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ew York state released new guidelines for gyms on Aug. 24 after Governor Cuomo gave the okay for them to open so long as they met local health department requirements.

The guidelines currently range from standard mask-wearing to requiring the installation or update of HVAC units. All gym and fitness center frequenters are strongly encouraged to review their facility’s guidelines before attending Most gyms have changed to a membership only practice now that room capacity has been capped at 33 percent; and some fitness facilities will no longer be offering access to their on-site showers. Some higher-contact activities may also not be available.

Several gyms and fitness centers in the area have reopened since then after a review from health department inspectors.

The Gym The Gym has opened both of its locations to members, among a string of changes to pre-COVID practices. Hours have changed in order to accommodate new cleaning procedures, and visitors are asked to familiarize themselves with the new guidelines and hours at the East and South Hill locations, which can be found on the website. The gyms will close one hour per day for additional cleaning,

Island Health and Fitness IHS reopened on Aug. 24 and, like many gyms, will be limiting access to the facility to members only. The gym is also asking that visitors limit their time at the facility to 90 minutes. Standard social distancing protocols should also be followed. Hours of operation are Monday thru Friday 5:30 continued on page 7

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n Sept. 2, the Tompkins County Health Department reported that it had identified 25 new COVID-19 cases between Cornell and Tompkins Cortland Community College students.

On the same day it released a second press release, one of the positive cases was an employee at The BoatYard Grill, a number that would increase to two, two days later.

Last week, the Ithaca Times mistakenly published a note that said that The BoatYard had closed temporarily. That was inaccurate, the BoatYard had never been asked nor had they chosen to close after being notified that their employees tested positive. But that got us questioning, what exactly happens when a restaurant gets a

positive? Is it lights out or is it not a big deal?

Mark Campanolo, who owns The BoatYard, was first informed of the case after getting a call from the health department. They told him that one of his employees had tested positive and proceeded to ask for his help with contact tracing, which included sharing the days the employee had worked and who they’d worked with.

He said that the news and the press releases took a lot of his worry. Although he knew there was little to worry about, it was impossible to convey that to the community.

“Those notices stayed on my mind for many days, but it had to be done… we were, from management and

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ownership in damage control,” Campagnolo said.

He released a statement soon after explaining the situation: “Most recently, two returning part time employees of The BoatYard Grill attended an off campus gathering and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. It is unfortunate that this happened and we have been diligent about safety in our restaurant. All staff that required testing had negative test results. This virus DID NOT ORIGINATE or SPREAD throughout the BoatYard Grill.”

In the health department's press release, they also shared that BoatYard employees were permitted to return to work after receiving a negative test result, but they’d still be

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▶ Lights Out-Every spring and fall, billions of birds migrate through the U.S., mostly under the cover of darkness. This mass movement of birds must contend with a pervasive but largely unrecognized threat: light pollution. Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Sapsucker Woods at the Cornell Lab are offering this webinar on Sept.

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WELL, IT’S OFFICIALLY SOUP SEASON. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SOUP TO EAT ON COLD RAINY FALL DAYS?

“Homemade chicken soup…not spicy!”

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Puppet Masters “Same as her. Chicken soup, but load that bowl up with extra parmesan cheese!”

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“Lobster Bisque!”

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“I gotta go with French Onion.”

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“Tomato Soup…with a side of grilled cheese, of course!”

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Meet the Masters of Puppets

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ith so many artists dedicated to carrying on puppet performance and workshops, the future of puppetry in Ithaca is in good hands, no strings attached. For Linda Wingerter, puppetry is more than a creative outlet; it’s quite literally in her blood. Growing up in her grandparent’s puppet theatre, Wingerter said she always felt a strong connection to the arts.

“That was my normal,” she said. “It was always in my mind as something I wanted to do, but I just couldn't crack how I wanted to get into it.”

After more than 10 years as a children’s book illustrator, Wingerter found the solution, reviving her grandparent’s traveling puppet theatre, the Stringpullers, and opening studios in Ithaca and Connecticut.. She said she was drawn to Ithaca after finding a large community of puppeteers already playing in the city.

“It’s such a tiny world so, when you find other people as crazy about it as you, it's always like [finding] family,” she said.

“A lot of people were just really, really open to working with me, and it’s not like that in other places,” Scott Hitz, a local puppeteer, who was shocked by the spirit of the artists and community when he moved to

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Ithaca. “There’s a passion here that’s pushing a lot of people through, and you don’t find that in a lot of places.”

Lily Gershon, founder and president of the Lilypad Puppet Theatre, said bringing local artists together has always been a major goal for her. Lilypad Puppet Theatre is a non-profit that focuses on educating its audiences on personal and social themes through puppetry, which they consider accessible to all ages and needs. It’s schedule has been impacted by the pandemic, it’s most recent production was a variety show held on Aug. 28.

“We’re trying to create that community of puppeteers by helping each other out and bringing everyone together and I think that’s easier in a smaller town like Ithaca,” Gershon said. “There’s less competition as far as puppetry is involved, so that lets us come through a little more...We want to make sure that everyone has access to these arts because, in some ways, I think art can be a life saver,” she said “A lot of people don’t have a voice and don't know how to gain a voice,” Wingerter said.

“It's not for everybody but there are a lot of people like myself where this is the way they can express themselves.”

She said that she believes puppetry can give people who practice it a whole new identity and a community. Marc Petrosino, an Ithaca College alumnus who majored in puppetry, said he knows the feeling very well.

“I think it was the opportunity to be anything,” he said.

“It’s that escape. You could be a dog, a boy, a girl or even a talking tree and I always enjoyed that.”

He now runs his own production company, Monkey Boys Productions, in Pennsylvania, a business he actually started with Hitz, and said he’s grateful that he went to Ithaca College and was exposed to the opportunity to practice puppetry in the first place.

“I seriously considered puppetry when I was applying to college but it didn’t seem like there was any way to make a living at it,” he said.

Petrosino used the college’s integrative studies major to craft his own degree in puppetry. Since graduating in ‘98, Petrosino has performed and had puppets and props featured on everything from SNL to Sesame Street. But he still makes time to come back to Ithaca to perform, in past years he’s done workshops at his alma mater. “I really enjoy talking with people about puppetry, plus it offers a rare opportunity for students to experience this because it's such a niche art form,” he said.

Wingerter, who briefly

taught Puppetry Arts at Quinnipiac University, has also taught workshops in Ithaca from time to time and said that teaching has offered her an additional opportunity for selfdiscovery. “Everybody comes to puppetry with a different background and different levels of interests when they start, but they always have fun because there’s so many styles and so many things you can do,” she said.

Hitz has been able to do several zoom workshops at the Newfield library for both children and adults, each to great success.

“Right now everything’s in such a weird place because of the pandemic, but they went really well,” he said. “They were just as fun and enjoyable as the live stuff I’ve done, so I’m absolutely considering doing more of them.”

While the Lilypad Puppet Theatre and the Stringpullers have halted workshops in light of the pandemic, both groups have recently resumed shows virtually and some socially-distanced. Gershon was able to do two live socially distanced puppet shows on Aug. 14 and 28 at the Ithaca Children’s Garden, where she raised money for a local organization, No Mas Lagrimas, which is helping to get food and other necessities to people during the pandemic.

Wingerter just finished a virtual shadow puppet rendition of “Romeo and Juliet” and said she remains optimistic about the many ways puppetry can and will adapt to the demands of the pandemic.

“The best thing for puppeteers is that everyone is putting their shows online all over the world and people are also teaching all over the world, so I've been taking classes with puppets I've admired for years in Iceland and Germany and England and we’re connecting far more than I think we ever have before,” she said. “We’re also figuring out new ways of doing puppet shows online and that’s kind of creating a whole new art form, so I think there’s gonna be some kind of renaissance that comes out of it,” she said.

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embers of the Route 13 Corridor Study project team held a public meeting via Zoom on Sept. 3 to outline the findings of the study as well as the initial suggestions for how to improve the corridor in the immediate and coming future.

The project team features members of Highland Planning, an urban planning department located in Rochester, Barton & Loguidice, and engineering consultant firm, the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability and the Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council. The study focused on a nine-mile stretch of Route 13 from the Village of Lansing to the Village of Dryden. The objective of the study was to outline instruction for future projects to sustain the corridor’s functionality while simultaneously bolstering the safety of its users.

“The purpose of the study was to assess and document some of the problem areas that have long been recognized, and also looking forward in terms of what our potential development scenarios are and what their potential impacts could have, where it could be along the corridor,” Keith Ewald of Barton & Loguidice said. “Ultimately what we want to do is obviously derive some alternative strategies that we wanted to put forth in front for further consideration.”

In its presentation last Thursday, the team presented six intersections along the corridor – there are 14 intersections overall – that showcase high volumes and traffic as well as levels of safety risks.

Going from west to east, the team began with the Warren Road intersection. According to the data from the study, this intersection has a crash rate that is five times higher than the state average for similar types of facilities. (The team documented the number of accidents at each intersection, the type of accidents (rear end and left turn accidents, animal events) and the severity of those accidents in order to determine the crash rates.)

From there, calculated crash

rates for each intersection and compared them to the state averages. Other issues include delays and congestion, particularly at the left turn movements on and off the corridor.

The team’s goals for this intersection, like the majority of the intersections discussed during the presentation, were to increase the level of safety, decrease wait times and look for other ways to use alternative transportation to possibly reduce the number of vehicles on the corridor.

Short- and long-term strategies were presented to the public to remedy the issues.

In the short term, the team recommended the following: installing intersection lighting, providing additional warning signage leading up to the intersection, pedestrian crossings and/or vehicle detection systems and retiming the signals. In the long term, it was suggested that the intersection be reconstructed, widening the roads (Route 13 and Warren Road) to add more turning lanes.

Following the end of the presentation for each intersection, the team polled the audience's opinions on what short-term strategies they thought should be prioritized for further study. The majority of the audience voted in favor of retiming the signals at the intersection, while adding lighting and pedestrian crossings received the second- and third-most votes, respectively.

The next intersection discussed was the one east of Route 13 at Sapsucker Woods Road and Brown Road. According to Ewald, this particular intersection is a site where drivers often use the shoulder to get around a vehicle that is waiting to make a left turn, which of course presents major safety concerns. This intersection mirrored the same goals as the one at Warren Road.

Short-term strategies included: intersection lighting, warning signage leading up to the intersection (particularly for bicyclists) and pedestrian crossings. Long-term strategies were adding turning lanes and reconstructing the intersection to install either a roundabout

or a signalized intersection.

The team polled the public on the short-term strategies, and about half preferred intersection lighting as an immediate fix. It also polled the public on the long-term strategies.

About 45 percent said they would like to see a roundabout be further considered. Thirtyseven percent said they preferred that the team look into a signalized intersection.

The third intersection dissected was the one at Hanshaw Road Hanshaw. This intersection has the second highest crash rate in the study area, according to Ewald. The goals for improving this intersection were elevating safety measures and decreasing delays.

Short-term strategies featured installing signal backplates to improve visibility, adding intersection lighting, placing yield signs for right turns and retiming signals. When polled, the majority of the audience (32 percent) said the team should look into installing intersection lighting for this area.

The goals were the same for the intersection at Lower Creek Road. The short-term remedies presented were installing pedestrian crossings and/or lighting. In the long term, the team suggested that the approaches from Lower Creek Road and Route 13 be realigned to create a signalized, more traditional four-way intersection, adding left turn lanes onto Route 13, constructing a roundabout or restricting left turn lanes onto Lower Creek Road.

The audience favored the installation of dedicated left turn lanes onto Route 13 (about 34 percent), though the realignment of the approaches from Lower Creek Road and Route 13 were a close second (about 31 percent). Roughly 25 percent voted for building a roundabout at the site.

With the intersection at Route 13 and Route 366, the crash rate is twice as high as similar facilities in the state.

Increasing safety and lowering wait times are goals with this intersection, but also reducing conflicts associated with turn movements will also be a focus. Currently the intersection features several turn movements – traffic moving west and east on Route 13, crossing south on Hail Road and north from Route 366 as well as some traffic yielding right to get onto

Route 13.

Potential strategies at this location are adding additional turn lanes on both routes, installing a roundabout, reconfiguring the eastern NYSEG driveway to align with Pinckney Road to create one point of access, closing the western NYSEG driveway and installing a center turn lane onto Route 13 for businesses east of NYSEG. About 55 percent favored installing the center turn lanes over reconfiguring the east driveway or closing the west driveway. When asked about the options of adding turn lanes onto Route 13 and installing a roundabout, about 43 percent voted for the former and about 38 percent voted for the latter.

The last intersection discussed was the one at Route 366 and Main Street in Dryden. Ewald said this intersection currently has a failing level of service due to an inefficient flow of vehicles.

