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borrowing money to continue construction. Tompkins County Because he’s begun receiving money, he can continue working on the project. “Now,” he said, “the big challenge is getting contractors back on the job.” Originally the project was due to be completed this month, but “the good news is yesterday they gave us a 10-month extension,” Bartosch said. Thus, by this time next year the whole broadband buildesidents in Tompkins County’s out should be complete and lack of decent outlying towns could be enjoying faster Internet access within the next Internet access will be a thing of the past in more portions of Ulysses, Enfield, Newfield, year. Finally, the broadband expansion Danby, Caroline, Groton, and Lansing. project is expected to be complete within At its June meeting TCCOG also heard the next 10 months. from Town of Ithaca Supervisor Herb Back in 2012 the state opened up $25 Engman. He gave an update on Town of million in Connect NY funding to help Caroline Supervisor Don Barber’s efforts to expand broadband coverage throughout create an investment cooperative. Barber underserved areas in the state. Clarity originally floated the idea to TCCOG Connect submitted a proposal for $2.7 earlier this year and after recent meetings million in funding to expand broadband on the subject has in 14 towns, including determined that it three in Cayuga County. would probably be Although the state feasible. Engman said awarded the grant that it would be much to Clarity, they only like the healthcare approved nine of the consortium, but for proposed towns; the investing. Cayuga County towns, “As a group Enfield, and Caroline we would have to were removed from the come up 12 to 15 proposal. million [dollars] to Grant awardees put in,” Engman were announced in explained. Although March 2013, and the individual Clarity Connect owner Chuck Bartosch of Clarity Connect municipalities involved Chuck Bartosch got (Photo: Keri Blakinger) in the cooperative started on the work would have separate right away. Typically, portfolios and separate returns, collectively he explained, for state grants the work is they’d still need a minimum investment. completed first and then the state releases Barber will send out a letter to the funding reimbursement. However, while county’s municipalities to find out which the state announced the winners in 2013, it ones are or are not interested and how wasn’t until 2014—at which point Clarity much money they might consider putting had already spent $2 million—that the in. Municipalities that respond now Grant Disbursement Agreement (GDA) wouldn’t be obliged to join the investment finally happened. At the Thursday, June group, but would just be expressing a 25 meeting of Tompkins County Council possible willingness. Engman said, “Once of Governments (TCCOG), Bartosch said we know if there’s 12 to 15 million dollars that, after the GDA, “It took them over out there then we’ll take the next step into five months to actually get us our first looking at a structure.” • reimbursement.” In the meantime, Bartosch had to —Keri Blakinger stall on the work because he couldn’t keep

Local Living Wage Faster Internet for Upped to $13.77/Hr Rural Areas, Finally

he 2015 Living Wage Study was released by Alternatives Federal Credit Union on Friday, June 26, at a press conference in the credit union’s headquarters on Meadow Street. The study found that the average cost for a single person to live full-time in Tompkins County is now $28,637 per year, a figure that works out to a new living wage level of $13.77 for a 40-hour work week, up 9.13 percent from the last living wage of $12.62. For those who don’t have workprovided health insurance, the study found the living wage should be $14.34 per hour to afford an Excellus Silver plan on the New York State health exchange. The Tompkins County Workers’ Center has certified 99 living wage employers so far, since they started offering the process in 2003, according to Pete Meyers of the Workers’ Center. Mandi Meidlinger, owner of Jillian’s Drawers on the Commons, has paid a living wage since hiring her first employee eight years ago. She said that small employers like herself have tough questions to ask themselves about how employees should be compensated. “You have to ask yourself if you want to be a government-subsidized business,” Meidlinger said, referring to studies that low wages lead to higher taxes because of people needing help from the system. “We all know that’s a model that Wal-Mart, Amazon, rely on. I challenge you to be smarter than the big box stores and not have your business paid for by taxpayers.” Besides making a commitment to selfsufficiency, Meidlinger touted the benefits to a business of paying employees well enough to “make your business their life.” “Employee turnover is really expensive,” Meidlinger said. “You have a loss of productivity, a loss of knowledge, you have to interview, and then train a new employee. If you just settle for employees that are clocking in and out, you’ll have a high turnover rate, you’ll remain in a state of mediocrity, and you won’t become the business you can be for your community.” The argument that business owners and taxpayers see benefits to their bottom line from a standard living wage echoed around the room during comment time. Better paid workers mean more money out there for consumption and less funding from taxes toward health care and social continued on page 4

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ince that long day in last August when Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, and an off-duty Ithaca Police Department officer held two black teens at gunpoint, the question keeps arising with great frequency both in Ithaca and nationwide: How should police officers be held accountable for their actions? Is there a way to solve racist violence, particularly against African Americans? In response to this zeitgeist, Ithaca Police Department announced its intentions to add body cameras to its officers' uniforms in May (see “City Police Plan On 70 Body Cameras,” June 3 Ithaca Times) and the Tompkins County sheriff ’s department will also get cameras for its deputies. Frank Liberti of Rochester’s Center for Dispute Settlement thinks that body cameras are one tool that should decrease what he terms “unprovable” cases of alleged police conduct. Of the 35 cases per year of complaints against police that Rochester’s Civilian Review Board sees on average, about 45-percent of allegations remain unprovable. “I think you’re going to see that number decrease as more and more things are filmed,” Liberti told people gathered in the Greater Ithaca Activities Center gymnasium on Wednesday, June 24. He noted that redacted video is not used in reviews. Liberti was invited to speak about the Civilian Review Board’s work by the Call to Action group that has been facilitating discussions on police and community relations in Ithaca since autumn 2014. He was invited to discuss “possible models for improved accountability and communication between community members and their law enforcement officers,” according to a press release from Laura Burch of the Call to Action group. “[W]e hope to explore options to develop a more robust review process that garners trust and that all citizens feel confident in using,” the release continued, stating that IPD reported seven complaints in 2014, but based on anecdotal evidence, more could have been filed. The Rochester CRB is made up of 10 panelists, all trained arbitrators, who are selected in teams of three, Liberti said, and who want to give everyone a “fair, thorough, and timely shake.” The board deals with all “heavy allegations” against officers, those that if proven would be criminal, or cases referred directly from the chief of police. The board receives information after an internal investigation. It does hold subpoena power, though it doesn’t have to use it, Liberti said, and

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must render a finding in each case. The board can find evidence to sustain the allegations, find them unprovable, find them unfounded – like someone saying their arm was broken in an arrest, when there was no broken arm, – or exonerating the officer. The CRB does not make disciplinary recommendations. “We’re like the jurors. We’re looking at just that situation. We don’t necessarily know an officer’s prior complaints,” Liberti said. “If this a person who has chronic

Frank Liberti of Rochester Center for Dispute Settlement. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

complaints of this type, [the department] might want much more significant corrective action, or if it’s a 30-year employee who never had a complaint … it might require a different action.” The Center for Dispute Resolution Livingwage

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services, several supporters of the concept said. Meidlinger said that her employees support local farmers who offer CSA shares, shop at GreenStar, and send their kids to Primitive Pursuits. Meyers said that the living wage ideal is “spreading like wildfire all over the country,” though Alternatives is still the only financial institution he’s aware of that provides a study to support the numbers. Michelle Yinjie Lu, a grad student at Cornell’s ILR School worked on this year’s study, which incorporates rent, food, transportation, communication, health care, recreation, and savings into its formula. The average rent is based on federal numbers, and has jumped from $863 to $943 a month in two years, a 12.8-percent increase. Allowances for recreation, savings, and miscellaneous— including housekeeping supplies, clothing, and toiletries—total just under $3,600 a

also offers a voluntary “conciliation” process. Someone complaining of an officer failing to take a report, making an inaccurate report, ordering an improper vehicle tow, and simple discourteousness is referred to mediation. On the police side, “someone who may be misbehaving is often happy to do this, because they don’t get a formal complaint,” Liberti said. What all of this information means for current city and county policies is unclear. Paula Younger, the deputy county administrator, attended the session at GIAC and said that she feels most of the Call to Action meetings have focused on the city. Having an elected sheriff rather than a mayor-appointed chief makes a difference in how new policies might work at the county level, Younger said. And later that afternoon, at the Community Police Board meeting at City Hall, board member Marion DaGrossa was unsure about how Liberti’s talk related to city policies. “People were trying to make a connection between his group and ours. Truthfully there is no connection,” DaGrossa said. She reported that people in the breakout group she sat in on had two major concerns: How the Community Police Board is appointed, and how IPD officers are selected. (The Community Police Board has two openings for new members, which can be applied for at cityofithaca.org). DaGrossa was asked by her group why she didn’t want subpoena power for the board. “I’ve never had a time when a police officer hasn’t agreed to meet with me when I was working a case,” DaGrossa said. “I think I’ve gotten all the information I need on the cases I’ve worked.” Board members questioned the timing of the Liberti presentation, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and co-chair Shirley Lane, continued on page 7

year for the most recent calculation. The Workers’ Center goal is to have Tompkins County require a living wage to be paid to all employees, a process that would require a county approval and then another round of approvals in Albany. Meyers said the process would be phased in, much as New York state minimum wages have increased from $7.25 to $8.75 in the past couple years, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposing an increase to $10.50 outside of New York City next year. “From what I can tell, the sky hasn’t fallen in on the economy,” Meyers said. “There is a level of a moving target to this. It would be worldwide news if we get this done in two years.” The 2015 living wage study, and studies dating back to 1998—when the estimated living wage was $7.94 an hour—are available at: alternatives.org/ livable. • —Josh

