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ayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS) will be expanding its residential treatment facility in Trumansburg by 25 beds. CARS announced on July 21 it had received a guarantee of up to $1 million in funding from the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) for operational costs associated with adding the beds. There will be 20 new beds for women, and five for stabilization purposes, according to CARS CEO Bill Rusen. Currently, the Trumansburg facility has 48 beds for men and 12 for women. OASAS will work with CARS to “provide capital funding for construction needs, if needed,” a press release stated, but the agency hopes for a “fast track” approach to get the new building up. The additional funding was approved as part of a package of opioid-related legislation pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by the state legislature in June, but had been “in the works for a little bit,” Rusen said, with a request for proposals put out from the state to agencies a few months ago. The governor’s stated goal is to add 270 treatment beds and 2,335 slots in opioid treatment programs across the state. Treatment is gender-segregated “because the research says that helps recovery,” Rusen said. “We take a specialized long-term treatment approach at this facility.” Right now, an average stay for someone in treatment is about 190 days, though that average does fluctuate over time, Rusen said. No money has been yet made available for a detox program. “Detox is like going to the emergency room,” Rusen said. “Residential care is like going to a long-term ICU in a hospital, one that lasts a couple of months. That would be the best parallel I could probably give you.” Many of CARS patients are actively involved with other services provided by the state and non-profits, and are often on Medicaid. “People we work with have lots of life stressors,” Rusen said. “Lots of what the state calls functional deficits—not my words; that’s the state’s words. It’s a really complex and challenging patient profile. There are a lot of folks involved with drug courts, corrections, probation, [and the Department of Social Services].” continued on page 4
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The Full Discussion The meeting began with two members of the public, Holly Gump and Dee Adams, expressing the widely repeated misapprehension that the city planned to ban wading in all water bodies within the city. Gump did not want to see city children lose the opportunity to explore the creeks. Adams, who lives on Plain Street, said,
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lderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) made a valiant effort to amend the language proposed by city clerk Julie Holcomb that was meant to prohibit all forms of swimming, floating, and wading in the city’s natural areas, including Second and First dams on Six Mile Creek. Holcomb brought the new language for the city code before the City Administration Committee of Common Council on Wednesday, July 20. “The fact is,” said McGonigal, “people have been swimming there [Six Mile Creek] forever. It’s our culture in the Finger Lakes to swim in the creeks. I don’t see a thing wrong with it. Is is possible to say ‘Swim at your own risk’ and take away liability?” City attorney Ari Lavine told McGonigal City resident Dee Adams (in blue) and city clerk Julie Holcomb. that telling people to swim (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) at their own risk would not relieve the city of all liability. “Access to any kind of creek or water is Alderperson Donna Fleming (D-3rd) good for peace of mind, even for adults.” proposed an amendment that would allow Holcomb approached the microphone wading up to one’s waist. This was passed after Adams and quickly clarified that the by a 4-1 vote with McGonigal voting new law would apply only to designated against. natural areas. It was not yet clear what McGonigal proposed an alternate needed to be done to include the area amendment. “I’m trying to focus on around Second Dam, which is owned by the danger,” he said. “Eliminate all the the city but in the town of Ithaca. language about floating, swimming “The goal is provide consistency,” et cetera, and change it to prohibiting said the city clerk. She said that tickets jumping from a cliff or a rock higher than have been written at Second Dam and two feet above the surface of the water.” The amendment failed in a 3-2 vote continued on page x
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“I have to make sure my sleep schedule is back normal and that’s never easy.” —Aiden Patterson
“I’m currently getting a certificate of residence to prove I’m from New York State so I can go to TC3.” —Bennett Purdy
“I start writing in my journal so my handwriting isn’t all screwed up. I also try to get in a responsible mindset because I know school’s expensive and I don’t want to mess that up.” —Laurie Pochette
“We go out to the mall to buy a new backpack and school supplies. I also just get mentally prepared.” —Nick Knebel
