November 11, 2015 by Ithaca Times

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ublic transit agencies throughout the Northeast are up in arms after the House of Representatives passed its version of a six-year, $325 billion transportation bill last Thursday, Nov. 5. The House version of the bill eliminates “High Density States” funding for transit systems in seven states, including New York, and the District of Columbia. The funds, which are distributed according to population density, would instead be sent to transit systems across the country that only use buses. If the House bill passes, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) stands to lose $207,025 in funding next year, and just over $1.2 million over the next six years, according to a press release sent out by TCAT’s Patty Poist. According to the industry group New York Public Transit Association, the funding reductions would represent 15 to 25 percent cuts in federal support for transport systems around the state that provide service in metro areas of 50,000 people or more. In Elmira over $260,000 would be cut from the Chemung County Transit System. Binghamton would lose just over $600,000 for Broome County Transit; Rochester stands to lose over $2.7 million for RTS; and Syracuse would have nearly $1.6 million cut from the Centro budget. Across the state, over $94 million in federal funding would be lost, with those funds likely going under federal Department of Transportation control with accompanying competitions, according to the NYPTA. Bill Gray, a TCAT board member, cited the potential funding cut when he asked Common Council last week for an additional contribution to the system’s coffers in 2016. TCAT had initially asked for $100,000 more from the city; council reduced that to $25,000, then increased it back to $50,000 after city controller Steven Thayer told them there was $42,000 sitting unused in a capital reserve account left over from the days when the city managed its own buses. “The request in front of you is based on the thought of keeping the service we’re providing steady,” Gray told council. He continued on to say that if council decided to only fund the $25,000 they had previously agreed upon, TCAT would have to maintain service levels because of federal and state requirements. They continued on page 4

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Ithaca, did not receive a feasibility study grant, but can still apply for future funding rounds. Tompkins County won a grant to study a microgrid based around the airport that would also include the emergency response center, the health department, the public safety building, and the health care complex. The city’s study is based on two suppliers: what’s being called the “Northside Energy District,” with generation at the wastewater treatment plant, and the “Southside Energy District” with power coming from the Emerson Chain Works site on South Hill. Right now, the wastewater plant has a 750-kilowatt diesel generator and 240 kilowatts in bio-gas generation capacity, according to plant manager Dan Ramer.

lectricity. It’s a popular feature of civilization that most people prefer to have at all times, whether Mother Nature is providing sunny 70-degree days in November or those 100-year storms that seem to be flooding major cities with regularity these days. Increasing local electric reliability and production is the idea of the “microgrid,” something which can provide locally generated power in isolation from far-off sources or in collaboration with the big utility providers. According to the microgrid trade press, New York State’s $40 million “NY Prize” program that describes itself as providing funding for “feasibility studies (Stage 1), auditgrade engineering design and business planning (Stage 2), and project City employee Bill Rypkema atop the city water filtration plant. Biogas is being collected build-out and from the plant and stored for energy reuse. (Photo Rye Bennett) post-operational monitoring (Stage Though the microgrid is only “a paper 3)” is the program to watch in the United project right now” and the second stage States. is a “more detailed paper project,” Ramer Tompkins County received two of hopes that the wastewater plant will the 83 $100,000-ish grants given out this become a relied-upon energy generator for summer by the NY Prize project to study the community. microgrid infrastructure at the Stage 1 “This is really an electrical level. The studies are currently in process, engineering exercise,” Ramer said. “It all with spring 2016 deadlines, and could depends on what NYSEG [New York State lead to $1 million “Stage 2” grants for engineering design and business planning. Electric and Gas] wants to do.” Energize Ithaca, which plans on building continued on page 7 a downtown microgrid around Center

▶ Cornell’s Town-Gown Awards, The Town-Gown Awards, also known as the TOGOs, is an informal event that recognizes people who are leaving elected, appointed or non-profit leadership jobs and spotlight five town-gown collaborations. This year’s awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Kulp Auditorium at Ithaca High School. Those being recognized this year includes Marcia Fort, retired director of Greater Ithaca Activities Center; Town of Dryden supervisor Mary Ann Sumner, Ithaca Common Council

members Ellen McCollister and J.R. Clairborne, Ithaca City School District Board of Education members Jay True and Eldred Harris, and various non-profit directors including Betty Falco of the Tompkins County Health Planning Council, Brigid Hubberman of Family Reading Partnership and Alphonse Pieper of Historic Ithaca. Cornell students will hold a food drive at the event. Attendees are encouraged to bring canned or nonperishable food items. Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett will make remarks at the annual recognition ceremony.

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Food Trucks Hurting Brick-and-Mortar Biz

C “ IC is a predominantly white institution, but I keep telling people it’s not as bad as Duke where they’re hanging nooses from trees.” —Jonathon Cummingsl

“Wherever you are, it’s how people grow up. Nature and nurture. Feelings are passed down.” —Gage Hake & Emily Ruckdeschel

“I had a cab driver the other day who was black. He was talking about how bad Asians are at driving.” —Kyle Pond

“Prejudice has always been around. It’ll always be there, but can you laugh at it? Dave Chappelle helped with that.” —Louis Gershon “

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ity staffers put a proposal to consider reducing the no-go zone for food trucks around brick and mortar restaurants from 200 to 50 feet on the Monday, Nov. 9 Board of Public Works agenda. Gregor Brous, owner of Collegetown Bagels and Ithaca Bakery, gave the board’s commissioners his opinion on the proposal in no uncertain terms. He’s not for more food trucks, in short. “I think I pay the highest rent per square foot and probably in dollars, and I’m happy to discuss it with anyone who wants to compare,” Brous said about the Collegetown CTB location. “My business is off dramatically, because of decisions made in Collegetown and a lack of business on the street.” Brous asked the board what kind of controls were in place to ensure food trucks pay all their taxes; he asked whether their propane tanks were inspected; and he raised the concern of people hanging out in the street around the corner of Dryden Road and Eddy Street, where there are a couple of late-night food truck parking spots. Brous also said he’s heard stories about people dining on Eddy Street asked to get up and move their parked cars when trucks show up at 10 p.m., and that some trucks get to their spots early. “There’s a real question about accountability,” Brous said. “Who goes up to the food trucks and makes them understand they need to pay payroll taxes, workers’ compensation, that normal businesses have to be responsible for. Who knows if they pay cash or have a payroll tax?” Nathan Lyman, attorney for Jason Fane’s Ithaca Renting, attended the meeting to ask for more clarification on a $120,000 charge for an underpaid water bill at Plum Tree Restaurant. Faulty water meters were under or overcharging properties from 2008 until last year around the city. When Lyman heard Brous talking about food truck issues, he filled out a card to comment before the board. “What I have to offer is basically hearsay,” Lyman said, “but I will say [food trucks] are causing problems to restaurant owners up and down the street. These are in fact very expensive places to rent, commercial restaurants.” Lyman said that ownership at Sangam’s Indian Restaurant has told him that revenues are down around 30 percent recently, and a petition has circulated around Eddy Street restaurant owners relating to mobile vending. “They get the benefit without the burden,” Lyman said. “The burden is of course real property taxes. There’s

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a question how much the city is really respect the work that’s been done, but at making versus how much it’s losing by the same point I’m wondering if we may restaurants being challenged financially.” need to address this again in the future.” The whole discussion started when Then, speaking to Brous, Greene added, “I Woepa Zegid, owner of the That’s How I do love your bagels. I get them a lot.” Roll sushi burrito truck, asked The Nines Zegid attended the meeting, but for an exemption from the 200-foot rule. didn’t speak before the board. Outside A nearby restaurant can give permission the room, he said that the current spot to a truck to park nearby. Public works he’s allotted on College Avenue is in front administrator Kathy Gehring said that of a residential location and is too tight she received a response to the request for space. A utility pole that leans over on Monday from The Nines’ owner the street “damaged my beautiful trailer,” Mark Kielmann: “If we can give him an Zegid said, showing a picture on his phone exemption for the taxes and give him of a hole in the side of the orange sushi two parking spaces for his customers, he’d be happy to withdraw his rejection.” The board ended up deciding on a resolution that reflects the change in parking rates from $1 to $1.50 an hour, but held fast on the 200foot rule. The board was generally of the opinion that since the mobile vending policy was just approved in 2014 and took lots of negotiations with restaurant owners— commissioner Mark Woepa Zegid cuts fish at That’s How I Roll. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Darling said a 1,000-foot radius was proposed by one—changing it right now wasn’t the best idea. truck. City engineer Tom West said that “We do the same thing all the complaints about traffic overflow into the restaurants do,” Zegid said. “We just paid street should be directed to the Ithaca sales tax for three months. We check police department. [propane tanks] with the fire department Commissioner Jonathan Greene did once a year … We probably do affect say the board should keep its mind open restaurant business, a little bit. Everywhere to changes. you go there’s a food truck now.” • “This is a trend, and a trend in other cities,” Greene said of food trucks. “l — J o s h B r o k aw TCATfunding contin u ed from page 3

would definitely return next year to see if council really wanted them to reduce services. “You need to align your planning documents with the kinds of service we set out to provide,” Gray said, referring to the city’s push for more density. TCAT described the potential effects of the funding cuts in a press release. “These funds can be used for TCAT’s operations or capital needs to include much-need bus replacements,” the document reads. “As present, TCAT over the next five years will need 30 buses to replace its aging fleet, but only has identified funding for 16. As buses cost around $425,000 a piece, TCAT estimates it is already short by $5.1 million for bus replacements alone! TCAT also needs additional money for facility and amenities improvements as well as much- needed information technology modernization.” “I am getting whiplash. The feds want us to provide affordable transportation

for our respective constituencies, but they refuse to participate in the cost to provide that service,” TCAT Board Chairman Frank Proto said in the statement. “We are working in a bi-partisan fashion to protect this funding, and I am hopeful that the final version of this bill will contain the positive changes we need,” Rep. Tom Reed (R-Corning) said in a statement provided by his communications director Brandy Brown. “Tom is aware of the discrepancy and has been fighting to correct this issue along with the rest of the New York Congressional delegation,” Brown wrote. “The delegation is sponsoring a bipartisan letter led by Representatives [Richard] Hanna and [Louise] Slaughter requesting a change in the legislation to ensure we preserve funding for mass transit systems throughout our state.” The Senate version of the bill left the High Density States funding intact. House and Senate committee members will meet to work out the details of the bill by the Nov. 20 funding deadline, according to Reed’s office. • —Josh

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n a town where the public discourse often approaches Minnesota levels of niceness, there sure were lots of accusations of cronyism and backroom dealings thrown about during the most recent election cycle. The election ended with two officially nominated Democratic candidates for two county legislature seats being defeated by two “outsiders,” also registered Democrats. How much basis in fact the accusations printed in this and other media outlets had, there’s really no way to adequately report; it was all speculation about private conversations. But the perception that people “in the know” were advantaged was in the air. The strife centered around the way in which the Tompkins County Democratic Committee made its endorsements for two special county legislature races that opened up after Kathy Luz Herrera announced her resignation from the 2nd District seat in Fall Creek on Sept. 15. The next day, 10year legislator Nate Shinagawa announced his intention to resign his 4th District seat on East Hill and run for Herrera’s position, which had also been announced for that morning by Anna Kelles. Cornell sophomore Elie Kirshner and attorney Rich John emerged as candidates for Shinagawa’s vacated seat in the consistently low turnout Collegetown district. Because of county rules about special election timing, the party committees for the two districts—in fact, the city ward committees—selected the official candidates. After the district committees did group interviews with both candidates, Shinagawa was nominated on Sept. 24 and Kirshner on Sept. 28. Kelles gathered the 62 signatures needed to get on the ballot by Sept. 30, the petition deadline, and John initially said he would support Kirshner. From that point, the letters and opinions that some people knew more about the process than others started circulating in print and online. People’s sense of fair play was offended. This paper published its first election-related opinion on Oct. 7 from one Matthew Clark, who called Kirshner “the inside candidate, a 19year-old sophomore at Cornell.” “The process smells, and the committee made a remarkably poor decision,” Clark wrote, and called for people to write in John for the seat. John eventually decided to announce a write-in candidacy on Oct. 13. The Journal published an op-ed by Kathy Sipman on Oct. 8 in which she wryly praised the political reflexes of the two party nominees and speculated on what conversations happened to coordinate. Sipman was the lone vote for Kelles on the

There are numerous notes on the Fall Creek email listserv archives leading up to the election praising both candidates for their civility and asking for it across the board, when discussions became heated. “Everything I put out and everything I did was designed to focus on what my qualifications were,” Kelles said after her election. “If people are voting for me because they’re angry at that, rather than voting for me because they believe in me, I’m going to lose them. The minute I win they disengage if they’re just committed to me not being that.” For their parts, Tompkins County Democratic Party chair Irene Stein and ward committee chairs Brian King and Laura Lewis wrote to many local outlets explaining that the process was carried out according to the county charter. According to Mike Lane, chair of the legislature’s charter committee, the current process at least allows for a vote—in earlier times, town boards in districts with a vacancy picked the replacement with no general vote at all. “It wasn’t onerous to get on the ballot,” Lane said, as the petition number is based on the prior year’s turnout numbers— 24 signatures were needed in Shinagawa sign escapes recycling. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Collegetown. “All of them were Democrats, so it worked out like a primary de facto.” Both King and Lewis said their a run. An op-ed in the Oct. 14 Times on meetings were public and that the the subject by IC professor Don Beachler committee interviewed both candidates. concluded that “machine politics is alive “Gosh, I don’t know what we could and well in Ithaca,” and was one of the top have done differently,” King said. “We 10 viewed stories on ithaca.com for the walked into a process and carried it out.” entire month. Stein admits that rumors might have Given how much anger was stirred circulated before Herrera’s resignation. up by the perception that there was a plan, “The person who is resigning tells a how Shinagawa portrayed his decision to few people, and those few people maybe tell resign in a Sept. 25 Journal story by Andy some other people,” Stein said. “Perhaps a Casler looks poorly in retrospect. small number of people know before most “The original plan is that I was just of us do. All of this took place within a very going to resign before I got married,” short period of time.” Shinagawa was quoted, “and then when The charter committee has been things quickly happened with Kathy Luz asked to look at increasing the window Herrera, it was very clear that there was from a resignation until election to 90 another way for me to continue to serve, at days, perhaps giving more time for public least for the next couple years.” involvement. And Stein says that the Shinagawa, who did not respond to committee is looking into increasing repeated calls for this story, was married communications of its meetings. Sipman on Sept. 19. Casler also wrote that suggests posting her ward’s committee Shinagawa said, “he knew Herrera planned meetings and minutes to the Fall Creek to resign a few days before she made the listserv. announcement publicly.” “The party is plagued by the problem it “A lot of folks knew that this is something that was coming,” Casler quoted has a lot of unopposed candidates,” Sipman said. “They get so used to hand picking Shinagawa as saying. candidates, and it was particularly myopic Kirshner said in an interview after in this case.” the election that he knew Luz Herrera’s “I believe the process was honored, resignation was coming “several days I believe ethics were honored, and I before,” but his understanding was “a lot of don’t believe there were backroom potential candidates, I think, knew. I didn’t machinations,” Stein said. “I do believe know for sure [I would run] until all the there was a perception that was extremely shuffling began.” strong that needs to be conquered.” • Though Kelles ended up winning by a fairly comfortable margin, she didn’t want anything to do with using the perception — J o s h B r o k aw of insider dealings helping her campaign. 2nd District committee. “Given that this all transpired just in time to circulate petitions and get on the ballot,” Sipman wrote in October of the resignations, “this is too much lucky coincidence for me.” “It was a hunch based on how perfectly everything fit together,” Sipman said after the election. “It was patently obvious there was some cronyism. The party should have seen it or just didn’t care.” Other letters and columns filled the column inches and web pages throughout October, mostly centering around the question whether the resignations of Herrera and Shinagawa were coordinated to minimize the time upstarts could muster

