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City of Ithaca Cornell Curves COVID Threshold granted $1.4 million for Cayuga A Waterfront Revitalization project

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he City of Ithaca will receive an award of $1.372 million for the Cayuga Waterfront Revitalization project.

The award is part of $1 billion in American infrastructure through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program.

"This really realizes a City vision that we've had for a very long time. We couldn't be happier about receiving this grant," said the City of Ithaca deputy director of planning, Lisa Nicholas. "The grant is really the transformation of a section of Rt. 13 into more of an urban boulevard.

Fiscal Year 2020 BUILD Transportation grants are for planning and capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and were awarded on a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant local or regional impact. Nicholas said this wasn't the first time the Department of Planning and Development had applied for the grant, but it was the first time they'd been awarded.

BUILD funding supports roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports or intermodal transportation. Since 2017, the Administration has awarded nearly $4 billion in BUILD grants to improve America’s infrastructure. The grant provides 50% funding for planning and design of the Rt. 13 corridor north of "Purity Point" through completion of construction continued on page 6

s of Tuesday Cornell seems to have wrangled its total number of COVID cases down to five this week; a marked improvement from two weeks ago when it technically crossed the state’s 100 case threshold.

On Aug. 28, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that schools would be required to close for two weeks if they reached 100 cases within a 14day period. And in a supporting document, the governor clarified that arrival cases are not counted toward the threshold unless the virus was transmitted during a violation of quarantine restrictions.

While the clause was clearly meant to pressure universities to be strict with their students who were returning to campus— that negligence and impunity would have consequences for both the students and the colleges— what the governor failed to do was specify when colleges were expected to begin counting, who was expected to keep count and what happened after the two week period had elapsed.

Some universities had already completed move-in procedures, others were still figuring out how students would return, and Cornell was right in the middle. The university had begun move-in on Aug. 17.

Because of their position and their testing procedures, Cornell began it’s 14-day track on Sept. 2. John Carberry, senior director of media relations and news at the university, explained that the date was selected because the university

was in the middle of conducting arrival tests until Aug. 30, and intended to leave Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 for catch-up testing, which preceded the official start to on-campus activities.

“We calculated the starting date based on our best understanding of how NYS desired institutions to handle commencement of on-campus operations for tracking purposes,” he said.

Then on Sept. 2, Cornell recorded 12 new COVID-19 cases. They were related to an original cluster of nine unique cases that had been recorded on Aug. 28 and whose spread had been increasing among the student athlete population.

Since reopening, Cornell had recorded 47 positive COVID-19 cases, of which 39 were unique and only 12 could be counted.

“Unique” cases in this instance refers to COVID cases that are traceable back to an on-campus source and are not attributable to an interaction a campus member may have had prior to receiving arriving to campus.

In the following weekand-a-half, cases in Tompkins County rose by 98. By Sept.

11, Cornell had recorded 81 positives and only a little over 50 were “confirmed on-campus positives”. In the third week, after a clarification on Sept. 14 by the governor, Cornell was allowed to scrap its previous week's unique numbers for single digits.

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14, the governor clarified that the 14-day threshold was not a rollover total, instead, it occurs

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in two week intervals. Multiple requests were made to the university via phone and email to learn when it had conducted its last arrival test and what the true total would have been for on-campus positives if they’d begun counting on the date provided by the governor, but the university has yet to respond.

A spokesperson for the Tompkins County Health Department said that it does not currently measure the 100-case threshold for any of the colleges in the county and views it as a matter between the state and the individual institutions.

The health department left the start date to the discretion of the university. He further clarified the health department’s position by adding that it tracks all positive cases within the county that they are able to identify, not just particular institutions and they would know if Cornell reached 100 positives. Between Aug. 28 and Sept. 11, Tompkins county saw 116 new COVID-19 cases.

“Based on what is in the guidance, August 28- Sept. 11 was the first two-week block, but it is continuing in 14day increments. The Health Department is primarily involved if an institution needs to move to remote instruction as a result of getting 100 cases during this two-week period.

The Health Department would assist in evaluating whether or not an institution can re-open for in-person learning.”

Cornell University opened its COVID-19 dashboard on Aug. 27. Between Aug. 28 and Sept. 11, it recorded 105 cases.

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Family Matters

PHOTOGRAPHER Pet Passages Comes to Candor

By C a se y Mar tin

IF YOU WERE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT LATER THIS YEAR, WHAT WOULD YOUR SLOGAN BE?

“Treat everyone equal and think outside the box!”

-Tyesha W. & Jada H.

Mark and Wendy Carlisle of Pet Passages, which is owned and operated

by Mark with the help and support of Wendy. (Photo: Anne O. Stout) “Stop the spread! (Both covid-19 and the current administration) -Will T.

“It really can’t get any worse.”

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ark Carlisle and his wife Wendy felt compelled to open a Candor location of Pet Passages, a pet funeral home and cremation center, aiming to have a more dignified method to say goodbye to your pet.

Our pets are like members of our family, and the Carlisles felt the same way about their dog Emma. A rescue, Emma

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Ithaca Reform Temple Raises Money for Refugee Family

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had special needs, which made her even more precious to them.

“In Emma’s world there were no strangers, only friends she hadn’t met. She exuded love and devotion that taught us to appreciate each day,” Wendy said.

When Emma passed and they had to say goodbye, they wanted support, honor and

he global refugee crisis has found a localized moment in the Ithaca Reform Temple’s (Tikkun v'Or) 30 Poems in 30 Days fundraiser.

The local initiative is bringing together both published poets and community writers to commit to writing every day during the month of September. A donor can pledge $0.50 a poem to commit a $15 donation, or more. The fundraiser hopes to reach a goal of $5,000 by the end of the month, of which it has already raised around $3,000, in order to provide care for the Central American family that is

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currently finding refuge in the First Congregational Church in Ithaca.

“The global refugee crisis is kind of emblematic of the creeping global fascism,” said Barbara Regenspan, the organizer working on behalf of the Ithaca Reform Temple (Tikkun v'Or). “It’s hard to write poetry right now that doesn’t have a reflection on existential dread.

It’s hard to escape it. I think a lot of people are writing in order to share it. And then if you can try to make an art form out of sharing existential dread, I don’t know what that does about it, but makes it less personally painful, maybe.”

dignity given any family member but found none. Sent by their veterinarian to a place for cremation, it was very cold and not comforting—just performing the service with no thought or compassion for those in grief.

They decided it is their mission to help families have a place to grieve and say goodbye to their loved one with grace and dignity.

Michael T. Harris, founder and president of Pet Passages in Rochester, worked and trained in human funeral homes for years but realized there was no place to honor and pay homage to a family’s beloved pet and created Pet Passages.

Pet Passages of the Fingerlakes is owned and operated

by Mark Carlisle with Wendy’s help and support. They are highly trained, utilizing the most modern equipment, technology and procedures at their facility at 1040 Owego Rd. in Candor. (formerly a Jehovah Witness Hall).

The building is a stone structure that contains their office and a smaller “rainbow bridge” room to hold intimate viewings, allowing families a last goodbye before the cremation.

The facility even has a larger “rainbow bridge” room for any services with more people attending. Mark Carlisle received his training from Harris at his

Rochester facility, and he mentioned a viewing he remembered for a police dog killed in the line of duty and the police force that all attended to say their goodbyes.

The room where the pets are made ready for the viewing and going into the cremation oven has a large window where families can watch if they wish.

They offer “secure passages” pet identification and a tracking system including the use of a unique numbered stainless steel disc that is always with the pet, so there is no room for error.

There is a display of a variety of urns, charms and other items to hold your loved one’s ashes.

Pet Passages of the Fingerlakes offers pickup, or you can bring your pet to them, and they will be serving Tompkins, Tioga, Broome, Cortland, and Chemung Counties. They provide cremation for any animal under 300 pounds, and services can be small and private or larger and semi-private.

Their motto is, “your pet, your family, your choice” of how you want to handle this difficult time in your life.

For further information you can call (607) 236-4122, e-mail petpassagesfingerlakes@gmail. com, or check their web site at petpassages.com.