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od Howe took over as director of The History Center in March, and is now overseeing the first exhibition to go up during his watch, “Local History Matters: Early Treasures from the Collection.” Howe’s own family history goes way back in Tompkins County. His brother now owns a parcel of land in Dryden that has been in the family since about 1815. On his desk, to remind himself of this history, Howe has an ledger kept by his parents to track “every dollar they spent”—on page one, from the 1940s, it says “Doctor $3”—and also a metal can he used in his youth to bring milk from his grandfather’s farm. In The History Center archives is a double-barreled 12-gauge shotgun made by ancestor Henry Howe around 1840. The Ithaca Times sat down with Howe to talk about his experience so far at the History Center and future exhibitions in the works. Ithaca Times: What’s the idea behind the “Local History Matters” display? Rod Howe: It’s an exhibit made up of the oldest items from our collection, [and will be] up through the end of September. There’s so much in our collection and people don’t really know—this is to give people a sampling of some of the oldest items in our collections. I’m just discovering the gems we have in our archives, as our archivist Donna Eschenbrenner makes a point of showing me things in there that are just wonderful. IT: Any particular favorites in the items or collections you’ve discovered so far? RH: We have letters from a 15-year-old boy who, during World War II, would listen to the shortwave radio to get information about soldiers who were wounded or captured. He would take down all the detailed information he could and write these letters to family members of these soldiers all over the U.S. We have all these letters he wrote, a 15-year-old boy in the town of Caroline, and some of the letters that people wrote back to him. There are hundreds of things in our collection that are glimpses into one person, which I hope helps people realize that their own life is a history and a story to share. IT: What was your own path to becoming director of The History Center? RH: I grew up in Lansing, and consciously moved back to this area to raise my family. I stayed in Boston for a long time because it was a great place to live. Working on my Ph.D in history [at Boston University] I got to teach the history of Boston several times, which was a great experience: teaching the history of Boston right in Boston. I was at Cornell Cooperative Extension 25 years, and on

campus for 17 of those. When I left CARDI community. It’s not just a matter of looking backwards, but what does history say to us (Community and Regional Development about the present and about our decisions Institute) in February, I felt I was ready for something different. I have this love for this in the future.” IT: What’s coming up at The county, this place, and it’s certainly a History Center? chance to use that degree. RH: Our next exhibit is going IT: What History Center to focus on the cemeteries of resources have you seen people Tompkins County, along with using in your time here, and what monuments and other various are future plans to expand those tributes in sculpture. We’ll do a offerings? number of programs that relate to RH: I’m excited to see how that exhibit. I’m interested in how many folks are using our research our relationships to cemeteries library. There is a very active have changed over time, use of that for genealogy, how we might think or for a building of them compared someone is trying to to our mother or get more information grandmother. We’re about. One of our also working on goals is to digitize addressing current more of the archival topics through their material. We also local history. We’re have an application working with a group to the National on the history of Endowment for same-sex marriage Humanities to in the county and integrate Sanborn various pieces of maps, beautiful that fight over the insurance maps, past 30 or 40 years. with census data. We’re thinking Over time we’ll about what an be developing a exhibit would look website where like about climate you can click change that has on a home or a historical context building and find to it. We want to information about be a place when past owners or people come here, folks who lived in we surprise them this home. It will once in a while. be a new tool for doing IT: research about who Downtown lived places, what their Ithaca Alliance occupations were, and floated the idea will be a way to engage that you might students more fully. It move into could be a jumping off the Masonic point for oral histories, temple on the that sort of thing. corner of North IT: Besides making Cayuga and East Seneca. historical documents Is there anything to that? available for research, RH: The trustees of what do you think The The History Center in History Center is for? Tompkins County will be RH: One of our exploring several options challenges is that we for any potential move (our have ‘history’ in our lease ends December 2018; title. Some folks might one possibility will be to not have had a good stay where we are under experience in history new lease terms). It is class. ‘When I think exciting to think about of history I don’t any number of venues, remember the dates, I some that might don’t remember include cothe sequence,’ Rod Howe and his milk pail location with that sort of (Photo Brian Arnold) key partners. thing. People The Masonic forget their temple might own stories be a unique setting, but we are just starting are history. We really want to use the tools our process and need time for careful of history to help people engage with deliberation. • their own stories and also talk to others about those stories. It’s about making a — J o s h B r o k aw discovery about yourself in relationship to T

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Heard&Seen ▶ New police officer sworn in, On June 29 at about 9 a.m. Tom Condzella was hired a police officer for the Ithaca Police Department. Tom was joined by his family, as well as many members of the Ithaca Police Department family. In 2010 he began working part time for the Village of Groton Police department and in 2013 began employment with the Town of Riverhead Police Department (on Long Island). Wrote Chief John Barber, “It is obvious to me that we have hired another officer who will represent our motto of ‘Professionalism.’” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 24-30 include: 1) 21 Boxes: Artists color downtown Ithaca 2) College vs. Trades 3) Escaping the Ordinary: Gordon Bonnet 4) Chemistry Teacher Heads for Island Life 5) Art Collective Rager at CRAQ For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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ast week, a Community Police them in the hard, sad rush of fires and Board member attended a meeting shootings and drug busts that dominate about police and community the national news. When sad happenings relations at the Greater Ithaca Activities occur like Charleston, the discussion is Center and later, a bit mystified, reported immediately decided that the reason was back to her colleagues on the experience. guns, or racism, or mental illness, or a In the “breakout” group she whole host of other factors. Policies are attended after a talk on civilian review prescribed, understanding is preached, boards of the police, she found that “The there’s another candlelight vigil, and the people in the group I was in basically cycle continues—some grieving, some needed an outlet to vent all healing, some forgetting— the feelings they had.” until the next national tragedy “From an That’s a somewhat fair occurs. everyday assessment of the ubiquitous From an everyday breakout groups and perspective, perspective, then, those “talkback sessions” that dot those who show people who show up time the more socially conscious and again with on-point up time and critiques of policies, like body meetings, lectures, and plays in this town. Given again with on- cameras for local police, are the forum to talk about a good service. Policies, point critiques doing Serious Issues like policing though, are made to make the and race, people are going are doing a goodbest of bad situations. Give to air their grievances. They every officer a ride-along service.” will complain. They will contingent of 12 impartially speak of things about which picked people, and that still they feel helpless. And sometimes these wouldn’t wholly lead to good policing or sessions turn out long lists of wonderful total agreement on when an action was ideas that would need several favorable justified. Take away all the guns, and, election cycles to become reality. as the National Rifle Association is so The hardheaded American fond of repeating, people are capable, if pragmatist sees this and huffs “Well, willing, of hurting each other with other that’s just talk” and asks, “What are you objects. In the larger view, even an ideal going to do about it?” policy governing the police, or guns, or The hard reality is that no one drugs, are nothing but bandages for the knows what to do. People need to talk problem that we all can’t just get along. about the hard issues, because there’s continued on page 7 certainly no room for wrestling with

rassRoots Festival is upon us, in just two weeks, and there’s still time, but not much, to save money by buying advance tickets. A few days (usually indeterminate) before the event, organizers will collect tickets and close sales at retail outlets. Meanwhile, waiting until the last minute to buy online is not a great idea. Today we had trouble accessing the site; we presume for overloading. Buying tickets at the gate is a bonehead move, as it costs more (20 percent), and lines are long. Anticipate especially long lines this year. It’s a landmark year—the festival’s 25th—and the milestone is marked by some big acts. What constitutes a big act at GrassRoots is a little skewed, of course. GrassRoots prides itself on shunning mainstream stars, for the most part, in favor of important musicians from particular genres who are maybe less heard, but more deserving. Generally they are not performers you will see on television, or even hear much on radio. Thursday’s headliner, Trombone Shorty, is a slight exception. He is not a household name, but he and his band, Orleans Avenue, have appeared on Austin City Limits, across late-night television, at the Grammy Awards, and at the White House. Shorty played himself in a recurring role on Treme, HBO’s heralded drama series on contemporary New Orleans. Coincidentally, Friday’s headliner, Steve Earle, also had a recurring role on Treme. Beyond that, though, he does not appear in mass media very much, with songs like “F the CC,” about the Federal Communications Commission, which features a word starting with “f ” in the chorus, but not the word “federal.” Leftist politics can get you into Mother Jones magazine, however, which in April

featured Earle in an interview (“Steve Earle Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”), calling him “one of the Great American Songwriters.” Saturday’s headliners are The Family Stone, whom you can certainly hear on the radio, though not in any recent incarnation. They were the first major racially integrated rock band, and maintain a similar lineup to the old days—not with Sly, but still with “Cynthia and Jerry,” the horn players famously name-checked in “Dance To The Music.” Were the three big acts purposely spread out over three nights to maximize full-weekend ticket sales? If so, congratulations, GrassRoots. It’s good business sense, and ensures not having to choose between possibly competing performances. It also prompted me to arrange a time to attend each night, which I did not do last year, after 23 years of working at and enjoying the festival. Last year, a different vacation beckoned, and the festival roster did not rebut. This year is a big rebound. If you go, here’s an even bigger tip than the more obvious one of buying an advance ticket: pay for parking. The free shuttle and the free parking on Agard Road are great, most of the time, but not late at night when the big acts finish and suddenly thousands of people want to leave the fairgrounds at the same time. Even if orderly, the wait for the bus can be frustrating. Add an element of chaos, or of water (i.e., rain), and it’s miserable. There are businesses on Route 96 leading to the fairgrounds that offer parking for $10 or so a day. That means you can leave the festival whenever you wish and walk to your car in 5 minutes, a nice end to the night. A final tip, and an obvious, everyday one, but nonetheless emphatically for continued on page 7

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Keep the Stained Glass Stars and Bars

The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of Washington National Cathedral wants his cathedral to remove stained glass windows honoring Confederate Generals Thomas Jonathan Jackson and Robert E. Lee because they display images of the Confederate battle flag. This is part of a national overreaction threatening to sweep part of our history from view because it is offensive. Here, in progressive Ithaca, we need to think on this because without history there is no progress. The Very Rev. Hall said, “In 2015, we know that celebrating the lives of these 6 T

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two men, and the flag under which they fought, promotes neither healing nor reconciliation.” Yet, he acknowledges the windows were installed in 1953 exactly to promote healing and reconciliation. Abraham Lincoln gave his life in the struggle to preserve the Union and finally to end slavery. Lincoln was dedicated to reconciliation. This same spirit pervades the Gettysburg National Military Park, where monuments honor all Americans who fought and died there. Just as slavery, secession, and segregation are sad pieces of our history, so too is reunification. It is easy in 2015 for Hall to deny healing and reconciliation. The hard work was done

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for one, is still waiting on results from the Call to Action group: “They haven’t made any progress yet. They’re still talking about the same things they’re talking about at the first meeting.” What is to be done is the overarching question, one that the dramatic dialogue Trust put together by Cynthia Henderson and Performing Arts for Social Change grappled with in its second performance on June 28 at GIAC. The play is based on interviews with over 30 police officers and community members and staged by a cast of 10, including an IPD officer. “You can’t bridge 150 years of divide,” one player reads. “What places have a history of racial segregation in America? What places have a history of police abuse? Every place in America. When something happens in Ferguson, it matters in Ithaca. What happens in Staten Island, it matters in Ferguson. What happens in Ithaca, it matters everywhere in the country.” The play ends with a chorus of voices asking: “Can we trust you, officer?” “I don’t know,” the officer responds. “I know we can’t if we don’t start talking to each other.” • —Josh

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If that impossible dream were the case, no policies would be needed for the police, because we wouldn’t need their protection and service. What to be done, then, is a question everyone must ask when they wake up in the morning. Try that “do unto others” thing, and deal with people in a way that says, “Hey, you’re a person, too” rather than some object to be overcome or avoided. Those sound like good places to start. People who get treated as real live human beings capable of social interaction and doing useful things are, maybe, a little less likely to breathe too deeply of modern toxicity and do something awful that saddens us all, once again. • Ithacanotes contin u ed from page 6