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Ups&Downs ▶ Landlord heads, w the Landlords Association of Tompkins County held it’s annual meeting on Oct. 26. The following officers were elected: President – Jim Lane; Vice-President - Larry Beck; Secretary – Peggy Thorpe; Treasurer - Ron Schmitt. Board of Director seats were renewed for Brian McIlroy and Russ Maines, and Karla Terry was added to the board. Other board members continuing are David Gersh, Brian Grout, Mark Goldfarb, David Hall, James McCollum, Monica Moll and Carol Schmitt. If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Kolb Worries About Gas, Stressing that Texas-based Crestwood’s proposal to store millions of gallons of liquefied propane and butane in abandoned salt caverns in Reading should be “carefully examined to ensure that the department’s decision protects our communities, our economy and allows the Finger Lakes Region to thrive.” Kolb states that his decision to speak out regarding the proposed project comes after hearing “... from numerous residents, local officials, businesses and advocacy organizations regarding the Crestwood proposal.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Nov. 4-10 include: 1) Election 2015 Results 2) Taylor Bennett Heads to Syracuse 3) Music | Bob Dylan, Over and Over 4) Groton Resident Pens Children’s Book 5) Deer Control: DEC Plan Is Not Reducing Numbers Yet For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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ll of Tompkins County is in the 23rd Congressional District and is presently represented by Republican Tom Reed. Reed recently sent out a “Official U.S. Government Survey” to a select group of his constituents. “Your household has been selected to represent your neighborhood, and your responses are necessary to help guide federal policy.” Democracy, you think, is swell. That is, until you read the survey. The most obvious example of a completely stilted question is about the Affordable Care Act (although it is never referred to as such in the survey). “Should Congress repeal, reform, or replace Obamacare as it is now?” In addition, to those three choices you may also check “Unsure.” If you need a box labelled “No,” you will have to add it yourself. Until 2012 Ithacans were part of the 22nd Congressional District, an embarrassingly gerrymandered creation that began in the Hudson Valley and included Ulster and a bit of Orange County. It then found the Delaware River by including Sullivan County and proceeded to hug the New York/ Pennsylvania border, making its way one town at a time over to Nichols. It then took a right angle turn at Barton and went directly north through Spencer and Danby to capture the town and city of Ithaca. This district went looking for every Democrat it could find and succeeded. It was represented by liberal Democrat Maurice Hinchey of Hurley (Ulster County) for 20 years. From 1993 to 2002 it took the form of the similarly drawn 26th Congressional District,

which managed to include several other Tompkins County towns. When districts were redrawn by Republican-controlled committees in 2012, Ithacans found themselves in a very normal looking district that extends from Endicott to Lake Erie. New York State lost two congressional districts due to loss of population, as documented in the 2010 U.S. Census. Reed had been elected to the 29th Congressional District in 2009, finishing out the term of disgraced Democrat Eric Massa. He won re-election in the new 23rd district in 2012. Now Ithaca has a representative in Congress that sends us surveys that include questions like “Do you believe able-bodied adults with no dependents should have to work or perform community service before receiving federal welfare assistance?” Why is this a bizarre question? Because it strongly implies that an able-bodied adult with no dependents can receive federal welfare assistance right now. In fact, no such program exists. Our Congressman is using an official U.S. government survey document to suggest to his constituents that there are layabouts receiving “welfare” who should be made to work or do community service to get it. No such people exist, except in the febrile imagination of Tom Reed and his staff. Another question informs the reader that the federal government is projected to run a $500 billion deficit in 2015. It, of course, does not mention that in 2001, when Democrat Bill Clinton continued on page 7

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atie Couric: Hello, everyone, this is Global News, and I’m Katie Couric. I’m here today with renowned rocket scientist, member of the National Academy of Sciences, author of six bestselling books, and the very recent and, I might add, late entrant into the mix of Republican candidates for president of the United States, Dr. Ken Barson. Welcome, Dr. Barson! I say “late” entrant to the race, but we should all remember that the general election is still a year away, and primary season doesn’t start until next February. Tell me, doctor, what made you throw your hat into the ring? Ken Barson: Thank you, Katie. I’ve long felt, and I think the frontrunners’ poll numbers bear me out, that what the American people want is someone with absolutely no experience in government. That description fits me to a tee. KC: Well, there’s no denying that, Doctor, but what experience, and—maybe more importantly—what qualities would you say you have that would speak to your readiness to assume the demands of the office of president? KB: Katie, I have spent many years making sure that rockets can be safely launched into space, and once there, sometimes re-enter the earth’s atmosphere. There’s an awful lot of math. Some physics, too. It’s no mean feat, Katie. Have you ever heard the phrase “It’s not rocket science?” KC: Why, yes. Yes, I have. KB: Well, when said in a sarcastic tone, it means that rocket science is hard. You know, you have to be smart to understand it. Therefore, I’m smart. So I’d clearly be good at being president. Kind of obvious, really. KC: Yes… Well… In your book, I’m a Genius: the Ken Barson Story, you recount how you got a scholarship to go to West Point. Is that true? KB: That was a typographical error.

KC: I see. Well, you also recount in your book an incident where, as a teenager, you tried to stab a friend. I’ll read an excerpt: “Grabbing the camping knife I carried in my back pocket, I snapped it open and lunged for the boy who had been my friend. With all the power of my young muscles, I thrust the knife toward his belly. The knife hit his big, heavy ROTC buckle with such force that the blade snapped and dropped to the ground.” Tell me about this, Doctor. I daresay that must have been an important moment. KB: Yes, although technically none of that happened, at least not in the sense that it actually occurred. Makes a ripping good story, though, doesn’t it? KC: It does indeed. Now, as a scientist yourself, and a member of the Academy, what are your thoughts on fellow candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s apparent belief that the biblical Joseph built the great pyramids of Giza for use as grain storage? KB: You see, that’s what I’m talking about. Rocket scientists are clearly smarter than brain surgeons. A claim like that is utterly preposterous and ignores an overwhelming mountain of archeological evidence. KC: Frankly, Doctor, I have to confess that I’m relieved to hear you say that! KB: Of course. Why, everybody knows that the pyramids predate the time of Joseph by at least six weeks and that the structures themselves were designed to store gardening tools. There’s not a single kernel of grain to be found in any of them. The man’s a lunatic. The guy probably believes in Evolution, too. KC: Actually, he doesn’t. He’s called it a theory inspired by Satan. KB: Really? At least we agree that Darwinism is hogwash, but Satan? Come continued on page 7

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Ithaca Soccer Marches On

This past Saturday I made the journey with my father to Lakeland High School [in Shrub Oak, Westchester County] to watch my two cousins #3 Sohrab Memarzadeh and #33 Ali Mohammadi face off with the rest of the Ithaca High School Boys Varsity team against Arlington. This was the quarterfinal match for the Class AA championship of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association otherwise known as NYSPHSAA. Despite the long acronym this is the biggest championship in New York State for Boy’s High School soccer. It can be argued that with the large number of public schools and a history of champions 6

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from the state that this championship is one of the top ones in the United States. Their opponent, Arlington High School [Lagrangeville, Dutchess County] was the state champion in 2012 and is one of the teams Ithaca needed to get past to claim the championship. The game did not disappoint. From the outset it was a battle back and forth across the midfield. The difference in play styles slowly became apparent to even a soccer novice like myself. Arlington focused on power where Ithaca focused on control of the ball. On the flip side Ithaca’s strength in passing and ball handling showed through. continued on page 7

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Know Your Shopkeepers By D ow n t ow n It h ac a A l l i a nc e Sta ff

o you know your shopkeeper? Chances are that when you shop downtown, you will. At last count, downtown Ithaca is home to 86 retail stores, nearly all of them one-of-a-kind and independently owned. Some have been around for a long, long time: Bool’s Flower Shop on North Aurora Street has been around since 1894. Some are newcomers: in just the last two months, we have welcomed Thrive Ethical Fashion, Ithaca Sheepskin, Narrative Space, Eye Gallery, and Ithacamade to the downtown community. Either way, these shopkeepers are your neighbors. You see them at the grocery store, at the park, in church. They will learn your name, your style, your preferences. This means that when you shop downtown, you won’t get a cookiecutter experience (unless, of course, you’re actually looking for one for your holiday baking—try Now You’re Cooking). Together, these 86 stores—all within three pedestrian-friendly blocks—represent the region’s most vibrant shopping district. Main streets all across America have struggled to retain a diverse commercial mix in the face of competition from suburban strip malls and ecommerce, but downtown Ithaca continues to support and develop a wealth of desirable retail niches. Simply strolling the length of the newly redesigned Ithaca Commons pedestrian mall will give you a sense of the variety and choice. Of course, about half of downtown Ithaca’s stores are actually just off the Commons, lining the surrounding blocks and clustered in Dewitt Mall and Press Bay Alley. If you haven’t explored these places recently, you’ve been missing out. If you want to see what your options are before you even set out, you can pick up one of our printed quarterly guides at the Downtown Visitor Center, browse our store directory at downtownithaca.com, download the Downtown Ithaca iPhone app for free on the iTunes App Store, or check out the brand-new touchscreen kiosks on the Commons. Each of these will provide you with a complete listing of retailers in 24 different categories including Books, Gourmet Foods, Sporting Goods, Children, and Clothing & Shoes. You’ll also find information on our 50-plus restaurants and our upcoming special events, including Small Business Saturday (Nov. 28), the National Ice Carving Competition and Ice Bar (Dec. 10-12), and the 6th Annual Chowder Cook-Off (Dec. 12). Along with many other retail niches, downtown Ithaca is especially well-known for its wealth of unique art and craft stores, making it a favorite among residents

and tourists alike for holiday shopping. Locally handmade crafts can be found at stores like Handwork, 15 Steps, and Sunny Days, while stores like One World Market, Jabberwock, and The Tibet Store specialize in unusual items from all around the world. Fine art galleries like The Ink Shop, Susan Titus Gallery, and State of the Art enhance the scene tremendously, as do antique stores like Pastimes, Sheldon Hill, and The Vintage Industry. If you are truly at a loss about what to get your loved ones, stuff their stockings with Downtown Ithaca gift cards. Purchasable in any amount and redeemable at over 100 downtown stores and restaurants, these work just like debit cards, but they keep all the money local. Downtown Ithaca can also be your one-stop shop for all of your holiday entertaining needs. Pick up a bottle of local wine at The Cellar d’Or, a sumptuous cake at Sarah’s Patisserie, and some deli items at Greenstar Oasis. Select some fine tableware at Contemporary Trends, or just grab some paper plates at The Commons Market. Find a nostalgic record at Angry Mom to put on while the turkey is in the oven. Aside from the variety and quality, we think that one of the best things about holiday shopping in downtown Ithaca is that it accommodates all paces. Some people want to savor the experience, and downtown is great for that: get a steaming hot chocolate, take a leisurely stroll, and admire the twinkling lights and the decorations in the windows. Other people want to get it over and done with as soon as possible, and with so many different retailers and services concentrated in such a small, walkable area, you can cross out a surprising number of items on your list in a jiffy. Again: shopping downtown isn’t a cookie-cutter experience. There is something for everyone. If you aren’t already, make sure to follow us on social media—Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram. Throughout this month and next, we’ll be highlighting a handful of downtown Ithaca’s beloved shopkeepers, veteran and new, and some of their favorite products for the holiday season. • Biogas contin u ed from page 3

Our local utility multi-national, owned by Spanish conglomerate Iberdrola, does appear to have interest in changing how power is supplied to the Ithaca area. That’s because we live in a “load pocket,” according to Ramer, a place where there isn’t enough generation capacity within the area to meet the demand for energy. Planners behind this project hired energy

consultants SourceOne to have “more of a peer to peer discussion with NYSEG,” Ramer said. Part of the microgrid concept is cogeneration, sometimes called CHP for short, which simply means using the heat from generated power rather than letting it float off to quicken the heat death of our universe. Energize Ithaca is already doing that at the 288,000-square foot South Hill business campus and the former National Cash Register plant. The wastewater plant also makes use of its heat. What Ramer would like to see is Ithaca’s wastewater plant generating enough energy to meet its full capacity. It’s already producing 40 to 50 percent of its own power, Ramer said, and during its peak month it provided 56 percent of the power needed to clean up city sewage before it was sent into the Cayuga Inlet. Ramer, a biologist by trade, admits he’s a bit of a bacteria geek when showing guests around the wastewater plant. Biogas is produced from what’s basically an “engineered swamp,” he says, and the plant is only using one of two tanks set up to let the bacteria, the methanogens, do their work. Two other tanks that were once used for settling sit empty, too, and could be retrofitted to produce power. “They’re beautiful,” he says of the methanogens. “I am bit of a zealot. This is all I’ve studied … I never studied the bacteria that kill people.” Up on the wastewater plant’s roof, where the tanks poke out into the sky, a not-so-pleasant smell wafts through the air. That’s a fresh shipment of juice from Cornell’s carcass digester, Ramer says. Shipments of waste are offloaded into three 20,000 gallon tanks underground that feed the digesters. People can help feed the methanogens and produce more power by getting into the habit of separating their food waste from regular trash. That’s the area where Ramer sees lots of growth potential for power generation. “We can take people’s food waste, reduce their solid waste fees, and convert it into energy,” Ramer said. “I think around here, that’s a concept a lot of people can get behind.” • Editorial contin u ed from page 6

handed over the presidency to Republican George Bush, the federal government was running a surplus. Nor does it mention that Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives for 16 of the last 20 years (and the Senate for 10 of the last 20 years), which is where the budget is made. “In order to bring our federal budget into balance, which of the following are you most likely to support?” Among the choices are reforming welfare, Medicare and Medicaid, and Social Security, and eliminating bureaucratic positions in the federal government. On the other side of the coin we are invited to cut defense spending and to keep federal spending level and increase taxes. As this is question 18 on the survey (and you’ve definitely got the flavor of it by now), you’re not at all surprised that “Increase federal revenue by T

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on. Every legit scientist I know believes it was inspired by woodland elves. The transgender ones. You know, the same elves who concocted the big bang theory. KC: Dr. Barson, I’m sure you’re aware that these ideas of yours … well, they are certainly at odds with the consensus of most other scientific findings and research and the thinking of almost all other scientists. KB: Oh, sure, the “highfalutin” scientists might disagree with me, but Katie, I’m used to it. We live in a police state worse than Nazi Germany right now, and I won’t be silenced because what I know to be true isn’t politically correct. I’m not going to denigrate you because of your faith, and you shouldn’t denigrate me for mine. And I’m not going to play Gotcha with you, Katie! KC: I wouldn’t dream of it, Doctor. Truly, based on what I’ve heard, I anticipate every success for you in the coming primaries! Good luck, sir. KB: Thank you, Katie. Say, is there any aluminum foil in the studio? I have to line my hat for the trip out to the car…

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Dear White People Race tensions lead to activism at Ithaca College By Bill Chaisson

t has been over 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” standard and caused American schools to start to become integrated. It wasn’t until the 1960s that American colleges and universities began to be integrated. That there were problems associated with this cultural shift is a matter of record. The Willard Straight takeover at Cornell in 1969 is among the more famous. A rash of campus racial incidents during the 1980s was attributed by observers to the turn toward the conservative in the student body. Ithaca College has found itself part of a recent spate of racially-charged incidents around the country. Unwise comments by two public safety officers during orientation set the tone for the semester. Then in early October the campus community was disturbed by two especially egregious incidents of insensitivity. On Oct. 9 off-campus fraternity AEPi posted a Facebook event for a “Preps & Crooks” theme party that played on racial stereotypes. The post was greeted with enough public outrage that the party theme was discarded. On Oct. 8 during a roundtable discussion that was part of the school’s “Blue Sky” experiment, fashion magnate Christopher Burch, a 1976 graduate of IC,

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insulted Tatiana Sy, an African American alumna. After she described herself as having a “savage thirst for learning,” he began referring to her as “the savage.” The ostensible host of the roundtable, Tom Kur (Class of ’70), not only didn’t call Burch to account, but instead picked up his cue and referred to Sy in the same manner. Subsequent efforts by the administration to smooth things over were regarded (as reported by The Ithacan, the campus newspaper) as unsatisfactory, to the say the least. On Oct. 21 hundreds of people turned out for a protest organized by the POC (People of Color) at IC. Their message was, in effect, we are tired of this racial insensitivity, and we’re not going to take it anymore. The administration’s response, an event on Oct. 27 called “Addressing Community Action on Racism and Cultural Bias” was co-opted by the POC at IC. They interrupted the proceedings by taking the stage en masse, reading a statement declaring the meeting insufficient, and then asked those assembled to leave with them. Half the audience did, chanting “no confidence” as they filed out. That chant signaled the advent of campaign to hold a vote of no confidence directed at Rochon. Organized by the Student Government Association, it is possibly a first in American collegiate history. o v e m b e r

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P e o p l e o f C o l o r at I C ta k e ov e r t h e s tag e at a n O c t. 2 7 a d m i n i s t r at i o n e v e n t. ( P h o t o C o u r t e s y o f Ya n a M a z u r k e v i c h / t h e It h ac a n) The theme that emerges from these events on South Hill is of white folks just not getting it, over and over again.