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CARS is subject to many state regulations from OASES; the state has traditionally backed abstinence-based treatment programs, but does allow for medically-assisted treatment. In the case of opioids, that can include using drugs like buprenorphine naloxone [Suboxone], which don’t allow the user to get high but do cut back on withdrawals. “That’s been a big push from the research community and now from the
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thacans looking to “Get Lifted” this Sunday, July 31, will find “alternative methods of healing and thriving” available at downtown workshops throughout the day. The wellbeing festival will be capped off by a performance on the Commons at Bernie Milton pavilion from conscious reggae artist Jah9. “I’ve been inspired by her lyrics,” said event organizer Lennessa Shantaya of Jah9’s work. “I missed her coming through town, but a friend went and was super moved. Being a yoga instructor who loves reggae, I had to say, ‘How do we bring her Lennessa Shantaya (right) of The Yoga School is an organizer of the Get Lifted festival. (Photo provided) back?’” That was the origin of the Get Lifted Festival, in “How to Eat Real Food” at the GIAC Us” from Shantaya organized by kitchen, an “educational interactive at GIAC, along Shantaya, who culinary experience with samples to taste with mini-classes works at the Yoga and recipes to take home.” from several area School, along with At Sacred Root, Amanda David of instructors. Eldred Harris and Rootwork Herbals will present the “Poor “There’s a Olivia Walton. Peoples Pharmacy,” a workshop on using demand for classes Morning herbs and food stamps to create a home for people of and afternoon apothecary. At Southside, there will be color,” Shantaya workshops will a workshop on “Rediscovering Trust,” said, “which I be held at the exploring concepts of intersectionality. didn’t realize. Greater Ithaca The evening will close out with a There’s a factor of Activities Center reggae show, music which “can speak to approachability, (GIAC), Southside the youth like nothing else can,” Shantaya where people of Community Center, said. Ithaca’s own Crucial Reggae Social color don’t feel that and the Sacred Root Club will open the music at about 6 yoga is for them.” Kava Lounge & Tea p.m., a set a bit earlier than their usual DJ Ha-Meen Bar. Wednesday Reggae Night slot at The Dock. (Ben Ortiz) will be Morning spinning funk tunes Jah9 will follow with her set. sessions will “There’s so many distractions that get in Press Bay Alley begin at 11 a.m., in people’s way,” Shantaya said, “and reggae starting at 1 p.m. with a workshop music gives the opportunity to build up for a food truck at Southside on people.” roundup that will thriving in an Organizers of the Get Lifted include Star Truck. alternative economy, Jennifer Whitmore of Bramble (File photo) Festival are asking for registrations and In the with information donations on their Eventbrite page; more afternoon sessions, about Ithaca Time information is available by searching Get starting at 3 p.m., Traders, Ithacash, Lifted Festival on Facebook. Jennifer Whitmore and Ithaca Families’ Gift Economy. There of Bramble Collective and Forget Me Not will be a workshop on food sovereignty – Josh Brokaw Farm and Inn, with Britton Dougherty and resources at Sacred Root; and a reporter@ithacatimes.com of Primitive Pursuits will teach a class presentation about “Yoga for the Rest of
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feds to move in a direction that we’re going to use medication assisted treatments,” Rusen said. “I think OASAS has never said officially but I think they’re embracing things like medically assisted treatment because the research is just there.” People in treatment at the Trumansburg facility do have to abstain from smoking tobacco. “That’s a regulation from OASAS that goes back about six years,” Rusen said. “Some treatment research says you can [quit] both and doing both reinforces each other. Trying to keep old habits of tobacco
while trying to get rid of the old habit of alcohol or heroin, it reinforces it in your brain to some degree. It doesn’t matter what the substance is, what matters is the short circuiting of the reward system.” Rusen expects there will be “ongoing conversations in the community about how we’re going to respond to detox.” “That’s a big hole in the system,” Rusen said. – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com
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Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) recused herself because her husband Paul Mazzarella is the executive director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, which is involved in some aspects of development of the project. Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) said that she supports the Amici House project because it will meet a significant need for child care and infant care, provide 42 Early Head Start spaces for children, and create 25 living wage jobs.