The crash rate there is also three times higher than the state average when comparing similar facilities. Goals featured were: increase safety, decrease wait times, reducing conflicts associated with the turn movements. For the short term, the team proposed adding intersection lighting, signalizing the intersection and installing a right turn lane onto Route 366 going westbound.

(There was a malfunction with the poll system, so the audience was not able to vote on these strategies.)

In terms of the overall picture, the study also zeroed in on the type of zoning regulations along the corridor.

“It helps us understand what the current conditions and land-use trends are along the corridor and what might be contributing to some of the issues that we see … it also helped us better understand, looking at the local codes, what the potential developments in those areas could be that might contribute to further traffic generators along the corridor, in this particular case over the next 10 years,” Ewald said.

If there are certain parcels that could be potential sites for development that would cause more development, suggestions will be made to those

UPS&DOWNS

Mitrano wants a debate Tracy Mitrano once again called on Congressman Tom Reed to debate her before the November election. In July, Tom Reed rejected her offer as a grand stand and “absurdly high”. They debated twice in 2017 in the lead up to that year’s election. Mitrano was ultimately defeated.

We don’t remember colonizers...

The City of Ithaca’s Common Council is voting on Wednesday on whether or not to remove a statue from DeWitt Park that commemorates Ithaca’s first white settlers The Last Wade After a successful summer season, following the donations from several individuals and organizations who ensured the community pool would open this year, GIAC Alec Haley Pool season will conclude Sept.

20. This week will also see reduced operating hours: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Tuesday - Friday, and noon - 7:00 p.m., Saturday & Sunday.

Stars and Rights.

It was the flag slap heard ‘round North Campus. Construction crews hung a Trump 2020 flag from their crane line on Cornell’s North Campus late last week. Directly on the other side were BLM and a F*** Trump poster hanging on the window of West Campus residence halls. The flag was promptly taken down by noon. Was it up for 9/11? Was it taken down because it offended someone?

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By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s hristopher Barkley and his parents, Virginia Miller and Geoffrey Barkley, moved to Ithaca from Toronto, Canada in the early 1980s to join Christopher’s godparents, Carolyn and Bruce Barkley. While Christopher grew up, his parents worked in the community to promote healthy living, peace and well-being.

Many of us remember Ginny’s unique capabilities shared with child and teen clients in New York State’s first Office of the Law Guardian, and her advocacy for inmates in the Prisoners’ Legal Services offices around NYS. She also introduced many Ithacans to the Dances of Universal Peace.

Meanwhile, Geoff worked as a social worker and therapist at Tompkins County Alcoholism Council and in private practice with the late Meg Splendor. A lifelong athlete, he also became a dedicated soccer coach, fostering Christopher’s skill and interest in the sport.

Christopher was a star soccer player at Ithaca High School and later at Iona College. By 2005, he was playing professionally in Botswana, Africa. During this

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time, Chris was recruited by an innovative non-profit program called Grassroot Soccer (GRS). GRS combines the power and love of soccer with AIDS and HIV prevention education for young people. By training soccer players, coaches and local community leaders to educate and mentor young people, GRS raises awareness about AIDS and changes young lives. Chris was a natural fit for GRS, and he worked for more than a decade in various capacities.

He had many adventures across Africa, including in Southern Sudan, where he was a key member of the GRS teams that traveled to refugee camps, bringing soccer equipment, AIDS education and hope.

Chris took a two-year leave of absence to earn an MBA in Toronto. He welcomed the birth of his daughter Nilah Virginia in 2011 and returned with his family to Cape Town, South Africa, where he was hired as GRS’ Director of Development. Ginny moved from Ithaca to join the family in Cape Town to help raise her granddaughter, returning to Ithaca each year.

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By C h a r l i e G i t h l e r t seems that Donald J. Trump, ignoring the cardinal rule of presidential politics ("Don't mix Bob Woodward and audio tapes."), has been outed as having downplayed the danger of the COVID pandemic while being fully informed of its seriousness. While this came as a shock to precisely nobody, there is ample historical precedent for understating crises...

Genesis Chapter 7 Then the Lord said unto Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. And the people inquired of Noah, "What's up with all the rain?" And Noah replied, "Verily, it's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle — it will disappear." Noah and his children and his wife and his jackass son-in-law with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 straight days.

President Franklin Roosevelt Address to Joint Session of Congress, December 8, 1941 Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in mild disrepute— the territory of the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately encroached upon by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. 99% of the bombs that were dropped were totally harmless.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused a certain amount of breakage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that American lives have been lost, but our numbers are way better than China's. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that strong light and injected disinfectants will heal most of the other injuries.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at

the fact that this is mostly the fault of Sleepy Herbert and the rest of the Hoover administration.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the rudeness by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of unpleasantness has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

Royal Decree of His Royal Highness Edward III, September 16, 1348 The pox that has beset the land in latter days is but the loathsome swindle of a dungeon-toad.

Be it known to all those who shall see these letters that we needeth to reopen commerce such that the royal coffers shall be filled as in days of yore. Heed not the counsel of necromancers, alchemists or healers, for they have fallen prey to the influence of French witchcraft. May a large curse upon them fall, ten times trebled upon their sconces. Let it further be proclaimed that the wearing of plague masks is for cream-faced knaves and the lily-livered. Fear not, for this pestilence shall wend hence on its own.

Public Address from Captain Edward Smith, 12:31 AM, April 15, 1912 Now hear this, this is your captain speaking. I want to address our situation and some of the rumors spreading through the ship. First, the fact is that contact was made with a piece of ice. It was something nobody thought could happen in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Literally nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened. Second, the ship is sound. It is unsinkable. The idea that we are foundering comes from just one study by the Cunard line of ships.

They're not big White Star fans. Third, we have a lot of the best people working very hard to do patches and various other things. I'm told that a substance called hydroxychloroquine is containing any leakage. Now, it's true that we've lowered the lifeboats and issued life preservers, but you'll notice that neither I nor any member of the crew will use either. Some passengers are wearing them just to make me look bad. I also urge you to bear in mind that children are virtually immune to ice water. The danger is fading away.

It’s going to fade away. That is all.

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Nilah’s mother, a South African medical doctor, had a demanding job in a hospital emergency room and Chris traveled extensively throughout Africa for GRS. Ginny was delighted to help out and has developed a strong bond with her namesake and South Africa as a result.

At GRS, Chris played a vital role in obtaining the support and sponsorship of Nike, Gates Foundation, De Beers Diamonds and many celebrity donors.

As donations grew, GRS built “Fields of Hope” in shanty towns, known as townships, throughout South Africa. These

Health Warrior instructor, Nosiphiwo Moshilibane, with students in yoga class in Cape Town, South Africa. (PHOTO: Chris Barkley)

facilities combine community centers, health classrooms and soccer fields.

Although Apartheid was valiantly overcome by brave, determined South African “freedom fighters,” the townships remain impoverished and poorly resourced, often lacking clean water, transportation, electricity, education, sanitation and employment opportunities. Before the current Covid-19 pandemic struck, the unem-

ployment rate for South Africans under the age of 30 was about 50%. These are the very areas where Chris has focused most of his work and attention.

Despite the recent decline of AIDS cases in South Africa, preventable diseases like heart disease, hypertension, substance abuse and diabetes still flourish due to lack of medical and educational resources.

Chris began to turn his attention to creating programs that emphasized life skills training for young people. He continued to be inspired by the many bright, eager young people he worked with on the soccer field and in the classroom. He was motivated to assist them in preparing for their futures by attaining marketable skills. Skills that could improve their own lives and uplift their communities. Thus, the idea for Health Warriors was born.

In 2018, Chris transitioned to consulting on a part-time basis for Grassroot Soccer, so he could dedicate himself to Health Warriors, now a social enterprise providing wellbeing services to communities faced with poverty and trauma.

Young people from these communities lead the work, which is sustained by offering wellbeing services to corporate and private clients.

In January 2020, Health Warriors graduated thirty young people from its first yoga and wellness certification course. Health Warriors’ meditation program, “MindPower” has been taught in several schools. Health Warriors is currently in discussions with the Peace Corps to teach MindPower throughout Africa!

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic struck just as Health Warriors started to launch their community and corporate yoga and wellness classes.

Undaunted, these young leaders have turned this challenging time into one of opportunity; developing a robust schedule of online classes and gaining teaching experience. Every week, students can register for a variety of classes like Vinyasa Yoga Flow, Mindful Movement & Chanting and African Dance Yoga. Back home in Ithaca, Ginny tells us we can all sign up to take these classes online.

To learn more about Health Warriors, and to register for one of their inspiring classes, visit their website at healthwar-

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local municipalities about modifying their zoning regulations.

Other corridor-wide improvements the team looked at were implement bus pull-offs so that they can exit and enter the corridor safely as well as providing accommodations for bicyclists and pedestrians “The idea being that we want to provide another mode of movement and connectivity … it would be nice to build some time of facility to help accommodate safe movement of people that just want to walk down to their local store and grab something,” Ewald said.

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Correction In our Sept. 9, 2020’ Issue, we incorrectly stated that The Boatyard Grill “has been forced to close” and “has temporarily closed” while the restaurant is sanitized and employees await test results. This was a statement made in error on our part.

YOUR LETTERS

Re: Health Department Announces 12 More Cornell Cases Linked to Friday Cluster, Bringing Week Total to 24

In-Person Teaching I learned today that Dr. Luvelle Brown has enrolled his own children in the Covenant of Love Community School for the upcoming school year (they were at Northeast Elementary last year). As he negotiates with teachers to reopen our schools, this vote of no confidence in his own school district is glaring. How can he ask teachers and families to return to our school buildings when his own children will not? I think it is something teachers and parents in the district should know about.

Meloney McMurry ICSD Parent

Due to my job, I had to visit the off-campus housing site inhabited by mostly Cornell students at the Highland apartments on Saturday. What did I find congregating in the parking lot? About 10-15 students (at least), none of whom wore masks, none of whom were social distancing. As a result of the foregoing, I was unable to enter the buildings and do my work due to the risk. In addition to the parties, Cornell needs to start monitoring its off-campus housing units as the students are NOT complying with the COVID guidelines.

Elisabeth Hegarty via ithaca.com

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a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends.

ing Mighty Yoga at Home, but now have begun offering in-person instruction at Thompson Park. Another feature the studio has promoted is their Mighty on Demand platform which allows users to practice yoga whenever and wherever they like with classes of varying lengths and styles. Currently classes are 10-30 minutes on average and complement the LiveStream and in person courses being offered. New and returning members can now sign up for 30 days for $40; and participate in the Mighty on Demand for $35/month.

Pallas Fitness Pallas Fitness is operating under a members only policy, but is currently accepting new members. Classes will be offered at a reduced capacity, 10 per lesson says the schedule.. Pre-registration is also required in order to participate otherwise entry into the gym will be prohibited.

Classes will take place both indoors and outdoors, but they are asking members to arrive no less than 2 minutes prior to a class in order to allow adequate time for temperature checks. Visit their website for more information on the class hours, membership and new regulation policies.

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YMCA at Ithaca and Tompkins County Frank Towner, CEO of YMCA of Ithaca & Tompkins County, said he was happy when he heard the governor give approve reopening the gyms and fitness centers. He said that even though the regulations seem extensive “the bottom line is that we are upholding state and local regulations in all areas of safety and health.”

At the Y at Ithaca & Tompkins County equipment has been further distanced from one another and staff staff will move throughout the space periodically cleaning and sanitizing used materials. The Y will also have additional sanitary materials i.e. masks and sanitizer available for patrons to switch over. Walk-ins will not be permitted and members will be required to sign up for time slots ahead of arrival.

The staff at YMCA of Ithaca & Tompkins County continue to stay in touch with CDC and the state of New York, Towner said..

FingerLakes Fitness Center reopened on Sept. 14 with limited hour access.

The fitness center, once open 24 hours a day, will operate from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, and close four hours earlier on Friday at 3 p.m. The gym will be closed on Sundays but operate from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturdays. In person workout classes and short-term memberships have also been discontinued for the time being, members can now participate in virtual lessons and apply for monthly memberships. Information on how to sign up for classes will be presented after membership registration is completed.

Other gyms that are open and operating include Planet Fitness at the Triphammer Mall; Infinity Ithaca which is open by appointment only from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Blackbird Studio, which is offering pre-recorded classes.

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e’ve all seen the memes and heard the new cliches, 2020 has not been what most of us expected and it has not brought what most of us would have predicted. Protests, a pandemic, a rising economic crisis, growing unemployment and homelessness, death and isolation. Going into his third term as City of Ithaca Mayor, it’s certainly not what SVÏvante Myrick would have predicted.