Race and the Administration

According to IC President Tom Rochon and Associate Provost for Inclusion & Engagement Roger “Doc” Richardson, who is African American, many programs, committees, and initiatives that were intent on increasing diversity at the college and the inclusion of people of color in the campus community had been in place well before the recent protests. Rochon said that he was recently speaking with former IC president Peggy Williams, and she told him that the percentage of people of color in the student body doubled in five years from 5 to 10 percent in 2005. When Rochon arrived eight years ago it stood at 11 percent. Rochon put the present number at 20 percent. The website collegefactual. com breaks it down as follows: in 2015 the student population at Ithaca College is 4.1 percent African American, 6.1 percent Latino, 3.2 percent Asian, 2.8 percent are of mixed race (the four categories total 16.2 percent), and 11.3 percent don’t

identify as any ethnicity or race at all (which may account for the difference from Rochon’s estimate). By way of comparison, over on East Hill at Cornell the student population is 5.8 percent African American, 10.5 percent Latino, 16.1 percent Asian, 4 percent mixed race, and 9.6 percent are of “unknown” race or ethnicity. Which means white students constitute 44.1 percent of the Cornell student body, which is to say, a minority, while at Ithaca College they make up 70.2 percent of all students, a clear majority. Richardson noted that at a recent 40th anniversary celebration for the ALS (African-Latino Society) alumni recalled that when the society started there were no faculty of color, no “group identity” courses, and a complete lack of diversity on campus. “Now what they are saying,” said Rochon, “is that there is a need for more faculty of color, more group identity courses, and more diversity. That means there has been some progress.” Rochon and Richardson admitted that the administration had been taken off guard by the racially insensitive incidents and the student protests that followed. They had already set in motion changes in

administrative responsibilities that were primarily meant to treat the curricular and the co-curricular experiences of the students as a single immersive experience. Working to include minority students was only part of the overall plan. “Those changes were not motivated by consciousness of a race problem,” said Rochon. “It was to align our organization with our mission. Ideally, it will make us respond better to any concern from the [campus] community. Obviously we have not succeeded.” Marisa Kelly arrived at IC in 2011 to become provost and vice president of academic affairs. In 2012 Vice President of Student Affairs Brian McAree unexpectedly retired and—in order to conjoin curricular and co-curricular purviews—Rochon made Kelly vice president of educational affairs. Kelly resigned the next year and moved to Suffolk University in Boston to take a position as … vice president of academic affairs. Linda Petrosino, a dean in the health science school, filled the new position as an interim for a year. In June IC hired Benjamin Rifkin to replace Kelly. Dominick Recckio is a senior at Ithaca College and the president of the SGA. He feels that racial tension has been building through his time at IC, and it is his perception that lack of leadership is partly responsible. “There have been three provosts since I got here four years ago,” Recckio said. “[Benjamin] Rifkin is the first one that has been brought in to do the new job.” “That critique misses a larger point,” said Rochon. “That combination of roles was not the only change [in 2012]. The entire staff under the provost was beefed up and given more responsibility.” Richardson, for example, assumed his new job title on the same day Rifkin started work. Before Rochon arrived, Richardson said, he had been appointed to be a liaison between the vice presidents of academic and student affairs. “I looked at that,” said Rochon, “and said, ‘That’s the point. Why should there be a liaison? It should be just one job.” But the events of October have wrenched administration attention away from their focus on an immersive student experience. With 20 percent of students people of color Rochon and Richardson felt that the goal of increased diversity has been achieved. “The question,” said Rochon, “of inclusion is the central question, and that is different.” In other words, now that IC has created a population with a significant number of non-white members, how does the college go about helping all members of the campus community to get along.

“For many students,” the college president said. “this is the most diverse environment they’ve ever been in. There is a learning curve.” Not only that, he continued, but although each fall 25 percent of student population is new, only 4 percent of the faculty is. There is faculty diversity training, but it is not compulsory. “It reaches large numbers of faculty,” said Rochon, “but it is harder to reach broad layers of faculty.” As they’ve watched their elders stumble in their response to racial incidents, both the SGA and the POC at IC have demanded a greater role in decision and policy making with regard to race. Richardson said that opportunities for input already exist, include the Council of Diversity and Inclusion (CODI), which is made up of faculty, staff, and students. It’s purpose, he said, it to examine existing

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Dom Recckio is from rural Port Byron, north of Auburn. His view of his fellow white IC students is somewhat critical.. “There is a lot of latent racism and bigotry under the surface,” he said. “It hides under the surface and it masquerades as being unintentional.” Recckio pointed to the New York Times College Access Index for evidence that IC was not doing a good job of pursuing diversity. The 2015 report measured how well 179 schools did at encouraging economic diversity; Ithaca College was at #159. A lack of economic diversity, Recckio said, translates into a lack of racial diversity. The SGA president was one of the campus leaders on stage for the Oct. 21 meeting that was taken over by the POC at IC. “That was the second biggest event ever

other members of SGA will record trends in the conversation and prompt participants with questions to clarify their positions. Finally, the student government wants the student body and the faculty to have a larger say in making policy on campus. Faculty and students were not involved in planning Blue Sky, he noted, and its failure “highlighted the need for change.”

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Cynthia Henderson, an theatre professor who is of African American and native American descent, has been focused on social justice and race for many years. She produces plays by non-white writers and allows students to inhabit characters of races other than their own. “Many of the students won’t play these

D o m i n i c k R e c c k i o (l e f t) , t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e S t u d e n t G ov e r n m e n t A s s o c i at i o n , a n d N i a N u n n M a k e p e ac e , a p r o f e s s o r i n t h e e d u c at i o n d e pa r t m e n t. (C o u r t e s y o f Ya n a m a z u r k e v i c h / t h e It h ac a n a n d J o s h B r o k aw) policies and practices. “It’s a critical lens,” said the administrator, “to see if what we say we are doing is different from what we are doing.” In response to the protests, CODI will now be enlarged to include more students. When asked for his own explanation as to why the IC community erupted this fall, Rochon suggested that some kind of change was inevitable and the transition would not be easy. “As you reach a certain diversity, expectations change,” he said. “The differences between the staff and the students get wider. We are looking for an effective response to these incidents. Anything is on the table. We need to create a culture where people have conversations that are inherently uncomfortable. There is a cultural shift going on. The generation gap is perhaps wider than at any time since the 1960s.”

held in the athletic event center,” he said, “and it was the first time students were called to the table to talk about race. It was too little, too late.” The student government has a threepoint plan. The most immediate action is already underway: the no confidence vote. Ballots have been sent out to all students. On Nov. 30 the SGA will hold an open meeting to present the results. In addition to an up or down vote on Rochon’s leadership, SGA is also asking for demographic information—race, gender, school—to show how different parts of the campus community feel. SGA also plans to hold a series of discussion sessions about values that students hold. He expects that civil rights will be a common shared “foundational value.” The sessions will be recorded. Recckio will lead the discussions, and T

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When Baruch Whitehead arrived on campus 13 years ago, he was the first African American professor in the school of music. The curriculum was wholly focused on the European music tradition. When Whitehead encouraged recognition of Martin Luther King Day and started the high school gospel festival on campus, he got support from his colleagues and the school, but he had the sense that nothing of the sort had been on their radar before his arrival. Whitehead is a professor of music education; his students—most of them white—are going into classrooms when

they graduate. Over the years he has changed his curriculum to become more Afro-centric and more global. He wants to make sure that his students are “ready for the world.” “They need to know how to teach in an urban setting,” he said. “You need to teach differently to have a culturally responsible model.” Nia Nunn Makepeace is in the department of education, like Whitehead a teacher of teachers and also African American. Most of her students are white women. “Many of them come into my classroom,” she said, “not even knowing they’re white.” A lot of these students describe themselves as “normal” or “regular” with no ethnic consciousness at all. As a result they don’t see the signs

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D o c R i c h a r d s o n a n d To m R o c h o n ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n) in the world that invite them in and tell others to stay out. Nunn Makepeace compared them to her young son who, as soon as he was taught to distinguish letters from other marks on a page, started to recognize that letters were everywhere he looked. The majority of her white students are from suburban and rural communities with few or no residents of color. Many of them want to return to communities like those to teach. Nunn Makepeace feels it is imperative for those students in particular to learn to be conscious of their whiteness, so they can teach that skill in predominantly white communities. Nunn Makepeace takes a nurturing maternal attitude toward teaching and assumes that her student simply know nothing about race. When white students were baffled by the angry response among African Americans at the idea of white people dressing up as blacks for the “Preps & Crooks” party, she told them about the tradition of black face and minstrelsy in the American theater. Most of them had never heard of it. Many were also unfamiliar with long tradition in film, advertising and elsewhere of representing African Americans as primitives. “They need to understand the roots of {Burch’s] ‘savage’ comment,” she said. “And they have to courageously intervene. That doesn’t necessarily mean being confrontational. You can do it with humor.” Nunn Makepeace as little patience with the “I just see people; I don’t see color” approach to race relations, calling it “Chad Crow.” She is convinced that when they noticed race as kids, they were told to ignore it. One of her future projects is to analyze 250 questionnaires on white privilege that were filled out by white IC students. She has already read through them and found some hard to stomach. “Some of them were using racist statements to make claims about not being racist,” she said, “but the majority of them were simply blind to the conversation.” •

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I saw four head bounces, an air kick, and another head bounce all by Ithaca’s players to move the ball down the field. Where Arlington had superstars to push through Ithaca, Ithaca had teamwork to move the ball around Arlington. The sheer size and power of return kicks of Arlington’s goalie compared to ours highlighted this discrepancy. Arlington’s goalie was able to easily kick the ball over two thirds of the way down the field while ours was only able to make it halfway. Despite this Ithaca kept passing the ball to slowly progress back up the field only to have it lobbed back. It also became apparent that Arlington’s forward players were good, very good, and kept pushing past one and even two players before being stopped. Despite both teams pushing back and forth neither team was able to score a goal. During half time I rested my voice from all the cheering I had been doing for Ithaca against the two hundred plus Arlington fans. With only an hour drive to Lakeland, they had come out in force. The second quarter started up and Arlington had changed their tactics. They went from slightly offense-oriented to fullblown attack, leaving very few defenders back to cover the goal. They shot a number of time at Ithaca’s goal, but each time they were pushed back or missed. As the half dragged on the Arlington players began to flag while Ithaca kept attempting to work the ball back up the field only to have it kicked back by one of Arlington’s defenders or their goalie. The second half ended, and the game went into overtime. Ithaca began to push through and were able to take some shots on Arlington’s goal, but their players were equal to or better than Ithaca’s. We went into the second overtime period, and all the players were beginning to flag. Arlington pushed and Ithaca’s goalie, #0 blocked multiple shots and was even run into. Despite their attacks, Ithaca held, and it went into a shootout. Many people might claim that a shootout is mostly luck, but after seeing both teams, that is clearly a false assumption. Ithaca’s goalie blocked the first two shots as Ithaca made goal after goal. When Arlington’s goalie power kicked it straight in, it was all but over with Ithaca being two shots ahead. Making every single goal, Ithaca won the shootout 4 to 2. Ithaca had won the game and are now going to the semi-finals with a record of 19-0. Despite their triumph it is clear that the level of competition needed to the claim the championship is stiff. Their next opponent in Middletown will be Ballston Spa with a record of 21-0. Get your friends, family, and neighbors and come to the semi-final game, which is on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 1:45 p.m. at Middletown High School [Middletown, Orange County]. Ithaca has a chance of winning the NYSPHSAA Championships for the first time since 1978, back when it was just Class A. The

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couple of years ago, I wrote a story about Thomas Manning, a kid from Ithaca who played baseball until the ninth grade and then traded in his bat for a tennis racquet. Several tennis players and coaches told me that Manning’s rapid grasp of the game was extremely unusual, and lo and behold, in 2013 he won the Tompkins County Tennis Tournament, beating players with far more experience. Thomas has been working his way up the food chain on his collegiate team, and word came to me via email last week that Manning, a senior on the Allegheny College men’s tennis team, recently gained the first singles national ranking from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) in

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the off-season. He offered, “Well, I have yes, I do wish I had started earlier.” I captain’s practice on Monday, Wednesday, asked if there was an upside to waiting, and Friday, and strength and conditioning and he offered, “Actually, yes. I was practice on Tuesday and Thursday, so there more developed, so the racquet wasn’t as really isn’t an off-season.” heavy for me.” He added, “I was also very I reminded fortunate to have very Thomas of a comment good hand-to-eye made by local tennis coordination, so my coach Michael Bryant baseball skills were two years ago. After transferrable.” Manning won the Manning also county tournament, hopes that his ability Bryant (who is also to balance the various the tourney director) demanding areas of said, “His game is his life will serve him still expanding and well after college. “My improving, and if he plan is to go to work puts five or 10 pounds after graduating, make of muscle on, his game some connections, Thomas Manning (Provided) will go up another and then maybe get level.” an MBA,” he told me. I asked Thomas I asked him if he felt if he was getting more confident that his buff, and he laughed and stated that he is ability to manage his time and stay focused indeed getting stronger, but he’s “definitely will translate favorably to the work world, not a bulked-up guy.” I asked him if the and he replied, “Hopefully, employers see increased strength is due to his weight that when you are more disciplined and training or his natural maturation, and he you have a good work ethic, you will bring replied, “It’s a combination. I am taking my those things with you.” game a lot more seriously, and I plan to be I also asked Thomas where he gets playing it for the next 60 years.” He knows his athleticism, and he pointed out that that he will miss his teammates after his his mom, Sally, just completed the NYC final season next spring; he said “It will be Marathon, and that the 26.2 mile race was tough without them, but I will be playing her 13th at that distance. His dad, Rick, has walked approximately 3,234 miles from in tennis leagues, so it will still be a team Cass Park to Stewart Park and back again sport.” countless times over the course of the 47 I asked Thomas if he ever wished he years it has taken to complete the Cayuga had started earlier, and he said, “Most of Waterfront Trail—Rick’s brainchild.   • the kids I play against have been playing since they were five or six years old, so

