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“It’s a little working-class house next to the creek,” McGonigal said. “We live in the Finger Lakes—every single village, city, or town I can think of started out with a mill next to a creek, and every single town, village, and hamlet I can think of has little houses next to the creek. I don’t think this house is out of place at all and don’t think it takes away from this beautiful waterfall in the slightest.”

Ithaca Urban Renewal Authority director Nels Bohn confirmed that a realtor had given an estimate the house could sell for about $125,000, despite its rough condition on the inside. After some talk of concern about a developer building

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ape and sexual assault on college campuses has become a more widely discussed issue in recent

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A new not-for-profit initiative, called Pledge 4 Ithaca, intends to model how to spread that conversation to schools before people reach college.

“Secondary schools are facing a lot of the same issues as college campuses,” said Laurie Linn, who’s spearheading the campaign. “About 44 percent of all rapes happen to women under 18. We have the opportunity to put a curriculum in the school systems to prevent rape and sexual assault. The educational component needs to be enriched and victims need to be supported.”

The Pledge 4 Ithaca campaign is being launched with the support of local notables and officials, including the mayor, Cayuga Medical Center, and the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce. At a state level, Linn said, there’s been attention paid to the issue

by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the SUNY system. There’s been lobbying at the state and federal level to institute better practices for dealing with reports of sexual assault and its victims, Linn said, with New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand currently pushing three bills in Congress.

“Hopefully what will happen is we’ll see a best practice within our county that other counties in other areas can imitate,” Linn said. “The campaign is designed so there can be a pledge for Syracuse, a pledge for Buffalo. We’re hoping best practices we create will get picked up by other communities.”

In and around Ithaca, Linn hopes the Pledge 4 Ithaca campaign will “really start to move the needle for kids under 18 years of age” and get people talking about the issue.

“Most folks of the community don’t want to think about the fact our youth have to deal with this issue on a regular basis,” Linn said. “At the end of the day, we all need to get involved.”

To learn more about the Pledge 4 Ithaca campaign, visit Pledge4Ithaca. org, and contact Linn at lauriel@ communiquedesign.com.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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he house at 401 Lake Street that has survived these many years on the edge of Fall Creek was sentenced to meet its end by Common Council at its June 1 meeting.

The “postage stamp” property came into the city’s possession in June 2015, when council voted to keep it and an empty 0.64 acre property surrounding it from going to tax auction. Then, council decided to make the structure-less portion of the property part of the Ithaca Falls natural area; whether the house should be sold or torn down became a question of some debate over recent months.

Several citizens attended the June meeting to register their support for tearing down the one-bedroom house with a 420-square-foot 401 Lake Street hidden in the trees above the gorge wall. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) foundation, and making the entire property part of the natural area.

“We’ve learned a on the site, Bohn said it would “be a heavy lot since the Ithaca Gun factory was in lift” for someone to get zoning approvals operation,” said Joe McMahon, a Natural there if the house was demolished after Areas Commission member. “You don’t being sold. put degreaser down drains, you don’t “Under current zoning much of Fall push lead pellets over the gorge bank, Creek could not be built. Two-thirds of and when you do those things there are it couldn’t be built today if it fell down repercussions. It’s the same thing with in an earthquake,” Mayor Svante Myrick building a house right on the gorge—we said. “I do want to speak up for this little have a chance to reverse a mistake that house. I’ve never, ever been offended by its happened a hundred years ago.” presence.”

Alderperson George McGonigal McGonigal was the lone vote for a st (D-1 ) spoke in favor of selling off the house, arguing that the property could be continued on page 4

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Varna Development Not According to Plan

By Er ic a D i schino

What is your favorite gorge to visit in the summer?

A “I just moved here recently but I’ve been to Buttermilk Falls. It’s really pretty up there.”

—Ashley Moffitt

“I’m from Canada and I went to see Taughannock but it was closed so I only got to see it from up top. It was still beautiful.”

—Cainan Querido

“First Dam is my favorite because there’s so much open space so I can see the sky.”

—Jack Higgins

“I really like either First Dam or Cascadilla because I like walking that trail.”

—Lauren Cramer

“I don’t really get out to explore the gorges.” ­—William Metro

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proposal from Lansing businessman Gary Sloan to build a 36-unit development containing two-unit townhomes at 1061 Dryden Road in Varna has some neighbors speaking out in opposition.

Carol Whitlow, who’s lived next to the property since 1982, said it was occupied by an older gentleman who kept chickens and a country garden.

“I just imagined, according to the Varna plan, there would be solar homes or single-family homes put on that site,” Whitlow said. “If you look at the pictures you’ll see how incongruous it is to put a 36-unit development right next to our little single-family home.”

Whitlow and other neighbors, including Dryden planning board member David Weinstein, have argued that according to the Varna comprehensive plan made official in 2013, the area—next to a rail trail and the F.H. Fox bridge— isn’t where the densest development is supposed to be placed in the hamlet.

“What the plan wanted was to have dense development down in Varna proper,” Whitlow said. “We don’t want a whole bunch of people living up the hill and driving cars in and out of Varna. We made the plan to avoid that.”

Since moving to Varna in 1982, Whitlow has seen many businesses come and go in the hamlet’s shopping center, which currently hosts a laundromat. There have been restaurants, a Pilates studio, and a basket store. She’d like to see an establishment like Brookton’s Market in Brooktondale move in, with groceries, hot food, and a café.

“You could see that sort of thing for Varna too, but you have got to have people who live there,” Whitlow said.

“The problem with development like 1061 proposes is those kind of people don’t really live there … they’ll share walls on both sides. It’s not anybody’s ideal living situation, between music and arguments and vacuum cleaners. They’ll probably be at work all the time, and aren’t going to make a home of it.”

“I’ve always wanted Varna to be a livable community, where things happen,” Whitlow continued, “and people get it wrong when they say nothing is happening. You look at the schedule at the Varna community center and you’ll see there’s things happening all the time …

Scrabble club meets every Monday night, there’s the after school program, there’s pancake breakfasts and dinners.”

Dryden’s planning board is recommending to the town council that the density rules in the rural residential zone that includes 1061 Dryden Road

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Carol Whitlow stands at the entrance to 1061 Dryden Road, next door to her own home.

The proposed development resembles the one behind her. (Photo: Diane Duthie)

be changed from two units per acre to six units per acre. The change was first proposed in February, according to Dryden planning director Ray Burger, with the affected region stretching from the hamlet of Varna proper up to the intersection of routes 13 and 366.

The current rules “make a lot of sense” for properties on septic systems, Burger said, but with access to sewer service in that area, a greater density is possible.

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measure to sell the house. After some debate about whether it was necessary to immediately fund up to $25,000 for demolishing the house, a measure to demolish it and move the property into the natural area passed by an 8-1 vote. Only Cynthia Brock (D-1st) dissented, arguing the city should prioritize demolishing a building on Giles Street that is used for creek-diving.

Reached at his home in Martha’s Vineyard, Jim Novack offered some recollections of living at 401 Lake Street from 1970 until he sold it along with the 0.64-acre property in 1990. There was, Novack said, a very derelict building at 403 up the hill, which was demolished in the early 1970s. In 401, Novack found “faucets sticking out of the wall” and had to run plumbing into the kitchen.

“It wasn’t much of a house,” Novack said. “It was kind of flimsy; an architect

how many sewer hookups are available are using approximate numbers, Burger said.

The real question is how many the town will pay for to send waste through the Ithaca Wastewater Treatment Facility.

Dryden’s town council will discuss the Varna zoning amendment at its June 9 meeting, with a vote likely in July, Burger said.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com said it was ‘lightly built’ … but I had 21 people there for Thanksgiving one year, and it didn’t fall down.”

Novack did make plans to build a new house on the parcel at 403, but the Scenic and Recreational Rivers designation for the area made that plan prohibitive. Those rules also put the kibosh on thoughts some council members had in the 1970s of building a hydropower dam in the area, Novack said. The original deed that came with the property actually included waterpower rights.

On Halloween, Novack had fun with a spotlight by projecting a Jack ‘O Lantern on Ithaca Falls.

“I think the biggest problem with building something there is getting insured,” Novack said. “If you don’t make it ugly, it’s not going to be safe, and if it’s not safe, it’s going to be ugly.”

No date has been scheduled yet for the demolition.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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University, Ithaca College and TompkinsCortland Community College “as a way of orienting students and their parents to this community.”

He said now is the right time to make a “bold move” because the History Center is about to reach the end of its 25-year lease at its current location in the Gateway building at 401 E. State St. “Certainly one option would be to stay here,” Howe said, ocal historical and heritage but the location has certain drawbacks. “It organizations may soon have a new feels like there’s a moat around it,” he said. shared home. At the June 1 meeting “It’s hard to get into, both for pedestrians of the Tompkins County Government and drivers.”

Operations Committee, Rod Howe, The new center would definitely be executive director of the History Center in located downtown, preferably on The Tompkins County, told county legislators Commons because ideally it would also about his plan to co-locate several nonbe a welcome center. “It will serve as a profits in one collaborative place that he is community hub currently calling the celebrating our rich Tompkins County history, heritage Heritage Education and culture in an Center. exciting, synergistic Howe did not way,” said Howe. ask the committee One potential site to take any action at under consideration this time but said he is the former wanted to keep the Masonic temple on county informed of the corner of North the center’s plans, Cayuga and East especially because Seneca streets. the county pays for It would be the center’s rent, beneficial to the utilities, parking, organizations to and a bookkeeper share a space for that the center both logistical shares with Historic reasons (sharing Ithaca. a greeter or a Howe said bookkeeper, for the new center example) and also will “serve as a because being in one community hub place helps foster celebrating our rich partnerships and history, heritage new ideas, Howe and culture in an said. exciting, synergistic Preliminary way.” findings by the “The proposed History Center center would show that the new provide exhibits, Heritage Education resources, and Center should be experiences for between 20,000 and residents and 25,000 square feet. tourists to be The center would engaged with each include a reception other and with the area, exhibits, county and the History Center director Rod Howe (File photo) retail, meeting region’s rich history and program and heritage,” rooms, a research according to the library, offices, workspaces, archives and proposal Howe gave to the legislators. collections, bathrooms and a kitchen.

He emphasized that the History The space would be designed for Center is still in the early planning stages use by both locals and tourists. County of the project. Nothing is set in stone, residents would be able to explore the he said, but he is currently discussing rich heritage of Tompkins County, while potential collaborations with Historic visitors could be educated about the wide Ithaca, the Wharton Studio Museum, variety of experiences they can explore in Ithaca Aviation Heritage Association, the the area.

Dorothy Cotton Institute, the Tompkins Though the project is still just an idea County Convention and Visitors Bureau, in its preliminary phase, Daniel Klein Ithaca Festival, and the Discovery Trail.

In addition, Howe said, there is a long (D-Caroline), chair of the government operations committee, said that he list of other local organizations that he supports it. “This is just one of many would like to partner with as well. He is things that shows what a great quality of also interested in partnering with Cornell

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life we have here, that we have all these organizations doing all these things,” he said.

Right now the History Center is “quietly exploring what possibilities there might be in terms of specific sites,” according to Howe. He said it’s hard to put together a funding model until they know what the space and partners will be.

“It’s an exciting period for us right now,” he said, “and hopefully we’ll have a much more concrete scenarios in the late fall.”

– Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org

Ups&Downs ▶ Donor/Recipient Meet, At Citi Field, there was an emotional, first-time-ever meeting of a blood stem cell transplant recipient and his donor. The pair was introduced just prior to game-time. Transplant recipient Richard Hoffman, 60, of Ithaca, N.Y., met donor David Rose, 57, of Berkeley Heights, N.J., in a private suite overlooking the field. Hoffman had suffered from the plasma cell disorder Multiple Myeloma, but thanks to a transplant made possible through Gift of Life Marrow Registry, his health and vitality have returned.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Management Dean, Mark Nelson, Cornell professor of accounting, has been named the 12th dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Nelson, the Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Management, will begin his five-year term as the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean July 1. He will succeed Soumitra Dutta, who will step down from the post June 30. Dutta will continue to serve as dean of the College of Business, a position to which he was appointed March 22.

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p to 20 Ithaca property owners will get to experiment with legally hosting backyard chickens, after a pilot program was passed into existence by Common Council at their June 1 meeting.

The program, developed over many meetings since summer 2015 and has exhausted the poultry puns of local media sources, passed by a 6-4 vote, with Alderperson Donna Fleming (D-3rd) absent: Deb Mohlenhoff (D-5th), Steve Smith (D-4th), George McGonigal (D-1st), and Ducson Nguyen (D-2nd) opposed the measure.

After much debate among council on the evening, a measure to remove a provision banning slaughtering chickens at home failed to pass by a 5-4 vote.

See “Chicken Keepers May Go Legit in Pilot Program,” May 18 Ithaca Times, for a rundown of the program details and a recap of this lengthy debate.

▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 1-7 include: 1) Ithaca Festival | New Schedule and New Locations 2) Davison Retires After Varied Career 3) A Vegan Place: Farm Sanctuary at 30 4) More Equity in the Ithaca Schools 5) State Moves to Claw Back Energy Credits For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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liberal bubble burst in Trumansburg last week. It was the kind of thing that could have happened in Ithaca, but now maybe it won’t. Ulysses Philomathic librarian Annette Birdsall introduced a book, George by Alex Gino, for the library’s Community Read program, and through the middle school it was made available to all the fifth graders.

George is about a 10-year-old boy who feels entirely like a girl. Like good progressives, Birdsall and middle school principal Joshua Hunkele decided to use the community read program as a consciousness raising and mindbroadening exercise. All over the country children are reading George and books like it (e.g. I Am Jazz) that introduce them to the reality of being transgender (“trans-people,” as Larry Roberts has it in his letter to the editor this week). The idea is that if a child is transgender, then the book will help them figure out what is going on, and other children will learn to understand what is going on with their friend and classmate.

This kind of educational impulse is commendable, but unfortunately Birdsall and Hunkele didn’t bring certain people into the loop before they went ahead with their plan. Parents of fifth graders found out what their children were reading when they brought George home with them. The Trumansburg school board members and the superintendent of schools Mike

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It seems quite unlikely that springing George on the parents of Trumansburg fifth graders was a liberal plot to cram progressive ideology down the throats of innocent children regardless of the ideology or religious values of their parents. But unfortunately that’s what it looked like.

It is much more likely that it never occurred to Birdsall and Hunkele (and whatever like-minded people they spoke with about it) that there would be blowback. It has been well documented (e.g. “Political Polarization and Media Habits,” Amy Mitchell et al, Pew Research Center, Oct. 21, 2014) that Americans are segregating themselves according to ideology. It is less and less common for an American to live near, talk to, or otherwise interact with another American who does not share all or most of their values.

Trumansburg has picked up the (quite unfair) sobriquet of “little Ithaca” because of its purported liberality and relative wealth. National political candidates (as pointed out in Charley Githler’s April 13 cover story “Ithaca and the Presidency: Once we were a swing town in a swing state”) don’t even bother to visit Tompkins County anymore because it is so overwhelmingly liberal and continued on page 7

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t’s June 8, 2017 … Day 138 of the first Trump Administration … and things are a bit unsettled at the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca, New York.

Principal Eschbach has the contents of a certain student’s file spread out on her desk …

Incident Report Date: 2/9/17 Location: Mrs. Krabappel’s classroom (Grade 3) Description: Student B. Simpson denied having not done his homework, saying, “Nobody’s bigger and better at doing homework than me. Nobody.” When asked to produce said homework, student demanded to see the teacher’s birth certificate. Student then referred to the picture of Mr. Krabappel on teacher’s desk and suggested she could “do better.” Student sent to office.

Incident Report Date: 3/23/17 Location: Mrs. Krabappel’s classroom (Grade 3) Description: After being admonished to stop calling the teacher “Sweetie,” student Simpson stated that he “didn’t have time to be politically correct.” Student then turned to his classmates and asked, “Am I right?”

Student then started chanting “BJM, BJM …” and other students joined in. Student sent to office and order was restored.

Incident Report Date: 3/29/17 Location: Downstairs hallway Description: Student Simpson was seen ridiculing a differently-abled fourth-grader.

Student denied having done so despite being shown a security camera video of the incident. Matter referred to principal.

Incident Report Date: 4/12/17 Location: School Social Worker Office Description: Student Simpson referred

from Mrs. Krabappel’s Grade 3 classroom.

Teacher reports that student is constantly lying and seems to show no remorse.

During session, student blamed members of the school newsletter staff and suggested that Mrs. Krabappel’s father may have been involved in the Kennedy assassination.

Student deflected attempts to discuss his lying with grandiose claims about “always winning,” building a wall along the southern border of the city and making Newfield pay for it, and his unbelievable poll numbers.

Issue unresolved.

Incident Report Date: 5/21/17 Location: Playground Description: During recess, a number of second and third grade students confronted student Simpson about having paid student Simpson for tutoring services that were never or inadequately delivered. A playground monitor attempted to intervene, and student Simpson questioned the monitor’s ability to fairly adjudicate the dispute given fact that the monitor was from Newfield. Matter pending.

Incident Report Date: 6/1/17 Location: Mrs. Krabappel’s classroom (Grade 3) Description: Teacher expressed concern about student Simpson’s performance on the social studies final exam, on which student scored 14 percent. (Sample: student referred to Japan as a nuclear power, confused Switzerland and Sweden and described China as ‘rip-off artists.’) Student denied having written the wrong answers and attempted to re-negotiate his grade. Student then said nobody cares whether answers are right or wrong any more and said he was taking back the classroom for the poorly educated. Several students began to chant student Simpson’s name and a discipline aide was called. Student removed from classroom. •

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can dependably find an accessible bathroom when needed.

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Democratic. Democrats know they’ve got it locked up and Republicans know they don’t have a chance.

Decision-making in this sort of a homogenized culture can get a little slack.

Last fall we saw the Democratic Party’s candidate-selection committee process operating in a way that looked—from the outside—like king making. This was strenuously denied, but no one in the party committee bothered to make clear without prompting that one legislator’s retirement and another’s abrupt resignation and change of districts followed by his immediate selection as a new candidate was anything other than coincidence.

When this sort of blithe opacity becomes the rule, folks on the outside of the process start to get ticked off. On the national stage we are seeing it played out in the jousting between the Sanders and Clinton campaigns and their supporters.

But when the ideological divisions are wider, as they are when it comes to presenting the transgender issue to 10 year olds in allegedly entirely liberal Trumansburg, then the consequences can be more serious.

Not every parent who is upset by the unannounced arrival of George is a conservative Christian who believes that transgender folks have a personality disorder and should seek help. Some parents may feel that they want to hold off on introducing their children to the issue, and they also may prefer to do it themselves. Still others may be completely fine with the whole issue, but feel slightly nettled at having been taken off guard, at the presumption of acceptance.

The process of distributing George lacked civility; those parents with objections had every right to feel that someone had been slightly rude to them.

Progressives think of themselves as the “nice” people, and they don’t seem to realize that conservatives also think of themselves as the “nice” people. If an irate parent shows up at the next school board meeting and is somewhat sharp with the board members, they shouldn’t sit there wondering, “Where did this come from?”

In this case, the liberals started it.

In an attempt to restore civility, Hunkele has already sent out a letter to parents after the fact, essentially apologizing for the oversight,. The library and the middle school staff have surely learned a lesson here, one that has even broader application than learning about the feelings of transgender people.

In a diverse society civility is more important than a homogenous one.

Rather than segregating ourselves into like-minded groups where we don’t have to think about politeness, let’s routinely give each other formal introductions to topics that we ought to know will invite a spirited discussion. We are all likely to learn something from each other that way. •

looking for any public restroom we could squeeze ourselves into.

The early LGBT movement fought police entrapment of gay men in public restrooms. Gay men were fired, lost their housing, or lost their families upon reports of arrests. Some argued that the defeated Equal Rights Amendment would eliminate single gender public bathrooms.

Trans-people are the latest group of Americans to have to battle for access to public bathrooms. Public bathrooms are for the public, not just certain segments of the public. If history teaches us anything, though, bigotry fails in the end.

– Larry Roberts, Director of Community Advocacy, Finger Lakes Independence Center, Ithaca

Violence, Race, Law and the Justice System

Violence has always been a fabric of American society, just as racism and the injustices of man. Don’t be mistaken; violence is not just a black problem. No event in history was more violent than the African slave trade.

There is not a home within our great nation that is free from the violence that it took to destroy the Native American people. Yet we celebrate Thanksgiving, the biggest disrespect to the Native American people.

Every group of immigrants to arrive on American soil has their stories of violence in the pursuit of happiness and the American dream. In any event, all lives matter.

Within the United States judicial system, black and Latin peoples are not extended the same fairness as white people. The color of privilege is white. It is the way of the world. Society is either in denial of this fact or accepting of it.

When you fully understand the justice system, you understand that the law is targeting people, mainly those of color. This is why you have always seen more police presence in neighborhoods that are predominantly of minority background. Am I lying to you or making any of these things up? Absolutely not.

But there are those who believe in this treatment or support it and bear false witness, that will tell you that all of this is absurd. You can forgive a child for being afraid of the dark, but it’s a tragedy when men are afraid of the light.

There are many people that never had to see life as you may have seen it through your eyes. Most judges who stand for something on the bench, who have compassion, the ability to be fair and impartial, know all too well that many of the laws are racist in nature.

A journal will often print fabricated lies, even slander of one’s name, and to print a retraction to make a wrong right is almost unheard of. This is a part of the process that is designed to legally conceal your doom.

The system we live under is by far

from perfect, it never has been and it is not free from prejudice. The system will and does waste your rights. There is a very long history of it. A competent judge with honor, a prosecutor or defense attorney can balance the equities in any criminal matter and resolve it without mandatory terms, three strikes law or enhanced penalties being imposed on them.

If they know you are privileged or rich, you can avoid a lot of the process.

If you lack any of the privileges, you can hope for the best, but expect the worst.

The system usually does not see most defendants as people with a future worth investing in, especially if you are black.

The system is designed to destroy the records, lives, and future of black men.

Example. A majority of the black males from the Ithaca, New York community alone, that grew up in the ‘80s through the ‘90s have non-violent, federal or state prison convictions on record. Many of them never saw freedom again until their children were on their way to college. Not to mention that this system has a long history of taking black children away from their parents when it is not just. It is a clear reflection of black children who are auctioned off to slave owners that destroyed families and bloodlines. It is the exercise of white supremacy.

This system is fragile and even contradicts itself. For example: you are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

But that is not so. Once again, if you are not privileged or rich, you may be subject to appear before a judge in chains and in the uniform of a guilty or convicted man until you prove that you are innocent.

We all remember Lady Heroin who served only two and a half years for getting busted with $50,000 in heroin and graduated from Cornell University after returning back to society. This is white privilege. It is also a statement that says it’s a slap on the wrist for white people to sell poison to other white people that kills, destroys families and lives. But when it is a black man selling it, who may be a first time offender, the sentencing is harsh.

The system did away with obtaining a college degree in prison, because the system did not want black men benefiting themselves.

If you truly believe that what I have written is of hatred, you are right, it is.

But don’t misconstrue my meaning. It is not the hatred of a person’s skin color.

That is not my curse to carry and that is something the heart should know right and wrong from. It is the hate of a broken system and way of life that has gone on too long. For we have always lived under a system that man has never honored. More so by those who establish and swear by it.

Just because the color of the president and mayor has changed, the system remains the same. Until we see otherwise, how can the people trust and believe in you.

– Kasheen Camel, Ithaca Camel is currently incarcerated in Elmira Correctional Facility.

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ithaca com Our cover story on the 30th anniversary of Farm Sanctuary (“A Vegan Place”; June 1) drew this detailed rebuttal regarding the vegan lifestyle in general rather than Farm Sanctuary specifically: I don't see a cat or dog. Is that because they eat meat?

In fact a crazy vegan almost killed a cat with a vegan diet. In fact, it is not what you eat, but how much you eat and the amount of exercise you get that effects your longevity. Your genetic makeup also has a lot to do with how long and how well you live.

The latest vegan fad is not only silly, it is dangerous. Men and children just can't get enough protein from a plant based diet. Meat and fish are the best source of protein This is supported by just about every nutritionist who promote a balanced diet, including meat or fish.

There is an off-the-wall report from the ADA, that seems to support a plant based diet. This report is confused and can't even tell the difference between vegan and vegetarian. There are hundreds of nutritionist reports, supporting a balanced diet, including meat.

There is also a university report that says people who do not eat meat are not as healthy and more depressed then meat eaters. independent.co.uk/news/science/ vegetarians-are-less-healthy-and-have-a-lower-quality-of-life-than-meat-eaters-scientistssay-9236340.html To try to blame global warming on cow farts and burps is silly. Fossil fuels are the culprits. The reports blaming animals, fail to balance the CO2 produced by animals with the CO2 used by plants that the animals eat.

As far as methane gas, the best way to control that is by modern farming methods that controls what the animals eat. Please read this: hoosieragtoday.com/researchproves-cattle-emissions-not-a-cause-ofclimate-change.

– Randy Janssen At about the same time we ran the 30th anniversary story on Farm Sanctuary, an older story (“Farm Sanctuary Celebrates 25 Years”; January 2011) resurfaced on the Top 5 and drew this response: What I find difficult to understand is how humans could have been so stupid for so long that it has taken THIS long to come to a conclusion, had we/they not been so preoccupied with our own questionable importance, that should have been perfectly obvious eons ago, i.e., that these wonderful creatures are more sentient beings than we are. I’m almost ashamed to be a member of the human race. I don’t think it’s anything to be proud of. We almost have to be hit up the side of the head with a two-by-four before we GET IT! –MoonGoddess

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hen I put my kids in a public school, instead of a Christian school, I really felt that God was leading me to do so,” said Heather Haas of Trumansburg. “I’m teaching my kids about being loving, about loving and caring for other people. To shelter my kids from other people is not the right way to do that, and I do feel like God is going to protect my kids.”

wrote, emphasizing, like Hunkele, that the book was not part of the curriculum, and not part of the middle school’s own Community Read event. “The books were paid for through a grant from the Bernard Carl and Shirley Myrtle Dee Nash Memorial Fund of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County and the book discussions will take place at the Ulysses Philomathic Library. … We are reviewing our building/district procedures regarding promotion of ‘outside the district’ events and, in the future, intend to provide additional information to parents so they can talk with their students if/when we receive and agree to similar requests from outside organizations.”