But for the last 10 months he’s taken the job head on, business as usual.

We sat down with Mayor Myrick in early September to discuss the housing crisis in Ithaca, the pandemic, community tensions and weekly Sunday protests.

Due to space constraints, this conversation has been condensed to some of the highlights.

ITHACA TIMES: Thank you for joining me and how goes Corona?

SVANTE MYRICK: [laughs] Tough. I’m very aware of how fortunate we are, to live where we live and be surrounded by this kind of community. One that has been so active and dedicated and on the ball when it comes to taking care of our neighbors. To have made it this far, the start of September with no local COVID deaths is remarkable and unusual and a testament to how well the hospital’s done, how quickly the health department really rallied and how well everyone has done at taking the pandemic seriously.

And it’s created a triplex of crises. We’ve got a public health crisis, then an economic crisis and a social crisis. It means that the City, all of our operations have struggled and we’ve all had to adjust. When I talk to other mayors both from around the state and country, I’m acutely aware that the philanthropy, volunteers and activists have made my job easier than, frankly, it has any right to be.

IT: Ithaca is in a decent position concerning COVID cases, but Cornell students’ return has been a point of contention between the community and the university, and you really haven't said much about it, aside from supporting the university’s decision, why is that?

SM: I feel like that’s kind of all I talk about— [laughs] not all. Obviously, we have our own organization to run; 450 staff that keep the streets paved, lights on, deliver public safety so that is the bulk of my time. We don’t have any public health officials on staff. The Tompkins County Health Department and the New York

State Department of Health are the regulating agencies. They’re the ones with the expertise and the ones with the authority to regulate when things open and if not. Our job as a city, the way I see it, is not only to support those public health agencies but to make whatever they decide work as best as it can for our community. So if they decided that the university could not reopen, we would have to scramble to find a way to support our economy, find out how to support tenants without jobs, the landlords who would be without tenants, the stores that would be without customers, the restaurants that would be without patrons.

SM: Yeah. The need for affordable housing is the most pressing in the City. It’s the largest threat that Ithaca faces— that too many people who want to live here can’t afford to live here and there’s no one simple way to solve it, but there are several simple ways to solve it. One is that we need more housing, period. If you have more people who want to live in a place than you have bedrooms, some people are going to be excluded. Almost always the people who are going to be excluded are the poorest folk.

So you’ve got to build more affordable, supportive, transition and homeless housing, which we’ve done more of in the last eight

IT: So my next point is the protests.

Some people want to see something done about IPD and they don’t feel like anything is being concretely done about officers they think should be fired, the budget, the SWAT team. Thoughts?

-Svante Myrick

IT: There is a growing homeless population and they’re growing onto the Commons, it’s becoming pretty clear there’s a larger problem. What do you have to say about that?

years than has been seen in any 20-year stretch of Ithaca’s history. And importantly we’ve built them in places that are central to the heart of the city: 50 new affordable units at Breckinridge, 100 over at Spencer and Stone Quarry, the new development where the old P&C was at 210 Hancock.

And even more, the Magnolia House on the West End; TC Actions, specifically for homeless young folks; St. Johns, the mission and on and on. But there’s even more coming. We’re going to build 200 more units right next to the City Hall on land that the City owns. And over on the West End, the new projects that are rising out of the ground, you can see the elevator shaft.

Solving it is really complicated, there’s no city in America that has fully delivered affordable housing to all of its residents, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. We can if we have the political will and if we’re willing to spend the money. And if we’re willSe p te m be r

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IT: Well, when I talk to landlords they blame housing costs on the cost of the property determined by the City and you’re saying its landlord’s competition?

SM: Who’s at fault? I don’t think any one person’s at fault, I think we have 30,000 bedrooms and probably 50–55,000 people who want to live here. Some number of them who commute here from outside of the county. Then there’s other folks who’re just squeezed out of the system completely.

So, who’s to blame? It’s a systemic problem.

We’ve got a public health crisis, then an economic crisis and a social crisis. It means that the City, all of our operations have struggled and we’ve all had to adjust.

When they decided the university (could open) we had to do a different scramble.

The last few months, not only did we set up an Economic Recovery Cabinet when it became clear that this pandemic was going to rage out of control and the federal government was not going to do their job, to delivering products for our rental assistance program for tenants to our loan assistance programs, which especially helped our storefront businesses. We set up no-interest loans for them. It’s a difficult place to be because folks assume the mayor’s in charge of everything, but you’ve got to recognize the things you can’t control and be able to assist with the things you can.

ing to face down the people who say ‘I don’t want to live near shelters, I don’t want to live near affordable housing’, we can do it.

And the people in those expensive apartments are not competing with the rest of us. I, for one, cannot afford those apartments. But anytime a landlord has the opportunity to rent their apartment for a higher price without fixing it up, they do that, thereby creating more competition amongst landlords for tenants, instead of the way it works right now where tenants compete against each other for landlords.

That will help our problem.

SM: It’s very interesting, you said the people think something should be done.

Which people? How many? What thing?

There are 50 people speaking in the Commons saying ‘we the people are speaking with one united voice and we want X done, we want Y officer fired.’ Does that mean the people? Do they speak for all of Ithaca?

What I’ve noticed and what I’ve encouraged the people who are rallying every week in very plain terms to do is, if they want to see real change— systemic, criminal and racial justice reform that I’ve been fighting for my entire career. The kind that allowed me to decriminalize marijuana back in 2012 before it was fashionable, that outlawed high-speed chases back in 2013, to pioneer a new drug policy that is an alternative to the racist war on drugs. If they want to see what I’ve achieved over the years which is a steady increase of an allocation of funds to our youth and social services programs, particularly as it relates to the police budget, all while lowering the crime rate. If you’re going to achieve those things that i’ve already achieved. You’ve got to do it with a multi-generational, multi-

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his story won’t be published until 5 days from now, but I must write it now, on Friday, September 11th. Having just returned from the Cornell campus, and having been a part of Richie Moran’s annual 9/11 remembrance ritual, the words are pushing their way out, so I will move aside and let them emerge…

On this day 19 years ago, Richie Moran – the Hall of Fame lacrosse coach who had retired 4 years earlier – was summoned into his daughter’s house as he and his wife, Pat, had pulled into her driveway to pick her up. “Please come inside,” Jennifer said. “There is something terrible happening.”

Like the rest of the country, Richie watched the events unfold on television, but unlike most people, there were people he knew and loved working inside the twin towers. He knew that Mike Tanner, who had played football at Cornell in the late 1970s, was employed there, as was Eamon McEneany, whom Richie had known since Eamon was 9 years old.

While he dreaded the thought, Richie knew it was very likely that his two friends

Richie Moran honors Eamon McEneaney for the nineteenth time on September 11th.

were in the building when the first plane hit the North Tower (as were nine other former lacrosse players Moran had recruited and played against). Despite many prayers that Mike and Eamon – who were employed by Cantor Fitzgerald – had somehow made it out, it was not to be.

In the ensuing weeks, the coach pushed aside his own grief and did his best to be there for Bonnie McEneaney and her four children. He gave a eulogy for Eamon that was televised on ESPN, and he held it together to the extent he could. Eamon was like a son to him, and the two had been to the top of the lacrosse mountain together.

McEneaney was a three-time First Team All-American, the 1977 National Player of the Year, and one of the mainstays of the Big Red’s two consecutive national championships and its historic 42-game winning streak. He is widely regarded as one of the game’s greatest-ever players.

Fellow Big Red alumnus and longtime fan Jay Spiegel called him “A superb athlete, a great writer, husband and father, a hero, friend to many, admired by all who knew him or those who were his fans. He is missed by all of us.”

McEneaney is also known as a great role model for all blue-collar kids who want to believe that they can do what it takes to become a Cornellian and excel as a student, as an athlete and in anything they choose to do.

On Friday, Richie walked over to the wall of plaques honoring Eamon (and continued on page 33

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estled at the bottom of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is a city of water.

Without leaving the boundaries of the city, you can sightsee along Cascadilla and Fall Creeks as they rush between the steep walls of gorges, explore the milder grade of the trails along Six Mile Creek, or amble along the wide flow of the Cayuga Inlet.

Cascadilla Creek runs through the flats between concrete retaining walls, but the real attraction of this creek is the Cascadilla Gorge Trail, a Natural Areas trail of Cornell Plantations open from midApril to mid-November. The lower entrance is just a few blocks from the Ithaca Commons and its upper entrance is situated on the south side of the Cornell University campus. The trail follows close to the creek bed, up stone staircases and over a stone bridge, while the steep walls create a surround-sound experience of rushing water.

The gorge trail appeals to commuters like Megan French, a Ph.D. student at Cornell’s communications department who moved to the Fall Creek neighborhood. “It’s always such a great way to start the day. It relaxes you and primes you to work,” she said. When the trail is closed in winter she planned to take the bus up the hill.

Newcomers might not realize that the gorge was closed for extensive repairs and reconstruction in 2008, The original construction was completed in 1931, but freezethaw cycles and spring (and post-tropical storm) floods took a heavy toll. New trail improvements now merge seamlessly with the old construction and the ancient rock walls. These rocks were formed over 360 million years ago and the gorge was carved by the creek thousands of years ago after glaciers retreated from the area.

Even with the renovations, Todd Bittner, Director of Natural Areas at Cornell Plantations, said the gorge trail would always be a high maintenance trail by virtue of It h ac a Fa l l s o n Fa l l C r e e k n e a r L a k e S t r e e t (a b ov e) a n d C a s c a d i l l a C r e e k b e t w e e n its location at the bottom of a C ay u g a a n d Au r o r a S t r e e t s . gorge. Plants, including trees, ( P h o t o s : B r i a n A r n o l d a n d B i l l C h a i s s o n) cling to the walls precariously, The

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illustrated by the huge tree presently stuck at the base of one of the small cascades.

Winter ice weakens rocks in the gorge walls, which wash away along with bedrock and debris during spring floods.

It’s not just Mother Nature that threatens the trail—there’s human nature too. Bittner said that since last summer they’ve dealt with both vandalism and graffiti.

While up at Cornell, visitors can also check out Fall Creek, the largest watercourse flowing into Cayuga Lake.

Four trailheads all have new signage with maps showing the entire network of Plantations trails. Most of the Fall Creek trails run along the rim, but a few spur trails dive down into the gorge itself and end at scenic locations that also sport new signage. Recent work on this trail has rebuilt old stairs and has added new benches and a stone picnic table.

“You can’t believe that you’re in a major university campus in town,” said Bittner about the scenic locations. Twentyfive years ago, 1.8 miles of Fall Creek from the Triphammer Falls footbridge to the lake was designated a Recreational River, which preserves its freeflowing nature and protects it from development. The Fall Creek Gorge and Ithaca Falls area are further protected by being Natural Areas of Cornell Plantations and of the City of Ithaca, respectively.

But the protection cannot keep out the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive insect that threatens eastern hemlock trees throughout the Finger Lakes. Bittner said that insecticide treatments applied to individual trees appear to be keeping hemlocks healthy, although they will need to be re-treated in a couple years.

The gorges and waterfalls add beauty but also danger, with their loose rocks, wet trails, and alluring pools. A sign at Horseshoe Falls warns that four people have drowned at the site due to a cavern, obscured by the churning water at the bottom of the falls, 30 to 50 feet deep. Even the professional divers that go in continued on page 17

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Historic districts are geographically distinct concentrations of buildings, structures, sites, objects, and landscapes that collectively share some historic distinction.

–The City of Ithaca Historic District and Landmark Design Guidelines (HDLDG) adopted May 14, 2012.

n 1971 the City of Ithaca joined a nationwide preservation movement when DeWitt Park Historic District was designated as the first of three historic districts to be listed at the local, state and national levels. The purpose was to protect the city’s cultural, aesthetic and historical heritage as means to promote the economic, cultural, educational and general wellbeing of its citizens. Ithaca’s historic preservation ordinance allows individual properties and groups of properties exemplifying special historic character to be designated as local landmarks and local historic districts. In 1973 and 1974 the designation of singular structures as Individual Local Landmarks—first with Lehigh Valley Railroad Station located at 806-810 West Buffalo Street followed by St. James AME Zion Church located at 114-116 Cleveland Avenue—was initiated. Forty-four years later, the city has identified 22 individual local landmark structures and 9 historic districts with overlapping periods of significance ranging from 1818–1954.

In Ithaca: A Brief History, author Carol Kammen thoughtfully describes how landscape and water, government, educational institutions, technology and prominent individuals have shaped and enhanced Ithaca’s evolution for the past two hundred years: from its “period of settlement through the anxious early years to 1870”; followed by what Kammen calls “a time of organization and diversification leading through the twentieth century to 1975”; and the most recent past which looks at our own time.

