated and budget-conscious bistro offering Asianinspired tapas. Extensive vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free menu. Saigon Kitchen: 5264 State St., Ithaca, 257-8881. Fresh pho, great rice and noodle dishes with grilled meats. Tues-Sun 11:30am9:30pm. Spicy Asian: 335 Elmira Road Ithaca 277 7017. Tues-Thurs 11- 10; Fri-Sat 11- 11; Sun 12-10 Spring Buffet: 106 Fairground Memorial Pkway (across from Lowe’s), Ithaca. Open 7 Days. Largest Asian Buffet in Ithaca. Most Delicious, Authentic Chinese, American, Japanese Cuisine and Hibachi Grill. Sticky Rice: 401 State St. Gateway Plaza Sun.-Wed. 5-9pm; Th 5-9:30 pm; Fri.-Sat. 5-10pm Sumo Japanese Hibachi and Sushi: N. Triphammer Road. 607257-5555. Hours: Mon-Thurs 11:30am-10pm Fri/Sat 11:30am-

11pm Sun 12:30pm-9:30pm. Bar area, dining room seating, sushi bar, private & open hibachi rooms. Accept reservations for any party events, birthday, wedding, graduation, anniversary. Tamarind: 503 N. Meadow St., Ithaca. 277-2220. Open for lunch Tues-Fri, 11:30am-3pm; dinner 5-10pm. Open all day Saturday and Sunday, 11:30am-10pm. Closed Monday. Exotic Thai and other Asiatic cookery. Specialties Pineapple Fried Rice, Pad Thai, Jasmine Rice & Other Thai Foods. Taste of Thai: 216 The Commons, Ithaca. 256-5487. Open every day Lunch 11:30-2:30, dinner 5-10. Authentic Thai food at a family owned restaurant. Dine In, Take Out, Catering. Dinner Sat. & Sun. 11:30am-10:00pm. Taste of Thai Express: 209 S. Meadow St., Ithaca, 272-8424. Delivery available. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Eat-in or take-out. Tokyo Hibachi, Sushi & Asian Bistro.: 722 S. Meadow St. Suite # 800, Ithaca. 277-8888. Japanese inspired hibachi, sushi with full bar, party rooms. Vietnam Restaurant: 208 Dryden Rd., College town, 273-5030. Open daily 11:30am-10pm, F-Sa 11:30am-10:30pm. Homemade soups, salads, and Vietnamese specialties.

ETHIOPIAN Hawi Ethiopian Cuisine: 113 S. Cayuga Street. 607-277-4294. Hours: Tues-Sun 12pm-10pm. Closed Monday. Freshly prepared Ethiopian food created from scratch. We take reservations after 4pm.

FRENCH Cafe Cent-Dix: 110 N. Aurora St., around the corner from Ithaca Commons. French Bistro cuisine, soups and plats dujour, vegetarian dishes, French wines. Chef and family owned. Open Tue-Sun 5:3010pm. 607-319-0750.

GREEK Souvlaki House: 315 Eddy St., 273-1650. Hours: Su-Th, 11am11pm; F & Sa, 11am-midnight. Italian and Greek cuisine, pizza. Friendly atmosphere.

INDIAN Diamonds: 106 W. Green St., 272-4508. Open 7 days a week: MFri 11:30am-2:30pm, Sat-Sun noon-3pm; Lunch buffet, Sun.-Sat. 5-10. Large selection of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Tandoori specialties. Catering, carryout. Mehak Cuisine: 410 Eddy St. Ithaca. 256-3425. Open 7 days a week. Lunch Buffet 11:30am-3pm. Dinner Mon-Sat 5pm-10:30pm. Sun 5pm-9:30pm Sangam Indian Cuisine: Serving the community since 1983. 424

Eddy St., Collegetown, 273-1006. Downtown: 277-6716. Lunch and dinner. Center Ithaca on The Commons, 277-6716. Open Mon-Wed 11am-6pm, Thurs-Fri 11am-8pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun noon-5pm. Indian cuisine, vegan, no dairy food, lunch and dinner menus, daily lunch buffet, beer, wine. Major credit cards accepted.

ITALIAN Ciao!: Wood-Fired Pizza & Pasta. 2 Hickory Hollow Lane, Ithaca. 257-2233. Casual Fine Dining. Serving Lunch daily 11:30-4pm. Dinner beginning at 4pm. Italian food with an Authentic Tuscan Flare. Gola Osteria: 115 S. Quarry Street. 607-273-0333. Hours: wed-Sat 5pm-11pm Sun 5pm-9pm. Mon and Tues closed. Fine Italian dining utilizing the bounty of the Finger Lakes. Italian Carryout: 1070 Danby Rd. 256-1111. Open 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Fresh baked goods, complete pasta/ pizza/subs/salads. Dine in, carry out, free delivery. MC/VISA. Jerlando’s Ristorante & Pizzeria: 400 North Franklin Street, Watkins Glen, (607) 535-4254 Joe’s Restaurant: 602 W. Buffalo St. Ithaca, NY 256-3463. Serving authentic Italian dishes plus American favorites in a casual setting. Open 7 days a week. Lunch Wed.-Sat. 11:30-3:00, Sun 12-3; Dinner Mon.-Tu. 5-9, Wed-Thu. 5-9:30, Fri. & Sat. 3-10, Sun 3-9. Little Venice Ristorante: 49 E. Main. Trumansburg. 387-7044. Hours: 11am-1am. Pizza, wings, subs, steaks, seafood, Italian specialties, Dine-In, Carry-Out, delivery, full service bar. Mercato Bar & Kitchen: 108 N. Aurora St., Around the corner from Ithaca Commons. Italian inspired cuisine with fresh seasonal flavors. Exceptional wines and crafted cocktails. Chef and family owned. Open for Dinner Mon-Sat 5:30-10pm. 607-319-5171 Montage Italian Grill: at Glen Motor Inn: Rt. 14, 1 mile north of Watkins Glen, 535-2706. Open May through October, serving lunch & dinner. Panoramic lake views, indoor and outdoor dining. Italian Classics and American Favorites. Visa/MC/AmEx. Lunch 11:30-3:30 Dinner 4:00- 9:00 Union Block Italian Bistro: 33 Shether St., Hammondsport, (607) 246-4065. 4 p.m. to close. Antipasti, pizza, pasta, fish and meat dishes. Separate bar menu. ZaZa’s Cucina: 622 Cascadilla St., 273-9292. Northern Italian cuisine featuring fresh pasta, gluten-free gnocchi, traditional favorites and an unmatched wine and cocktail list.

MEXICAN Bickering Twins: 114 N. Cayuga St. Ithaca Latin American & Mexican Cuisine from scratch. Full Bar. Open Tue to Sun - closed Mondays. Lunch: Tue-Fri 11AM-2:30PM; Dinner: Tue-Sun 5PM-10PM Bar stays open Fri & Sat until 1AM 607-

319-0653 Loco Cantina, 308 Stewart Ave. 273-5626. Bar & grill offering pub apps. Mexican specialties and margaritas. Moe’s Southwest Grill: 324 Elmira Rd., Ithaca 277-6637 Catering available. Old Mexico Restaurant & Cantina: 357 Elmira Road. 607-3796176. Full Mexican restaurant experience with authentic Mexican food. That Burrito Place: 319 College Ave. Ithaca (Collegetown) 3190661. The Burrito 1,290,240 custom combinations. Cater your event. Viva Cantina: 101 N. Aurora St., 277-1752. Hours: M-Su 11am10pm. Fresh Healthy Mexican Food. Vegetarian friendly, outdoor dining. Full bar, margaritas made with fresh-squeezed lime juice, table service. Happy hour: Mon-Fri., 4-6pm.