Too Much, Too Soon?

But on June 1 Haas’ 11-year-old daughter came home with a book in her backpack she told her mother all the kids were reading. George, by Alex Gino, is a chapter book (195 pp) about a boy who believes he’s a girl. “My daughter was sitting on the front porch reading it. I asked her what it was about, and she told me. I was immediately concerned because I didn’t know what was in the book. I told her she had to stop reading it until her Dad and I had a chance to read it.”

Although the Community Read project is library-sponsored, parents who found their kids bringing the book home from school got the impression the school was sponsoring the project, because the schools served as a distribution point for the book. The Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg introduced the book for their Community Read project, and the Edith B. Ford Library in Ovid did so for the teen summer reading program.

However, Principal Joshua Hunkele of the Trumansburg middle school, sent a letter to parents after several complained: “This book is in no way tied to any of the middleschool classes or curricula, nor is it in any way associated with any school event …

We were asked to serve as a location for interested students to pick up a copy of the book.”

“We have Christian values,” said Haas. “I understand my kids are not in a Christian world or a Christian environment. I don’t expect the school to be everything to my kids, but I do want them to have enough respect to contact me before (giving this book to my kids).”

Haas noted that the parents get a note from the school before pre-puberty education begins in fifth grade, and before sexuality education begins in seventh grade. “The school has an automated phone system they use that informs families about all 8

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“Parents were caught off guard,” said school board member John White, who received a number of irate phone calls.

“The message I get is, ‘notification.’ This book was sent out without any parent notification. If we have a policy that parents are notified before things are introduced into the curriculum, they should have sent prior notice. That way parents can lead the conversation.”

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Like Haas, the first he knew about the book was that his granddaughter, a fifth grader, was reading it. “I don’t understand it,” she told him.

“It wasn’t a choice moment; it wasn’t an opportune moment to have that conversation,” said White. “Just because Bruce Jenner came out of the closet, doesn’t mean I feel safe exposing my children to it.

It’s not time yet.”

Trumansburg superintendent of schools Michael McGuire apologized to parents via email. “We regret the confusion regarding this book,” McGuire

For August 23 and 24, the libraries have engaged Luca Maurer, author of The Teaching Transgender Toolkit, a textbook for parents and educators, to speak to adults and answer questions about the issue. Maurer, who teaches at Ithaca College, has a background in sexuality education. He said the issue is far from new. “I have been receiving calls, texts, and letters from parents, churches, daycare centers—from pre-K teachers to religious congregations—for years.” The issue has been around, and transgender people have been around, for a long time: what’s happening now is that people are discussing it. Educators, especially, are finding there are transgender kids in their classrooms, and they don’t know how to react. “This is something people have been hungry for, for years. I recently did a webinar for people who work in early childhood education, and 700 people attended,” he said.

“All parents want what’s best for their children,” said Maurer. “Parents are the best judge of, and should be the deciding factor in, what is developmentally appropriate for their children. A lot of times, what I’m hearing from parents and professionals alike are basic questions about this concept of gender, and what are the strategies they can put in place so all children feel supported.”

George is meant to do just that. George is a fourth grader who lives with his mom and older brother, Scott, and has a best friend, Kelly. As the book rolls on, and the reader lives through several weeks of fourth grade with him, George suffers from a lot of what fourth graders suffer from: his

older brother doesn’t play video games with him like he used to; his former friend from Checkers Club has joined up with another boy, Jeff, who is mean, and they make fun of him. His parents are divorced and he sees his Dad for “two weeks in summer, like sleepaway camp.”

But over and beyond the angst of fourth grade, George has a question about himself that slowly turns to conviction.

He’s a girl. And he can’t tell anybody. About the retired couple who live in next door, George “hoped they never moved away.

If a new family moved in next door, they might have a boy her age. Then Mom would expect George and the boy to be best friends.

You two will have so much fun, Mom would say. Just introduce yourself and smile. Mom was smart, and George loved her a lot, but Mom didn’t know about boys.

Boys didn’t like George, and George wasn’t so sure what she thought about them either.”

“I think as a piece of literature, it’s a really solid book,” said Maurer. “It has a lot of universal themes; what it’s like to feel different. What it’s like to have a friend who loves you and accepts you. George really wants to tell his Mom, but he’s afraid to. Although George has something to disclose that’s fairly unique, many children have something to disclose that they’re afraid to tell their parents. A lot of children know what that’s like.”

“It’s still fiction,” said Maurer, “and it’s still pretend. It’s an easy entrée into this, for anybody like George, or anybody who has a sibling or a family member like George.”

“We have transgender teens at the library,” said Shannon O’Connor, director of the Edith B. Ford Public Library in Ovid. In Ovid the library is including the book as part of their teen summer reading program. “But we only bought around fifteen copies. We didn’t send out hundreds of copies to the middle school like they did in Trumansburg.”

O’Connor, and several other people we spoke to for this article, pointed out that transgender people have always been around. What’s changed is that “people are just being more open about who they are,” she said.

A parent of a transgender child in a local school district said, “[My child] realized he was transgender when he was about 12, because that’s when he first knew it was ‘a thing.’ He saw a special on television. He tells me, however, that looking back he always felt not quite at home in his body.

“My research tells me, the children can know—clinically called gender dysphoria—that they are being addressed as a gender other than what they feel,” the parent said. “Some children begin telling their parents as soon as they can talk, that they are the opposite gender. I was very grateful not to have to make the decision whether to send my child to kindergarten as their biological gender or their gender of choice. This is actually a decision some parents face.

“I do not think that fourth grade

is too early for children to learn about these issues,” she continued. “I can understand some parents’ discomfort, but this is the 21st century. Our world is what it is.

And the sooner our children learn about it, from appropriate and safe and age relevant sources, the better off they will be and the better off the world will be. This book also gives parents an opening to have

(t o p) J a z z J e n n i n g s ( P h o t o : Yo uTu b e) ; (A b ov e) A l e x G i n o ( P h o t o : a l e xg i n o .c o m) ; (r i g h t) L u c a M au r e r ( P h o t o : J e n n F oy f o r It h ac a C o l l e g e) a meaningful conversation with their child about sexuality, especially since kids are being exposed to these issues in the media far sooner than we otherwise would have wanted it.”

Literature As a Way In

“There’s a lot of stuff in children’s literature that’s outside people’s experience,” said Maurer. “That’s the wonder of literature, that it allows people to explore experiences they might not have in their own lives.”

A snoop through the children’s, juvenile, and teen book section of the Tompkins County Public Library turned up books on a plethora of subjects that were taboo a generation ago: I Am Jazz, an early reader book co-written by Jazz Jennings, about being a transgender child; books on the Holocaust for early readers; a book about a young boy in the inner city whose big brother succumbs to drug addiction; and a teen section that leaps into gender identity and sexuality issues with both feet: Drag Teen, about a boy who enters a drag contest, despite his lack of talent, for the scholarship money, and “Confessions of Georgia Nicholson,” a teen series by Louise Rennison with such titles as Startled By His Furry Shorts, and On the

Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God. Whatever happened to childhood innocence?

“These are issues that, sadly, children have to deal with; books are a great way for kids to work through those issues. Since there’s been children’s books, there have been people with (disagreements about them),” commented the Tompkins County Public Library librarian at the desk, Sarah O’Shea. “As far as libraries go, we purchase books that are well-reviewed. We are here to serve the entire community.”

Maurer said that for children who are transgender, finding words and pictures about their experience can be a liberation and a relief. “It’s very powerful to see yourself reflected in literature,” he said, “when you usually aren’t [in the community]. For example, we now have a proliferation of books that represent lots of families and the different ways families can be: adopted children, children living with grandparents, families with members that are different colors.”

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“We’re getting a great deal of positive feedback as well,” said Birdsall. “A lot of the students and a lot of the parents want to read it, and that’s what we want. A teacher of a transgender child [not in this district] called to thank me for doing this. We hope to have a discussion.” Participation in the Community Read is entirely voluntary, she pointed out.

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New Employee to Deal With State Regs

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ounty administrator Joseph Mareane asked legislators at a meeting June 1 to support the creation of a new county position. In a unanimous vote, the Tompkins County Government Operations Committee approved a new compliance program coordinator to be hired this year to help to ensure that the county workforce meets regulatory standards for demonstrating accountability.

The new county employee will be paid $47,755 plus fringe benefits, Mareane said. He told the committee that he strongly recommends the creation of the position because of the growing multitude of federal and state laws, rules and regulations that county departments have to contend with and the considerable negative consequences of not complying.

In the resolution it states that “increasingly stringent standards of compliance” are being applied to the county by regulatory authorities.

“I think we have done a really good job trying to stay ahead of this curve,” Mareane said, adding that much of the credit goes to Paula Younger, deputy county administrator. “We’ve done a great job already in terms of education and identifying where we are weak on policies,” he said, “but I will tell you, there is only so

much Paula can do.”

According to the job description Mareane distributed to legislators, the compliance program coordinator’s typical work activities will include researching regulations, assisting with developing or revising policies and procedures relating to compliance matters, and interacting with regulatory authorities to clarify compliance requirements.

Mareane said that the department heads are the “front line” when it comes to compliance but that the central office does play a role in monitoring how the departments are doing from a “central perspective—looking over their shoulder at the front line.”

“Performance-wise, we need another foot soldier in this,” Mareane said, adding that those who know him know that the last thing he wants to do is create a new

County administrator Joe Mareane (File photo)

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position.

“I don’t come to you with this request lightly,” he told the legislators. “I wouldn’t come to you if I didn’t believe very deeply that we need this additional resource.”

Mareane said he would like to get the hiring process started as soon as possible and asked the legislature to approve a transfer from the contingency fund in the amount of $38,321. This will cover the new employee’s wages and benefits for the second half of 2016, as well as computer equipment and office furnishing and supplies.

Factoring in the employee’s 2017 salary, the new hire will cause a total increase of $75,049 in the Tompkins County Department of Administration budget target for 2017.

Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) questioned whether someone who doesn’t specialize in all the different departments could really “end up knowing more about what’s needed in our 27 departments in lieu of our own department heads?”

“I agree with you need to be careful about hiring another person in the area of compliance,” Mareane answered.

“The departments may breathe sigh of relief—we have to be careful in how we communicate the position to them and let them know that they are still on the hook.”

The resolution carried and it is expected to be voted on at the next meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature on June 21.

Chock said after the meeting that she supports the decision to create the new position. Dan Klein (D-Caroline) said he thinks of it as a smart insurance policy. “No one is excited about buying insurance,” he said, “but it’s going to save us money in the long run.”

– Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org

the rock slides to occur. This is due to a distinctive weathering process that occurs mainly in central New York along vertical breaks in the bedrock called joints or fractures. Two sets of these joints at nearly right angles are found in Taughannock.

These fractures give the falls their visually appealing texture but also dangerous instability.

“Whole blocks of rock will be pushed off the cliff when the joints are exposed after water seeps into them. You can actually see in Taughannock where rocks have clearly fallen,” Ross said.

Despite these warning signs, spectators will still come to see the sight.

The beauty of the falls often outweighs the risk of encountering a rock slide when hiking in an environment like Taughannock Falls.

“I have every expectation that visitors will continue to come to the park. It’s not like the waterfall is going away,” director Fred Bonn said.

In addition to the North and South Rim Trails, the park has campsites and cabins that overlook Cayuga Lake with a boat launch and beach for swimming.

The beauty of the Finger Lakes is not limited to Taughannock falls. There are various other parks and trails that visitors can hike in replacement of the Gorge Trail.

Bonn said neighboring gorges and trails still remain open such as Stony Brook State Park, Watkins Glen State Park, the Robert H. Treman State Park, Buttermilk Falls State Park and Fillmore Glen State Park.

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation will release more information about the reopening of the Gorge Trail once the dangerous situation progresses to a more secure state. For more information head to their website at nystateparks.com.

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Taughannock Gorge Trail Closed

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he Taughannock State Park Gorge Trail is temporarily closed for additional maintenance and scaling needed due to an unspecified dangerous situation, according to the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Both the North Rim Trail and the South Rim Trail are still open to visitors.

The closure will remain in effect until further notice and it is unclear when the Gorge Trail will reopen for visitors, the Finger Lakes State Parks Regional Director Fred Bonn said.

“It’s a dangerous situation and we can’t afford any spectators,” Bonn said. “I was hoping we would make some progress to provide [a projected reopening date], but it’s still pretty dynamic.”