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Way Up: The Horseflies at Grassroots. (Photo: Erica Dischino)
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Site of future Amici House on Spencer Road. The new four-story building will extend across the lot from the zebra stripe area to fill the alcove next to the existing building. (Photo: Jaime Cone)
On June 21 the Tompkins County Legislature approved the project; they voted to authorize Tompkins County to purchase land at 611 Spencer Road from TCAction for $118,000, which will come out of the county’s general fund balance. While the vote was unanimous,
The next step for the project is to apply for several more grants, said Dillon, including a crucial one that TCAction will apply for later this year. – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org
Gershon and her sister made to see the interactive production Sleep No More, a walk-through promenade theatre experience loosely based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. “We thought it’d be great to have an immersive theatre kind of party,” Gershon said, “something where people aren’t just standing around drinking and gossiping.” After talking with members of Art Club, the Dacha Presents The Dacha Project’s interactive theatre troupe will perform “I Sense a crew decided they would like to do a more substantial performance. Presence” during the Ithaca Artists Market. (Photo provided) The issue with doing a larger show, Gershon said, is space and time; the Presence on Court Street during the Ithaca ideas are already there. Festival. Participants are invited into a space “You find a space, that’s the biggest that evokes woodlands—an abandoned thing, and build a crazy set, and you can’t hillside shack full of gadgets and doo-dads, do it just for a day,” Gershon said. “We is this reporter’s gloss—and invited to add decided to do something smaller for Ithaca to the performance, though one can also Festival and work on crowd-funding and “perch silently” and observe if one prefers. The idea for the production came in continued on page 7 part as a result of a trip to New York City T
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Progress, But No Living Wage Hey, I’m Walkin’ Here T I he Tompkins County Workers’ workers in Tompkins County, and will Center (TCWC) applauds the support the right of workers to organize early April 2016 historic decision for collective bargaining and against to increase wages of the lowest paid New wage theft, especially as the minimum York State workers, putting them closer wage rises. to a living wage. However, increasing “I’m very disappointed,” said Lorie the minimum wage upstate to only Compton, a direct-service professional at $12.50 (in five years), compared to $15 a local agency serving developmentally in the rest of the state, is extremely disabled people in Ithaca and a mother disappointing. It repudiates of two, “that the wage isn’t the promise that Gov. Andrew going up higher or quicker Cuomo made to these workers in Upstate New York. I make earlier this year and denies them $11.40 an hour and can barely the same chance to approach a make ends meet. I have to pay living wage as all other workers in rent. I have to buy groceries. the state. Perhaps management should In the spring of 2015 the consider taking a cut in profit TCWC began its own campaign rates and excessively high for a countywide minimum wage managerial salaries so that that is a living wage (presently other people who are doing Pete Meyers $14.34 per hour in Tompkins the hard work can make a County). Says campaignLiving Wage, a wage we need organizing-committee member, just to survive!” Milton Webb, a recycling worker at “Any increase is welcome,” said Tompkins County Recycling whose Erin Leidy, a longtime worker in various leadership helped him and his cotransportation industries and a resident workers win a raise to a Living Wage last of Dryden, “but I think the timelines year: “Everyone everywhere in New York make the increases much less impactful. State needs to be making a minimum of Additionally, I’m aware that the overall $15 per hour RIGHT NOW! No one can cost of living is higher in the city than reasonably live on $9.75/hour.” upstate, but that is primarily caused by The incredibly high cost of living rents. There are parts of upstate, like in Tompkins County translates into Ithaca, where the rental markets look many workers falling far short of a more like parts of the city than people family-sustaining livelihood, even with think. I feel like I have to live in Dryden the increase. The TCWC will continue continued on page 7 its efforts for a true living wage for all