MIDDLE EASTERN Istanbul Turkish Kitchen: 311 Third St., Ithaca. 345-3333. TuesSun 11:30am-9pm. Fri-Sat 11;30am-9:30pm

MEDITERRANEAN Aladdin’s: 100 Dryden Rd., Collegetown, 273-5000. Hours: 11:30am-10:30pm M-Th, F & Sa 11:30am-11:30pm, Su: noon10:30pm. All major credit cards. Catering and take out available. Sahara-Mediterranean Restaurant: 319-4522; 119 N. Aurora St., Ithaca. Open 7 days 11am-10pm. Authentic Mediterranean food in loving & comfortable setting. All major credit cards accepted.

SOUTHWESTERN Agava: 381 Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca. 319-4366. M-F 11am-late. Sat & Sun 11am-late. Farm-to-table done right. Featuring a woodfired oven for sensational flatbreads; seasonal menu cooked form scratch; only the freshest ingredients and a warm, fun, communityminded atmosphere.

FAMILY RESTAURANTS Curly’s Family Restaurant: 1/2 south of Watkins Glen State Park. 535-4383. Open 7am-8pm Mon-Sat. Sun 7am-2pm. Featuring hand-cut steaks, seafood, great sandwiches, bountiful breakfasts. Daily specials. Everything from scratch. The Elm Tree Inn: 2 McLean Cortland Rd. 838-3313. Serving lunch and dinner Wed-Sat. Catering, banquet facilities available. Falls Restaurant and Catering: 214 E. Main, Trumansburg. 387-

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9761. Open 7 days. Friendly’s: Cayuga Mall; 257-5797, Hours: daily 6am-midnight Glenwood Pines: 1213 Taughannock Blvd., 273-3709. Open every day 11am-10pm. Seafood, steaks, and sandwiches served anytime in a comfortable family atmosphere. Moretti’s: 800 Hatch St., Elmira, 734-1535. Hours: M-Su, 5-10:30pm. Reservations appreciated. All major credit cards. Steaks. Informal atmosphere. Ron Don’s: 1 Old Main Street, Trumansburg. 387-9222. MonThurs 11-9; Fri-Sat 11-11. Sun 12-9. Switzerland Inn: 14109 Keuka Village Road, Hammondsport, 292-6927. On Keuka Lake — dinner special; take-out available. Casual atmosphere.

ICE CREAM/YOGURT Colonial Creamery: 701 N Franklin Watkins Glen 535-7545. Homemade ice cream made on premises. Beef on Weck. Cornell Dairy Store and Dairy Bar: Located on the Cornell University Campus Store Open M-F 7:30 - 6; Sat 9-5. Dairy Bar open M-F 8-5; Sat 10-4. Milk and 20 flavors of ice cream processed on campus. Sandwiches, wraps, breakfast sandwiches, pizza and soup. Glen Dairy Bar: 433 S. Franklin St. Watkins Glen. 535-2757. Over 20 flavors of Gifford’s Maine Ice Cream, flurries, sundaes, banana splits, upside downs, cones and more. Since 1948. Daily noon 10pm. Great Escape Ice Cream Parlor: 221 S. Franklin St. Watkins Glen, NY 14891. 535-7354 Open 7 Days. Green Street Pharmacy: 131 E. Green St., Mon-Fri 7:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sat-Sun 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. (607) 882-9502. Soda fountain serves Cayuga Creamery ice cream. Purity Ice Cream: Corner of Meadow and Cascadilla St., 2721545. Open daily 11am-9pm. All ice cream produced on the premises. Forty flavors. Indoor and outdoor seating available. Since 1936. Now serving lunch. Smart Yogurt: 335 Elmira Road Ithaca 227 1491 Mon-Sun 1212 Sweet Melissa’s: 2 locations: 200 W. Seneca Street, Ithaca, Hours: 1-9 p.m.; Press Bay Alley, Ithaca- 12-6pm. 277.0090 Toads Too: 844 Rt 38 Freeville. Soft & hard ice cream. Daily 129PM Yogurt Crazy: 408 College Ave Ithaca 319 4297 Sun-Thurs 10am-12 pm; Fri-Sat 10am- 1 am

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Mandana Inn: Rt. 41A, West Lake Rd., Skaneateles. 315-6857798. Seasonal; Thurs - Sat 5pm-10pm and Sun 5pm-8:30 pm until 11/27/05. Seafood specialties. Mirbeau: 851 W. Genesee St Skaneateles 877-MIRBEAU. Fine dining featuring locally sourced global cuisine. Owego Treadway Inn: 1100 St, Rt. 17C, Owego, 687-4500. 7 Banquet Facilities. Nightly dinner specials; view of Susquehanna River. Live entertainment Friday and Saturday. Rogue’s Harbor Inn: 607-533-3535. 2079 East Shore Drive, Lansing. Hearty American food complimented by Finger Lakes wine & beer. Dinner is served nightly in out historic dining rooms, spirited pub or seasonal veranda. Reservations for parties of 5 or more suggested. Seneca Lodge Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge: South entrance, Watkins Glen State Park, 535-2014. Breakfast M-F 8-11am, Sa-Su 8am-11am; lunch, M-F 11:30-2pm; dinner served 6-9pm daily. Fresh seafood and steaks. Early American atmosphere. Open through October. Sherwood Inn: 26 W. Genesee St. (Rt. 20), Skaneateles, 315685-3405. Serving Continental breakfast daily, 7am-10am; dinner Mon-Sat 5pm-10pm, F & Su 4pm-9pm; tavern serving Su-Th 11:30am-10pm, F-Sa 11:30am-11pm. Springside Inn: Rt. 38S, Owasco Lake, Auburn, (315)252-7247. Hours: Su brunch 10:30am-1pm; Dinner Tu-Sa 5-9pm. Visa/MC/ AmEx. Country Inn lodging. Taughannock Farms Inn & Restaurant: 2030 Gorge Rd, Trumansburg, 387-7711. 22 Guest Rooms, 5 in the Inn and the others in four Guest Houses. Victorian estate overlooking Cayuga

Sat 10- til late Pudgie’s Pizza: 215 Elmira Road 272-7600 M-Th 11-10; Fri-Sat 11- midnite; Sun 11:30-10 Pizza Aroma: 128 S. Cayuga 273-6165. Hours Mon-Sat. 11am11pm. 43 kinds of specialty gourmet pizza, whole or by the slice eat in take out. Whole wheat and soy cheese. Pizza and Bones: 22 W. Main St., Dryden. (607) 844-4343. Open daily to 9 p.m. Pizza Hut: Cayuga Mall, 257-2778. Hours: Su-Th, 11am-10pm; F-Sa, 11am-11pm. Pontillo’s Pizzeria: 209 Peru Road, Groton. (607) 898-3828. Sun.-Wed. 4-9 p.m. Thurs. -Fri. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sal’s Pizzeria: 222 S. Fulton St., 277-SALS. Open 7 days a week 11am-11pm. Pizza, wings, subs, dinners, Italian specialties. Dine-in or carry-out. Delivery at 4pm. Sammy’s Pizza: 215 E. State St. on the Commons. 272-2666. Pizza and Pasta. Sicilian Delight Pizzeria: Pyramid Mall, 266-9999. Hours: M-Sa 9am-9pm; Su 10am-5pm. The Copper Oven at Cayuga Ridge: 6800 NY 89 Ovid 2208794 Wood-fired pizza using local ingredients. Call for hours. The Nines: 311 College Ave., 272-1888. Hours: M-Sa 11:30am1am, Su 3:30pm-1am. Pizza and live-music

SEAFOOD Doug’s Fish Fry: 8 Jordan St., Skaneateles. (315)685-3288; and Route 281, Cortland, 753-9184. Open 7 days a week, 11am-9pm. Draft beer, ice cream, fresh seafood. Dine in or outside in picnic area, or to go. Kelly’s Dockside Restaurant: 319 Old Taughannock Blvd., 2778709. Hours: M-Su, 7am-9pm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Seafood, steaks, sandwiches served any time of the day. Maxie’s Supper Club: 635 W. State St., Ithaca, 272-4136. Sun - Thurs 4pm-12am; Fri-Sat 4pm-1am. Southern comfort cooking, Seafood, Slow smoked BBQ, Full bar, Free live music Sunday night.