Taughannock State Park received its typical mid-spring maintenance by trained park staff and scalers in April and May. The current trail work is part of its routine maintenance but the park staff is working more specifically on the situation.

“Our goal is to keep the parks as safe as possible. The gorges can be pretty dangerous places, and we need to perform this maintenance in order to make the waterfall safe and accessible,” Bonn said.

Safety in the gorges is provided by the scalers who remove loose rock and surface material to prevent rock slides. Often times areas that are marked to prevent visitors from entering are not scaled.

In 2005, 51-year-old Deborah A. Rowen died when on the Gorge Trail following a rock slide in a marked off area.

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Saw horses block all the entrances to the Gorge Trail at Taughannock Falls State Park. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

The death of Rowen brought attention to the dangers of gorges and the necessity for visitors to take signs seriously. The last rock slide documented was in 2010 and there were no injuries.

The three-quarter-mile-long trail is surrounded by towering walls made from sedimentary rocks, shales and siltstones.

The falls is one of the tallest east of the Mississippi River with a 215-foot drop.

Between one million and 10,000 years ago, ice sheets gouged the earth creating the troughs known today as the Finger Lakes.

The highest rock layers are made of shale,

which were exposed by the glacier, and are not nearly as strong as metamorphic or igneous rock, according to geologist Robert Ross, the associate director for outreach at the Paleontological Research Institution. “[This type of rock] weathers over time as water seeps in between the layers, freezes in the wintertime and gradually makes those layers crack,” Ross said.

He said that this, as well as the temperate climate causing water to be cycling between freezing and melting within the cracks, is a main cause for

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Teenager sets off cross country to raise funds

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hen it comes to the big problems facing us as a species, there are three types of people: Those who choose to remain oblivious, those who talk about things but do very little to affect change, and those who make a great effort to make the world a better place.

“As we all know,” writes Noah Sorensen, “Americans are very privileged, and most Americans have easy and sustainable access to food. We have all—at some point—hyperbolized and said we are ‘starving,’ but for some, hunger is a day-today issue that is exponentially worse than any hunger we have ever experienced.”

Those are some insightful words, and Noah—a 16 year-old student at Ithaca High School—is gearing up, so to speak, to do something about world hunger.

Starting in about three weeks, Noah will pack his bicycle into the cargo bay on a jetliner, get on that same aircraft and fly to Portland, Oregon. He will then bike down the coast to California, turn left and ride to Denver, angle his way up to Chicago and then head back east to Ithaca. He

will cover 4,300 miles, and if he reaches his fundraising goal of collecting $50 each from 300 people, he will hand over a check for $15,000 to World Vision, an organization very dear to his heart.

“I was raised in a church,” Noah told me, “and we did a fundraiser ever year for World Vision. We, as a youth group, have done several 30-hour fasts, spending the night in the church. It made me realize what so many people had to go through, and that raised my awareness.”

Noah said he and his dad have done some cycling over the years, but last September he decided to get a lot more serious. He told me, “I am riding 20 or 30 miles per day now, more on weekends, and I will start off doing a bit less than 100 miles per day when I start out in Portland, and I will get in good enough shape to go over 100 per day by the time I get out into the Plains. I’ll figure it out as I go.”

He said he has been picking the brains of a few people who have undertaken such endeavors, and he will pack all he needs into his front and rear saddlebags and

Noah Sorensen training for cross country ride (Photo provided)

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up to stay with many different families along the way, and I will have dinner and breakfast with them.” (Noah met these families through an online cycling forum which sets up exchanges between cyclists and hosts, and at some point, he will happily host other travelers.)

In his fundraising and promotional letter, Noah writes, “I am passionate about solving world hunger … and I want to use my talents to make an impact. I don’t have the resources or the knowledge to go overseas and teach hygiene and agriculture, but I can bike like crazy!”

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• • • I was 8 years old when Cassius Clay knocked out Sonny Liston, changed his name to Muhammad Ali, and took his place as a cultural icon for the ages. Like many middle-class white Americans, my extended family had plenty to say about how off-putting it was to hear this brash young man speak of himself in such worshipful tones, and when Ali dug in and accepted the consequences of his conscientious objector status, I wish someone had helped me to understand what an act of bravery it really was. I was told he was an uppity man who was disrespecting the United States, but when I grew old enough to think for myself and to bring some newfound critical thinking skills to my perception of the war in Vietnam, I saw Ali as a deeply authentic man who was willing to go to jail rather than kill people he saw as fellow victims.

It was difficult to watch him live with the ravages brought on by his punishing profession, but he accepted it and maintained his dignity. R.I.P., Ali. •

Sculptures at CMC get a cleaning

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n late May local artist Steve Carver and objects conservator Kasia Maroney of Boston Restoration in Trumansburg spent two days covering eight concrete sculptures with chemical-infused poultices and then carefully cleaned off eight decades of biotic encrustation. The sculptures were created in 1938 by six artists employed by the Fine Arts Project of the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) and take the forms of seven different animals (there are two bears). The newly cleaned statues are an earthy pink, the surfaces studded with gravel of varied mineralogy.

You can find these still, silent animals in a designed landscape just up the hill from the rear entrance of Cayuga Medical Center (CMC). Hospital employees use the area to take their breaks, sitting in the shade on benches surrounded by dense shrubbery; it is a bit of a retreat amid the glare and radiant heat of the hospital campus. A stream runs over small waterfalls nearby, producing gentle white noise that enhances the sense of getting away from the hubbub.

It seems likely that the sculptures’ original setting was something like their present location, although neither Carver nor Maroney has searched the WPA archives in Washington, D.C. for the information.

It is known that they graced the garden of

the children’s ward of Hermann M. Biggs Memorial Hospital, a tuberculosis sanitarium that became the county hospital. It was largely demolished in 1970s to make way for the new medical center. Some of the old cottage-style sanitarium buildings remain on the campus, including the “Biggs Building” that served as the county public health department for many years.

Carver, who moved to Ithaca from California in 1983, discovered the sculptures in a catalog for a travelling exhibition called “New Deal for Art.” They were the only WPA-commissioned arts works in Tompkins County. That they were sculptures surprised him; his previous experience with WPA art had been with the more famous murals.

The artist, now a painter, was working as an illustrator at the time, and had a special affinity for the 1930s and ‘40s, including the Social Realist work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Reginald Marsh.

When he found the sculptures at the medical center grounds he could see the social realist influence in the approach taken by Humbert Albrizio, Muriel Brennecke, Eugene Gershoy, Hugo Robus, Bernard Walsh, and Adolph Wolff, the makers of the Cayuga Medical Center animals listed in the “New Deal for Art” catalog. Carver had never heard of any of them and knows of no other examples of their

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WPA sculptures at CMC: bear sitting (left) and ape (right) (Photos: Cassandra Palmyra)

work.

“They aren’t happy-go-lucky representations,” said Carver. “They’re kind of quiet. The physical representation is different than it would be if they were done now. We wouldn’t perch the elephant on a ball now, for example.” The sculptures were made in the New York City area and shipped up here.

Carver hypothesized that zoo and circus animals were used as models, which may, he thought, account for the slightly melancholy feeling that they exude.

His quest to get the sculptures cleaned and restored was an intermittent one—he was pursuing a career and raising a family—but recently he found a receptive audience in current CMC CEO John Rudd, to whom he was introduced by attorney Jim Miller. His most recent and successful burst of energy was inspired by an article in Franklin Crawford’s online Tiny Town Times. Crawford was aware of the sculptures, but wrote that their creators’ names had “disappeared in the mists of time.”

“I looked at that,” said Carver, “and said to myself, ‘Wait a second. They’re not lost; I continued on page 20

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The Journey to Freedom The story of two young souls

By Bil l C h ai s son Chasing the North Star, Robert Morgan (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016)

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lthough it is not explicitly marketed as a “young adult” novel, Robert Morgan’s Chasing the North Star works best as one. The protagonist, an escaped slave named Jonah, is 18 years old when he runs away from the Williams Plantation in South Carolina. The other narrator, Angel, is 20 years old. They are a bit old for the YA audience, but their ignorance of the ways of the wider world is quite typically teen age.

It would also seem to be a YA book because the really grotesque aspects of slavery are not explored deeply here and the white Southerners that you meet are generally bad in ways other than that they are OK with owning people. There is even an interval in the book during which Jonah and Angel live and work at a house

of prostitution, and it seems implied that this is somehow “like slavery.” The pimp of the house is ostensibly more despicable that Williams the plantation owner. It is all a bit queasy making.

The story itself is a real page-turner.

Morgan presents Jonah’s chapters in third person omniscient voice, while Angel is allowed to tell her story in the first person. Jonah, who is literate, having been present during many of the lessons of his master’s children, is a serious, pragmatic person, but drawn as emotionally immature. Angel has been the concubine of her master from a young age, and her sexual experience has made her jaded and her position in the household has made her bold.

Early in his flight Jonah goes over in detail his plans for making it north to Canada; he tries to think of every eventuality, but is defeated by circumstances and his own panic. As the

The author Robert Morgan (Photo: Randi Anglin)

journey progresses, his passage becomes more improvised and headlong. Morgan points out at many junctures how Jonah’s literacy makes the journey easier; we often see this from the illiterate Angel’s point of view.

Jonah and Angel are repeatedly separated as he flees from her

domineering personality and his fear of the consequences of her ignorance, but she always manages to catch up with him. To mention this doesn’t give much away, as it never really feels in doubt, but continued on page 15

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The Misuse of Power Looking back to the college years

By Bil l C h ai s son Ithaca: A novel, Guillermo Arbe

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f you are a resident of Ithaca and not a student at Cornell, this book would be a fascinating experience for you to read, as it is entirely concerned with undergraduate life at the university. It is a bildungsroman written from the point of view of a Peruvian student arriving at Cornell for the fall semester in 1977.

Beginning as an outsider in every way, Tadeo quickly finds friendship with his roommate and among his dorm mates.

He also falls hard for another freshman; Penny enters his life as a half-dressed vision leaving another student’s room after a one-night stand.

We then follow Tadeo and his friends through four years of college, during which the actual “town” of Ithaca impinges only occasionally and rather fancifully on his consciousness. Ithacans may tire of their home being called “toy-like” and “quaint” but it is invaluable to get the perspective of someone who lived here for four years and then left. Arriving in August, Tadeo doesn’t even go downtown until November.

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Arbe has done an admirable job of recalling and recreating the inwardlooking world of the undergraduate. As a scholarship student Tadeo has to work, but he finds a job in the campus coffeehouse in Anabel Taylor Hall and supplements his income by selling LSD. As a non-pre-med biology major he has to slog through “filter courses,” but there always seems to be plenty of time left over to develop personal relationships and obsess over them.

Arbe states explicitly that his book is an homage to Vladimir Nabokov and the Russian writer’s love affair with the English language. Ithaca includes rhapsodic passages that describe the landscape, Tadeo’s emotional turmoil, and speculations as to the meaning of life.

Arbe is prone to use and misuse of oddly chosen words, apparently because of their musical aptness in English as opposed to their actual meaning or their traditional usage. In addition, Arbe’s recollection of upstate New York geography, including that of Ithaca itself, is imperfect. However, since the story is told as being recollected years later by someone who returned to South America after college, these aspects u n e

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of the text actually add verisimilitude.

While Arbe avows his love of Nabokov, his story may owe more to Hermann Hesse, particularly the German writer’s early novel, Demian. The resemblance extends to Arbe’s naming a pivotal character Damon. In Hesse’s book Max Demian urged Emil Sinclair to leave behind the bourgeois world of illusion for true realization of self. Arbe’s Damon is similarly unconventional, but his personal philosophy is a bad marriage between Nietzche’s “will to power” and Machiavelli’s embrace of cruelty for expedient reasons. Most of his friends find Damon repellent, Tadeo persists in a fascination with Damon’s code, so much

so that he applies it in a qualified sense in his relationship with Penny.

Arbe’s Cornell students hold frequent conversations that rope in many of the writers, philosophers, and psychologists they are reading for school, oddly though, Nabokov, Hesse, Nietzche, and Machiavelli never come up. Anyone who went to a liberal arts college will recognize these sophomoric “rap sessions” for what they are: the tryings-on of ideas like most people try on clothes.

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Morgan is adept at keeping your disbelief in suspension.

At one point Angel falls in with an elderly tinker who seems quite exotic to her (he is apparently Italian, Greek, or Rom) and during her sojourn as his assistant, she begins to understand what is like to have economic relationships with people that are other than slave and master. He is quite cross with her when she steals food from his customers and she is sharp enough to understand that this is because he wants to their business on return trips. The “teaching moments”

feel of these set pieces throughout the book contribute to the YA tone of it.

Angel’s sexual experiences are many throughout the book, but nothing is described in detail and the physical consequences for her are never dire. The psychological consequence seems largely to be a hardening of her heart into a more or less “a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do” perspective. Some readers may be troubled by Morgan’s failure to explore in more depth how being used repeatedly and casually from a young age affects this young black woman.