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thaca officials floated two ideas this month for criminalizing, or at least penalizing, some pretty normal behavior in the city. Scrutiny makes you wonder if there’s something like summer silliness among our local leaders. The first instance was the Ithaca Police Department announcing, a few days in advance, that Friday, July 22 would be a day of “zero tolerance” for jaywalking, with extra officers posted throughout the city, wherever needed, to thwart this heinous crime. No kidding: jaywalking. Zero tolerance. Forget for a second the need for it. Think about the resources and effort needed to ensure that no one in a particular city crosses a street against a light, or in the middle of a block, for an entire day, which an announcement of “zero tolerance” suggests, or actually mandates. Okay. Crazy. Now go back and think about the need. Similar. While Republicans are walking the streets of Cleveland, at their national convention, openly carrying assault weapons, to make some hideous point or another, and are unimpeached by police as free citizens, Ithaca police want to accost (and ostensibly fine, if not arrest) us for crossing the street. The absurdity was not lost on our citizenry, who protested. Hearteningly, the outcry, and attendant poor publicity, was not lost on officials (at the height of the tourist season), and the plan was dropped before enacted, as quickly as it was suddenly announced. There was some speculation among local cognoscenti that a segment of tourists, in fact, were the first-place, de facto target of this initiative: specifically, the young and vulnerable passing through town for GrassRoots. After all, state troopers out on Route 96 make a tidy bundle each July ticketing GrassRoots drivers for squealing tires, and then whatever else they can find, or make up, in merry violation of privacy rights. So why not us here downtown?
Since the IPD plan was summarily dropped, however, let us negate such speculation, and let any intimations of infamy pass. Waiting for a similar kibosh, though still under official consideration, is a recent measure to expand illegalities of contact with public waters in the city, making any instance of wading, swimming, or diving an official Trespass. (The version I have seen of the measure capitalizes the word thusly, emphasizing its severity, I suppose.) The idea, say its proponents, is to standardize a measure of severity for dangerous activities, such as jumping from cliffs into dams. The problem, say its opponents, is that the standardization criminalizes too many people and too many behaviors too uniformly—thus, in many (if not most) cases, too severely. A neighbor of mine up on S. Albany St., whose house abuts Six Mile Creek, asked in the Ithaca Journal if children splashing and playing in the creek would now be guilty of criminal trespass. A particular irony is that, two or three years ago, the city built (at considerable expense, I imagine) a very well-graded, well-placed, concrete ramp to provide access to the creek from our neighborhood. It’s at the corner of my block, at S. Plain St. and S. Titus. There are kids down there every sunny summer day. With this measure, I guess they now face official approbation. And what about their parents, aiding and abetting juvenile crime? I imagine if arrested, they could claim entrapment by this structural enticement. People who have noted that “Ithaca Is Gorges,” who go on to test the waters (now, illegally), might mount the same defense. Maybe, in light of these two measures, the slogan should be changed, to “Ithaca Is Sidewalks: Stay On Them.” Or maybe, simply, America’s purportedly “most enlightened city” should start acting like it. Officially. •
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Thanks for Banning the Box
I am writing to thank the Tompkins County Legislature for their recent vote to “ban the box” for county employment applications. OAR has served the inmates and former inmates of the Tompkins County Jail for 40 years. We see first-hand the negative impacts of incarceration on individuals’ future employment opportunities. Given an opportunity to 6
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work, many of our clients develop into productive and contributing members of our community. The legislature, through this vote, has set an example that OAR hopes is replicated by many of our private employers. – Deborah Dietrich, Executive Director Opportunities, Alternatives, and Resources of Tompkins County (OAR)