STEAK HOUSES John Thomas Steakhouse: 1152 Danby Rd. (Rt. 96B 1 mi. past Ithaca College), 273-3464. Open Su-Th 5:30-10pm, Fr & Sa 5:3011pm; “dry-aged” beef and fresh seafood. Reservations encouraged. Major credit cards accepted. Mahogany Grill: 112 N. Aurora St., 272-1438. Steaks, fresh fish, lobster, martini bar. Sunday brunch. Seneca Harbor Station: 3 N. Franklin St., Watkins Glen, 535-

6101. Seneca Lake views. Seafood, steaks and ribs. Dockside dining on Seneca Lake. Open April-November. Texas Roadhouse: 719-25 South Meadow St. Lively steakhouse serving American fair with a Southwestern spin amid Texasthemed décor. Open 7 days for dinner, lunch hours on weekends.

TAVERNS WITH FOOD Falls Restaurant and Tavern: 214 E Main St, Trumansburg. 387-9761. Open 5:30am-8pm. Graft Wine and Cider Bar: 204 N. Franklin St. Watkins Glen (607) 210-4324. Open Thurs-Sat 4-9pm. Generous selection of local wines, ciders, and beer. Innovative farm to table small plates. Small and intimate. Ithaca Ale House: 111 North Aurora Street, Ithaca. 607-2567977. Open 7 days a week. Serving food 11am-12:30pm. Try one of our 20 microbrews-beer flights & growlers available. Kilpatrick’s Public House: Corner of Seneca and Tioga Streets, 216-4343. Traditional, upscale Irish pub featuring authentic Irishinspired and American cuisine. Open 7 days a week, serving lunch 11:30am-3pm, dinner 4-10pm, bar open until 1am. Live music! O’Malley’s Cabin on the Lake: 7938 County Rd 153, Interlake (607) 532-8846. Chicken, fresh seafood, steaks, pasta, panini & deli Sandwiches, Pizza. Lunch 11-4pm & dinner 4-9pm daily. The Plantation Inn Bar and Grill: 1285 Dryden Rd., 273-4950. Serving Daily Lunch and Dinner specials. Uncle Joe’s Grill and Sports Bar: 302 W. Green St., Ithaca. 607273-2663. MC/V 20 TV’s.

VEGETARIAN GreenStar Cooperative Market: 701 W. Buffalo St. 273-9392. 2nd location at 215 N. Cayuga, in the Dewitt Mall. 273-8210. Natural grocery and deli. Organic juice and espresso bar. Open Daily 7am-11pm. Moosewood Restaurant: DeWitt Mall, corner of Cayuga and Seneca St., 273-9610. Open nightly for dinner, lunch M-Sa. Vegetarian gourmet and international cuisine. Fish served Wed-Su evenings. Homemade desserts, fresh juices and specialty coffees. Ethnic specialties Sundays. New York & imported wines and beer. Nikki Green 320 State St., Ithaca 607-319-0223.Plant based grain and smoothie bowls. Nourishing food, great for your body. Wine too! Vegan and Gluten free. 10AM to 8PM Everyday.

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The Master & The Disciple FOU R D ECA DES OF EXCELLEN CE AT THE HER MANN J. WIEM ER VIN EYA R D By Dave Sit

Hermann Wiener, picking grapes.

t was a cold day in March of 2001. The Finger Lakes were still firmly in the grips of its perennial long and snowy winter. A tall and lanky young man walked into the winery building at the Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard and asked to see Hermann Wiemer. By 2001, the Herman J. Wiemer Vineyard had already produced twenty-two vintages of wine, and was considered by many wine experts as the finest Riesling producer in America. Born in 1941 in the Mosel valley in Germany, Wiemer’s pedigree had predestined him in a life in wine – his mother was from a family with a history of over three hundred years in winemaking, and his father was the head of the Experimental Extension Station in Bernkastel and was responsible in overseeing the replanting the Mosel vineyards after WWII. Wiemer came to America in 1999 to begin his tenure as winemaker at Bully Hill Vineyards, working for Walter S. Taylor of the Taylor Wine Company. It was a frustrating period for Wiemer as the winery was focused on mass-produced wines utilizing native grapes such as Niagara, Catawba and Concord. Just as Dr. Konstantin Frank before him, Wiemer believed Vitis vinifera grapes such

as Riesling, Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc could be grown in the cold Finger Lakes climate and producing high-quality wines. Wiemer bought his first vineyard in 1973, while still working for Bully Hill. After carefully searching for the right combination of soil and location, he purchased an old defunct soy bean farm on the west side of Seneca Lake for $57,000, with a $3,000 down payment and a monthly land lease mortgage payment of $30.59, financed by the owner. For the next few years, and without much money, he toiled to clear the land and planted vinifera grapes on his free time, while continuing with his day job at Bully Hill. Back in 1973, the New York state wine industry landscape was very different than today. Although vineyards dotted the region, they were planted with mostly domestic and hybrid grapes, mostly producing insipid sweet wines of little distinction. Furthermore, the archaic and protective three-tier wine distribution system made it impossible for growers to make and sell their own wines. Growers sold their grapes to large wine companies such as Taylor and Great Western. That changed in 1976, when the New York Farm Winery Act was passed into law, allowing growers to start their own wineries and sell wine directly to the public. Soon after, small wineries started sprouting up in the state. 1979 was the first vintage from the Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard, when the young vines had become mature enough to begin producing good wine. The first two releases, a Riesling and a Chardonnay, both won gold medals in state competitions. Other accolades followed quickly. Before long, one could find Wiemer’s wines in NYC wine shops and famous restaurant wine lists such as Lutece’s. 1979 also marked the year he started a cultivar nursery, following his father’s footsteps. Gifted with the grafting expertise Wiemer learned from his father, the nursery flourished and his grafted grapevines were soon sold to vineyards as far away as California. But as Wiemer’s reputation grew, Taylor became more and more resentful of his winemaker’s success and abruptly fired him via

a telegram on Christmas Eve of 1981, when Wiemer was spending the holiday with his family in Germany. That turned out to be a blessing, as Wiemer could then focus on making his own wines from his eponymous vineyard. Besides expanding the planting of additional vinifera varietals in the original farm (now named the HJW Vineyard), he purchased and planted two additional vineyards in the late nineties, Magdalena and Josef (named after his parents), a few miles further north from HJW. Wiemer’s success began in the vineyard. He was critical in site selection, controlling yield and minimizing the use of synthetic chemicals in the control of pests, weeds and fungi growth. He had seen vineyards in Mosel that had become fallow after decades of heavy chemical spraying and was determined to create vineyards that were biologically healthy and sustainable. Wiemer also began using indigenous yeasts for some of his wines, instead of the common practice of inoculating the grape juice with commercial yeasts to start the fermentation process. The use of indigenous yeasts, made possible by not using chemicals in the field, required a longer fermentation period, often lasting into the spring of the following year. All these painstaking practices helped create better and healthier wines, but they also made the process more labor-intensive. Wiemer’s uncompromising quest for perfection was the secret sauce to his wines. Back to that wintry day in 2001, the young man who showed up at Wiemer’s doorstep was Fred Merwarth. Merwarth grew up in a dairy farm in Pennsylvania. He had graduated from Cornell just a year or so before with a business degree in agriculture, with no experience in winegrowing. After graduation, he started working in Binghampton for an investment advisory company, but the company was going to close its doors due to the dotcom stock market crash. During his junior year abroad in Baden, Baden in Germany, Merwarth had met a young winemaker in nearby Alsace and spent some time at his family vineyard. He became enamored with the winegrower’s life. With his Binghampton employment ending, he decided to take a leap of faith and pursue his dream of working in a vineyard. He had cold-called Wiemer the week before with the hopes that Wiemer would give him a recommendation to apprentice at a winery in Germany. Wiemer agreed to meet with him. Much to his surprise, Wiemer offered him a job as his apprentice instead. Viticulture is arduous work, and working a vineyard and winery to Wiemer’s exacting methods and standards made it even harder.