Refugees from Central America often flee their countries to escape violence, poverty, and persecution at home.

However, the goal of finding safety and economic opportunity in the United States is complicated by the COVID-19 virus. As stated in the 30 Poems in 30 Days GoFundMe page, “The COVID pandemic has heightened the desperate need of all human beings for a home.”

Susan Eschbach, the principal of Beverly J. Martin Elementary and a contributing poet to the fundraiser, said, “From a social justice perspective, providing a sanctuary for any families not only matches efforts on the part of the city and the faith community to work for the needs of families, but in our school system we, too, want to participate in any ways we can that support human rights and

the needs of kids.”

The 30 Poems in 30 Days fundraiser is unique in its particular call to the community. While its central goal is to raise money for the Central American family residing in the sanctuary, organizers are, additionally, encouraging writers to share their works in progress. Five of the poets, who have been part of the writer's collective the Cascadilla Writers Group, are committed writers to the fundraiser’s blog. Drawing inspiration from already published poems, Regenspan often sends out writing prompts that use some poets’ works as templates for exploration. For example, Ada Limón’s poem “Give Me This” is used in one of the prompts as a sample for writing about “getting lost in victimhood,” as Regenspan writes to the

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Waterfront revitalization- The City of Ithaca was awarded nearly $1.372 million for the Cayuga Waterfront Revitalization project. The money will be used to help transform a section of Rte 13 into a complete street boulevard.

RIP RBG - Cornell alum and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 on Sept. 18. The second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg leaves behind a legacy as a fierce feminist and strong advocate for equal rights.

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Artist seeks asylum, will work for freedom

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hat should trump/ Trump fear? The answer to both of these questions, according to Pedro Molina, a cartoonist and the current Ithaca City of Asylum Resident, is humor.

The Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) is part of the International Cities of Refuge Network that has over 50 member cities across the world. The goal of these organizations is to provide a safe place for writers and artists whose lives have been threatened. In ICOA alone, past residents have faced unimaginable consequences for their work, leaving behind their homes, facing death threats, and in one case, even surviving an assassination attempt.

“You can use humor to bring people who believe they are above everybody down to Earth. Once you can take that leader to your level, then you can see that you can defeat them — he’s just another person that you can laugh at,” said Molina. “You lose your fear, which is one of the advantages of this weapon against tyranny.”

Besides providing a place for residents to live, ICOA also

aims to help “give [residents] a boost in what they want to do next,” said Jonathan Miller, who is the chair of the ICOA’s board. ICOA’s unique partnership with Ithaca College provides residents with temporary employment, an “extraordinary setup that we are very fortunate to have,” said Miller.

For Miller, who was an international journalist for many years, the various ways governments limit freedom of the press around the world. He told me a story of one of his friends, Maria Ressa, a journalist who is internationally recognized for her critiques of the Philippine government and has faced arrests because of it.

Describing some of the current charges against Ressa, Miller remarked at the many tools a government can use to silence and harass journalists. “They can kill you, but they can also ruin your business and your life. They can intimidate your family. They can destroy you financially,” Miller explained.

With such serious consequences, a medium like cartooning may seem almost incongruous. But Molina, who was exiled not once but twice from his home coun-

Pedro Molina was exiled from his home country of Nicaragua as a consequence of his artwork.

try of Nicaragua, argues that the point of cartooning goes beyond making people laugh.

“It requires you to think about what you are going to say because, especially in these times with social media, no one is thinking what they are saying.

Yet, cartooning demands that of you.”

Molina also pointed out that a lot of what makes things funny is related to ideas of free speech and censorship. “When you go and see a stand-up comedian, a lot of what they say are things that you are thinking. So why are you laughing?

Because he or she has the courage to say it out loud, when you don’t allow yourself to do that,” he said. “You self-censor yourself.”

Issues of free speech and protecting all ideas are not as foreign as we may think they are. News outlets are being discredited as “fake news,” editors are resigning over publishing controversial op-eds, and there are stories like those of Rob Rogers, a former cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, who said he was fired because his cartoons satirized Trump (Note: Rogers and Molina will be speaking at an upcoming discussion hosted by City of Asylum).

When asked what he thought about coming to the U.S in a time where our own

ideals of free speech are being tested, Molina said that “if the institutions in this country are as strong as everyone tells me they are, they will put a stop to this kind of behavior…

Especially in this administration they tend to look at Latin America and make fun of our politics, which of course there are horrible situations of dictatorships in Latin America. But ironically, this administration who doesn’t like Latin America is the one who is shaping the USA to be more like Latin America, in a bad way (There are many good things about Latin America, he added). For me as a cartoonist, it’s kind of hilarious.”

He paused. And although we both acknowledged it was funny in a sort of grim, world gone mad way, we could not help but share a laugh.

On Oct.2, Ithaca City of Asylum is holding its annual Voices of Freedom shindig. This year it will be online. Called "Crossing the Line," it will be a conversation -- about cartooning, humor, free expression, and personal risk -- between two internationally acclaimed political cartoonists, Pedro X. Molina of Ithaca and Rob Rogers of Pittsburgh.

Home invasion- Police responded to a call on the 400 block of East Buffalo Street at 8:50 p.m. on Sept. 18. The caller heard a noise in his kitchen, and upon investigation found a still-unidentified intruder wearing gray sweatpants and a red face mask. Anyone with information can contact the Ithaca Police Department at (607) 272-9973.

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By Nick A dm u s se n ear Ithaca Police Benevolent Association, Like many other Ithacans, I’ve watched with dismay as I’ve seen the IPBA Facebook fill up with media and language that I recognize from police unions in other towns and cities. I see you criticizing individual media outlets and reporters that you don’t like. I see treasurer Mike Meskill wearing a Thin Blue Line cap in fundraising videos — blacking out the American flag to argue that it is police, rather than community or shared purpose, that keeps America together. And I see you wildly mixing the financial and safety concerns of your members — the core of your mission as I understand it — with a public-facing narrative that crime is overwhelming the city because of a lack of police. In your August 31 post, you asked the “silent majority” in Ithaca to contact our representatives, using the same language that Richard Nixon did to rally support for the Vietnam War. Your followers respond to your increasingly strident and anti-Ithaca rhetoric. On your post complaining about protests on August 6, a heating and cooling technician from Covert wrote that

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“A gathering of veteran patriots could clear the way for you but be mindful that while liberals and snowflakes may tolerate domestic terrorism we will not and the necessary amount of force to gain compliance will be utilized.” Your own ex-officer Greg Firman offered to bring retired police to push aside protesters in a now-deleted post. When you rail against your own citizens, you don’t provoke compliance with your wishes. You feed into a narrative created by Tom Reed and reinforced by Trump that there is something wrong with Ithaca, that it needs to be disciplined or suppressed. Little could be worse for the relationship between the police and the public.

I know you have some supporters who are Ithacans — although many of your strongest supporters on Facebook are not — but I want to remind you of the cultural and political divide between these statements and the Ithacans I know.

We depend as a community on our people of color and immigrants. We offer a tolerant and open space to the students and visitors that come to town. We are a small city under substantial economic

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pressure, and we understand that suffering creates crime that police can’t prevent or “solve.” Lastly, we know that there is a racial divide in Ithaca, a basic and violent unfairness that is very old, very complex, and which remains to this day in many forms, including policing. As you well know, this is a murderous injustice, and the deaths of Black people at the hands of police offend not just our shared sense of decency but our belief in the rule of law.

Luckily, we have some powerful resources here. We are lucky to have Svante Myrick, who won reelection in 2019 with an overwhelming 76% of the vote and whose care and consideration keeps the city together. His commitment to releasing video, sharing disciplinary records, and communicating with the population consistently benefits the police department. We have a strong community of Ithacans committed to racial justice, who will not allow the kinds of inequities that make other communities so violent, disaffected, and grim. We have a history of Black excellence and Black love in the city that spans from Alex Haley to Bernie Milton to Rediet Abebe, the first black woman ever to get a Ph. D. in computer

science at Cornell, who graduated last year. Underpinning these strengths are our cultural traditions: openness, a struggle for peace through justice, and a love for difference. We do not have to arrest our way out of 2020. And we shouldn’t!