T H E M I L I TA R Y L O T After the Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783), New York soldiers were to be paid for their wartime service with a generous plot of land. Once New York State gained control of Iroquois lands, surveyor general Simeon DeWitt was dispatched to identify and map the New Military Tract comprised of 26 towns each with 100 lots of 600 acres. By the time the state distributed the land by lottery in 1790 many people had lost interest and either sold or traded their lot of 600 acres. DeWitt bought the central flat portion of Lot 94 in Town 22 (Ulysses), acquired additional acreage to the west and south eventually holding over 1,400 acres. He anticipated that this area he named Ithaca would become a transportation hub and manufacturing center due to its location on Cayuga Lake; the potential water-power provided by the three creeks of Fall, Cascadilla on East Hill and Six Mile located between East and South hills; high quality farmland and overland shipping of goods through the valley

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Commons, built in 1974, turned this historic urban core into a pedestrian walkway that encouraged continued use of these buildings with street-level retail space and banking, and upper level office space and apartments.

Center Ithaca and the former Rothchild’s building are excluded from the historic district.

Today’s Ithaca Commons—recently reopened after three years of reconstruction—features a fresh new design that continues to provide a setting for: people-watching, shopping, dining, services, music and community events.

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DeWitt subdivided the area into a rectilinear village plan with narrow lots that he both rented and sold off over time as more people arrived to start a new life.

The hamlet of Ithaca was incorporated as a village in 1821 with a population of just over 1200 residents. The city’s fortunes over time fluctuated with national financial trends, and suffered from a series of floods and fires that destroyed building stock that was rebuilt using the latest technology and building materials.

Cornell University, founded in 1868 by Ezra Cornell and A. D. White with a Morrill Land Grant, began with a student population of 412 students that needed housing, goods and services provided by the village. By 1888 Ithaca was chartered as the 29th designated city in the state. The city was set on its course of serving a University community that has since expanded beyond its original focus on agriculture and engineering to become a world-class university with 21, 850 students. Today the city of Ithaca is undergoing significant building construction to accommodate students, residents and tourism.

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ITHACA DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT This area, which is also a National Register Historic District, is the city’s earliest commercial area with its period of significance between 1818 and 1954. The downtown core buildings constitute an intact representative example of a Central New York commercial district.

The area retains a high degree of architectural integrity with several examples of the city’s notable architects’ work that illustrate Ithaca’s development from a small settlement at the intersection of two turnpikes—today’s State and Aurora streets—in the early 19th century to the commercial center of the city today. The various structural and decorative technologies used to construct these structures during the period of significance—including a largely intact collection of attached masonry commercial buildings—represent a variety of architectural styles popular during that time. The first Ithaca /

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This part of the city is, like downtown, also a National Register Historic District. It was named for Ithaca’s founder Simeon DeWitt. Its period of significance is 1820 to 1930 because of its association with many of Ithaca’s early leaders and citizens. The district is comprised of 64 locally designated primary structures with 54 structures listed on the National Register.

Representing the early days of settlement this area preserves a concentration of religious, educational and governmental structures as well as some of the city’s oldest surviving residential buildings. Although the district contains several non-contributing buildings—such as the old library—myriad historical architectural styles illustrate social and cultural shifts, progressive building technologies while continuing to provide a “... distinct urban setting for the city’s commercial, social, political and religious activities” according to the HDLDG.

CLINTON BLOCK HISTORIC DISTRICT This district has a period of significance between 1830 and 1901 with three locally designated primary structures that, according to HDLDG, represent “the city’s last remaining unified group of commercial buildings in the Greek Revival style, popular locally between 1830 and 1860, and are the sole stagecoach hotel and ancillary commercial grouping surviving in Ithaca.” Clinton Hall’s third floor had a 500seat auditorium used for public meetings and as a theatre for vaudeville and early motion picture screenings.

HENRY ST. JOHN HISTORIC DISTRICT This area south of Clinton Street has a period of significance between 1830 and 1932 with 80 locally designated primary structures.

There were two distinct phases of development.

The area between West Green and West Clinton streets was developed at the beginning of the 19th-century with some of downtown’s oldest homes comprising a mix of high-style and modest. The area immediately south between West Clinton Street and North Titus Avenue was initially too swampy for building construction. It was drained and improved

by Charles M. Titus allowing newly affluent Ithacans to build homes in styles popular after 1870. Because of its association with several prominent businessmen and politicians in the village and the early city, it became one of the most fashionable neighborhoods close to downtown. Many properties retain the original carriage houses and early automobile garages.

EAST HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT This is another National Register Historic District and has a period of significance between 1830 and 1932 with 264 locally designated primary structures and 264 primary structures listed on the National Register.

During the 1830s and 1840s East Hill was primarily rural with some milling activities near Osmun Place and Williams Street. The oldest structures are concentrated in the 400 blocks of East Seneca and East Buffalo streets.

As Cornell University—established in 1868— expanded and grew during the last quarter of the 19th-century, the need for close-by housing and services initiated dense development that gives this district its present-day character and appearance. It contains a broad spectrum of architecturally and historically significant 19th and early 20th century residential, commercial, and institutional structures. The last surviving remnants of early 20th -century brick street paving are the sandstone pavers at the intersection of Ferris Place and South Quarry Street and red clay brick pavers along Stewart Avenue between Cascadilla Creek and East State Street.

UNIVERSITY HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT University Hill has a period of significance between 1867 and 1927 with 46 locally designated primary structures and panoramic views of the city, Cayuga Inlet and the Cayuga Lake valley.

This area is also significant for its connection with two important Ithaca families—the former homes of the Cornells and the Tremans— who arrived in the early 19th-century without significant financial resources. By the second half of the century, both families accumulated substantial wealth and property that they later offered to the community, serving as benefactors or directors of the city’s major financial, civic, and educational institutions. Ezra Cornell owned a significant portion of the hill. His widow and relations eventually acquired all of the land between University Avenue and Stewart Avenue north of the City Cemetery. By the first decade of the 20th century the Treman family—founders of today’s Tompkins Trust Company and donors of the three urban creeks to the city of Ithaca and Cornell University for public use—purchased substantial portions of Cornell family holdings to build family homes.

This district displays a wide range of American domestic revival and vernacular architectural styles popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

CORNELL ARTS QUADRANGLE HISTORIC DISTRICT The Arts Quad has a period of significance

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two statues and one memorial that are locally designated primary structures. Morrill Hall is a National Historic Landmark. Just outside of the campus’s historic district are five buildings of note. The A.D. White House is listed on the National Register, while locally designated landmarks are: Sage Hall, Barnes Hall, Sage Chapel and The Foundry.

DOWNTOWN WEST HISTORIC DISTRICT This area has its period of significance between 1880 and 1922 with seven examples of residential architecture. These structures remain, according to HGLDG, from when “West State Street, originally known as Owego Street, was the principal thoroughfare leading from the inlet and railroad station areas into the downtown core of Ithaca.” The West State Street and South Albany Street area was a prominent residential neighborhood for a local physician and many of the city’s important businessmen who were active in civic life and local politics.

This district serves as a complement to the fashionable houses in the nearby Henry St. John Historic District.

CORNELL HEIGHTS Another National Register Historic District, Cornell Heights has a period of significance between 1898 and 1937 with 147 locally designated primary structures and 186 primary structures listed on the National Register. According to the HGLDG this district is “.... an exceptionally intact example of a turn-of-the-century planned residential

suburban community placed in an outstanding natural setting ... located along the northern rim of Fall Creek gorge overlooking the city and the southern tip of Cayuga Lake. The district’s historic character is defined by its curvilinear street plan, lavish landscape features, dramatic geographical setting and strictly residential character.”

The Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) and a staff historic preservation planner regulate all exterior and site alterations of the city’s locally designated landmarks and local historic districts. General guidance—for property owners, developers, architects, and tradespeople planning appropriate repairs, renovations and alterations within these historic environments—is provided in “The City of Ithaca Historic District and Landmark Design Guidelines” (HGLDG). Revised in 2012, the HGLDG provides recommendations for building materials and features such as: roofs, windows, doors, porches, exterior siding, foundations, decorative architectural details; site materials and features such as: parking, drives, walkways, patios, fencing, walls, lighting, accessory structures, signs, landscaping; mechanicals, utilities and fire escapes; new construction and additions; demolition and non-contributing structures. The guidelines can be accessed online at www.cityofithaca.org or by contacting preservation staff in the city’s Department of Planning and Development at (607) 274 6555. The ILPC uses these guidelines to make decisions about changes to locally designated historic properties. §

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ver the last 20 years, Finger Lakes wineries have been moving away from being “not France” and toward developing a distinct personality for the region. They are doing this, in part, by planting and making wines with grapes from central and eastern Europe. But a few wineries are not giving up on exploration of the French legacy. Beyond the favorites of Bordeaux—Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc—and Burgundy—Pinot noir, Chardonnay—another Burgundy grape has established a beachhead, Gamay noir.

American winemakers created the Meritage label because the famous blended wine of southwestern France may not be called a “Bordeaux” unless it is made there. In contrast, a red wine from the Côte d’Or is called a Burgundy, but it is made only with Pinot noir.

Likewise, further down the Sâone River near Villefranche, red wine is made solely with Gamay noir grapes and is called a Beaujolais.

No American marketing terms have been deemed necessary for either of these French appellations. Sheldrake point Winery planted its first Gamay noir in 1997, the year the winery was established on the west shore of Cayuga Lake. They call their Beaujolais-style wine Gamay noir. The two other regional makers of this wine do the same.

B E T T H E FA R M Several years ago Bet the Farm winemaker Nancy Tisch decided to make a Gamay noir and began purchasing Sheldrake point grapes. She liked the resulting wine well enough that two years ago she and co-owner Kit Kalfs planted two acres of Gamay noir vines in their own vineyard. They look forward to harvesting their first crop and producing their first estate vintage in 2021.

Tisch calls Gamay noir a cold-hardy vine, and she doesn’t know why it isn’t grown more widely in the Finger Lakes. She also finds it versatile and has used Sheldrake-grown grapes

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to make a straight varietal, a dry rosé, a sparkling rosé, and a blend with Pinot noir.

“Gamay ripens well here but maintains some good acidity,” she said. “This makes it easy to work with, no chaptalization or pH adjustments are needed.” Chaptalization is the addition of sugar to the juice before or during fermentation. It is actually common practice in the making of a Beaujolais in France, according to Anthony Hansen’s Burgundy, a 1982 book about the region’s wine.

Hanson describes the process of making a Beaujolais in some detail. Unlike most winemaking protocols, it does not begin with crushing the grapes. Instead relatively small vats are filled with entire bunches of grapes, and some of the fruit at the bottom is crushed by the overlying weight. This juice, which begins to ferment, is warmed and repeatedly pumped over the berries in the vat. In a process called carbonic maceration, fermentation also takes place inside of each uncrushed grape in a carbon dioxiderich atmosphere produced by the fermentation of the juice at the bottom of the vat.

The above process produces a light, fruity wine that is ready to drink only months after it is made. “In the glass, it has notes of strawberry, cherry, and a hint of pepper,” Tisch said. “It usually has a medium body and is incredibly food-friendly. What’s not to like?”

Tisch, however, did not think she was able to extract enough color from the Gamay clone grown at Sheldrake Point. To that end, she and Kalfs purchased a different clone that they hope will produce a deeper color. In addition to the other variations she has tried, she may use Gamay noir to make a “blanc de noir.” These are sparkling white wines made by separating red grapes from their skins immediately after pressing.

BLOOMER CREEK Speaking of clones, a wild card in the Finger Lakes Gamay story is to be found at Bloomer Creek Vineyard. Their own website makes no mention of Gamay, but other sites that describe their wines state they have made a vin d’été that is 60% Cabernet franc and 40% Gamay noir.

Inquiries to Kim Engle at Bloomer Creek went unanswered at press time, but Dave Breeden, the winemaker at Sheldrake Point, believes the Bloomer Creek grapes are what was once called “Beaujolais Gamay.” This grape is actually a California clone of Pinot noir and is not closely related to Gamay noir. To further complicate the issue, Bloomer Creek also makes a Vin d’été using carbonic maceration, but entirely from Cabernet franc grapes.

TERRASSEN AND RED NEWT Tisch no longer buys Gamay grapes from Sheldrake Point and, according to Breeden, the Gamay noir wine he makes is popular enough that Sheldrake Point Vineyard doesn’t sell the varietal to any else … with one exception.

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sommelier who develops his own wines (while Brown is the marketer). A graduate of Cornell, he is enamored of the Finger Lakes region. In 2015 he decided to bring the Gamay noir grapes grown at Sheldrake to winemaker Kelby Russell at Red Newt Wine Cellars in Burdett and issue a Beaujolais-style wine with his own label.

