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n the Ithaca City Cemetery, a new life began during the first minutes of July.

Brittany Lagaly and Tyler Stein had their flock of Olde English Southdown babydoll sheep grazing in the city cemetery that night, when one of their ewes gave birth.

“In the last couple days before the lamb was born, she started showing signs, but we didn’t expect it’d be that very night,” Stein said. “We were planning on bringing them back home the following morning, and she gave birth just after midnight.”

Lagaly and Stein are hoping that people will help name the newest addition to their flock—visit the Ithaca Times Facebook page to make your suggestion (but please, no Sheepy McSheepfaces).

The city cemetery is the first “mowing” contract that Lagaly and Stein have taken on with their newest venture, Ewe Care Rent-a-Flock. The pair has also been busy moving their farm, Ground Score Forage Farm, from Interlaken to Danby.

Where the idea came from “is a tough one to really nail down,” Stein said. “It’s been brewing in our heads for a little while. Sheep grazing is an ancient practice; it’s not anything new.”

Jeanne Grace, the city forester for Ithaca, is in charge of the maintenance of all natural areas, parks, and cemeteries owned by the city. It was, in fact, originally her idea to bring in the sheep. Lagaly works for Grace as a gorge ranger in the Six Mile Creek Natural Area. “I had been thinking about using animals to graze the cemetery,” said Grace, “when [Lagaly] told me that she had just purchased some sheep.”

The city forester said that it took some time to get through all the city paperwork having to do with liability and by the time she got permission the grass in the cemetery was taller than the sheep. When she had her crews mow the area where she intended to bring in the sheep, the drought prevented the grass from growing back; it simply browned out. The flock’s first visit to the cemetery was not a very successful one.

The second visit, in early July, had better results. Grace regards the sheep project as a pilot program, but the drought has caused this year to be too aberrant to judge the results, so she plans to continue the pilot in 2017.

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he said during a break at the Aug. 2 legislature meeting. “There’s no democratic or republican way to enforce the law.” He pointed out that the majority of Tompkins County voters are Democrats and argued that, while a Republican candidate may have all the qualifications needed to be an excellent sheriff, his political affiliation would likely stand in the way of him being elected.

The committee asked the legislature to approve a public hearing on the matter so that it could move forward to a referendum this November, but the resolution failed at the Aug. 2 meeting.

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iscussions among legislators and law enforcement officials continue as the county looks to potentially alter the Tompkins County sheriff position. After taking no action at the last meeting on Aug. 2, three options are still being considered by the full legislature: changing the sheriff to an appointed rather than elected official, hiring a new county police commissioner and splitting up the sheriff ’s duties, or doing nothing and leaving the position the way it is.

The issue was originally brought to the board by the Charter Review Committee, whose members recommended that the sheriff ’s duties be divided between an elected sheriff, who would be in charge of the service of court documents and the Tompkins County Legislator Dan Klein, chair of the Government Operation Committee (File photo) jail, and a county police department headed by an appointed official, who would oversee the county the Tompkins County Government road patrols and other law enforcement Operations Committee, it was decided in a matters.

4-1 vote to recommend that the legislature Dan Klein (D-Danby), chair of adopt the other option, the local law that the Tompkins County Government would change the office of Sheriff from an Operations Committee and member of the Charter Review Committee, is a strong elected position to one appointed by the county legislature, as of Jan. 1, 2019. supporter of introducing an appointed Legislators Will Burbank (D-Ithaca), county law enforcement official at the Dooley Kiefer (D-Lansing), Carol Chock county level. He said that he does not (D-Ithaca), and committee chair Klein think it makes sense for all the police voted in favor; Legislator Rich John chiefs of cities, towns and villages to be (D-Ithaca) voted no, saying that while he appointed, while the sheriff is still elected.

“I think it’s not a political position,” continued on page 4

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“‘It’s a Small World After All’ from Disney ” —Camilla Schade

“‘Farewell To Erin’ by the Bothy Band” —Jacob Pfarrar

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also favors a single appointed position, he believes the committee is proceeding much too quickly, and he needs more information. By the same 4-1 vote, the committee also recommended that a public hearing on the proposed law be held Sept. 6.

Tompkins County Sheriff Lansing, whose term expires in 2019, does not support either change to the position.

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varieties to display and analyze in this year’s garden. Based on 2015 plant performances, Levy used three types of analysis to select plants for 2016: environmental manipulation of high tunnel temperatures, plant response, and visitor response.

This year’s extreme heat caused broccoli plants to develop erratically shaped, inedible heads. The snap beans ave you ever wondered how also flowered early with the heat, dropping climate change would feel, or their flowers and losing much of the bean what it would look like in the crop. Overall the researchers are looking year 2050? Rest assured, you’re not for the winners and the losers to suggest alone. University faculty are conducting not only what plant varieties will best cross-departmental research at Cornell work as a demonstration garden plant, but Plantations, the university’s botanical also what plants demonstrate physiological garden, to develop a model demonstration change to help define the best choices for garden that will illustrate climate changes the future, especially a basic predicted for the year 2050. food crop such as wheat.

The goal is to develop a The Cornell researchers replicable garden of food used the climate projections crops and nectar plants for report Responding to other botanical gardens and Climate Change in New museums around the world York (ClimAID), prepared to use as a teaching tool for

by New York State Energy the visiting public.

Research and Development Synchronistic curiosity Authority (NYSERDA), about how to physically to simulate three heatdemonstrate climate change related aspects of climate brought the three primary change in the “high tunnel”: team members together: (1) higher on-average Chris Wien, an emeritus annual temperatures; (2) horticulture faculty more days on average member, wanted to build with temperatures above a ‘high tunnel” (unheated 90 degrees; and (3) on greenhouse) to demonstrate average, a higher number climate change. Josh Cerre, of annual heat waves (three assistant professor of consecutive days above landscape architecture, is a 90 degrees). For example, designer and an ecologist overall average annual with research interests in temperatures predicted for climate adaptation and 2050 are 3.5 to 5.5 degrees sustainable development. hotter than they are now.

In this greenhouse at Cornell Plantations, it is already 2050. (Courtesy of Sonja Skelly) Sonja Skelly, director of This year (2016) 13 days education at Plantations, are predicted days to have is coordinating the team’s temperatures above 90 interpretive education degrees, while for the year 2050, 21 to 46 plants to reproduce, so nectar crops and developing visitor communication days are predicted. (beardtongue, bee balm and St. John’s strategies.

According to Skelly, ClimAID’s Since its inception in 2013, additional wort) were selected. Six garden beds projected precipitation increases for were planted outside in the natural staff, faculty and students have joined the year 2050 will be largest during the environment, and six beds were planted this unique garden-modeling project. winter months, with more extreme events inside the “high tunnel.”

For example, David Wolfe, a professor of Donna Levy, environmental outreach horticulture who specializes in climate education coordinator at Plantations, continued on page 13 change adaptation and mitigation, has researched and selected the 22 plant

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provided home gardening tips for an interpretive pamphlet available to garden visitors. Funding has been provided from the Toward Sustainability Foundation and Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

Many botanical gardens in the United States have installed climatechange gardens, but they have been growing plants that are adapted to temperatures in warmer plant hardiness zones. Cornell chose a different approach.

According to Skelly, “Plants are the lens through which people can understand climate change.” People need to eat, so food crops—broccoli, wheat and snap beans—are being grown at Plantations.

Pollinators are needed for flowering

process for that,” he said. “The process is that chiefs of police work their way up from patrolman to lieutenant to captain, or whatever their department has for rankings.” He said he is an advocate of the county creating a set of criteria that a candidate would have to meet in order to run for sheriff.

There are still logistics to be worked out in either situation. At a meeting of the Charter Review Committee on August 1, where the board fine-tuned their recommendation prior to bringing it to the legislature, Tompkins County Undersheriff Brian Robison said he was concerned that members of a county police force would have to be enrolled in

the more expensive police and fire 20-year retirement system at an added expense to the county; county officials agreed that these issues should be looked into further before final decisions are made.

On the morning of Aug. 9 the Public Safety Committee of the Tompkins County Legislature was scheduled to discuss and potentially recommend the split option that would create a county police department; the results of that meeting were not available by the time of publication.

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sense that being a woman was even close to being an issue.”

“She took care of a lot of people,” said List. “She bailed people out of jail, and she took people into her home, and she took care of them when they didn’t have someplace else to go.” But in addition to being a caretaker, Puryear was also a mentor.

Her granddaughter Rosie Fox began he Grassroots Festival was to some coming up to visit from Virginia after age extent modeled on the Hudson 13. “When I was in college,” recalled Fox, River Revival, which began in 1975 “Jeb was touring a lot, and he asked me to in Croton, New York and was to a large do the festival.” Fox began working with degree organized by Toshi Seeger, the wife her grandmother during the summers of the famous folk singer. As it happens, while she was in college. After graduating the Grassroots Festival had a doyenne as she became a teacher and other women, well: Leslie Puryear. Puryear passed away like Megan Romer and Lissa Farrell, peacefully at age 86 on July 20, the day stepped into her role before the 26th festival got alongside Leslie. underway.

“Then I grew Puryear’s name into the role I have first appears on the today,” Fox said. “It masthead of the Ithaca has always been a New Times in the Nov. pair.” She said Puryear 22, 1977 issue. Puryear handled the “business stayed on the staff after side” of the festival the New Times merged organizing, including with the Good Times arranging for permits Gazette in 1978. She was and insurance. ostensibly a typesetter, Jeb laughed when replacing Elaine Lindy at he heard this. “Well, Cascadilla Graphics, but we both did those she was much more than things, but she did that. “Leslie would just the bookkeeping, change stuff in people’s which she found copy,” said former Times fascinating, because it editor S.K. List. “I was wasn’t really natural basically scared of her in to her.” In keeping the beginning, but the with her facility with Ithaca Times became a the English language, better paper because of Puryear also produced her.” the festival program Having received her every year. bachelor’s degree in 1952 “Before email we at Vanderbilt University did everything by in her hometown phone,” said her son. of Nashville, Leslie Leslie Puryear in her golf cart during the Grassroots Festival at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds. Puryear was a “Sometimes you’d Cram won a Fulbright founder and organizer of the festival. (Photo provided) have a phone in each Scholarship and earned ear. It was like an a second bachelor’s old-time newsroom at Oxford, where she vibe, a real hustle and bustle. It was very studied during the heyday of Inklings, C.S. Grassroots,” said her son. fun. Both of us like frenetic activity, which Jeb recalls the early days of festival Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. She returned to is what it was [as the festival neared], and production as financially difficult. “I’d Vanderbilt for graduate work and finished it was just crunch time. We enjoyed that. never owed anyone money,” he said. “We her Ph.D. in English literature in 1968, Other people might have planned some were doing a lot of projecting [of what the after moving to Ithaca with her husband things way ahead, but she was so talented festival would net].

It was stressful for me. ” Joe in 1965 and while giving birth to seven that we didn’t. Maybe we weren’t scared They finished the fourth year in the black children. and in the fifth year “really broke through.” enough.”

“Everything was by hand in those A decade ago Puryear suffered a “Funny thing about my mom,” said days,” said List of Puryear’s typesetting. stroke and effectively retired, although Jeb, “is that she never took the easy way “The screen on the Compugraphic she continued to be available as a to doing something. She typeset the machine was the size of a pencil. You consultant. “She was a real doer,” Jeb New Times for near minimum wage for could only see six or eight words at once; said. “She wouldn’t ask someone to do years. And she had six kids. That denotes it went by like the news ticker in Times something. When I was kid she’d drive us someone who’s pretty darn brave. ” Square.” It was through this little portal all over. Having to slow down was a tough Jeb Puryear describes his family and later in the cut-and-paste process transition for her. as “matriarchal.” His grandmother was that Puryear improved the prose of Times “She was tough,” he said. “I tell people, divorced, and his mother’s sister was a writers. “She taught me things,” List said, ‘If you want to get done as much as my strong, independent figure as well. He “like ‘Don’t hyphenate to make adverbs mom did, you should start now and just confessed that when he was younger he when a perfectly good real word will do.’” keep doing it.’” • had a hard time figuring out the point of Both Puryear and her husband left women’s liberation. “Growing up,” he said, university work to wade into community – Bill Chaisson “I never knew any woman who needed projects. List remembers her involvement editor@ithacatimes.com permission to do anything. I never got the with the founding of the East Hill

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school that eventually evolved into the Alternative Community School on West Hill. She also joined the Ithaca Center for the Arts that helped to resurrect the State Theatre. All of these things were good preparation for her involvement in the founding of the Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance 26 years ago.