Doing that would sacrifice so much of what makes Ithaca flourish.

Protestors are making demands of you because we need daily, serious change in the way police officers think about the community. I have seen positive, caring responses to the challenges that face us from some officers, but I don’t see it in the IPBA. Right now, you have the ability to encounter the protests with resentment and anger; you have the liberty to rail against the mayor during contract negotiations. But if you do, please, don’t tell yourself that you’re doing this on behalf of the Ithaca community. Don’t pretend protests are abstract “civil unrest.” They are a message. We are not silent. We are speaking to you through the ballot box and in the streets.

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documents ready for bidding. This grant does not fund construction, though the City can submit a future BUILD grant application for construction.

The Cayuga Waterfront Revitalization project will redesign an approximate 0.85-mile Route 13 corridor segment into a complete street boulevard with improved crossings at key intersections, clearly marked pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and traffic-calming strategies and plans to extend 5th Street approximately 0.2 miles across Route 13 to open a new route to the Cayuga Lake waterfront.

"It's the design and planning, it's not the construction," Nicholas said. "We have two big projects on the waterfront that are nearing approval that include parts of this vision (improved intersections and pedestrian walkways). This really couldn't have come at a better time."

By planning to more effectively utilize shoulder space, turn lanes, and other wide lanes to better manage traffic flows while allowing for other non-motorized users on Route 13, the project seeks to introduce safety and traffic calming measures on a road that currently functions as a four-lane highway without sidewalks and bike lanes. The project will double access points to the Cayuga waterfront and better manage traffic flows, encouraging new commercial, residential, and retail development on the waterfront. The project facilitates waterfront infill development in an underutilized area and improve access to civic, recreational, and employment destinations, states the DOT fact sheet.

This project is located in a designated Opportunity Zone, which were created to revitalize low-income and economically distressed communities using private

investment. Low-income communities are nominated by U.S. States, U.S. possessions, and the District of Columbia and then certified by the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury as Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones have been certified in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories.

To better address the needs of rural America, which has historically been neglected, the Department is awarding 50% of BUILD Transportation grant funding to projects located in rural areas that deliver positive benefits for these communities, consistent with the Department’s R.O.U.T.E.S. initiative.

“This Administration is making significant investments in infrastructure, and this $1 billion in BUILD grants will repair, rebuild, and revitalize transportation systems across America,” Chao said.

The program selection criteria encompassed safety, economic competitiveness, quality of life, state of good repair, environmental sustainability, innovation, and partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders. For this round of BUILD Transportation grants, the maximum grant award is $25 million, and no more than $100 million can be awarded to a single State, as specified in the appropriations act.

"The planning and design of a project like this requires significant funding and we don't have those kinds of funds within our budget or ability. It is a great complement to the rest of the vision we have; it's about connecting the waterfront to the urban suburbs of the rest of the city," Nicholas said.

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YOUR LETTERS Regarding ‘letter from the Silent Majority’ He speaks for me. I find the hostile, combative attitude the IPBA takes toward the public very disturbing. It seems they do not see themselves as public servants, but as resentful overlords.

Robin Cisne He also speaks for me. I want police to be held accountable. And I want common council to fund and expand services for Ithaca’s working class.

Dana Sue He speaks for me too. I’ve dealt with plenty of responsible police who acted as public servants. And I want them to have good pay and working conditions.

The IPBA leadership attitude, by contrast, is terrifyingly corrupt, and unless they change their attitude, which is openly hostile to the public they are supposed to serve, I think the city should refuse to deal with them and lock out any union members. Dirty IPD officers have exhibited aggressive, violent attitudes towards members of the public several times in the last few years, and IPBA seems to want to protect these bully cops.

The public wants the bullies out, before these “bad apples” spoil the whole department.

Nathanael Nerode

What a wonderful summary of how so many of us feel about our beloved community. As a taxpayer of many decades, I want the police and sheriff’s departments to understand that we won’t employ bullies and racists. Take your hate elsewhere; we don’t want you as employees.

Gay Nicholson Excellent letter. He speaks for me too.

Police are public servants and should do their job humbly and respectfully, like everyone else (except artists, singers, and comics.)

Emily Hopkins 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

What’s at Stake

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he Republican-led Senate, urged forward by Mitch McConnell, is about to reverse course on the position it took when it refused to consider President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

Then, Republicans overwhelmingly supported McConnell’s claim that the country must wait until after the election, which was eight months away.

Now the Republicans are rushing to support Trump/McConnell’s immediate nomination of a new conservative judge to a lifetime appointment, with only eight weeks to go before the election. This is wanton and shameful hypocrisy.

The stakes of this draconian move are enormous. If you have a pre-existing condition , a Conservative -dominated Court will probably gut Obama care and remove your protection. If you are a woman, your right to make decisions about your body and your health may be severely curtailed.

The list of potential issues is long and frightening: civil rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, up to the possibility of deciding a presidential election, as with Bush v Gore.

If you care about our democracy, contact your legislators NOW and demand that the Senate wait until after the inauguration of the next president before considering a replacement for Justice Greenberg. And be sure you are registered to vote. Make your voice heard loud and clear on November 3. The soul of our democracy is at stake.

Nina Miller

If you are planning to vote for Trump, you are voting for: Dismantling the EPA and eliminating restraints on corporate pollution. No progress to prepare for climate catastrophe.

Tax breaks for the wealthy. Austerity measures for the working class and poor with cut backs on government support for essential services, including schools, transportation, and healthcare.

Divisiveness and further empowerment of right wing extremists.

More influence of religion on government policies, including reversing woman’s rights and supporting Israel’s abuse of Palestinians.

International alliance with criminal dictators, including Saudi Arabia and Russia. Fracturing of relations with our long established allies.

If you are voting for Trump, you can hang as many flags in your yard as you think you need to cover up his criminal and amoral actions (I have seen some people with ten Trump flags and humongous posters). The huge signs, numerous yard flags, and boat parades seem to be a way to compensate for the lack of an honest Trump platform and really demonstrate the grand standing that Trump truly represents. He talks out of both sides of his mouth and he has no intention of supporting the blue collar people he claims to represent. If you are planning to vote for Trump, you are a fool.

Dale Slacker

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30 POEMS Contin u ed From Page 4

Give Me This I thought it was the neighbor’s cat back

delight? A stranger writes to request my thoughts

to clean the clock of the fledgling robins low

on suffering. Barbed wire pulled out of the mouth,

in their nest stuck in the dense hedge by the house

as if demanding that I kneel to the trap of coiled

but what came was much stranger, a liquidity

spikes used in warfare and fencing. Instead,

moving all muscle and bristle. A groundhog

I watch the groundhog closer and a sound escapes

slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still

me, a small spasm of joy I did not imagine

green in the morning’s shade. I watched her

when I woke. She is a funny creature and earnest,

munch and stand on her haunches taking such

and she is doing what she can to survive.

pleasure in the watery bites. Why am I not allowed

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contributing poets.

While the 30 Poems in 30 Days fundraiser brings the larger issue of the global refugee crisis down to the most symbolic, localized level of providing care for a single family in need, it speaks to the fact that there is an undeniable level of energy and effort that must be called upon in order to make change happen, to achieve “deprofessionalization” of those institutions and disciplines that our livelihoods and humanity depend on.

“I think the best ways of dealing with the issue are transforming human culture so that we don’t keep producing refugees and war and displacement and unconscionable levels of social inequality,” Regenspan goes on to say, “But you have to think about what you can do at the moment. It’s a limiting project, but it’s an interesting, limited project.” While the larger issue of the global refugee crisis is not something that Ithaca alone can take head-on, Regenspan contends that, “writing thirty poems in thirty days is something. And it keeps the poets’ juices up.”

For more information about the fundraiser and if you are interested in making a contribution, please visit www.gofundme.com/f/30-poems-in-30-days-for-ithacasanctuary-alliance. If you want to read the “30 Poems in 30 Days” blog, visit www.30poems30daysithacasanctuar y.blogspot.com/.