Pastuszak did not respond to requests for an interview, but Russell was happy to talk about making Gamay noir. In addition to making the wine for Terrassen, Red Newt has two acres of Gamay noir planted on the west side of Seneca Lake.

“It’s the most interesting ripe grape we work with,” he said. “The berries are larger [than other red vinifera grapes], the skins are thinner, and they smell different.” He described the odor as a “high-toned fruitiness.”

Russell has modified the traditional Beaujolais method. “We settled on 50% whole clusters,” he said. He experimented with carbonic maceration, but he did not like the results he got with Finger Lakes grapes. The winemaker likened the flavor to new oak and bubble gum.

Breeden said at Sheldrake Point he eschews using whole bunches altogether because the stems are too green. In France, he said, the vines are not as robust and so the stems of the ripe grapes are brown and woody. While Breeden dislikes the flavor of the stems, Russell is more accepting. “As a winemaker,” he said, “I enjoy a certain amount of bitterness in red wine.” He received part of his winemaking education in Italy where including stems in the making of red wines is part of the tradition.

At Red Newt, Russell puts the Gamay grapes in one-ton containers and punches them down by hand three times a day. He lets them cold soak at ambient temperatures for three days and then warms them up for 10 days.

Fermentation ends when the yeast expires.

He then packs the must with dry ice and covers it with a lid to keep out fruit flies and leaves it for three weeks on the skins and stems.

Finally, using an old basket press, he separates the juice. Red Newt starts with a ton of grapes and finishes with 75 cases of wine.

Pastuszak helps to harvest the grapes. “He has no pretensions of being a winemaker,” Russell said. “In the beginning he brought examples [of Beaujolais] that he considered touchstones and then we had a very open discussion.” The Red Newt winemaker told Pastuszak what would work in the Finger Lakes. “We are in line with what we were shooting for,” Russell said.

The number one challenge that Russell sees in growing Gamay noir is disease. Like its Burgundy bedfellow Pinot noir, Gamay noir is tight-bunched and thin-skinned, which makes it susceptible to rot. It isn’t vulnerable to yeastcaused sour rot, but to fungal Botrytis. While this fungus can cause fascinating flavors in Rieslings, it is entirely unwelcome in Gamay noirs. Russell does not worry about it much, however, because “Sheldrake Point does a good job of dropping fruit” that shows signs of rot.

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for oenophiles to examine the role of the winemaker. Russell had tried Bet the Farm’s Gamay noir only once at a dinner party and didn’t feel qualified to compare it to his own.

He had, however, more experience drinking Sheldrake Point wine. “The flavor profile of ours runs toward darker fruit, bramble fruit,” Russell said. “Dave [Breeden] gets more strawberry, more juicy fruit. We find different sides of the same berry.”

SHELDRAKE POINT “The Gamay noir is usually ready to pick by the second week of October,” said Breeden, “but this year it could be the first week of October because of the drought.” All vinifera grapes like it dry. The weather this year isn’t a concern.

Dave Wiemann, the vineyard manager at Sheldrake Point, regards Gamay noir as “one of the easy ones” to grow. If anything, the varietal is too hardy in the Finger Lakes. “Three-quarters of the way into veraison [ripening], we take off any [fruit] that is pink or green,” said Wiemann.

“If we don’t, the vine just gets bigger.”

Even this year there is ample water in the soil at Sheldrake Point, and the berries are big.

In 2006, Wiemann added another 1.2 acres of Gamay noir, but this time installed drainage underneath to dry out the soil. It didn’t work: the younger vines are as vigorous as the ones planted in 1997.

Wiemann said the clone planted at Sheldrake Point came from the Niagara region of Canada, but Breeden noted that the Canadian Gamay noirs were different from his, which are extremely light in color and body.

Breeden doesn’t use carbonic maceration.

He makes his Gamay noir in much the same way he makes his other red wines, separating the berries from the stems and crushing the grapes before fermentation. What separates one red wine from another, aside from starting with different grapes, is the yeasts that are used to drive fermentation.

Unlike Tisch, Breeden doesn’t add Gamay noir to any Sheldrake Point blends, but he does add less than 1% Syrah to his Gamay noir.

Neither Breeden, Russell nor Tisch have seen the need to add sugar.

Beaujolais has long been second-banana to Pinot noir-based wines of northern Burgundy, but over the last decade it has been growing in popularity as the public has realized how versatile it is. Because of its high acidity and low tannins, it goes with practically any food.

Russell was cautiously optimistic about the future of Gamay noir in the Finger Lakes, speculating that its French cachet may help it to pull ahead of Lemberger/Blaufrankisch.

Breeden noted that it was one of Sheldrake Point’s better sellers. Aside from Terrassen’s small share, he keeps all his vineyard’s Gamay grapes, makes 600-700 cases of wine per year and sells it all.

How does Finger Lakes Gamay noir measure up against Beaujolais? “Kyle Anne [Pallinscheck], our marketing manager took some of our Gamay to France,” Breeden said.

“The French were quite positive about it.”

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to retrieve the bodies of drowning victims find navigating the currents and debris a harrowing experience despite being tethered to the surface.

Six Mile Creek and its surrounding natural area, although less impressively dangerous, does pose a risk to illegal swimmers, as evidenced by a drowning death at Second Dam this July.

Being a natural area so close to the city, both humans and dogs illegally off-leash have a heavy presence. Dogs can scare animals, trample plants, and even dig up plants in pursuit of a chipmunk.

Joe McMahon, chair of Ithaca’s Natural Areas Commission, wrote a stark summary of human impacts: “Ground cover has decreased, which increases erosion; trees have been damaged and killed by the actions of people going to swim and party, graffiti has become widespread, noise is unbearable at times, and animals have fled.”

McMahon recently blazed official trails to keep people from making their own.

“We try to encourage engagement with the natural area in a positive way,” said Anna Stalter, the vice chair and secretary of the Natural Areas Commission, speaking before the fatality. The Friends of Six Mile Creek, with which Stalter is also involved, runs two annual series for the public: Nature Journaling for Kids and Explore Your Watershed. One workshop takes visitors up the creek to the reservoir that provides the city with drinking water. (The treatment facility is in the process of being upgraded.) Look for next year’s events beginning in February.

Although the area was designated a city natural area only about 20 years ago, it has interested naturalists for longer. As a biologist

C ay u g a I n l e t (r i g h t) j o i n s t h e f l o o d c o n t r o l c h a n n e l at C ay u g a L a k e . ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) and curator at Cornell, Stalter has seen plant specimens collected at Six Mile Creek by Cornell botany students in the 1880s.

Unfortunately, Statler said that Mullholland Flower Preserve, a subset of the natural area, is not the native species hotspot it used to be.

Why? “Deer. That’s the suspect for a lot of the decline of native species,” said Stalter. There is also garlic mustard, an invasive plant that crowds out spring ephemeral flowers in particular, and Statler noted that the areas where the Friends of Six Mile Creek prioritize their efforts, such as garlic mustard pulls, are where wildflowers

are most abundant. She can still find a dozen or more species of spring ephemerals at the preserve in early May. If you’re looking for a more urban creek experience, Cayuga Inlet has recreation, dining, and shopping opportunities. Visitors can walk, bike, and skate the recently expanded, six-mile long Cayuga Waterfront Trail from Cass Park on one side of the inlet to the Ithaca Farmers Market and beyond on the other. Or enjoy a view of the inlet from the Ithaca Children’s Garden or a waterfront restaurant such as Corks and More, Kelly’s, or the Boatyard. Almost

eight miles along the inlet have Public Fishing Rights, where anglers can have a go at the trout, salmon, bass, and a handful of other species.

Along with human fishermen, ospreys visit from nearby nests to dive into the water.

Both Bittner and Kristy Mitchell, integrated marketing manager for the Ithaca Conventions and Visitor Bureau, recommended Puddledockers, located on the inlet, as a source for renting canoes or kayaks for people who don’t have their own watercraft. But there are threats to boating on the inlet. Dredging, last done in 1982 and delayed in 2011 due to financial and logistical issues, is long overdue. When tributaries come down the hills and hit the flatter area of the inlet, sediment is deposited and builds up over time.

Large populations of hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant that grows into dense mats that choke waterways, were discovered in the inlet in 2011. Since herbicide treatments began, “the populations of hydrilla in the inlet have been drastically reduced,” said James Balyszak, the Hydrilla Program Manager, Treatments will continue this year and beyond since even a small population can grow explosively.

Hydrilla can spread by fragments, complicating any activity that disturbs the sediment. Balyszak said that there were some areas of concern when the Cayuga Waterfront Trail was built, such as at the Buffalo Street Bridge and near the Cornell Boathouse. In these areas developers used protocols to limit hydrilla spread and worked quickly during the time of the year when hydrilla was dormant.

You can find maps of the natural areas and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail online. Google Maps even has Street Views available for the Cascadilla Gorge Trail and Fall Creek trails. §

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An Evergreen Mission FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST ENTERS ITS FOURTH DECADE​​​

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thaca is gorges for a reason, and not just geologically. It has taken both physical labor and legislative pushes, to maintain the area’s aesthetically pleasing wealth of natural wonders.

The Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT) has been at forefront of conservation efforts in the

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By Ed w i n J. Vie ra region for more than 30 years as they work tirelessly to protect the habitats of local wildlife.

Additionally, FLLT has preserved the land for hiking and other outdoor activities.

While working on his graduate degree, the executive director of FLLT, Andrew Zepp, created the organization as part of his The

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graduating project. Since then, it has managed to preserve over 21,000 acres of land, distributed among 35 different preserves that the trust has established. At the time Zepp stumbled upon conservation, it was becoming more en vogue, with conservation efforts just starting to evolve

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from humble beginnings. But he saw plenty of potential in the goals of conservation.

He soon got to work, using the experience he garnered at The Nature Conservancy, an international group. He recruited and trained the board of directors, secured an attorney to help him with incorporation and filed for non-

profit status. He then returned to work at The Nature Conservancy. Then, around 16 years ago, Zepp moved back to Ithaca to continue working with the organization. With several ongoing projects, the Land Trust’s mission remains as evergreen as some of the trees they preserve.

The term “land trust” can seem confusing, but it’s actually not very complex. Through a mix of donations, easements that limit development and land purchases, FLLT has amassed an impressive amount of land throughout the Finger Lakes region. Announcements come often: just in recent memory, they’ve absorbed hundreds of acres on West Hill, over a half-mile of Cayuga Lake shoreline and dozens of acres in Newfield, among other acquisitions.

Spread across 12 different counties from Syracuse to Rochester, FLLT covers an expansive area. They are responsible for some of the most iconic natural reserves in the immediate area, like the Salmon Creek Bird Sanctuary, the Ellis Hollow Natural Preserve and the Sweedler and Thayer Preserves. In a press release last week, it was announced that FLLT had received a $5,000 grant from Dominion Energy that was to help fund future work on the Black Diamond Trail, one of the more popular stretches of natural area around.

“This year’s grant will be used to help protect forested hillsides above Cayuga Lake, secure popular stretches of the Finger Lakes Trail and Black Diamond Trail and create new opportunities for outdoor exploration in Tompkins County,” it read.

Currently, the nonprofit has two ongoing conservation efforts in the Ithaca area: One, called the Emerald Necklace, has been in progress since the organization’s inception, and will continue to be a perennial project.

“Here in the Ithaca area, the first project we ever initiated was to protect Lick Brook Gorge, which is located between Buttermilk [Falls] State Park and Robert Treman [State Park],” Zepp said. “That is an area we continue to work, 30 years later. We protected the gorge, but this year we’ll actually have a fairly significant project to stabilize the Finger Lakes Trail that goes through the preserve on some rather steep slopes, as the area is becoming more popular to ensure that the trails in there are resilient and more sustainable.”

That project, Zepp said, has led to a larger project called the Emerald Necklace. Its aim is to create a “greenbelt” in the hills around Ithaca which would link 50,000 acres of existing public conservation land that includes state forests and the Finger Lakes National Forest.

While FLLT has been making progress on this project, a new issue has arisen which they have been dealing with for some time: the city’s drinking water. Zepp considers this an important issue to tackle as the warnings of harmful algal blooms continue to grow.

“The organization started working there from the beginning on the Six Mile Creek Watershed, and over the years we have acquired several dozen conservation easement agreements,” Zepp said,explaining that those agreements limit future development in favor of their mission of conservation. “Just last year, we received some funding from the state and some additional support from the City of Ithaca and the County to do more work out there. That’s an area where we’ve done a lot of projects and work is still in progress but now, we have a lot more resources to bring to the table.”