After making their way north by boat, train and a heroic amount of walking, Jonah and Angel reach Ithaca separately. Morgan’s depiction of Ithaca

in 1851 is affectionate. Jonah fortuitously wanders into a (now gone) church on Aurora Street and is immediately taken under the wing of local abolitionists.

Typically Angel has it a bit harder.

Readers looking for a history lesson, compelling characters, and tirelessly interesting plot will enjoy Chasing the North Star. Other readers—those with strong political feelings about depictions of American slavery—may find this book oddly sanitized and therefore occasionally off-putting. But Morgan has made Jonah and Angel into realized characters and even the latter readers will likely find themselves rooting for them. • Morgan will be signing books at the campus store 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 11

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Damon’s effect on an immature and insecure undergraduate named Troy and Tadeo’s feelings for Penny. Both of these relationships eventually involve the despicable misuse of power, but the consequences are worse for Troy than for Penny. These narratives are supplemented

by Tadeo’s often hilarious exploration of American culture in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. His grasp of trends isn’t

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always sound. For example, in 1979 he refers to punk as being “on the horizon,” unaware that it began in 1975 and ended in 1978. But as someone who started school at another liberal arts institution a year after he did, I will vouch that his characterization of student life of this period is essentially accurate. • Arbe will be at the Cornell Store on Saturday, June 11 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to sign copies of Ithaca. A number of other Cornell authors will be present as well; it is reunion weekend.

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Summer and the Big Screen Cornell cinema summer screenings

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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ornell Cinema returns with four outdoor film screenings this summer: 1930s song-and-dance, a ‘70s Oscar winner, Hitchcock and Highsmith, and a recent Wes Anderson hit.

Cornell Cinema’s Mary Fessenden reveals all to the Ithaca Times.

Ithaca Times: How many years have you been doing these outdoor screenings?

Any interesting tidbits about this year’s voting?

Mary Fessenden: We did our first outdoor screening on the Willard Straight Hall Terrace in the summer of 2000, so this will be our 17th summer of terrace shows.

We’ve presented a total of 43 screenings since then, and, amazingly, I don’t think more than four or five of the shows had to be moved indoors due to rain. This year we offered our patrons a list of 14 possible titles and asked them to choose four from the list. 225 patrons participated in the poll and Strangers on a Train got the most votes with 99, making it the sixth year in a row that a Hitchcock film has been selected.

Top Hat got the fourth highest number of votes, edging out Double Indemnity by just

one vote, and making it the first time that a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film made the cut!

IT: You’re kicking off with Annie Hall (1977). I remember being really conflicted at Oscar time, because as much as I loved Star Wars, as a Woody Allen fan, even I knew that Annie Hall was a game changer.

I think it’s also one of the shortest Best Pictures in the history of the Academy Awards.

MF: The film’s running time of 93 minutes makes it perfectly suited for our first screening on June 22, right around the summer solstice, as we have to vary our starting time a bit to make sure it’s dark enough. I always place the film with the shortest running time in this slot so the evening doesn’t end too late.

IT: There are so many great scenes in Annie Hall: the L.A. stuff, the cocaine gag, the weird Snow White animation, the split-screen shrinks. Do you have a favorite moment?

MF: Well, in addition to all the ones you mentioned, I love Diane Keaton’s night club performance of “Seems Like

Old Times,” and the great scene between Christopher Walken and Woody Allen that ends with Allen saying “I have to go now, Duane, because I’m due back on the planet Earth.”

IT: Then you have Moonrise Kingdom (2012) on June 29, a really sweet Wes Anderson movie. He’s been well represented in these summer series.

MF: Yes, last year we showed The Grand Budapest Hotel and I seem to recall it sold out (in advance) faster than Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in “Annie Hall” (Photo Provided) any of the other shows.

It’s also nice to offer a contemporary film Ginger Rogers in Top Hat (1935) on July along with the classics we typically show 27, which I am embarrassed to admit that I outdoors. have never seen. Tell us about it.

IT: Following that on July 13 is MF: Well, I’ve only seen it once and Strangers on a Train (1951), an Alfred it was years ago, so I’m afraid I don’t Hitchcock classic, from the novel by remember the specifics of the plot, but I do Patricia Highsmith. remember the great Art Deco sets, the great MF: I was glad this title polled as well Irving Berlin songs, like “Cheek to Cheek” as it did, as I had wanted to do a series of and “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails,” and, of films based on Patricia Highsmith novels course, the amazing dance numbers, which this spring given that we were showing will look fantastic projected outside! Our the Todd Haynes film, Carol, based on the terrace shows typically sell out so patrons Highsmith novel The Price of Salt, but we are encouraged to purchase their tickets in didn’t end up having room for the series. advance at CornellCinemaTickets.com. • IT: We finish up with Fred Astaire and

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Cactus and the King

Agava Restaurant is hip and Generous

By Peg g y Haine

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hat has rough dark sugar cubes and strong coffee, a monumental list of tequilas and beers (including a $6 sixpack you can send to the kitchen as a thank-you), an adventurous and lengthy menu, a four-buck loaded fruit salad they can’t possibly be making money on, and a brunch item called the “Fat Elvis?” I’d be fibbing if I said it was anything other than East Hill’s Agava Restaurant, a neighborhood favorite that always seems to be bustling.

Agava is located in the former East Ithaca train depot, Ezra Cornell’s failed attempt at railroad baronhood. Its seasonal menu trends towards southwestern, as does the restaurant’s décor, with a soft-colored cactus-y mural on one wall and a coarse grassy covering on its opposite. Clever undulating pendants hang from the ceiling; we assume they’re meant to absorb noise, and for the most part they succeed, even when musicians are on board. However, if you’re planning on a serious conversation, best to sit away from the stage.

A large wood-fired pizza oven

dominates the northeast corner, and, opposite it, stairs lead to an upper level and out to a deck. There are also a few picnic tables with deep red market umbrellas out front, to catch the inevitable weekend and happy-hour overflow crowd, and a few patio furniture groupings all around the place.

Brunch: The aforementioned fruit salad came with hunks of luscious pineapple, grapes, and grape-sized blueberries, fresh raspberries, orange pieces, and surprise elements of crunchy jicama and refreshing cucumber, bathed in agave nectar and lime juice, and topped by a frisson of fresh mint leaves. The “Fat Elvis” is a soft malt waffle topped with peanut butter, Nutella, bananas, chopped pecans, and maple syrup. Calorie counter, screw off! Huevos rancheros, which can be pretty bland, sang out with well-spiced black beans and bright, spicy chipotle-laced salsa, crisp corn tortilla topped by a couple of over-easy hen’s eggs, and salty queso fresco cubes. Portions were ample.

Lunch: We went for the small plates,

any one of which might have sufficed. The Camacho—chunks of roasted cauliflower, poblano crema, cheddar-jack cheese, kale, and pickled jalapeño—had the right combination of crunchy and gooey and was a chewy delight. The quinoa fritters were surprising in their crispness, and were served with a spicy aioli. We wished for greater alimentary capacity (well, maybe not really) and plan to return for the queso fundido (melted chihuahua cheese, local shiitakes and poblano, white truffle oil, and flour tortillas) and Eddy’s wings (chicken wings roasted in their wood-fired oven, teriyaki sauce, garlic, and pickled chiles), one or more of the wood-fired flatbreads, tacos, and the lamb burger.

Dinner: Many of the same salads, tacos, flatbreads, and small plates are available at dinner, too, and we enjoyed the asparagus farotto: a bowl of locally grown faro, asparagus, and aged Parmesan, hip comfort food. Then we went for the properly unctuous fettucine Alfredo, basking in a tomato cream sauce punctuated by scallion slices, and topped with chunks of grilled chicken. A bowl of shrimp and grits was our other choice, and was equally memorable, with chewy bits of tasso (a smoked pork beloved in Cajun country), plump shrimps, and a sauce that was unexpectedly sweet and expectedly spicy – I’d say the chef batted that one out of the park. Nearly stuffed, we pecked away at a bowl of worthy house-made Nutella ice cream and a chocolate confection with a pecan crust served atop a glossy pool of spicy ancho caramel sauce. Too good. Too much.

A customer happily dines at Agava (Photo: Diane Duthie)

The service: the wait staff is professional and helpful. Even before we began making our selections, they asked if we had allergy needs or dietary preferences.

Our dinner waiter, Lyle, knew the menu well, told us about dishes we saw reeling past, and was attentive and kind. Our only beef: the hostess couldn’t seem to manage a smile and seemed distracted and not particularly accommodating. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits.

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Etching and Application

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Working and wondering with a master’s prints

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n his day the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) was at least as widely known for his prints as for his paintings. As great an innovator in etching as he was in oil, he helped transform the medium into a major art form in its own right. While his paintings were largely held by private collectors in the Netherlands (this was outside the reach of the Catholic Church and before commercial galleries and public museums), his prints were easier to disseminate. Their impact on the history of printmaking art is incalculable.

Etching is part of the family of techniques known as intaglio, which involve printing from inked incisions on a metal plate, typically copper. In etching, lines are drawn with a needle into an acid-resistant coating and an acid bath does the actual carving. In drypoint and engraving, the artist physically incises the metal herself. Rembrandt often used these techniques in combination, while other works are pure etchings or even drypoints.

Rembrandt’s prints are a specialty at Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Through June 12 the Johnson is presenting “Recognizing Rembrandt: The Science of Art in Printmaking,” a small informal exhibit. Students in the spring course “Watermark Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings” have assembled material related to their research. Cotaught by engineering professor C. Richard Johnson—a specialist in scientific investigations of art—and Johnson curator Andrew C. Weislogel, the class was offered to undergraduates of both technical and humanistic backgrounds.

Their problem was dating Rembrandt’s prints. While the artist generally signed and dated his canvases, he only did so irregularly with his prints.

And since when he did so, he did so on the original plate, pieces printed later bear the same date. A material study of the commercial paper that he used represents one solution.

Following on the recent work of the Dutch scholar Erik Hinterding, investigations into the varied watermarks from the commercial paper mills provides a reliable means of dating. Unfortunately, Rembrandt often cut these purchased sheets into smaller ones, thus the watermarks are often partial or missing.

Another current method is to investigate the grid—the vertical “chain lines” and the horizontal “laid lines”—impressed onto each sheet as the paper pulp was strained through a mold.

The students have created a software program, WIRE (Watermark

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Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings), to streamline the process of dating.

Working from high-resolution digital images of the watermarks, WIRE guides users through a multiple-step “decision tree.”

Alongside thirteen prints, the exhibit features extensive explanatory text and a number of special displays. Vintage paper is shown under raking lamplight and atop

small selection here, his prodigious range is clear. The Small Lion Hunt (with Two Lions) (1629) pictures the scene in a flurry of wild, sketch-like lines.

Reworked from an earlier plate by his Dutch contemporary Hercules Seghers, The Flight into Egypt (1653) preserves the older artist’s densely worked landscape while adding, in the right foreground, Joseph and Mary—her on a donkey, carrying the infant Christ. The theatrical grandeur of Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill (1639) evokes his early period of renown while Woman Sitting HalfDressed Beside a Stove (1658) has an austere, monumental stillness.

“Recognizing Rembrandt” anticipates a major presentation of his prints, to be held at the Johnson in the fall of 2017. Weislogel is currently working with Andaleeb Badiee Banta of Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Museum of

Rembrandt van Rijn, “Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill,” 1639. Etching on laid paper. Bequest of William P. Chapman, Jr., Class of 1895. Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. (Photo Provided)

a light box, revealing their watermarks. A clip from the 2006 historical fiction film Goya’s Ghosts illustrates the technique of etching—which remains largely unchanged to this day. A touch-screen terminal allows visitors to try out WIRE. Two Old Testament images are shown in multiple printings, introducing viewers to issues in print scholarship.

These are fascinating investigations.

Still, everything else takes a back seat to Rembrandt’s artistry. Even with the

Art, where it will subsequently travel.

According to a statement by Weislogel: “Drawn from the collections of both museums, as well as various institutional and private collections, the exhibition will present the technique, breadth, and subtlety of Rembrandt as an etcher, exploring his working process as well as the papers he used.” It will also explore the history of print collecting in America as well ongoing work on watermark identification. •

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Astral Projection

Brooklyn cabaret punk collective hits town

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton World/Inferno Friendship Society, Misses Bitches, Friday, June 10, 7 p.m., The Haunt

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ike some barreling time-traveling madcap art-monster from Neptune, Brooklyn’s The World/Inferno Friendship Society sprays out a dizzying dark cabaret-insanity filled to the brim with punk, funk, klezmer, German Weimar-era madness, flapper spirituality, and colorful art-house dynamism. Front man and ringleader Jack Terricloth has navigated the spry gang—whose membership

Jack Terricloth (Photo Provided)

has including over 40 musicians and artists—since 1996, forging a sort-of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure-like phonebooth journey through varying curved and horizontal ideas of an ironic and philosophical nature. The whole of it will have you moshing, dreaming, and just plain unhinged. I caught up with Terricloth recently as the band plans to station their vessel at The Haunt this Friday, June 10.