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a home. Finally Daniel, who was a foster n late December 1972 Aafke and child and then freed for adoption, became Tammo Steenhuis journeyed with part of the family. their infant daughter, Femmigje, from The Steenhuis home was busy. their homeland in the Netherlands to the United States. They arrived just in time for Everyone pitched in. An addition to the house was planned to make room Tammo to begin his doctoral studies in for the washing machine and a second agricultural engineering at the University bathroom. Instead, they added three of Wisconsin, Madison. bedrooms. Everyone at home shared Both young parents grew up in a meals together. Benches took the place of tightly organized, orderly, small country, chairs, so all could sit around the dining overflowing with traditional Dutch table. More than one topic was discussed families. “After graduate education we simultaneously. were not yet ready to settle in the typical “I taught toddlers and young children Dutch way,” said Aafke, “in a small and volunteered at the Day Care Council,” apartment five stories high, with 8 to 5 jobs, a small car in front of the door for a Sunday’s ride to nowhere, and then back home. So we decided to head off to the U.S. where Tammo could study on an assistantship that in some months left us $25 to spend after our rent and tuition were subtracted. It was an exciting time with many new friends in similar situations.” While the Tammo and Aafke Steenhuis and their first four children. (Photo provided) Steenhuis’ had no plans to stay in the U.S., even before said Aafke. “Tammo worked all the time. Tammo received his Ph.D. they headed The kids grew fast, and the house became to Ithaca, where Tammo soon became an too small with so many teenagers.” assistant professor. Forty years later much Around 1995, when the three older about this couple’s life remains constant. kids were off to college, the Steenhuis Aafke and Tammo remain the same family moved from Pennsylvania capable, handsome, funny, upbeat couple Avenue on South Hill to the large classic that arrived 30 years ago, despite all they farmhouse on West Hill that they have have encountered as parents to nine creatively renovated. children and a large extended family, “We were unpacking as quickly as a which included 10 foster children. couple with six young children and two “Femmigje was born in 1972. She jobs could do,” Aafke said, “when we was 1 year old when we adopted Jasper received a call about three foster children. through Catholic Charities in Wisconsin. I told the social worker it was not possible One year after that Wypkelien came under the circumstances, but Tammo felt through the same agency.” As they settled into their life in Ithaca, it was possible. The boxes and moving-in projects were pushed aside and the kids they soon found Jelmer, and days were found a place for another bed in their lively and full. When asked by friend if rooms. The new arrivals were of course they would like to adopt Quinten because immediately included—to their surprise— he needed a family, it did not take too in the daily schedule of cleaning the table, long to decide. “Of course, he needed washing the dishes. Homework was done somebody to play. In less than a year by all nine around the big table in the Nicolien came too. Quinten and Nicolien dining room.” were good playmates talking Dutch with The kids watched out for each other. each other.” Everyone pitched in as needed. No one Aafke found a picture of two lovely had time to fret about the small stuff. girls Yvonne and Geneva on the New Kids shared rooms and as older children York State listing of children available for moved out, younger kids resettled the adoption, and she decided they needed
territory. Did the older children resent the inclusion of younger children? “All the children suggested when asked that we should have stopped after he/she came on the scene,” Aafke said, “but no one seemed seriously resentful about later arrivals, other than the babysitting interfered with their teenage commitments. Kids learned to make arrangements to get to sports, theater, music practice, and various school activities. They understood that Christmas presents could not be as expensive as some other kids in their school received. Unlike the others, they did not need play dates, had plenty of kid-generated activities, projects, [and had] adventures on their land amongst their tribe. The kids entertained each other. They could always find somebody to play with on site.” A shared sense of adventure and a sense of humor helped family life work. The parents’ optimism helped the children’s lives to unfold, so they could each become the people they were meant to be. Each child faced diverse challenges, which the parents addressed with direct, sometimes hilarious, commentary. While Aafke and Tammo may have quietly agonized over each child’s unique destiny, they accepted with their head-on, calm demeanor the children’s lives as they were. Each child’s own gifts were enhanced by a stable, supportive home where one was recognized and not compared. “It is what it is,” said Aafke. “Still every child needs a