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Setting Goals and Reaching Them Realtor Audrey Edelman talks about her 35 years in the business By Bi l l Ch a i s s o n

or many people real estate is a second (or third) career. Audrey Edelman, who recently retired after a 35-year sojourn in the profession, worked for 15 years as an English, social studies and art teacher before she started working at Village Real Estate in 1980. “It was partly at my husband’s urging,” she said. “saying that then my time would be my own. I loved teaching, but I had a friend in the business who asked me to join him. I always give a 1000 percent to whatever I do, so teaching was overwhelming.” Edelman stayed at Village for nine years. She had amassed a large number of clients and realized that she could not take care of all of them in the manner in which she believed they should be cared for. So she founded her own company. As it happened she was starting a business in the middle of a recession. “I didn’t know how hard it was,” she said. “I thought it was always like this.” It was not unusual for a woman to start a real estate agency in the late 1980s. “Woman were seen as an asset,” she aid. “I didn’t face any discrimination at all.” After a year and a half in business, she had 18 agents in Audrey Edelman Real Estate. Then Dick Wilson closed his agency and she suddenly had 22 more. “They blended in beautifully,” Edelman said. “People think of real estate as a competitive business, but that was certainly not the case in our office.” What makes a good realtor? “You have to be smart,” said Edelman. “After all, you’re writing contracts. But there is more to it than that: you have to have heart. You have to be empathetic, caring, and patient. School teachers and nurses do very well [in real estate], not that other people

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don’t.” Edelman advanced from salesperson to broker rapidly. By her second year at Village Real Estate, she already had the necessary 50 sales to become a broker. In

addition to simply amassing sales, realtors continually take courses and workshops. “To me training was imperative,” she said. “I was a Girl Scout, so you know, you have ‘be prepared.’”

Eventually she went through her certified residential broker course and became a principal broker. After she founded her own company she withdrew from selling houses altogether, not wishing to be in competition with her own employees. As a manager, she then began to train new agents. When her employees went off to do a workshop, she was also eager to hear how they had fared. “I’d be like a parent waiting for a teenager to come home,” she laughed. “If they had any questions, I encouraged them to ask. It was actually like an apprenticeship.” Edelman liken getting a realtor’s license to getting a driver’s license. It is a little harder than that, she admitted, but “anyone can do it.” It usually takes someone three years to become a broker. “I had very high expectations of [my agents],” she said. “and they appreciated that it turns out.” “She trained me,” said Peggy Haine, who joined the Edelman ranks in 2003 after, well, many other careers. “She taught me everything. She was an inspiration. She knew a lot and she wanted us to work our butts off.” Haine said that they best thing about working at Edelman was the “culture of cooperation.” “Real estate can be cutthroat,” she said, “but she had very high ethical standards, which she imparted when you joined.” Kristin Ahlness had worked at five other real estate firms before she joined Audrey Edelman 19 years ago. “The spirit of collaboration is what really struck me,” she said. “That might seem ordinary in another workplace.” Ahlness noted that the nature of the business causes all real estate agents to be competitors, so the cooperacontinued on page 16

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tive ethic in the Edelman office was a new one on her. Ahlness said that Edelman sent the message even through the layout of the office. “If you have been in here, the first thing you’ll notice is that all the office doors are French doors with windows,” she said. “You can always be seen, even when you close the doors. It says that you are always available.” As a seasoned realtor, Ahlness did not need to be trained when she started at Edelman, but she said the company owner was always there when she had any questions or concerns. “She was a guidepost,” Ahness said. “She would ask us what are goal was and then she’d tell us to double it.” When she began thinking about a real estate career in 1985, Kathy Hopkins sought out Edelman at Village Real Estate. Edelman told her to go get some experience at a large established firm. Hopkins duly did so, but joined the new Edelman firm in 1990. “She was and still is a model for hard, honest work,” Hopkins said at Edelman’s retirement party last month. “While there are many things I can say here, the one

The Ithaca housing market is strongly affected by the presence of Cornell University and Ithaca College. “Our industry is education,” Edelman said. “Eighty-three percent of our transactions are related to the university. “We don’t suffer the downfalls that other markets do.” she continued. “Properties hold their value. People don’t come here to stay, They are constantly buying and selling.” Edelman said that she was surprised at the attitude of my of the university employees when it came to buying and selling their homes. Because of these people had a great deal of education, she expected them to want their own way. Instead she found most them to be remarkably humble in the context of making a six-figure transaction. Edelman too is humble when speaking about her role in her own company. “I thought of it as an inverted pyramid,” she said. “The realtors were at the top; the staff were in the middle; and I was at the bottom, the smallest part of the company. The realtors are the company. I think they knew that. Whatever I could do for them, I would do.” That said, Edelman never forgot that the name of the company was the Audrey Edelman Company. “I was not shy about removing people who did not fit in,” she

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gem I will close with, “Attitude and correct spelling are everything.” Edelman admits to being a perfectionist. “Ulimately,” she said of every contract and document produced at her office, “my name is on it.” The former English teacher would even go over her agents letters to clients, if they brought them to her. During her 35 years in the business, Edelman experienced many changes in the regulation of the industry. Most of those regulations though, she believed applied to a lowest common denominator that existed somewhere else, not in Ithaca. Mostly, she said, regulations generated increasingly more paperwork. “They didn’t affect the profession here,” said the Queens native. “People were already doing the right thing. It’s a small town, and no one was out to do anyone else in. Everybody here cares.” Her real estate company opened its own mortgage business and, unlike many downstate offices, hers had no foreclosures. “Because,” she said, “nobody lied here.”

said. She thought that spending nine years at another company before she started her own was an important stage in developing her management style. She got an idea of what an office should be like. In order that the office be the way she thought it ought to be, Edelman trained all the new employees herself. “I like people who are like sponges,” she said. “I loved the training.” Edelman believes that training continues over an extended period. She endorsed a technique called “spaced repetition,” in which each repetition of a lesson comes after a longer interval than the previous one. “You hear something six times,” she said, “and you own it.” She wanted all of her employees to succeed and happily went over their personal goals with them. “I believe in written goal setting,” Edelman said. “About three percent of all people have them, but those are your top achievers.” §

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publish an online catalog. hen he opened Finger Lakes “All I can say is these haven’t been Estate & Auction Co. about authenticated, but they are definitely a year and a half ago, Charlie original. They’re signed, and they look Dorsey said that antique dealers in the good,” Dorsey said as he shows off some region told him they’d been talking about pieces. There’s a potential Magritte, with the lack of an auction house in Tompkins two women in motion, skirts blowing in County “for decades.” the wind. A small Cy Twombly canvas in “A lot of Cornell estates, high quality primary colors. A small, Joan Mìro with stuff, was shipped out of the county and scribbles in paint, and a framed sketch sold in Binghamton, Vestal, at Bostwick’s that might be by the sculptor Alberto in Candor,” Dorsey said. “In this area, a Giacometti. tag sale in the home has been one method “There’s no provenance for these,” to liquidate assets, and now the auction is Dorsey said, “but we’ll put them out there another alternative.” Dorsey is not an auctioneer by trade, nor does the business run in the family. He took a degree from Ithaca College in therapeutic recreation, spent five years working with the Ithaca Youth Bureau, then took a job at the Stillwater residential treatment facility for children with emotional and psychiatric issues in Greene. Burnt out by the intensity of that position, Dorsey said he started thinking about business opportunities. “The only other thing I knew how to do [besides Charlie Dorsey in the Fleaco warehouse. (Photo: Rye Bennett) therapy] was to buy and sell antiques on eBay,” Dorsey said. “People are intimidated and let the world decide.” by the auction process. I was told you just More than the stuff—the art, the cars, need to be able to count and speak in public. I was good at math, and I’m getting the well-made furniture, the silver and fine china—Dorsey said he finds the people better at the speaking.” and their stories to be the most fulfilling There is no auction licensing program part of running auctions. He first got that in New York State. Anyone saying they’re notion when he was just out of college and a licensed auctioneer here, Dorsey said, is displaying credentials from schools earned helping his grandmother clear out a home that was filled with stuff. in other states—mostly in the South and “We had three or four people come Midwest. He’s adopted a laid-back style for Fleaco, as the company is known for short. to look at her home in northeastern “If the urgency and competition for an Pennsylvania,” Dorsey said, “and they all told us to have a garage sale, call us when item isn’t there, you’re supposed to make you’re done, and we’ll sell the good stuff. it artificially with the tone of your voice,” They said ‘You’ll make a few thousand Dorsey said. “I sell just like I’m talking dollars if you’re lucky.’ We did it ourselves, to you right now, pretty straightforward. and made $13,000. I thought then, there We want to be welcoming to everyone, needs to be somebody else in town who a non-threatening, non-intimidating environment, which I think fits pretty well will take on a big project.” While cleaning out his grandmother’s with where folks in Ithaca are at.” house, Dorsey and his brother-in-law Though Fleaco is new to the auction came across a film made of her wedding game, it’s already handled some large day and her in a boat, presumably filmed sales. Dorsey said he’s been “leveraging by her husband on their honeymoon. the power of the Internet” to sell highThey captured the reel-to-reel projection ticket items on the auction site invaluable. with an iPad and showed it to her in the com. A 1941 Cadillac sold to a buyer in nursing home, where the footage brought Australia for $56,000 this summer. Art is tears to her eyes. accumulating to a point where the house “This isn’t just stuff,” Dorsey said, “this will be having Steven Daly of Ithaca is people’s lives.” § Vintage do authentications and then

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A Business of a Sort Cayuga Lake Books puts out good looking books By Josh Brokaw

riting has never been a surefire way to make money. Tell your kids to be doctors or lawyers. For those already doomed to the belttightened literary life, Ithaca features another publisher to help them get their books into print. “We figured a lot of writers in Ithaca were having trouble finding publishers, as writers are all over the country,” said Edward Hower of Cayuga Lake Books. “We’re a small-town operation reaching a lot of people. We want to allow our area writers to have access to the world of readers, be published, and get their books written about in the newspapers.” Local poet and instructor Peter Fortunato, current Tompkins County poet laureate Jack Hopper, and Hower got together in 2012 to found Cayuga Lake Books. Rhian Ellis joined the group to edit the newly released From the Finger Lakes: A Prose Anthology, which features essays, fiction, and occasional prose from 44 authors.

“We’re waiting to see what happens with the anthology,” Fortunato said. “With 44 writers, all of them have a network of connections, and we’ve asked all of them to publicize it over their email lists, their websites, Facebook. We’ll see how the wave tumbles.” “We may even make some money on this,” Hower said, “and we can plow that back into doing a poetry anthology in 2016.” When working with individual authors, Cayuga Lake Books isn’t taking a cut of sales. They work with Wasteland Press, a self-publishing specialist located in Kentucky, to put out their books. Quality is the focus, with four or five books per year the plan for now. “Anybody can publish a book tomorrow for free. You can print at the espresso machine in the Cornell campus store,” Fortunato said. “The challenge for any independent publisher always has been it’s not easy to get reviews about literary books. It’s very hard to get a book of poetry

published these days.” restrictions aside, the group is open to Nowadays, “agents want to be paid to anything “different, wonderful, original, be editors, to present books to publishers,” that doesn’t quite fit into a category,” Fortunato said. Many authors, even Hower said—even a thriller, if it’s written with the five remaining large publishing in a distinctive style. houses, are paying So far, books have independent publicity been published by Jim people and arranging McConkey, Cory Brown, their own book tours, Bhisham Bherwani, and Hower said. And all of Nancy Flynn, along with that is beside the point titles by all three of the if the book comes out founding writers. Ann Day, with mistakes. a local painter, published “All of us have We Have Saved What We had experiences with Can last year, a volume of publishers where the poems with accompanying book comes with photographs chronicling zillions of typos,” her passage to the United Hower said. “Even if it States as a refugee after the comes from Random Germans took the Isle of House a book’s going Jersey during World War to look like crap II. sometimes.” “We’re two In one case, novelists and two poets. Peter Fortunato and Ed Hower (Photo Josh Brokaw) Hower had a novel We’re not trying to of his come back make a living out of from the press with lines scrambled in the this. We’ll keep writing our stuff,” Hower closing paragraph; a card was inserted to said. “It’s a fake it till you make it sort say how the final lines should read. of thing. We’re trying to do it right and “We’re trying to be very considerate keep it fairly small with a focus on the of our writers and treat the books well,” Finger Lakes area. We want to publish Hower said. “If we take the time it takes to quality independent books which are not put out a very good book, people who buy particularly commercial, but which are it will say ‘Wow, this looks really good.’” damn good.” Cayuga Lake Books is focusing on Cayuga Lake Books will have a “books which are literary more than reading of their new anthology at 2 p.m. commercial,” Hower said. “We don’t on Sunday, Nov. 15 at Buffalo Street Books. publish any thrillers or cookbooks or For more information on their titles, visit books with pictures of cats.” Those cayugalakebooks.com. §

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Locally Made City Bike FBM BMX returns to the Ithaca area and issues The Raconteur By Bill Chaisson

n 2001, after a fire destroyed FBM BMX’s offices in the West End of Ithaca, the company used the insurance money to build its own machine shop and started handcrafting BMX frames and forks in an old factory in Binghamton. Since then, FBM has expanded its product line to include a variety of handcrafted handlebars, forks, fixed gear frames, and bike polo frames as well as line of components and soft goods. Whenever possible the company prides itself on making its products in house, by hand. That craftsmanship recently returned to the Ithaca area when FBM moved into a warehouse at 478 Lower Creek Road in Dryden. After taking some time to settle in, the company is back to innovating in its industry. On Oct. 28, FBM BMX officially launched the “Raconteur Bicycle,” which the company defines as a “design that combines the aesthetic of vintage English road bikes—the simple lines, small diameter tubing, a single color frame contrasting with polished metal components, a metal head badge, and a leather saddle—with modern materials and manufacturing techniques. The foundation of the Raconteur bicycles is the TIG-welded frame and fork handcrafted in the FBM Machine shop in Ithaca, New York. The frame and fork tubing is 100 percent 4130 chromoly, selected for the right balance of strength, durability and weight. The fork is based on the FBM Sword fixed gear fork but has curved legs for a more comfortable ride.” Co-owner Mike Erb elaborated on how the new model was born. “We’ve been designing and building BMX bikes for 17 years,” Erb said, “so that process [designing and building BMX bikes] has almost become second nature. We can alter the geometry or materials and have a really good idea what the frame will ride like. For the Raconteurs, we had to start from scratch. “We researched mid 20th century English road bike geometry—our inspiration—and how it compared with modern city bikes,” Erb continued. “What we discovered is that the English bikes ride differently, and, for me, better than modern city bikes. The Raconteur marries that classic geometry with the performance and durability of lightweight modern materials and manufacturing techniques. In order to make a bike that looks good and rides well we had to find and select components that were not only high quality but that also fit our inspiration.” According to FBM, the components

of the new bike design has been carefully selected for quality, purpose and style. They include existing and new FBM designed components, 650b size wheels chosen for the middle ground they provide between the visual aesthetic of the traditional 26-inch wheel and the performance of the current standard 700c road wheel, a leather saddle from Brooks, a FSA Gimondi crank set chosen for its boxy vintage style that is nearly impossible to find with modern crank sets and because Velo Orange has a likeminded design aesthetic for their components FBM chose to include several of their components. “These bikes,” Erb said, “have been in development for about two years.