Ithaca Times: What were some of the original ideas for the band way back when?

Jack Terricloth: Way back when? It seems like yesterday. [It was] a whole punk scene whose first generation bands had broken up looking to do something fast, political, and not rock and roll, living in urban devastation, and remembering how to play clarinet, listening to three-penny opera at four in the morning in Brooklyn.

IT: How does the World/Inferno Friendship Society work as far as composition? Is it widely collaborative, or do a few, or one person orchestrate most of it?

JT: It takes us forever to get anything done: Democracy in action. Get me Mussolini.

IT: How do the ideas of abstract

expressionism relate to the grandiose nature of the band’s performances?

JT: Well, we are from New York and drunkards, so I’m sure we must have run into Pollock at some point; but for the measure of it we are more pre-World War 2 post-punks. You can do the math.

IT: What’s the connection between punk ideology and cabaret extravagance?

JT: Even the most rudimentary of performances require some proscenium flare. If I don’t sell the ideology, who will?

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of any age.

IT: Does the World/Inferno Friendship Society practice in a sort-of time travel?

JT: Astral projection actually. Wrote a whole album about it. I kind of play it down nowadays, attracts the craziest crowd.

IT: What were some the original inspirations—musically, visually—behind the band?

JT: The works of composer Kurt Weill and dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Particularly the 1977 production of 3penny put on by Shakespeare in the park with Raul Julia.

Yup. IT: Was the vision always for a largescale collective?

JT: It’s funny, we put out a couple singles as just a two-piece before we started playing out and people said we could never reproduce it live, and then they said they preferred the live versions later. It has always been a party with people dropping by and leaving. But at what point in the evening? And with whom?

IT: How was [/is] the band put together? Try-outs, a collective plan between friends?

JT: Gossip. I can safely say the band is put together through gossip, pillow talk, slander, and coercion. We occasionally have try-outs, but that is not how I prefer to put together a band and rarely works out.

IT: How crucial is the visual element to the band, in terms of interpretation of the forms that are being explored?

JT: Oh, ya’ll wouldn’t like me so much if I weren’t so pretty, and the clothes are a healthy distraction from the ravages of age, so of course we dress up. Context, pal.

We’re putting things in context.

IT: When does an idea become a reality?

JT: When you put it into action.

IT: What differentiates an idea that will be built upon, and one that won’t?

JT: Will alone.

IT: Are bad ideas powerful?

JT: They are so. Remember the dumbest lyric off your favorite record that you invested with so much meaning. I think of that often when writing lyrics. People take this s*** seriously! •

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know who made those sculptures.” He spoke with Crawford and several other people before getting to Miller.

One of the first questions Miller had was “Who owns the artwork?” “Strictly speaking,” said Carver, “the federal government still owns them, just like everything else produced by the WPA.” It did seem quite unlikely, however, that the federal government would either claim ownership or come up with money to preserve the concrete animals.

Carver then needed a conservator, and he found Maroney through Trumansburg photographer Alex Solla, whom he met while taking a business development course offered by the New York Foundation for the Arts. This past February her restoration work on the Cornell cast collection was seen by a larger local audience.

“Steve contacted me over a year ago,” said Maroney. “He had a personal interest in the sculptures; sometimes things just speak to you. He had reached out [to CMC] for permission to find a restorer and he offered to help me with the restoration.”

While Maroney receives work from all over the country, she said she had never worked on WPA sculptures before.

Many of those made in the 1930s, she said, have since been absorbed into collections or destroyed. She looked at the animals for the first time in fall 2015, put together a proposal to present to CMC, and then planned for six months.

She had done this kind of work before; she takes care of the outdoor sculpture garden at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.

“Artists tend to specialize in a medium,” she said, “but restorers specialize in a particular material.”

Reclining lion before (left) and after (right) conservation measures. (Photos: Kasia Maroney) A hippo in the garden (at left) (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

Maroney’s primary focus has been porcelain and other ceramics, but she has done much work with stone, glass and other materials. Because she is a freelancer rather than part of a team at an institution, she handles a broader range of work than some in her field. Maroney has a master’s degree in early 20th century art history; like Carver, she felt a particular affection for the WPA animals at CMC. WPA art, she said, has recently

risen in the estimation of the academic arts community.

“They were covered with lichen, moss, algae, mold and fungus,” said Maroney of the animals.

“They’re all in the air around us and take hold when they land where conditions are right.” She said the often moist and rough surface of the concrete sculptures is a perfect

medium.

“Eighty years of rain eroded the horizontal surfaces,” the conservator said. “The limes were dissolved by the rain, which is naturally acidic. When they were first made, they were slightly more detailed than they are now.”

Maroney suspects that the original pieces were formed in clay, which was then surrounded by a mold. A mixture of

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lime, clay, and gravel was poured into the molds. The mixture is the same for all the animals, so both Carver and Maroney believe that either the artists worked in concert or that one person did all the pouring after the molds were made.

While it’s fine for Maroney to speculate about how the artists worked, she likes to be quite sure about the nature of the material she is working with. “The number one rule of restoration is ‘Don’t guess’.” Materials behave predictably, she said, so there is no need to guess.

Maroney said that the original clay models were not likely to have been preserved. The clay models of the sculptures, which are generally about three feet long and 18 inches in diameter, would have been too massive to fire in a kiln. The cast that emerges from the mold, said Maroney, is considered the work of art.

The conservator said that sculpture is still produced by this method, but many commercial lime-based mixes are available (e.g. Quikrete). In the 1930s though, she thought, these artists likely made their concrete mixture from scratch.

Maroney first cleaned the sculptures with an archival-quality soap and then covered them with poultices filled with four different ammonium chlorides and buffering agents to reduce the acidity.

This killed the organic cells covering the concrete. She and Carver then removed the crust with soft nylon brushes. Finally, she sprayed the cleaned sculptures with a dilute ammonium chloride solution to discourage new growth.

“But one is never done with maintenance of outdoor sculpture,” Maroney said. “Institutions that own these build stewardship into the budget.

Every few years they should be sprayed again.” Removing 80 years of growth was relatively inexpensive, she said. It took Maroney and Carver two days to clean all eight. Carver volunteered his time; it would have taken her four or five days without his help, she said.

“They are a long way from perfect,” said Carver, “but they are 99.9 percent better than they were a few weeks ago.” •

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6/08 Wednesday Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Mac Benford & Up South | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Appalachian, Bluegrass, Old-Time, Rock, Country, Bluegrass.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Ransom Steele CRUISE-IN: Featuring 5th Gear | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Bring your classic car down to the Ransom Steele to show it off.

Music will start at 7pm.

St. Vith | 7:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Jazz, Folk Rock, Blues, Jam. Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

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Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With The Crucial Reggae Social

Swing Night with Djug Django Quartet | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Swing, Jazz, Blues, Old-Time.

The Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Bluegrass.

Dennis Winge Jazz | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz.

Nervous Dance | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Straight out of New Orleans.

Jaimie Lee Potter | 6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Singer Songwriter.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Local musicians playing from 6-8 pm.

Watts On Tap | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Rock, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s.

Laila Belle, Lady D & the Shadow Spirits | 9:00 PM | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | Classic Country, Folk Rock, Blues.

6/10 Friday Better Weather String Band | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Rd #1, Interlaken | Cider, Dinner and Music.

World/Inferno Friendship Society | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Punk, Soul, Klezmer, Jazz, Cabaret.

The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM |

Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Swing, Old-Time, Rock, Jazz.

Joan Osborne | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Folk, Country Rock, Blues.

Uncle Joe and the Rosebud Ramblers | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Hive 45, 45 E Main Street, Trumansburg | Old Time, New England Fiddle Tunes, Traditional Songs Pre-Civil War. Amongst The Monks | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Rock, Blues, Funk, Jazz.

Pages of Paul, Esquela | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Americana, Alternative Country, Bovina Rock.

David Graybeard Band | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Homegrown Ballads, Blues and Roots Music.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught. Dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Wingnut | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Experimental, Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Instrumental.

Under Construction | 9:00 PM | Landon’s Pub & Pizza, 110 W. 4th St., Watkins Glen | Rock, Blues, Country, Funk, ‘50s, ‘60s.

Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 10:00 PM | Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St., Auburn | Rock, Blues, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Funk.

6/11 Saturday Nate Michaels | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Butttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 NY-89, Romulus | Singer Songwriter.

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Andy Friedman Trio | 4:30 PM | The Nelson Odeon, 4035 Nelson Road, Cazenovia | The trio will preview new music from Friedman’s recently recorded fourth studio album “The Magnetic Strip”.

El Caminos in the Beer Garden | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country, Soul.

The Jeff Love Band | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Interlaken Olde Home Days, Main Street, Interlaken | Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock.

Wiki, Eyukaliptus, Mr. McBean, Infamous | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Hip Hop, Rap. Ithaca Underground presents.

NEO Project | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Funk, Jazz, Soul, R&B. Top Shelf | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Rock, Funk, Soul, Covers.

Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 7:00 PM-11:00 PM | Eagles Club, 161 Cecil Malone Dr, Ithaca | 50’s and 60’s Rock.

Johnny Dowd | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Punk, Outlaw Country, Experimental, Blues, Alternative.

Beard of Bees, Voodoo Highway | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Blues, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Southern Rock.

Nate Marshall and Travis Knapp | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Singer Songwriters.

The Pearly Snaps | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time, Americana.

The Spectacular Average Boys | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Americana, Alternative,

Bluegrass, Indie Rock.

Kitestring | 10:00 PM-| Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Alternative, Americana, Blues, Soul, Rock.

The Blind Spots | 10:30 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Rock, Pop, Funk, Alternative.

Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans

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Maple Hill, The Surrogates, Caught Up In A Dream | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Emo, Rock, Pop Punk, Alternative.

Root Shock, Noble Vibes | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Roots Reggae.

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6/10 Friday Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

LHS Varsity Chorale and Show Choir | 7:00 PM | Lansing High School, 300 Ridge Rd., Lansing | Come and enjoy entertaining selections. Tickets available at the door or online (with a small convenience fee) at LTAPA. ticketleap.com Email:LTAPA@lcsd.k12. ny.us Candid, Castle Creek | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock.

6/13 Monday Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

6/11 Saturday The Unknown Woodsmen, The Narrow Line | 9:30 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Reggae, Blues, Funk, Pop, Rock.

6/14 Tuesday Pete Panek & the Blue Cats | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Chicago Blues, Blues, Rock.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM-| Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

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

I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415

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Cool Club of Hector | 11:00 AM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Jazz.

Hot Biscuits | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Country, Pop, Swing, Jazz, James Taylor, Ry Cooder, The Beatles, John Prine, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and many more.

Surf Renegades | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Surf Rock.

GoGone | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Soul, Blues.

Laila Belle | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Classic Country.

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6/14 Tuesday Geneva Music Festival: Hear and Now: Hannah Collins & Clara Lyon | 7:30 PM | Ravines Winery, 400 Barracks Rd., Geneva | Cellist and Geneva Native Hannah Collins joins forces with violinist Clara Lyon for an evening of contemporary works. Both musicians at the forefront of the contemporary music field, this concert promises to be an expose of new and rarely performed

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works. Come taste some of the best wines in the region and enjoy an exceptional performance.

Geneva Music Festival: Joseph Ripka | 7:30 PM | Westminster Presbyterian Church, 17 William St., Auburn | Master Organist Joseph Ripka presents a program highlighting the rich variety of organ music from the 17th through 20th centuries.

In Flux | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Improvised, Instrumental, Electronic Rock.

Rock, Strick’s, Tropic of Cancer, and 7 more unique films. More info at www. tclifelong.org cinemapolis

Friday, 6/10 to Thursday, 6/16.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes How to Let Go Of The World: and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change | Documentarian Josh Fox (“Gasland”) travels the globe to meet with global climate change “warriors” who are committed to reversing the tide of global warming. Funny and tragic, inspiring and enlightening, the film examines the intricately woven forces that threaten the stability of the planet and the lives of its inhabitants. | 125 mins NR | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. |92 mins PG |

Film Projecting Place: The Role of Local History in Documentaries | 7:00 PM, 6/09 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | The evening will center around local screenwriters and producers discussing how they utilized local history resources to create documentaries.

Offbeat Films with Ron Krieg | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/14 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This is a series of 12 films that evoke a director’s independent vision and fearless exploration of eccentric or mysterious subject matter. Included are Frankenheimer’s, Seconds, Altman’s, Three Women, Scorsese’s, King of Comedy, Weir’s Picnic, at Hanging

The Man Who Knew Infinity | Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns

admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. | 108 mins PG-13 | Maggie’s Plan | Maggie’s plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette.| 98 mins R | Iggy Pop Live in Basel | Iggy Pop, an outstanding artist known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, sings at the Baloise Session in Basel, Switzerland, where he was honored with a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. This fantastic performance features all of Pop’s biggest hits, including “I Wanna Be Your Dog,”“The Passenger,”“Lust for Life” and more. | 80 mins NR | Regal Cinema

Wednesday 6/08 to Tuesday 6/14 | Contact Regal Cinema Ithaca for Showtimes Me Before You | A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recentlyparalyzed man she’s taking care of. | 110 mins PG-13 | Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping | When it becomes clear that his solo album is a failure, a former boy band member does everything in his

Cortland Repertory Theatre, Runs June 8 through June 18 CRT invites all to come join the teed off gang down at the Quail Valley Country Club as they prepare to take on their arch-rivals, the Crouching Squirrels, in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. With a sizable wager at stake, the contest plays out amidst romantic shenanigans, mistaken identities, and an exploding vase. This hysterical, fast-paced comedy is a charming madcap adventure about love, life, and man’s eternal love affair…with golf!