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17 Weeks

4 Months, 112 Days , 2,688 Hours in Protest

By Glenn Epps

Yo u do n’ t rea lly m ea n th at y o u do n’ t l i ke th e w ay people p rotest , yo u m ea n yo u do n’ t un de rsta n d wh at th e y’re p rotest i ng a n d th at’s wh e re we’ll sta r t .

Glenn Epps is Interim Managing Editor of the Ithaca Times, He’s attended Sunday protests throughout the summer and during Sunday’s Back the Blue protests, he spoke with supporters of the rally about the issues they had with the weekly Sunday protests. This article is a summation of that conversation and includes quotes gathered throughout the summer during weekly rallys.

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hat started out as a community gathering of people needing to express their outrage over global and national events has been transformed into a localization of frustrations targeted at addressing issues within the 10 perfect miles of Ithaca, N.Y. Back the Blue protests on Sept. 20 revealed a growing tension from misunderstanding community members about the purposes and need to protest here in Ithaca, N.Y. During at least two conversations with Back the Blue protestors, it became obvious to me that protestors on both sides have more questions than answers. Some questions date back to 2014 and some date back to 1492. In this article, I think I’ll re8 T

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visit parts of our conversation and hopefully that will shed some light on murky understandings.

“What is Black Lives Matter?”

Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. is a global organization with a mission to eradicate white supremacy. It also aims to build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state in the form of aggressive policing and vigilantes, which may look like neo-Nazis and race riot propagandists.

While Ithaca’s weekly protests are not directly affiliated with Black Lives Matter, protestors share some similar goals to the organization, namely eradicating racism within Ithaca’s community, while other goals are more localized.

“What is the end goal of Black Lives Matter?”

“Is it necessary for [police] to be totally defunded? No. Is it necessary that they receive a decrease in funding? Yes” – Yasmin Rashid Usually, weekly protests center on calls for some of the Ithaca Police Department's $13 million budget to be reallocated to

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public service non-profit programs like GIAC, Southside Community Center and Ithaca Youth Bureau. Other requests are on behalf of the West End Village, where residents of the privately owned, affordable housing development have reported untreated mold, infestation and delapidation issues, as well as limited access to many of the city’s prominent and necessary features due to distance and limited transit.

This week, Southside Community Center, once suggested by city council member Seph Murtagh to be designated a cultural site, was forced to temporarily close and lay off its workers citing financial difficulties. As of 2018, public non-profit tax forms show that Southside employed only 13 people.

“Why Block Traffic? Where Does that Get You?” As one protestor said: “A funeral lasts longer than 15 minutes.”

Despite growing online repugnance by passersby or Facebook scrollers, the Sunday protesters are not ignorantly disobeying traffic laws. They congregate within intersections and along busy roads because

I m ag e s f r o m It h ac a P r o t e s t s throughout the sum mer ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) the purpose of protest is to disrupt the everyday flow of everyday life. Would you have thought twice about the signs a group of protestors standing on the sidewalk were holding?

What the protesters have often failed to express is the purpose of a protest in Ithaca, N.Y. At least, that’s what Sunday’s clash revealed.

When a group assembles in the road before an otherwise moving vehicle, the driver has four options: 1) Wait patiently for the obstructing group to clear; 2) Mow down the pedestrians; 3) Get out of the car and stand in solidarity or 4) Find another way around.

While West Village is so far out of the way, you may rarely ever think about it, protestors for that particular cause give Ithacans a weekly reminder that life is inconvenient. The waits may be unreasonably long at times, but Flint has waited an unreasonably long time for potable drinking water and the West Village has waited an unreasonable amount of time for just one sidewalk.

cil people and acting as a liaison “I don’t understand why between both of those parties you are protesting in Ithaca?” and the West End Village com“It’s important at times for munity. me to explain what I mean “I just think the rioting has when I talk about a thing, so to stop and now police have when I point out a problem, targets on their back.”

I don’t mean you, I mean the On June 3, protestors gathsystem. But at some point that ered in the Bernie Milton Pavildoesn’t only frustrate me but lion to protest the unjust killing it starts to diminish my arguof George Floyd, who died due ment,” –Yasmin Rashid to asphyxiation, a direct result In the grand scheme of life, of the arresting officers kneelas in Ithaca, the people with ing position on Floyd’s neck power (or money) make the for eight minutes while Floyd decisions, whether it be landP r o t e s t e r s g at h e r o n G r e e n S t r e e t gasped for breath and cried for owners or politicians— and it's Unbroken Promise Initiative. The initiative help. those voices that we often listen focused on raising money for the sole purFor 17 weeks since, protestors in Ithato. Protesters argue that shouldn’t be the case. In general, people, in a town like Itha- pose of creating the necessary resources for ca have gathered not just to protest Floyd’s ca, should be able to have their most basic the community: accessible food markets, death, but also the deaths of Breonna Tayafter school programs, social and commu- lor, killed following a raid that is considneeds met. ered illegal in Ithaca, and Ahmaud Arbery, When I last met Jordan Clemons, the nity programs, health facilities, etc.

That was back in June and most of July. slain unjustly by vigilantes, Daniel Prude, original emcee of the weekly rallies, he was trying to bring attention to the governmen- Nowadays, Clemons spends nearly all of who died due to the negligence of officers, tal neglect of the West End Village commu- his time manifesting the vision -- negotiat- Sean Greenwood, an Ithacan who was shot nity and he’d proposed an idea to fix it: the ing with investors, speaking with city coun-

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IPD becomes focus of two Sunday protests

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ack the Blue Tompkins County protestors gathered outside Ithaca Police Department on Sunday afternoon to show their support for the police department, which has been the site of several Sunday protests calling for portions of the department’s $13 million funding to be reallocated to community resources.

Back the Blue protestors began gathering at the site around 1:30 p.m. and were soon outnumbered by Sunday ralliers who had left Bernie Milton Pavillion to counterprotest the gathering. By 2 p.m. nearly 200 protestors and independent community members were standing outside the police department chanting back and forth at one another on the closed off thruway.

“Black Lives Matter.”

“All Lives Matter.”

Back the Blue protestors were mindful to remain on the sidewalks directly in front of and across from the station, as an active demonstration of their request that protests be relegated to sidewalks. Sunday protesters have been known to enter into in-

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B ac k t h e B l u e p r o t e s t e r f r o m l a s t S u n d ay ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) tersections and obstruct the flow of traffic for 10–15 minutes at a time in an effort to create inconvenience and bring attention to the inconveniences of police brutality and governmental negligence.

Amid the confusion of callback chanting between the two groups, there were also speeches. One leader from each group stood up to share a point on their respective protest.

“I don’t know about 1619,” said one Back the Blue protester during his speech. “But I know about 1492, and that this is our land. We’re all natives here.” The two standing speakers at the time briefly hugged and were cheered for. It was announced that the Back the Blue rally would conclude after a playing of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

“I’ve lived in Ithaca all my life, and it’s a pretty progressive, liberal town,” said one Back the Blue protester. “I just don’t see what Black Lives Matter(s) is asking for. Now [that] they’re known all over the world, what’s the end goal? And the riots need to stop.”

Many Sunday protesters left Clinton St. before the music began playing, chanting “Black Lives Matter” as they headed back to the Bernie Milton Pavillion. Some protesters who remained in the mix continued chanting against IPD, while the national Se p te m be r

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in the back, and the unwarranted arrests of Kadji Ferguson and Rose de Groat.

Protests and riots are the language of the unheard -- they are rarely unwarranted and the cost is always great. However, police officers remain safe and their jobs remain secured. We do not live in an episode of “Watchmen,” (which I highly suggest you watch).

“Last year more white people were killed by police than black people, what do you think about that,” said one protestor.

Do you think the death was unwarranted? Do you think justice should be brought on the officer? In that case, you should protest too.

In the midst of an uncompromising pandemic, unprecedented joblessness and homelessness, and an unabashed political divide, mutual understanding and radical love is more necessary now than ever.

Without it we’re sitting ducks, but with it, we may not only realize we’re all searching for the same solution, we may also stand a flapping chance of realizing it. anthem played overhead. One protestor in particular was quickly surrounded by a number of Back the Blue protestors carrying law enforcement and “Trump 2020” flags. A shouting match ensued and the incensed parties were separated.