We started with researching the geometry, materials, tooling and components, made a couple iterations of prototypes to ride, then finalized everything, and put the bikes into the production schedule. The bikes are available in multiple sizes as a 2-speed, and an 8-speed. The frame and fork are available for people who want to build their own bikes.” Erb added that The FBM team (Photo: Michael Nocella) the new model was designed for “people If you are interested in acquiring who want a bike that they can use for both the newly minted Raconteur bike, you riding to work and running errands, and can do so by appointment at FBM’s also for leisure.” manufacturing facility at 478 Lower Creek “Our main thing is manufacturing Rd., or visit Narrative Space at 213 N. BMX bike frames,” Erb said. “Now we also Aurora St., or order online at lastcalldistro. make road bikes, city bikes. We like to do com. § it all ourselves and make everything here.”

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New Commercial Lender at Tioga

Tioga State Bank has announced that William Hodel has joined their business banking team as a commercial lender. Hodel will be responsible for serving Tioga State Bank’s existing and prospective business customers in the Southern Tier of New York and Northern Tier of Pennsylvania. “I am excited to help my customers as a member of Tioga State Bank,” Hodel said. “I will apply my years of experience in business banking to meet the lending needs of local businesses.” Hodel joins William Hodel Tioga State Bank’s Business Banking team with over 30 years of experience in the banking industry. He has held various banking positions including Vice President and Commercial Loan Officer. He is an active member of his community and resides in Endwell. He will work out of the bank’s Vestal Office at 1250 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal, NY, but will be available at a customer’s convenience. The bank’s website address is www. tiogabank.com.

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CFCU Community Credit Union announced the selection of Jeffrey Dobbin as the credit union’s new vice president of business lending. “Jeff is a welcomed addition to the CFCU family” said Catherine Benson, Chief Lending Officer. “Jeff ’s wealth of experience and proven record of success throughout his accomplished career will certainly advance CFCU’s lending initiatives for the future.” Dobbin brings over 28 years of financial services experience, primarily in the lending area. In his most recent role as vice president of commercial lending for Tompkins Trust Company, Dobbin was responsible for managing a large commercial loan portfolio. Prior to joining Tompkins Trust, Dobbin served as Vice President of Commercial Lending for Elmira Savings Bank. In this role cultivating client relationships Dobbin increased the bank’s loan portfolio by approximately 20 million dollars. Throughout Dobbin’s storied career a constant has remained which is to build long lasting client relationships through strong commitment and service. Dobbin has a bachelors of science in business administration and finance. He is actively involved in the community serving on boards such as McGraw House, Longview and Risk Management Association. For over ten years Dobbin has been the administrator and coach for an Ithaca traveling sixth grade basketball team.

IC Money Available to County Nonprofits

$2,000 is available through the Ithaca College Student United Way (IC SUW). IC SUW is a student-led initiative dedicated to community-wide charitable and volunteer efforts. IC SUW raises and grants funds to local nonprofits through a competitive grant process. All Tompkins County nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Online applications are due on Nov. 30. Organizations should visit www.uwtc. org/apply-funding to access information and review the grant criteria. Applications are accepted online. Questions about the grant can be directed to Kelsey Rossbach; she can be reached at kstafford@uwtc.org or (607) 272-6286. Working with others United Way of Tompkins County will build an organization that supports individuals in their efforts to live self-sufficient, productive lives, connects families with their communities, encourages diverse agencies and communities to engage each other to achieve mutual goals, models and expects fairness, dignity, and respect.

The Art of Gratitude

United Way of Tompkins County, in partnership with Michelle Berry andTompkins County Public Library, will present “The Art of Gratitude: Thanking Our Community,” a free talk and inspirational retreat facilitated by Michelle Courtney Berry and James Brown, on Thursday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon in the BorgWarnerCommunity Room. Berry, President of Courtney ConMichelle Courtney Berry sulting Enterprises, LLC, and Brown, President of United Way of Tompkins County are pleased to present this moving, enlightening and free program. This will mark the second year the two have collaborated to inspire the community in the month of November. This program will encourage participants to explore both the art of being thankful and the health benefits of expressing gratitude. Brown will thank community volunteers for their role in “living united” while unveiling a fun initiative that allows participants to share thanks with others around the nation. Berry, a life coach, stress expert and inspirational performer will offer insights and moving testimony about how expressing gratitude can lead to greater levels of happiness, personal abundance and improved health and wellness. This program is free and open to the public; however, advance registration is required. To register, visit gratituderetreat.eventbrite.com

Finding That First Job or the Next One

The Ithaca College Office of Career Services has launched ICHired — a new portal for posting jobs, internships, fellowships and experiential learning opportunities — to help students and alumni in their career search. Career Services will hold a virtual ribbon-cutting event for the new site on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 3–4 p.m. in its offices in 101 Muller Faculty Center. Live tutorials will be offered to help users navigate the new site and to help in their job/ internship search. ICHired is a website that offers a platform for employers to recruit students, graduates, alumni, faculty and staff for jobs and internships. The site is provided by Handshake, a career services management platform. “It is easy to use, modern in both look and functionality, and makes it easier for recruiting organizations to connect and develop deeper recruiting relationships with us,” said John Fracchia, associate director of career services. “The site allows organizations to post information for free to multiple schools, and as a result, more companies are looking at IC. The immediate benefit is that there are significantly more job and internship opportunities, not only for our students, but also for our alumni.” Interested users can sign up at www. ithaca.edu/sacl/careers. A mobile app is available in the iTunes store. For more information, contact John

opens up possibilities for delivery at CMC of premature twins and potentially triplets. This year the CMC Foundation Gala The Cayuga Medical Center FoundaCommittee was led by Margaret Munchmeyer and Kate Travis. tion is proud to announce that this year’s 10th anniversary gala, An Evening to Care, “It is just amazing how the Gala comes had the largest support from our comtogether… each of the committee memmunity – with the highest attendance ever bers does their part and makes the evening – 434 people. a great success,” It has been very humThe gala raised a net of $118,000 to support Cayubling to see how the Gala has grown over ga Medical Center Foundation’s 2015 fundraising the last ten years” initiative –Enhancement of said John Rudd, the Neonatal Department. President and CEO. Of the $118,000, $36,000 The fundraising was raised by the live aucinitiative for Cayuga tion with auctioneer David Medical Center’s Hall of National Book Neonatal DepartAuctions and Laurie Linn ment will continue to be a focus of fundof Communique’ Design and Marketing presiding raising for the CMC over the live auction. All Foundation for the rest of this calendar of the auction items were generously donated by loyear. Donations continue to be accepted. cal businesses and memGala chairs Kate Travis and Margaret bers of our community. If you would like to make Munch John Rudd, President a donation, please call Jan Hertel, Executive Director and CEO of Cayuga Medical of the CMC Foundation at 607-274-4284. Center said “The Annual CMC Foundation Gala helps us fund specific projects at Part of Governor Cuomo’s NY-Sun CMC. The proceeds from Gala 2015 will initiative, Affordable Solar is authorized be used for the enhancement of the Cato spend $13 million to achieve greater yuga Birthplace Neonatal Intensive Care participation by low- to moderate-income customers in solar electric programs. The Services. These enhancements will enable double incentives for low- to moderate-infamilies to deliver babies at Cayuga Medicome homeowners will use approximately cal Center from 7 ½ months to 9 months, half of that funding. The other half will be or 30 weeks gestation to full term. This Fracchia at jfracchia@ithaca.edu.

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New Deputy Director at CMoG

The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) today announced the appointment of John D.M. (Jack) Green, as its new deputy director for collections, research, and exhibitions. Currently the chief curator at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum (OIM), Green specializes in the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient Middle East and East Mediterranean, and has significant leadership experience in a variety of functions at the OIM. In his new role, Green will be a creative partner with the Museum’s president and executive director, Dr. Karol Wight, and will assist in the strategic leadership of the Museum, as well as managing the collections, exhibitions, education, conservation, digital, publications, and science departments, along with the Rakow Research Library and The Studio. Green will assume his new position on January 4, 2016. “We are thrilled to welcome Jack as our new deputy director,” said Wight. “Jack’s extraordinary background as a scholar, archaeologist, and chief curator and his exceptional leadership skills are the perfect match with the wide scope of the Museum’s mission. Jack will play an incontinued on page 22

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tory. Being able to work with its incredible collection, spanning the globe over 3,500 contin u ed from page 21 years, and team of experts across fields, will be incredibly rewarding.” tegral role in helping to lead our continuIn addition to his work in university ing growth and I very much look forward and museum settings, Green has archaeoto collaborating with him on logical survey and excavation the exciting initiatives we are experience in England, Turkey, planning for the future.” Syria, Jordan and Israel; colIn his time at the Oriental lections and archives research Institute Museum, Green has experience in Europe, the United overseen the offices of the regStates, and the Middle East; and istrar, collections, photography, has provided advisory support and special exhibitions, in addion cultural heritage and museum tion to the museum’s archives, projects in Kabul, Afghanistan, curatorial staff, and Museum and the West Bank. Green restore. He has organized engagceived his BA in archaeology at ing exhibitions of the Museum’s the University of Liverpool. He Jack Green renowned collections of Near received his MA and PhD from Eastern art and archaeological the Institute of Archaeology at material, including the institution’s recent University College London. exhibition, A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo, and also developed exhibition design, Longtime local construction firm, interpretation, related publications, and William H. Lane Incorporated, is adding a educational programming. Green has previously held positions as the curator for seasoned professional to its ranks with the addition of Thomas Sanford as their new the Ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Safety Manager. Mr. Sanford brings with Museum, University of Oxford, and coorhim more than fifteen years of experience dinator of the Tell es-Sa’idiyeh Cemetery in the Construction Industry, and will Publication in the department of the Middle East at the British Museum. He has coordinate all initiatives related to creatalso taught at the University of Oxford and ing and maintaining a safe workplace for everyone. the University of Liverpool. Sanford comes to William H. Lane “I am excited to join The Corning Incorporated from the C&S Companies Museum of Glass team,” said Green. “The Museum is unlike anywhere else in its sin- in Syracuse, NY, where he served as an gular focus and expansive scope, a place to Environmental Health & Safety Manager. While there, he provided safety oversight truly embrace one material in all respects: for contractors and company workers, its creation, display, appreciation, and hisBusinessbriefs

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to Jennifer Engel for her work with the public library as well as her store, the Cats’ Pajamas. In 2014, Jeff Love for his work with the Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau In 2013, Jon Raimon for his dedication to working with students at the Lehman Alternative Community School specifically through the community service class Nominations for the Debra Previous recipients also S. Newman ‘02 Cornell Tradiinclude: Wendy Skinner, tion Community Recognition 2012, Sandy True, 2011, Jack Award are now being accepted. Jensen, 2010, Mary Grainger This award is meant to recog2009, Gay Nicholson 2008, nize and honor a community Tom Sanford Terry Byrnes 2007, Ron Hamember (not a student) who vard 2006, Frances Ramin has demonstrated a strong com2005, Noel Desch 2004, Jerry Dietz 2003 mitment to service and/or leadership in a and Mimi Melegrito 2002. community service setting. This year the Nomination forms can be found here: award will be presented as part of the Trabit.ly/Dnewman. dition New Fellow Welcome Back Dinner Call the number below to get a on Tuesday, Feb. 9. nomination form emailed or mailed to The recipient of the award will be you. Nominations are due by 4:30 pm on honored at dinner, be commemorated on Monday, Nov. 23. To learn more about the a permanent plaque that resides in Cornell Cornell Tradition program or the Cornell University’s Day Hall and presented with Commitment office please visit our web$1,000 to be designated as a charitable site. If you have any questions please call contribution to the non-profit of his/her 255-8595 or by email at sah48@cornell. choice. Last year the award was presented edu. conducted daily site reviews, and assisted workers in planning work activities with safety in mind. During his tenure, he conducted these duties while overseeing projects valued at more than $100 million.

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The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. – Albert Einstein

think of the Tompkins County Public Library as the greatest resource in the Greater Ithaca Area. It is truly a wonderful library. The TCPL also hosts art exhibits. These exhibits feature artists from the community and are often excellent. The current exhibit, called “Streetscapes,” is a perfect example. It features seven artists, all superb. Here’s the statement of the curator, Sally Grubb, describing how the works are held together thematically: “‘Streetscapes’ features a collection of work that draws on creativity and inspiration from our urban surroundings. Using a mixture of diverse media, artists explore the influence of the urban environment through color, energy, movement, and personal experience, culminating in sincere straight-from-the-gut expression. “Streetscapes” is an inherent appreciation of urban culture, in all its dangerous, poetic, authentic—and sometimes rebellious—glory.” “Streetscapes” is a great show. The art is marvelous. I feel a bit inadequate trying to describe it in words, but let’s have a go at it. Here are the seven artists:

Jim Garmhausen I have written of Garmhausen’s work before, both as a cartoonist and a fine artist. As a cartoonist, I think of him as a 21st century George Herriman (creator of the comic strip Krazy Kat) or E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye). In the last decade, however, he has been developing as a fine artist. I think of him as a sort of American Max Ernst. And his outré sculptures remind me of Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Another thing that occurs to me is that his work is so remarkably original. I can’t think of a precedent for it. I think of the designs for the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine, or perhaps Dr. Seuss, or old Max Fleischer animated cartoons, but truthfully, Garmhausen’s work is crazily original. And Garmhausen’s work in the Streetscapes show is especially brilliant. There is a cluster of five small drawing/ painting/collage pieces—Public Safety Interrogation (It’s For Your Own Good), Step Into the Wiring, Buy a Pencil, Mister?, Change, and (Only) Walk the Tuna (At Night)—that are quite indescribable … sort of Hieronymus Bosch meets Max Fleischer on acid, or perhaps opium. The pieces feature big bulbous-headed creatures, a disturbing double-headed creature

in a black medieval robe and crown, a large and unpleasant head walking on octopus tentacles, a disturbing death-head cartoon bear panhandling, and disturbing cartoon creatures popping like jack-in-the-boxes out of the wiring. The stuff is like a dark and troubling nightmare out of the mind of H.P. Lovecraft, or perhaps Tim Burton.