Along with FLLT’s two current projects, Zepp sees a bright future ahead for the nonprofit.

A b ov e : S w e e d l e r P r e s e rv e at L i c k B r o o k ( P h o t o : B r i a n M a l e y) L e f t, E l l i s H o l l ow N at u r e P r e s e rv e ( P h o t o : R i c k L i g h t b o dy) B e l ow, R oy H . Pa r k P r e s e rv e ( P h o t o : B i l l H e c h t) One upcoming project the organization will be

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trail. According to Zepp, this would be a part of the Emerald Necklace and create a greenbelt trail along the west side of the Town of Ithaca. It would extend from Robert Treman State Park, up to Cayuga Medical Center, with a potential link to the Black Diamond Trail.

For now, the Land Trust plans to work with the town to ensure that the land is conserved.

They will be starting with land on Culver Road, according to Zepp, with other areas becoming part of the Land Trust later on. Along with having staff members, the Land Trust still has a deep roster of volunteers, who sign up for a variety of reasons.

“The organization started initially with solely volunteers,” Zepp said. “As we’ve added staff, we’ve maintained and expanded our volunteer program. So, every year we estimate more than 200 volunteers are helping in carrying out the work of the Land Trust. That includes everything from photographers, and writers who help put out our newsletters, and other informational materials, to a considerable number of volunteers who are out on our nature preserves maintaining trails and helping to maintain habitats. That is something that’s actually grown over the years and has been quite a substantial effort.”

Those interested can visit the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s website to look at the range of volunteer positions open. Positions range from single field day volunteers to ongoing roles.

The Land Trust also offers educational field trips for no cost. Another way to get involved is to attend FLLT meetings, which are open to the public with conversations being held by different presenters discussing a different issue.

Lately, Zepp said, the focus at the meetings has been around water quality, with topics relating to FLLT increasing its efforts to save land that is helpful to Cayuga Lake, as well as eliminating toxic algal blooms that have come under further scrutiny in the last few years particularly, especially in the summer of 2017.

Looking back, Zepp is proud of FLLT’s accomplishments and he knows that the work must continue to ensure a better future for the wildlife in the region. FLLT exists in an intriguing time for Ithaca; while the city government, with the support of a decent amount of the area residents, has chosen density development as its panacea for soaring housing prices, they face a tricky balancing act. Many of those same residents hold onto a vision of what Ithaca used to be, with green spaces aplenty and an extra emphasis on the wildlife that abounds in places like the gorges and elsewhere.

“Times flies,” Zepp said. “I was involved as a graduate student, 30 years ago, getting it started. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been 30 years first of all. On one hand, I’m pleased with what we’ve accomplished, but [I’m] also looking to the future for even bigger projects and accomplishments in the future.”

As a part of the 30th anniversary last year FLLT organized a series of hikes that stretch over 30 miles of land that the organization has conserved.

While he knows the journey ahead could be rough and may not be as picturesque as some of the views FLLT has to offer, Zepp knows one place that will always remain beautiful: Lick Brook Gorge, the land trust’s initial project.

“Not only is it this stunning wild gorge but it’s a beautiful place,” he said. “It’s a wild place and it’s also only minutes away from downtown Ithaca. It’s a very special place and it’s also accessible without a big journey to get there.”

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The Science of Leaves THE NATURAL PROCESSES THAT MAKE AUTUMN, AUTUMN

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scientist who researches plant evolution at Cornell University, explains: “What is happening in the early part of fall, is the days are getting shorter, the temperatures are getting cooler, and leaves of deciduous trees are getting stressed,” he said Once these physiological stresses reach a tipping point, the green chlorophyll molecules break down, and the leaves then cease their food production. This process is called plant senescence.

Depending on the amount of chlorophyll left in the leaves, a wide variety of colors can occur. Within the leaves, there are carotene and xanthophyll pigments, which possess orange and yellow colors, respectively. The loss of chlorophyll allows for these yellow and orange colors, which were previously obscured by high levels of the green chlorophyll, to reveal themselves for all to admire. Cadmium red and purple pigments can appear as well, which are

uring the fall months, Ithaca — a city abundant in foliage — displays an autumnal grandeur of reds, oranges, yellows, browns, and even purples. It is this blazing medley of colors, which the northeast has much to offer at this time of the year, that creates the allure that fall has to observers.

So what causes the trees to transform from their summer viridescence, to a burning mélange? Over the past half year, food production processes have occurred inside the leaves of the trees. These processes produce the majority of food that is required for the tree to grow, and are located in cells that contain chlorophyll. Chlorophyll absorbs energy from sunlight, and is the source of a leaf ’s green color.

When fall arrives, it means significant changes for the chemical composition of the leaves. Professor Karl J. Niklas, a published

a result of additional chemical changes in the leaves.

Outside factors that affect the color of the leaves — and the duration of their color — are light, temperature and water supply. An example of this is how the color of red maples is affected by the weather. As detailed in writings by the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, “Low temperatures above freezing will favor anthocyanin formation producing bright reds in maples. However, early frost will weaken the brilliant red color. Rainy or overcast days tend to increase the intensity of fall colors.

The best time to enjoy the autumn color would be on a clear, dry, and cool (not freezing) day.”

While New York State is home to more than 125 different species of trees that are either native or naturalized within New York State, not all of them contribute to the coloration of the fall foliage, according to SUNY ESF professor

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“Our New England forests have a unique composition of tree species that are not found anywhere else in the world, so we have a very particular combination of tree species that are known for the vibrant autumnal coloration,” said Niklas. “We are very lucky in that respect.

Tourists from around the world come to see our forest colors.”

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att Deitlin was working on her undergrad senior project on Symbolism and Iconography for SUNY Cortland, when she noticed a symbol on a gravestone in Asbury Cemetery in Lansing. She was looking for a symbol to do her research on, and this one was a clover, an unusual motif for a gravestone.

Looking around Asbury, it’s easy to pick out the oldest stones. Before the Erie Canal opened in 1825, gravestones were made of local stone, a dark siltstone that holds the precise lettering of the stonecutter’s work nicely, but is sadly vulnerable to flaking away. Nowadays, virtually all headstones are made of marble or granite, and shipped from quarries many states away, but in 1809 they worked with what they had.

The oldest stones in Asbury Cemetery, as with many cemeteries in this area, date only from the early 1800s. While the earliest death date on a stone is 1809, it wasn’t uncommon for people to add the stone years after a person died. One gravestone for “Sabra, aged 7 weeks, May 13 1809” includes two other “infants who died … daughters of Garret and Nancy Gibbs” and was placed there after 1817, the last death date. Weeping willows, urns, and geometric shapes like the CBS peacock fan, dominate old gravestones in central New York; few stonecutters signed their work, at least in the early days.

The stone for Frederick Storms, dated 1817, is of the same dark siltstone as the Sabra stone and several others, but the shape of the top— domed, with shoulders—is distinct, and so is the clover motif.

“I saw a sentence in one of the old history books,” said Deitlin, that connected that clover symbol to a particular stonecutter, “and I began looking for William Sutton.”

Sutton, she said, used that clover symbol in his work, and over the course of her thesis she traced Sutton from his roots in Pennsylvania to his marriage in Elmira, to settling in Ovid, to the end of the story in Geneva, where his sons (who did sign their stones) carried on his stone cutting business.

Sutton’s early life was disrupted by the Yankee-Pennamite War in the 1700s, in which settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania

C a rv e d l o c a l s i lt s t o n e g r av e s t o n e s at G o o dw i n P i o n e e r C e m e t e ry ( P h o t o : C . Pa l m y r a) claimed the same land. As an adult, Sutton moved to Ovid; he and his wife had several children and the family prospered. Deitlin exhibited an advertisement Sutton had published, for his own stonework and his son’s business as a cabinetmaker.

He never signed his work, but the distinctive clover makes his stones recognizable. Also, the

rounded top of the stones and a sort of stylized fern are unique to Sutton. He often used a ropetexture or “basket weave” border and “he made weird sevens,” said Deitlin. “It’s a very curious little seven that doesn’t match the iconography.”

The rounded tops and “shoulders” of the stones are also Sutton clues.

Sutton-type stones can be found in the Goodwin Pioneer Cemetery on Gorge Road in Trumansburg, not far from Taughannock Falls.

“It’s interesting to me how far these people traveled,” said Deitlin. “I would love to chase this research more. The earliest stones I can attribute to him are 1796, and I found him in Newtown (present day Elmira) on the 1790 tax rolls—if indeed it was him. He lived in Ovid for at least fifteen years; he has three daughters buried in the old Lodi cemetery.”

Google “New York Tombstone Carvers” and you’ll come across an amazingly detailed web site by Cazenovia archeologist Daniel Weiskotten. “He did a lot of work,” said Deitlin. Weiskotten painstakingly catalogued stonecutters in the Cortland area, branching out into the surrounding areas. He lists stonecutters who signed their work, including John Sutton, whose stones appear in Penn Yan in 1821. “He was chasing a guy named Asa Joiner, when he died,” said Deitlin. Weiskotten, who was an archeologist and anthropologist, was also director of the Chesterfield Historical Society, which gave him time to poke around the rural cemeteries, making notes of the stones’ material, motifs, and following the curious threads that can be used to reconstruct the stone cutters’ lives. Unfortunately, Weiskotten died too young to finish his research, at age 45 in 2005. His website, however, remains live, and it’s not the only one to specialize in this curious branch of archeology.

New York Gravestones, newyorkgravestones. org, catalogues gravestones by encouraging people to upload photographs of stones in their local cemeteries, preserving at least a digital image of stones that are in danger of crumbling with time. It’s a curious project, to preserve what’s written in stone by placing an image in cyberspace. Perhaps in the next century, people looking for news of the past will find it online.

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One of the most easily obtained “adventures of a lifetime,” is a hot-air balloon flight, available right here in Ithaca, and bound to give the adventuresome new perspectives on our fair city. Cautious friends claimed fear of heights, but, like comedian Steve Wright, my fear is of widths.

So, feeling invincible, I signed on.

The weather forecast, very important, was favorable, and we’d met up on the grounds of Bostwick Road’s First Assembly of God Church, one of several local launching spots.

Josh, a confidence-inspiring balloon wrangler and chase driver, unpacked the sturdy fourperson rattan basket that would be our quarters for the next couple of hours, and spun out “Captain America,” forty or fifty feet of doublestitched, red, white, and blue nylon that, once inflated, would carry us aloft. It is one of three balloons that the company owns. I crept into the four-person rattan basket (there’s also a 12-person model) while pilot/owner Dar Farzad and two young passengers, Julie and Bob, held open the lower aperture of the balloon so a couple of heavy-duty fans could inflate it. Then the three of them joined me to be lifted skyward by gusts of air heated by a duo of propane burners. That part was pretty noisy. But once we had lifted a few hundred feet off the ground, all was remarkably peaceful and silent as we rose up over Tutelo Park (across from the Bostwick Road Ithaca city school bus garage) on a misty afternoon, letting gentle winds carry us where they would, across Floral Avenue, and headed for the lake.

Oh, the sights! We were able to trace the stream cascading from Buttermilk Falls through the inlet and into Cayuga Lake, view the lake, replete with marinas and sailboats,

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By Peg g y Ha i n e rowing crews working out on the inlet, and dragon boaters practicing near the southern end of the lake. People on the ground looked up and waved, and cars gave chase on a low-traffic early evening. We could see the “FOUND” sign on its Cherry Street home, wonder at the size of the sprawling Kendal and the Shops at Ithaca, and get a live perspective of Ithaca’s hills and forests, so much more detailed than a road map can offer. Best of all, though, was ballooning over trees, our basket just skimming their tops, flushing out deer. Flying over Newfield, Ithaca, and Lansing, propelled vertically by blasts of warmed air, and horizontally by the gentle breezes, was remarkably serene.

Four of us fit cozily into the balloon’s woven willow basket, its lower sides protected by well worn leather, its bottom clad in steel, and on its rim, thick suede bindings provided solid grips. A step-hole in the basket’s side provided a leg up for boarding passengers, though your correspondent, being less flexible than the youngsters, crept into the basket, waiting for it to be righted. Piece of cake. Dar Farzad, president and owner of Southern Tier Balloon Tours, tells me his oldest passenger has been in her nineties. I should hope to celebrate my 90th birthday aloft, but that’s a ways off. As you might expect, ballooning has a colorful history.