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Stage Oklahoma! | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | It’s been 18 years since we visited the prairie and we’re excited to return!

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit classic captures Curley and Laurey’s budding love story set against the rivalry of the farmers and the cowboys. Showtimes and tickets at http://fingerlakesmtf. com/2016-season/oklahoma/index. html How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying | Ti-Ahwaga Community Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | An ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder in this Frank Loesser musical that provides lyrics with an edge and tunes with a grin. Noted as the blue chips among modern musicals this production is crafty, conniving, sneaky, cynical, irreverent. Impertinent, sly, malicious, and lovely...just lovely. www.tiahwaga.com The Fox on the Fairway | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Join the teed off gang down at the Quail Valley Country Club as they prepare to take on their archrivals, the Crouching Squirrels, in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. Performances will run from June 8rd - 18th with evening performances at 7:30 PM. cortlandrep. org Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 10:00 PM-, 6/09 Thursday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Dance, Burlesque, Acting, Music,

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Notices Ultimate Frisbee League | Interested in Ultimate Frisbee? Summer league registration is now open, league starts in early June . All levels of experience welcome – show up and play! Go to www.iaua.com to register or learn more American Red Cross Blood Drives | Saturday, 6/11 Church of Latter-day Saints 8:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday, 6/11 Peoples Baptist Church Newfield 8:00am to 12:00pm Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 6/08 Wednesday | Texas Roadhouse, 719-25 S Meadow St., Ithaca | RSVP Loisannethomas@ hotmail.com Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 6/08 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/08 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/ 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/10 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, Ithaca | This week features cinnamon rolls, fig trees, and chia espresso bars, along with the usual delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods. Info: (240) 538-3917.

Annual Hiking For Helping Hands Walk/Run | 9:00 AM-, 6/11 Saturday | 39 RoKi Blvd (old Nichols Elementary School), , Nichols | A 5k walk/run or 8 mile run. The races will begin and finish at 139 RoKi Blvd (old Nichols Elementary School) and will be run on public roads consisting of dirt/gravel and paved materials – flat, straight stretches of areas which include slight knolls and graduated hills throughout the Village and Town of Nichols. Email: communitycare@stny.twcbc.com www. ccnnichols.org New York City Museum Mile Bus Trip | Join the Montour Falls Library for a bus trip to New York City. Land in the middle of the city and explore

Camille Chew: By Moonlight, The Ink Shop, Friday, June 10, 5:00 p.m.

The Ink Shop hosts the prints and mixed media works of Camille Chew, who explores a unique fantasy world, and is this year’s Kahn Family Fellow. The Ink Shop awards the Kahn Family Fellowship to an emerging printmaker who shows promise and dedication to the world of printmaking. Chew is an Ithaca native and graduate of Alfred University. Through several series, in various printmaking techniques, her work illustrates a modern mythology inspired by the occult, and features powerful women, witches, and deities.

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power to maintain his celebrity status. | 86 mins R | The Conjuring 2 | Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. | 133 mins R | Now You See Me 2 | The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. | 129 mins PG-13 | Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | When their new next-door neighbors turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there, Mac and Kelly team with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down. |92 mins R | The Angry Birds Movie | Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to.| 97 mins PG | The Nice Guys | A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. | 116 mins R | Captain America: Civil War | Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. | 147

mins PG-13 | X-Men: Apocalypse | With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. | 144 mins PG-13 | Alice Through The Looking Glass | Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. | 113 mins PG-13 | The Jungle Book | After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. | 106 mins PG | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat. | 112 mins PG-13 |

the many museums of art and culture.

Contact the library soon to reserve a spot. 607-535-7489. www.montourfallslibrary.org Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 6/12 Sunday | Crow’’s Nest Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | The Crow’s Nest is trying for a pirate ambiance. Got any pirate songs?

Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 6/14 Tuesday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA. Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday..

Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

and cool-down exercises and tai chi forms. Night light and take-home materials provided.To register call Sue at 607-659-3022 or email sueheaven@ gmail.com Writing the Body, Moving the Body | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/13 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by Irene Zee Zahava, this program will encourage adult participants to explore-through fun prompts and activities—movement and the body, while creating original short writing pieces This program is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. To register, contact Zahava at zee@twcny. rr.com or (607) 273-4675.

Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

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Preschool Bookmakers: Children’s Bookmaking Program | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/08 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A four-part program facilitated by local artist Mary Beth Ihnken, this program will help children ages 3 through 5 discover the beauty of wordless books while creating their own illustration-only stories. All supplies will be provided and children will leave the final session with their own completed book. To register, or for more information, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/08 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation.

Old Friends: Supporting your Senior Dog or Cat | 7:00 PM-8:15 AM, 6/08 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come learn how diet, supplements and holistic care can keep your dogs and cats perky in their golden years. Dr. Karen Gellman is a holistic veterinarian at The Wellness Center for Pets. Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Cob Oven Workshop | Hawk Meadow Farm, Trumansburg | Cob Therapy (www.cobtherapy.com). In this style of building (A permaculture approach to natural building), local materials,

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Old-time purveyors The Pearly Snaps bring the fire to The Rongovian Embassy on Saturday, June 11 at 9 p.m. Put on your dancing shoes! (Photo: Facebook) generally clay, sand, and straw, are used to create beautiful hand built structures. Cob Oven workshop runs from June 9 through June. www. hawkmeadowfarm.com/events. html. We will build an outdoor bread and pizza oven from the ground up, teaching students all the techniques required to build their own oven, and the skills necessary to even build their own tiny home.

Explore Your Watershed | 7:30 AM-9:30 AM, 6/11 Saturday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Led by Meena Haribal. A fine birder and author of a field guide to damselflies and dragonflies of the region, Meena will lead a search for birds, butterflies and dragonflies of the Six Mile Creek Natural Area. Don’t forget your binoculars!

Catapults | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/11 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families will learn about simple machines by looking at the three different classes of levers.

They will then build a basic catapult that hurls marshmallows at a target.

The Whales of Seneca Lake: Biology and Musicology | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/12 Sunday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Author and Naturalist Katy Payne with be our keynote speaker, with Music by All Stars All Dust, Niko 360 and others. Silent action: Original Whale Art Piece / Ryan Curtis, Original Whale and Dog art piece by Simone, Set of Sim Redmond CDs, A Night a Amazing Grace B&B, Set of Richie Stearns CD’s. Proceeds going to We Are Seneca Lake, Cayuga Nature Center, Center for Coastal Studies and GoGreenNY. Outdoor tables are available for picnicking from 5:00-5:30.

Tai Chi for Arthritis & Fall Prevention | 1:00 PM-, 6/13 Monday | Candor Emergency Squad, 58 Main Street, Candor | Hour-long sessions meet twice a week for eight weeks.

Each session is taught by a certified instructor and includes warm-up

Open Registration: Little Voices Music & Motion’s Songs of Summer | Little Voices Music & Motion is a research based class for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, with parents or other caregivers along for the fun. We sing, we dance, and we play with instruments and movement props to music that varies widely in tonality, rhythm and style. Scholarships are available for all Little Voices Music & Motion classes. Please go to the website www.LittleVoicesMusic.com for registration instructions.

LEGO Build | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The community-wide construction of a 6’ x 6’ model of our iconic downtown Ithaca building. 100,000 LEGO bricks will be assembled between May and mid-June, culminating in an installation and unveiling of the completed model on Saturday, June 18, in TCPL’s BorgWarner Room. Be a builder, be a supporter. Visit www.tcplfoundation. org/#!tcpl-lego-build/tivro and select either Click to Reserve or Click to Donate. Contact Josiah Jacobus-Parker at jjacobusparker@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 ext. 261.

Daycare Openings for Fall 2106 | Waldorf-based indoor & outdoor bilingual (German/ English) Sternenkinder (Starchildren) has openings for children 2-1/2 to 5 years old. Summer Camp: Outdoor & cooking with children has openings for July &

The Senior Theatre Troupe of Lifelong performs stories from their lives. | 3:00 PM-, 6/09 Thursday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This performance centers on the theme of animals, featuring stories from the troupe’s lives that are both humorous and serious. Directed and coordinated by Sue Perlgut, the troupe features, Fran Helmstadter, Eva Luby, Carol Santucci, Deirdre Silverman, Mark Silverman, Jean Senegas, Sandy Stein and Barbara West. For more information about the Senior Citizen Troupe of Lifelong you can contact Lifelong at 607-273-1511 ReJunevate 2016 | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/09 Thursday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Ithaca | Enjoy delicious tapas, festive spirits, live music by Djug Dgango, and a dynamite silent auction. Celebrate the playful magic of childhood by playing garden games with a twist, like croquet, badminton, bocce, twister, and super-sized Jenga.

Visit www.ithacachildrensgarden.org to purchase event tickets and learn more.

Fife & Drum Corps Open House | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/09 Thursday | Ithaca VFW, 423 W. State Street, Ithaca | Do you like music? History? Parades?

Uniforms? Are you between 8 and 19? Join the Finger Lakes Fife and Drum Corps! No experience necessary.

Learn to play the fife or drum and to march in parades and events. Have fun with other young people with this unique experience. Come to our Open House. Info at finger.lakes.fife.drum@ gmail.com, 607-319-5797, or visit our website - www.flfifedrum.com 2nd Annual Kitchen & Bath Tour | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 6/11 Saturday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Self guided tour of 12 area homes featuring newly designed and installed kitchens and baths which represent a broad range of materials and styles. Designers and contractors will be on site. For more information or to purchase tickets: gvgb.co/ KitchenAndBath All Saints Parish Festival | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 6/12 Sunday | All Saints Parish, 347 Ridge Rd., Lansing | Chicken barbecue and other food, beer and wine, live music, cake wheel, silent auction, kids’ games, bounce house, plant sale, book sale, and more!

Maple Grove Frolic | 1:00 PM-, 6/12 Sunday | Bement Billings Farmstead’s Black Powder Range, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | Public Muzzleloading Shoot, no charge.

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August 2016. All located in West Hill, Ithaca. Contact Marion Gunderson, Kindergarten/ Art teacher and speech pathologist from Germany with 25+ years experience: marigun1@verizon. net Theatre Games for Children | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 6/09 Thursday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Registration is now open for an added section of Imagine That, the extremely popular creative play program that introduces children to theatre games. Children will learn and understand storytelling, art, movement and music concepts through guided acting instruction. Children develop their imaginations while building confidence and group skills. Instructor is Camilla Schade. To register, go to www.iybrec.com, write to iyb@ cityofithaca.org, or call (607) 273-8364.

Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 6/14 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.

Preschool Bookmakers: Children’s Bookmaking Program | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/09 Thursday, through 6/14 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A four-part program facilitated by local artist Mary Beth Ihnken, this program will help children ages 3 through 5 discover the beauty of wordless books while creating their own illustration-only stories. All supplies will be provided and children will leave the final session with their own completed book. To register, or for more information, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl. org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

Family and Children’s Service Open House | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/10 Friday | Family & Children’s Service of Ithaca, 211 E Seneca St., Ithaca | Meet the Youth and Outreach Services Team. Tour the new space at the Barr Building.

Learn about the programs.

Special Events Ransom Steele CRUISE-IN: Featuring 5th Gear | 7:00 PM-, 6/08 Wednesday | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Bring your classic car down to the Ransom Steele to show it off. Music will start at 7pm.

Martin A. Poole,

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West End Gallery, Friday, June 10, 5:00 p.m.

The Dock, Friday, June 10, 6:00 p.m.

Poole has gained national recognition as an artist and has exhibited in many galleries across the U.S. He has been represented by West End Gallery for 37 years. Poole has been featured in Artists Magazine, American Artist, and American Art Collector Magazine. Locally, he has also exhibited at One Seventy One Cedar Arts Center, the Arnot Art Museum, and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art. His work his lush and inspiring.

This colorful folk rocker has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the great voices of her generation — both a commanding, passionate performer and a frank, emotionally deep songwriter. A multiplatinum selling recording artist and seven-time GRAMMY Award nominee, the soulful vocalist and deft song interpreter is a highly sought-after collaborator and guest performer who has performed alongside many notable artists, including Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Luciano Pavarotti, and Emmylou Harris, among many others.

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nvhistory.org Biblical Wax Museum | 3:00 PM-4:30 PM, 6/12 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Meet and Greet Favorite Biblical Characters.