Many people had passed through Wiemer’s doors, most lasted less than a handful of years. But Merwarth reveled in it. He didn’t mind performing tedious tasks such as grafting budwood onto rootstocks, or the religious cleaning of the fermentation tanks and barrels each year. He was living the life he had dreamt about. He thought Wiemer was a tough boss, but always open-minded. Under Wiemer’s watchful eyes, he became a precise and meticulous viticulturist and enologist. In 2003, after just two years after Merwarth became his apprentice, Wiemer named him as the winemaker. And four years after that, when Wiemer was ready to retire, he sold the company to Merwarth and Merwarth’s former colleague and college mate Oskar Bynke, instead of a higher bidder. Since Merwarth assumed ownership, he has furthered Wiemer’s idea of a more natural way of growing and making wine. Additional wildflower patches have been created to attract beneficial insects and birds, as well as the installation of bat, bluebird and wren houses -all efforts to eliminate the need of chemicals in the vineyards. Merwarth continued Wiemer’s practice of using the classic Bordeaux mixture of copper sulfate and lime to treat fungal infestations, but only when necessary, and never less than thirty-five days from harvest. Cover crops are planted between the rows of vines to retain moisture and the soil is broken up periodically to ensure a thriving soil environment. The vineyards are dry-farmed, with no irrigation. Grapes are harvested in small sections by hand, sometimes requiring more than a dozen passes for a single vineyard. Merwarth sees the entire vineyard as one biome, where everything from the soil, flora, fauna to micro-climate encompass a single interrelated entity. Indigenous yeasts are now used in all the white wines. He wanted his wines to express a sense of place from each vineyard. Merwarth was proud to tell me that the HJW Vineyard will be “certified biodynamic” by end of this year and “certified organic” by the end of 2019. He also continued to operate the nursery which Wiemer started. He expects to sell around 450,000 grafted vines on a typical year, generating between 15-20% of the annual revenue. One might say serendipity played a big role in the intersection of Wiemer’s and Merwarth’s lives. But after spending a day with the two of them, I could easily see the similarity between Wiemer’s hawk-like focus and Merwarth’s stoic intensity. They are both inquisitive people driven to become the best in whatever they do. They don’t see themselves so much as just owners of vineyards, but as stewards of the land as well.

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Corning’s Cultural Wealth A S U R PR ISIN G M ECCA OF A RTS AND CULTUR E By Arthur Whitman

Albert Bierstadt View of Mt Whitney, from the collection at the Rockwell Museum (Left) and the Corning Museum (Right)

t first sight, Corning’s two museums could not be more different. Housed since 1982 in the community’s Old City Hall, the Rockwell Museum (https://rockwellmuseum.org) highlights art representing the American West, particularly that of the 19th and early 20th centuries. (It first opened earlier, in 1976, in the nearby Baron Steuben Hotel). Their signature collection includes favorites like painter-sculptor Frederic Remington — his narrative landscapes and equestrian bronzes — and members of the Hudson River School, the United States’ first major movement in landscape painting. The 1893 building once housed a variety of public functions, including a firehouse and a jail, as well as city offices. It’s a superb Romanesque Revival structure designed by Rochester architect A.J. Warner. Built of brick and rusti-

cated limestone, it bespeaks Corning’s heyday as an industrial city with big cultural aspirations. The museum itself was later conceived to hold the diverse collections of Robert F. Rockwell Jr., a local department store owner prominent midcentury. In 2015, the museum became an Affiliate of the D.C.-based Smithsonian Institution — currently the only one in Upstate New York. The Corning Museum of Glass (www.cmog. org), by contrast, has a sprawling — if tightly interconnected — campus featuring several generations of sleek, modernist glass buildings. These range from their original 1951 International Style home by Harrison & Abramowitz to a translucent white box completed in 2015 by Thomas Phifer and housing their new Contemporary Art + Design Wing. The CMoG’s buildings, their enormous collection (approximately 50,000

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A bird’s-eye view of the Windmill Farm and Country Market.

The Whimsical Windmill Market A H I DDEN GEM OF T HE F INGER L AKES By Louise Broach

he Windmill Farm and Craft Market on Route 14A between Penn Yan and Dundee in nearby Yates County has become nothing short of a seasonal Saturday phenomenon in the 31 years it has sat high on a hill above Keuka and Seneca lakes.. Each Saturday from the end of April until mid-December, thousands of shoppers descend from near and far (the market is a popular stop

between New York City and Niagara Falls for foreign tourists) to experience its ambiance. About 40 minutes northwest of Ithaca, the Windmill sells everything from fine crafts to craft beer, Amish and Mennonite baked goods, plants, fruits, vegetables, prepared food, wine, gift items, handmade soap, clothing and shoes, books, antiques and collectibles, toys, furniture, kitchen tools, jewelry and much more.

Started by a few dozen members of the area’s Mennonite and Amish communities aided by their “English” friends as a place to sell their products, the Windmill has blossomed into one of the region’s premiere tourism destinations. From its beginnings, the market was so popular already that the second week it was open in 1987, traffic was backed up five miles in each direction on Route 14A, according to the historic account on the Windmill’s website. Now with more than 175 vendors in four buildings and on the Street of Shops promenade, the market boasts special events that include car and tractor shows, cloggers, singers and activities for children. Open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the market is home to everything from an Auntie Anne’s pretzel franchise that has been there since the market started in 1986 to Brave New Uke, a shop that was established in 2017 to sell musical instruments. Several of the original vendors are still at the market; others have been there more than two decades and still more have arrived in the past few years. The number of vendors, and the diversity of their products, increase each year, keeping the Windmill attractive to old and new visitors alike. “Thirty-one years in business is an amazing accomplishment,” said Windmill Operations Manager Steve Wilson, who first experienced the market as a visitor several years ago. ” I’m taken aback by the 10, 15, even 30 years of dedication by so many of the vendors. Recently, one of our newest vendors told me ‘I love this place; they’ll carry me out before I leave.’” Anna Whitcomb is starting her third season at the market as the owner of The Garden Shed that sells outdoor decorative items, hammocks and some gardening supplies. She often brings her children with her to spend the day. “It’s a

family-oriented place for both customers and business-owners,” she said. “It is somewhere I can have a business and also enjoy having my children along. It is a safe and happy place.” Ion Zimmerman, vice president of the board of directors that runs the Windmill, completely agrees. “My family and I have been vendors here for 19 years, My wife sells produce and I make furniture. The Windmill is a great market and we are happy to be part of it. It has sustained us as a family, which is no surprise because it has a family atmosphere. The vendors are friendly. We try to make it a fun experience for all of our visitors.” Rachel Shirk runs Crystal Valley Produce and Greenhouse, an offshoot of her family’s farm on Route 230 in Dundee. Before she took it over, one of her sisters operated the business, which sells fresh flowers and fruits and vegetables. She said most Saturdays are so busy she has another sister and a few other girls help her out. The market underwent some physical improvements.Recent upgrades to the grounds include new picnic tables, a covered pavilion and several new small outdoor buildings for vendors. The market has spent thousands of dollars and the buildings are well-cared for ad inviting, Wilson said. Adding to that, he noted many vendors have invested heavily in their respective businesses. “If the past is any barometer for the future, the Windmill Farm and Craft Market will undoubtedly be here for another 30 years,” Wilson said. “It’s just that unique a place and our customers and our vendors love being here.”