I am reminded of the work of Charles White III, the great advertising and fine artist, whose fine art riffs on the seedy underbelly of American advertising art. I am also reminded of some of the great Zap Comix artists like Victor Moscosco and the late, great, sainted Rick Griffin. And Szuc is going into new territory with The Problem With the Youth (acrylic and

Jim Garmhausen’s Public Safety Interrogation (It’s For Your Own Good) (Photo Provided)

Jeff Szuc I have written of Jeff Szuc’s work before as well. I am a cartoonist, so I first saw Szuc’s work at one of the annual Ithaca comic book conventions, the Ithacon. I am highly attracted to Szuc’s work because he often works with imagery that evokes cartoons and children’s book art and surrealism, all stuff I like a lot. Often his work looks like it could be illustrations for outré science fiction, like the stories of Harlan Ellison. But with his work in the “Streetscape” exhibit, Szuc appears to be branching off in new directions. Mmmmm…Pop (acrylic and mixed media on wood) features a cartoon hot dog character emerging from a cloud of abstract shapes and advertising logos. The hot dog character has big, black stylized eyes like those early-20th century animated cartoon characters such as Felix the Cat or the primal version of Mickey Mouse. T

spray paint on canvas) as this is an entirely abstract work—although the shapes contained within have a three-dimensional quality that gives it a feel more like Surrealism than the purely abstract color swashes of Abstract Expressionism. Jay Stooks Jay Stooks has a number of wildly divergent styles on display in “Streetscapes.” He has a large untitled piece; an abstract work with large, shooting, multicolored geometric lines and grids and big diamond shapes that looks like a Frank Stella painting; and three small drawings (Peter Pan and the Crocodile, Donald Duck, and Scrooge McDuck) which are line drawings of the Disney characters continued on page 29 h e

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The Weird and The Bold

Fest brings the best in strange and extreme films By Br yan VanC ampe n

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’ve been dreaming of an annual Ithaca film festival centered on incredibly strange films, and we’ve had one for a few years; my friend Hugues Barbier is back with the third installment of the Ithaca Fantastic Film Festival from Wednesday Nov. 11 through Sunday, Nov. 15. I’ve had so much fun at the previous two fests—chauffeuring director Brian Trenchard-Smith from screening

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to screening, and introducing flicks like The Exorcist, Alien, Lifeforce, and Michael Reeves’ The Witchfinder General. This year is no exception. There’s so much happening over the five days of IFFF that I can’t mention it all. But here are some highlights among the festival’s mix of new and classic genre fare. All screenings are at Cinemapolis. It all kicks off on Wednesday Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. with Karoly Ujj Meszaros’ Liza, The Fox Fairy. Talk about serious weirdness; it’s about this young lady whose best friend is a long-dead Japanese pop star. She herself may be a Kitsune, a shapeshifting fox from Japanese folklore. Fashioning a blurb for Use the Eyeballs! (Thursday, Nov. 12, 6 p.m.) is quite a challenge. Naoya Tashiro’s film is about love and family, but also about bullying and finding one’s place in our society. Our hero has eyeballs falling off his nose—yes, you read that right. Barbier claims that the movie reminds us of the cinema we loved in the ‘80s: it doesn’t pull its punches when it comes to weirdness, and it totally pays off. IFFF is also about bringing back

proven classics for retrospective screenings. Last year, I mustered up the courage to see Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it was amazing to finally see it. This year, you can see Shin’ya Tsukamoto’ s Tetsuo: the Iron Man (1989), Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1960), and a special screening of Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher with a live scoring performance by Anna Coogan and Tzar. If you’re thinking of seeing something, you should go: IFFF only repeats two of its selections, Men & Chicken (Thursday, 6 p.m., and Saturday, 4 p.m.) and Polder (Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday, 6 p.m.). And as the song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show goes, that’s just one small fraction of the main attraction. Check out the whole schedule of screenings and events at ithacafilmfestival.com. I hope to see you at Cinemapolis—it’s gonna be a blast! *** Blue Sky Studios has been cranking out uninspired kiddie time-killers like the Ice Age and Rio series, so it’s no surprise that The Peanuts Movie, directed by Steve Martino, is the best film they’ve ever made. By sticking to what made the Peanuts what they were for roughly 80 percent of the film—it was co-written by Charles Schultz’s grandson—it gets that melancholy Charlie Brown vibe down. I am an old softie who cries at insurance commercials, but I’ll admit that when the movie cranks up Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmastime Is Here,” and when Snoopy gives Charlie Brown a moment of comfort and support, I shed a few grateful tears. Set largely in the cottony white winter of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the film is about Charlie Brown’s epic crush on the new kid in the neighborhood, the Little Red-Haired Girl. Not since the first appearance of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man comic have so many artists had so much fun obscuring a character’s face at critical moments. Good ol’ C.B. dedicates himself to heroic pursuits over the course of a book report and other events during the school year to win his true love’s heart. The best parts of the film show Charlie’s inner thoughts in classic Schulz 2D animation, while Snoopy’s flights of fantasy are as 3D-detailed as Avatar. Hey, guys—you could have done the whole movie in 2D and the result would be just as sweet. And when you make the next movie, play more Guaraldi and less toothless tween autotune pop. A 2D movie in these modern times? Talk about a true act of rebellion. •

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The Singularity

Finding one’s past through memory channels By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Huang Hsin-Chien, “The Inheritance,” Johnson Museum of Art, on display through Dec. 20, 2015

ou’ve just entered the intricate brain system of an artist. Miniscule bits of information are enlarged, on full display, and processing continuously. This giant brain is unique. It is not your brain, but you are its body. It is sending vital information through its extended central nervous system to every inch of your nerves. You see four objects on display, unique ones, and then turn a corner. Four memory-channels are present, each

A 3-D animation from Huang Hsin-Chien’s The Inheritance (Photo Provided)

processing those four objects through a video camera. In these channels you see visual memories that are building up, then tumbling down. You are immersed and cannot surely state that you are actually you anymore. No, you are part of something bigger, you are part of the artist Huang Hsin-Chien. You leave. You are yourself once again. Huang Hsin-Chien’s exhibit “The Inheritance” is the aforementioned brain system. It lives within multiple levels: realtionships, modern technology, Duchampian ideals, and the want of precise memory. In this exhibit the Taiwanese artist presents a meditation on his relationship with his father. He tries, for his sake, to bridge the gap between an old and forgotten world, and a contemporary one, using advanced computer programming to reach these end-goals. Can he capture memories in computer systems the same way memories attach themselves to objects? Can he reach his father through these technically-advanced memory-channels? Chien’s exhibit is plain-clothed as a relationship with his father, but more importantly, it’s the relationship with his memory that is really on stage. As

a tech-wizard he has helped Sega and Sony Computer Entertainment develop interactive video games. His talent for computer programming is on full display here. The exhibit showcases a dual system of a father and son, which lives now singularly, in one mind. The physical objects in the exhibit are placed in the gallery in the front room. Marcel Duchamp’s readymade Fountain comes to mind when pondering these items. You want to touch them, they are utilitarian items, but thanks to Duchamp they stand alone, chosen as art. There are Chien’s father’s personal objects, and they’re lined up on tables with computer cameras videotaping them from behind. There are dentures soaking in a clean beer mug, a beautiful pink plastic hue pulsating slightly around the glass. There’s a watch, a simple, modest one, that serves as an apt metaphor for the old world; the watch, like the old world, has stopped. There is one old small shoe, a wonderfully and intricate crafted piece of leather. The last object, a camera, an Agfa Karat model most probably from the 1930s, lies there very ironic and fitting. Here we have Chien’s father’s gateway to physical memories. And while looking at the camera through the memory-channel on the other side, it is as though we have a rift in the fabric of time. The duality of Chien’s exhibit is most prominently about the way viewers experience objects, and the way he experiences those objects, or rather, the way he wants to experience his father. And in this case it is in the form of memories via a three-dimensional portal. The excellent motion graphics that are seen through the memory-channels (with the aid of 3D sunglasses) showcase Chien’s programming abilities. And they’re really fun to watch. The experience is whole unto itself, and one quickly loses sense of time and place, giving in to the dark matter that surrounds the gallery, collapsing into the singularity that is the one brain. The objects that birth these animations represent the world of the father. Chien’s world is the dimension in which the experience proceeds—that is, the world of idealism, creating the future with the past. The exhibit succeeds in moving beyond retinal art, something Duchamp so championed and worked towards. The experience you have with these objects and their dimensional transference, and art in general, is unique to every individual, and is part of what makes art so meaningful. How does Chien remember his father? How does he want to remember his father? These are the quarrels that are inside his mind, and upon entering the exhibit you become part of the equation, part of his singular nervous system. •

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The Space Between

Meditative works at Creative Space Gallery By Ambe r D onof r io

implicity is dangerous, as it runs victim to the potential for dismissal. White walls enveloping small collage drawings could easily be overlooked. But simultaneously, in the eloquence of positive and negative coexistence, and in an artist’s total embracement and clarity of concept, the simplicity also carries with it the potential to surpass language and to float there, wholly in the visual realm. Luckily for viewers, “[…] the space between,” an exhibition of work by the Ithaca College Department of Art’s fall semester visiting artist Naomi J. Falk, achieves this latter role in an incredibly smart show that actively performs its messages without explicitly stating anything. “[…] the space between” is a work of poetry, partially because it draws some of the works’ titles from a poem written by Falk’s sister, Alexandra T. Richardson, and partially because Falk appears to handle visual composition much the way a poet pays attention to pauses, line breaks, and the sounds of words. One piece, with the same title as the show, presents a red

upside-down trapezoid, on top of which sits a blue semicircle. On the other side of the image is a blue quadrilateral shape atop an orange rectangle, a green curved bit of circle sitting on top of them both. Between the two stacks of shapes is the white inbetween, as if it is the valley between two cliffs. It seems incorrect to call the negative space a void, as it is not an absence but a focal point and a factor of inclusion, unifying the image into a whole. I noticed myself thinking how this one artwork epitomizes the phrase “space between,” even before knowing its title stated exactly that. And even here, describing the piece through shapes’ geometrical names seems futile in my attempt to express what this piece achieves. Much like the rest of the show, its elementary shapes seem banal and yet function in a way that is much more poignant than their simplicity may imply. One sculptural piece in the show is entitled I drag my finger across rough years, my gait confident, by arrhythmic… The piece is two arrhythmic, or irregular, forms cut from cardboard, like two zigzagging

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trails, one attached to the wall and the other oceanic depths alluded to through both on the ground. In both parts, one side of titles and concrete imagery. The collection the cardboard is painted bright orange of four Berg sculptures, created by adhering while the other side is blue, and the twowood to various icebergs, is one of the dimensional outlines are bent to create more obvious instances of manufactured three-dimensional environment. Meanwhile, forms. The Cloud (casting) and sculptural bit on Cloud (casting) II, in the ground is a which embroidered blue river, flowing clouds project rays, downward and are made only more revealing its significant through orange underside; their juxtaposition the hung bit is with other works a trail of orange such as Transmission breaking away (pod), a lighthousefrom the wall like transmitting and organically tower that mimics—or folding in on itself. at least affects—the There is space clouds. Maybe it’s on the inside umbilical, reads one of each piece of title, connecting me to sculpture and forever. Two disparate space between the forms are connected to two. There is also one another through A sculpture by Naomi J. Falk (Photo Provided) something natural embroidered lines, about the work’s the word “umbilical” perfect imperfection, in the way it is allotting a naturalness as if the forms are both constructed and yet surpasses that meant to connect, as if we as organisms construction, reminding one of the earth in exist within this Earth unified, with it in an its unapologetic and erratic curvature. ecological whole through birth. The spaces Throughout the exhibition there is between are in fact imaginary, as we are a definite reminder, though sometimes never entirely disconnected, just unified subtle, of the elements and natural world, through the elements and through shared as well as manufactured constructions we expressions of being alive. • impose. Along with the meditative gaps “[…] the space between” is on display at and silences of white space, there are cloud Creative Space Gallery, 215 the Commons, outlines, cut-out mounds of sand, and through Nov. 29.

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Lost Highway

The gothic light of an American artist By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Lera Lynn, Friday, November 13, 7 p.m., The Dock

hey say the devil is the road. It is a place of rebirth, of transformation. The hard sun that beats upon the open highways of America has lit up many a creative soul. Crossing the prairies, the plains, the lonely stretches of vast nothingness, is a rite of passage for the American artist. It is this vast landscape that acts as the gateway to an inner freedom; the artist acts as a conduit, and eventually a messenger, delivering that darkness, that sadness, that joy to its inhabitants. It is this accentuated noir,

with? Lera Lynn: The personnel on each tour always depends on the money. No matter, I write all my songs for a full band. This tour we have one, and it’s been going really great. The shows have been awesome. We played in Seattle recently and had a really great turnout. We played two encores; it was amazing. To be in front of a crowd that’s receptive and happy to be there is all you can really ask for as a musician. IT: Even in your older material, particularly The Avenues, there’s something gothic about your music. Do you think that had anything to do with your True Detective casting? LL: Absolutely. T Bone Burnett produced all the music in True Detective, and he knows exactly what he’s looking for. One of his greatest strengths is finding the right person to do the job. It was amazing working with him. IT: How has the True Detective experience and exposure changed your music or, perhaps, your artistic approach? LL: I don’t think it has necessarily changed my music in any particular way. I think one of the most important things

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a lyric, and I would go from there. Working with Rosanne was a dream come true. I’ve been inspired by so many musicians in my life: Rosanne, Jeff Buckley, Harry Nielson, Joni Mitchell, just to name a few. IT: Do you feel all this exposure has opened new doors, new fans? Are there different expectations now? LL: Honestly, a great deal of fans come up to me after shows and say how happy there are for my success with True Detective, but say they’ve been a fan of mine long before then. This whole thing doesn’t feel unnatural in any way, and it is very much part of my stratosphere. I’m sure people come out now and expect some True Detective material, but there’s much more than that; that’s just a piece of it. •

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this gothic system, that encapsulates the messenger. Hank Williams, Jack Kerouac, Townes Van Zandt, Jeff Buckley, Duane Allman: you name ‘em, all of them shared in this kindred gloom. Lera Lynn, the young country-noir musician based in Nashville who recently starred in and sang many of the songs for season two of the television series True Detective, has been equally touched and transformed. Her musical style recalls the heyday of real country music and showcases a Lynchian noir that is equal parts haunting and beautiful. In a relatively short time Lynn has circled round the country and back again, building amazingly upon her earlier work. She has transformed from an initial, softer—but still gothic—methodology, moving towards something really special and genuine. I recently spoke with Lynn as she and her band navigated their way through the peaks and valleys of the Northwest while on tour. Ithaca Times: How’s the tour? I see that you play solo a lot, as well as with a band. How do you decide who you want to tour

this show has shown me is that there’s a platform for dark music. Not necessarily physically dark music, but music that has a strong emotional undercurrent to it. It’s difficult to establish an audience with that form of music, but I think the experience has freed me up to explore different avenues, and not to be tied to any conceptions or particular genres. IT: What’s your writing process like? Where do you find inspiration? LL: It varies. I write some lyrics on the road. Sometimes a certain guitar lick will trigger something that inspires me to write, and sometimes I wake up in the morning and a song is already written for me. For the True Detective material, I wrote a bunch with T Bone and Rosanne Cash. T Bone would give me a certain melody or maybe