Other remaining Sunday protesters who remained at the IPD location spoke with Back the Blue protesters about Black Lives Matter, the purpose of protesting and United States history before reconvening with the larger group at the pavilion. The whole encounter lasted an hour.

The Back the Blue protest follows 20 straight weeks of Sunday protests that have changed hands, names and leadership nearly five times since starting. Back at the Bernie Milton Pavillion, Sunday ralliers discussed the future of their protests, celebrated their unity and reiterated their continuing need to deconstruct systems that lead to oppression and inequity, even in Ithaca.

Two high-school aged local Ithacans stood up and spoke about their upbringing in Ithaca, and cited a concern they have about believing that Ithaca is solely 10 square miles surrounded by reality.

“I’ve lived in Ithaca all my life and I’ve always believed that Ithaca was this perfect bubble surrounded by reality, but it’s not.

The same things that go on in other cities also happen here. Maybe not at the same level, but they happen. And my friends— people just don’t know.”

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A Look Back Ste ve L aw re nc e

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t was 28 years ago this week…

The date is easy to remember, because I had become a father about 10 weeks prior. I was still pulling photos out of my wallet every 5 minutes, and I couldn’t wait to show them to my friends at the Ithaca Times. I had done a few freelance assignments for the paper, I had known Jim Bilinski (the Publisher) for a few years, and I had been asked to stop in for a meeting with Managing Editor Claudia Montague.

“You may have heard that John Ettinger (then the lead Sports columnist) is relocating,” Claudia told me. “I am wondering if you have any interest in picking up the column on an interim basis.”

“Sure,” I said, “ I’ll do it for a few weeks and we’ll have another conversation.”

I wrote one or two columns, picking my way through the volumes of press releases that arrived – via the U.S. Mail – from the Sports Information departments at Cornell and Ithaca College. I could do this for a few weeks.

In early October, I looked at my Ithaca Times mailbox and did a double-take –

I immediately started paying closer attention to the teams in the playoffs, as I knew that, while I would not be able to travel to an Atlanta vs. Oakland matchup, I would be able to attend a game in Pittsburgh or Toronto. When the Blue Jays took down the A’s, I was thrilled. I would be attending a World Series game in Toronto.

On October 20, 1992, I proudly wore my Ithaca Times World Series Press Credentials into Toronto’s SkyDome and walked onto the field prior to batting practice. I had conversations with active players like Dave Winfield, David Justice and Joe Carter, and had long and fulfilling conversations with legends like Johnny Bench and Ernie Banks. I was a 12 year-old boy in a 36 year-old man’s body as I was nearly hit with a Joe Carter Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220 home run, Joe Carter homers in the 1992 World Series. witnessed a near-triple play Newspaper: (the umpire blew the call) and watched the home team pull off a thrilling thinking it might be April 1st. According to a very official-looking letter from Major 3-2 win in the bottom of the ninth inning.

I combined my love of baseball with my League Baseball, the Ithaca Times had sincere interest in people and their stories, been selected to receive press passes to wrote the story entitled “Eye in the Sky the 1992 World Series. I checked in with (Dome)” and I was honored when I got JB (Bilinski) and he informed me that the paper had indeed been applying for World so much great feedback. I appreciated it when former Ithaca Times Editor Kenny Series press credentials for a number of Berkowitz said to me, “You are really startyears, and that yes, it was legit. ing to find your voice.”

I am still deeply honored – approximately two-thousand stories later – that any of you have any interest in my voice. I have a vast treasure trove of memories related to the hundreds – maybe thousands – of people with whom I have interacted, and I value each and every one – be they a Pee Wee football star, a Mini Mite hockey player or a Super Bowl champ, an Olympic Gold Medalist or a Stanley Cup champion.

They all have a story that deserves to be told, and told well.

I love the fact that I have written about different generations in the same families, and I am very moved when friends contact me to let me know that they still read my column online, many years after moving away from Ithaca.

When I am asked if 10, 20 or 28 years is long enough, I fondly recall the time I spent with the late, great Kenny Van Sickle, who wrote about sports for the Ithaca Journal for well over 50 years. Kenny and I would sit in the press box at Cornell and watch the Big Red football games, and we would talk about the people about whom we had written and the cherished relationClient: ships that grew out of our story telling. I always appreciated how much those connections meant to Kenny, and although my 30 years (including freelancing) falls far short of Kenny’s half-century, I am proud of my status as an elder statesman of sorts. I’m not sure I will get to that 50year milestone, but I will sure as hell try…

Thanks. Love y’all.

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LITTLETREE his past weekend, Newfield’s Littletree parking lot was crowded with apple pickers anxious to partake in their apple harvesting rituals, it was only expected that a few had to be stopped before entering the orchard so they could get the rundown of the orchard’s new rules.

While most of the rules remained pretty self-explanatory, there were two new ones this year: no sampling apples and tossing them on the ground, and you must wear a mask.

Once visitors to the rambling property made their way down the tree-lined path to the center of the orchard, where the ripe apples could be found, it didn’t feel crowded at all. Children scattered, all of them seemingly forgetting they were wearing masks, and the blue sky provided a sunny backdrop to the fall festivities. It is a scene Amara Steinkraus knows well as the coowner of the orchard (with her family), and she said she is thankful to take it all in once again this year.

“It’s been going fairly well,” Steinkraus said.

“It’s taken a lot of adaptability to figure out how to do things in a manner people feel comfortable

with. With all the regulations there have been some added challenges—added stress—but for the most part people are coming out to the barn and to the farmers market on the weekend.

People I think are excited to be out and to do things.”

So far, she said, this past Saturday has been the busiest day of the season by far. Add to that a thriving Ithaca Farmer’s Market, where

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Littletree is a vendor, and the orchard has not been hit too hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re all trying to be as valuable as we can and to think about sustainability and how we can make it through this year, and how to get the food to people, because we’re all in this boat together,” Steinkraus said. “We all have unique struggles, and figuring out ways to come together and finding joy right now is important.”

For Littletree, a big part of being valuable is bringing joy to the people in the form of their apple cider donuts, which are famously popular and known for attracting long lines at Ithaca’s annual Apple Harvest Festival.

Like every other year, the donuts are available at Littletree’s shop at the orchard, which also sells cider, vinegar, and other apple goods.

And they will be available at the festival as well, in whatever form the festival may take this year. In what has been a very scaled-back publicity campaign this year, the website for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance states there will be an “Apple Festive” from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. It continued on page 15

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ou have seen them along the road and in hedgerows near old orchards.

A lot of them look like abandoned, misused straw brooms pointed at the sky. The crowns are thick and their branches head in all directions. They are seedling apple trees. They have sprung from fruit that has been thrown out the window of passing cars, carried some distance by an animal, or otherwise transported some distance from the varietal apple tree where pollination produced them.

Apples — both the ones you eat and most of those made into cider — are kept true to type by grafting shoots onto rootstock. But those varietal trees are fertile. Which is to say, their fruits have seeds and the seeds can and do grow into the new generation. Of course, the genome of the new tree is entirely dependent on the whims of a single bee as it transported pollen from one blossom to another, often enough between trees of different varieties.

The apples from trees that grow from seed — seedling trees — are small, misshapen, and usually very strong tasting. And some of them are perfect for making cider.

“The whole thing that started me on this,” said Eric Shatt of Redbyrd Orchard Cider, “is that we were living in Burdett and there was an abandoned orchard down the road. There

were wild seedlings all over the place.” Shatt moved to the Finger Lakes over 15 years ago to work with grapes, not apples. While he was out pruning vines, he began to notice seedling apple trees around the edges of the vineyards.

In 2004 Shatt worked for Herman Wiemer, a winemaker who also ran a nursery business.

It was there he was taught the craft of grafting.

While he learned on grapes, the skill translated easily to apples.