The festival organization began in 1991 as a collaborative effort of Puryear and her youngest son, Jeb, who was 24 years old at the time and one of the guitarists in Donna the Buffalo. “I would do the writing, and she would do the spelling,” is the way Jeb described their working relationship. Puryear last appears on the Times masthead in the April 25, 1991 issue. “She left there when we started

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(S)electing A New D.A. T he Tompkins County Board of Elections has had several inquiries regarding the sudden turn of events regarding the position of Tompkins County district attorney.

We are writing this to clarify what has happened and what the procedure will be going forward.

On July 8 Gwen Wilkinson resigned as the district attorney for Tompkins County. This created a vacancy in the office. On Nov. 8, when voters in Tompkins County vote for President of the United States and other offices, the position of Tompkins County District Attorney, will also be on the ballot. The person that is elected will serve a full four-year term beginning on Jan. 1, 2017.

Normally, the political parties designate candidates for this office through the petition process, which this year concluded on July 14. Because the vacancy occurred too late in the petition process, the political parties will not be able to designate candidates by petition.

Fortunately, New York State election law provides solutions any time such situations arise.

Section 6-116 of election law applies in this situation and says that a party nomination of a candidate for election to fill a vacancy in an elective office required to be filled at the next general election shall be made, after the day of the primary election, by a majority vote of a quorum of the members of a county

committee or committees last elected in the political subdivision in which such vacancy is to be filled, or by a majority of such other committee as the rules of the party may provide. A certificate of nomination shall be filed as provided for herein. [The “petition process” involves going around door-to-door and collecting the signatures of those registered to a specific political party, i.e. not registered as an independent, to get a candidate on the ballot.]

To put the previous paragraph in lay terms, the members of the Democratic and Republican county committees must meet after Sept. 13 and with a quorum present and by a majority vote of those present select a candidate to run on their respective party lines. The Conservative, Green, Working Families, Independence, Women’s Equality, and Reform Party can select a candidate by a majority vote of such other committees as their rules provide. All of the political parties that nominate a candidate for district attorney must then file a Certificate of Nomination at the Tompkins County Board of Elections, no later than 5 p.m. on Sept. 20. The Tompkins County Board of Elections notified all eight parties of the vacancy and the process for filling the vacancy and nominating candidates in a letter, which we mailed on July 8. continued on page 7

From Tenure to Tarot T he speed of New York City, dirty air, and constant buzz had become too much. So despite my boyfriend’s warnings, I packed up and moved for my new teaching position. As an immigrant (the first to even attend college) I was so excited: my first real, full-time job!

Things began to go downhill within months as a newbie professor (at a college in the region; not IC, not Cornell). Just before walking into the interview, a fellow interviewee told me there were “issues” in the department. He said, that a previous woman had a divisive battle and the entire school took sides!

I shook it off, did my darn best in a smiling, energized interview and got a job in the arts.

Once hired, the initial mean comments about said previous employee, and the female college president were the first signs.

By the time tenure was looming, years had slipped by, and I had slipped into depression and anxiety. The pressure of being left out of meetings, important decisions, belittled and criticized but rarely guided, left me depleted. I won tenure and then left; I simply couldn’t stay. It was 2008.

Yes I left, but that is like saying someone running out of a burning building is “leaving.”

With no unemployment, I fled to Massachusetts, literally looking for a cabin in the woods. Years later I read a piece by Jennifer Louden in the Women’s Comfort Book, where she wrote about the Cabin Fantasy. She talked about how post-trauma, we want to run, and the fantasy of isolation, nature, and quiet seems like salvation. Who knew? I thought it was my unique idea.

The worst economic crisis started to play out. The little clarity I had said, “Get some training,” and massage therapy appealed to me. (I already was certified as a yoga teacher.)

What followed were years of the deepening recession while living in the poorest county in Massachusetts. There were periods where I was homeless, but OK, I was “housesitting.” It was a slow spiral downward, living only by drawing on the retirement funds that I’d so painfully earned. A blur of jobs: the assembly line at a Yankee Candle factory, substitute teaching, and the occasional yoga class or massage.

Much later as I got my bearings, and writing

online for business blogs (I had taught myself SEO) got thrown into the mix.

I had never seen the inside of a factory.

The dignity of people who endure factory work is etched in my mind. Hours of robotic movement, twisting to slide boxes from a conveyer belt to package aggressively fragrant candles left me with a slimmer waist within weeks. I saw the irony that I didn’t need a health club to stay trim, just a low-paying job.

“Why was I always at the back of the line to clock out,” I wondered? Soon I realized that others would stop work exactly to the second, walk the huge factory floor and arrive at the time clock the moment they could legally punch out.

It was the endless kindness of the community that held me together. People like the men having their morning coffee, who offered to fill up my gas tank so I could get to work one morning. I had run out of gas in a small town where I knew no one; my credit card was denied. Being ever the cynical New Yorker I told him, “Why would you ‘loan’ me money for gas? You don’t know me, and you may never see me again?” Thankfully, I dug up a credit card that still worked. A kind landlady allowed me to lower my rent by doing massage on her, which, thankfully, she genuinely enjoyed.

Humans can be amazing. I now see that whole period as a spiritual trial.

I had visited Ithaca when I was a professor and loved it. So here I am. What about the tarot? Well, when I’ve listened to my ample intuition, it’s always been right.

Early in my depression when I couldn’t work, all I could do was be online and blog.

I do the tarot online, working with people, women who are unsure and going through transitions or what I call a “thunderbolt experience,” like divorce, job loss etc. like I did. I incorporate meditation into my readings. The woo-woo is what kept me going, many days the only thing I remember is that I rolled out a yoga mat.

I’ve joined the bulging ranks of the selfemployed, in the post-economic meltdown world. I’ve decided I will do work I love, helping others any way I can to heal and to feel better in their lives.

– Vivinne (Kala) Williams

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Give Veterans A Break

I recently laid to rest my younger brother. Roger was a Captain in the U.S. Army and served 10 years defending our freedoms. He flew helicopter missions in Korea and Vietnam and was heavily decorated for his service. He told stories of 6

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being shot at when flying low and having to rescue the wounded in the midst of heavy battlefield conditions.

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Any person interested in seeking this position or seeking to have input in a particular party’s selection process should contact that party. Party contacts can be accessed on the Tompkins County Board of Elections website (votetompkins. com) or by using the following link: tompkinscountyny.gov/boe If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at 607-2745522.

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for one day. Because of the large amount I asked for a veteran’s discount (most local businesses will offer such a discount). I was disappointed that the paper chose not to practice this courtesy. The Ithaca Journal also chose not to publish this letter and did not return my inquiry.

My brother was one of many who fought to preserve our freedoms (I too served in the military). He risked his life so that others could live in peace. My hat is off to those businesses that offer discounts to military personnel and say “thank you for your service” at the check out. Give our veterans a break. It’s the right thing to do.

– William Olney, Ithaca

Difficult Circumstances For Prof. Demir

As is widely known, recent events in Turkey have been quite turbulent. A coup attempt against the Erdogun government failed, and unknown thousands of military personnel have been arrested. Since the failure of the July 15 coup, however, many other Turkish citizens have been arrested, or held without charges, and denied access to family, friends, and legal counsel. One of those recently taken into custody was Professor Vedat Demir, who spent the academic years 2012-2014 here in Ithaca, affiliated with both Cornell and Ithaca College.

Professor Demir received his Ph. D. from Istanbul University, and taught in that university’s Department of Public Relations and Publicity for many years.

His teaching and research have focused on the recent expanding nature of Turkish politics, particularly the role of volunteer campaign workers—a process he thought was a force for democratic engagement. He is also a past general secretary of the Turkish Press Council and a weekly contributor to the national daily newspaper, Yarina Bakis.

During his time in Ithaca, Demir studied the nature of political communication in American federal elections in the hope, a relative explained, “of laying a foundation in Turkish elections.” Demir has also been a public critic of the current Turkish government,

using his newspaper columns to call for more democratic reforms.

On July 20, 2016, Professor Demir, along with 95 colleagues at Istanbul University, were suspended from their academic positions. Unknown numbers of faculty members at other universities were as well. On Sunday, July 24, at 3:30 a.m., the police took him into custody, searched both house and office, and detained him without stating the charges against him. Since then, he has been held incommunicado—neither family nor his lawyer has been allowed to meet with him.

On August 3, Demir was brought into court, arrested, accused of being a supporter of the recently failed coup, and sent to prison. How long he will be held and when a trial might be held remains unknown. Demir has been a staunch opponent of the coup, and his critique of contemporary Turkish politics has been in support of greater democratic rights throughout his career.

We here in Ithaca are physically distant from events in Turkey. However, through Amnesty International, and specifically the local Ithaca branch, we can join with others internationally to protest these violations of human rights. Please contact the Ithaca branch of Amnesty through Uta Ritz-Deutch [utaeritzdeutch@ yahoo.com] or E. Wayles Browne [ewb2@ cornell.edu}. Together we can shed more light on the very difficult circumstances facing Professor Demir and so many other Turkish citizens.

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grazing for lawn maintenance online, “it does seem like there’s a resurgence going on. I couldn’t tell you what’s behind the fact everybody is looking at it all at once.”

“There are a lot of reasons to use animals instead of machines to manage lawns,” Stein continued. “Obviously they don’t run on gas, they don’t produce poisonous fumes, their waste is fertilizer; there are a lot of environmentalist concerns that motivated us.”

As for their “fertilizer,” Grace said that sheep poop is nothing like the pies produces by cows and horses; it resembles deer poop, basically small pellets. “And there are already a lot of deer pellets in that cemetery,” said the forester.

Sheep are crepuscular, Stein said, meaning, “most of their activity is at sundown and sunup.”

“They tend to rest when they’re full; they lie down and chew their cud. Their specific rhythm of digestion is they tend to ruminate during the hottest part of the day, so we arrive after the hottest part of day and stay through night so we’re on-site during their most productive hours.”

The Ewe Care flock began this spring as eight sheep, “cobbled together” from a couple different people, Stein said. The Olde English Southdown babydolls grow to about 22 inches in height. They are sometimes called vineyard or orchard sheep, as their small stature means “they

Old English Southdowns babydoll sheep grazing in the city cemetery. (Photo: Diane Duthie)

can’t steal all your fruit,” Stein said.

The breed was standardized in the South Down hills of Sussex, England, in the late 18th century, and were noted for their “extreme hardiness” and the “unmatched tenderness” of their meat, according to their registry website. The modern mania for larger cuts of meat caused a decline in their popularity in the 20th century. A breeder, Robert Mock, started searching for Southdowns in the mid-1980s and eventually found about 350 sheep that became the basis for the modern standard.

Lagaly and Stein plan on breeding their flock, and will have live lambs—they are a no-kill farm—available next spring.

Since their Ewe Care venture was started in the middle of a drought, along with moving their farm and having fulltime jobs, the couple hasn’t yet taken on more work for their flock. Organic vineyards and orchards are a couple areas of interest; any pesticide sprays would not be good for the flock’s digestion. Solar arrays are another type of land where there’s increasing interest in using grazing or browsing animals to keep plant growth

down.

Goats are another option used in some places. They work more quickly than sheep because they are less choosy, but “they chew on cords and damage them,” Stein said. “Sheep don’t really do that. They like to eat what they like to eat and don’t mess with non-food stuff.”

“Goats are browsers and sheep are grazers,” said Grace. “That means goats start higher and work their way down.

Sheep start on the ground and if they are still hungry will eat things that are higher.”

The Southdowns breed, she said, is known for being particularly unlikely to browse, so it is a preferred grazer in orchards and vineyards.

If this growing season continues to be scarce, Lagaly and Stein might be able shop their flock as models for internet sites that traffic in photo slideshows of cute animals.