Geneva Music Festival: Bluegrass and Farm Feast | 7:00 PM-, 6/12 Sunday | Ravines Winery, 400 Barracks Rd., Geneva | Bluegrass fans will enjoy this lively concert! Violinist Eliot Heaton and cellist Max Geissler return with Greg Robbins on bass to bring you some good old fashioned American music.

Ithaca Taste of the Nation | 6:30 p.m. | 6/14 Tuesday | The Athletics & Events Center, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd., Ithaca | ​I​thaca’s Taste of the Nation for No Kid Hungry invites you to enjoy the area’s finest food & beverages from over 75 local restaurants, wineries and microbreweries. Info www. facebook.com/IthacaTasteOfTheNation Flag Day Ceremony | 6:00 PM-, 6/14 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, , Ithaca | Music will be by the Savage Club. Included is a parade of flags that our country has used through the years. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was the first fraternal organization to observe Flag Day.

HeadsUp Masters of the screen

by Bryan VanCampen Hail, Caesar!, written and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, now on home video.

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iven the choice between writing about The Conjuring 2 or Now You See Me 2, I choose to write about Hail, Caesar!, the latest film by Joel and Ethan Coen.

True story: I have this little rule that I won’t review a movie until I’ve stayed awake through the whole thing. When Hail, Caesar! opened back in February, I went to see it after a very long and busy day and I kept falling asleep. I may have seen a third of it. It got so bad that I woke up to the end credits rolling and completely missed the end of the film.

Needless to say, I couldn’t write about it and I liked enough of what I saw to know that I’d need to take another crack at Hail, Caesar! It played a few weeks at Regal and went on to a fairly long run at Cinemapolis.

I got the chance to see the whole film when I was on vacation and my host played it for me.

It is a riot, ladies and gentlemen.

Acting as a perfect companion to another Coen brothers’ Tinseltown epic, Hail, Caesar! has plenty of that Barton Fink feeling. It begins with Hollywood

Art Proposals for Commons Boxes: An Electrical Box Mural Project. | The City of Ithaca Public Art Commission (PAC) is excited to announce a call for proposals for Commons Boxes: An Electrical Box Mural Project.

PAC is working with the Commons Management Team to create murals on three large electrical boxes located on the newly redesigned Ithaca Commons.

Successful proposals for these three boxes take into consideration the natural beauty of the area, a sense of community, and/or the Commons as the heart of Ithaca. Attached please find more information about the project as well as application instructions. This information is also available on the City of Ithaca’s website at: http://www.cityofithaca.org/353/ Public-Art-Commission Proposals.

Deadline: Proposals must be submitted

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Andy Friedman: The Loneliness of the Common Player | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/09 Thursday | The Winner Gallery at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, 3883 Stone Quarry Road, Cazenovia | An exhibition of recent paintings,

drawings, cartoons, and illustrations that point toward the various directions that Friedman’s visual work has encompassed during a professional career that has spanned almost two-decades.

Camille Chew: By Moonlight | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/10 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Prints and mixed media works exploring the fantasy world of Camille Chew, this year’s Kahn Family Fellow. Through several series, in various printmaking techniques, Chew’s work illustrates a modern mythology inspired by the occult.

Heidi E. Marschner: Progression: Refining Techniques for Reduction Woodcut Printing | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/10 Friday | CSMA Corridor, 330 E.State, MLK Street, Ithaca | Ink Shop member Heidi Marschner shows her process for reduction woodcuts, including the experiments she’s undertaken to better understand the interplay between inks and paper.

fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) watching “dailies” from the title film-within-a-film, a Biblical swords n’ sandals saga starring Baird Whitlock (George Clooney).

There’s a lot happening on the lot to keep Mannix busy and worried. Whitlock gets kidnapped off the lot by a mysterious cadre of men; cowboy star Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich, the new Han Solo) has been disastrously miscast in an uptown melodrama; mermaid musical star DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) is pregnant and out of wedlock.

Meanwhile, song n’ dance man Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) is shooting the most blatantly homoerotic musical number in the history of Hollywood.

This hubbub is just an excuse for the Coens to shoot scenes from movies that no one has shot for decades—oat operas, black and white tuxedo fests, and mermaid musicals—and they really pull it off.

There’s another aspect of the film that I want to discuss and that is the art of the character actor. A character actor usually only has one scene in a movie, and so they really need to own that scene. Coen regular Frances McDormand (Darkman, Fargo) has a hilarious Isadora Duncan moment as a chain-smoking film cutter and we never see her again.

The cabal of Clooney kidnappers includes Fisher Stevens, Patrick Fischler (Speed, Mad Men), David Krumholtz, and Fred Melamed. When Mannix calls a

Martin A. Poole: Into the Light | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/10 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | New work by Martin A. Poole featured in the Main Gallery. Also, showcasing a collection of paintings by the late Thomas S. Buechner in the Upstairs Gallery Music performed by William Groome. ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Marie Sanderson: The Golden Cap. Watercolor illustrations of an immigration narrative set in early 20th century Netherlands. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Rachel Philipson photographs, “La Habana” through June 15th. Rachel Philipson photographs of the streets of Havana, Cuba. Her small scale photographs

The Haunt, Saturday, June 11, 7:00 p.m.

Part of a young and retro new collective of fluxing rappers, Wiki is part of the rap group Ratking, who made their first waves as a so called “leftfield hip-hop” group out of Harlem. Wiki’s raps are inspired by legends like the Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem, the punk duo Suicide, and the streets of NYC. Bitingly direct, alternative, and abundant in youthful cynicism, Wiki heads a stacked show filled to the brim with Smacked Records rappers Eyukaliptus, Mr. McBean, and Infamous. It’s going to be a killer show with a diverse and inspiring hue. Don’t miss it!

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meeting of local religious leaders to get their opinion on Jesus’s portrayal in Hail, Caesar!, two of them are played by Allan Havey (Mad Men, Internal Affairs) and Robert Picardo (The Howling, Innerspace).

Protestant Clergyman: Who plays Christ?

Mannix: A kid we’re all very excited about, Todd Hocheiser, a wonderful young actor we found in Akron, Ohio, after a nationwide talent hunt. But Hocheiser is seen only fleetingly and with extreme taste. Our story is told through the eyes of a Roman tribune, Autochlus Antonius, an ordinary man, skeptical at first, but who comes to a

capture the intimacy and pace of the streets of Havana, Cuba.

Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center) Ithaca | OneTwoThree, a solo exhibit of new work by Ruth Sproul, is on view through June 30. | www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Marty Kepecs: Bold in Charge.

Kepecs says “this show of painting, collage, and assemblage, is the result of allowing my mind to go wild with shapes and colors. I think this work speaks to the beauty and freedom of life in the Finger Lakes.”

Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Spring Loaded, The Art of Melissa Zarem, opens May 6th and runs through Jun 26th at eye gallery on the Commons. The collection will feature many new, never before seen paintings and the black and white imagery from her new coloring book, Spring Loaded, published by eye.

grudging respect for this swell figure from the East.

Christopher Lambert pops in as the decrepit producer of the Tatum musical number and the producer of Hail, Caesar! is played by Robert Trebor, an actor who was pretty ubiquitous in ‘80s films ranging from Making Mr. Right to 52 Pick-Up. Clancy Brown and Wayne Knight pop up in bit roles as well.

In other words, if you’re the kind of film fanatic who treasures the masters of the featured role, Hail Caesar! is the mother lode. •

Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Benjamin Slatoff-Burke will be exhibiting his series of abstract paintings through June 30 | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Marina Delaney: 19 Nudes – Works on Paper. A study of the female form through varying prisms: beauty, naturalism, dreams, humor, and modern masters (both literary and artistic). Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, this show seeks to exalt in the deep connection between body and soul as the essence of all human experience.| www.sacredrootkava.com State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Never Before Seen at SOAG. Gallery members have invited artists who have never shown work

before at SOAG and on exhibition are paintings, drawings,. soag.org Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | “Four Artists.” Local art critic Arthur Whitman presents the work of a quartet of diverse and talented picture-makers which includes Madeleine Bialke, Scout Dunbar, Stephen Phillips, and Gizem Vural. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@ tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Wright/Fisher. Michelle Wright and Jen Fisher will be exhibiting their work through the month of June. | www.wafflefrolicking.com

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Ithaca Taste Of the Nation, Ithaca College, Tuesday, June 14, 6:30 p.m.

Ithaca’s Taste of the Nation for No Kid Hungry invites you to enjoy the area’s finest food & beverages from over 75 local restaurants, wineries and microbreweries. The mini-fest will also have fabulous raffle items, a fun photo booth, live music (The Destination), and much more! 100% of the money raised is used to give grants to organizations involved in mitigating childhood hunger.

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George Clooney stars as Baird Whitlock in the Coen brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!” (Photo Provided)

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Young, professional married couple wishing to welcome first child through adoption. We admire your strength, and would be honored to hear from you.

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is accepting applications for the following positions by June 22, 2016: Financial Management Assistant: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Department of Public works. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website.

Salary: $35,918. Exam: An exam will be required at a later date. Residence: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 East Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539 www.cityofithaca.org.

The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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Ideal for Grad or Working Person Lovely one bedroom second floor apartment downtown on Cascadilla St. Close to a city bus stop. Carpeted and living room (with real wood paneled walls), full bath, kitchen. Private porch off of living room. $850/mo plus utilities.

Available Aug. 1. No undergrads, no smokers, no dogs. Please have references. Pix and floorplan on request. For info, appointment please email apartments@twcny.rr.com

has the following positions available for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year: School Social Worker - M.S.W. Certification or School Psychologist Certification preferred. Speech Language Pathologist; Teaching Assistants.

Persons interested in consideration for a position should send a letter of interest, application, resume, copy of certification and all transcripts, and credentials file or three (#) written references to: Dr. Joseph Morgan, Superintendent, Spencer-Van Etten Central School District, 16 Dartts Crossroad, Spencer, NY 14883. Applications available at the District Office or online at www.svecsd. org Deadline for applications is June 23, 2016.

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One bedroom apartment, unfurnished, upstairs, available July 1, utility’s included. Laundromat on corner, street parking, $1025. 607-592-2608.

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More Than Meets the Eye Ranch house in Groton Village

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alpole Road is a dead end street at the edge of the village of Groton. No one is likely to drive by 111 Walpole unless they are a neighbor; this is a quiet neighborhood.

The house is set above the street on a low bluff and there are mature landscape plantings in the front yard, further adding to the privacy.

This was built as a typical ranch house, but has been expanded in several directions to make it much large than it appears from the street.

There is a front porch that is large enough to sit on, but given that the back yard is enormous, you are likely to spend more time sitting outside back there.

In true American fashion the plan of the house is oriented toward the automobile.

The two-bay garage is nearly as large as the house; they are separated by a narrow breezeway.

The entrance in the breezeway is the one that is bound to be used most often.

You find yourself into the kitchen that is large enough to eat in, but there is also a dining room in the front of the house.

The counters are butcher block and they have been given a dark stain, which has the effect of bringing out the wood grain. The kitchen is outfitted with a countertop electric range and stove and a double steel sink.

The wood cabinets have simple lines and are painted with modern steel pulls.

One wall of the kitchen is a household office area with a built in desk in the form

of a long counter held up by cabinets with large drawers.

The wall adjacent to the dining room is penetrated by a pass-through window with cabinets above and below it.

The dining room floor is oak and there is a bay window in front with a raised area for plants and decorative objects.

One of the expansions of the house is a large (400-square-foot) family room that has been added on to the back of the home. You enter it with a step down from the kitchen through a wide passage.

The floor here is a wood grain laminate and there is a wood-burning stove in one corner resting on large stone tiles that also cover the walls in that corner.

Glass sliding doors lead out into the back yard. In immediate vicinity of the house there is an above-ground pool, a covered patio, and a gravel-covered area around a large firepit.

All the other rooms in the house are accessible from a hall that leads away from the kitchen. Both the hall and kitchen are

111 Walpole Road in the village of Groton from the front (top) and the back (bottom). (Photos provided)

floored with ceramic tile.

The full bathroom has tub/shower and a wood grain laminate floor.

There are two bedrooms, one of which has wainscoting, while the other has a huge closet that covers an entire wall of the room.

The entire downstairs is finished. The ceiling has been enclosed in a clever fashion: burlap has been suspended between narrow battens, giving it a soft appearance and presumably making the utilities above it easily acceptable.

The rooms include a large recreation

area and a master bedroom. There is a door to the outside in the master bedroom. The ceiling in that has been finished with enameled and crenulated metal sheeting. The rest of the downstairs is given over to large laundry room equipped with a utility sink and it is also the site of the hot water heater.

There are two sheds in the back yard and the entire parcel is nearly an acre.

The back of the lot is lined with a row of mature spruce trees for yearround privacy, and there are also several mature maples for shade. •

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At A Glance Price: $154,900 Location: 111 Walpole Road,

Village of Groton School District: Groton Central Schools MLS#: 305028 Contact: Ro Rukavena, Associate Broker, Tompkins-Cortland Real Estate; ro@twcny.rr.com Phone: (607) 279-5282 (cell) Website: www.tompkins cortlandrealestate.com T

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