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Like the New York State Fair which takes place about a month later in Syracuse, NY, the Troy Fair offers agricultural exhibits, food, vendors, rides, special themed days and a lot of entertainment, much of it free with the gate admission ($8 – less if your order tickets in advance and don’t want to go on rides). And the fair also has a mission – it supports Alperon Park, the 95 acre year-round recreational site where the fair takes place. This is the 143rd Troy Fair, and it’s happening July 23-28. Fair President Cathy Jenkins says the Troy Fair has grown every year, with 54,000 visitors attending in 2017, including people from distant states who plan their vacations (and at least one large family reunion) around attending the fair. Some camp on the grounds, some stay nearby, some come in for a day or more. A typical fair day begins at 8 a.m., with volunteers direct parking and steering visitors toward the old-fashioned gates, where hands are stamped. Vendors and exhibitors – 200 to 250 of them – await on the other side, posing fair-goers an almost-immediate choice. Where should you start? With food, rides, animals, interesting things to consider and purchase and learn about or one of the exhibit areas? Which exhibit hall to visit first? What’s happening when? and where? Jenkins advises against rash, limiting decisions. “You gotta come and try it all,” she says. Are there hidden treasures? “There are so many things,” she explains. “Like the free

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Among the treasures in plain sight are the lavish plantings of flowers, including a lily garden designed to be at peak bloom during the fair. A local garden club is responsible for the special garden effects. In the agricultural pavilions are sheep and chickens and pigs and goats and rabbits and cows and horses, carefully groomed and often accompanied by doting young owners. If this makes viewers feel nostalgic, watching a tractor pull or checking out the exhibits of antique farm machinery can continue the trip down memory lane. Agriculture is at the heart of this fair, and the area’s bounty is bountifully on display. Vegetables and herbs, handicrafts, photography and fine arts, floral arrangements, maple products and baked goods are entered for judging and exhibited. Impressive displays of quilts are suspended from a ceiling; a sort of arts trail of photographs and paintings leads visitors around the perimeter of one large building. People are friendly and happy to talk about things they’ve made and things they’re selling. There are demonstrations of milking, wood-carving, weaving and hand-spinning. For those who want more action, there are demolition derbies Friday and Saturday evening; a livestock auction means the fairgoer could come as a spectator and leave as a farmer. In the meantime, while strolling around the fair, one might encounter one of the world’s tallest unicycles in motion, chainsaw juggling, or a chance to watch the racing pigs. For a few hours, everyone gets to be a kid again.

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Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble |Based on the iconic movie, featuring the Grammy Award winning songs by the Bee Gees! Tony Manero is in a dead-end job at a Brooklyn paint store, but he comes to life at the local disco where he is the king of the dance floor! Mamma Mia! | 2:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down memory lane you’ll never forget! A heartfelt, funny and vibrant musical about family and following your heart. This enchanting musical about love, laughter and friendship is set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Greek islands and underscored by ABBA’s timeless songs. Fortune | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Unlike every other fortuneteller in Brooklyn, Maude can actually predict the future. Seriously. And she never, ever lies. Until Jeremy, that is. But really, who could bring themselves to tell that nebbishy accountant he’s going to die alone. Her one little fib, however, leads to a series of unpredictable repercussions and shenanigans that forever change both their lives and shows Maude how even destiny can be re-written Mamma Mia! | 7:30 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Screen printing, drawing, painting and the byproducts of retail displays, sometimes overlayed with his everyman characters in a state of befuddlement or general consumer distress.

Playing Peter Pan | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description

6/21 Thursday CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca | Vanishing Sun - R&B/Jazz/Funk Fortune | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Mamma Mia! | 7:30 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | See previous description. Playing Peter Pan | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of the boy who never grows up and the magical journey he creates for the Darling family children. Peter’s Neverland is a world bursting

6/22 Friday Mamma Mia! | 2:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Al Ducharme & Bernadette Pauley | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Comedy | $15-&17 Fortune | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Mamma Mia! | 8:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca |See previous description. SCCA Majors Super Tour | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Don’t miss the best amateur drivers in the United States as they invade The Glen to battle it out for road course supremacy. The SCCA Super Majors Tour visits the most storied race tracks across the country and ends with national championships being awarded in several classes. Be sure to visit this open-paddock, wheel-to-wheel weekend to get your fix of action at WGI! | 25-35; under 19 free 39th Annual Jamesville Balloonfest | 4:00 PM, | Jamesville Beach, 3992 Apulia Rd, Jamesville | Music and balloon launches daily, amusement rides. Begins at 1pm on Sat and Sun. | $10 parking + activities Playing Peter Pan | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description Playing Peter Pan | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description

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Fortune | 3:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Fortune | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Mamma Mia! | 8:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | See previous description SCCA Majors Super Tour | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description | 25-35; under 19 free Varick Winery 14th Annual Cherry Festival | All Day | Varick Winery, 5102 Varick Road, Romulus Ithaca Reggae Fest | 11:00 AM, | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Celebration with Clinton Fearon & Boogie Brown Band, Sister Carol, The Meditations, Double Tiger, Mosaic Foundation, Thousands of One, Crucial Reggae Social Club, Fall Creek Brass Band, DJ Kamau Preston, Emcee’s Queen Mother Makeda and Mike Judah. Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, | Various locations, Ithaca | Enjoy local cuisine on a guided walking tour of Ithaca’s unique restaurants. During a three-hour culinary adventure, satisfy your appetite for inventive and delicious food while getting a taste for our town’s history, culture, and architecture. Call607-272-4830. | $57 39th Annual Jamesville Balloonfest | 4:00 PM, | Jamesville Beach, 3992 Apulia Rd, Jamesville | See previous description. Playing Peter Pan | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description Playing Peter Pan | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description

John Fogerty and ZZ Top | 7:00 PM, | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | | $30-$85

Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | See previous description

Zac Brown Band | 7:00 PM, | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | with The O’Connor Band and Darrell Scott

SCCA Majors Super Tour | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description | 25-35; under 19 free

The Kennedys | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Folk pop duo CD release party | $20-$23

Varick Winery 14th Annual Cherry Festival | All Day | Varick Winery, 5102 Varick Road, Romulus

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39th Annual Jamesville Balloonfest | 4:00 PM, | Jamesville Beach, 3992 Apulia Rd, Jamesville | See previous description.

6/25 Monday Kate Mcgarry, Keith Ganz, And Gary Versace “The Subject Tonight Is Love” | 7:30 PM, | Carriage House Cafe Loft, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Touring in support of ON THE SUBJECT TONIGHT IS LOVE, their first album as a trio, vocalist Kate McGarry, guitarist/bassist Keith Ganz and keyboardist/accordionist Gary Versace. Opening for the trio will be Alice Saltonstall and Molly MacMillan.| 20 Mamma Mia! | 2:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | See previous description.

6/26 Tuesday Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds | 7:30 PM, | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | Pavilion: $125, $95; Lawn: $45.50 Poison & Cheap Trick | 7:30 PM, | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center Stephen Stills & Judy Collins | 8:00 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Two icons of folk will tour and be onstage together for the first time ever! The two music legends will pull from their rich catalogs, debut songs from their 2017 album, Everybody Knows, and share warm and intimate stories from their journeys and the 1960s folk and Laurel Canyon scenes they helped build. | $49-$189 Mamma Mia! | 2:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Mamma Mia! | 7:30 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre,

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6/27 Wednesday Concerts in the Park: MR-2 | 7:00 PM, | Hickories Park, 359 Hickories Park Road, Owego | Classic rock with a new unique sound featuring horns and keyboard. Dave Matthews Band | 8:00 PM, | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center Mamma Mia! | 2:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | See previous description. Summer Reading Program: Libraries Rock! | 9:30 AM, | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Games and activities each week. Kids register to read this summer and earn a FREE cone from Cayuga Creamery. Sponsored by Ford Library in Ovid. Summer Reading Club Kick-Off Party! | 3:30 PM, | Van Etten Library, 83 Main St., Van Etten | Register, read and earn weekly prizes!! This first week we have games, crafts, cake, and face painting to kick-off this year’s theme, “Libraries Rock!!”

