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SUNDAY PROTESTS

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Police arrest protesters on graffiti, mischief, resisting arrest charges

thaca police officers arrested two protesters on Sunday evening after activists were caught spray painting the IPD headquarters and surrounding areas following a 2 p.m. rally at the Bernie Milton Pavilion. These arrests were the first in over four months of weekly protests, though tensions have been growing over the past few weeks.

Officers first arrested a 15-year old protester and then arrested the second protestor moments later. Both have asked not to be identified. The first suspect was arrested and charged with making graffiti and resisting arrest; the second was charged with criminal mischief. Both protesters were detained inside Ithaca Police Department for nearly 45 minutes before being released.

They are set to appear in court later this month.

Witnesses reported that police attempted to arrest a third protester who fled the scene from police on foot, and IPD did not pursue them.

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epithets such as “pigs kill kids,” “murderers,” “how do you sleep?” and “fuck 12,” a popularized anti-police slogan.

A statement from police said they observed multiple subjects, “not just the two who were arrested,” making the grafitti while the group obstructed traffic. Protesters say the second protester was only standing nearby when he was arrested. The Ithaca Voice reports that neither of the protesters was personally involved in the vandalism described by the police.

“This act of vandalism is reprehensible, and criminal acts of this nature will not be tolerated. For the past 18 weeks, the officers of the Ithaca Police Department have been thoroughly accommodating and highly professional during the scores of protests that have occurred, making this act even

more deplorable,” said IPD Chief Dennis Nayor.

Video footage of the second arrest shows police officers carrying the limp and screaming protester into the police department by his limbs. From the middle of the street, nearly 30 protesters can be seen clasped arm in arm as police struggle to separate individuals and protesters holler back.

About 15 police officers responded to the Sunday evening incident, not including state troopers who also arrived at the scene and proceeded to monitor protesters even as they left the site and reconvened at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.

Tensions between weekly protesters and counter-protesters and law enforcement appear to be at an all-time high.

In the last three weeks alone, the city has seen the American flag outside the

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▶ IC cuts - Ithaca College will cut approximately 130 positions due to budget issues caused by decreased enrollment, according to reporting by student newspaper The Ithacan. The announcement was made at the Faculty Council meeting earlier this month.

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Above shot of graffiti on ground outside Ithaca Police Department, E. Clinton St. Taken from atop IPD (photo: provided by Ithaca Police Department)

IPD headquarters burned by protesters and the Ithaca Black Lives Matter mural on Plain Street painted over by vandals associated with Back the Blue counter protests.

Over the past few months, protesters have tagged the police department headquarters with various epithets — at a candlelight vigil outside of IPD, protesters spray painted “it happened here” in the police department driveway.

Following the release of the arrested, protesters made their way back to the Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons where they debriefed to a much larger crowd of nearly 70 individuals who showed up in support before dispersing.

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BUDGET

Mayor proposes budget to increase community support, defund vacant police positions

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alled “the most unusual budget of our times” by Mayor Svante Myrick, the proposed 2021 budget anticipates more development, an unchanging tax rate and more losses in sales tax and parking revenue. Additionally, amid calls for defunding police and

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Common Council votes to remove white settlers monument

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increasing funding for social services, Myrick proposed eight currently vacant police positions be defunded, and funds for the Southside Community Center be increased by 32%.

Myrick said he hopes the revenue losses are smaller in

fter much thoughtful debate around the language of the resolution, the Common Council voted on Oct. 7 to officially remove the white settlers monument in DeWitt Park.

A resolution was proposed that outlined the reasons for removing the monument, citing the inaccuracy of the monument and stating that “regardless of who were actually the first non-Indigenous settlers of this area, this area was already settled by the Haudenosaunee, who were ejected from this land through use of explicit violence, forced to sign unfair treaties, and

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who never received fair compensation for their loss, and whereas the marker reflects the [Daughter of the American Revolution]’s focus on white Americans and the promotion of an intentionally limited version of American history, a history that often marginalized the contributions of women, Black and Indigenous people and other people of color.”

A revised resolution was also proposed by Alderperson George McGonigal, in which the language is softened. It read: “Whereas the land here was once home to the Cayuga Indians, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confed-

2021 than in 2020, but that current projections put the losses around $2.35 million. To avoid a deficit, Myrick proposed defunding 28 positions throughout the government, reducing hours for seven positions and laying off two employees.

Additionally, the tax rate will stay the same at $11.77 per thousand dollars of assessed property value, with a 7.23% tax levy increase due to rising assessments.

There was a steep drop in revenue after life in the city came to a halt amid the pandemic shutdown, but Myrick said quick action by the Common Council helped save nearly $2 million. The council froze hiring and furloughed more than 80 employees to implement cost-saving measures. However, Myrick said losses for the year are still at about $2.5 million.

Most of the 28 positions that are being eliminated are between the Department of Public Works and public safety.

Eight vacant DPW positions will be defunded and two staffers will be laid off, plus the eight vacant police positions and three vacant Fire Department positions will be defunded.

When it comes to defunding the police positions and reducing strain on officers, Myrick said police chief Den-

nis Nayor is working with deputy chiefs on an operational efficiency plan, which will aim to find ways to prioritize violence prevention, deter property crime, emphasize officer wellness and safety and come up with a strategy for mutual aid reliance.

Myrick also suggested looking into reforming beat assignments to optimize geographic coverage, reforming shift assignments to optimize coverage during peak calls and coming up with a system to categorize and prioritize call types. Additionally, the city continues to work with the county at the mandate of the state to deliver police reform that addresses police functioning and standards, culture, accountability and diversity in personnel.

The increase in funding to the Southside Community Center is also indicative of Myrick’s hope to have broader resources for people in need.

[We will be] investing in community supports that could lessen demand for intervention from police officers,” he said.

Up next in the budget process, the first of three public comment sessions is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m.

eracy, and one of the Cayuga’s refugee [guests], the Tutelos and Suponis. The Cayugas fought and then fled before General Sullivan’s invading American army in September of 1779. By 1789, the land was largely unoccupied and American settlers had begun to arrive, albeit before legal land claims could be made.”

Alderperson Cynthia Brock took issue with the language changes, stating that she didn’t think the alternate wording properly addressed the issue.

“It kind of bypasses the reason we’ve gotten to this situation to begin with,” she said.

“This isn’t merely about who the first white settlers were, it is about the pain of association that comes with the monument […] To bring in the ‘whereas’ that talks about how the land was largely unoccupied when settlers began to arrive is additionally painful and, I think,

insensitive to the history of the people who were here and continue to be here and have roots here.”

Discussion continued, with Mayor Svante Myrick adding that he was supportive of any resolution that removed the marker, though he preferred the original because it better captured his intent.

Alderperson Deb Mohlenhoff urged her fellow council members to make sure they got it right.

“We shouldn’t do something because it’s fast and easy,” she said. “We should do something because we have monuments that people walk by and find hurtful. That should be at the forefront.”

After more discussion, where everyone remained in agreement that the monument needed to go, alderperson

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CONSTRUCTION

Green Street garage projects granted variances by BZA, move ahead

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ariance requests for the Green Street garage projects were granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals last week. The projects, split between Ithaca Properties and the Vecino Group, were both requesting variances on maximum height and rear yard requirements. The Ithaca Properties section of the project was also seeking a variance for maximum number of stories.