GrassRoots: don’t drink and drive. One year I was stopped on Route 96 for an out tail light (this happened to be true, but must have happened that day, as I wasn’t stopped the day before), and even though I hadn’t been drinking, was breathalyzed anyway once I told the cop I had been at GrassRoots. I blew zero, of course, and the cop thanked me for my patience, and I said no problem, but can you do me a favor? I still have nine miles to go, and no opportunity to fix that tail light right now, so can you radio your colleagues out there and ask them not to stop me again, or at least not to take the time to test me again, as I already passed, and will not be drinking between now and then? He said sorry, but he had no way to

do that, nor any report card or anything to give me. I’d be all right, though, he said. Well, I knew I’d be all right. But I was also stopped again, at the entrance to the Ithaca city limits. I should have said I’d been visiting a sick friend, but when I told them I’d been at GrassRoots, they tested me again, despite telling them what had just happened 10 minutes before. This time I was less patient and I almost got in trouble for that. Don’t give yourself a reason to get in trouble, or hurt anyone (or yourself). Be good, plan well, and have a happy GrassRoots 25th. • Youropinions contin u ed from page 6

almost 150 years ago when the secessionist states returned to the Union. Understandably, after a year of racial tensions and violence, Hall says, “The Confederate battle flag has emerged as the primary symbol of a culture of white supremacy that we and all Americans of good will must repudiate.” However, there is a difference between flying that flag over the cathedral and the presence of that flag’s image in 68-year-old pieces of art. Those stained glass windows, as art so often does, give a perspective on history. The Confederate battle flag has a place in our national history, and we need to acknowledge our history as imperfect and sometimes ugly. The Confederate battle flag is also a powerful symbol—offensive and intimidating to many—but I hope that reasonable Americans understand the National Cathedral is not honoring a history of slavery, racism and racial violence. The Very Rev. Hall said, “We do not seek to eliminate reminders of a painful past,” however that is exactly what he is proposing. Taking out those windows is the easy answer. It avoids having to continually speak the truth about our history. That history is messy, passionate and replete with terrible things done in the name of nation, race and God. That is why we need to discuss it. Our history must be preserved so that conversations about history, and the path to a more perfect union, continue. If we stop talking about the wrongs that have been done, we are more likely to repeat them. A harder and braver answer would be to leave the windows in place along with a plaque explaining why. We need to support the honest discussion of our national history. After all, it was one of the men depicted in those windows, Robert E. Lee, who said, “It is history that teaches us to hope.” – Thomas Dixon, Ithaca

No Money for Seneca Lake Mistake

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP, a Houston based gas storage company, is awaiting a permit that would allow an additional compressor station and storage of 1.5 million barrels of propane and 600,000 barrels of butane in the

The Ithaca Dance of Universal Peace Retreat just celebrated its 25th anniversary at Arnot Forest. Renovation of the facilities there may mean it is the last time they will meet at that location. (Photo: Provided)

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unstable salt caverns alongside Seneca Lake. Apart from the obvious dangers that the operation will pose to the area (leaks, contamination and explosion, some by that very company, have been documented

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we’re being asked to vote on things we don’t know anything about.” Open comment to the legislature: it bothers your constituents, too.

ithaca com Just like the Jail Expansion Review Board, this committee will be stacked with people who want a district court and against whatever the people want. And I’m sure public comment meetings will be held during regular business hours when most of us are working and can’t take the time off to go. Regardless what the public wants, the legislature will pass the committee’s recommendations and break their arms patting themselves on the back for doing such a wonderful job. About a month ago Dooley Kiefer (D, District 10 - Village of Lansing, Village of Cayuga Heights) said, “It bothers me that h e

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throughout the U.S., over many years) the company has no money set aside to handle any such accident. Taxpayer money will be the only resource. When will we ever learn? I say let’s stand for our beautiful region, we must protect what we cherish. – Camille Doucet, Danby

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In response to our editorial “Who Tells Students What to Do? in the June 24 issues, we got this comment: It is really hard to say. To follow someone’s advice you need to respect that person. When it comes to students, they respect no one but themselves. Am I wrong? They would most likely go to each other for a piece of advice. But honestly, what can one students suggest to another? Other than giving some review for EssayWritingLab, nothing else I guess. Therefore, I always said that modern teachers should be educators. Someone that students would want to look up to. Unfortunately, I know very few teachers who actually set good example. -CarstenM

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When Hell was in Elmira

Civil War prison camp where 24 percent of prisoners died E l m i r a P r i s o n c a m p f r o m O b s e rvat i o n t ow e r at Wat e r S t r e e t, We s t o f H o f f m a n s t r e e t ( P h o t o : P r ov i d e d)

By Keri Blakinger

ressed in a motley assortment of beat-up clothes, a group of more than 200 men straggled down Water Street in Elmira, making their way toward the train station about a mile ahead. They were thin and hungry. They looked like they’d been through a war—because they had. They weren’t in great health, but they’d survived. It was July 1865, and these were the last survivors leaving “Hellmira,” the notorious Civil War prison camp on the banks of the Chemung River. This month—on either July 10 or July 11, depending on which source you choose—will mark 150 years since the closure of the notorious prison camp that boasted an appalling 24-percent death rate. Today, the site, unlike its Confederate counterpart in Andersonville, Georgia, is probably not well-known to anyone other than local history buffs, but soon that could change. Currently there’s a project underway to preserve key pieces of the camp’s history -- which is, itself, morbidly fascinating.

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Although the Civil War started in 1861, the Elmira camp didn’t open until 1864. In fact, prison camps in general didn’t start till later in the war. Gary Emerson, a retired Newfield history teacher now pursuing a Ph.D. in American history at Binghamton University, explained, “In the early years of the Civil War they didn’t really keep prisoners—you were either exchanged or paroled.” Under parole, captured soldiers would be sent home, as long as they agreed not to fight again until they were properly exchanged. However, soldiers soon realized there was a way to game the system. Some men would allow themselves to be captured in order to get paroled home pending exchange. The armies quickly grew wise to this and thus created parole camps, in which each side would house their own soldiers near the front until they could be fairly exchanged. There was a specific exchange rate based on rank—one general was worth 46 privates, but a lieutenant only merited four privates. 2015

According to Emerson, General Ulysses Grant disliked paroling prisoners because he felt that exchanges only helped the Confederacy. “Quite often the Union soldiers they got back were in such poor health they weren’t able to fight,” Emerson said. “They knew it was a game of numbers here as well; the South didn’t have as many men of fighting age.” Ultimately, though, that wasn’t the reason parole camps ended: it was the Emancipation Proclamation. Emerson said that, after Lincoln’s January 1863 issuance, “The change here is that he’s now going to allow the use of African-American troops in the Union army.” The South wasn’t willing to exchange or parole black soldiers; they would just kill them or sell them into slavery. Thus, in mid-1863, the Union suspended prisoner exchanges, giving rise to the use of prison camps.

Why Elmira?

Out of all the places to have a prison camp, why Elmira? Bruce Whitmarsh, director of the Chemung County Historical Society, explained, “Elmira wasn’t the only prison camp. There were

plenty of them around. But Elmira made an effective prison camp at the end of the war for the same reason it made a good training ground at the beginning—its extensive railroad connection.” Another big reason Elmira worked out well as a prison site was that there were already barracks there. Before the Civil War, there wasn’t much to Elmira; it was a village, not yet a city. But, after the nation plunged into war, Elmira came into use as a depot and training ground. With the influx of soldiers and war-related business, the little Chemung River village incorporated as a city in 1864. Over the course of the war, four sets of barracks were built in Elmira: Arnot Barracks, Robinson Barracks, Post Barracks, and Camp Rathbun. It was Rathbun that went on to become the prison camp better known as Hellmira. Although initially the barracks were intended to house Union soldiers, by the end of the war that wasn’t as necessary. “They were sending more men into the war,” Emerson said, “so there were fewer at home in the barracks.” Not all prison camps relied on the

use of barracks. Emerson explained that there were five main styles of camps during the Civil War. Some, like Andersonville in Georgia, were stockade-style camps. Prisoners were just fenced in with no shelter at all. Others, like Fort Delaware, were fortifications converted to prisons. Some were converted buildings, like Libby Prison in Richmond, which was previously a tobacco warehouse. Still others, like Point Lookout in Maryland, were tent cities. Each camp style offered a different set of challenges for prisoners, but in the case of Hellmira, overcrowding was at the root of many of the camp’s problems.

In total, there were fewer than 20 escapes, according to Emerson. Successful escape was, in part, impeded by the presence of a Union spy, Melvin Conklin. While he spent the war posing as a captured Confederate, Conklin later went on to become the Elmira postmaster (a political appointment). One small group endeavored to dig a 66-foot tunnel using spoons and knives. Their dig to freedom was successful and, after stopping briefly in Auburn to work as machinists, they eventually found their way back South. The other successful escapes were varied and creative: one man simply forged a pass and walked out the gate; another stole a sergeant’s overcoat and strolled out; yet another hid in a barrel of swill and left the camp in a wagon. In a most morbid escape plot, one man asked his comrades put him in a coffin and not nail it shut tightly. Posing as a corpse, he was carted out of the prison to the graveyard, only to leap out and scare the driver on the way to his burial. Of course, attempted escapes had consequences. Erin Doane, curator at the

Life in the Prison Camp

“It was challenging for the prisoners,” said Whitmarsh. That may seem self-evident; it was a Civil War prison camp, not La Tourelle. Specifically, though, one of the biggest difficulties was too many people and not enough bunks. “The camp was designed for about 5,000 people,” the historical socity director continued, “and there were as many as 7,000 there.” Emerson placed the population estimate higher, at around 10,000. In any case, over the course of its 15-month existence Hellmira held more than 12,000 men. With that level of overcrowding, Whitmarsh said, “Disease was a constant problem.” That was not atypical of other camps or the war in general at that point. According to Whitmarsh, “Far more people died of disease in the Civil War than of battle wounds.” The same would be true of all wars until World War II. There were 140,414 battlefield deaths in the Union Army, but 224,097 died of disease. The overall number of casualties in the Civil War is estimated at 620,000, exceeding the 405,399 American lives lost in World War II. Part of the problem at Hellmira was Foster’s Pond. The barracks had been built on privately owned property leased to the state for $375 a year. In The Business of Captivity, Michael Gray describes it as a “300by-500 yard campground” containing 20 units, officer’s quarters, a sutler’s storehouse, and sinks. The land also contained a 12-yard wide body of water known as Foster’s Pond. With thousands of men using that water as a personal latrine, it quickly turned into a cesspool. Emerson said, “[Hellmira] was lethal because Foster’s Pond was so lethal and polluted.” The pond is still there, a narrow body of water between the Chemung River and the Riverfront Levee Trail. “Despite various disease threats—like dysentery, smallpox, and pneumonia—and

B a r r ac k s at E l m i r a P r i s o n C a m p ( P h o t o : P r ov i d e d) frequent food shortages, many survived,” said Emerson. “For those who did, some aspects of daily prison life weren’t all that different from prison life today. “In the morning they got up,” he continued, “and then they had to have roll call, and then they’d march to the mess hall and have a meal. And then some guys had jobs that they could do in the camp. You weren’t required to work or anything

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G a ry E m e r s o n ( P h o t o : K e r i B l a k i n g e r) so a lot of guys just sat around with nothing to do.” Some prisoners spent their time making goods that the guards would sell in town. They did everything from carving intricate trinkets out of beef bones to making bracelets out of horsehair. Sometimes, they passed time by entertaining onlookers. Whitmarsh said, “One of the strange things that happened when the prison camp first opened [was

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that] somebody built a tower across Water Street and for 15 cents you could go up and look at the prisoners in the camp.” Emerson said that the prisoners hammed it up for the onlookers, sometimes juggling and doing acrobatics. Eventually, though, the military decided not to allow such entrepreneurial activities and took control of the tower.