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Chris Stapleton | 7:00 PM, | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center Styx and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | 7:00 PM, | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Classic Rock w/ Special Guests Tesla Eddie Money | 8:00 PM, | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | The legendary rocker’s performance is expected to include his timeless and unforgettable hits Take Me Home Tonight, Shakin’ and Two Tickets to Paradise. | $20-$40 My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy | 2:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Additional shows 6/29 at 2pm and 6/30 at 8pm. | $29-$32 Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | In 1920s Chicago, there aren’t many paths to fame for women. But as Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart discover, murder is one of them. Based on the true stories of the merry murderesses of death row these two vamps compete with each other to become the nation’s sweetheart, prove their innocence, and prove that corruption never goes out of fashion. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s biweekly drag show. Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | 5:00 PM, | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | See previous description. New York State Blues Festival | All Day | Clinton Square, Syracuse | Featuring over 20 local and national artists. Headliners for 2018 include Anders Osborne, Paulie Cerra, Larkin Poe, C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band and Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers. Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen dates back to 1948 and the Watkins Glen Grand Prix, a sportscar race contested on the road course around Watkins Glen village. Former winners include Briggs Cunningham, Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, Derek Bell, Scott Pruett, and more. | 20-85

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken |See previous description

7/4 Wednesday Concerts in the Park: The Kirby Band & Fireworks | 7:30 PM, | Hickories Park, Owego | Celebrate our country’s independence and dance to music from big bands to the big screen. Stay after the concert for fireworks at 9:30 p.m.! Ray LaMontagne w/ Neko Case | 7:00 PM, | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Summer Reading Program: Libraries Rock! | 9:30 AM, | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Games and activities each week. Kids register to read this summer and earn a FREE cone from Cayuga Creamery. Sponsored by Ford Library in Ovid.

7/5 Thursday Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival | All Day | Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival, Berkshire | Featuring Lonesome River Band, Dave Adkins Band w/special guest, Carolina Blue, Blue Mafia, 7 Mile Bluegrass, Grillbillie Project, Wilson Banjo Co., Mama Corn, Slewfoot, Jersey Corn Pickers, Melanie &

the Boys, Molly and the Badly Bent Boys, Gospel Way, Terry and the Busybirds along with host bands Bug Tussle and Matthews Family Tradition. CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca | Viva Mayhem - Ska Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca | Bluegrass mixed with classic era pop tunes. Myers Park Summer Concert Series | 6:30 PM, | Myers Park, Lansing | BacktalkClassic Rock covers. East Side Park Summer Concerts | 7:00 PM, | East Side Park, Norwich | Victor Wainwright & The Train Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM, | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., | Downtown Ithaca Summer Concert The Calamari Sisters in Beat Until Stiff | 2:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Additional shows: 7/5 at 8pm; 7/6 2pm & 8pm, 7/7 8pm | $35-$38 R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Additional shows thru July 14 at 2pm and 7pm. | $12-$15 Anne of Green Gables | 7:30 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Loved by generations and perfect for all ages, this world-renowned novel by Lucy M. Montgomery will be rediscovered in this modern, bold production with contemporary choreography, ensemble story-telling and a score that blends folk-rock, pop, gospel, and musical theater. | $58-$60 Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca The Amazing Tale of the Backyard Overnight | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | *World Premiere* A young group of friends make a pact to brave all hours of the night, against all odds, in the dangerous landscape of their own backyard! Through interactive storytelling, you’ll be on the edge of your seat ñ and maybe even part of the action ñ as they creatively quest their way toward dawn. The Amazing Tale of the Backyard Overnight | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |See previous description.

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7/5 at 8pm; 7/6 2pm & 8pm, 7/7 8pm | $35-$38 R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Additional shows thru July 14 at 2pm and 7pm. | $12-$15 The Stupendous Circus Swindle | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/14 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Anne of Green Gables | 8:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Chicago | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, | Downtown Ithaca, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different artists ó local artists, and sometimes global. The 11th Annual Elmira Street Painting Festival | All Day | Downtown Elmira, | Stroll through the historic downtown while art takes place on the ground- and all around. Marvel at the dozens of masterpieces evolving right before your eyes as artists take to the streets with chalk in hand. Browse regional crafts and artwork of numerous vendors. Step into a pop-up gallery, move to the rhythm of live music, experience all that the festival has to offer. Come for the day- or make it a weekend! The Amazing Tale of the Backyard Overnight | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. The Amazing Tale of the Backyard Overnight | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description.

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free draft beer or dessert for showing off your skill. Anne of Green Gables | 7:30 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60

7/11 Wednesday Anne of Green Gables | 2:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Additional shows thru July 14 at 2pm and 7pm. | $12-$15 Anne of Green Gables | 7:30 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | In New York City, 1899, Jack Kelly and his ragtag team of newsboys make a meager living selling newspapers on the city streets. But the Newsies organize a strike against Joseph Pulitzer, the greedy publisher of the New York World. Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars” | 7:00 PM, | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Author Dava Sobel shares the research and ideas behind her latest book. Cortland County Jr. Fair | All Day | Cortland County Fairgrounds, 4849 Fairground Ave, Summer Reading Program: Libraries Rock! | 9:30 AM, | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Games and activities each week. Kids register to read this summer and earn a FREE cone from Cayuga Creamery. Sponsored by Ford Library in Ovid.

7/12 Thursday Durante! | 2:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Additional shows 7/13 at 2pm and 7/14 at 8pm. | $20-$32

The Taming of the Shrew | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | Shakespeare’s greatest battle of the sexes like you’ve never seen it before! ISC’s production aims to turn the traditional approach on its head by incorporating material from the little-known sequel written by Shakespeare’s successor, The Tamer Tamed. Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ. R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Additional shows thru July 14 at 2pm and 7pm. | $12-$15 Anne of Green Gables | 7:30 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Chicago | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s biweekly drag show. Cortland County Jr. Fair | All Day | Cortland County Fairgrounds, 4849 Fairground Ave, The Transition of Doodle Pequeno | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | It’s Halloween in Southern California, the Santa Ana winds blow fiercely, and nothing is as it seems. Doodle Pequeo is new to town and has only his imaginary goat Valencia to keep him company until there is an unexpected knock on the door. In this magic-filled, award winning play for all ages, two boys become fast friends while learning that difference is to be celebrated. The Transition of Doodle Pequeno | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description.

7/13 Friday Lynyrd Skynyrd | 6:00 PM, | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center MAQ | 7:00 PM, | Cornell Arts Quad, Central Campus, | MAQ comprises some of the area’s best seasoned jazz and Brazilian-music musicians. Its members have toured throughout the United States and Europe, in venues from concert halls to clubs, performing everything from classic and modern jazz to Brazilian bossa and folk music. Anne of Green Gables | 2:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Newsies | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. As You Like It | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | One of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedies, featuring one of his strongest and most resourceful heroines, an epic wrestling match, a love quadrangle, music and dance, and perhaps the second-most famous speech in all of Shakespeare! R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Additional shows thru July 14 at 2pm and 7pm. | $12-$15

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The Stupendous Circus Swindle | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/14 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Chicago | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Finger Lakes Wine Festival | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | The Finger Lakes Wine Festival offers the largest showcase of New York State wines with over 80 wineries paired with regional artisans, music and culinary classes all in one beautiful location - Watkins Glen International. | 25-50 Get Your Flea Fix on Rt. 96 | All Day | Community flea markets, yard/ garage sales, and small business events happening in Owego, Catatonk, Candor, Willseyville, and Spencer. For more information, check out our Facebook page. Cortland County Jr. Fair | All Day | Cortland County Fairgrounds, 4849 Fairground Ave, The Transition of Doodle Pequeno | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. The Transition of Doodle Pequeno | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description.