Ithaca Properties, LLC – 215 E. State St. This part of the project is the future home of The Ithacan, a 14-story building that will be home to a parking garage, apartments and the Ithaca College physician’s assistant school.

“The parking garage is really in disrepair, and ultimately needs to be replaced,” project architect Jared Hutter said of the current structure. “The city does not have the funds to do it, so that’s how this came about. If you look back at the agreement signed with the city in 2019 it referenced 10 stories

of residential on top of existing garage, and since we have to match up with the existing garage it puts it at 14.”

The maximum number of stories allowed under current zoning laws is 12.

“To me, going from 12 levels to 14 levels is a big variance,” board member Theresa Halpert Deschanes said.

Hutter said the number of floors made the most sense economically, and that if they reduced it by one floor they would lose 10% of residential units.

“But operating and construction expenses don’t go down by 10%,” he said. “It makes it non-financeable.

We didn’t want to ask for too much, we wanted to ask for just enough to make it work.”

At least 10% of units in the building will be affordable, defined as below-market price for people who make 80% of average median income.

“When we see low-income housing, oftentimes it provides housing for people at 60%

Rendering of proposed development at 215 E. Green St. (Courtesy of BSB Design)

[average median income] or lower, so there’s this missing group with higher incomes that that, but who still have a hard time affording market price housing,” board member Suzanne Charles said. “That is an important public benefit.”

She also added that the top floor of the building will be a roof deck, so from the street the structure will only appear to be 13 stories.

Hutter made his case that the public benefits of the project, such as spurring economic activity in the Commons, adding more housing in the downtown core to add to the tax base and providing a new parking garage for public parking, outweigh the cons.

The board agreed and granted the variances unanimously.

“We have every indication that this is going to be a positive,” board member Steve Wolf said.

Vecino Group – 120 E. Green St. This portion of the project focuses on the eastern third of the current Green Street garage and proposes a 12-story building that will include a conference center, housing and 350 spaces for public parking.

The structure will exceed the 140-foot height limit on one corner where a sky terrace will be situated.

The biggest point of contention was Wolf ’s issue with the 800-person ballroom within the conference center. Developer Bruce Adib-Yazdi said they decided to make the ballroom that size to give the city the opportunity to host larger events a few times a year.

“I’m not convinced I want my Ithaca to compete in that market,” Wolf said. He also added that he didn’t think the height variance was substantial, but that he was concerned about the rear setback variance.

“The existing parking garage already encroaches on the area,” he said. “[The 10 feet] is a ginormous variance request.”

Wolf also reiterated his belief that the conference center was too big for the city.

“I must say, due to my own ideology and my own sensibilities, that I think the whole mentality of the convention center is thoroughly misguided, and it’s growth for growth’s sake,” he said. “It does not contribute to community character. It’s bad planning and bad business.”

The board discussed the possibility of reducing the size of the ballroom, but Adib-Yazdi said that would also mean reducing things like the size of the workspace for the Department of Public Works in the building. The DPW will be able to store equipment for maintenance of the Commons in the building, such as tractors, salt pallets and shovels.

“Oh, so the city has a direct benefit,” Halpert Deschanes said. “It’s an additional public amenity.”

She also added that the city had included the conference center on the request for proposal, so the board had to inherently count it as a benefit when analyzing benefits versus detriments, regardless of personal feelings.

Ultimately, the board voted 3-1 to grant the variances, with Wolf being the sole nay.

UPS&DOWNS

If you’re not 1st, sometimes you’re 5th.

Lansing and Ithaca were named five and 10 respectively in the Business First academic rankings for 54 schools in the Syracuse area. The ratings are based on a variety of data including teacher pay, test results and administrative effectiveness.

Dorm R.B.G. Cornell University will name its two new expansion buildings, which are currently under construction, after esteemed alumnae U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

HEARD&SEEN #PaintTheVote Grassroots sign collective #PaintTheVote has formed in Trumansburg using hand-painted signs made out of scrap wood to encourage residents to get out and vote in the Nov. 3 election.

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The Masque of the Orange Death

By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s rowing up in Old Forge, New York, Robert Barrett and his four siblings were familiar with Big Moose and Eagle Bay in the Adirondacks.The Barrett children were also familiar with making things work — large and small.

“My parents owned and operated the Bald Mountain House, a historic hotel. It included a dining room that seated 100 people, a tap room, bowling alley, [and a] three-hole putting green,” Barrett said. “A crew of 30 people or more was needed to operate the hotel for the summer season.

In the early years, families would come for the summer on the American plan and people would drive many miles, or arrive by boat to dine in the stately restaurant as well. There was a children’s hostess for the kids’ program, and it was a lively way for we kids to spend the summertime.”

When Bob was 10, his parents closed the hotel and opened a campground to accommodate new trends in travel. Families had become more mobile, and camping was a less expensive, less formal way for families to get close to nature as they traveled around. A family member still operates Bald Mountain Colony Camping Resort to this day.

Growing up, Bob loved music and

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played the tuba, and in 1968 he made his first visit to Ithaca for Cornell Band Days.

He remembers it rained all weekend, but many high school bands still played on the athletic field to a large audience in the stands.

A year after Band Days, just as his family reached the entryway to Cornell on Eddy Street, the traffic was blocked.

Cornell students were occupying Willard Straight Hall and other buildings to draw attention to racial inequality and other peace and justice issues.

Since his father and his uncle had graduated from Cornell’s Hotel School, Bob and his siblings considered Ithaca a great prospect for college. Eventually the “hicks from the sticks” returned when Bob and one of his siblings attended Ithaca College.

Bob studied music education with instrumentals at IC from 1971-1975.

After a brief teaching stint, he received his master’s in music performance (tuba).

It was there he met and fell in love with his now-wife Nancy Veres, also a music student at IC. Nancy, a pianist, received her masters’ in piano performance and

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he Orange Death had long devastated the country. The pestilence had been fatal, and hideous. Difficult breathing was its Avatar and its seal — the madness and the horror of suffocation. There was also fever, fatigue and the loss of taste and smell. Victims numbered in the millions, with deaths mounting at a thousand a day.

But Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and thought himself sagacious.

So when his dominions were depopulated by two hundred thousand, he summoned to his presence ten score hale and light-hearted luminaries from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of his Rose Garden, recently re-made to resemble the landscaping at a Chili's restaurant.

They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. A buffet table was amply provisioned, and lawn chairs arranged in rows. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself.

Suck eggs, even. In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think or socially distance. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure and security was within. Without was the Orange Death.

It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade. A gay and magnificent revel in honor of the elevation of a Handmaiden to high office.

The tastes of the prince were peculiar. He disregarded the "decora" of mere fashion, bedaubing his visage with ochre and maintaining an elaborate combover at hideous, though maybe tax-deductible, expense. His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him in close quarters and in large numbers to be sure he was not.

And so it happened, that before the last echoes of Prospero's introductory remarks had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of an N95-masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before. And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur, of horror, and of disgust.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of this snowflake neither wit nor propriety existed. The mask which concealed the mouth and nose taunted the revelers with its hideous rectitude. And yet all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revellers around. But the mummer had gone so far as to parry and resist the Orange Death.