Soon after moving there he began planting his Burdett orchard, which initially included all manner of heirloom varieties. Some of his favorites are Newtown Pippin, which originated in the eponymous Long Island town in 1750, and Roxbury Russet, which was first identified in the mid-17th century in what is now part of Boston. In addition to these colonial apples, Shatt has also planted many old French and Spanish varieties. There are 150 different types of apple in the Redbyrd orchard.

With the new season about to begin Redbyrd has eight ciders available, one aged for three years. They are described at the website in lengthy tasting notes. An example: Cloudsplitter ‘19 lists 36 varieties of apple in this still cider, and it was “pressed : October, Steve Selin of South Hill Cidery displays the raw materials (Photo Casey Martin)

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fact that a generation of kids are missing a year of that is disheartening.”

Still, Hollenbeck’s is adapting, adding an online store to their website and partnering with the Cortland Standard to do virtual showings of the cider and donut-making process.

“We're trying to use technology to let people have that experience … I hope it is an acceptable substitute for these peculiar times,” he said.

Hollenbeck’s isn't the only seasonal business who’s had to adapt to COVID. Littletree Orchards in Newfield decided to delay their typical August opening to Labor Day and have closed off their usual picnic areas.

“It's an ever evolving process,” said Amara Steinkraus, orchard manager.

“We’re all recognizing that we're in this difficult boat and we’re trying to figure out any way to make it work and give people the experience of being able to come to the farm.”

With 40 acres of orchards, Amara said the u-pick model makes it much easier to socially distance while still having fun.

“I think people are by and large really happy to have a place where they can go

fter 88 seasons of pressing apples and dishing out piping-hot donuts, Hollenbeck’s Cider Mill, in Virgil, New York, thought they had seen it all; then the pandemic hit.

For the first time in its history, customers will not be allowed inside to watch the Mill’s famous cider press in action. Instead, Hollenbeck’s will be operating exclusively on a drive through and curbside pick up model.

Matt Hollenbeck, the 4th generation owner of the Mill, said while the decision to close off the inside was difficult, the new model will allow for greater safety for customers and staff.

“In the fall, it's wall to wall people,” he said. “There was no way we could be anything remotely close to normal so we went for the way that we could provide the most to the many.”

In a normal season, the Mill’s main attraction is it’s long-standing cider press, which pumps fresh cider right into eager customers’ awaiting cups.With the drivethru model, the usual experience is no longer possible, a fact that pains Hollenbeck.

“The hardest thing that I have never had to do with this business is not let people in,” he said. “A lot of my earliest memories are watching cider being pressed here and the

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Stephen Cummins, owner of Indian Creek Farm in Ithaca, agrees.

“You’ve got 40 acres to spread out on versus a grocery store that has an acre, so you've got plenty of space, he said. “If anything our business has gone up substantially because of Covid.”

Unlike Hollenbeck’s and Littletree, Indian Creek has been open since strawberry season, in June, giving the farm more time to adapt.

“We’re pros at it by now,” Cummins said.

“When we saw the response for strawberries, we knew we were going to be busy this year.”

Cummins has adapted similar policies of masks and social distancing and attributes much of his continued success to the people of Ithaca.

“We’re fortunate to be here in Tompkins County which is kind of a bubble unto itself,” he said. “People here care and as a result, businesses like ours are thriving.”

“We continue to feel really blessed with where we live.” Steinkraus added. “There is so much local agriculture and there are so many people that recognize the benefits for the community/ The fact that we're still able to open and people are still coming and supporting is something to be really grateful for.”

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ven during the pandemic, Tammi Sweet has kept busy at her farm in Van Etten growing an untraditional crop.

As co-founder of Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, she and co-founder Kris Miller continue to teach online courses in growing cannabis while tending to their hemp, which entered its harvest season Sept. 1.

The pair are proponents of using cannabidiol (CBD) to treat all kinds of ailments, and Sweet published a book in July called “The Wholistic Healing Guide to Cannabis.” With a master’s degree in endocrinology and a background that includes teaching human anatomy at the Finger Lakes School of Massage, Sweet delved into researching how herbal medicine interacts with human physiology and said she used roughly 300 primary journal references to write the comprehensive guide.

“That’s one thing that I’m proud of—the extensive scientific database this is all based on,” Sweet said.

Sweet’s book is written not only for herbalists but for doctors, who can benefit from a deeper understanding of the physiology, and dispensary workers, who Sweet said often interface more with patients than doctors concerning the use of cannabis.But you don’t have to be interested in hemp to heed Sweet’s advice for staying healthy during these challenging times.

“What I would recommend is getting outside and being with plants, no matter how you do it,” Sweet said. “Getting out and interacting with the plant life is absolutely an actionable step, and when you can do it with someone else, even better, because you’ve got a friend along with you.”

“I go around the country and teach, asking the question, ‘what are the things people are doing to thrive?’ And moving our bodies and being outside are always the number-one actions.” She is also a proponent of the simple act of making tea. “And if you can be making tea out of plants that you’ve harvested, awesome,” she said, adding that she teaches children about lemon balm and its calming effect, as well as the uplifting effect of peppermint.

Soothing one’s nerves can be difficult in the current circumstances, she said.

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“Given where we are right now and the state of the world, making a cup of herbal tea is a revolutionary act and also really supportive of our nervous system,” she said. Often her first homework assignment for students is to care for one plant and make tea with it every morning.

“The act of making peppermint tea is beautiful,” she said. “Just saying, ‘OK, I’m going to take my favorite mug and make the tea in this jar, and just sitting with it and reflecting on how it feels, and drinking plants…I love that this is something you can make with you kids as well.”

It may feel like the growing season is behind us, but peppermint and lemon balm are thriving right now, according to Sweet. “It’s not too late,” she said.

For Miller and Sweet, the social distancing caused by COVID-19 has presented an opportunity to take a break from teaching classes and hosting workshops on their expansive rural property.

Instead of in-person training, Sweet has been holding online cannabis grow courses. The basics of caring for the wide range of cannabis varieties are all essentially the same, she said, and she therefore does not differentiate between plants that contain THC (the chemical that causes people to feel the effects of smoking marijuana), ones that contain CBD (the nonnarcotic chemical in cannabis, often added to topical medicines), and hemp (containing neither chemical), which is grown purely for fiber.

Other online courses taught by Miller and Sweet include but are not limited to: “Physiology with Heart,” a mini-course unpacking the baggage of western science, “Endocannabinoid System and Materia Medica,” all about how to use CBD oil to treat a whole host of illnesses, and “Anatomy and Physiology,” an eight-week online course about the human body that is especially tailored to herbalists and massage therapists but open to all. For those interested in a class that focuses more on self and spirit, Sweet suggests the “Journey of the Heart” yearlong program.

To find out more about Heartstone Center, visit their website at heart-stone.com.

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“We have a huge crop this year,” Sandsted said. “The time was just right with the cold and the bees were doing their job. We have an exorbitant amount of apples.”

Those interested in picking apples can stop by the acres from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. All apples, except for Honey Crisp’s, are 95 cents per pound for under 25 pounds. If individuals pick more than 25 pounds it is 80 cents per pound. The acres are offering a special deal for its 40th anniversary of 65 cents per pound for 40 pounds or more.

Honey Crisp’s are $1.35 per pound for under 25 pounds and $1.20 per pound for more than 25 pounds. Due to low quantity, Honey Crisp’s are excluded from the 40th anniversary offer.

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November 2019, rack and cloth, fermented : stainless steel, bone dry finished : unfined and unfiltered. Still aromas : clementine, beeswax, red raspberry, smoky bittersweet apple notes.

Taste : dense fruit, earthy, complex, structured [with] 0.0% RS [residual sugar], 8.3% alcohol/ volume. 30 cases produced.”

“Blending is the art of it,” Shatt said. “It’s never an exact blend [from year to year], but it’s the same intention. It’s not mathematical.

Instead, you highlight certain characteristics.”

Steve Selin of South Hill Cider described his introduction to seedling apples as a “happy accident.” Like Shatt, he noticed them on the landscape in the national forest and along the

edges of farm fields. “When I first started making cider, these trees were available,” he said, “and they had really great fruit.” He began blending them with fruit picked in abandoned orchards.