7/14 Saturday Old Crow Medicine Show | 1:00 PM, | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown Chicago | 2:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. The Taming of the Shrew | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description. R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Additional shows thru July 14 at 2pm and 7pm. | $12-$15 The Stupendous Circus Swindle | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/14 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Anne of Green Gables | 8:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Chicago | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Dryden Open Gate Garden and Art Tour | 9:00 AM, | George Street Municipal Lot, George Street, Dryden | Enjoy 5 beautiful gardens, original art on display and local musicians at each garden. Walk, Bike or Ride the free shuttle to each garden. | $5 Finger Lakes Dragon Boat Festival | All Day | Taughannock Falls State Park, 2221 Taughannock Park Rd, Trumansburg | Promotes, educates, and celebrates Asian and Asian American cultures and heritage through dragon boating racing and festival activities. Finger Lakes Wine Festival | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description. | 25-50 Get Your Flea Fix on Rt. 96 | All Day | Community flea markets, yard/ garage sales, and small business events

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Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | When a young student puts off his book report until the last minute, he suddenly finds himself in a strange place somewhere between Oz and Wonderland! He then becomes responsible for unscrambling the stories and steering the familiar characters (the Cowardly Lion, the Mad Hatter, the Scarecrow, the White Rabbit, and more) to their ultimate destinations, all while avoiding the Wicked Witch and the Red Queen! | $7

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7/15 Sunday Weezer and The Pixies | 7:30 PM, | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse Newsies | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. As You Like It | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description. En Plein Air: art show & sale | 10:00 AM, | Draper Park, 132 Front Street, Owego | This unique event will transform Draper Park into an outdoor art gallery. Now in its 30th year, this event is designed to highlight the talents of artists in and around Tioga County, to underscore the beauty of our community, and to facilitate a meaningful connection between artists and their supporters. Finger Lakes Wine Festival | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description | $25-$50 Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling

7/16 Monday Anne of Green Gables | 2:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60

7/17 Tuesday Arise & Go | 7:30 PM, | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave., Ithaca | Celtic trio perform traditional melodies, instrumentals, and fresh new arrangements of favorite contra compositions.

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the grassroots activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and native-born women who formed a loose coalition aimed at attaining full suffrage for women. Summer Reading Program: Libraries Rock! | 9:30 AM, | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Games and activities each week. Kids register to read this summer and earn a FREE cone from Cayuga Creamery. Sponsored by Ford Library in Ovid.

7/19 Thursday Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Arts | All Day | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | Featuring four stages, which run ridiculously long hours to accommodate the 80+ bands that play the festival. | $65-$125 Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM, | Horizon Villages, As You Like It | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description.

Preble | See previous description. Pride and Prejudice | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Kate Hamill’s fresh new take on the Jane Austen classic brings great verve to the story of the Bennet sisters. Like most women of the regency period, the Bennet girls know that to win the game of life, they must land the right husband. A variety of mishaps and miscommunications, however, derail budding romances as the sisters learn the complicated rules of mating rituals. Follow Liz, Jane, Bingley and Darcy as they traverse the trials of societal expectations in this witty adaptation by Ithaca native and IC alum Kate Hamill, fresh from its extended New York run. Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca Seneca County Fair | All Day | Seneca County Fairgrounds, 100 Swift St, Waterloo Taste for Community Action | 5:00 PM, | Holiday Inn, 75 North St, Auburn | Live music, silent auction, and tastings from dozens of participating local food and beverage vendors. Funds raised from this event help thousands of individuals and families experiencing hardship in Cayuga

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Lady Antebellum | 7:00 PM, | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center

Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Arts | All Day | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | See previous description. | $65-$125 El Rumbon | 7:00 PM, | Cornell Arts Quad, Central Campus, | El Rumbon delivers dance-music in the styles of salsa, mambo, plena, merengue, cumbia, and cha-cha from artists such as Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Manny Oquendo, Johnny Pacheco, and more. The band features a full rhythm section of congas, timbales, bongos, piano, and bass to hold down the classic Afro-Latin beat. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with Brandi Carlisle | 7:00 PM, | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | $26-$66 The Taming of the Shrew | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description. Terribly Tricky Trouble in Transylvania | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/29 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Anne of Green Gables | 8:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Pride and Prejudice | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Seneca County Fair | All Day | Seneca County Fairgrounds, 100 Swift St, Waterloo Syracuse Nationals | All Day | New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | The largest car show in the Northeast! Dorothy Meets Alice, or The Wizard of Wonderland | 10:00 AM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. | $7

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and Seneca Counties. Live music by The Rounds and John Lerner. | 1 Taste ticket $30.00 or Buy 5 get 1 free $155.00 Dorothy Meets Alice, or The Wizard of Wonderland | 10:00 AM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. | $7

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Wine Country Classic Boat Show | All Day | Depot Park, Hammondsport | See previous description.

7/23 Monday Anne of Green Gables | 2:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60

7/24 Tuesday Godsmack & Shinedown | 7:00 PM, | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center Paul Merrill Quartet | 7:30 PM, | RhodesRawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave., Ithaca | Celebrated trumpeter, composer, and educator Paul Merrill delivers dazzling jazz performances. Merrill has collaborated with Grammy-nominated ensembles and big bands around the country and is the Gussman Director of Jazz Ensembles at Cornell University. Anne of Green Gables | 2:00 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Anne of Green Gables | 7:30 PM, | MerryGo-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description. | $58-$60 Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Pride and Prejudice | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Broome County Fair | All Day | Broome County Fairgrounds, Whitney Point | Tractor pulls, carnival rides, trapeze performer, demolition derbies and so much more! Grapehound Wine Tour 2018 | All Day | Atwater Estate Vineyards, 5055 State Route 414, Burdett | Featuring about thirty wineries, brew pubs, and distilleries, with wine tasting, music, lakes, waterfalls, and

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to study the brain! and Bending light for a brighter future: manipulating photons for supercomputing! Summer Reading Program: Libraries Rock! | 9:30 AM, | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Games and activities each week. Kids register to read this summer and earn a FREE cone from Cayuga Creamery. Sponsored by Ford Library in Ovid.

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7/27 Friday Laila Belle | 7:00 PM, | Cornell Arts Quad, Central Campus, | Laila Belle serves up an energetic set of country rock originals. The soulful vocals of local artist Amy Puryear are complemented by electric and steel guitar grooves and funky percussion provided by the rest of the band. Chicago and REO Speedwagon | 7:30 PM, | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Classic rock and AM Gold! | 29.50-129.50 As You Like It | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description. Terribly Tricky Trouble in Transylvania | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/29 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description. Pride and Prejudice | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Broome County Fair | All Day | Broome County Fairgrounds, Whitney Point | Tractor pulls, carnival rides, trapeze performer, demolition derbies and so much more! Ferrari Challenge North America | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790

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County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Ferrari Challenge is the widest ranging and most envied one-make series in the world. | $20-$40 Grapehound Wine Tour 2018 | All Day | Atwater Estate Vineyards, 5055 State Route 414, Burdett | See previous description. Newfield Old Home Days | All Day | Newfield Central Schools, 247 Main St, Newfield | This year’s theme: Back to The Future of Newfield! Skaneateles Antique & Classic Boat Show | All Day | Antique & Classic boats are on display both in the water and on land. Activities include: 3 concerts, boat parade (3 p.m. Saturday), kids activities on Saturday, shopping, huge raffle, and more. The Syracuse Model Boat Club will have boats on display, and the Skaneateles Historical Society will be hosting historic tours of the Village on Saturday and Sunday. Fun for the whole family. Ithaca Artist Market | 12:00 PM, | Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing, Ithaca | It’s the market’s 28th year! All 88 booths will be filled with regional fine artists in a unique, once-a-year, can’t miss event. Over 85 established visual artists will be juried into the Market to showcase and sell a stunning variety of some of the best fine art in the region. Snow White | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Snow White | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description.