When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell on this spectral image among the dignitaries, he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste; but in the next, his brow reddened with rage.

"Who dares" — he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him — "who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him — that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise, from the battlements!"

Suddenly, though, was acknowledged the presence of the Orange Death itself among those present in the Garden. It had come like a thief in the night, as one by one dropped the revellers. First, the necromancers, Hope and Kayleigh, the death-eater Stephen, the president of a great institute of higher learning, three senatorial wise men. Then the chairperson of the National Committee of Enablers. All tested positive. And Prospero himself, together with his consort Melania, whose high cheekbones had vouchsafed her escape from distant Transylvania. Prospero bid people to be not afraid and ingested life-giving steroids to feel awesome. Yet Darkness and Decay and the Orange Death held illimitable dominion over all.

(Deepest apologies to Edgar Allan Poe)

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Robert Barrett drills new bridge pin holes. (Photo by Peter Walz)

Suzuki pedagogy before she took over the teaching studio of Patsy Reuning and Nancy Modell, who also passed along their array of students. Over the intervening years Nancy moved her studio to their home, where about 30 students came for instruction each year.

During Bob’s years at the college, he became the housemate of Jan Delli-Bovi, a local piano technician. All those early years of repairing bicycles and outboard motors and woodworking on the hotel grounds proved valuable when he began assisting Jan. By the late ‘80s Bob owned Ithaca Piano Rebuilders and was already much sought-after as a talented piano rebuilder, repairer and tuner.

A complicated mix of musical and mechanical talent and insight is required.

Bob notes that it takes many years of working with pianos to be able to define the “color” of the tone that is optimal.

In 1982 Ithacan Sarah Gowin inherited a Steinway piano, built in 1908, from her grandmother. Bob comments that many of the older Steinways still have an incredible “voice.”

“When Sarah first inherited it, a piano technician rebuilt the piano action,” he said. Now, after many students of all ages

have played on Sarah’s piano, Bob has replaced the hammers to create a richer sound.

“Rebuilding pianos requires conceptualizing what it is I am going after in sound; then it requires technical skills to bring that goal to fruition,” he said. “‘What kind of sound am I seeking?’ I want a warmer sound that has a wider range of color (tone) and dynamic range.

Can it achieve subtle, gradual changes between all the colors; can those changes be controlled? Does the piano sound different when the music is played softly versus played loudly?”

Christina Colle Mead began studying piano with Trudy Borden when she was 10, and began summers with Sarah Gowin when she turned 11. Her parents bought a grand piano in New York City when she was in ninth grade. When Sarah married Paul Stearns, she became related to the Meads.

Christina and Jeb Mead’s three daughters Maggie, 16, and twins Rosemary and Laura (14 on Valentine’s Day) — started piano lessons with Sarah when they were 5. Now Maggie plays the flute, Laura plays the cello (that was passed down from Paul Stearns’ mother), and Rosemary plays both the violin and the piano.

Not long ago, Bob rebuilt Christina’s piano. And Sarah also has a 1915 Mason and Hamlin grand piano that she purchased from Bob after he rebuilt it. Clearly the music world is close-knit, and Bob’s work is renowned. One client added: “Bob has been such an important and consistent figure in our musical lives, and he is just such a kind person.”

Many musicians and their audiences at Ithaca College, Cornell, Newfield High School, Ithaca High School, Corning Museum of Glass, and the Clemens Center savor the pianos restored, repaired and tuned by Robert Barrett.

For more information about sale, repair and tuning of pianos, contact Robert Barrett at the Ithaca Piano Rebuilders, or make an appointment to visit his studio in the South Hill Business Campus located at 950 Danby Road, phone: 607272-6547.

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Donna Fleming suggested just voting to take it down and figuring out the language at the next meeting.

“The first white settlers monument is not historically accurate, as native people had lived here for centuries beforehand.

Let’s remove it and donate it to the History Center,” she moved. “I want the prize for shortest resolution in the history of the Common Council.”

Myrick noted that the nearly hour-long discussion was permanently on the record and would provide people with more than

enough context for why the monument was removed.

The short and sweet resolution passed 8-2. Alderpeople Mohlenhoff and Brock voted against the resolution solely for the purpose of the language, or lack thereof, used.

“I think it whitewashes the intent of this momentous action,” Brock said.

The plaque and the rock were removed on October 8.

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Danny Gone set up on Aurora Street this summer (Photos: Casey Martin)

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nlike most street performers in Ithaca, musician Danny Gone (his stage name) sets up shop far away from the buzz of the Commons. On a cool October night, you can find him in the parking lot of Five Guys and Taco Bell off Elmira Road, a silhouette illuminated by the neon glow of traffic lights and fast food logos. Rain or shine, he stands on this corner, amplified guitar and voice reverberating over the din of speeding cars, playing for hours each day to make a living. This is the life of a street performer.

Street performing, also known as “busking,” dates all the way back to medieval Europe, where local merchants invited entertainers to play in front of their stores to attract more customers. While the term “busker” wasn’t coined until 1851, the tradition has gone largely unchanged in the centuries since. Nowadays, a busker refers to a person who performs music or any other type of entertainment in a public place for tips or donations.

If anyone embodies this lifestyle, it’s certainly Gone, who has been busking fulltime for approximately 14 years. Over the past decade, he’s played everywhere from New York City to Asbury Park to Philadelphia.

In the years prior, Gone worked various jobs as a fashion photographer, a sound engineer and a bicycle mechanic, among other things. When the stock market crashed in 2008, Gone said he was essentially faced with the choice of working as a barista or busking full-time.

“It started to get iffy and things were very hit-or-miss,” he said. “I asked myself, ‘can I make enough money doing this to compete with Starbucks? … I don't think so, but I'm going to try.’”

Gone moved to Ithaca this January in order to support his mother, who is ill.

When he first arrived, he played on the Commons and Aurora Street, but soon ran into trouble. Gone, who said he uses an amplifier to reach more of his audience, soon found himself at odds with the city of Ithaca Code Chapter 157-8, which prohibits street performers from using amplifiers without a permit. However, even after dropping the amp and negotiating with restaurant owners to only play on weekdays, Gone said he had the police called on him multiple times.

“They think that us street musicians are powerless and that because we get punted around so much that we’ll do anything to

avoid it,” Gone said. “I don’t want to get kicked around, but I’m not going to shut my mouth just because of the message.”

Kris Lewis, operations director for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, said that for the most part, the DIA encourages street performers, but asks buskers to follow the city code.

“We think that they enliven the downtown and provide vibrancy, so for the most part, we are definitely interested in having street performers out on our Commons,” she said. “The code is just really common courtesy rules for people that are street performers. Most of the time, folks adhere to those if they know them.”

After a few months, Gone packed his things and began searching for a new spot, a place he hoped would be well-traveled, socially distanced and safe to play without being kicked out. The parking lot of Five Guys, right off a busy interaction with a convenient spot near the traffic light, was his solution.

Gone said many musicians can’t fathom why he would play in such a location, but that he makes the best of the situation.