Chemung County Historical Society, said that “barrel shirts” were a popular form of punishment; inmates who broke the rules would be made to wear barrels, usually bearing signs listing their transgressions. There was also a jail cell in the prison, and that was used for some offenses. Sometimes, rations could be cut as a punishment, but as Emerson pointed out, one camp commander enjoyed cutting rations simply as retaliation for the even worse prison conditions in the South.

The Original Shawshank Redemption: Escaping Hellmira

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tell that he’s saying it’s not that great.” As Doane pointed out, outside of historian circles the camp often wasn’t remembered at all. “People are surprised,” she said, “when they find out there was a prison camp here. It was something that wasn’t talked about a lot until the monument was placed in the 1980s. When it was closed, it was just sort of forgotten.” Looking at the Water Street location now, it’s easy to understand why the prison might be forgotten. “If you go to the site of the camp today, there’s nothing,” Emerson said. Some of the former barracks site is residential, and some is simply vacant, he explained. There are some markers—the relocated original flagpole, a roadside

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horrible place with a 24-percent death rate. Emerson said, “A guy wrote a book in 1912, and he made it sound like Elmira wasn’t that bad.” The author, Clay Holmes, was an Elmira native and a young man at the time of the war camp. Later in life he wrote The Elmira Prison Camp, which Emerson said was “in large part because people in the South were saying things about the Elmira prison camp.” It is only relatively recently that more critical accounts have come out. Emerson said, “One was Michael Horigan’s Death Camp of the North—just from the title you can

historical sign, a stone marker—but, according to Doane, “There really isn’t much of a prison camp left.” That won’t be the case for long, though.

Rebuilding Hellmira

Currently, there’s a group working to rebuild one of the buildings from the camp. Marty Chalk, a Chemung County legislator who is also chairman of the board for Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp, said “We’ll have it open as a museum, and we’re looking for artifacts to be stored there. We’ll have it staffed with volunteers, people who can walk visitors through the building and explain about the camp and its importance to the Civil

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Ca mp in 1865 ( P h o t o : P r ov i d e d) War and the North.” The building itself has an interesting history. Chalk said, “We think that when the camp was winding down in 1865 they were able to move those buildings. It was 18 by 20 [feet], and it’s a two-story structure and we were told that some of those buildings were moved to adjacent areas. This particular building was standing on 55 Hoffman Street and was used as a garage.” Then, in the late 1970s or early 80s the building was taken down. Since it was known to be a historical building, the owners donated it to the local living history group. The building was deconstructed board by board and each piece was numbered so they could eventually be put back together again. Now, it’s not clear what purpose the building originally served. Chalk said, “We’ve heard it was a commissary or it might have been a granary building—the wooden interior is kind of smooth and the thought is that maybe grain was stored in there.” Re-erecting the building has become a long process. First, Chalk said, they had to find an appropriate location, and fortunately the county agreed to help back the project by paying to buy the land from the city. However, since the property—on Winsor Avenue, adjacent to the original camp site—was zoned residential, the Friends had to go through a rezoning process. Next, they’ll be building a foundation, and then painstakingly reconstructing the building atop it. “Our goal is to have it open this year, but that’s subject to unforeseen circumstances that we may encounter,” Chalk said. However, if you don’t want to wait for that to be completed, there’s an exhibit on display right now at the Chemung Valley History Museum, which is run by the county’s historical society. The exhibit is up through the end of August and Whitmarsh said, “It’s a lot of photographic and some small items, like things that the prisoners made, some uniforms on display. We have a recreated observation tower.” This is the fourth of four exhibits the museum has featured to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Located at 415 E. Water St. in Elmira, the museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday. •

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Visitors and Locals can Bike the Local trails By Josh Brok aw Locals aren’t the target demographic For those looking to take a ride along the for Ithaca Bike Rentals, Schreiber says, Cayuga Lake waterfront but don’t have nor should this effort be confused with the necessary wheels, Ithaca Bike Rental is automated bike share programs like now open in the Ithaca Youth Bureau, next Citi Bikes in New York City that have to Stewart Park. many stands throughout an urban area. “We started thinking about doing Tompkins County provided $10,000 in this last summer and tourism grant funding we’ve been working at for the project, 80“One of Creating it ever since we got it percent of that for ready to go, said Marty Healthy Places’ focuses equipment and the has been upgrading the rest for marketing, Schreiber, a program coordinator at the and tourists are who Cayuga Waterfront Youth Bureau. We have Ithaca Bike Rentals Trail, which can be 15 bikes available for is hoping to serve. renting now, and we’re There is some potential found on the county’s buying more as we for expansion of the bike map and, need them. program, according to The bikes are Schreiber, by adding a conveniently is a flat housed in one bay spot in and easy two-mile ride pickup/dropoff of the Youth Bureau Cass Park. from the Youth Bureau garage. The adult Which is certainly bikes are made by to Ithaca’s Children’s not to say that Ithacans Fuji and are made in can’t show up to the Garden.” what Schreiber calls Youth Bureau and try an “urban comfort out a bike for a day, style, featuring padded particularly if they’re seats and a springy considering getting suspension. The kids’ bikes are made by back on two wheels. Diamondback and come in several sizes. Schreiber himself says he hadn’t been In the future, Ithaca Bike Rental on a bike for years when the shipment of should be getting some adult tricycles that Fujis came in. have baskets on them perfect for farmers’ “I just hopped on one and took off, market trips, Schreiber says. says the Youth Bureau coordinator.

Marty Schreiber of the Ithaca Youth Bureau hadn’t been on a bike in years. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

Having more options for potential bicyclists available is all part making a place where active transportation is the preferred mode of getting around, says Mary Buehler of Creating Healthy Places, a state-funded Tompkins County project. “People have less and less time to exercise,” Buehler said, “but by biking or walking instead of driving to work, you’re building in exercise into something you have to do anyway. The more opportunities people have for active transportation, the better it is for the health of the community.” One of Creating Healthy Places’ focuses has been upgrading the Cayuga Waterfront trail, which can be found on the county’s bike map and, conveniently,

is a flat and easy two-mile ride from the Youth Bureau to the Ithaca Children’s Garden. It’s a perfect stretch for those, like Schreiber, who haven’t been on two wheels in quite a while and want to rent a bike and do some pedaling. Currently, Ithaca Bike Rentals is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday and on other days by appointment. Rates start at $8 for one hour, $28 for a four-hour half-day, and $40 for the full day. Youth bikes start at $4/hour. Helmets, locks, and maps are made available with all rentals. For more information, visit ithacabikerental.com, or email Schreiber at ithaca.bike.rental@gmail.com and call at 607-273-8364 x 157. •

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f you live in the Ithaca area, and you are trying to get some publicity for an event, it’s difficult to imagine having a better advocate than Richie Moran. Just in case there is one person within a 100-mile radius who is not familiar with Richie Moran and his reach, here is a little bio: Richie was the lacrosse coach at Cornell for 29 years where his teams won three Division 1 national championships, and he is the coach of the Irish National Team. He has been involved with fundraising at Cornell, and he has been involved with the Rotary Club, the Ithaca Yacht Club, and if I did not have a 650-word limit for this column, I could list a few dozen more affiliations. I had lunch with Richie last week, and before I tell you about the upcoming event in which he is participating, the back-story on the lunch is Vintage Moran … I saw Richie at Wegmans on Wednesday, and since we have been friends for 34 years, we have some mutual friends. I said, “How is my friend John Murphy?” Richie replied, “John is over 90 now, and he’s as sharp and witty as ever.” I asked, “How is Doug Vorhis enjoying his retirement?” Richie replied, “I see Doug quite often. He’s loving it.” I then asked, “How about our friend Stub Snyder, the greatest volunteer manager the Big Red has ever known?” Richie said, “Stub calls me a few times a week.” I said, “I miss those guys. Please give them my best.” That afternoon, I answered my phone, and the caller said, “Steve … it’s Richie. Can you have lunch at Napoli’s tomorrow? I called John, Doug and Stub and we’ll all be there,” I had stated a few hours earlier that I’d like to see all of those fellows, so Richie got on the phone and set it up. Just like that. Like I said, it was Vintage Moran. After lunch, Richie handed me the

promotional literature for the Racker Rivals Big Red hockey game, coming up on July 11. For a city the size of Ithaca, it features an incredible lineup of hockey stars, honorary coaches (Richie is one of them), honorary trainers, and a host of other volunteers. It really could be described as “an embarrassment of riches,” as our hockey-crazed town will welcome former NHL stars Joe Nieuwendyk and Mike Richter, present stars Dustin Brown and Ben Scrivens, plus a host of other local luminaries like Svante Myrick, Greg Hartz, Tony Eisenhut, David Archer, Edith Racine, Nicole Brown, CJ DelVecchio, Alysa Gagliardi, Doug Derraugh and Mike Schaffer. The exhibition game will be played at 7 p.m. at Lynah Rink, and it will be a fundraiser for the highly regarded Franziska Racker Centers. The money will help the agency continue to deliver services to individuals with disabilities in our community, and some of the folks who receive those services will be honorary coaches as well. The event is set up in such a way that fans can go to the Racker Centers website, and make their pledges in the name of any of the players, coaches, trainers or other volunteers. Locals who are not hockey fans cannot possibly grasp how impressive the rosters are, as Joe Nieuwendyk and Dustin Brown have actually brought the Stanley Cup to Ithaca, and Richter has hoisted the Cup as well. Scrivens and Brown are in their peak years, and truth be told, Lord Stanley’s cup may be making the local rounds again. Several times. Let’s hope so. See you at Lynah Rink on July 11. For ticket information, to receive pledge cards, or to make your contribution online, please visit www.rackercenters.org/ RackerRivalsBigRed. •