“They’ve got a smile like a dolphin, or an elephant,” Stein said. “They just look like Muppets all of the time.”

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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On Marc Catone’s ‘60s memoir, “Until the Birds Chrip” in the July 26 issue: I took a trip way back into my own life in reading Mr. Catone’s book. The feel of that time came creeping back into my consciousness, or maybe subconscious? It was both poignant and pleasurable, all at once. This was a very enjoyable adventure back to a very different, yet my, time. Mr. Catone even reminded me of some very ‘60’s attitudes that I had all but forgotten. Very innocent at the start of the decade, and very jaded by the end. And a bit tired from it all.

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We got this response from a July 26 article, “Glare From Solar Panels Understated?,” by Glynis Hart.

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The “T” in LBGT: the new focus of advocacy

Non-binary Ithaca

By Bill Chaisson

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Woolf would seem to be making the point, seconded by Luca Maurer, program director of the Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services at Ithaca College, that transgender people have always been with us. Cultural anthropology certainly bears this out. In many societies— European and non-European—gender assignments that are neither male nor female are codified in tradition. In China people with equal measures of male and female characteristics are called yinyang 8

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ren. In south Asian countries the Hijra are assigned-male-at-birth (AMAB) individuals who dress and act as women, but have a role in society different from either gender. Their population in India alone is approximately 2 million. In Albania, the Burrnesha (sworn virgins) are assigned-female-at-birth (AFAB) people with a masculine gender expression and role. This tradition goes back to at least the 15th century and is still practiced.

Binghamton University Prof. Maria Lugones notes in a 2008 paper in the journal Hypatia that before the advent of colonialism the Yoruba people of Nigeria did not have any gender assignment system in place at all.

Emergence of the Transgender Community A 2015 national survey, which had 27,000 respondents, put the estimated U.S. transgender population at 1.4 million. That, as Maurer points out, is approximately the population of Philadelphia, and also most assuredly an undercount.

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Southern Tier began to offer hormone therapy for transgender men and women.

In its first year the program attracted nine patients; in 2014 there were 39 additional clients; in 2015, 83 more; in the first six months of 2016, 109 new patients have joined the program, for a total of 240 patients in the rapidly growing clientele.

“This is the happiest group of people that we work with,” said Maureen Kelly, vice president for programming and communications at Planned Parenthood.

“We are facilitating people living their lives in a full and genuine way.”

The transgender community, the “T” in LGBT, though present in literature and known from celebrity members— including transgender women composer Wendy Carlos, former tennis player Renée Richards, and author Jan Morris—has emerged relatively recently as community in the public eye. Maurer believes the existence of an online network is in part responsible for this emergence. “Before [online communication] you thought you were the only one,” he said, “but then you could reach out through the internet and join bulletin boards and Yahoo groups.”

Today, for example, the nonbinary.org Wiki has 2,327 pages.

A few heroic individuals from this emerging community began to publicly make the case for ending discrimination against the transgender community.

As with the lesbian, bisexual, and gay communities before them, they have been getting some serious pushback.

About a decade ago, according to Maurer, enough people had shared their positive and negative experiences, enough data had been accumulated, and sufficient research had been done that a case could be made for quantifying the size of the transgender population. If opponents had to face an estimate of the population, one of the consistent arguments against funding further research or acknowledging civil rights would be lost.

The first national survey was not done until 2011. In addition to producing an estimated population, it documented serious civil rights problems for transgender people. The public debate over bathrooms is about transgender people wishing to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, while the North Carolina “bathroom law”—several bills proposed in other states have failed— insists that people use restrooms according to gender assigned at birth.

The struggle over the right to use the public bathroom of your choice may seem symbolic to cisgender people (the nontransgender population), but in fact there were both serious health and civil rights issues at stake. The survey revealed that transgender people actually limited the intake of liquid before venturing into the public sphere, in order to avoid having to use a restroom. According to Maurer, transgender people have developed infections and other health problems, rather than using a public restroom that made them intensely uncomfortable. One of the results of the recent national survey was to show that the inability to use a public restroom very much interfered with a transgender person’s ability to participate in community life in general.

Brian Patchcoski, the director of the LGBT Resource Center at Cornell feels that the recent victory on the marriage equality front has allowed activists to shift their efforts to working for the transgender community.

It is well documented, he said, that the community is experiencing a lot of violence and that on campus they are dealing with violations of their Title IX—which prohibits sex discrimination in an education environment—and Title VII rights—which is the part of the Civil Right Act of 1964 that prohibits discrimination in the workplace. “There are only so many advocates,” said Patchcoski, “ and transgender issues have been removed from bills in the past in order to get them passed.”

Local protections of civil rights according to sexual orientation and gender identity were passed relatively early in this region. Ithaca added non-discrimination language to its city code in early 2003, just before New York State did so. Tompkins County followed a year later.

“Having laws is wonderful,” said Patchcoski, “but what about people’s dayto-day experience? We want to change the culture.”

Transgender Community On Campus

There are 4,140 colleges in the United States. Only 250 of them have LGBT centers. The Ithaca College center was created in 2001, and Maurer is its first director. Cornell established an LGB center in 1994 and added the “T” to the name in 1998. Brian Patchcoski has been its director for the past two years.

“We do LGBT work,” said Patchcoski,

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“but at bottom this is human work.

Students are building their identities during their college years.”

While Maurer is a one-person operation, Patchcoski added a staff member on Aug. 1. The Cornell LGBT office was one of those that lost many positions during the financial crisis of 2008-2011. There are, however, 20 LGBT student groups on campus, and the center has many student volunteers.

Patchcoski and his volunteers are involved in orientation of new students. “It is good for us to just be present in those spaces,” he said. “It normalizes LGBT. Students can approach me afterward and elsewhere.”

The Cornell LGBT Resource Center works to connect undergraduate and graduate students with focused work in advocacy and with volunteer programs at center events. They also have queer leadership programs to teach people to

“It is well known that people with adequate health care do better mentally and physically and are more productive.

We had to identify the problem and find a solution.”

New York State government had declared it illegal to have exclusions for transgender people, but the law did not apply to self-insured plans, as those of many colleges are.

Maurer and Patchcoski both help transgender students who have housing and food insecurity. Maurer had a student who changed gender identity over the summer and the standardized housing process “kicked them out” when they wanted to continue living with the same people as the year before. But when Maurer approached the actual human beings working in the residential life office, they immediately countermanded the computerized system.

Patchcoski noted that the newly established grocery store in Anabel Taylor Hall at Cornell is something students have advocated for over several years. Anabel’s Grocery will be welcome resource for any transgender students who are leery of venturing off campus and have therefore had challenges shopping for their own groceries.

go out into the community and tell their stories.

Patchcoski said that there is a “good, bad, and ugly” to being a member of the LGBT community at Cornell. “We’re a global institution,” he said, “and there is a criminalization of what is called homosexuality in some parts of the world. Those attitudes can then be present here.” He acknowledged that attitudes also vary throughout the U.S. Bringing everyone together on one campus means that students don’t know who they can tell that they are not heterosexual.

Transgender individuals in particular, he said, can be constantly “misgendered” in the course of their lives on campus and called by their birth names.

The Ithaca College LGBT center organizes programming on campus, including a film festival and guest speakers. “There is no local communitybased LGBT center,” said Maurer, “so I do what I can [to invite the public up to the IC campus for events].”

Maurer spends a lot of time one-onone with students. “It’s something new every day,” he said, “or even every hour, dealing with students with challenges and barriers.” He was named Advisor of the Year last year for his work with Prism, a student group dedicated to organizing queer-themed events on campus.

But Maurer also works as an advocate for the campus LGBT community when administrative changes need to be made.

“The employee health insurance had exclusions for transgender-related care for employees or their relatives,” he said.

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marginalized group was considered quite uncontroversial. “After talking to her I thought,” said Kelly, “we should do this in Ithaca.”

After Oxford Kelly and other Planned Parenthood staff met with the Ithaca LGBT community, which had been leading support groups for over 20 years, and began the campaign to bring the hormone treatment to their office.

In 2009 they did a community needs assessment with Harris Interactive of Rochester. It included polling, online chats, and focus groups with the Ithaca LGBT community. “The overwhelming themes,” said Kelly, “were that transgender people were discriminated against—

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care, he said, transgender people can avoid increased physical and mental health issues. Those who want to transition physically from one gender to another do not have to seek out unmonitored sources of hormones.

In September 1998 at the World Congress on Sex and Gender at Exeter College, Oxford, Kelly spoke with a Dutch health care worker from the most rural district in the Netherlands. Kelly was surprised to hear that hormone treatment for transgender people was not only available there, but that caring for a

refused care and turned away—and treated poorly when they tried to access health care. So they were avoiding it or driving hours to get care.” The local data was backed up by a state survey that showed health-care professionals regularly treating transgender people badly, refusing to employ a patient’s pronoun of choice, and refusing to allow a partner in the room during visits.

Planned Parenthood of the Southern Tier was awarded a LGBT Health and Human Services grant to “increase community competency” in caring for the LGBT community. It supported training and education programs, like providing resources for siblings of someone who is

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coming out as a transgender person. They created a resource guide for providing care for transgender people before hormone treatment. “We did this in the context of letting people be who they were,” said Kelly. “Anyone feels vulnerable when they’re seeking health care.”

In 2013 the Ithaca office became the first Planned Parenthood in the state to offer hormone treatment. Kelly said they turned to California Planned Parenthood offices for guidance. The protocol is nationally approved, so it was a matter of teaching local Planned Parenthood staff to follow it. It began with one clinician, and now there are several providing treatment in Ithaca and, more recently, in Corning.

The Southern Tier chapter serves Tompkins, Chemung, Schuyler, and Steuben counties.

There are no exotic, expensive drugs involved. Planned Parenthood, Kelly noted, has a lot of previous experience providing hormones to patients—in the form of birth control. The cost of the treatment varies. Sixty-four percent of the Planned Parenthood patient base has private insurance, and the number of companies that cover the treatment is increasing. Another 19 percent pay out of pocket; 5 percent are covered by Medicaid; and 2 percent by Medicare.

The remainder are covered by the Transgender Health Fund, which also helps people living in rural areas and who are between jobs to get to their appointments.

People beginning the treatment must make frequent visits to the clinic, but these then taper off to maintenance visits, which they will continue for the rest of their lives. The length of the transition varies, said Kelly, depending on what changes an individual would like to undergo. The people in the program range in age from 18 to 72 years old, with older patients sometimes having waited until parents or spouses have passed away.

As the discussion of the transgender community becomes more public, children are coming to terms with their identity at earlier ages. Maurer remarked that one of the welcome changes he has seen in his 16 years at IC is increased parental support for members of the LGBT population. A number of local health-care providers prescribe “pubertal blockers” for children who feel that their gender identity does not match the one they were assigned at birth. Kelly described them as “hitting the pause button” on development. She has seen social transitioning begin in fourth grade.

While children may change their minds and unblock their development, it is extremely rare for adults undergoing hormone treatment to “go back.” Kelly said that it is well documented that “trans regret” is a myth. “These people arrive here,” she said, “with absolute deep selfawareness.” •

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Adventure Cycling Out West Two women on 5-week, 1,500 mile trek

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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hen I exchange emails with my longtime friend Ruth Sherman, I see the word “Ruthless.” I then read about her latest athletic conquest, and I say, once again, “Ruthless indeed …”

Ruth just returned from her “Ride the Divide” adventure, a relaxing little bicycle ride that took her from Alberta to British Columbia to Montana to Idaho to Wyoming to Colorado to New Mexico. The five-week, 1,500-mile bike trek followed the Continental Divide, and reached elevations of 12,000 feet above sea level. Ruth heard me gasp when I heard that number, and she said, “Oh, we crossed the Divide several times, and a lot of the earlier riding was done at only 5,000 to 7,000 feet, so it was a gradual acclimation.”

Ruth had some company and some help, as her friend LiLynn Gaines rode for 3 weeks, and Jim Lassoie drove their support van. Ruth laughed when she told me that one of the many cyclists riding the Divide said to her, “I have seen a van for a few days, and it seems to be following us.

I wish I knew who that creepy guy was …”

Ruth allayed the cyclist’s fears, saying, “Oh, that’s Jim! He’s my husband!”