home.” Over the years Aafke, Tammo and the children have learned a lot about special needs, exacerbated by poverty, homelessness, and exposure to violence, drugs and alcohol that contribute to the instability of children in need of permanent homes. They had hoped that all the kids after finishing their education would get a job and would have families of their own. While several have children now, as in many families, some are not as lucky. Some children wrestle with mental health issues and the resulting range of financial, medical, and personal complications. They are still trying hard to make the best of it. The children have independent lives of their own now, with fluid relationships among them, about which the older generation know little. The parents who organized and led the tribe now glean details about the kids’ lives from other kids and Facebook. These days visiting grandchildren bunk in the rooms where their parents grew up and have a culture of their own too. A rambling vacation house (big enough for 12 bodies) is annually rented for two weeks each summer on the coast of Maine. The majority of the kids travel from all over with fiancées, spouses, kids, partners. Cousins are close. Spouses who have married into the clan get along.• guestopinion contin u ed from page 6
because of the cost of rent in Ithaca.” The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2016 “Out of Reach: No Refuge for Low Income Renters” report, supported by the Department of Housing T
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grants for something more permanent.” I Sense a Presence received a grant from the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) for this production. “It’s an amazing resource,” Gershon said of CAP: “We’re beginning artists, and there’s the invitation to try something out.” The Dacha folks “pulled out different bits of costume” to create their outfits for the show. “We’re going for a sort of weird future look,” Gershon said, “Gothic or Victorian, those Twenties things coming back, but also splashes of color, purple hair, a sort of ‘spacey’ feel.” In conceiving I Sense a Presence, Gershon said Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics were one ideal that she was working toward. The uptick in “interactive” performances, Gershon thinks, is indicative of a social trend. “It’s somewhat reflective of the social situation,” Gershon said, “that people don’t want to be passive watchers. They want their actions to have results.” I Sense a Presence will be performed every 15 minutes at the Artist Market from 2:30 to 3: 30 p.m., 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., and 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.. The 26th Ithaca Artist Market will be held at Steamboat Landing, home of the Farmers’ Market, this Friday, July 29, from 2 to 8 p.m. Painting projects will be hosted by Paint Nite Ithaca, and the East Hill Jazz Band will be playing all afternoon. – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com 2 7
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ee Shurtleff, a village of Groton trustee, was Tompkins County’s lone Republican delegate this year. “It’s kind of a once in a lifetime honor,” Shurtleff said. The former fire chief went to Dallas in 1984 as an observer and sat with the New York delegation on the night Ronald Reagan made his acceptance speech. This year, as a delegate, Shurtleff attended the morning breakfasts, where speakers like Newt Gingrich, Larry Kudlow, and Rudy Giuliani gave talks. Delegates were briefed on when they were required to be on the floor for roll call votes and given tickets to receptions could attend later in the afternoon or evening. “There’s pretty much a script these conventions go by,” Shurtleff said. “I think I was if surprised by anything, it was more the unity of the party coming out of the convention than the disagreement. There was a perception we were divided as a party—certainly a lot of convention delegates, if not skeptical, they were kind of nervous about the prospect of nominating Donald Trump. By the time they left the convention was pretty well unified that he’s the candidate to put forward in November.” As a delegate from the 23rd Congressional District, which Trump took by a majority, Shurtleff was bound by party rules to vote for Trump’s nomination. 8 The I thaca Times / Ju