Contemporary Abstraction in the Land of Vision

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usan Roth’s paintings are beautifully exuberant, filled with color and movement and a sense of space that pulls you in with force. A contemporary abstract expressionist, she extends the aesthetic of that mid-century movement, now often (and short-sightedly) consigned to the history books. Mindful of tradition, she is also an innovator. Her work incorporates new acrylic paints and mediums, irregularly shaped canvases, the collaging of folded canvas onto the canvas, and the more occasional addition of unusual materials such as Plexiglas sheets and shards of glass and ceramic. Also distinctive is her extensive use of often-transparent acrylic “skins,” made by lifting dried paint off of polyethylene sheets and collaging them. Large skins—mottled, translucent—sometimes cover large areas of the surface while clear, rectangular “box top” skins are placed like bandages, bearing further clottings of paint. The style is as much baroque as expressionist—all twisting and bulging, barely self-contained. “Handmade: The Art of Susan Roth” is the large summer exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. (It runs June 6 through August 30.) It’s a weighty presentation, filling three of the four second-floor galleries rather than the customary two. Spanning four decades, it encompasses 43 pieces, including eight of her recent sculptural “steel paintings.” “Handmade” was curated by Elizabeth Dunbar, who inherited the project when she became the museum’s president this past January. Roth lives and works in Canastota, New York, a small town east of Syracuse, where she lives with her husband Darryl Hughto, himself an accomplished artist. They’ve lived there since the 1970s, dropouts from the New York City art world. She is something of an underground favorite by the standards of big-time contemporary art. Her solo show last year at the Luther W. Brady Gallery at George Washington University in D.C. was her first in 24 years. The late Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was perhaps the most important art critic of the twentieth century, an early supporter of Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism. Himself a 1930 graduate of Syracuse University, he returned frequently to the city, where he met with and encouraged sympathetic artists throughout the seventies and eighties. Roth was one of the Syracuse area painters who eagerly awaited his studio visits. Greenberg, in turn, regarded Roth as one of the leading painters of her generation.

(A fascinating account of Greenberg’s 1960s can be seen in the work of younger involvement with the Syracuse scene can be painters like Larry Poons and Sam Gilliam, found in the catalog The Mirror Eye: Clement who turned towards more expressionistic Greenberg in Syracuse, which accompanied an and “impure” approaches while absorbing exhibition there ten years ago at The Institute the lessons of their predecessors. Roth can be of Now Culture Inc. The book includes a seen as a yet younger member of this third DVD documentary by J.R. Hughto featuring generation. Her work, which typically combines interviews with the five painters in the staining with thicker paint, synthesizes abstract show—Darryl and Susan included—as well as a late lecture by Greenberg himself.) Curator and critic Kenworth Moffett has described Roth, born in 1950, as a “third generation” American abstractionist. Leaving aside the problematic slipperiness of generational talk, the notion is a useful art history guideline. The first generation included the abstract expressionists, who came to prominence in the late 1940s, already experienced artists. Of these, Roth is most clearly indebted to Pollock, evident in her use of dripped and poured paint and her tendency towards “all-over” compositions that send the eye spinning around. The second were the color field painters, who emerged in the 1950s and early ‘60s. Following the pioneering Helen Frankenthaler, they stained color directly into the canvas. Leaders of the movement such as Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski pushed it in the direction of broad color areas and simplified, often geometric forms. (According to Poseidon by Susan Roth (Photo Provided) assistant curator Steffi Chappell, whom I spoke with, the artist was delighted and honored when she learned that she expressionism with color field. would be granted a third gallery for her show, Roth’s art also occasions the subject particularly as the third gallery previously held of painting, sculpture, and their respective work by her heroes Frankenthaler and Louis.) boundaries. To my mind, despite her A reaction to the sort of Apollonian enthusiastic play within the gap, her wallformality that characterized color field in the mounted canvases remain strongly on the side continued on page 20

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become squared-off geometric patterns… oyce Stillman-Myers (1943- ) is a major providing a near psychedelic glimpse of reality. American artist. And she has a major There are three big flower paintings … show here in Ithaca at the Community Iris 2014 (acrylic) and Toon Ya 2015 School of Music & Arts. (acrylic) have an almost Georgia O’Keefe Stillman-Myers seems to have feel. mastered several styles: Super-Realism, And Midnight Roses 2015 (acrylic), Impressionism, Fauvism, Neo-Cubism, a still life of a glass vase of roses with a Abstract Expressionism and probably pair of round, wire-rim, John Lennon some genres I’m not aware of. And they glasses sitting on colored fabric, takes on a are all on display at CSMA. surrealist Salvador There are Dali aspect … by several, very Stillman-Myers large, Supermaking the Real pieces that background a black I like a lot. night sky full of Granny’s stars. Attic 1994 (oil) Forest Ranger is a very large 1987 (oil) is a painting—an full body shot of overhead a nude woman downshot standing, wet and of dishware dripping, in a forest (colored glass creek bed, leaning and gleaming against a great metal, pebbled round boulder. glass patterns, The woman is decorative Joyce Stillman-Myers flanked by her Art painted with a near flower Old Master Renaissance patterned dishware)— (Photo Brian Arnold) realism … the creek and lying in a sink. The boulders and forest with a style is hyper-real liquid Renoir sort of Impressionism. … near psychedelic … the patterns and There are a few flat-out abstract colors blasting off the canvas at you. expressionist works in the show. My Likewise Anonymity 1982 (oil), an favorite is the vivid and striking Passage extraordinarily large hyper-real painting of Time 1986 (acrylic) with its bold of multi-colored flowers in gleaming cartoony approach, wild splatters, and reflective silver cups on a sort of Thomas an unexpected expressionist flower Hart Benton white fabric … the colors are … looking like some sort of weird candy-colored and hyper-intense. collaboration between Jackson Pollock and What great pieces these are! Modern Georgia O’Keefe. masterpieces. Although, they are so big And I like Primary Still Life 1977 and intense, the colors blasting off the (pastel) quite a bit. This is a still life with wall, you have to get back quite a way to red-and-yellow apples, red-and-green actually look at them. grapes tumbling out of a green glass vase, There are two or three quasiand a white, metal, reflective vase on a impressionist landscapes … red-and-white fabric. But it is ever-soCorner Barn 2014 (acrylic) is my slightly Cubist … the colors compellingly favorite. We see a section of a barn and a house and a couple trees on a rolling green rich and deep. A lovely work. And there are a couple of paintings lawn—an East Coast look—but the colors where Stillman-Myers takes her are so ramped up (blue-and-purple barn, hyperrealism and pushes it into a kind of trees exploding with red-and-yellow-andsurrealism… green) that it feels like the viewer is on The one I find most compelling is mescaline or something. In smarty-pants Calculations 1993 (oil), a very large, wallart critic terms, I guess we could say they sized painting of the face of a calculator… are Fauvist colors ratcheted up to Van except that the touch-buttons on the Gogh intensity. calculator are all large, multicolored Canadian Sunset 2015 (pastel) is a gemstones … and the entire calculator more conventional impressionist painting seems to be bordered by a frame made of (albeit a very lovely one). A deep green gemstone. field popping with orange wild flowers To sum up … this is a rich, … a magnificent sunset of red-and-gold multifaceted show by a major, rising up to a dark blue-and-violet night internationally recognized artist … here in sky…with the clouds streaming at the our loopy, green, progressive, art-rich little viewer in forced perspective. town. Aurora 2015 (acrylic) is an Enjoy. • expressionist street scene … with everything stylized with thick black lines Joyce Stillman-Myers exhibition, Real— like a book illustration. (I am reminded Super-Real—Real Inspired will be on of the work of the sainted Leo & Diane display at the Community School of Music Dillon.) The reflections in the store & Arts, 330 E. MLK/State Street, Ithaca, windows have become stylized geometric N.Y. through July 31. patterns, the people on the street have

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ummer is the opportune time to visit the hot bar at Oasis, also known as the Dewitt location, the GreenStar Cooperative satellite on East Buffalo Street. The row of small picnic tables lines the building face Dewitt Park. It is a setting that combines the urban and the bucolic, and you can greet your friends as they walk by too. (There are tables inside for dining year round) The hot bar is a hit-and-miss experience. When it’s good, it’s very good, but when it’s bad you will at least wish that it cost a little less. (It’s $8.99 per pound.) It is possible for example to show up at the “hot” bar and find that the food is not quite hot that day. On that particular day the pans were in some cases also labeled with an indifference to accuracy. We are not sure how good their “garlic curly fries” are because on that day there were tubers in the pan, but were a sort of roasted potato wedge. They were quite good, really, but not very warm and certainly not curly, nor fried, nor very garlicky. Similarly, the “baked beans” label was over a pan holding something more

like a three-bean salad that had been cooked or perhaps succotash without the lima beans. Again, it tasted good albeit a little on the tomato-y side, but when you are expecting baked beans and you’ve got pulled pork next to it on the plate, some disorientation and disappointment is natural. The pulled pork recipe is a nice balance between the sweet of brown sugar and the sour of red wine vinegar, but goes lightly on the paprika and the cayenne, so it is not spicy hot. (On this day it was not temperature hot either.) The barbecued tofu was heavily coated with a thick sauce, which was tasty but was covering squares of bean curd that were actually too tough to cut with a fork. The sesame nuggets were sort of Tater Tots for the natural fabric-wearing set. They had been roasted and/or fried at some point in the past and incompletely re-heated. Anything immersed in oil and sprinkled liberally with sesame seeds is going to be edible, but these nuggets were a side dish in search of a condiment to pep them up.