Far more threatening than Jim were the grizzly bears that inhabited some of the dirt roads and single-track trails that were a part of the ride. Ruth said, “Adventure cycling puts out maps, and they strongly advise having bear spray with you while in grizzly country.” I said, “So, a bicycle chain is a good thing, and becoming a part of the food chain is not?”

Ruth cringed and agreed …

The Ride the Divide route is a popular one in the cycling universe, and Ruth and LiLynn really enjoyed meeting other cyclists from around the world, and while they were impressed than most of them carried all their own gear, they were pleased that Jim the Pack Mule was providing support. After all, Ruth retired on July 1, LiLynn just turned 60, and they were fine with their decision to have Jim as a part of the team effort. Ruth recalled that one cyclist said, “Wow, you two are

really traveling light!” Ruth said that they and it was obvious that the opportunity to had a support van, and the rider scoffed, meet one of his heroes was a big deal for said unkind (and unprintable) things and the fourth-grader. rode off. Ruth said, ‘Some rider called it The game was tremendous, as always, ‘Cheating,’ and we called it ‘Jealous!’” and Dan Brown, the executive director • • • at the Franziska Racker Centers, made Two weeks ago, I did a phone a compelling point at the post-game interview with Paralympic sled hockey reception. He said, “Most of you in the player Josh Pauls, and while I enjoyed our audience have approximately 125 contacts conversation, at that point I had never seen Pauls in action. That changed on Saturday, and Josh put on an amazing display of skills in the Racker Rivals Big Red game at Lynah Rink.

It is always fun to watch players like Dustin Brown and Joe Nieuwendyk, but to see Ruth and LiLynn on the “Ride the Divide” trek. (Photo: provided) Pauls using his arms and his dualpurpose hockey sticks was electrifying. It took him in your circle of family and friends. The a bit longer to get up to speed, so to speak, average person living with a disability but when he got going and carved out has only 25.” Dan encouraged everyone such incredibly tight turns at such high to work together to connect people more speeds, it was a thing of beauty. I talked to fully, and the game is a great step in the him before the game, and his handshake right direction. The event is evolving into and physique conveyed clearly that he is a great community tradition, and I really a world-class athlete, and his personality commend Joe and Dustin for showing up conveyed that he’s a cool guy by any and lending their skill and personality. measure. The Racker folks brought in a 9 I hope it served as a good workout for year-old kid named Mather, who plays sled Dustin as he prepares for another NHL hockey for the Ice Hawks in Binghamton, season. •

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ou may be familiar with the clusters of brightly colored cottages lining both sides of Boiceville Road in Brooktondale (they’re hard to miss), but do you know the inspiration behind the whimsical homes? “It was the book Miss Rumphius,” said Bruno Schickel, owner/ designer/builder of Boiceville Cottages.

Now, 19 years later, a few experimental homes based on a children’s book he read to his daughters has blossomed into a thriving community, and Schickel just finished construction the last 17 of the development’s 140 units.

Not quite tiny houses but certainly not traditional full-sized houses either, the cottages range in size from 650 square feet for a one-bedroom with a loft (rental price: $1,250 per month) to 1,170 square feet for the three-bedroom cottage ($1,675). There are also several buildings housing attached studio apartments that are each 540 square feet; they go for $1,095 per month.

Schickel said that after two decades he’s finally done expanding the community, built on 40 acres of land he purchased in 1993. “It was available, and it was a good buy,” he said of the land; he never considered that one day the

property would host a tiny village. “I didn’t even have that concept in my mind,” he said.

He built his first cluster of cottages, a circle of three homes, in 1997. In his first attempt he tried to recreate the essence of the world created by Barbara Cooney in Miss Rumphius. “I was reading that book to my young children and said to myself ‘I’ve got to design something that looks like this,” he said, “and I think I’ve pretty well captured that ginger bread cottage on the coast of Maine.”

Why are they so brightly colored?

“When I started out I was painting them somewhat bright colors, but I found that if you don’t start with very bright colors they become very muted very rapidly,” he said.

“Once I started doing bright colors people liked them, and at this point the brighter the better,” he said with a laugh. “I go for the most shocking colors I can find on the color deck.”

He said he’s gotten a few negative reactions from people who don’t like the loud paint (though never from people who live in the cottages), but those are few and far between. “I would say most people are extremely positive,” he said.

The recent tiny house movement has been good for business, Schickel said, even if the cottages don’t technically qualify as “tiny.” “I think the whole interest in the tiny house movement has only made it better,” he said, though he finds that these days it’s not necessarily the main draw.

“It used to be that people were attracted to the cute little house,” he said.

“Now more and more, people are wanting

The “village feel” of Boiceville Cottages in Brooktondale. (Photo: Jaime Cone)

to live in this community and are really drawn to the community as much as the house itself.”

Perhaps more important than the aesthetics of the development, Schickel said that the village is his attempt at creating a unique kind of neighborhood.

“The concept is to try to create a community that just naturally promotes interconnections in people, so sort of a self-feeding thing,” he said.

The meeting house at the entrance to the village is an example of this. “It allows people to come together as a community,” he said. “It gives them a big space where they can bring friends or family over.” He

also intentionally placed the mailboxes in the meeting house foyer so neighbors would have to bump into each other, “to promote these little connections,” he said.

On a recent sunny afternoon, it was true that people were going in out of the meeting house, grabbing mail or seeking shade and a cup of water as they took a break from shopping at the Boiceville Cottage’s first ever farmers’ market. Jeff Dahlander helped organize the event at the suggestion of Erica Frenay of Shelterbelt Farm in Brooktondale. continued on page 13

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n August 13, Cayuga Lake will be about as warm as it ever gets. As the sun rises over the east hill, Bob Kibbie will send the longing, eerie notes of a bagpipe across the water. Mist rising from the lake will pass dozens of small boats waiting to ensure a safe passage across, and 350 women swimmers will plunge into the cool waters and swim from the east shore to the west, ending at the shore at the Ithaca Yacht Club.

Their mission: to raise funds for Hospicare, the local nonprofit that offers end-of-life care to people in Tompkins and Cortland counties. “We’re not going to turn anyone away for lack of insurance coverage, or inability to pay,” said Melissa Travis Dunham of Hospicare. Last year, the nonprofit served 471 unique patients, more than half of whom were able to stay at home for their last days. Hospicare also has a six-bed facility on King Road in Ithaca for people who need 24-hour care. The annual Women Swimmin’ event brings in donations to make it all possible.

Mariette Geldenhuys, attorney for the Town of Ulysses and former city attorney for Ithaca, has been doing the swim across the lake for ten years. “My sister was diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer, and she died three years later,” said Geldenhuys. “That was my inspiration for starting the swim.”

This year the swim has a special poignancy for Geldenhuys, who is dedicating her swim to her spouse, Laurie Conrad. Conrad passed away on April 5 of this year. “Laurie received hospice services and because of their help, I was able to care for her at home. Being personally able to see what a huge difference it makes, and to see the caring and compassion the Hospicare people bring to their work—it makes me able to swim with a lot of gratitude for their work,” said Geldenhuys.

“I’m very able that I’m able to give back to them in this way.”

Geldenhuys grew up in South Africa, where swimming in the open water was the norm. “I know it really bothers some people to have the weeds, and the fish,” she said. “I like seeing fish when I swim. I remember seeing my first muskrat, and having no idea what it was, because I didn’t grow up here. I had to ask somebody when I got out of the water, and then I knew.”

In the winter months, many of the swimmers practice in the pool at Island Fitness, but “as soon as it warms up a bit, I’m in the water [of the lake],” Geldenhuys said. “I love being in the water in the early morning, as soon as the sun is rising, and I love crossing the lake and thinking about my spouse, who crossed over—it’s a very powerful way to connect with someone.”

And as she jumps into the lake the morning of August 13, Geldenhuys will be thinking Laurie Conrad, who, she said, not only did not swim at all, but, “She just could

not believe that 350 women were willing to get in the cold water, and cross the lake.”

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[rainstorms] in the summer.

Therefore additional project goals for the climate-change garden are to keep track of 2016 water needs for gardeners in 2050 and to select the best messengers (plants) to help tell the predicted 2050 story. The garden is a place-based experiential form of communication with visitors who enter the “high tunnel” immediately feeling the climate-change temperature inside.

Modeling for the year 2050 is focused on actual and predicted precipitation and temperature; the “high tunnel” is equipped with a technologically evolving, solar-powered environmental monitoring system that tracks soil moisture, air moisture, and temperatures both inside and outside. Fans automatically turn on and the polyethylene sidewalls rollup when inside temperatures exceed

those predicted for 2050. Heat waves are induced to study how the plants react over time to 2050 extreme heat events.

“This garden,” said Cerre, “is the first of its kind that focuses on the visitors’ experience. It is unique because visitors can come back every few weeks to observe the changes and challenges [the plants experience].” To that end, visitor impressions are analyzed with a visitor survey developed by Professor Jon Schuldt, assistant professor of communication. The survey documents and analyzes visitor understanding, awareness of and attitude toward climate change. During group tours by Plantations staff, Cornell students administer the survey to individual visitors on a random basis.

The climate-change demonstrationgarden team will fine-tune the various interconnected impacts of climate change on plants until it is replicable for dissemination to other public gardens. It is an installation that merges education, communication, design and gardens.

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“We thought it would be a great way to introduce local farms to the [Boiceville Cottages] community,” he said.

Resident Betsy McKean passed through the building to grab her mail as she left the market. “I already spent all money,” she said with a laugh. She has been living in one of the one-bedroom lofts since 2014.

“I was living on a 400-acre farm where there were only six of us, and I was not sure wanted a community,” she said.

“But, I found myself dreaming about light and airy spaces, and the moment I found it I realized I found what I was dreaming about.”

She appreciates the fact that downtown Ithaca is only a 20-minute drive away. “It’s the farmland juxtaposed with the city. I love the feel of having a real downtown along with a small hamlet farm community.”

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hen you spend the summer with actors, as I did this summer with the Ithaca Shakespeare Company, you tend to find out about films that are shooting around town, because your friends are acting in them. I had heard that Ithaca College professor Cathy Crane was shooting a feature here over the summer.

Crane’s film is called The Manhattan Front, and it sounds most ambitious. (Crane’s film will have its world-premiere festival screening in early 2017.)

The Manhattan Front is a speculative history that follows a young stenographer who comes to Manhattan seeking her independence in 1914 but gets swept up in a German plot to sabotage munitions during World War I. Spies, deciphered code, and the ol’ soft shoe bring together unlikely comrades in the trenches of New York’s vaudeville houses and on her harbor docks as a war of intrigue exposes our stenographer to anarchist labor agitation.

This story is told from the perspective of a girl playing with her dollhouse.

Cathy Crane has been teaching film at Ithaca College for 14 years. She started there in 2002 on a one-year visiting professor contract.

She then applied for and got a tenured track job, and received tenure in 2009. In the interest of full disclosure, last year I worked as an actor in one of Crane’s classes, performing scenes from Network and Bonnie and Clyde. The catch was that the students only had 20 minutes to shoot each scene, so it was quite an invigorating day. I also knew that she had made a film called Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil, shot with a student crew in 2004 that my friend George Sapio acted in. Like The Manhattan Front, they built and shot sets on the stage at IC’s Dillingham Center.

production and exporting of munitions, even “I think we killed our art department,” though we had declared neutrality. “Which said Crane of the Manhattan Front shoot this should come as no surprise, since we’re still summer. “The art director got another job three weeks out from shooting, so the rest of the doing it today!” Crane said with a laugh.

“The film did expand in terms of its story, student crew stepped up and did the job.”

This is not the first modern feature film shot because I became particularly interested in a German saboteur who was a naval officer who in Ithaca. In 2002 Robert H. Lieberman made Green Lights, a film about a talent agent trying to produce a film in Ithaca. (More recently (2012) Lieberman made a documentary, They Call It Myanmar.) Certainly Ithaca has been the home base for literally thousands of student films, most of them shot for relative peanuts, and of course, there was all that silent film production going on back in the day.