“You take a place that has no identity, and then you give it this warmth,” he said, likening his performance to placing a water fountain in a parking lot. “There's a sense

of beauty that comes, and people really respond, so it’s the perfect connection.”

Despite the steady stream of drivers rolling down their windows to listen, and passengers getting out of their cars to tip, Gone said he was having a bad night. Since the pandemic hit, he said things have been even more unpredictable.

“It’s up, down and sideways … It’s absolutely unintelligible,” he said. “I played up the street earlier in the day and made nothing, not a single thing. Then I came down here and made a little better than nothing.”

Still, Gone emphasized that even before COVID, street performing was a risky career.

“There’s nothing stable about this in any sense, not even slightly,” he said. “It will scare the pants off of almost anyone ... But I’ve never had a better job.”

Gone is far from alone in this mindset.

He is one of many performers in Ithaca who prefer to fly by the seat of their pants.

Ketch Secor, now frontman and fiddler for the Grammy-winning band Old Crow Medicine Show, famous for their song, “Wagon Wheel,” got his start busking on the streets of Ithaca back in ‘98.

“Ithaca was a real jumping-off point for me as a busker,” he said. “I needed a kind of proving ground, and Ithaca was perfect for that.”

Old Crow was officially formed in Ithaca, which has a long tradition of folk and bluegrass music — something Ketch said was highly formative to the band’s sound.

“We were just looking for a place to set up and practice drawing a crowd and learning showmanship,” he said. “It was so important to have a place to play when we were that young and weren’t good enough to get hired.”

Millions of albums sold and decades later, Secor still hasn’t lost touch with his busking roots, just last week performing on a corner in Key West.

“It was good to be back in touch with the muscle and remember and appreciate the place of the busker and the promise and the hope of it,” he said. “Even if the bottom falls out of the music business, I always got a job. I’m a street performer.”

His advice to performers in the pandemic? “Keep your masks on and open up your cases, Ithaca... Every kid with his case out has a dream, and dreams are beautiful things in times like these.”

Not every busker makes it as big as Secor, but at the same time, not all buskers aspire for fame either.

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Take Dexter Kozen, a Cornell professor by day and musician by night. A veteran of the open mic scene, Kozen found his passion for performing stripped away as the pandemic forced restaurants to close their doors. Now, he plays once every couple of weeks in the Commons as a way to “get the yuks out,” as he put it.

“This is the only outlet right now for me,” he said. “I feel kind of pent up at home, so I gotta get out and do something like this every once in a while.”

Kozen said he usually only makes around $20 but that he isn’t in it for the money. In fact, all of the tips he receives go to charities of his choice. This particular night, he was raising money for United Way of Tompkins County, a local nonprofit with the goal of giving better access to health, education and financial stability for Tompkins County residents.

“It’s always for charity … It’s not about the money,” he said.

Busking isn’t just for musicians either.

William Metro, better known as the Magic Man, has been performing in Ithaca for the past ten years, becoming somewhat of a lo-

cal icon. Metro used to sell vacuums doorto-door before taking a leap of faith to perform his true passion, magic, which he had been practicing since he was 10 years old.

In all of his years in Ithaca, Metro said he has never seen anything like the pandemic before. He said it has been particularly hard now that all the major fall events, like Apple Fest, have been canceled.

“A lot of us lost money, and it’s been kind of rough without the events, but we've been making it work,” he said.

“Making it work” may depend on who you ask, however. Although Metro has a mask tied around his neck, he rarely wears

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it unless explicitly asked. This has been a cause of concern for several businesses in the Commons, he said, though he has no current plans to change his ways.

“I’m not doing anything differently than what I’ve been doing the last 10 years,” he said. “The masks aren’t really effective, I think.”

Lewis said she has repeatedly asked Metro to wear his mask, which he only abides by when she is in his presence.

“Those requests for one person to wear a mask are very difficult to enforce,” Lewis said. “My biggest concern and surprise is that people who are watching would stand close to his man when he’s obviously not wearing a mask. I guess I’d put some of the responsibility on their audience.”

Despite some complaints, Metro is optimistic about the future, especially now that businesses have begun to reopen.

“It’s getting better though … Lots of people are out and about and businesses are opening back up and the economy’s rebounding,” he said.

Back at Five Guys, Gone says he is uncertain about the future, but plans to keep performing through the winter and onward.

“I suppose people would be pretty interested to know what this is like,” he mused aloud. “The interesting thing about this is that it is so different from what other people do. There’s this weird balance where people can’t decide whether you're homeless or who you are or what to do. They spend their lives trying to put everybody in boxes, and you freak them out because they have no idea what to do with you.”

After Gone finishes another song, a young couple, arm in arm, approach him, tipping their spare change into his silver bucket.

“You remind me of God in ‘Bruce Almighty,’” the boy said, referring to the movie in which Morgan Freeman plays God. “Freeman’s got a pretty good smile, you got a pretty good smile, so there you go.”

“You just have a presence about you as well,” the girl adds.

“It’s called fear,” Gone half-jokes with a laugh and a strum of his guitar.

When the lovers leave, Gone turns around, reciting a phrase a fellow performer once told him.

“You're famous from there to there,” he said, pointing from one end of the street to the other. Then with a chuckle and a hearty blow of his cigarette he smiled and asked, “That’s enough, right?”

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o-owners and brothers Harjit and Manjit Singh first started saving up for their business back in 2005. Working for a distillery and a convenience store respectively, they put away money gradually, balancing supporting their families and their dreams for years. Both raising their families in Syracuse, it was only natural that when the time finally came to make their business ideas a reality, they looked for a lease spot in Syracuse. But, it was an empty brick store in downtown Ithaca that finally caught their eye in September of last year. With Harjit’s knowledge of craft beer and Manjit’s experience working in a convenience store, the purpose of the Ithaca Mini Mart is plain: to provide the local community with access to the familiar convenience store

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items alongside a unique selection of craft beer.

While the opening of the store had always felt like a long time coming for the Singh brothers, COVID-19 had come with its own unexpected difficulties. “We were originally going to open in March,” older brother Manjit explains, “and then we had to postpone because of COVID. Then, we filed to open up in July and a fire sprinkler broke down upstairs and we had water everywhere inside the store. It delayed us until September.”

The brothers point to the Ithaca community’s loyalty to its local businesses for helping their store survive the pandemic, but are candid in their admittance that it’s still very difficult. “When we first came from Syracuse and looked at the place and liked it, there were a lot of crowds here.

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Co-owner Singh outside the new Ithaca Mini Mart on South Cayuga Street (Photo: Casey Martin)

Then COVID came and I made another trip down to see what was going on and nothing was normal.”

However, despite the new normal of the world due to the pandemic, Ithaca was a saving grace to the brothers during their search for a place to make their business venture a reality.

“Actually we came here and talked to a few people and everyone seemed to give the right answer. We had looked for a long, long time and couldn’t find a good space.

But we drove here and we didn’t even wait.

We called the owner, said, ‘We like this place, so now what?’ And [we] signed the lease right there.”

While the Ithaca Mini Mart faces some competition from the gas station across the street, the Singh brothers’ unique appeal to the Ithaca area is clear: “Ithacans love craft beer. We get a lot of calls everyday asking about if we have craft beer,” they said. “We’re working on a license, but because of COVID, the process is slow.”