Another trip to the hot bar on a two soups next to it. These are generally different day was a new dawn. The fried reliable. Standouts for non-vegetarians chicken was a delight. To begin with, include the turkey chili (although a little anyone who balks at spending $25 on an heavy on the nutmeg some days), the organic chicken at home can get a meat Greek chicken (full of greens), and the fix here for a quite reasonable price. This New England clam chowder (plenty is chicken that tastes like chicken, and the of clams and not too much flour). The recipe for the breading is nicely spiced. vegetarian soups tend to be less boldly Furthermore, the breading does not form spiced and flavorful, but the minestrone is a KFC-like armor over the meat. The macaroni and cheese used a good sharp cheddar that gave the dish a welcome bite. However, when preparing the ideal mac and cheese you don’t want to boil the macaroni even to the al dente stage because it will cook further when you bake it. If boiled too long, it becomes mushy. For those who like their pasta a bit gauzy around the edges, this was the plate for you. Outside dining at Green Star’s Oasis (Photo Provided) The vegetable entrées on this day were what the labels promised. The robust. mixed vegetables were a combination of So, feel the pans and check under the tomatoes, corn, and a variety of beans lids before you fill your plate and you’ll spice with a mixture of savory and sweet be fine. • herbs with the balance slightly to the sweet. The roasted vegetables were nicely Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are browned eggplant and squash wedges based on unannounced, anonymous with the spicing weighted to the savory. visits. Reviews can be found at The roasted potatoes were … roasted ithaca.com/dining potatoes! The hot bar (nearly) always has

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“I want magic!” That cri de coeur of Blanche de Bois haunts my mind each time a play begins. It’s not an easy thing, that magic; sometimes it’s fleeting, less often it lights up every moment of that suspension of time we call a play (a musical, a performance.) The scaffold for this live experience is the text: words and music in the case of Spring Awakening. By some special alchemy, writer Steven Sater and composer (and alt-rock songster) Duncan Sheik unleashed the core of Wedekind’s still provocative 1891 play (subtitled “A Children’s Tragedy”) about sex, suicide, secrets, and adolescence. Then as now, the young people in this play experience adults who refuse to listen. In a shift from the standard book musical, the songs aren’t sung to each other, but express interior monologues. Thus the iconic moment when the boys pull out hand mics from their 19th century jackets. Brilliant and heart-rending, Spring Awakening has become the Rent of this generation, a musical as mix-tape for the hopes and horrors of a crazy passage to adulthood. The show’s central love song is typical of the complexity of feeling achieved with its central lines “Oh, I’m going to be wounded / Oh, I’m gonna be your wound.” Wonder, vulnerability and pain all at once. Some things work terrifically at the Hangar: the ensemble is tight and focused with gorgeous voices and high energy, the set and lights polished, a couple 1 -7 ,

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performances stunning. The band ain’t half bad. Where the production stumbles is in a miscasting of Melchior, a tendency to favor musical theater over “rock” singing in delivery, and a lack of true reinvention. Surprisingly, Waldman opts to closely follow (Hangar alum) Michael Mayer’s Broadway

for the other actors, but isolates himself.) There is little sense he’ll “be wounded.” Sater’s reworking of the Wedekind has given Melchior more doubt and more heart; his journey toward a wounded wholeness is crucial to the success of the piece. Kelsey Lake is immensely watchable as Wendla, with a nervous, coltish energy, highly alert to her surroundings. She lacks, however, a quality of innocence, of simplicity; her energy slips into the neurotic. Johnny Shea grabs the stage as Moritz, in a shambling, nervy, electric performance where acting and singing merge. He totally commits to singing his songs as rock anthems, leaning into, caressing and pounding fury into the mike. Shea Renne is a soulful Ilse, sharply playing against Moritz, magnetic.

Matthew Milewski (Georg) from Spring Awakening. Photo credit Rachel Philipson

staging. Ten Eyck’s set is a direct adaptation of the original; the changes are a platform above the band and an extra ladder, and a more antic choreography. The cast tumbles in and out all over the space. Ironically, the Broadway staging kept the actors in close proximity, giving greater intimacy and greater explosive power. Her staging in the second act becomes simpler, letting the melancholy breath after a (too) fast and furious first act. Her choreography emphasizes slither, touch, and propulsion over shape. Robert Ariza as Melchior possesses a caressing bright voice and matinee idol looks. But he lacks vulnerability in his rather wooden acting (he doesn’t reach

Hanako Greensmith is a haunting Martha; and Dominique Allen Lawson plays a deliciously naïve Ernst against the slyness of Aidan Kahl Elsesser’s Hanschen. As the adults, Sarah Dacey Charles and Dane Cruz, neatly parlay the figures of that unhearing world, moving from hard satire, to anger, to sorrow. Matthew Milewski, Caroline Gorland, Annabelle Fox and Jordan Dunn-Pilz complete the ensemble of boys and girls with grace and strong musical chops. It’s a fairly solid mounting of a great musical. The magic is intermittent, but not absent. •

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First Love Impressions When Cupid Strikes in romantic Italy By Barbara Ad am s

lorence, Italy—“a city of made of statues and stories,” we learn to our pleasure in the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse’s current production of The Light in the Piazza. This second show of the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival season celebrates—with exquisite music— first love and a joyful innocence that’s almost inexpressible. This romantic yet realistic musical— with book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. A wealthy American mother, Margaret Johnson, is revisiting the Florence of her own hopeful youth, daughter Clara in tow. The daughter discovers—is discovered by—a charming young Italian, Fabrizio Naccarelli, and the magic begins. But Lucas has complicated this tale, even as Guettel complicates the music (with counterpoint, occasional atonality, and operatic lyricism). Clara, in her 20s, is remarkably childlike—the picture of naiveté. Spontaneous and impulsive, she behaves like the child her mother treats her as. Clara is, in fact, “special”—the most her worried mother can say of her condition. We learn that her development was arrested in childhood, when she was kicked in the head by a pony at her birthday party. She’s now a perennial 12-year-old, protected by her parents and unable to live independently. But love, especially in Italy, has remarkable curative powers. Despite all Margaret’s efforts, romance blossoms—from the moment Fabrizio catches Clara’s hat blowing away in the Piazza della Signoria. The Americans are invited into the Naccarellis’ tasteful home, which affords all sorts of emotional counterpoint to notions of lasting love. Signor N. probably has a mistress; his elder son Giuseppe is married but constantly cheating; and Margaret herself, in strained long-distance calls to her workaholic husband, realizes their marriage has long been moribund. Against all these marital warning signs, the tender and exciting love between the young couple flourishes, more poignant for its fragility. Through both music and story, this musical is curiously, deeply moving, a paean to the purest form of young love. The main ensemble—handsomely cast and ably directed by Brett Smock—is excellent. As Margaret, Sally Wilfert beautifully negotiates overprotectiveness, love, and letting go; Heather Botts’ Clara is wispy yet resistant, animated and clear in her desires. Nathan Gardner’s Fabrizio is played much younger than in the Broadway version, which makes him more boyish, and even more scattered and sincere. Nick Fitzer’s Giuseppe is an irresistible rake. His attractive wife Franca, played by Tracy Ganem, is fiery Italian to

the core. As the Naccarelli parents, Patrick Oliver Jones and Ariela Morgenstern are smooth, worldly, and eminently likeable. The Florentines, of course, speak mostly Italian and accented English (both very well done), their meaning made accessible through the acting.

A few missteps, though—a young Italian, even one as inexperienced as Fabrizio, would never ever be seen with his shirt half tucked in. The double kiss of greeting is done in the wrong direction; and would an attentive mother ever leave her daughter’s dress lying on the floor? The opening crowd scenes are awkwardly staged, and the flower seller doesn’t dress, look, or behave as her character would. These distractions

aside, the play’s story and music, the quality acting and strong singing (despite some loss of control in the belting, especially Gardner’s), keep us in the moment. Under Jeff Theiss’ musical direction (complemented by Ryan Kilcourse’s sound design), the small orchestra delivers us to another, finer world. It’s a world where parents on both sides may object, but love—or the hopeful belief in it—triumphs. I guarantee you’ll leave A Light in the Piazza feeling not sentimental, but filled with sentiment. Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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of painting. As critic Karen Wilkin wrote of her work in 1984, “no matter how salient Roth’s drawing, how complex the shape, her works read as pictures. They are robust, vigorous, substantial objects, but essentially pictorial ones.” Roth’s canvas shaping is the most sculptural thing about her work, more so than her relief. Her stretched canvases often have the quality of rectangles that have been carved into, made more complex and instable without entirely shedding their rectilinear quality. They have tilting edges; they seem to lean and dance on the walls. Irregularly shaped stretched canvases became prominent in the ‘60s, pioneered by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella. In contrast to the uninflected color areas of their best-known work, Roth juxtaposes her shaped canvases with expressionist convulsions of paint and material. The artist has poignantly compared this contrast to the interplay between the neatness of human-drawn geographical boundaries and the messy topography that they contain. They make particularly salient the role of the active, upright human body in perceiving works of art. (As the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote, “the theory of the body is already a theory of perception.”) Roth’s frames her canvases—elegantly but unobtrusively—in aluminum strips that fit neatly around their twists and turns. This neat holding-in plays off of the dense materialism of her paintings, which sometimes seem like they yearn to burst free of the picture space. They compare favorably with Gilliam’s best known works, in which his stained canvases were draped three dimensionally like banners or curtains. Her approach to color and paint texture is the most distinctive thing about her work. There is a wide range here: from nearly monochrome pieces to ones bursting with myriad colors both muted and bold. Particularly striking is her frequent use of translucent, metallic, and iridescent colors. One doesn’t want to pigeonhole a female painter but such feminine associations as jewelry and cosmetics come readily to mind, encouraged by titles

and works such as the fleshy toned Lipstick in Heart Murmurings (1984), perhaps Traces (1983) and the pearlescent Birth of the most compelling of these. Covered Venus (1988)—both shaped vaguely like entirely in dark and pearly pink, the pieces women’s torsos, no less. is notable for the sawtooth “bites” that Roth’s work has been shaped by her accent the bottom edge. longstanding association with Golden It is in her smaller, often squarePaint, a legendary manufacturer of shaped, canvases that Roth is at her most acrylics based in New Berlin, New York. Hers has been a two-way collaboration: Golden materials have allowed her to push the boundaries of abstraction, while her experimentation has motivated the development of new acrylic products. Although completed in 2013, Ley Lines dates back to the 1970s, one of Roth’s “Figure 8” paintings from that decade. Crossing the diagonal folds that run down the center of this large piece, the broadly brushed milk chocolate brown figure has the all-in-onestroke sweep of the ensō circle of Japanese ink painting. Large patches of watery pale green dominate the background, with a red-purple spot in the middle. Four collaged box tops bearing vividly colored paint encrustations punctuate the right hand side. The shape of this tall piece is typical: an irregular polygon here with a pronounced leftward tilt. Typical as well is the splitting down the middle, which gives it an almost diptych-like quality. The re-working of an older painting is a common method for Roth. She calls such pieces “time sandwiches,” a colorful metaphor for the temporal layering and compression inherent in any painting but accentuated by Roth’s labor-intensive method. Past Tense is another notable example, again Lipstick Traces by Susan Roth (Photo Provided) adding folding and collage to a ‘70s piece, this time sparse with staining and areas of raw canvas. densely materialistic, mixing up densely Four early canvases, though not layered paint with such exotic materials hung together, relate to each other with as Plexiglas sheets and ribbons, glass and their wide formats, cutting diagonals, and ceramic shards, pumice stone gel (giving relative sparseness. In Green Grass (1984), the acrylic a concrete-like texture) and Secret Sharer (1984), and Zip Code (1986), even—in Deruta (2002)—painted leather. canvas collage is all the more noticeable Buffalo Gal (1998) is a memorable for being but an occasional accent. example, a clotted panorama gently Wrinkled canvas is more prominent wrinkled and sheathed in pale and pearly