7/28 Saturday Taughannock Falls State Park Summer Concert Series | 7:00 PM, | Taughannock Falls State Park, Trumansburg | Jorge and Caribe Band All-stars - Latin Jazz | $5 parking

Yanni | 7:00 PM, | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Wynonna & The Big Noise | 8:00 PM, | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | A special benefit concert to benefit the Southern Tier Veterans Support Group. All ticket sales will be donated to the organization and in addition, Tioga Downs owner Jeff Gural has generously pledged to match all ticket proceeds. | $15 Pride and Prejudice | 3:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. The Taming of the Shrew | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description. Terribly Tricky Trouble in Transylvania | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/29 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Newsies | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description.

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The Barber of Seville! | 7:30 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Geneva Light Opera presents Rossini’s comic opera. | $10-$75, under 18 free Pride and Prejudice | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Broome County Fair | All Day | Broome County Fairgrounds, Whitney Point | Tractor pulls, carnival rides, trapeze performer, demolition derbies and so much more! Ferrari Challenge North America | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description.| $20-$40 Grapehound Wine Tour 2018 | All Day | Atwater Estate Vineyards, 5055 State Route 414, Burdett | See previous description. Newfield Old Home Days | All Day | Newfield Central Schools, 247 Main St, Newfield | This year’s theme: Back to The Future of Newfield! Skaneateles Antique & Classic Boat Show | All Day | See previous description. Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling Annual 50-mile Route 90 Garage Sale | 9:00 AM, | Takes on a festival atmosphere each year as friends, family members and the occasional family dog go searching for surprises. Stretching along the roadside of Route 90, a New York State Scenic Byway, the sale runs from Montezuma in the north to the Village of Homer at the southern end. Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, | Various locations, Ithaca | See previous description | $57 Swingin’ on Cayuga - Free Dance Event | 12:00 PM, | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | A full day of swing dance workshops followed by a pot-luck picnic, then open dancing - all FREE! At the large pavilion in Stewart Park. Great wooden floor. Event will go on, rain or shine. Hosted by the Ithaca Swing Dance Network - celebrating 30 years! Snow White | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description.

7/29 Sunday As You Like It | 6:00 PM, | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | See previous description. Terribly Tricky Trouble in Transylvania | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/29 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm The Barber of Seville! | 7:30 PM, | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Geneva Light Opera presents Rossini’s comic opera. | $10-$75, under 18 free Broome County Fair | All Day | Broome County Fairgrounds, Whitney Point | Tractor pulls, carnival rides, trapeze performer, demolition derbies and so much more! Ferrari Challenge North America | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description. | $20-$40 Grapehound Wine Tour 2018 | All Day | Atwater Estate Vineyards, 5055 State Route 414, Burdett | See previous description. Skaneateles Antique & Classic Boat Show | All Day | See previous description. Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling

7/31 Tuesday Theatre Street Productions | 7:30 PM, | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave., Ithaca | Acclaimed artists Andrea Gregori (soprano), Ivy Walz (mezzo-soprano), and Margaret Reitz (pianist), will present a concert of favorites from oratorio, opera, operetta, and

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musical theater, with a special tribute to Leonard Bernstein. Brett Dennen | 8:00 PM, | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Singersongwriter inspired by f the natural environment around him - from camping trips along the Sierra Nevada mountain range to climbing Everest and Kilimanjaro. Chemung County Fair | All Day | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Rd, Horseheads | Free entertainment, grandstand shows, rides & midway.

8/1 Wednesday Holiday Inn | 7:30 PM, | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Based on the classic film, this joyous song and tap dancing musical features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy and a parade of hit Irving Berlin songs including Blue Skies, Easter Parade, Steppin’ Out With My Baby, Heat Wave, Cheek to Cheek, Shaking the Blues Away and many more! | $58-$60 Our Town | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Widely considered the greatest American play ever written, the audience follows the small New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners. Breathtaking in its simplicity, the play focuses on the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and start their own lives leading to one of the most famous scenes in American theater. Chemung County Fair | All Day | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Rd, Horseheads | Free entertainment, grandstand shows, rides & midway.

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8/3 Friday Holiday Inn | 2:00 PM, | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description | $58-$60 Our Town | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description The Trials and Tribulations of Trixie Terpsichore | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 8/12 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

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8/5 Sunday David Byrne | 7:00 PM, | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | $30-$135 The Trials and Tribulations of Trixie Terpsichore | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 8/12 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | 7:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Additional shows on 8/3 & 8/4 at 7pm and 8/5 at 2pm. | $12 A Doll’s House, Part 2 | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description Chemung County Fair | All Day | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Rd, Horseheads | Free entertainment, grandstand shows, rides & midway. Go Bowling at The Glen | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | See previous description. Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling The Glorious Garlic Festival | All Day | Fox Run Vineyards, RR 14, Penn Yan | See previous description.

8/9 Thursday Skaneateles Festival | All Day | Various Skaneateles locations, | See previous description. Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ. A Doll’s House, Part 2 | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description Evita | 7:30 PM, | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | The Geneva Theatre Guild’s 40th Anniversary Summer Musical, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber! Holiday Inn | 7:30 PM, | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description | $58-$60 Our Town | 7:30 PM, | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | See previous description Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s biweekly drag show. Empire Farm Days | All Day | Rodman Lott and Sons Farm, 2973 State Route 414, Seneca Falls Tioga County Fair | All Day | Tioga County Fairgrounds, 2258 Charleston Rd., Wellsboro Seussical Jr. | 10:00 AM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | | Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat, and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in a fantastical musical extravaganza from Tony-winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, and a trial, ultimately the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community emerge triumphant! Performed by local students from the Hangar’s Next Generation School of Theatre Seussical Jr. | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | See previous description.

Seussical Jr. | 12:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description

Steuben County Fair | All Day | Steuben County Fairgrounds, 15 E. Washington St, Bath

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Ancient Greek Mythology, task themselves to inspire the greatest Venetian artist of all time. But instead of Venice, Italy, they find themselves in 1980s Venice Beach, California. Undeterred, Clio chooses Sonny, a sidewalk chalk muralist and roller-skater extraordinaire, as the perfect candidate. Together they embark on a great artistic journey to restore the mythical rollerskating rink Xanadu. Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca Steuben County Fair | All Day | Steuben County Fairgrounds, 15 E. Washington St, Bath

8/17 Friday Chenango Blues Festival | All Day | Chenango County Fairgrounds, 168 East Main St, Norwich

The Trials and Tribulations of Trixie Terpsichore | 7:00 PM, | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 8/12 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Evita | 7:30 PM, | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | See previous description Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling Watkins Glen Italian-American Festival | All Day | Clute Park, 155 S Clute Park Dr, Watkins Glen

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8/14 Tuesday Skaneateles Festival | All Day | Various Skaneateles locations, | See previous description.

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Xanadu | 7:30 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description.

The Great New York State Fair | All Day | New York State Fair, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse Science on Tap Summer Series: | 7:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Grab a drink, sit back, relax, get informed and join us this month for Invisible forces for farming: how soil microbes interact to promote plant growth for more sustainable agriculture. and Trees as time capsules: using tree-rings to learn about the past to help prepare for future climate and environmental changes and restore damaged ecosystems.

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Steve Martin & Martin Short | 8:00 PM, | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | Billed as “An evening you will forget for the rest of your life”. A night of comedy and music. With the Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko. | $45-$150 Murder for Two | 2:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description.| $58-$60 Murder for Two | 8:00 PM, | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | See previous description.| $58-$60 Xanadu | 8:00 PM, | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See previous description. Pirelli World Challenge | All Day | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Pirelli World Challenge returns to Watkins Glen International for the season finale on Labor Day Weekend, August 31-September 2. This weekend full of action will feature GT (GT/GTA/GT Cup), GTS (GTS/GTA), and Touring Car (TCR/ TC/TCA) with doubleheader sprint races. | 20-70 The Great New York State Fair | All Day | New York State Fair, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

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