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ome traditional American folk songs are mash-ups of several different songs and the lyrics end up being somewhere between nonsensical and surreal, which is part of their attraction. Think of “Reuben’s Train,” which has many lyrical variants, making it a murder ballad, and a love song, “Reuben rode a train from England to Spain / And he never got no letters from his ma / Reuben had a wreck and he broke his friggin’ neck / They found his head on the driver’s wheel …” And “Shady Grove,” which is the story of an idyllic relationship as Doc Watson sings it, but the story of a miserable one as Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman present it. If these songs have any basis in reality, it has long been forgotten. This is not the case with the songs that Richard Polenberg presents in Hear My Sad Song: the True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs. Polenberg was one of those college kids who went down south to find the music they had heard on Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, a six-album compilation released in 1952. The recordings were from the 1920s and ‘30s, but many of the songs, of course, were much older. It included the blues, Appalachian fiddle tunes, country songs, and Cajun and Creole music. This music was a revelation to a generation that was being sold the stylings of Doris Day and Perry Como. The voices and the stories were more real than anything going on in their own middle class lives. Kids like Polenberg began teaching themselves banjo, guitar, and fiddle and then going south to fiddle competitions to meet the people who had originally made this music. Polenberg went south in 1957, but the pilgrimages continued through the 1960s and into the 1970s, when Ithaca musicians like John Hoffman, Jeff Claus, Judy Hyman, Jim Reidy, and Stefan Senders made the trip. Polenberg decided to treat the song catalog of his youth as American history. Who were these people that populated these lyrics? How much of what has come down through the oral tradition corresponds with what really happened in the late 19th and early 20th century in a railroad town in Tennessee or a river town in Missouri when a fight broke out in a bar, an engineer missed a signal, a husband cheated on his wife, or there was an accident in a mine? Some of these songs are more famous than others. Even Americans who are not folk music fans have heard of “Stagolee” and “John Henry.” Clash fans were treated to an oddball take

on “Stagolee” on London Calling and the story of John Henry is the stuff of elementary school music classes. But Polenberg dives into the archives and brings you back to Christmas 1895 in St. Louis. Lee “Stack Lee” Shelton enters a bar and gets into a political argument with one William Lyons. Hats were knocked to the ground and, drawing a .44 pistol, Shelton demanded his hat back. Lyons drew a knife and Shelton shot him. Shelton served 14 years in Missouri State

Penitentiary and was released with time off for good behavior. The records are apparently good for this story and Polenberg is able to explore the various appeals that were attempted to get Shelton released; Lyons had evidently been a dangerous and little loved character. Versions of the story began appearing in song form while Shelton was still in prison. Interestingly, Shelton in his eternal folk form of “Stagolee” does not come off as well as he does in the actual historical records with most variations of the lyrics referring to him as “cruel” and “bad.” Similarly, Polenberg’s research into the story of “Casey Jones,” shows the tendency of the folk song version of history to be at once more meanspirited than reality and also somewhat whitewashed. John Luther “Casey” Jones, actually a reckless scofflaw, comes off as heroic, and his wife, who remained widowed for the rest of her life, is given the line “Go to bed chillun’ and ahush your crying / For you’ve got another poppy on the Salt Lake Line.” •

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overlaid with screens of colored dots like giant zip-a-tone patterns that are reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein’s comic book Pop Art paintings. But I particularly like Doom. This is a large profile painting (spray paint on canvas) of the Marvel Comics character Doctor Doom. Doom, with his iron mask and green medieval death hood, is the quintessential archetype comic book villain (created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the Fantastic Four comics). Nick Gilbert Gilbert has a variety of work in the show: a pen-and-ink drawing of a giant octopus in a forced perspective city, and a series called River of Dreams composed of abstract-cartoony faces carved of wood and painted with acrylic, but the showstopper is a very compelling stone mosaic called Delia’s Daggers. This is a life-sized human face composed of innumerable bits of stone, with stone daggers shooting from her eyes. I am reminded of the Nome King in that Return to Oz movie that Walter Murch directed … or the Thing in the Fantastic Four comics … or perhaps Medusa from Greek mythology. It is a dream-like work that really grabs one’s attention. Margaret Reed I have written before of Margaret Reed. I am a huge fan of her work. For subject matter, she often riffs on

themes from mythology and the lives of the saints. That sounds a bit highfalutin, but there is often a sweet delicacy to her work, like children’s book illustration, and sometimes a humorous feel like animated cartoons. And she seems to be experimenting with a sort of New Medievalism … riffing on the conventions of medieval art. Medieval art, since it existed before the Renaissance invention of perspective and the study of human and animal anatomy, has both a flatness to it and a curious cartoony quality. I particularly like her large color pastel works, but in the “Streetscape” show she has two smaller works: Aglaea; Splendorous (Ruins i) and Cleta; Glorious (Ruins iii), both black-and-white charcoal drawings. Sean Chilson Sean Chilson’s work is difficult to describe in words. The Reader will really have to look at it him- or herself. Chilson’s works are black-and-white drawings (archival ink on archival paper). They are detailed, decorative, and designoriented. They remind me a bit of the magic marker drawings of the late, sainted writer Ray Bradbury. I am also reminded of the black-and-white illustrations of the extraordinary illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon. Soooooo Oh Ready to Shred appears to be a hyper-detailed alien lizard warrior riding an alien horned beast on wheels. And Nature Knows features patterns of

flowing foliage, what looks like an alien fox, and a chimerical creature— part eagle, part triceratops, part rhino, and part insect (either a locust or a cricket). Jay Potter Jay Potter’s work is perhaps the most unusual in the show, as it is photography, as opposed to drawing and painting. He has one large work entitled Extensions of Style, Memories from the streets via paint related travels. This is an installation composed of photos of an Asian city—I would guess Tokyo—and geometric patterns of colored tape. We see a city skyline at night; subway commuters bathed in cold, The curator of Streetscapes, Jay Potter (Photo Provided) weird blue light; signs with Japanese characters, as well as English letters and Arabic numbers; subway trains in her film Lost in Translation with Scarlett rolling through orange light; closeJohansson and Bill Murray. ups of street graffiti; stylized cartoon To wrap up here, I would commend advertisement characters; silhouettes of “Streetscapes” to the Art-Appreciating passers-by framed by street art in both Reader. The next time you are at the TCPL, black-and-white and glowing, colored wandering the stacks, using a computer, or neon; distant hills; a downshot of bluepaying an overdue book fine, it would be green metal flooring; people in a market worth spending some time perusing this illuminated by orange light; plastic cartons excellent exhibition. • of stacked beverages on the street; a severe The exhibit “Streetscapes” will be on downshot of a photographer shooting up at display at the Tompkins County Public us (a possible self portrait); and so on. Library (101 E Green St.) until Dec. 30. The Taken together, as an installation, work of some of the artists featured in this the photos present an impression of this exhibit can also be seen on buildings, electric strange and marvelous city. I am reminded boxes, and in parking garages in the City and of Sophia Coppola’s filmic collage of Tokyo Town of Ithaca homeowner insurance

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11/11 Wednesday Arlo Guthrie: The 50th Anniversary of Alice’s Restaurant | 8:15 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Talking Blues, Folk. Cornell University Middle Eastern Music Ensemble Fall Concert | 8:00 AM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Live Mid-East Music and Belly Dance from CUMEME with belly dancers June Seaney, Kira Starfire, and Mantra.

11/11 ARLO GUTHRIE 2/20 THE MOTH MAINSTAGE SOLD OU T 11/13 BO BURNHAM 2/28 JOAN BAEZ 11/14 GORDON LIGHTFOOT 3/26 STEVEN WRIGHT ON SALE FRI 10am M&T BANK / ITHACA TIMES CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES: 11/20 GUSTER 12/3 CITY AND COLOUR 11/21 SPACEBALLS WWW.STATEOFITHACA.COM 12/4 MATISYAHU WITH KEVIN KINSELLA HANGAR THEATRE 12/5 GRACE POTTER 12/6 PUNCH BROTHERS 11/12 RHIANNON GIDDENS WITH BIRDS OF CHICAGO 1/29 GET THE LED OUT 11/17 COLIN HAY OF MEN AT WORK

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Zydegroove | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Zydeco, Old-Time, Americana. Glacial Erotics | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Post-Rock, Folk, Funk, Blues, Punk. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110. The Roc-City Ramblers | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Progressive Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country-Rock. IU November Music Series Day 2: Tombs, Black Anvil, Bleak, Twin Lords, Gonopods, Nihilist Rulebook/Deadbeat Choir | 7:00

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Bach (from The Art of Fugue) with works of contemporary Hungarian composers György Kurtág (from Games), György Ligeti (three Etudes), and Béla Bartók (Out of Doors suite).

11/13 Friday Bo Burnham | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Comedy, Singer Songwriter, Poetry. Indigo Girls | 8:00 PM | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | American Folk, Folk Rock. Opus Ithaca School of Music Faculty Recital/Scholarship Fundraiser | 7:30 PM | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Great music played by the wonderful musicians at Opus Ithaca! Chamber music and jazz. Free and open to the public. All donations go toward our scholarship program. Opus Ithaca is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Belly Dance & Live Middle Eastern Music | 7:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Belly dancers Tessa Myers, Kira Starfire, Mantra and more. Music from Cornell University Middle Eastern Music Ensemble (CUMEME), Cath and the Pussy Cats, and Don Bargiano.

11/14 Saturday Gordon Lightfoot | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | 50 Years on the Carefree Highway Tour. Folk, Folk Rock, Country, Pop. Choral Composition Competition Closing Concert | 7:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | High School Choirs from around the region present the finalists in the annual choral composition competition. Cornell Chamber Orchestra | 3:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor, with violinists Ariana Kim and Ithaca College’s Susan Waterbury. Features Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann’s Mosoq with Ms. Kim, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” for string orchestra (1st mvt), and Corelli’s Concerto grosso, op. 6, no. 4, with both violin soloists. Classical.

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Michael McNeill | 7:00 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Concert Pianist, Classical. Symphony Orchestra | 4:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Jeffery Meyer, conductor | Pulitzer prize-winning composer Steven Stucky’s work Radical Light from 2007 is placed alongside Brahms’ glorious second symphony. Xak Bjerken, piano | 3:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | With guest Steven Doane, cello. Includes works by Beethoven, Janáček, Martinů, and Bach. The Cortland Old Timers Band: Last Concert of the Year | 3:00 PM | Grace Christian Fellowship, 1250 Fisher Avenue, Cortland | The Band will perform a varied selection of music, including works by Holst, Williams, Schuman, Berlin and Sousa, as well as patriotic tunes. The public is invited. Angela Yantorno | 3:00 PM | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Exploration of repertoire staples such as the Bach D Minor Unaccompanied Sonata and the famous Mozart Concerto In D Major and then moves to the east of Europe with Josef Suk’s Appasionato. Classical.

11/16 Monday Flute Ensemble | 7:00 PM | Hockett

Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca |

Film Family Movie Matinee: Inside Out | 2:00 PM, 11/11 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families are invited to enjoy popcorn and drinks while watching Pixar’s blockbuster hit, Inside Out. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272–4557 extension 275. cinemapolis

Friday, 11/13 to Thursday, 11/19. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes International Fantastic Film Festival | Runs 11/11 through 11/15. IIFFF returns to Cinemapolis for FIVE days of the very best genre films

from around the globe. Founder and Artistic Director Hugues Barbier has once again curated a vast array of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror from yesterday and today. Single tickets for all films available online, and SIX PACK and weekend passes available at Cinemapolis! The Assassin | Cinemapolis, Ithaca | An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in 7th century China. | 105 mins NR |

Suffragette | The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. | 106 mins PG-13 | Meet The Patels | An IndianAmerican man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way. | 88 mins PG | Truth | Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush’s military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers| 121 mins R | Labyrinth of Lies | A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of

Nazis during World War II | 124 min R | cornell cinema

Wednesday 11/11 to Tuesday 11/17 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Portrait of Jason | Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne, house boy, would be cabaret performer, and self proclaimed hustler giving one man’s gin-soaked pill-popped, view of what it was like to be coloured and gay in 1960’s America. | 105 mins NR | Court | A sewerage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court. | 116 NR | Tangerine | A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart. | 88 mins R |

Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM, 11/11 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S

Incognita Opens 7th Season with Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love. A motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert. Two former lovers. Bruised with desire, tangled with misfortune. A new guy, the old man, secrets, and a lot of stories. Sam Shepard’s fierce ode to love gone oh so wrong. Incognita visits a brand-new venue, Circus Culture, in Press Bay Alley. Performances take place Friday & Saturday eves at 8 pm, November 13, 14, 20 and 21, with a 4 pm matinee on Saturday November 21. Tickets ($15 / pay what you can) can be purchased in advance through their website, theatreincognita.org.

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com. Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/12 Thursday | Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ. Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 11/12 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/13 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December. Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking.

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Barnes Hall, Cornell, Thursday, November 12, 8:00 p.m.

Community School of Music and Arts, Thursday, Nov. 12 through Saturday, Nov. 14

This mighty Hungarian pianist will be pairing fugues of the immortal Johann Sebastian Bach with the contemporary Hungarian composers Gyorgy Kutag, and Bela Bartok. If those names don’t ring a bell, well, no need to worry, they’re spectacular composers who rate at the top of the line in contemporary classical music. Csalog will bring the fury and enchant the audience with his lumbering command of the ivory keys.!

What can you say about Ithaca Underground? Without their continued effort and spectacular drive to bring the best in underground and extreme music to the little city of Ithaca, we’d all be hurting for some real good music around here. The November music series at CSMA is pretty much epic. Three days of Rap, Hip Hop, Black Metal, Doom, Thrash, Hardcore, Experimental, Punk, Folk Rock, and more. So cheap, so epic, you better check it out. Highlight include, Sammus, Black Anvil, Screaming Females, Bleak, and Misses Bitches!

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Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs. I and You | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | By Lauren Gunderson. Runs November 8 through November 22, 2015. Chronically ill Caroline hasn’t been to school in months when Anthony turns up at her door with waffle fries, a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and an English project deadline. As these two let down their guard and share secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together. For tickets and showtimes visit www.kitchentheatre.org A Chorus Line | 8:00 PM, 11/12 Thursday | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | In celebration of 30 years at Ithaca College, musical theatre faculty member Mary Corsaro directs and co-choreographs the ultimate backstage musical. The show recounts the personal challenges of a group of Broadway dancers who are auditioning for an upcoming show. Their experiences run the gamut of human emotions, compelling them to consider whether they made the right choice in their lives. Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM, 11/12 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Flexible Theatre | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | A comedic play about Victorian time-traveling women who wander unmapped places both inside and outside ourselves. A PMA course, taught by Prof David Feldshuh, culminates in this final class presentation and production. Runs Nov. 12-14, 20-21, 7:30pm, and Nov. 21 @ 2pm. For tickets and info (http:// schwartztickets.com/, 607-254-2787) Gloria Barnell Peter Prizewinning Play: Absinthe | 8:00 PM, 11/13 Friday, 11/14 Saturday | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Award winning play. Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM, 11/13 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Annie Jr. | 7:00 PM, 11/13 Friday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | The Dryden Middle School has reinstated a Middle School Musical for the first time in 5 years! Students in the 6th, 7th and 8th grade have been working hard both on stage and back stage to present the community a fun exciting production of Annie Jr! Fool For Love | Theatre Incognita, Press Bay Alley, Ithaca | Theatre

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 11/17 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga. Blood Drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, 11/17 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | You can call for an appointment on November 17’th by calling the American Red Cross at 273-1900.