In the early 2000s he was spending a lot of time with winemakers because, as an oldtime musician, he was playing a lot of winery gigs. Selin, who has an academic background in ecology and chemistry, noticed parallels between cider making and winemaking. With their many ancient varieties, cider apples, he decided, were analogous to vinifera grapes.

And the steps in the production process were identical; you were just starting with different fruits.

Selin began sharing his cider with winemakers, and they liked it. He decided to go commercial. He and his family lived on

the Danby/Ithaca line next to a 26-acre parcel of farmland the rest of which had been sold off in pieces for development. Over the years Selin and his wife had sent the farmer, who had retired to Florida, regular postcards, offering to buy the lot.

“When we decided to do cider,” he recalled, “I wrote him a one-page letter and described what we wanted to do.” The landowner responded immediately and offered to sell the land to them. Selin put a conservation easement on the property and planted 1,500 semidwarf apple trees. Many of them were scarce “bittersweet” varieties especially developed for cider-making in the English and French styles.

Five years ago he began taking cuttings from the wild seedling trees. Now he has over 200. Like Shatt, he knows how to graft. “It’s like making sushi,” he said. “If you don’t know

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how to do it, it seems complicated. Then you do it, and it becomes just what you do.”

He uses the same kind of press as Redbyrd.

“The rack and cloth press was the most common type used in North America and Europe from the 1800s to the mid-1900s,” Selin said. The crushed apples are pressed through muslin (or polypropylene in the modern incarnation). He likened it to cheese making, but reversed; in cider making the liquid is retained, while in cheese making the whey is discarded.

Both Redbyrd and South Hill are just beginning their cider making season and will continue until just shy of Christmas. Selin said he will be working 10-hour days and producing about 400 gallons per day. At the start of the season cider makers press quickly because it is warmer and the apples are softer and do not keep. Later in the season, the apples may be stored for several weeks before pressing.

Both makers produce still and sparkling ciders. Selin said that some varieties lend themselves better to sparkling. There is more structure in the acidity, he explained, while flavors that emerge from tannin-rich apples work better in still ciders.

Sparkling ciders are produced either by fermentation in the tank (Charmat method) or by secondary fermentation in the bottle (Champagne method) or by carbonation, forcing carbon dioxide into the cider. Shatt, who uses all the methods, defends the latter: “It sounds aggressive, but it’s still very pure; we’re not adding sugar or yeast. The cider is still transparent of the terroir and that’s my focus.”

The pandemic has had both positive and negative effects on Redbyrd and South Hill.

Shatt noted that it had forced him to focus on online sales and look toward Zoom tastings.

On the other hand, a planned expansion to sales at New York City green markets has been postponed.

South Hill saw an increase in online sales, but Selin wonders how the coming winter will affect the culture of his tasting room. While visitors have enjoyed cider and live music outside during the warmer months, there won’t be live music indoors this winter, but cider tasting will continue.

For more information see redbyrdorchardcider.com and southhillcider.com.

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hat preposterous complications do you tolerate in this town?” That’s not only a line from Carlo Goldoni’s 1763 comedy, “The Fan,” but an apt response to The Cherry Arts’ bold al fresco production in Stewart Park.

Theatregoers have longed for community these past six COVID-isolated months, and we finally have it: seating for this free production is demarcated by safely distanced chalk circles on the grass, each “pod” holding one to five people. Though bitter winds assaulted one evening’s show, Saturday’s matinee was a sunny pastoral idyll, and this week promises to be warmly inviting.

Ever inventive, The Cherry Arts serves up this farce with masked actors, “lip-synching without lips,” as director Sam Buggeln puts it. On a wide raised stage worthy of an 18th century Italian piazza, a dozen young actors in colorful period costumes gesture and scamper about, their dialogue voiced by well-known local professionals. And thanks to Lesley Greene and Kate Griffin’s excellent sound projection, every bit of banter is clearly heard. Onstage locales are tagged by bright banners, like “modest house” and “apothecary.”

This production captures the madcap spirit of farce, both in script and staging. Thwarted

love, false impressions, greed, patriarchal and class control, squabbling and sucking-up –– the entire crazy social landscape unfolds in near-cartoon form. The actors’ boundless energy is at its highest during the impromptu dance numbers to 1960s Italian pop music, a comical gift itself.

“The Fan” turns on a series of misunderstandings when a suitor’s fan intended for his beloved goes on an absurd voyage of its own, passing among successive owners of different classes. In the process, everyone’s failings –– and strengths –– are exposed. Theatrically innovative, Goldoni successfully served up old wine in new casks: a prolific playwright and opera buffa master, he took the old commedia dell’arte conventions to a new level. His humanistic comedies reflected the rising middle class, the faltering nobility, and the squashed serving class alike. A quarter-millennium later, these themes still resonate.

Romantic love is at the center, as Signor Evaristo (Robert Denzel Edwards, voiced by Benno Ressa) seeks to woo Candida (Isabelle Dickey/Sandrinne Edstrom) under the watchful eye of her protective, gracious aunt (Joseph D’amore/Cynthia Henderson). A gossiping shopkeeper (Teresa Gelsomini/ Amoreena Wade) sells Evaristo the eventually troublesome fan. Meanwhile the saucy servant Giannina (Ronee Goldman/Darcy Rose), who takes no guff from anyone, is in love with the cobbler Crispino (Will Devary/Jacob Garrett White), but her domineering brother (Jeff Tagliaferro/Austin Jones) has promised her to the innkeeper (Adara Alston/Eric Brooks).

Trying to horn in on all the action is the local count (Benno Ressa/Jeffrey Guyton), who’s cheap, opportunistic, and full of his own inflated sense of power. The windy braggart offers “patronage” to everyone who shows a

The Cherry Artspace’s “The Fan” opened its season with outdoor performances Sept. 17.

shred of deference to his rank. Foolish and self-absorbed, he’s a delicious comic figure, amusingly tiresome.

Another standout in this well-executed ensemble piece: Giannina, whose irritation and sense of injustice are likewise richly played.

Both inherit the long history of their stereotypes (Pantalone, moneyed master, and Zanni, upstart servant) in comedy and opera.

Predictable as the plot may be, the action is buoyant, even effervescent –– just as in cartoons, farce, and, for that matter, most comedy, the fun is partly in repeating the expected.

Spirits lifted, Saturday’s audience indicated their pleasure with noisy applause.

“The Fan” can now also be seen online at The Cherry Arts website. The play kicks off a promising season, which next offers a streaming show, “The Day,” from November 13-21.

By Québecoise Gabrielle Chapdelaine, it features Ithaca favorites Karl Gregory, Jahmar Ortiz, Erica Steinhagen, and Sylvie Yntema mysteriously connecting over the course of a “normal” day.

Cherry Arts Carlo Goldoni, “The Fan,” continues on Sept. 24-26, 5:30 p.m., and Sept. 26, 2 p.m., in Stewart Park. Performances are sold out, but check www.thecherry.org/the-fan/ for wait lists and possible extra performance. A free online version is also available.

Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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ate Manne is an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the philosophy department, at the Sage School where she has been teaching since 2013, and where Manne has written about women facing discrimination, harassment, and hostility in the workplace and in their own lives. According to her website, during 2017, she “published an academic/trade "crossover" book called Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny about the nature, function, and persistence of misogyny.”

In her latest published book, ‘Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women’, she leads the reader to reevaluate and understand the nature of sexism and misogyny.

Beyond thinking that sexism is based on a bias toward women, and that misogyny is hatred of girls and women, for Manne, it is about the mistreatment and restricting women’s sense of equality and empowerment. We sat down with Manne to discuss a number of questions on her new book.

Ithaca Times: The structure of our society seems content to have sexism and misogyny endure, both of which impacts women in a number of harmful ways.

Can you talk about the differences in our society between sexism and misogyny?

Kate Manne: I think of sexism as the ideological or theoretical branch of patriarchy, which serves to justify and rationalize patriarchal social relations-such as men's dominance in historically masculine-coded domains, and women's performance of the bulk of care work, for example. Misogyny I think of as the law enforcement branch of patriarchy, which serves to police and enforce a patriarchal social order. So, if you like, sexism is to bad science as misogyny is to the police force; sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.