I was surprised by the scale and scope of The Manhattan Front and its production. The budget was raised from a combination of private investors, in-kind contributions, and grants from Ithaca College, and even (Top) Cathy Crane (right, standing) working with an actor on the set of her film more grants and support from “The Manhattan Front” (Above) Crane (right) working with her crew. the Guggenheim Foundation, (Photos: Dmitry Friedman) which funded the project’s early development in 2014, when it all started as a historical website. came to New York with the sole purpose of The spark for The Manhattan Front was undermining the U.S. munitions production. personal for Crane: her grandmother had been adopted. “Who was her mother?” she wondered. I got interested in the ways in which that particular effort intersected with the intentions “She was born in 1914 in New York, and was and objectives of the labor movement at that adopted in 1917. So it just asked the question, time. what was it like for women living in New York “My two female protagonists are a from 1914 to 1917?” These were the first three stenographer and a vaudeville performer. years of World War I, when the US was neutral.

Crane then began her research and found all kinds of amazing facts about ways in which continued on page 20 the U.S. was involved in the war through our T

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Stone Cold Killer

Novel adaptation hits it out of the park

By Br yan VanC ampe n Agatha Christie’s Cards on the Table, written by Leslie Darbon, adapted from Agatha Christie’s novel; Directed by Kerby Thompson, scenic design by Shelley Barish, costume design by Wendi R. Zea, lighting design by David E. Sexton, properties design

by Joe Dotts. At CRT through August 13.

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irst things first: I really want the outfit Kerby Thompson is wearing when he introduces his production of the regional premiere of Leslie Darbon’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel. It is by far Thompson’s wittiest costume of the season thus far, and a great visual play on the title of this more-than-a-drawing-room mystery.

The set-up is devilish clever, pure Christie, and it may have influenced Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth: The very eccentric. Mr. Shaitana (Mark Re) invites a group of people for a dinner party at his palatial home. In a room lined with exotica and odd artifacts, he confides in successful mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver

(Wendy Bagger) that he knows that four of his guests have indeed gotten away with murder. There’s Mary Williams as the crusty, unsentimental and calculating Mrs. Lorrimer, Richard Daniel as Dr. Roberts, who may have poisoned someone, Daniel Wisniewski as the caddish adventurer Major Despard, and Caroline Kane as the chirpy, duplicitous Anne Meredith.

Then Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard (Arthur Lazalde) shows up, dinner is served and an hour later, Shaitana is dead from a knife wound.

There were a few muffed lines at the beginning, but the cast rallied, and all of the information got out anyway. As the plot thickened, the performance found its groove. Bagger’s apple-obsessed scribe is the usual Christie detective à la Miss Marple, and Bagger, so great at CRT last summer in Always a Bridesmaid, almost rivals Lazalde’s Battle as the sparkplug that takes charge to solve the murder. Lazalde, imposing but gregarious, seems to make an ideal partner with Bagger, but in Christie’s

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Through the Multiverse

Constellations keeps the summer burning bright

By Ros s Ha ars ta d Constellations by Nick Payne, Hangar Theatre through Aug 13

she’s engaged ... but they annoy each other ... they have an affair, then one cheats, the other cheats; they reconnect at a ballroom dance lesson, etc.)

The first scenes may remind you strongly of David Ives’s oft-mounted sketch The Sure Thing. The ordinary nature of the dialogue, with its lack of exact character moorings is redolent of Harold Pinter. The ideas spun off and the fragmentary scenes reach to Tom Stoppard or Caryl Churchill.

Ultimately the pearl of Payne’s meditation on love is a notion of time and life as not one-directional and doomed to end, but ever-present: that the experience of a perfect day is no different from the experience of a whole life. For death shadows these lovers, and a secular type of eternity may be their consolation.

This summer has raised the already high bar of design at the Hangar. Interim artistic director Barakiva and his guest directors have invited several new faces into the space, especially in set design. Nick Francone’s set lives beautifully inside the

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.K. playwright Nick Payne’s romance Constellations was showered with rapturous paeans at its U.S. premiere (a Broadway outing anchored by Jake Gyllenhall), which make the script highly marketable, but perhaps not the promised event.

The Hangar’s gorgeously designed and strongly acted production reveals a play both elegant and awkward in its writing.

The gimmick is fascinating: if by quantum physics, we are one of many multiverses (Payne acknowledges a debt to Brian Greene’s An Elegant Universe), then any relationship is composed of all the maybes and maybe nots of a random encounter.

Thus we follow the arc(s) of a London beekeeper and a university astrophysics researcher’s courting and marriage, start to near-finish in which each chosen moment gets replayed for a variety of outcomes (they meet cute, but he’s married ... but 16

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world, everyone is a suspect and all bets are off.

The job for Williams, Daniel, Wisniewski and Kane is to be as creepy and suspicious as possible, and the four actors play their parts almost in competition, as if the audience were filling out ballots to vote on the identity of the killer. Williams is particularly good at what we might call the mean old Christie dowager. And in a dramatic form where class counts for so much, Wisniewski refusing to shake Wendy Bagger as Mrs. Oliver and Arthur Lazalde as Superintendent Battle in Battle’s hand is a seismic Agatha Christie’s “Cards on the Table” (Photo: Eric Behnke) moment.

Erica Rothman appears platforms, Barish revolves sets back and as Rhoda Dawes, Meredith’s forth, able to change the look of the entire roommate, and Richard Westfahl, Jennifer space or sets on either side of each other, Brunker, and Jason Shipman play excellent seamlessly shifting from the mansion to supporting roles. Shipman, as Sergeant Oliver’s flat, Meredith’s brick-lined balcony O’Connor, is particularly droll. and Lorrimer’s home.

Brunker plays the doctor’s secretary I know people don’t go home and another role, but it’s just doubling, humming the sets, but this evening showed nothing to do with the story. real elegance and style in the way CRT’s The character ultimately fingered as summer space was used. the killer may be diabolical, but the real Cards on the Table runs through August mad genius of this production may well 13. Tickets may be purchased by calling 800be scenic designer Shelley Barish. You’d 427-6160 or at the CRT Box Office at 24 think that the story would keep everyone in the victim’s home, but the story has more Port Watson Street in Cortland. Tickets are also available for sale 24 hours a day through scope, a longer time span and more sets than you might expect. Using two revolving the CRT website at www.cortlandrep.org. •

Hangar’s confines while seeming to extend the auditorium to infinity. An underlit, raised hexagonal platform is backed with sweeping muslin in gradations of sand, and echoed overhead by open hexagons, in woody walnut and sand, each with a central bare light bulb. The hexagons mimic molecular diagrams while also hinting at stars and solar systems. Lighting designer Burke Brown sculpts and banks off the empty portions of the set to provide the sensation of an exploding kaleidoscope of moments.

Returning designers include the always-resourceful Gretchen DarrowCrotty on costumes. With the palette of just two characters who never leave the stage, she manages to clothe them as both recognizable types and in patterns of blue and white that play off each other and the set. Most welcome is the return of brilliant sound designer Sarah Pickett (now teaching at Carnegie Mellon) who provides backward pinpoint wooshes of sound and a sprinkling, jangling music of the spheres (when the play momentarily jolts forward (and blue) into the future), along with whispers of environmental sound.

Both direction under Lindsay Firman, and the action are sharp. Firman delights in reconfiguring each moment, making spectacular use of the Hangar thrust.

She signals important textual shifts with physical clarity, perhaps a little heavily at the outset.

As beekeeper Roland, Robert Ross Parker is absolutely fleet in each shift of intention. He keeps the badinage light

Makela Spielman (left) and Robert Ross Parker star in “Constellations” (Photo Provided)

but specific, and gradually accumulates a reticent man eager to please, sensitive to the least change of temperature, and an optimistic misfit.

Makela Spielman has the much more forward physicist Marianne to portray. A highly physical actor, the early scenes seem a bit over-energized, but the gathering intensity makes a marvel of Marianne’s later scenes, as illness begins to rob her of specificity of speech and word.

There are many wonderfully written scenes, even if the whole never totally coheres, one very special moment is a replay of an argument, but entirely in American Sign Language.

It’s a miracle that Ithaca can support a house the size of the Hangar (just under 300), which continually serves up interesting and new work in its summer mix. Bravo on a lovely summer 2016. •

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eedstock is a beautiful, intimate, and ever-growing festival in Cortland that has steadily increased in size and scope since its founding. Now in its eighth year, the organizing triad of Tyler Coakley, Chris Merkley, and Jamie Yaman are introducing a major expansion to this weekend’s festivities, and the more astute among us may have noticed a subtle hint to the big change in the foreground of the official poster—a full weekend of music and camping.

The festival first began as an impromptu gathering of friends who thought to use their homestead of Reed’s Seeds to host a night of live music. Then,

Soul. The quartet promises to please, as their past two shows at the Haunt (March 2016 and February 2015) have surpassed all expectations. You will have no choice but to get up and dance to their delicious global beats and heat-opening gospel jazz.

Once their set ends, your toes can keep on tappin’ and your hips shakin’ as you enter the Meraki Forest for the Silent Disco—an enchanted arena of econeon and electronica fare. 607-favorite DJ Gourd will be laying down his sultry retro throwbacks, and taking turns with Gourd is Shannon M and her new-disco flavor, which will taste just as good as her homely cooking earlier in the evening.

Shannon M will be preparing food by day and swapping her toque blanche (the funny white chef ’s hat) for headphones by night. In a not-sosurprising twist, especially for a festival that prides itself on its communitybased orientation, she helped design the food menu for Seedstock VIII and secured a music set.

This year’s produce supplier Main Street Farms has, much like the festival, expanded this year. After Don Reed, patriarch of Reed’s Seeds, decided to retire, Main Street owners moved next door to Reed’s Seeds, leasing three acres on the property to expand their organic vegetable grows. This year, if cooks happen to run out of tomatoes, the supply fridge will be a mere stone’s Sophistafunk will be making their Seedstock debut this year. throw from the stove.

(Photo Provided) “We are calling it Farm-to-Fest,” reflects Merkely, “We’re not the first, but we feel like in this area, it’s kind the small gathering grew to a mediumof a new thing.” Cortland’s own Kate’s sized affair and now to this weekend’s Baked will again be present offering their three-day festival, with merchandise, satisfying selection of sweets. food vendors, and hired security. To Weekend passes include three days accommodate this year’s added offerings, of music and two nights of camping. the organizers have expanded their Saturday morning, local yogi Sarina team: “We have someone overlooking Ferro will be leading yoga, and on volunteers this year … same with food and Sunday Sara Sturges has come all the way merchandise,” said Coakley, “That was a from Arizona to lead a sun salutation big factor for us to take some of the load or two. An added benefit of camping off of us and bring some other people in Friday night: you can catch the tail end who could help keep the vibe how we like of the largest meteor shower in a decade. it.”

Peaking the night of Thursday, Aug.11 From 12 slots last year to 25 this year, and the morning of Aug. 12, the Perseid Seedstock organizers asked Syracuse-based meteor shower will rain down 200 booking agent Charlie Orlando to help meteors per hour at its peak—twice the balance returning Seedstock acts with new rate of typical showers. acts. With Seedstock classics Big Mean No glass containers are permitted Sound Machine, Digger Jones, and the and carpooling is suggested. Children Unknown Woodsmen holding down their under 12 can attend for free, and young annual sets, Thunder Body, Sophistafunk, people under the age of 18 must be and the Nth Power will be making their accompanied by an adult.

Seedstock debut.

Doors open at 3 p.m. on Friday The latter band—the Nth Power—will for Seedstock VIII at Reed’s Seeds be headlining Saturday night with their (3336 Route 215). Find more info at Cajun-brand of relentless funk and healing seedstockfest.com. •

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captured with a perfect balance of painterly invention and believable detail. One of Wen Lin bend art history and several pieces shown in the store’s front cultural difference, recalling both windows, Upper Town, Zagreb is gorgeously traditional East Asian ink painting and the sun-soaked. The animated black lines that work of the French Post-Impressionists.

They’re also marvelous—full of vivacity and accent the luminous colors of Flagpole and Zagreb Spring recall Eastern calligraphy. light, done with evident speed but filled with what the art critic Clement Greenberg Zagreb Cathedral is particularly raw with Use the ballot on page 32, fill it out and once called a “density of decision. ” send it in stain-like blots of color merging with today or go to ithacatimes.com to cast your ballot. scribbled graphite drawing.