While a beer-selling license can take months to obtain, and likely even longer because of the pandemic, the store re-

mains stocked and ready for the community. “We sell frozen food, coffee, snacks, cold drinks, tobacco products, and maybe down the road we’ll try [providing] Indian grocery. We get a lot of students looking for international grocery. So, we’ll have to look at the space left over [in the store] after the craft beer.”

The list of people to thank for helping to open the brothers’ business is long.

Gary Ferguson from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance is cited for helping the brothers back when they had first tried to open in March. And of course, there is much to be said about the help the brothers received from each other in order to keep their shared hopes alive.

“I wouldn’t be able to do anything without my brother,” Manjit says. But the person who seemed most crucial to the store’s opening was the brothers’ mother.

“If you work hard, dreams definitely come true,” Manjit goes on to say, “That’s what our mother keeps telling us, ‘You guys keep working, and one day you will achieve your dreams.’ God bless my mother,” Manjit jokes.

The Ithaca Mini Mart is located in downtown Ithaca at 124 South Cayuga St. The store is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every night.

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efore working as a wine merchant and serving as the owner and president of the Falls Wine Room, Chip Hughes wanted to be a chef. But being skilled at cooking and studying at the Culinary Institute of American only strengthened his love for the intoxicating beverage, he said.

“If you're a wine person, and you don't have a good command of food, … it's like watching a TV show in black and white,” he said.

The Falls Wine Room is a retail wine store that opened early this year on State Street. Hughes said he and store manager Katie Janke hope to bring wines from around the United States and other countries to the Finger Lakes Region — an area known for its wineries, breweries and cideries.

Usually the retail store also welcomes visitors inside for tastings and educational courses, Hughes said, though happenings like this have since been stalled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The shop offers local delivery and shipping to approved states.

Hughes said sales at the wine store have been largely stable during the pandemic, a result he thinks is because people are drinking their wine at home rather than at a restaurant. Wine and liquor stores were deemed essential businesses and have remained open throughout the pandemic.

“We never had to close for a day,” he said. “In a strange, but not strange if you think about it for a minute sort of way, our business went up a lot, and it's been growing ever since the quarantine was imposed. … If you're going to cook three meals a day at home, and you're going to do everything in your life from your home, that includes eating and drinking.”

Janke moved from Minneapolis to Ithaca and first got involved with the wine store in March, right before shut downs related to COVID-19 were put in place.

“I am completely smitten with this part of the country,” she said. “It reminds me a lot of the smallish Minnesota town that I grew up in.”

With 15 years of food and wine industry experience under her belt, Janke said her degree in horticulture with a focus on viticulture, or cultivating grape vines, has allowed her to focus on the organic, biodynamic family farms.

“It allows me to speak a little bit more to … what goes into producing that bottle of wine,” she said. “I have a lot of relation to the local growers, too. It's really fun to be in a community where they're actually doing all that.”

Perhaps the most defining aspect of the space itself is its temperature. All inventory at Falls Wine Room is kept at “cellar temperature,” or 56 degrees Fahrenheit, ensuring customers will “experience each one of our selections in the condition in which the artisans who vinified it hoped it would be enjoyed,” according to the store’s website.

Hughes said the decision to keep the store at cellar temperature was also a way to save money. By December, the store will have industrial compressors to regulate the heat in the retail shop rather than the air conditioning it uses now.

“What the new system does is essentially turns our store into a giant refrigerator,” Hughes said. “It'll be at a constant 56 degrees at a much lower cost, much more efficient.”

Nate Cook is minority owner of the Falls Wine Room and an entrepreneur-inresidence at Cornell University. He said he thinks customers’ preference for delivery is a result of both the pandemic and that people are transactional in nature. Of the wine stores in Ithaca, Cook said Falls Wine Room stands out because of Hughes’ and Janke’s knowledge, as well as the variety of wine to choose from.

“Wine connoisseurs really do enjoy being able to talk about the product with the folks that are at the store,” he said. “I do hope it becomes the preeminent wine store, and I think, to be honest with you, I think it's already achieved that. But [it’s] a wonderful place for those that love wines to, […] in the future, congregate and share stories about what their passion is.”

Janke said she thinks relationships between Falls Wine Room and other wineries or retail stores will become more prominent when the pandemic is over.

“I imagine that those relationships will grow a lot over the next coming years as we kind of get out of this pandemic portion of life and move forward,” Janke said.

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Bonner said. “Things are getting better everyday.”

Bonner is happy with the location of the deli and added how he got word of a big mural that will be added to the outside of the building in the future.

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It’s one of the first buildings you see when you’re coming into town down the hill,” Bonner said.

Bonner and his wife, Ooy, have owned Thai Basil the last four years, and they jumped at the opportunity to open another business together.

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TCAD president appointed to NYSDEC Board of Directors

Heather D. McDaniel

Tompkins County Area Development (TCAD) is pleased to announce that TCAD President, Heather D. McDaniel, has been appointed to a seat on the New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC) Board of Directors.

NYSEDC is a nonprofit organization representing economic development professionals in New York State.

“The NYSEDC is proud to add Heather McDaniel to our board of directors. Heather’s knowledge and experience will provide great value to the organization and help us move New York’s economy forward,” said Ryan Silva, Executive Director, New York State Economic Development Council.

For more than 30 years, NYSEDC has been the state’s principal organization representing economic development professionals, colleges and universities, and public-sector enterprises. Its members include IDAs, local development corporations (LDCs), banks, underwriters, bond counsels, utilities, chambers of commerce, real estate developers, business incubators, workforce organizations, and private corporations.

“I am honored to join the NYSEDC board of directors and contribute to the efforts of the organization,” said Ms.

McDaniel, “As economic development professionals across New York State strive to promote a healthy and sustainable economy, NYSEDC acts as a valuable source of support, information, and advocacy.”

Heather McDaniel has been President of TCAD since 2018, with a total of 13 years at the organization. She is the administrative director of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (TCIDA) and the Tompkins County Development Corporation (TCDC). Ms. McDaniel is a Certified Planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). She also holds the Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP) designation from the National Development Council and the Certified Economic Developer (CEcD) designation from the International Economic Development Council.

Park Foundation welcomes new executive director Rachel Leon joins the foundation with 25+ years of experience After a lengthy search process, the Park Foundation is thrilled to announce that Rachel Leon has accepted our invitation to join us as our new Executive

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Director. She has extensive experience in the areas that the Foundation focuses on: democracy, media, environment, social justice and sustainability. Her track record in these areas is impressive, and we welcome her to Ithaca and to the Park Foundation. “We are so excited to have

B usiness T imes Rachel Leon join us as our new Executive Director. She is an accomplished leader, an idea person, and a fighter for the causes that our Foundation represents. Her philosophy and experience will help magnify the difference we can make in the world," said Adelaide Gomer, President of the Park Foundation.

Rachel has held leadership positions for more than 25 years, most recently as the Executive Director at the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), a position she has held since 2009. EGA is comprised of over 230 diverse foundations. At EGA she managed a staff of 12, overseeing their financial operations, organizing annual retreats, and serving as their spokesperson in the press. One of the innovative achievements she helped create at EGA is a collaboration between EGA and the School for Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan with Dr. Dorceta Taylor (now a professor at Yale University) launching a fellowship program to develop a new generation of environmental leaders.