IT: There are recent examples in the news such as Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased movie mogul, who felt entitled to assault women, or in the case of Brett Kavanaugh, illustrating through a tan-

Kate Manne, author of “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” and “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women”

trum his sense of entitlement during a Senate hearing. What do you feel needs to happen to end the expectation by many men who feel that they are entitled to whatever they want and whenever they want something? How is our society aiding this behavior?

KM: l think an important part of the story here is that we've been socialized to tolerate this behavior, and even to encourage and condone it. My idea of himpathy-the disproportionate and undue sympathy

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often extended to men who commit sexual assault, sexual harassment, and other misogynistic behavior—is designed to help to put an end to this, by calling out not only these men, but the excessively exonerating attitudes towards them, such that we can begin to hold the perpetrators accountable. Another, related thing that needs to happen is that we need to morally reorient ourselves to helping and sympathizing with their victims, first and foremost. Tarana Burke's #MeToo movement has long had a crucial role in effecting shifts of that nature, especially when it comes to some of the most vulnerable people amongst us, namely Black and brown girls.

IT: How can people work to engage and overcome the detrimental nature of misogyny — so that our society will eventually change, grow and where everyone is treated equally?

KM: My work focuses mostly on diagnosing these problems, so that well-intentioned and principled people can form a political coalition, and work on changing the system together, having adequately understood it. But I don't know how to change the hearts and minds of those who aren't truly invested in a gender egalitarian society. I don't think anyone knows how to do that.

IT: What advice would you like to share to both women and men at this time?

KM: l think it's a good time for many people-—men, women, and non-binary people alike— to do as much as we can to educate ourselves about systemic sexism, misogyny, and their intersection with racism, as well as other oppressive social systems. For that, I'd especially recommend work by Black feminists such as Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ijeoma Oluo, Roxane Gay, and many, many others. Their work has had a tremendous impact in shaping my understanding of the world we live in.

Kate Manne’s web site is http:// www.katemanne.net

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years ago, I went to see a new film by Stanley Kubrick called “The Shining”. I liked it: it was scary, but it was also kind of confusing. I noticed that it was based on a novel by some guy named Stephen King (I had seen Brian DePalma’s adaptation of King’s “Carrie” but hadn’t put two and two together, I guess). I decided to read the book to see if it cleared anything up.

When I finished it, I not only understood all the story that Kubrick hadn’t used, but I was now a Stephen King fan, reading anything of his that I could find, and over the next four decades, there was a lot to find. Of King’s 60+ novels, I’ve probably read 45, more than any author I can think of.

King himself has complained that most of his film adaptations don’t work because so much has to be jettisoned due to running time, but two cable series adapting two of King’s recent novels are able to get pretty close with more adult content and more time: 10 episodes each, totaling about 500 minutes from start to finish.

“The Outsider” (HBO-Aggregate Films-Temple Hill-Pieface-Civic Center Media-Media Rights Capital) starts out as straight crime drama: A young boy is horribly murdered, and all eyewitness and DNA evidence points to the local baseball coach (Jason Bateman, also an executive producer and director of the first several episodes). Ben Mendelsohn arrests him during a game, an event that triggers a massive surge of anger, grief and chaos. And then it turns out that the coach actually had an alibi, although how could he have been in two places at once? Now

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King’s tale turns to the paranormal, and Mendelsohn, a man who has no tolerance for the unexplainable, begins to believe.

Developed for HBO by Richard Price (“Clockers”), “The Outsider” has a gritty handheld realism that makes its supernatural trappings more effective; we’re talking doppelgangers here, and the cinematography relies to a great degree on blurry and out of focus imagery. Cynthia Erivo is very good here as private investigator Holly Gibney. My only criticism is the same that I had of King’s novel: I think the climax could have been much scarier. But with nine hours to wind the suspense, getting there is still scary fun.

Holly Gibney pops up again, this time played by Justine Lupe, in “Mr. Mercedes” (David E. Kelley Productions-Nomadicfilm-Temple Hill Productions-Sonar Entertainment). The story opens with a mysterious maniac plowing his MercedesBenz into the crowd at a job fair. Years later, the killer taunts retired detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson, against type but very grizzled and effective) out of retirement and back on the case.

I’ll not reveal the name of the actor playing the title character, but he does a very good job with a very complex and oddly touching character. Breeda Wool and Robert Stanton are also good in supporting roles, but the MVP of the series might be Kelly Lynch as the killer’s alcoholic, disaffected mother.

Each series can be considered a faithful remake of the novels, but there are enough twists and new characters added to keep us King fans guessing.

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I experienced some inconsistency in the German potato salad. Once it was simply some red potatoes chopped into sections with no apparent bacon, bacon bits or vinegar.

A toast form a diners seated outside (Casey Martin) On a subsequent visit, there was plenty of bacon but ocated about two miles north of nowhere near enough vinegar. Traditional the village of Trumansburg, on German potato salad comes with a warm Route 96, sits the Brews and Brats bacon vinaigrette and this one didn’t seem restaurant (no relation to Brew and Brats authentic. in Bristol Springs, NY). As you might I really liked the OMG baked beans… imagine from its name, this is not an which included seven different types establishment you’d want to visit in search of beans: pinto, black, northern, butter, of a fine dining experience. Rather, you’ll grandma’s brown baked, Bush’s baked, find a kind of unusual and funky property and Campbell’s pork and beans, as well and a more suitable alternative for diners as molasses, sweet sausage from a nearby in search of a casual lunch or dinner.

Shur-Save, Vidalia sweet onions, green Outside, through the use of picnic bell pepper, mustard, ketchup, and brown tables, there’s a capacity of about 144 sugar. diners if they sit a cozy six to a table. As The third major side is sauerkraut, you know, picnic table benches don’t offer which is made with only three ingredients: backs to lean on but there are canopies broadly sliced green cabbage, salt and which offer some protection from the sun. distilled water… it doesn’t contain any Inside, there’s a combination of counter mayonnaise or vinegar and was disappointing. seating and tables, which can accommodate another 50 if they observe social Those three sides cost $3.89 for an 8 oz distancing. cup and $5.99 for 12 ounces. If you don’t care for franks or brats, there is a homeAs you might imagine from a restaumade pulled pork sandwich and a chicken rant with “brews” in the name, most of spiedie. the alcoholic beverages are craft beers on The pricing of the wine is interesting, tap from New York State. The meat comes and different. All glasses are $8.50 but from Romulus, the produce from Ulysses, the very same bottles from which they’re marinades from Binghamton and rolls poured range from $14.99 - $19.99. Beers for the franks and bratwurst are made at are $6-$7 per glass.

Ithaca Bakery. The limited wine selection Would I drive the 17 miles from my is entirely from NYS, as are several ciders. home in Ithaca to eat at Brews and Brats? I It’s noteworthy that there are several don’t believe so. However, if I was already different bratwursts entrées – all $8.99 in the neighborhood, with friends, and – on the menu and the bratwurst that is looking for a pleasant and casual lunch or served is quite lengthy, 12-14 inches. The dinner, I have no doubt that it could be a skins are made of natural casings, which definite choice. means they are parts, often intestines, of farm animals. Curious, I phoned one of the owners of their bratwurst supplier, Schrader Farms in Romulus, and learned that the casings at Brews and Brats are, indeed, hog intestines. I find the casings • The property was formerly a gift shop called Wrap difficult to chew and digest so I make a It Up which, after about five years, closed in January point of slicing the bratwurst lengthwise 2019. There are still a few items available, including and then across, and then picking up the homemade jellies, jams, honey, maple syrup and T resulting sections and collecting the meat Shirts. with my teeth. I was told, by the owner, • There’s a small lounge in the front of the restaurant that I’m part of a small minority because with a couch and chairs where you can start a brew most people enjoy the “snap” when they (but not eat) while waiting for a table. bite into it. If I’m comfortable with my • Outdoor band concerts are offered on Friday and dining companion, I kind of enjoy the Saturday evenings. In keeping with one of the themes informal, rustic atmosphere created by of the establishment, only local bands are featured. eating with my fingers at a picnic table

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