Lin, who comes from a family of Aptly titled, Singing Beach is a rare well-known Chinese artists, is a professor respite from the city. Broad swaths of of art at the Cheung Kong School of washed-out tone: brown sand, dull blue sea Art & Design at Shantou University in with white highlights, sky kissed with cyan.

Guangdong. He is currently showing A lifeguard’s chair, black and blue, standing a selection of recent work at Autumn unattended in the right Leaves Used Books on foreground. Black the Commons. The silhouetted forms in bookstore does not hold indeterminate distance: exhibit regularly. (Lin’s two tiny figures, islands. partner is a former There are three fine employee of the shop, studies of the female hence this show). It is nude. Glasses I is the surprising and welcome most memorable. We to see such rich, see a full-length figure complex work here. from behind, standing The display is in three-quarter view. casual with pieces Most of the color is scattered around the thin—reddish, bluish, store and much of the her face oddly green. work shown unframed.

Crisper, darker lines Balcony is a provide accents, particularly captivating definition: the glasses, painting. We see a dog, around her ponytail, the from behind, looking right edges of her back through a window or Wen Lin’s “Balcony” (Photo Provided) and her legs. glass door—the wobbly Scarf and Shoes show black outline of which reclining models. The forms a sort of picture former watercolor is within the picture. The spare and serene while the latter is busier, way the animal is rendered is magical: comical—the piece is so named for a pair thick white highlights and spongy black of black heels left sitting on the floor by the shadows embrace patches of yellow and lower left corner of the image. pinkish-brown. Even the undefined A pair of head-and-shoulders portraits, surrounding areas seem to glow in washes Old Woman and Classmate #2 differ from of blue, pink, and yellow.

Lin’s other pieces here. More carefully builtThe piece is also about looking up in their painterliness, they are realistic and about obstacles to looking. In the middle distance there’s a wall in black studies of anatomy and character—the and blue, almost ungainly with its drawn broad laugh of the young man in the latter scribbles. It blocks the dog’s view—and piece is particularly striking. ours. Balcony evokes the loneliness and Art in a broadly Impressionist or Postclaustrophobia of modern city life. It Impressionist vein seems to have a lasting suggests containment and release, the currency just about everywhere. Ithaca of opaque and the transparent, near and far, course is no exception; the local galleries inside and outside. It is both bitter and are full of plein air devotees and painters of sweet. modern life. Curiously enough, the more The ambling, black-headed academic or fashionably minded in our bird in Tito’s Duck has a similarly midst tend to look down on this sort of anthropomorphic, portrait-like feel. The thing. It appears retrograde and unserious. piece is sketchy, unraveling, almost black- Perhaps a higher regard for vital tradition— and-white. wherever such a thing might come from— A series of street scenes from is something we might learn to see more Zagreb underlines Lin’s interest in the clearly in a foreign mirror. • European tradition. The Croatian capital is the subject of several pieces here: its historic-looking buildings and streets

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t looks like 2016 is shaping up as the year that comic book movies turned dour and sour. Captain America, the X-Men, Batman and especially that blank psycho Superman sure don’t seem to be having any fun these days. Everything’s all dark and Zack Snyder—yuck. And the weird part is that Deadpool, the only one in this year’s batch with an R-rating, cranked up the Juice Newton, and that turned out to be the fun one.

Suicide Squad may have beaten the August box office record held by Guardians of the Galaxy, but GOTG is a much better movie.

David Ayer’s Suicide Squad wants to be Deadpool so bad that I wouldn’t be surprised if Warner Bros. puts out an unrated version somewhere down the line.

The problem is, Marvel and DC can’t do without that PG-13 rating, and judging by the amount of carnage and violence they can get away with, PG-13 is fast becoming

a joke.

In this movie Viola Davis plays Amanda Waller, head of a secret government agency recruiting imprisoned super-villains to protect us from the superheroes. (Wha …?) The Joker (Jared Leto, intriguing but like the rest of the film, poorly used) gets up to some shenanigans and Waller’s team of mutant lifers is called in to wander a deserted city, blow stuff up and end up battling witches in an almost exact copy of the end of the original Ghostbusters. (Amanda Waller could have given those gals a call.)

It’s not often that you realize that you’ve spent two hours watching a movie with a character named Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney). For all their alleged badness, these guys are a rainbow gathering of clichés. Will Smith is too likeable to be the badass that Deadshot should be. (My favorite iteration of Deadshot is in WB’s anime-style feature Gotham Knight.) Margot Robbie has a few good moments as Harley Quinn, but it’s cartoon empowerment on the level

of the Charlie’s Angels movies, and she’s insane, so …

Waller is an important character in the DC universe, and Davis’ intensity is the best thing about the film. And yes, Ben Affleck puts in a few appearances as Batman/Bruce Wayne that hold promise. (Stick around for the credits: DC has also ripped off Marvel’s post- or mid-credit scenes.)

Ayer made Fury, perhaps the most unrelievedly grim WWII film ever made, so you’d think he’d be the perfect dark prince to take DC Comics’ B-Team to some new territories of black humor, but the whole thing has been paced like a hyperactive trailer, with seemingly 87 rapidly paced origin stories, the dialogue more like trailer lines than anything people actually say.

They’re selling Suicide Squad as a comic book version of The Dirty Dozen, which I had never seen even though I have a copy on Blu-ray. I came home wondering why I was feeling so let down and conflicted, and decided to watch The Dirty Dozen for the first time.

This 1967 war flick couldn’t possibly have the impact it had at the time, but I found it a gripping yarn anyway, with a sick twist at the end that Suicide Squad, for all its cutesy punk neon nihilism, couldn’t get near. I also kept thinking of Paul Bartel’s drive-in classic Death Race 2000, about a futuristic road race where the drivers earn points for killing pedestrians. You can do that when your

Jared Leto stars as The Joker in “Suicide Squad” (Photo Provided)

movie costs $400,000, not $300 million plus with marketing.

I mentioned this in my review for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Tony Orlando, but the WB direct-to-video The Batman-Superman Movie: World’s Finest, is not only a better teaming of the cowl and the cape, but it’s also a much better, more entertaining storyline for Harley Quinn and her “puddn” the Joker. •

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movie, with lots of characters and lots of plots happening, as opposed to the one story that drives most movies.

The story takes place in New York City—hence the title—and you might think it difficult to simulate that on a small budget in upstate New York, but in fact, the Bronx was rural at the time, and very much like central New York. The film was shot in three weeks during 20 12-hour days, and an ultra-low budget contract with the Screen Actors Guild. The final budget, including the “above the line” actors, came to about $250,000. The company has already been in contact with film sales agents, and Crane has five executive consultants advising on sales.

The period from 1914 to 1917 was also the height of silent film production, and so Crane was also consulting with Diana Riesman from the Ithaca Motion Picture Project and Wharton Museum.

They are working on GPS app that would guide people to landmarks where famous Ithaca silent-film scenes were shot, and all of Crane’s newsreels are on their

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There’s another who’s a suffragist who runs a charity, and there’s a German woman who owns a brothel and cabaret. So there are a lot of important alternatives. Any one of those characters could have been my grandmother.” Check out the film’s Facebook page for lots of fascinating links and photographs. Research is Crane’s forte, but dramatic construction is not, so she collaborated with screenwriter Julie Blumberg, who helped find a structure and story for all the historical background.

“I come from a relatively mainstream screenwriting/television background, and she came to me with this project very much up and running, with a lot of historical knowledge. And my job is, what’s the story?” said Blumberg. “Who are the characters? What do they want? What gets in their way? It sounds easy to talk about, but it’s so difficult to orchestrate.” The film was put together like a Robert Altman

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“There was a moment that I thought would make a silent film, and not just a silent film, but a silent film in Ithaca that would tie back into the history of this area,” said Crane. But there was to be no film in the cameras, ultimately; The Manhattan Front was shot digitally “with these beautiful lenses, these really sweet Cooke lenses”.

“I do have a background working with actors, and I’ve done most of my own training, once I got here, working with [Manhattan Front casting director] Eliza Van Cort’s Actors Workshop of Ithaca. I actually took classes there. So that helped me to understand the Meisner technique itself, which I think is a very important one for film, the best as far as I know.”

The Meisner approach teaches an actor to behave instinctively to their environment and what is being said to them.

Van Cort doesn’t just run the AWI, but has a successful sideline business as a casting consultant. There was a “massive casting call” in New York for 29 speaking roles. “We had thousands of people, hundreds of people writing in to be considered for roles,” said Crane. “We have an incredibly deep bench of excellent actors here locally,” said Van Cort, and you’ll see busy local thespians like Sapio, Michael Donato, Hangar Theatre cofounder David Romm, Judith Pratt and Erik Bjarnar in roles in The Manhattan Front.

Crane had considered one of the

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key roles to be white, but Van Cort recommended Darryle Johnson, a black actor, on the grounds that Johnson really was this character, and that casting Johnson in the role would make him a much more complex and interesting character.

“I cast the best people for the part, period,” said Van Cort. “He came in, and he just killed it,” recalls Crane of Johnson’s audition. “I knew I didn’t have a lot of time on the set. I cast actors who were awake, passionate, committed, intelligent performers.”

Daniel Masciari, the film’s editor, is a former student of Crane’s who graduated last year, and he agrees with the directors about the actors, having watched their entire performances while cutting the film. “The editing is a blast, because we have so many options. Every take, they did something different, or some characters improvised a lot more. People would think that’s hard for editing, but it makes it more fun.” In one scene, an actor did the scene three different ways, and Masciari is selecting moments from all three takes to construct the scene.

Producer Kayla Reopelle has been working with Crane on the film for two years. They met in a class that Crane was offering, and at the end of the first day, she asked Reopelle if she’d ever thought about producing. Reopelle developed the website and photo research on her own, and became the line producer on the film.

Beth Custer, co-founder of San Francisco’s Hot Foot Orchestra, has scored several silent films already, and her work on The Manhattan Front marks her fifth score for Crane, who calls her the Nino Rota to her Fellini. “We’re very interested in using music from that period,” says Crane. “Like ‘Somebody Lied’, which is a key component in this film. It’s public domain if it was published before 1923.”

Custer said, “We decided that rather than use Ithaca musicians, we would use a studio I was familiar with in San Francisco, and that way, we were able to get the actors lipsynching stuff much earlier than if I’d given them tracks 24 hours before they had to do it.” Custer hopes to use the same group of Bay Area musicians to play the rest of the film’s interstitial score as Crane and Masciari continue cutting and shaping The Manhattan Front through the fall.

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8/10 Wednesday The Small Kings | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Trumansburg Farmers Market, 69-71 W Main St, Trumansburg | Funk, Rock, Blues, Soul.

Mac Benford & Up South | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Country, Americana.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Fabi & The World Music Experience | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Latin Fusion, World, Progressive.

8/11 Thursday Under Construction | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM | Ithaca Farmer’s Market, Steamboat Landing, 545 3rd St., Ithaca | Rock, Funk, Soul, Blues, R&B. Fireside Collective | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Progressive Folk, Bluegrass, Newgrass.

Justin Roeland & Bryan Davis | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Singer Songwriter.

Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Hot Club of Cowtown | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Ameripolitan, Western swing, Hot Jazz.

Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Stella’s Barn, 1346 Elmira Road, Newfield | 50s, ‘60s Rockabilly, Rock and Roll.

Li’l Anne and Hot Cayenne | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards, 5712 Route 414, Hector | Zydeco, Roots.

Under Construction | 5:45 PM-9:00 PM | The Boat Yard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Funk, Blues, R&B, Soul.

Encore | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Jazz, Fusion, Rock.

Long John and the Tights with Paul Strother | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Americana, Old-Time.

Clint Bush | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Clint Bush performs stripped down solo versions of the original songs he writes for the band Tractor Beam.

Backtalk | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | Rock, Pop, Covers.

Dapper Dan & Rocky Burning | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Young talent unite!

The David Grey Beard Band | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Old-Time.