Road, Ithaca | Talk by village historian Bea Szekely and deputy historian Pat Longoria. This is the final event in the 2015 village centennial celebration but only the first in a series of talks that will move through the history of Cayuga Heights from early farm settlement in the nineteenth century and its development in the twentieth century as the quintessential university suburb we enjoy today. Please come. Forum on Health Care for All New Yorkers | 3:00 PM, 11/15 Sunday | Van Etten Community Hall, 6 Gee Street, Van Etten | If you’ve had problems with health insurance (who hasn’t?), you’ll probably want to attend this hour-long forum. Presenters Anita Watkins and Carolyn Kenyon will speak about New York Health, a universal, single-payer health care system that was passed by the state assembly in May. Yotam Polizer: IsraAID Presentation | 3:00 PM, 11/15 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Yotam Polizer, a regional director of the humanitarian relief agency IsraAID, will discuss the efforts of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Israelis in saving the lives of Syrian refugees in Greece. IsraAID, Israel’s largest humanitarian nongovernmental organization, has provided life-saving disaster relief in 34 countries since it was founded in 2001. Women and Addictions | 7:00 PM-8:30 AM, 11/16 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Panel Discussion with Helen Kaplan, Alcohol and Drug Council; Lindsay Kolk, Cayuga Addictions Rehabilitation Services; Casey Monahan, Department of Social Services. This event is co-sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Please join us for this important conversation. Cooking Class: Thanksgiving Harvest Pies and Desserts | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/17 Tuesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come learn the essentials of making tasty and healthful vegan pies and desserts. You will take away delightfully scrumptious vegan, dairy-free recipes - some gluten-free. This class is open to the public. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/17 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf

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Eat Smart Grocery Tours: Cornell Extension Eat Smart New York Program | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 11/11 Wednesday | Walmart Supercenter, , Ithaca | Free interactive grocery store tours to families who want to learn how to shop for healthy meals on a budget. The program is free and requires no application. At the end of the tour, participants will receive a $10 gift card to the store to purchase healthy groceries, a workbook full of tips and recipes, and a reusable grocery bag. For more information visit http://cookingmatters.org/at-thestore or email hgoodma2@ithaca. edu to schedule a tour. Here are some upcoming tour dates and locations. Please email the contact above to sign up for a specific time and place. 12 Steps to Harmony and Wholeness | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/12 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to create more day-to-day vitality and taste specific foods that support a harmonious energy field. Recipes provided. This class is open to the public. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Garden Tool Clinic | 6:30 PM-8:00 AM, 11/12 Thursday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Want to be the sharpest tool in the shed? Give your garden tools some TLC this fall and they will perform better for winter and spring gardening tasks. Professional landscaper and pruner Bill Carini will demonstrate techniques for sharpening your pruning and digging tools. Sign up here http:// db.ccetompkins.org/programs/civicrm/ event/info?id=528&reset=1, or by calling (607) 272-2292, or emailing Chrys at cab69@cornell.edu. Before the Village: Hanshaw’s Corners and the Foundations of Cayuga Heights | 4:00 PM, 11/15 Sunday | Marcham Hall, 836 Hanshaw

winestock-ny-takes-over-the-glentheatre-tickets-18844148355 Circus China | 7:30 PM, 11/16 Monday | The National Circus and Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China presents Circus China. You will be captivated by juggling hats, hoop diving, bicycles, unicycles, rope tricks, balancing acts, aerial acts, martial arts and other breathtaking acts. Cayuga Nordic Ski Club dish-topass Dinner and Social Event | 6:00 PM, 11/16 Monday | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | For information www.cayuganordicski.org Native American Month Dinner | 5:30 PM, 11/17 Tuesday | Loaves and Fishes, 210 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Come join Loaves and Fishes on November 17 at 5:30 as we celebrate and honor National Native American Month. We will feature traditional native foods and entertainment..

Brooklyn’s Black Anvil are part of Ithaca Underground’s November Music Series. They play Friday 11/13 with a host of other awesome black, death, doom, and hardcore bands. It’s gonna get heavy! (Photo Provided) culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks. You may arrive and leave whenever you wish. For more information and resources for beginning signers, please visit our website: aslchatithaca. wordpress.com Workshop for Ithaca & Finger Lakes Women Entrepreneurs | 8:30 AM-11:00 AM, 11/17 Tuesday | Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca | The event features Tracy Higginbotham, Founder and President of Women TIES, who will present her 5 Secrets of Marketing Success from her 20 year entrepreneurial career and Lee Ann Capogrossi, an Ithaca based marketing specialist with over 20 years of marketing communications experience, who will speak about creating a customized marketing plan.

Special Events Ithaca 7th Annual Tourism Celebration | 6:00 PM-8:00 AM, 11/11 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Bed & Breakfast and Vacation Rentals of Greater Ithaca is pleased to announce its Seventh Annual event that brings together members of the county’s tourism partners in celebration of our unique tourism climate.

Primitive Pursuits: Workshops and Programs | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 11/11 Wednesday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Primitive Pursuits: Hunter-Gatherer School Break Day, Tuesday November 11, 9AM - 3:30PM at 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca. Primitive Pursuits Weekend Workshop — Primitive Traps, November 14 - 15, 9:00AM-4:00PM Sat/Sun, Location TBD. Primitive Pursuits: Wilderness Skills Intensive 1-Hour Info Session, Tuesday, November 17, 7PM at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave. Room A. For more info on all these workshops Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com Annual Family Group Benefit Square Dance | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, 11/13 Friday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Music will be provided by members of The West Hill Billies and the LACS student body, and Michelle Delco will be calling the squares. No experience necessary. Come on out and kick up your heels for a good cause! Harvest Moon Dance | 6:30 PM-8:30 AM, 11/13 Friday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | You are cordially invited to join us for a night of music, dancing, refreshments and great conversation! The Harvest Moon Dance is an annual intergenerational event where local seniors meet and interact with members of the Ithaca College

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Corners Gallery, Friday, November 13, 5:30 p.m. This exhibit will feature two of Ithaca’s most prominent abstract and contemporary artists. Elise Nicol and Melissa Zarem arrive at abstraction from different horizons, but the two meet in the middle ground, where conversation, language, and dimension take shape. The bulk of this exhibition pairs 10” x 10” images by Nicol and Zarem in diptychs: two stories, set side by side and given equal weight merging into one. The pairing should interest modern art lovers and random-onlookers alike.

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Community. Music by Mike Vitucci and The Immortal Jellyfish. Cornell Football | 12:30 PM, 11/14 Saturday | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell, Ithaca | Vs. Columbia University. Ithaca College Football | 12:00 PM, 11/14 Saturday | Butterfield Stadium, , Ithaca | Vs. Cortland. Thanksgiving Dinner for the Volunteer Veterans and the Homeless | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 11/14 Saturday | Kingdom Business Apostolic Church, 638 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Thanksgiving Dinner for the Volunteer Veterans and the Homeless will be provided. There will also be downtown pickup available at the Rescue Mission (618 West State St. Ithaca). For more information you may contact Pastor Shirley Reeves at 607-339-7383. kbachurch@gmail.com. Three Bears Christmas Craft Show | 9:00 AM-3:00 AM, 11/14 Saturday | Three Bears Complex, , Ovid | Great vendors with unusual products, fantastic food and desserts. This event will help finance one of our many restoration projects. Sixth Annual Winestock NY | 2:00 PM-6:00 AM, 11/15 Sunday | Glen Theater, , Watkins Glen | Treat yourself to a special Sunday, mingle with friends, support NYWIA (this is our annual fundraiser), eat delicious food while listening to internationally acclaimed music.. For tickets go to http://www.eventbrite.com/e/

Meetings Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM, 11/11 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code . IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 11/13 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | NIC meetings are ordinarily held on the 2nd Friday of every month at 8:30 a.m. in Third Floor Conference Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca. Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/16 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Council (BPAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/16 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | BPAC members regularly review ongoing and upcoming city projects and advise the Board of Public Works, Common Council, the Planning & Development Board, the Parks Commission, and other appropriate City bodies on bicycle and pedestrian issues, including issues faced by people with disabilities, to ensure all city projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities

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The Dock, Friday, November 13, 7:00 p.m. Before becoming famous for her awesome acting and singing in True Detective Season 2, Lera Lynn stormed the country and americana music-circuit like so many legends before her. She plays in a style reminiscent of the old (real) country music, back when it was punk, awesome, emotional, and deep. Her voice is both haunting and spectacular, and the noir-ish music that surrounds it will make any music aficionado smile.

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Marilyn Chin | 4:30 PM, 11/12 Thursday | Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell Auditorium, Ithaca | Celebrated Poet and Writer Marilyn Chin to Read from Works. This will be the final installment of the Fall 2015 Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series, during which Chin will read from poetry collections Hard Love Province and Rhapsody In Plain Yellow, as well as her work of fiction Revenge Of The Mooncake Vixen. William Horden | 5:00 PM, 11/12 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author of The Toltec I Ching discusses his new book, In the Oneness of Time: The Education of a Diviner. Reading and book signing. Cornell MFA Student Original Works Readings | 5:30 PM, 11/13 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | First year students from Cornell’s MFA program read their original works. Laura E. Free: Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era | 2:00 PM, 11/14 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Author Laura E. Free, Department of History Chair and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will briefly discuss her book Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era. Cayuga Lakes Books new book From The Finger Lakes: Prose Anthology | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 11/15 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Featuring readings by dozens of authors.

Art Paint Nite Fundrasier | 7:00 PM, 11/11 Wednesday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | At Paint Nite, a master artist will give step-bystep instructions to help you create a work of art – all while we socialize, snack and sip cocktails. Everyone will go home with a masterpiece. No art experience needed! Register now at

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heatre Incognita’s latest production is Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love (1983), which director Ross Haarstad characterized as like an old country song: “I can’t quit you, but I have to quit you, but I want to start us up again.” Eddie finds May hiding out in a motel at the edge of the Mojave Desert. They were once lovers and now Eddie wants her to come home with him to live in a trailer on a farm, which what they had talked about when they were young. May refuses, as she suspects that Eddie is in the process of turning into his father, who is a drinker, a liar, and a philanderer. This, said Haarstad, is pure Shepard. “There’s a lot of this in his plays,” he said. “Are we doomed to repeat the past or are we going to break out of the cycle.” Shepard presents the embodiment of this quandary as an old man, who is on stage in the room with May and Eddie, but an unseen presence. The fourth character in the play is May’s date for the evening, who serves as the audience’s proxy on stage, drawing out the other characters as to what is really going on between the old lovers. That too is a familiar theme in Shepard’s work: there are always deep, dark secrets. Sam Shepard is one of those remarkable artists who seems to wander from one social and professional milieu

www.paintnite.com/pages/events/ view/ithaca/923195 This is How It Starts: Elise Nicol and Melissa Zarem | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/13 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Elise Nicol and Melissa Zarem have been diligently working on this exhibit for an entire year. Their collaborative mixed media works on paper are tactile, obsessive, spontaneous, and dynamic. On view through December 23. ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Lustrous World of Giselle Potter. Artist Giselle Potter is like no other. Her colors are plucked from nature: her imagery, insanely appealing. She can take an everyday and make it extraor-

to another. He seems to not only find acceptance, but he also makes a contribution. He is a playwright, screenwriter, and actor, but also a director of both films and his own plays, and sometime musician. He first emerged in the Off Off Broadway scene of the East Village in the 1960s. By the late 1960s, at the same time he was writing for the film The Zabriskie Point, he was drumming for the psychedelic folk band the Holy Modal Rounders. In 1975 he accompanied Bob Dylan on his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, writing the screenplay for what became the film Reynaldo and Clara (1978), but was at the same time the playwright in residence at the Magic Theatre, working on the play The Buried Child (1978). And then suddenly he was a movie star, appearing in Terence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978). And so on. “I’ve always wanted to direct Shepard,” said Haarstad. “I’ve acted in two of his plays and been part of various productions, but this is the first I’ve directed. I love his sense of American icons and the metaphors that they evoke.” Haarstad was specifically attracted to Fool for Love because “It’s sexy, funny, electric, with great language.” He also

dinary. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, Potter has illustrated over 25 books for kids of all ages and has shown at the Society of Illustrators in NYC and the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst. | www. eyegallery.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Jay Potter: Lines & Theories. Photographic prints, graphic work. Through November. State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | State of the Art Gallery artists will host an all-member show during the month of November. For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@ soag.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art | Cornell University, Central

The playwright, actor, and film director Sam Shepard (Photo Provided) promises that there will be great acting. Anthony Nigro, son of Jan and Janice Nigro, will be playing Eddie, and Haarstad has been impressed with Nigro’s work. He has seen Angela Carbone, who will play May, in several Cornell productions. Finally, Bob Finley will portray the old man, a role he played three decades ago in Ithaca in the Central Casting production of Fool for Love. The director is also excited about using a new theatrical venue, the Circus Culture space in Press Alley. “It is a very

Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Imprint / In Print, August 8 to December 20. So it goes: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut August 22 to December 20. Huang Hsin-chien: The Inheritance, September 5 to December 20, CUTS: Video Works by Gordon Matta-Clark, September 5 to December 20. www.museum. cornell.edu Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | A combined photo and print show of works by Naomi Edmark and Kevin Cruz. The show will run through December 31. | www.wafflefrolicking.com Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | THE SPIRIT OF LAKE LIGHT, New paintings of the Finger Lakes Region by artist Brian Keeler, as well as landscapes of Pennsylvania, and Italy. This show continues until

open space, basically a black box theatre,” he said. “At the same time it’s intimate, but with very high ceilings.” “This is not exactly a realistic play,” Haarstad said. “There are some challenges in staging it. We will be bringing in some pieces of doors. I think it is going to be interesting.” • Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love has performances Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday Nov. 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. at Circus Culture, Press Bay Alley.

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Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | Streetscapes, a new exhibit that brings street art inside the Library. Curated by Jay Potter, Streetscapes will feature a collection of work that draws on creativity and inspiration from our urban surroundings. | www.tcpl.org Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | “Sfumato” recent paintings by Larry Repass Atmospheric series of parking lot oil-slicks reflecting vibrant ephemeral colors appearing and then vanishing in diaphonous mist. | collegetownbagels.com Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Jay Stooks will be exhibiting through November and

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For such a little city Ithaca sure does have some real dynamic events run through it, and on a pretty regular basis at that. This wicked film festival features 36 films spread across 10 different series and mini spotlights. The (fantastic) genre will be on full display with films like Liza, The Fox Fairy, a hungarian comedy, action/animation whirlwind, Zoom, and the Fantastic Fest award winning Der Bunker. Ithaca migrates into big city territory with this one, don’t miss out!

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Extension Service seeks Four Program Directors (with Faculty appointment in promotion and tenure system with a proven record of high levels of performance in teaching, research and outreach. The ideal candidate has a strong work ethic and a commitment to continuing education and to the mission, vision, and goals of WVU and the WVU Extension Service. * Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources Program. * Director, Community, Economic and Workforce Development Program. * Director, Families and Health Program. * 4-H Youth Development Program. The program Directors will report to the Associate Dean for Programs and Research, and will be responsible for leadership in the development, implementation, and evaluation of Extension educational, research and outreach programs in their respective units. Salary will be commensurate with professional qualifications and academic rank. In addition, and an administrative supplement will be added to the base faculty salary. Each is a 12-month, tenured faculty position having significant administrative responsibilities. Application Process: For a complete position announcement and process for applying for the position, visit https://jobs.wvu.edu and provide all of the following: * Cover letter outlining experience and qualifications.* Resume or curriculum vitae of academic training and professional experience of all academic work. * List of three references (including address, email, and phone and fax numbers). * Copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts (unofficial copy will be accepted)

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