The “drones of their time,” balloons were a logical follow-up to Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machines, which failed their first flight test in 1496 and never did get off the ground. While today’s balloons are made of double-stitched nylon dressed with an anti-porosity coating that holds in the hot air, the first balloon was made of coated paper stretched across a light wooden frame. Pilatre deRozier launched it in France in 1783, its passengers a sheep, a duck, and a rooster. When they remained aloft for fifteen

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minutes, it was assumed that air travel might have some possibilities. Soon after, the Montgolfier brothers made successful flights with rigid spheres made of fabric stretched over a light wooden frame, held over a fire to catch the smoke in the fabric sac. It was only later understood that the hot air and not the smoke gave the balloons lift. Balloons were used by the French for air intelligence collection, and to prepare accurate battlefield maps in the 1794 Battle of Fleurus. During the Civil War, President Lincoln commissioned the Union Army Balloon Corps, which used them for reconnaissance, and during World Wars I and II balloons were used by the allies to spy on the enemy. Useful as they were for reconnaissance, they A n ex a mple of a hot a ir ba lloon mid had one great flaw: they f l i g h t, w h i c h o f f e r s a n fa r - r a n g i n g were easy targets. v i e w o f e v e ry t h i n g f r o m C ay u g a L a k e t o Dar Farzad is not B u t t e r m i l k Fa l l s . ( P h o t o b y P e g g y H a i n e) only a licensed pilot, but has also been trained as an air traffic controller, which, he said, helps mercy of the winds for horizontal movement, in his communications with the controllers at he had full control of rise and fall. After an the Ithaca Airport who need to know of his awe-inspiring flight, our landing choices whereabouts in flight. Clients ask if he’s a “real” included a quiet cul- de-sac and a backyard, but pilot, to which he replies, “I hope so—can you he brought us down in a Lansing clover field, land this balloon?” And while we were at the where the land owner greeted us cordially, and where Josh, who had been following us in a van with trailer, packed up balloon and basket and drove the adventurers back to the launching site for a Champagne toast and recollections of the day’s highlights. Farzad, enamoured of balloons since he was a toddler, has built a life around ballooning, an enthusiasm he enjoys sharing with his customers. My coflyers, a couple from Indianapolis, who were vacationing in the Finger Lakes, had caught sight of the balloon the day before as they toured Cayuga Lake on the tour boat Teal. Through the wonders of Google, they linked up with Southern Tier Balloon Tours, which happened to have an opening the following evening. They seemed thrilled with the experience. Farzad and his company are certified by the Federal Aeronautics Administration, and the company’s equipment receives regular rigorous inspections.

The flight itself, which costs $230 per person, usually runs between 45 to 70 minutes, and the whole experience takes two and a half to three hours. A chase crew, often composed of members of Cornell’s wrestling team, works with him year round, and flights can leave any morning or evening, so long as the weather is good. There’s no “season” for ballooning, Farzad said. “We’ll go up on Christmas day, if people want to fly.”•

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easons to love Watkins Glen keep changing. In 1791, when investors John Watkins and Royal Flint applied to purchase 325,000 acres of land south of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes, the natural waterways were the coveted infrastructure, because boats plying the lakes could serve all the shoreline communities as well as those inland.

They purchased the land from New York State for 42 cents per acre.

It took three years before the sale was complete and three more before John Watkins with his brother Charles came north to examine their prize. They found promising water power in what was then called “Big Gully” and established a saw mill, grist mill and blacksmith’s shop. There was already the nucleus of a village, called “Culverstown” established at the base of the gorge. David Culver and his family may have been squatters. They moved uphill to better land and prospered there. John Watkins built himself a sumptuous house and dug in.

Unfortunately, he’d overlooked the little matter of lake access, owned by L’Hommedieu, the purchaser of a land parcel that later became Montour Falls. Watkins’ settlement, called “Salubria,” lost business to neighboring towns while its inhabitants discovered the unhealthy disadvantages to living near a swamp. John Watkins was discouraged and nearly bankrupt when he died in 1825. His brother Samuel, a wealthy New York City physician who held the mortgage on the 25,000 acres left from John’s share, rolled up his sleeves and came north.

By then the Erie and Chemung Canals, were beginning to create boom times in the Finger Lakes. As a side effect of canal construction, wetlands were drained, making more of the flat areas inhabitable. Samuel Watkins built a hotel, roads, shops, homes and more mills, businesses to create jobs and entice more settlers while increasing his fortune. He laid out a park and street grids, naming them after heroes of the Revolution, with the main street named after his personal icon, Benjamin Franklin.

In 1840, at the age of 69, he married his 26-year-old secretary, Ithacan Cynthia Cass. It was a weeklong celebration for the entire village at the Jefferson Hotel, remembered more than a hundred years later as a time of general hilarity.

In 1842 Watkins’ holdings were incorporated as a village re-named Jefferson.

The following year he built a mansion of his own. In 1851 he proposed a women’s college be built near the lake, though that never happened.

Samuel Watkins died that year at the age of 80, leaving behind a growing municipality and a young wealthy widow.

Cynthia Cass Watkins hired her cousin, Ithaca judge George Freer, to defend her inherited fortune against efforts by Samuel’s nieces and nephews to overturn his will. A few months later, they married. In April 1852, the widow was successful in having the village renamed “Watkins” in honor of her late husband. “Glen” was added in 1926. Cynthia

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Cass Watkins Freer herself died just a little more than a year into her second marriage.

“Freer’s Glen: Mysterious Book of Nature” as Freer named the gorge and its cascades of picturesque waterfalls he’d inherited from his late wife’s estate, was the next good reason to love the village. The railroads passing through Watkins not only carried away agricultural products but also brought in thousands of visitors, who came to behold its natural marvels, particularly after journalist Morvalden Ells moved to Watkins from Elmira in 1856 at the invitation of Freer. Ostensibly, he had relocated to edit and manage a newspaper Freer established.

Ells dedicated much flowery prose to extolling the beauties of the glen, and went into partnership with Freer to expand and develop it as a tourist destination. Undaunted by the Civil War, the glen officially opened to visitors on July 4, 1863 and brought in more than 10,000 visitors the first year. In 1869, Freer sold the glen to E.B. Parsons for $25,000; Ells stayed on as business manager.

Tourist attractions proliferated. Parsons built a two-story resort resembling a Swiss chalet atop the falls; eminent visiting artist James Hope painted the Rainbow Falls, fell in love with the area and took up part-time residence here. In 1872 Freer opened an even grander resort, the Watkins Sanitarium, later known as Glen Springs, where wealthy people came for rest, relaxation and recuperation from the pressures of life, taking various healthful treatments based on its mineral springs.

In the early 20th century movie stars were among the celebrities who particularly appreciated its rustic amenities—although when they ventured off the hill, they wanted more than the town had to offer. The wealthy and celebrated visitors prompted two local enterprises that continue to this day—Captain Bill’s Seneca Lake Cruises and the Watkins Glen Movie Theatre. Glen Springs closed as a hotel in 1942. It was rented and renovated

by Cornell University in the late 1940s for married student housing and was afterwards a Franciscan Minor Seminary and Friary.

In the mid to late 1800s, the potential for mining salt below Seneca Lake was rediscovered—the native Americans had long known about it—and salt became one of the area’s industries.

In the late 1940s Cameron Argetsinger began organizing Grand Prix road races, a 6.6-mile course along public roads lined with spectators. After a tragic accident in 1952 when a racecar swerved off-course and killed a child watching from the sidewalk, the races were moved to the current facility uphill. Today the races and other events at the Watkins Glen International racetrack are the area’s largest tourist attraction, with the glen itself a close second. People come for the scenery, or for the wineries, for side trips to Ithaca or Corning and stay in Watkins Glen because it’s centrally located.

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oziness, embracing your introverted side, self-care and the often-challenging but ultimately rewarding experience of caring for houseplants—these sound like topics you would see scrolling through Facebook and flipping through morning talk shows, but author and illustrator Katie Vaz has

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ing with “Don’t Worry, Eat Cake,” in 2016.

It just kind of worked out that way.

“Don’t Worry, Eat Cake,” an adult coloring book that bears the subtitle (in loopy cursive), “a coloring book to help you feel a little bit better about everything,” reminds readers that “it’s okay to just be,” according to the description on Vaz’s website, which adds, “good things still come to those who nap!”

Rather than spouting optimistic platitudes, the coloring book is an illustrated guide to acknowledging ordinary, everyday accomplishments. “Like, ‘Yay! I got dressed today!’ with confetti coming down,” Vaz said, laughing.

“There can be really difficult days, and [the book] gives you something to celebrate,” she said. “It’s all combined into a coloring book with the intention of adding an extra level of relaxation and calming to soothe those things we’re all going through.”

Her second book, published in 2018, is titled “Make Yourself Cozy: a guide for practicing self-care.” But don’t be turned off by the buzzwordiness of the term “selfcare;” nowhere in Vaz’s book will you find reference to pedicures, bubble baths, or any of the other tropes you might find in a beauty magazine checklist. Vaz’s version of self-care has more to do with turning inward to find peacefulness in the stressinducing world we live in. The colorfully

The cover of My Life in Plants, the new release from Candor-born author Katie Vaz.

illustrated book encourages readers to slow down and find joy in the little things.

“It can be anything, like focusing on what you see, hear, smell…these are very simple ways to ease anxiety and ground yourself, no matter where you are,” Vaz said. “I really like the idea of self-care being very accessible tips—things you can just insert into the day that are really helpful for calming yourself. They are things you can make daily habits, but all around the theme of being cozy.”

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a humorous look at the ways in which introverts can turn down invitations and avoid unwanted social interactions, ranging from bringing odoriferous foods to lunch to having a pet (real or imagined) that “requires” frequent check-ins.

Though the current ban on most gatherings has put a damper on social engagements, the impending reopening of most businesses (including restaurants) will undoubtedly leave introverts scrambling once again to get out of unpleasant situations. Then there’s the holiday season, creeping up on us in just a couple months, which can also be a notoriously noxious

time for introverts. Vaz’s book is full of lighthearted answers.

“There are a couple examples of excuses you can keep in your back pocket,” she said, adding that recently she has come to terms with the fact that “‘no’ can be its own sentence. “I always find myself saying no and then giving a reason, and blabbering on, but no is a complete sentence. You can give an excuse if you want, but you don’t have to.”

In her latest offering, Vaz got a little more personal, at the encouragement of her agent. She realized that memories connected to plants can conjure up feelings from very specific moments in her life and the book is a memoir exploring that theme, complete with illustrations.

“I've always had a love for plants and nature and greenery,” Vaz said. “Looking back on my life, flowers and gardening have been a big part of it. I was not always aware of it, but it was constantly in the background.” Her grandfather had a big garden, so her summers revolved around gardening; fresh vegetables and fruits are tied to memories of when she was younger.

“And now that I’m older I’m finding comfort in plants and gardening,” she said.

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Perhaps most importantly as of late, it does not require leaving home. These days, plants can be purchased online. Vaz tried it out herself this past summer.

“I was curious to know how plants would arrive with the heat and everything, but the nursery took really good care of packaging it well and watering it before the journey,” Vaz said. “I ordered one from California, and it arrived perfectly happy; I’m sure it was in the mail for a week, but it had a ton of padding.”

Plants can even be shipped throughout the colder months. “I actually have seen listings with options for heat packs, which must be the little things like you put in gloves,” she said, adding that she may order some plants this winter to see how they fair.

Vaz said she'd originally planned on being a graphic designer but changed course when her Etsy shop took off and she started getting freelance work. When her drawings were seen by her now-literary agent, who contacted her to ask if she had an idea for a book, Vaz almost didn’t believe it was real.

“I thought it was spam at first,” she said with a laugh. She encourages young people growing up in a small town like Candor to embrace communication online in order to get a foot in the door in an untraditional career path.

“I would just try to look to the internet and try to be inspired by other people doing something similar,” she advised. “Be a sponge and soak up as much as you can; see if those people have any advice to give.

I learned so much from people being gracious and sharing information about how their careers unfolded.”

Vaz still has an Etsy page where she sells unique greeting cards expressing the things that can be difficult to say out loud.

“I found a lot of people out there are really bad at talking about feelings, so [the cards] are different than ones at big box stores.

They talk more about real life experiences with people,” Vaz said. Her Etsy site is etsy. com/market/katie_vaz.

If you’re interested in finding out more about Vaz and her work, visit her website, katievaz.com. All of her books are available for purchase on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.

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required to quarantine. Campagnolo said Labor Day weekend saw The BoatYard working with a staff of approx. six waiters and a lower local customer turnout.

“It felt like a forest fire that we had to put out for a few days and we did, however it did contribute to the local anxiety over this kind of thing. It fed into the nervousness especially because it was students and it was an off-campus event that spurred the whole thing. And for the people who don’t know us, they were asking, ‘Geez, are they taking all the necessary steps?’ or ‘How come they’re not closed,’ and they don’t know the protocol or what happens behind the scenes. We didn’t close because we didn’t have to.”