8/13 Saturday Bob & Dee | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM |

8/11 HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN 8/14 THE GIBSON BROTHERS 8/21 DANNY SCHMIDT 9/11 THE STRAY BIRDS THE DOCK

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Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | Americana, Folk.

Art and Noah Blues | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Blues, Americana.

Laura Peters | 3:00 PM | Quaker Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Folk, Americana, Acoustic.

Ithaca Bottom Boys | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Bluegrass.

Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country.

Yarn | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Alternative Country, Roots, Americana.

The Overrated | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Pale Green Stars | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Blues, Alternative Country.

Mostly Beatles | 8:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Great songs by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, Herman’s Hermits, Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Animals, The Hollies and more.

The Grey Wolf Jam | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Crooked Rooster, 223-301 N Franklin St, Watkins Glen | R&B, Country, Blues.

Fabi and the World Music Experience | 8:30 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Miami-Latin Fusion, Salsa-Pop, Son, Merengue, Cumbia, Soca, Compa, Afropop.

Fireside Collective | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Bluegrass, Americana, Roots.

Lady D & The Shadow Spirits, The Night Swimmers | 9:00 PM

| Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Indie Rock, Folk, Americana, Old-Time.

State Meets Floral | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Folk, Rock.

Cayuga Blue Notes | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Blues, Country.

Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

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8/12 Friday Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

Don Henley | 7:30 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Rock, Pop Rock, Country Rock.

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Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa | 7:00 PM- | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Rap,

Dryden Music Series: Lucey’s Hooch | 6:00 PM | VFW, 2272 Dryden Rd,

8/14 Sunday Jerome Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano outside on the patio.

Music and Mimosas with Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Roots, Soul, Acoustic Under Construction | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Funk, Soul, Rock, Blues, Swing, Country.

Devin Kelly Organ Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Sean Farley | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Blues.

Travis Knapp | 6:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Americana, Folk.

The Gibson Brothers | 7:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Americana.

Fat Night, The Imperials | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Funk, R&B, Soul, Rock, Indie Rock.

A young indie rock band that makes original music and is composed of acoustic guitar, bass, drums, and cello, State Meets Floral plays an enchanting compound of insightful folk Americana with a modern edge. They’re working hard to create inspired music. They play The Nines, Saturday, 8/13 at 10 PM. Do yourself a favor and check this crew out! (Photo: Facebook) Dryden | Classic Blues, Funk & Soul.

Hip-Hop, West-Coar Hip Hop, Gangster Rap. Sim Redmond: Taughannock Falls Summer Concert Series | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath House Stage, Trumansburg |Country.

8/11 Thursday Anna Coogan & Willie B : CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Thursday Nights at New Park | 7:00 PM-12:00 AM | New Park, 1500 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Featuring The Free Little Birds and The Rapid River Boys. Hosted by Marie Burns. Americana, Country-Western, Bluegrass, Old-Time, Folk.

Marie Burns and Friends | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | New Park Event Centre,

8/16 Tuesday MSZM | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz, Avant-Garde, Funk, Free-Jazz.

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

8/14 Sunday iMatter Festival | 11:00 AM | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Road, Horseheads | This free festival incorporates nationally known speakers and hard rock bands in an effort to counter suicide, self-harm and self-doubt by promoting a message of

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agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. | 96 mins PG-13 | Captain Fantastic | In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent. | 118 mins R | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. | 101 mins PG-13 |

8/16 Tuesday Music in the Hollow: Gravel Gerty & the Scratch Out Squad | 6:00 PM | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Bluegrass.

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Florence Foster Jenkins | The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. | 110 mins PG-13 | Indignation | In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War. | 110 mins R |

Constellations | Wednesday, 8/10 , 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM, Thursday, 8/11, 7:30 PM, Friday, 8/12, 8:00 PM, Saturday, 8/13, 3:00 PM, 8:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A spellbinding love story between an unlikely couple, a beekeeper and a quantum physicist, that defies the boundaries of the world we think we know. For showtimes visit www. hangartheatre.org Crazy For You | Wednesday, 8/10 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM, Thursday, 8/11, 7:30 PM, Friday, 8/12, 8:00 PM, Saturday, 8/13, 8:00 PM, Tuesday, 8/16, 2:00 PM | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E

Cafe Society | Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an

Lake Rd, Auburn | Gershwin’s musical is fun for the entire family and chock full of classic songs and toe tapping choreography.

Agatha Cards on the Table | Wednesday, 8/10, 7:30 PM, Thursday, 8/11, 7:30 PM, Friday, 8/12, 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM, Saturday, 8/13, 7:30 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | This rarely produced Christie classic is sure to please the mystery lover in all of us!

Mr. Shaitana is a strange and wealthy collector of various kinds of art. One evening he invites Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and crime novelist Adriane Oliver to a dinner party to view his latest “collection”: four people who have committed murder and gotten away with it.

My Son The Waitor | August 11-20 | Thursdays at 2pm & 7:30pm, Fridays at 8pm, and Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange Street, Auburn, NY 13021 | A Jewish Tragedy – 90 minutes of nonstop laughter starring Brad Zimmerman.

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Skaneateles Festival: KidsFest | 11:00 AM, 8/10 Wednesday | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles | For more information: 315-685-7418 or www.skanfest.org Animal Sleepover Storytime | 6:00 PM, 8/10 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Animal Sleepover Storytime will begin with a special storytime for children of all ages and their favorite stuffed friends. After storytime ends, the stuffed animals will spend the night exploring the Library. Children can pick up their animals and a photograph of their late-night, Library escapades on August 11. For more information, visit: tcpl.org/kids/programs.php or contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Hunger Games Movie Marathon | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Runs August 15 through August 18 in the BorgWarner Community Room. Students in grades six through 12 are invited to attend one or all four of these free screenings. Free popcorn and drinks will be provided. Adults must be accompanied by a student.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl.org.

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Featuring Purity ice cream, music from local artists, and handmade ice cream bowls created by ceramics students at Ithaca Youth Bureau, this fundraiser is sure to be a blast. Ice cream bowls will be sold, and they include ice cream, or people can purchase ice cream in a paper cup. Indie rockers State Meets Floral will perform from 4:30-5:15 pm, Vitamin L from 5:30-6:00 pm and ComedyFLOPs (a music and improvisation group) from 6:00-7:00 pm. Swing on down and help out a great organization.

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Actor/Comedian Brad Zimmerman’s hilarious and inspiring story about the grit and passion required to ‘make it’ as an artist and the sweet rewards that come from never giving up on your dream. Brad Zimmerman has paid his dues. He spent 29 years “temporarily” waiting tables in New York, all the while chasing a career in acting and comedy. He tells of his pursuit, along with stories about his childhood, family, and misbegotten love life with warmth, wit, self deprecating humor, and wicked charm. This is not to be missed.

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Meetup of Southern Tier NY) | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | An inspiring talk about how the food we choose affects us physically, culturally, and spiritually. Contact at holzner@fastmail.fm The World Peace Diet by Dr. Will Tuttle | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Author of the international best-seller The World Peace Diet, visionary educator, musician, and Dharma master in the Zen tradition, Dr Will Tuttle delivers an inspiring talk about the food we choose and how it affects us physically, culturally, and spiritually. For more information see the Vegetarian and Vegan Meetup of Southern Tier NY: www.meetup.com/Vegetarian-VeganMeetup-of-Southern-Tier-New-York/

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6:00 PM-, 8/10 Wednesday | Treman State Park, 105 Enfield Falls Rd, Ithaca | For further information about this event visit cayugatrailsclub.org Americana Red Cross Blood Drives | 8/13 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 114 Burleigh Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850 | 8am to 12pm | 8/13 St. Anthony’s Church of Groton 8am to 12pm, 8/16 Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1019 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850 | 11am to 5pm Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers Auditions | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Audition is on Wednesday August 17th from 6-7 p.m.

The group is dedicated to the preservation of the Negro Spiritual and Racial Healing through music.

Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Women Swimmin for Hospicare: Volunteers Needed | The 13th annual Women Swimmin’ for Hospicare will take place on Saturday, August 13,

2016 at the Ithaca Yacht Club, and they need your help. More than 300 swimmers will swim across Cayuga Lake to raise money for Hospicare and that means we need more than two hundred volunteers on-shore and out on the lake to make sure the event runs smoothly and safely. For more info contact their Volunteer Coordinator: Lorraine Hare, lorraine.hare@gmail.com The Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hikes | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead 4-5 mile hikes every Tuesday evening.

Hike locations vary every week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Cortland LGBTQ Resource Center Picnic | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | Yaman Park Pavilion, 1 Kennedy Parkway, Cortland | www.

CortlandLGBTCenter.org Summmer Open House at Yoga Farm | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/14 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Special guest musicians, finger foods, information about amazing new fall courses and classes, a chance to meet the yoga teachers, door prizes and more! Come see what everyone has been talking about, walk to the waterfall, engage in conversation by the pond, tour the studio and learn about the fall expansion.

Circle for Healthy Eating and Wellness (CHEW) | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | A peer-facilitated support group for people in recovery or recovered from eating disorders. An affiliate of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). Info at chewithaca@ gmail.com

August 14 | Clute Park, 155 S Clute Park Dr, Watkins Glen | The festival was founded by a small group of Italian Americans residing in Watkins Glen to honor the Feast of the Assumption, which occurs each August. Info and schedule at watkinsglenitalianamericanfestival.org/home.html Skaneateles Festival | 8:00 PM, 8/11 Thursday, Opening NIght / 8:00 PM 8/12 Friday / 7:30 PM, 8/13 Saturday | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles / First Night at Anyela’s | Angela’s Vineyards, 2433 West Lake Road, Skaneateles | For more information: 315-685-7418 or www.skanfest.org West Lake Road, Skaneateles | For more information: 315-685-7418 or www.skanfest. org (Rain location: after 3pm, call 315-685-7418 or visit www.skanfest. org) Ithaca Youth Bureau Ice Cream Social Fundaiser | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/12 Friday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Artistically made Ice cream bowls will be sold. Ice cream is provided by Purity Ice Cream. Three groups will be performing at the event: State Meets Floral from 4:30-5:15, Vitamin L from 5:30-6:00 and ComedyFLOPs (a music and improvisation group) from 6:00-7:00.

3rd Annual Northside Community Celebration | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | Quaker Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Free food, live music and performances, and children’s activities.

Regional Medical Center’s 125th Anniversary | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | Cortland Regional Medical Center, 134 Homer Ave, Cortland | Featuring live music by the Cortland Old Timer’s Band, the Brothers MacRae, and Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays, plus carnival games, food vendors, Dan the Snakeman and much more.

Hammondsport Festival of Crafts | All day | 8/15 Monday | Village Square, , Hammondsport | Annual festival which has over 125 crafters for a weekend of demonstrations and sales, plus a variety of store specials and specialty food items provided by our local merchants. Hassle free parking and continuous shuttle bus service from the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum and Pleasant

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Hot Club of Cowtown, internationally known for its jaw-dropping virtuosity and unforgettable live shows, which evoke both the smoky bistros of 1930s Paris and the hoedowns of the mythic American West, play The Dock, Thurdsay, 8/11 at 7 PM. Grab your top hat and best flapper gear and get on down. (Photo Provided) Valley Wine Company.

Steuben County Fair | 8/16 Tuesday | Steuben County Fairgrounds, 15 E. Washington St., Bath | In its 197th year, the Steuben County Fair is the oldest continuously-running fair in the United States. First held in 1819, it has been held every year since without interruption. Info at steubencountyfair. orgd.

Ongoing Meditation Sessions | 12:35 PM, 8/10 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by psychotherapist and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Anna Salamone, RN, LCSW. For more information, visit www. annasalamone.com or contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl. org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/10 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves

pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 8/10 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies.

Tai Chi for Arthritis & Fall Prevention | 1:00 PM-, 8/10 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad, 58 Main Street, Candor | Hour-long sessions meet twice a week for eight weeks. To register call Sue at 607-659-3022 or email sueheaven@ gmail.com Summer Exhibition: Motion Mania | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Explore the science behind what it takes to build an amusement park and

A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us!

Nursery School Story Time | 9:30 AM-, 8/16 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Lisa Hawke will lead story time for young school age children every week. www. newfieldpubliclibrary.org Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market.