Prior to EGA, Rachel worked as a Senior Program Manager at the JEHT Foundation on Participatory Elections. From 1997 to 2007 she served as the Executive Director of New York Common Cause.

While there, she lobbied, organized, and tracked money in politics, created significant fundraising events and served as a spokesperson for the organization. During her 10-year stint there, she strengthened the New York Chapter, increased their budget, and led successful legislative efforts on local, state, and national levels.

Before Common Cause, Rachel spent six years at Hunger Action Network, as a lobbyist, advocate and then as Associate Director. Hunger Action Network addresses the root causes of hunger and poverty and advances economic justice and food security. During her time there, she was responsible for advancing their legislative and programmatic priorities and helped manage staff, finances, and infrastructure.

Rachel has a BA from SUNY New Paltz and an MPA from Baruch College graduating from both with Honors. She is a lifelong New Yorker and was born and raised in Schenectady, NY. She will begin at the Park Foundation on November 1st.

Cayuga Medical Center Receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus and Stroke Elite Quality Achievement Awards Recognized by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for commitment to quality stroke care Cayuga Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The

Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s ongoing commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

Cayuga Medical Center earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a two year period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.

“Cayuga Medical Center is dedicated to improving the quality of care for our stroke patients by implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke initiative,” said Dr. Martin Stallone, President & CEO of Cayuga Health. “The tools and resources provided help us track and measure our success in meeting evidenced-based clinical guidelines developed to improve patient outcomes.”

Cayuga Medical Center additionally received the Association’s Target: StrokeSM Elite award. To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.

“We are very pleased to have earned this level of recognition and achievement from the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association for our efforts to provide the best possible care to our stroke patients,” states Dr. David Halpert, Stroke Director and Neurologist at Cayuga Medical Center. “We will continue to improve stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines.”

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

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SPORTS

A rough conversation

One leader looks on; another passes away

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

year, the seniors would have been the first class he brought all the way through the program. “There are 18 seniors on the roster,” he offered, “and while some are planning to come back, most will likely not. Some are enrolled in grad school, law school, med school, the Police Academy – they have built a four-year plan and they’re staying with it.”

While the coach has always stressed that academics and career development are more important than football, and is very proud that his guys have paid their dues to move on, he is very honest that this year’s unforeseen circumstances have been painful. Dan said, “I really wanted them to have their moment, to get on the field as a team, and when they come to me one guy at a time and we have that rough conversation, it’s hard.” ● ● ●

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he year 2020 has made many of us think back to simpler times, and when thinking about local fall sports teams — football, soccer, field hockey and the like — I was drawn back to a sunny day somewhere around 1964.

I loved baseball more than anything in the world, and on that fine day I sat in my family’s house looking out the window, watching my friends play on our neighborhood’s makeshift baseball diamond.

I had contracted a cold, and I was told I would be housebound for a couple of days.

The fact that I could not play baseball was painful enough. Watching others play was torture.

Dan Swanstrom can relate. The head coach of the idle Ithaca College Bombers

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has been dialed in on football every fall since he was in fourth grade, and when we talked about the fact that some conferences are playing this year, he told me: “I hear you. We are so accustomed to working seven days a week this time of year, and when watching other teams go through that routine, it makes you really miss it.

I can feel the thrill of their wins and the pain of their losses.” He added, “Personally, I just have to find ways to stay busy.

The less I think and the more I move, the better off I am.”

The team is staying connected via Zoom, interacting with alumni, doing some virtual competitions and focusing on some career development tasks, and, given the fact that Swanstrom is in his fourth

When word came over the weekend that Charlie Moore had passed on at the age of 90, I thought back to the times I interviewed him during his tenure as Cornell’s Athletic Director (from 1994-1999) and I recall thinking, Wow… this guy is a force, a get-it-done kind of guy. Compared to many who had been around Cornell Athletics far longer than I had, I was late to the party with such a realization.

Long-timers recalled Moore’s incredible career as a Cornell track star. He held Big Red records in the 440-yard dash (47.0) and the 400-meter hurdles (51.1), and he was the 1949 NCAA champion in the 440.

He graduated in 1952 with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Some Ivy League athletes are considered the proverbial “big fish in a small pond,” but Moore went on to be the biggest fish in the biggest pond. At the 1952 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, he settled into the starting blocks for the 400-meter hurdles, facing not only the best hurdlers in the world, but pouring rain as well. He responded by winning the gold medal with a then-Olympic Record time of 50.8 seconds. He never lost a 400-meter hurdle event in his entire career. In 1978, he was among the first group inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 1996, he was named one of the “100 Greatest Living Olympians.”

More than 40 years later — after a similarly stellar business career — Moore could have easily retired and relaxed, be he instead returned to Cornell as the Athletic Director. He vowed to stay five years, and he did just that — and what a five years it was. Moore hired 21 of the 30 head coaches during that time, and he was instrumental in the establishment or upgrading of iconic Big Red facilities like the Friedman Wrestling Center, the Friedman Strength and Conditioning Center, the Kane Sports Complex (named for Bob Kane, a former Cornell A.D. and former Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee), the outdoor tennis courts at the Reis Tennis Center, the Niemand Robison Softball Field, the Oxley Equestrian Center and the Stifel Fencing Salle. Yes, it was a productive five years. Charlie Moore was a get-it-done kind of guy.

HISTORY LESSONS

Robert H. Lieberman’s Documentary on Mongolia Premieres in Ithaca

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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What we tried to do is create something that is not educational per se, but is entertaining,” Robert H. Lieberman told me about his latest film. “Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan” completes a trilogy of documentaries that also includes “They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain” (2012) and “Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia” (2017). But to say that the film is not educational sells it very short.

In just a shade over 70 minutes, Lieberman’s excellent and empathetic film – constructed with the aid of Deborah Hoard on story – gives us a sense of Mongolia’s history, the complicated and, at times, suppressed legacy of its emperor, Genghis Khan, and how its people, like all people these days, are weighing their traditions against the needs of modern life. The historical segments are illustrated by bold, UPA-style animation and cloudy swashes of watercolor ink.

Lieberman spoke to the Ithaca Times in advance of the film’s Ithaca premiere on Friday in Cinemapolis’ “virtual cinema.”

IT: How long did this take to put together?

RL: Two-and-a-half years, and that’s the fastest we’ve ever done a film. Like, “Myanmar” was four years, and “Angkor Awakens” was four years in the making. This is, for us, quick.

IT: It’s a great immersion into Mongolian culture, and the more specific you are, the more universal it feels.

RL: Yes, yes.

IT: I saw a culture steeped in a very specific tradition that is evolving, almost involuntarily. They’re thinking about the same things we’re thinking about, namely, how much of our culture should we keep, and what do we evolve into, and what does all this history mean?

RL: And they’re having the same problems with inequality and climate change.

IT: Now everything is shaded by COVID-19. I just watched Ron Howard’s documentary about this California community trying to rally after awful fires, and now I wonder how they’re coping now with COVID-19 in the mix.