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colors. Suggestive of a wave, a horizontal swath of silvery blue accents the landscape-like quality (Roth’s work often alludes to sea and water.) Denser color and materials huddle towards the right. Pieces of glass include a green handle and the tiny yellow face of a woman— according to Darryl Hughto a fragment from a Depression-era candy bowl. Since 2008, Roth has been doing “steel paintings,” assemblage sculptures both wall-mounted and freestanding. She uses a spray-coating technique, found in the automotive industry, in which the applied color is baked into the metal. She covers her pieces with broad areas of paint, the spray texture visible around the edges. The luridness of the color combinations in such pieces as the pedestal-mounted North Country Girl and the floor standing Sacajawea (both 2013) is a bit hard to take. Likewise her scrappy configurations of metal pieces, though artful, seems to be a borrowed vocabulary, reminiscent of a fifties sculptural aesthetic. Two smaller, tabletop pieces from 2003 display a more organic continuity with her paintings—indeed, they feel like sculptures made partially out of paint. Winter Coy and Cornucopia are her most fully in-the-round works here, composed of twisted ribbons of Plexiglas, pigmented concrete, shards of ceramic and glass, and piles of little paint scraps that feel distinctly floral. A wall-mounted piece, Spellbound (2014) combines a platform-like configuration of steel pieces with a Lexan (clear plastic) protrusion that loosely resembles the head of a horse—complete with eye-like indentations. The piece has the unmistakable quality of a portrait bust. The steel is sprayed reddish-purple and bright blue while the “head” has been drizzled in bright and metallic colors. The combination of metal and plastic, old materials and new, give the piece a particular interest if not necessarily a decisive resolution. “Handmade” is well worth a trip to Syracuse for those interested in ambitious contemporary painting. The exhibit is a heavy meal that encourages hours of attention and generously repays repeated visits. •

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Bring Your Own Vinyl Night | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Bring your own vinyl and dance, trance, and bounce your night away. Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More! Katherine Aelais Band | 7:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Gypsy, Psychedelic, Rock, Folk, Covers. Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org. Diana Leigh | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Jazz standards of the 20’s through the 50’s. Jazz Vocalist. Zydeco Trail Riders | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Trumansburg Farmers Market, Corner of Rtes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Cajun & zydeco music. 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 Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | A night to celebrate farmers and families. Music and Food. Richie Stearns and Friends. Bluegrass, Old-Time, Country.

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MSZM | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Drum and Bass-PianoEffects, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Indie, Instrumental. Cozmic | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Garage, Lo-Fi, Rock, Indie. DJ CDNUTZ | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Electronic, Trance, IDM, House. DJ Astrohawk | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | House, Breaks, Downtempo, Electronic, Soul. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110. Radio London: IHS Class of 1975 Reunion | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | 1960’s Rock. British Invasion. Rock and Roll.

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Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College

Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park. Spuyten Duyvil: Bound for Glory Live Broadcast | 8:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk, Old-Time, Jazz, Blues. Live sets for WVBR at 8:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and 10:30 p.m. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. Greg Schatz with Max Buckholtz and Doug Robinson | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Old Time Roots, Americana, Jazz, Blues, Folk. Jim Hill | 12:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Acoustic Originals & Covers, Singer Songwriter. Ben Miller | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Jazz piano. Rub a Dub with Jay Speaker and Eliot Martin | 1:00 AM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Dub, Reggae, Electronic.

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Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk.

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Cornell Faculty Jazz Quintet | 7:30 PM | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Led by trumpeter, composer, and educator Paul Merrill, the Cornell Faculty Jazz Quintet will present music of the Miles Davis Quintets.

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Friday, 7/03 to Thursday, 7/09. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes A Little Chaos | Two talented landscape artists become romantically entagled while building a garden in King Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles. Kate Winslet stars. | 117 mins R | Ex Machina | Science Fiction thriller about a young programmer’s experience with artificial intelligience in the form of a breathtaking female. A.I. | 108 mins R | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | A teenage filmmaker befriends a classmate with cancer and his life is forever changed. | 104 mins PG-13 | Love & Mercy | In the 1960’s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson loses his grip on reality as he attemps to create his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980’s he is a confused man under the watch of his therapist. | 120 mins

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| 115 mins R | Spy | CIA Analyst Susan Cooper is forced into her first real field work and trys to save and revenge her fellow agents. | 115 mins R | Jurrasic World (3D) | Visitors at the famed theme park run wild when the genetically engineered Indominus Rex and other dinosaurs go on a rampage. | 124 mins PG-13 | Ted 2 | Buddies John (Wahlberg) and Ted (MacFarlane) encounter trouble when the law decides Ted to be a piece of property and not a person. They promptly seek justice with the help from a legendary Civil Rights attorney. | 115 mins R | Terminator Genisys (3D) | When John Conor sends Kyle Reese back to the year 1984 to protect his mother, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as a Terminator guardian. | 122 mins PG-13 | Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) | After the collapse of civilization the five wives of a despot join an alliance with a loner and try and escape. | 121 mins R | Max | A dog that helped U.S. Marines in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler’s family after suffering a traumatic experience. | 111 mins PG |

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Stage 1776 | 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM, July 1, 2, 7:30 PM, July 2, 4 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | This musical puts a human face on our Founding Fathers: proud, uncertain, irritable and ultimately noble figures who are determined to do the right thing for a fledgling nation. Woody Guthrie’s American Song | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | For tickets and showtimes visit, chenangorivertheatre.org Spring Awakening | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | In this electrifying musical, a group of 19th-century German students navigate the highs and lows of self-discovery, love, and loss. The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, SPRING AWAKENING has redefined contemporary musical theatre. Based on the 1892 Frank Wedekind play which was banned in Germany for two decades after its publication. www.hangartheatre.org for prices and showtimes.

First Unitarian Church Ithaca, Friday, July 3, 7:00 p.m. A Finnish jazz guitarist currently based in New York City, Olli is one of the most accomplished guitarists of his generation. Studying with an array of jazz luminaries, his sound is edgy, sharp, shredding, and progressive. On this evening he’s joined by Helsinki axeman Saku Mattila.

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Notices Ithaca Community Fireworks | 9:45 PM- | Stewart Park, , Ithaca | There will be music, games and food from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Rain date is July 2. Rehearsals for the Dryden Area Intergenerational Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Dryden United Methodist Church, 2 North St, Dryden | Rehearsals for Band. Concert will be Sunday, August 9, 3 p.m. Durland Alternatives Library 40th Anniversary Celebration | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Durland Alternatives Library, 127 Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Come celebrate the Alternatives Library’s 40th Anniversary! With food, live music, presentations, and activities for kids – there’s no better time to browse our unique collection. This event is free and open to the public. Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for

Learning Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language

arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org. Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza. Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A master artist will guide you through creation of a 16x20 acrylic masterpiece in about two hours, while you enjoy delicious food and drink. Tickets available at www.paintnite. com. Textile Week Camp | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Mimi Bayeve and Sarah Elliott will be in residence at the studio for a week to teach a range of methods of dyeing, printing and painting on cloth. July 6 through July 10, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Special Events Durland Alternatives Library 40th Anniversary Celebration | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Durland Alternatives Library, 127 Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University Campus, Ithaca | Live Old Time Music!Come celebrate the Alternatives Library’s 40th Anniversary! With food, live music, and activities for all-ages – there’s no better time to browse our unique collection. Live Old Time & Honky Tonk music will be performed. Lansing Fireworks | 7:00 PM- | Myers Park, 1 Lansing Park Road, Lansing | Watch fireworks over the water from Myers Park in Lansing. SCCA Majors Super Tour | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | For more information on Sports Car Club of America, please visit www.SCCA.org. Heather V’s Masquerade Party | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Masquerade Party! 4th of July Birthday BBQ Bash | 12:00 PM-11:00 PM | American Vineyards, 4367 EAST COVERT ROAD, Interlaken | Great food, drink, music and fun all day, topped off by a full-blown fireworks finale at 10!

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The Dock, Friday, July 3, 8:00 p.m. Take a trip back in time with one of Ithaca’s most seasoned rock bands. Playing songs from the golden age of music, the band draws from a setlist that includes classic Brititsh Invasion tunes from the Beatles, Searchers, the Stones, and the Zombies. On this night they sit in as the house band for the reunion of the Ithaca High School Class of 1975.

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Stuart Little | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The story of an extraordinary mouse born into an ordinary New York City family. July 3, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., July 4, 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-the-scenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com. Animals at the Library | 6:30 PM- | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Watch out, there will be animals at the library next Thursday. Garrett will be here with reptiles and amphibians and who knows what else. Come by to sign up for the summer reading program and learn about animals from here and far away. Bake Sale to Benefit Flood Victims | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Helping victims of the June 14 flooding. We’re holding a bake sale with proceeds going to the Community Good Neighbor Fund for distribution. Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December. Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Rehearsals for the Dryden Area Intergenerational Chorus | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Dryden United Methodist Church, 2 North St, Dryden | Rehearsals for Chorus group. CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Trumansburg Fire Dept Chicken BBQ, Crystal Lake Café pulled pork or sausage sammies and picnic sides,Global Taco & On the Street Pita food trucks, Chef William Creations Baked Potato Bar and more! And of course, entertainment: 12-2 The Tarps, 2-4 Under Construction, 4-6 Backtalk Band, 6-8 Purple Valley, 8-10 The Destination. Candor Fourth of July Parade | 10:00 AM- | Main Street, Main Street, Candor | Twentieth Annual Public Reading of the United States Declaration of Independence | 10:00 AM | Homer Congregational Church, Dowtown Homer, Homer | Following a description of the circumstances that led up to the document’s adoption in 1776, those who wish will be invited to read a short portion of the Declaration itself. For more information, call 607-749-4365 or e-mail cwj1@cornell.edu. Canandaigua 4th of July Festivities | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Kershaw Park, Canandaigua | Parade down Main Street at 10 a.m. Live music at Kershaw Park throughout the day, and fireworks at dark. Fourth of July Celebration and Strawberry Festival | 9:00 AM | Cortland Country Music Park, 1824 State Route 13, Cortland | All day Chicken BBQ; crafters and all kinds of strawberry desserts: strawberry shortcake, strawberry sundaes, strawberry cake, and more. 2-6 pm, Bluegrass on the outdoor stage: Solomon River Boys, Diva’s and Dude’s. Bring your own chairs. 7-11 pm, Round and Square Dancing with Doc Weismore with Real Country. Finger Lakes Fifties | 6:30 AM | Potomac Group Campsite, FL Nat’l. Forest, Potomac Road, Hector | Races consist of 25K (16.5 miles), and ultras of 50K (32.9 miles) and 50 Mile races in the Finger Lakes National Forest, Hector, NY. All three races are part of the Finger Lakes Runners Club Trail Circuit, and the 50K and 50Mile races are scoring events for the USATF Niagara Ultra Series. SCCA Majors Super Tour | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | For more information on Sports Car Club of America, please visit www.SCCA.org. Sterling Renaissance Festival | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Sterling Renaissance Festival, Fraden Rd, Sterling | Family Appreciation Weekend SCCA Majors Super Tour | 12:00

Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor. City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Community Advisory Group (CAG) | 6:00 PM | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | CAG is concerned with Ithaca’s contaminated sites. It convenes to promote greater public participation in clean-up projects, and to help citizens and involved government agencies make better-informed decisions. City of Ithaca Board of Zoning Appeals | 7:00 PM | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Natural Areas Commission (NAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The NAC supports the conservation of the designated Natural Areas within the City of Ithaca and advises the Board of Public Works, the Department of Public Works, Common Council, and the Conservation Advisory Council, regarding public concerns about Natural Areas, threats to the ecosystems, and opportunities to improve protective measures.