For more information, contact the library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

The Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 524 Valley Rd, Brooktondale | Enjoy farm fresh produce from Elmer Family Farm, Whispering Willow and Nook and Cranny, organically raised meat products from Hog Wild and Shelterbelt Farm, hanging baskets and vegetable seedlings from R & C Plants and Produce, prepared foods and desserts from Brookton’s Market and nature drawing activities with natural science illustrator Lucy Gagliardo, free for kids of all ages.

every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015.

1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 8/12 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

Archaeology Field School | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | The History Center’s Eight Square Schoolhouse, 1748 Hanshaw Road, Dryden | A public Archaeology Field School. Contact Carole for fees & info at eightsquare@thehistorycenter.net Howl Night | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | The Wolf Mountain Nature Center, 562 Hopkins Crandall Road, Smyrna | Come and see Gray wolves, Eastern coyotes, and Arctic foxes - learn about their communication skills, their habitat, and place in the ecosystem.

Bement-Billings House Open For Tours | 12:00 PM-, 8/13 Saturday | Bement-Billings Farmstead, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | nvhistory@ stny.rr.com / www.nvhistory.org Dryden Farmers Market | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 8/13 Saturday | Dryden Agway, 59 W Main, Dryden | Enjoy local fruits & veggies, honey, eggs, cut flowers, canned salsas & sauces, artisan crafts and so much more.

Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 8/13 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | OA is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging.

Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835 Sterling Renaissance Festival | 10:00 AM-, 8/13 Saturday, 8/14 Sunday |The 40th Anniversary Season at the Sterling Renaissance Festival! Show schedule, special events, and more at www.sterlingfestival.com.

Game on Summer: Larger than Life | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/15 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | An opportunity for gamers to try out giant versions of some of their favorite games, including Hungry, Hungry Hippos, Jenga, Angry Birds, live-action Wizards Chess and more. Popular Game On selections Exploding Kittens, Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons will also be available during this free, family-friendly weekly program.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org. or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session:

then create, test, and re-test as you build your own twisting, spinning, zooming coaster. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600.

Sciencenter Mini-Golf | 8/10 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Enjoy 18 holes of science fun! www.sciencenter.org or 607-2720600.

East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/10 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com.

Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 4:15 PM-, 8/11 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | More info at www.

YogaFarm.us Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-, 8/12 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM, 8/12 Friday, 8/13 Saturday, 8/14 Sunday | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open

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Meetings City Planning & Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM, 8/10 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 8/16 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | May include hearings, during which the public may speak.

Books Regi Carpenter: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 8/12 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Internationally acclaimed author and storyteller Regi Carpenter will be celebrate her latest book. www. buffalostreetbooks.com

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The Haunt, Saturday, August 13, 7:00 p.m.

Community School of Music and Arts, Saturday, August 13, 8:00 p.m.

The rootsy-old-time group Yarn, led by main songwriter Blake Christiana, has an Americana-tinged alt-country sound that dazzles in waves. After years and many miles of touring, the band developed a harmony-rich sound that conjures comparisons to The Band. Yarn’s members —Christiana, Trevor MacArthur, Roderick Hohl, Andrew Hendryx, Rick Bugel, Jay Frederick, and Jay Wall — reach for the stars, the mountains, and the silk of the American road, flexing the grit of their experiences.

The British are coming, the British are coming, and they got great songs! The Mostly Beatles chorus will be doing their summer show on Saturday at the Community School of Music and Art. Great songs by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, Herman’s Hermits, Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Animals, The Hollies and more, will serenade your nostalgic soul, cooling you down with the spirit of the sixties, and lifting you up towards the sky.

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Autumn Leaves | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Wen Lin (aka Lam), who comes from three generations of Chinese artists. Lam’s grandfather was one of China’s early oil painters and his father, Long Hua Lin, is a well-known watercolorist, calligrapher, and retired art professor.

Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Harwood: At a very early age, Harwood discovered a natural gift for drawing and this was all he wanted to do. However, growing up in a household where creativity was regarded as something perverse, the fledgling artist drew in secret, using paper grocery bags, cardboard, or cereal boxes. | www.benjaminpeters. com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | In this collection of recent paintings, Lynne Taetzsch explores color, form and pattern. She is especially drawn to the bountiful forms of nature in field and garden, extracting their elements in playful explorations. The paintings in this exhibit range from quiet meditations to lush abundance. ArtsPartner.org | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Ivy Stevens-Gupta: Micro Expressions in Abstract Art: Communicating with Color. Award-winning Ithaca artist and color theory instructor Ivy StevensGupta’s newest exhibit employs color and design as powerful communicators. | www.thecellardor.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Photographing the Natural World: The Cayuga Nature Photographers (CNP) present works reflecting a diverse approach to the natural world, from insects, to birds, to flowers, to waterfalls and beyond. | www.csma-ithaca.org Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Natalie Renee Ferreira. Natalie finds beauty in the simplest things, and believes everyone can be creative. | (646) 306-0972 Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Trina

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egi Carpenter has written a notstrictly-chronological memoir, Where’s There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Stories of a Seared Childhood (Familius; 2016) that is a setting down on paper of spoken-word performances.

The conventions of oral storytelling are here: the word-for-word repeated lines that owe something to the refrains of stories that are sung, the images that are revisited again and again in different contexts so as to recreate for the listener (reader) the symbolic universe of another human being, and the rhythmic prose that gives each story the feeling of an extended incantation.

In the initial chapters events unfold as seemingly cute stories about a large French-Canadian family struggling to make ends meet in Clayton, New York, in the Thousands Islands region near the St. Lawrence River. Born in 1958, Carpenter’s life was filled with post-war features, harrowing ones like a father who fought in the Philippines in World War II and didn’t come out in one piece, physically or emotionally, and banal ones, like an affection for Barbie and peanut butter and jelly on Wonder Bread.

Amid the post-war wealth and expansion, the Carpenters lived in poverty. The youngest Carpenter child

Bartimer Bruno. Showing all new work/mixed media influenced by natural world | 319-0944 or visit www. decorum-too.com Eye Gallery | 215 E State St, Ithaca | Eye, 126 The Commons, Ithaca | Following eye‘s mission of being keenly eclectic, object maker, Lisa Pincus’s, ShiRt Happens!, is like no other textile exhibit you’ve ever seen. Show runs August 5 – September 4th.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | NO BOUNDARES: Work by nine contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists drawn from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl.

MATTHEW SCHREIBER / CROSSBOW Through August 28. This site-specific laser installation is an immersive environment that envelops the viewer

gets across the depth of this struggle with stories about visiting the town dump with their father (a regular excursion) and coming home with a television set. It became the sixth set they owned; her father stacked them in two piles of three in the living room.

One column had sound, but no picture, and the other had a picture, but no sound. This kind of slightly surreal joke presented more or less deadpan is Carpenter’s style.

The slightly off-kilter humor, however, is littered with more chilling incidents and is building up to something that Carpenter presents without hyperbole in a chapter called “Snap!”

The incidents are mostly to do with the post-traumatic stress disorder with which her father struggled. She maintains a young child’s perspective on his eruptions and initiallydoesn’t try to explain them, only describe them. She includes peculiar but believeable details, like that he smelled like a burnt match just before he would completely lose his temper.

Carl Carpenter, in his daughter Regi’s memory, usually took out his rage on inanimate objects, not his children or his wife. In one story her sister Mary is beaten with the strap (for something Regi had done), but that was pretty standard childrearing practice among large Catholic families in the 1960s.

The “Snap!” chapter is one of the longest in the book. It is in this chapter where her father does vent his rage against his children. “My father really can’t help himself anymore. His arms lift up and crash down upon all five of us kids like waves against a dock. He has

in a wash of immaterial geometric forms. American Sojourns and the collecting of Japanese Art: Through December 18: This exhibition will explore how American collectors in Japan impacted the Johnson’s collection. LEO VILLAREAL: COSMOS: Ongoing. Visible day and night, 12,000 white LED lights transform the ceiling of the Mallin Sculpture Court with complex movement and dazzling patterns. | www.museum. cornell.edu Hilton Garden Inn-Seneca Place Gallery | 130 Seneca Street, Ithaca | JULIA DEAN, recent work. With a perfected technique, Julia records natural objects into the surface of her thrown clay forms. This series of larger pieces is a tangent from her production line, which is a collection of functional work using the same surface design technique. www.juliaedean.com

Rongovian Embassy, Saturday, August 13, 9:00 p.m.

Lady D and The Shadow Spirits capture an ethereal, indie folk vibe.

Intimate, and expansive, their songs speak stark truths and poetic tales of the soul’s journey. Alyssa Duerksen (Misses Bitches) is joined by Walter Stinson (upright bass), and Chris Ploss (drums).

The trio conjure rich landscapes and pastel sound-fields that reflect the old-time spirit that surrounds the Finger Lakes Region. They’ll be joined on this evening by the equally compelling The Night Swimmers. The Rongo is calling your name!

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Home Green Home | 215 East State/MLK Street | Nature and the Spirit – Fernando Llosa and Ryan B. Curtis. Mixed media paintings and photographs by two local natureinspired artists | 607-319-4159 or www.homegreenhome.com Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Anke Hoffstaetter will be displaying her abstract series at Lot 10 through August. Stop by enjoy some great food by Luna, exceptional cocktails and amazing local art. For more info visit www.ARTeFLX.com.| 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Madeline’s Restaurant | 215 E State St, Ithaca | An exhibit of Guy Ciarcia’s Digital Art Paintings. Born in Union City, New Jersey, Guy Ciarcia is a classically trained artist, who was educated at the Pratt Institute, New York University, and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. | guyciarcia.com

Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August The Shop | 312 East Seneca Street, Ithaca | Footsteps of a Nomad by Olivia LaVaun. Photographs. | www.theshop. com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Thru-Lines: Jane Dennis, Diana Ozolins, and Terry Plater | Each of the three artists in this exhibition presents a select body of work which shows the development of artistic intent. This show offers both artist and viewer the opportunity to engage the creative trajectory of these individual artists. www.soagithaca.org 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | James Burlitch: Enduring Images Photography: After teaching and doing research in chemistry for thirty-nine years at Cornell University,

James Burlitch revived his love of photography developed as a young adult.

Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | MondayThursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | Outsider Art, artwork from some of the special schools in Tompkins County curated by Jessica Wall Crawford, will be on display during August and September. | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. | www. wafflefrolicking.com

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Chemung County Fairgrounds, Sunday, August 14, 11:00 a.m.

The iMatter Festival started in 2008 with just 700 attendees and has since grown to attract thousands of youth to the area each year from across the state. It incorporates nationally known speakers and hard rock bands in an effort to counter suicide, self-harm and self-doubt by promoting a message of hope, purpose and value This year’s festival features 17 artists, including headliners Memphis May Fire, Bless the Fall, Fit for a King, Emery and more.

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she is or how much time has passed.

The consequences are severe and prolonged. In this culturally conservative working class family, some things simply can not be spoken of again.

The rest of her memoir is essentially an oblique search for the roots of her teenage dissociative events and their aftermath.

She chronicles her parents’ deaths, reveals more about their upbringing and their foibles, and those of her father’s family.

Nothing is wrapped up in a bow.

You will finish this without any sort of happily-ever-after feeling.

This is a memoir about figuring things out and living with that.

The fact that as much is unsaid as said is part of what makes this literature. As many clichés as you encounter here— ”Mary has a heart of gold”— you will also come upon original and funny constructions, as when she remembers to the relationship between a diminished note and Regi Carpenter’s new memoir (Image provided) the octave by way of Catholic doctrine. This juxtaposition of the all-too-familiar and the become monster—but I am a slayer.” odd, surreal, and unexpected keeps you This brave 12-year old attempts to stop off balance and that is what Carpenter his attack, but “He plucks me off and is trying to do. Her own life careened dashes me against the wall. I run down back and forth between happy and like a smashed egg.” horrifying, and she makes sure that your After that her dissociative episodes reading experience is correspondingly start. Although leading a high-achieving disorienting. • life with curricular and extra-curricular Buffalo Street Books will host a book victories, Carpenter begins to “snap launch and a reading on Aug. 12 from 5:30 awake” repeatedly, not knowing where to 7 p.m.

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