RL: Well, in Mongolia, they have no community spread of COVID. Zero. And the only cases were those that came in. They’re very strict with quarantine. If you come in, I think it’s three weeks of quarantine, and then if you’re positive, it’s, I don’t know, a month and a half. But they have zero. They immediately closed their borders with Russia and China, and that saved their ass. Ulaanbaatar is a big city – I mean it’s one and a half million [population], fairly dense. And it’s not making the press. I said this to my friends in the New York Times, figuring they’d pick it up, and they didn’t. Nobody’s picked up that story.

IT: I was very taken by the inky, watercolor brush-stroke animation and the animation that looked like Indonesian shadow puppetry.

RL: There are no shadow puppets as in “Angkor Awakens.” These are all drawings by

Camilo Nascimento. He did the ink drawings of Genghis Khan and family, and designed the horseman stencil. Camilo and Norm Scott spent hours happily splattering ink on paper and perfecting the flow. Norm Scott did many additional illustrations and all the animation. Alec Simmons did all the maps and Jeff Hodges designed the end credits sequence.

By the way, there were well over a dozen Cornellians who worked on this film. Included among the Cornell faculty, alums, graduate students and undergrads involved are Associate Producer Zorba B. Lieberman (’87), MBA (’92); and production and research assistants Alexa Marcasciano (’20) and Lauren Gabuzzi (’16). Senior Lecturer in Biology Allen D. MacNeill appears in the film, as well as Mongolian graduate students and alums S. Unur, G. Tushig and E. Bilguun.

IT: As the film’s subtitle suggests, a significant section of the film is about the story of Genghis Khan, the scope of what he did, and how his legacy was tarnished in the years after his death.

RL: Genghis Khan had no pictures taken of him, no statues erected. Did you know that?

IT: So the artwork and statuary we see in Mongolia was all done posthumously?

RL: Yeah. Nobody knows what he looks like. And when he was buried, it was a secret burial. Nobody quite knows – they have suspicions – but this guy was actually rather modest. Now, here’s something interesting that’s not in the movie: when his wife is kidnapped, he gets her back. You see that in the film.

But what you don’t know is, she came back pregnant. And he accepted the child, a boy, as his own son. So this is pretty decent, right? He had a terrible childhood, horrible. They were outcasts, his father was murdered. We know about the slaughter, and it was brutal. If you agreed with Genghis Khan, if you went along, you were fine, you got protection. If you didn’t, he’d wipe out your city. On the other hand, he established religious freedoms, diplomatic immunity and rights for women.

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Book Sale powers on

With some modifications due to COVID, the Friends of the Library book sale will kick off on Oct. 17.

By G. M . Bur n s

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oon the Friends of the Library in Ithaca will open their doors at the Regina Lennox Building on 509 Esty St. and hold their annual October sale. The Friends said that there are 12,810 shelves and 2.43 miles of books. This library sale will offer more than 250,000 items such as books, records, CDs, DVDs, puzzles and games. The children and

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The volunteers who sort and organize seem to be busier than ever and in fact donations have been heavy this time around.

“It looks like the book readers have been going through all their books and donating them,” said Kathy Weinberg, co-

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ordinator of the Friends of the Tompkins County Library.

Recently the Ithaca Times interviewed Weinberg about the impending Friends of the Library Sale.

Ithaca Times: For decades the library sale seems to have been a beacon for book readers and collectors from not just Ithaca, New York, but as far Canada and other parts of North America. How will this sale be different then past sales?

What can you share about this October sale?

Kathy Weinburg: For this Fall Sale, we're breaking with some traditions and honoring others. We'll continue to offer great books, well-organized into about 80 different categories, at affordable prices.

We'll continue to welcome shoppers on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays, with a bonus Tuesday after the last weekend.

We'll continue to have wonderful first editions, rare books, and gift items in our Collectors' Corner. And, with our patrons' help, we'll continue to do our best to raise money for the Tompkins County Public Library, other area libraries, and other community partners promoting literacy.

But a few things will be different because of our COVID-19 precautions.

As we did for our Summer Sale, we'll limit attendance to just a fraction of our normal capacity so shoppers can socially distance, we'll strongly encourage people to stay away if they feel sick or have been exposed to COVID-19, and we'll require everyone to wear a mask covering their mouth and nose. We'll let folks use our shopping carts

and library carts as they shop, which will make for easier shopping while encouraging social distancing. We'll have a 50-book limit on our first Saturday, so more people can get in to shop.

Also, while we have always loved being a big draw for people all over the east, we are limiting our advertising to the local area to comply with health department requests not to encourage out-of-state attendance. We're also making appointments for large volume shoppers, especially those from out-of-state, so we can separate them from local shoppers and also ensure they don't take up so much time in the store that local folks can't shop.

IT: Talk about how you will plan for patrons to enter the sale while keeping visitors safe and comfortable? And how will you handle social distancing during this library sale?

KW: One of the main changes we've made for our patrons' safety — and, hopefully, their comfort — is to keep our huge garage doors open, while our big circulation fans draw air through the building.

Having the front of the store open makes the building safer, brighter, and more inviting, and all the Book Sale volunteers have enjoyed having the building open while we accept donations and sort books to prepare for the Fall Sale. We hope the temperatures in October cooperate. If they don't, we hope our patrons will dress warmly and enjoy a more-wintry shopping experience (think of shopping for Christmas trees in the snow!). We picked open

hours of 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. to try to maximize light and warmth.

We may be moving in the future to more online sign-ups, but we won't be implementing any such innovations for this Sale. That means we likely will have some fairly long lines. We're limiting first Saturday purchases to keep the line moving. We also may try to give patrons some light reading material (magazines!) while they wait, and perhaps a chance to buy books from a roving Book Sale cart. We can't promise anything, but remember that our lines are usually short, and moving faster, in the late afternoons.

IT: What will be the new days and times for this sale? And talk about the pricing – do you plan to keep the prices the same for visitors?

KW: The first weekend of the sale we're open Saturday through Monday, so Oct.17-19; our second weekend is Saturday through Monday, Oct. 24-26. For the last weekend, we're open Saturday, Oct. 31, through Tuesday, Nov. 3. For all those regular shopping days, we'll be open from 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. We also have a special Senior Day on Wednesday, Oct. 28, with special hours, 10 a.m. through 2 p.m., and one free book with your purchase of equal or greater value.

Our prices are still low. On the first weekend, hardback and "trade" paperback books, games and puzzles for adults, CDs and DVDs are all just $4.50. Mass market paperbacks, single LPs, children's hardcover books, puzzles and games for children, and other "Category B" items are $3, and children's soft-cover books, pamphlets, sheet music, periodicals and other "Category C" items are $1.50. We also must collect sales tax unless you're buying for a non-profit or for resale.

We will keep those "first day" prices in effect for the whole first weekend. But just think what our attendance restrictions mean for your shopping experience! Fewer people will pass through our doors during the whole first weekend than we usually admit on our first Saturday. So you'll be getting "first Saturday" selection during the entire first weekend. And great selections will continue to be available through the end of the Sale, as fewer patrons will have shopped before you.