Nature & Science Dr. Linda Rayor: Spider Biology and Behavior | 7:00 PM- | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell’s spider expert, Dr. Linda Rayor, star of Monster Bug Wars and award-winning senior lecturer in the Department of Entomology lectures about Spiders. Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical

MSZM in their studio. The Avant-Garde, Jazz Duo perform Friday 7/03 at Agava at 10:00 p.m. (Photo Provided) Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night. Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | Saturday, 07/04 7:30 AM, Sunday, 07/05, 7:30 AM | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

Health & Wellness Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM | NY, , | Meets multiple places and days. For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org. Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of

Women Rollers. Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.DamodarDas.com. Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592. Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM- | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441. Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | The Consciousness Club, Cornell would like to invite everyone in the Cornell community (and beyond!) to experience a deep guided meditation in our weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome. Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca

| With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015. Every Wednesday, 12:00-1:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@gmail. com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited. Gardening your Grief | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Hospice, 172 East King Road, Ithaca | This support group focuses on “tending your grief” using nature as a guide. Registration is encouraged. www.hospice.org Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public. Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835. Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM- | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-2721505. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00

AM-11:30 AM | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604

Kids Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with their little ones (4 years old & under) explore science through hands-on activities, stories, and songs. Every Wednesday and Saturday. Sciencenter educators will also share research-based parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600. Plus, on April 15 enjoy special Week of the Young Child hands-on activities. Art Classes for Kids | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org. Hangar Theatre 2015 Kidstuff: Stuart Little | 10:00 AM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Adapted by Joseph Robinette, Based on E.B. White’s book. Stuart Little is an extraordinary mouse born into an ordinary New York City family. See what it’s like to be a small mouse in a big world. Join Stuart on a journey that won’t soon be forgotten! Shows at 10 am and noon. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273-8364. Little Voices Music and Motion / Registration for Songs of Summer | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Rd (Rt 34B), Lansing | Begins the week of July 13th. Please register by July 6th. Locations include

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Pete Panek and The Blue Cats,

Spring Awakening,

The blues is well represented here in Ithaca with this hard working hometown band. Chicago Blues, 70’s Rock, R&B, and Delta Swing, merge in the sound of this power trio. Come out and enjoy an evening of wicked blues guitar and American soul.

This ground breaking coming of age rock musical celebrates the passion, confusion, and joy, of the journey from youth to adulthood. This TonyAward winning musical shares the story of a group of 19th century German students and their trials and tribulations.

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the Lansing Town Hall and Jillian’s Drawers. Go to www.LittleVoicesMusic. com for class schedule and registration. Hangar Theatre 2015 Kidstuff: Stuart Little | 10:00 AM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Adapted by Joseph Robinette, Based on E.B. White’s book. Stuart Little is an extraordinary mouse born into an ordinary New York City family. See what it’s like to be a small mouse in a big world. Join Stuart on a journey that won’t soon be forgotten! Shows at 10 am and noon. Legos at the Library | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Weekly, free-build Lego program. Legos at the Library encourages children to use their imaginations or Lego books from the TCPL collection to create their own Lego art! All materials provided. Get Pop Cultured: Magic Treehouse Dinosaurs Before Dark | 10:00 AM- | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Travel back millions of years to explore the age of dinosaurs with fun activities, giveaways, and a special offer. Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter. org or 607-272-0600. Super Game On Summer | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This event will encourage participants to connect with other teens through the superherothemed role playing game, Marvel’s Legendary, and a selection of other RPG and traditional board games. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM | Dewitt Park, Dewitt Park, Ithaca | Stories for the whole family every Tuesday. If rainy or wet conditions, we’ll meet in the Thaler/Howell Rm at the Library.

Books A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Come spice things up, catch up with friends, and get your intellectual side out over delightful cocktails and books that you will not want to put down. Hosted by Buffalo Street Books’ Asha Sanakar. Okla Elliot, Benjamin Mumford, Mildred Barya, Anastasia Nikolis |

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by Arthur Whitman

ne tires of saying it, but The Ink Shop Printmaking Center is the hardest working visual arts organization in town. Among other things, they put up new exhibits every month or two, often two at the same time. And while some shows are stronger than others, their range and seriousness overall are something of a miracle in a city where serious independent artists (i.e. those not employed by the schools’ art departments) have limited options for making and exhibiting work in a collective setting. Periodically, the Ink Shop puts on a group show highlighting the diversity and strength of its membership. True to form, their “2015 Member Exhibit” spans styles, techniques, subject matters, and generations with a collection of mostly modest-sized works that fills their tworoom shop/gallery with seemingly casual grace. Judy Barringer’s black-and-white monotype Nam Imagined, is haunting, and not only for it’s weighty subject matter. It is composed of two images, one atop the other, both identical except that the bottom one is a faded “ghost” print. We gaze out an angled window at freely rendered landscape of grasses, trees, and clouds. Loosely triangular canopies suggest the thatched roofs of local houses. Barringer protested the war back in her youth and the piece stands out in this show for its emotional pull. Two large, upright prints show two well-established local artists working in

5:00 PM- | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors read from their latest works, The Doors You Mark Are Your Own, and Mumford-Zisk’s upcoming sequel to The Origami Man. Stealing Scenes | 5:00 PM- | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | This months installment of Downtown Ithaca’s Gallery Night titled “Stealing Scenes . . . The Illustrator’s Look at Shakespeare” featuring children’s illustrators Johanna van der Sterre, Katie Vaz, Wynn Yarrow, Annie Zygarowicz, & Marie Sanderson Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For teen readers. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl.org.

familiar modes. Kumi Korf’s intaglio Cloud Dance, Red demonstrates her mastery of sensuous biomorphic abstraction. The piece is built in delicate translucent layers: subdued red—with fuzzy off-white “clouds” poking through, unprinted offwhite—partially overlain by a purple-blue figure sprouting up from the bottom. Three vertical threads in opaque silver provide a conclusive accent. Cornell faculty member Greg Page gathers botanical specimens from around the world, which he imprints directly as gritty, intensely toned black ink lithographs. In Motif From ISU Greenhouse, Selections II, ferns and other leaves appear arranged in a loose left-right symmetry. The compressed, flattened space and the rawness of the natural matter call to mind modern painter Jean Dubuffet, while decorative quality calls to mind the more contemporary work of Phillip Taaffe. Pamela Drix, a lecturer at Ithaca College, is another familiar figure at the Shop. Overtly political in much of her recent work, she is unabashedly lyrical in her proliferating images of orchids, three of which are featured here. Color woodcuts, they feature ethereal color, delicately overlapped. Both Heidi Marschner and Jenny Pope work in color reduction woodcut, a medium that allows them to create broad areas of striking color. Marschner’s Scatter and Prufrock appears in palettes of blue, gray, silver, brown, and beige with dark outlines. They show a fanciful underwater world of humanoid creatures, face, and plants depicted in simplified flat forms.

Art ongoing Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca || An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing. | Locally Sourced, Mixed Media from Local artists, ongoing | www.museum. cornell.edu QUALIA / The Essence of Transitional Light | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM,

Americana Vineyards, Saturday, July 4, 12:00 p.m.

Come enjoy a 4th of July bash for the ages on this beautiful vineyard and entertainment center. 5 bands including Under Construction will perform, food from Crystal Lake Cafe and many more, and a vast array of drinks, BBQ, and Fireworks!! The bash runs until 10:30 p.m. Don’t miss out!

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Pope’s Plan B: Mirrors in Space is done in a related style and takes a characteristically playful approach to serious environmental issues, imagining a science fictional strategy to reverse global warming. Natalie Kent’s work has a delightfully subversive narrative content that might feel more at home in an underground comic than the Shop’s generally genteel environs. As is, her two silkscreens inject a welcome dose of discomfiting graphic energy. You Tear Yourself Apart, My Love centers on a grotesque figure with a brain for his head, a cartoonish pink chest, and a lower body submerged in a pile of intestinal worms. The small, upright Down Periscope is done in scratchy black lines with blotchy red color as an accent. It shows a bottle-like stack of cylinders from which emerges a speaker-horn and eyeball

6/24 Wednesday | Creek Side Cafe, 4 West Main St., Trumansburg | Nicholas Down showcases his Oil Paintings. Wednesday through Saturday 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Sunday 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Runs through July 31. Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 AM5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Tim Merrick, Dispositio, Solo Exhibit of Recent Work | www. cornersgallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | WednesdayFriday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Engaging The Edges, Leslie K. Brill, Diane W. Newton, Paintings and Illustrations | Runs July 1 through August 2 | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org

hybrid. Although one might wish for a larger and more comprehensive members’ exhibit instead, the Ink Shop is also displaying remnants from last month’s excellent show devoted to the landscapes of late local master Peter Kahn. The original display also filled the Community School of Music and Arts’ front lobby and included magisterial paintings. The layered color woodcuts left up in the adjoining back hallway show what may however be his best work. “Member Exhibit” will run through June 30 at the Ink Shop’s downtown space. It will then travel to Leidenfrost Vineyards where it will be up from July 3 through August 28. There will be a reception there on August 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. •

Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM1:00 AM | Page Satchwell, Abstract Paintings, July 1 hrough July 31. | www. silkyjoneslounge.com Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Eric Draper and Peter Thompson, Abstract Paintings and Black and White Photography. July 1 through end of August| www. wafflefrolicking.com Stella’s | 403 College Avenue, Ithaca | Lea Freni, Mixed Media, Fashion Design. July 1-August 31 | 607.277.1490 CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | In Flight, Mary Roberts, ceramic installations and mixed media drawings and forms. Runs through July | www.artspartner.

org Gallery at FOUND | 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, closed Tuesdays | Makers Gonna Make, Highlighting the creativity of FOUND’s dealers. July 1 through July 26 | www. foundinithaca.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Joyce Stillman-Myers, Real-Super-Real-Real Inspired, new work on disply through July 31 | www. csma-ithaca.org

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Silky Jones, July 1 through July 31. This New York State artist takes cues from the Abstract Expressionism movement of the 1950’s, as well as contemporary styles, methods, and fashion design. Her drip paintings are on display currently, and invoke a variety of emotion, wonder, and containment.

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