Simeons, located in the Commons, did have to close after Aug. 22, said Dean Zervos, who co-owns the business with Rich Avery. When Zervos started feeling what he describes as “flu-like symptoms,” he immediately sought out testing. He said he rushed to Oswego to get a rapid-test done, received his positive test result and after calling his business partner, they agreed to close Simeons for 14 days, per TCHD recommendations.

“Right then and there we had to close because of contact tracing,” said Zervos. “I work almost everyday and I’m in contact with every employee. We called the health department on Saturday, and someone got back to me; we went through the whole protocol of tracing who I’d been in contact with for more than ten minutes in the last three days, and that’s why we decided to close. I’d been in contact with almost every employee.”

Zervos said he doesn’t know where or how he might’ve contracted the virus, but he’s certain it wasn’t while he was at work. After the 14 days had passed, none of Simeon's employees showed positive signs or results of coronavirus. Zervos said his symptoms lasted for about a week and a half, resolving within 2-3 days after treatment.

Campagnolo said not much has changed at The BoatYard since the positive case, not much needed to. Every other day the site is disinfected with an electrostatic fog spray, sanitation and health precautions are constantly being reinforced among staff. He said they were already going above and beyond before the case. Zervos aligned himself with similar thoughts, and added that a positive test result can happen to anyone.

“Things are already difficult before this with all the rules and regulations put in place with the 50 percent seating, social distancing, to have this is really hard to hear because... operationally, things are difficult enough,” Campagnolo said.

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When people keep saying that comic book movies are all the same, I keep disagreeing, True Believers. “Ghost World” has as little to do with “Shazam” as “The Road to Perdition” has to do with “Flash Gordon”. The nice thing about the genre

is that it’s a lot more flexible and nuanced than it gets credit for.

Now Netflix has followed up “The Old Guard”, a very popular version of a graphic novel with the surprising and intriguing “Project Power” (Netflix, 2020, 113 min.), which deals with the possibilities of superpowers in a darker and unforeseen context and feels more like a drug epidemic movie like “Deep Cover” and “New Jack City” than the usual entry from the MCU. Whatever it is, I’m not sure if it’s for kids, so parents might want to check it out first.

“Project Power” tries for as gritty and realistic a tone as possible right from the jump. We’re not in Metropolis or Gotham City, but rather New Orleans, still reeling from Hurricane Katrina.

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you superpowers for a brief concentrated burst of time. But it’s never clear exactly what superpowers you get, and the whole notion is as far from adolescent wish fulfillment as you could imagine.

Jamie Foxx stars as a former soldier who must team up with a teenage drug dealer (a star-making turn from young Dominique Fishback) and a cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to try to get this dangerous drug out of circulation. Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman bring a lot of the handheld urgency from their documentary work on “Catfish” to make all the action as graphic and stark as it can be. And unlike a lot of comic book movies that send us home with not much to think about, the subtext of “Project Power” has a lot to say about the addiction of pulp.

We’ve all seen stand-up comedy specials where there’s a cute sketch before the show starts. “Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything” (Netflix, 2020, 66 min.) kicks off with the Netflix logo and a brief “presents” title card. Then we crash into Oswalt, onstage and mid-sentence.

“Denny’s is not the problem with this bit, all right?” he yells. “I love Denny’s!”

Then we get the title, a piano melody and a comic book title: “52 minutes earlier”, as Oswalt walks onstage and launches into an hour set of inspired bits about “Biblical grains”, the sadness of breakfast cereals when you turn 50, the futility of being a comedian in the age of Trump, and, yes, Denny’s.

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John Miller | 7:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | TCFA is proud to announce John Miller performing on guitar in a free live-stream online only concert. The program will focus on Country Blues, with a mix of his own original compositions and arrangements in that style. Along the way, he’ll also be singing and playing some classics from the Great American Songbook. Concert link: https://youtu.be/r5LHRQJakhI Dowland’s Grand Tour: Paul O’Dette, lute | 7:30 PM, 9/25 Friday | Online, | Our local worldrenowned lutenist, performs music of English lutenist John Dowland, as well as the music he encountered on his travels around Europe in the early 17th century. This event is hosted by NYS Baroque and Pegasus Early Music. Please check our websites (nysbaroque.com) closer to the concert date to find out how to access.All events will be online and free! Please note that weíll be paying our artists their professional performance fees, and donations will be gratefully accepted.

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by Carlo Goldoni | 5:30 PM, 9/17 Thursday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | The Cherry Arts is proud to be making The Fan a free event to bring our community together in much-needed shared laughter. Due to COVID-safety limitations on gathering sizes, reservations must be made at bit.

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ly/TheFanReservations. September 17ñ26† Thur -Sat at 5:30PM. Saturday matinees at 2PM. Antigone & Letters to Soldiers Lost | 6:00 PM, 9/18 Friday | Presbyterian Event and Retreat Center (PERC), 108 South St, Auburn | September 18 & 19 at 6PM and September 20 at 2 PM. On the back lawn of the PERC (former Case Mansion). Performances are free and students are encouraged to attend. Bring a lawn chair! All performances will be outside. Masks required while entering & exiting area. Social distancing protocols will be followed. Please contact The Auburn Players at (315) 702-7832 for more information Cherry Arts presents The Fan

by Carlo Goldoni | 2:00 PM, 9/26 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | The Cherry Arts is proud to be making The Fan a free event to bring our community together in much-needed shared laughter. Due to COVID-safety limitations on gathering sizes, reservations must be made at bit. ly/TheFanReservations. September 17ñ26† Thur -Sat at 5:30PM. Saturday matinees at 2PM.

Art In The Style Of - Art Show | 11:00 AM, 9/18 Friday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Members of the art council have used their artistic talent to interpret the style of famous artists. This show will ask visitors to join in the fun spirit of the exhibit by figuring out which famous artist is portrayed. Famous artists will be listed and paintings will numbered. Voting sheets will allow each visitor to make their best guess. A prize will be awarded at the end of the show. Additionally, voters will decide which local artist painted the best representation of a famed artist.

West End Gallery: Spotlight Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 9/18 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring four artists working in a variety of mediums ñ oil, acrylic, pencil. The exhibit may be viewed in person on Opening Day, Sept. 4 from Noon ñ 7:00 p.m. Appointments not required, but highly recommended.

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West End Gallery: Spotlight Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 9/25 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring four artists working in a variety of mediums ñ oil, acrylic, pencil. The exhibit may be viewed in person on Opening Day, Sept. 4 from Noon ñ 7:00 p.m. Appointments not required, but highly recommended.

The exhibit will also be online at www.westendgallery.net Layered Paper Drawing Workshop | 10:00 AM, 9/26 Saturday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Register by contacting the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com or call 315-549-8323. | $40

Cornell Virtual Cinema: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own | All Day 9/16 Wednesday | Thru 9/17. An eloquent, visually arresting portrait of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture. von Rydingsvard’s work has been featured in the Venice Biennale and is held in the collections of some of the world’s great museums, but she may be best-known for work in public spaces ñ imposing pieces painstakingly crafted (usually from cedar), with complex surfaces.

Cornell Virtual Cinema: Boys State | 7:30 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | This captivating documentary about the 2018 Texas Boys State civics exercise closely tracks the escalating tensions arising within a contentious gubernatorial race: from electioneering and platform development, to dramatic debates, impeachment threats, and, inevitably, the backroom skullduggery behind all campaigns.

Rocky | 8:00 PM, 9/17 Thursday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20 Cornell Virtual Cinema: Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon | All Day 9/18 Friday | Documenting the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members over the past 50 years, the film features personal stories of resistance told by victims of police misconduct, the families of people who were killed by police, and members of Portland’s reform and abolition movements.†http://www. arrestingpower.com Cornell Virtual Cinema: John Lewis: Good Trouble | All Day 9/18 Friday | The late, great Civil Rights

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Cornell Virtual Cinema: The Cordillera of Dreams | All Day 9/18 Friday | Winner of the Best Documentary award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzman’s completes his trilogy investigating the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile. Subtitled.

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Virtual Cinemapolis: America Street | All Day 9/18 Friday | The film captures three months during 2015 of one man’s daily struggles set against the backdrop of racist violence in the city, from the killing of Walter Scott by a police officer to the Emanuel Church massacre by a young white supremacist. | 2 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Chuck Berry | All Day 9/18 Friday | The story of the Granddaddy of Rock & Roll. In this highly anticipated featurelength documentary, the absolute instigator of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry is truly revealed with exclusive access to his family, friends, famous fans and music icons he inspired. | 3 day rental available for $10 ñ use code ìcinemapolisî Virtual Cinemapolis: Space Dogs | All Day 9/18 Friday | Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever since. Following her trace, and filmed from a dogís perspective, SPACE DOGS accompanies the adventures of her descendants. | 3 day rental available for $12 Grease | 8:00 PM, 9/18 Friday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 8:00 PM, 9/19 Saturday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car

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fellow lacrosse players Jay Gallagher and George Boiardi), carrying a wreath to be hung over Eamon’s memorial plaque for the 19th consecutive year. This year would be different for a number of reasons, the coach said, one of them being that there would not, due to the social distancing rules in place, be the usual gathering of players and coaches. It would also be different because, in Richie’s words, “Given it has been 19 years, no one in this year’s incoming freshman class had yet been born when Eamon died.”

The lack of a crowd did nothing to dim Richie’s commitment to honoring those we lost all those years ago. Along with his sense of loss, he feels gratitude for having been a part of their lives, and as a man of faith, he believes he will see them again.

He smiled when he said, “The weather has been beautiful every year for 19 years, but I recall that one year it sure didn’t start out that way.” His smile broadened, and he added, “On the 17th anniversary, the wind

picked up like crazy, and the chairs on the dock at our home went tumbling. Two of them went into the lake, and given I was already dressed for the event, I talked Pat into retrieving them. We laughed and said that it was Eamon and Jay that made the two chairs go into the lake!”

It is important to Coach Moran that Cornell’s lacrosse family remembers Eamon, no matter how many years have passed. “He was the fiercest competitor I have ever known,” he said, “and he excelled at whatever he did because of his work ethic.” Regarding Eamon’s writing, Richie offered, “We would go on long bus trips, and he would write poetry on napkins, on notepads, whatever he could find.

After he died, his book of poems (“Bend in the Road”) was published, and one of the people who said how much they loved it was Hank Aaron. That’s pretty special.”

Richie is 83 now, so he made a small concession. He let me climb the ladder to hang the wreath. He could have done it, but being the consummate team player, he let me have some of the glory. That’s how he rolls.

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cultural coalition. Building that is about more than just having a bunch of young folks and, frankly, predominantly white folks insisting that they have the answers and that everybody else must follow their lead or else they’re a sell out. Getting that done and going further is what we intend with our Public Safety Reinvention taskforce merged with the Tompkins County Public Sheriff ’s Department to pull off a month-long study and public engagement process to lead to even deeper reforms is harder than just deciding what you feel you can support as you shout through a megaphone. It takes more, deeper, longer-term work because what you said is exactly right, some people have some feelings about what should be done and I can tell you that other people have other feelings and still a third set of people have a third set of feelings.

And folks, if they only exist inside their bubble, will often be surprised and frustrated when it comes down to making a choice and a budget to find out that the decision maker is going to be the Tompkins County Legislature, or the Ithaca Common Council or any respected official from the mayor to the sheriffs don’t just follow their set of demands. To find out who’s in step and who’s not, it’s very useful to have elections.

IT: My question is then, if you’re pointing out that this is a small subsection of people who’re making these requests, the other part is that— SM: No. That’s not what I was saying.

What I’m saying is that there are multiple complex forces in the City. That what they

want out of the City is not as obvious as it might seem if you just attend a protest. If you knock on every door in the City, you’re going to see a far more desire, including on the West End. This would also be a very interesting story for the Times, to go door to door and ask if they’d rather see the police more or less because there’s an assumption about the answer, and I’ll tell you that assumption is backwards. And the tactics from everything from the Eight Can’t Wait reform to stopping the service of NoKnock warrants, which is something that cities around the country are now doing but we had already done and these issues serving a warrant using the SWAT teams are now years old because we’ve stopped doing it.

IT: Well, the SWAT teams are still being used.

SM: Yes, but not for the things— there’s usually two concerns about SWAT teams, one is that they’re used to quell uprisings, and there’s fair evidence that SWAT teams were originally developed for that purpose; and SWAT teams in service of no-knock warrants. Those are things you do not want a special tactical team doing because they often end tragically. You do want a special tactical team in the event of an active shooter. So how do you have a special tactical team that does not overreact but is still on hand when you need them.

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IT: Okay. Well thank you for your time.

SM: No problem. Glad we could talk.

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