We hope to make the last weekend of the Sale very special. We'll start with special Halloween rules all day on Saturday, Oct. 31, where you can get a free book from the main warehouse with your purchase if you're in costume. Monday, Nov. 2, is Dime Day, where we charge only $0.10 for every item in the main warehouse, and Tuesday, Nov. 3, is Bag Day, where you can get all the books that fit in a regular reusable bag for $1.

IT: Would you like to say anything more about this library sale?

KW: We're proud that our Tompkins County community gives us their support, year after year, and by doing so strongly supports our public libraries and literacy in our community. We're thrilled that community members are excited about shopping at the Book Sale, and we hope to give them great buys at great prices.

Film

I was a teenage action hero

Low-budget Thriller ‘Becky’ doesn’t flinch when it comes to action

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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ometimes it takes a gritty, gory little low-budget thriller like Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s “Becky” (Quiver Distribution and Redbox Entertainment, 2020, 100 min.) to make me realize in a big way how similar “Die Hard” and “Home Alone” really are.

“Becky,” written by Nick Morris and Lane and Ruckus Skye, kind of mashes both movies together with a pinch of “First Blood”-style violence. Lulu Wilson plays the title role, a middle-school kid reeling from the death of her mother, and plenty angry that her dad, Joel McHale from “Community,” is ready to move on, bring-

ing his new girlfriend and her son to their country home for the weekend to bond.

Becky’s having none of it and storms off with the family dog to stew in a makeshift fort/shack she has out in the woods. It’s clear that she knows the property very well. Little does she know that while her dad was picking her up at school, a gang of nefarious prisoners, led by Kevin James, have just escaped and are headed for Becky’s house to get something they need, by any means necessary.

The comparisons to “Die Hard” in particular are well-earned; the filmmakers do as good a job establishing the geography of

Becky’s house and the surrounding woods as John McTiernan did laying out the various floors of the Nakatomi Plaza in that 1988 action classic. The family estate also includes a lake and a dock, which come into play when Becky starts picking off the prisoners.

If you’re checking out “Becky” because you think that Kevin James and Joel McHale are really funny on TV, you’ll likely be taken aback at just how brutally down and dirty the movie is — so much so that the following is a bit of a spoiler and a bit of a trigger, so proceed with caution.

There are movies where the dog gets killed and there are movies where the dog doesn’t get killed, and “Becky” is the first kind, OK? I judge these on a case-by-case basis. Don’t ask me why that trope turned me off the whole “John Wick” franchise, but here, I accepted it as part of the movie’s logic. And if you’re already off the “Becky” bus, I understand.

For those still willing to take the trip, I admired Lulu Wilson’s difficult performance – she’s in practically every moment of the film. I hadn’t seen any of her work prior to “Becky,” which makes her all the more surprising in what she has to do during the film. When you don’t have preconceived notions about who an actor is, you don’t know what they’re capable of, and that helps tremendously here. I do think that James and McHale are great comic actors, but it’s nice seeing them stretch unused muscles. James taps into stark, harsh villainy that I’ve never seen him do elsewhere in film or TV.

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Art Textures in Stitch and Stroke | 12:00 PM, 10/15 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | A two-person show of work by Diana Ozolins and Saundra Goodman.

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Separation of Art with a Capital ‘A’ | All Day 10/17 Saturday | Cayuga Museum, 203 Genesee Street, Auburn | Artist Victoria Fitzgerald explores the still profound lack of representation for women of all backgrounds in her art series on display at the Cayuga Museum through the end of the year. Masks and reservations required for museum entry.

Greater Ithaca Art Trail: Open Studios & Virtual Events! Two weekends | 11:00 AM, 10/17 Saturday | Artist Studios and Virtual Events, Across Tompkins County, Tompkins | Check the .pdf on the event page of ArtTrail.com to find out who is open each day.

Greater Ithaca Art Trail: Open Studios & Virtual Events! Two weekends | 11:00 AM, 10/18 Sunday | Artist Studios and Virtual Events, Across Tompkins County, Tompkins | Check the .pdf on the event page of ArtTrail.com to find out who is open each day.

Limerick Studio Printmakers | 20 Years of Change & Ink Shop Printmakers | 20/20 Hindsight Portfolio | 1:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center, by appointment call 607-277-3884, | The Ink Shop has collaborated with Limerick Printmakers on an ambitious print project to honor the 20th anniversary of both studios.

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Textures in Stitch and Stroke | 12:00 PM, 10/22 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | A two-person show of work by Diana Ozolins and Saundra Goodman.

Ozolins paints from the beautiful landscapes in and around Ithaca.† Goodman uses crochet as her artistic medium to express the vibrancy of the world and life.

Music Cornell Virtual Cinema: Crossing Columbus w/filmmaker Cathy Crane Q&A | 7:30 PM, 10/14 Wednesday | Film available 10/9 thru 10/14. A special Central New York regional screening. Learn more at crossingcolumbus.com

Cornell Virtual Cinema: Marona’s Fantastic Tale | All Day 10/16 Friday | Thru 10/19. Marona is a mutt whose life leaves deep traces among the humans she encounters.

After an accident, she reflects on all the homes and different experiences she’s had.†cinema.cornell.edu/ Cornell Virtual Cinema: Papicha | All Day 10/16 Friday | Thru 10/22.

Nedjma, a free spirited 18-yearold student during Algeria’s Civil War in the late ‘90s, refuses to be intimidated by growing conservative religious forces and stages her resistance by putting on a fashion show.†http://cinema.cornell.edu/ Cornell Virtual Cinema: The Observer | All Day 10/16 Friday | Thru 10/22. The observer of this documentary’s title is China’s Hu Jie, maker of films, woodcuts and paintings who courageously documents the years of the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. None of his films have been shown in his homeland.†http://cinema.cornell. edu/ Virtual Cinemapolis: Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan | All Day 10/16 Friday | Bestselling author Jack Weatherford delves into the extraordinary life and times of Genghis Khan. Intimate stories told by Mongolians, from nomads to city dwellers, provide a rare insight into their psyches and the challenges they face in their post-Soviet world.? | 2 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Faust | All Day 10/16 Friday | Thru 10/31. A visually fantastic combination of live-action, claymation, puppet theatre, stop-motion animation, and other special effects, filmmaker Jan

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Special Events Fossil Mania- Virtual Event | 6:00 PM, 10/14 Wednesday | Museum of the Earth (Virtual), | Join us this National Fossil Day for a special virtual event. World-renowned Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontologist Matt Lamanna, will discuss the dinosaur fossils presently in the lab and their history.

Register for the event with Cornell to connect to our event via Zoom. A registration link will be emailed to you along with your ticket purchase confirmation. Purchase tickets at www.priweb.org | $5 Webinar: What To Do for eBirdís October Big Day | 12:00 PM, 10/16 Friday | People from across the globe will participate in October Big Day this Saturday, October 17.

To learn more about the Big Day and how to participate, join our free webinar with eBird Project Leader Jenna Curtis. Register for the webinar: http://bit.ly/eBirdOctoberBigDay

Books Thorn of the Honey Locust | 7:30 PM, 10/16 Friday | Online, | Geoffrey Burgess, oboist, musicologist, and now novelist, discusses and reads from his new novel, Thorn of the Honey Locust, exploring the context surrounding Bach’s oboe compositions. Musical examples and images will complement this engaging presentation. Please visit our website to learn more.

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