S m a l l g r o u p s o f p r o t e s t o r s at R e p u b l i c a n N at i o n a l C o n v e n t i o n i n C l e v e l a n d . ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw) ; (l e f t) To m p k i n s C o u n t y R e p u b l i c a n d e l e g at e L e e S h u r l e f f ( P h o t o : N Y S F i r e c h i e f s) Hannity, Megyn Kelly, and Charlie Rose were some people Shurtleff mentioned as passing by. “I’m not one to jump all over people, but it’s nice to nod your head, shake their hand, and hear their different perspectives,” Shurtleff said. When he was on the streets and out and about in Cleveland, Shurtleff said he was “pleasantly surprised by what a beautiful downtown [it is] and the amount of investment has gone into the city; it presented well. There were all kind of news media predictions about encountering tear gas and Tasers, and there wasn’t anything like that. Where I saw protesters they were outnumbered in each instance by either law enforcement or news media.” Meeting Giuliani and getting a photo with the former mayor of New York City was the “biggest bring-back,” Shurtleff said, “for a guy who works in public safety, that’s an honor.” Shurtleff was instrumental in modernizing the post-9/11 county emergency communication network and is still director/coordinator of the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response. Many news media personalities were staying in his Cleveland hotel—Sean l y
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The build-up to the 2016 Republican National Convention had given anyone in attendance plenty of reason to be nervous about violence. With all the shooting incidents involving police around the country in recent weeks, Cleveland officials talking for months about the powder-keg potential of the convention, given the “untold number of protesters” expected, as one Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter so helpfully estimated. When news of the Baton Rouge sniper attack was
scrolling across a news ticker on Euclid Avenue, it was easy to think bad things could happen. In fact, shootings had occurred in Cleveland. That weekend turned out to be the deadliest so far this year in the city— with five fatalities and 20 shootings—but none of them were downtown near the convention. They were all on Cleveland’s East Side, a place where community activists Alfred Porter Jr. and Art McKoy were inviting reporters and Republicans for a tour one night, out to Euclid and 79th, to see the real Cleveland: they didn’t get many takers. The presence of an estimated 3,000 law enforcement officers didn’t deter a variety of marches, organized by a panoply of groups. Occupied Ohio, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, and Citizens for Trump were three groups that joined in an Americans for Civil Liberties suit that reached a settlement with the city on June 23 to reduce the size of the “event zone” and made the official parade route come somewhat closer to the convention. It was this reporter’s estimation that those official routes were ignored by most groups. Rallies started at Public Square, then moved out onto the streets, or came in past a dozen or more bicycle police in meandering routes leading away from the square, with the police using their bikes as
movable barricades time after time. The number of notable, “newsworthy” incidents between protesters and police was low. Likely that had something to do with the small number of protesters. Though few in number, they were busy at their work, with a large number of them hosted in Ohio City, the Cleveland neighborhood west of the Cuyahoga River across from downtown. Seeds of Peace Collective was camping and cooking meal after meal at St. Paul’s Community Church and sending them out in wagons of both the motorized and pull-behind variety, with regulars of the drop-in center, where there are classes and their own meals and pickup basketball, sometimes coming in for meals. Matt Harkins, a Cornell student and WVBR reporter who had convention accreditation, happened to be right on top of one of the few near conflagrations of the weekend. Harkins was standing at the convention entrance on Wednesday afternoon, talking to a student-debt activist and about to go see what Libertarian president candidate Gary Johnson was doing hanging out by the door of the Society Lounge, when an incident occurred. “While I was interviewing, a crowd of people was coming down Fourth Street,” said Harkins. “There was a pissed off ex-Marine escorted by police, saying ‘Someone’s going to burn that flag I love, and I’m going to shove a boot in their ass.’ Then I saw this hushed commotion at the entrance to [the arena] with all these journalists. I thought someone was having a medical disaster. They started to form a circle around something I couldn’t see, and a guy was talking general protest stuff about the [Revolutionary Communist Party] and white supremacy and the police, and [he] said, ‘We’re going to burn this flag.’ People locked arms and pushed journalists back saying, ‘Trust us, it’s for your own good. “A police officer brushed by me,” Harkins continued, “and said, ‘We’re going to need fire down here,’ as in the fire department. Things got really quiet, like someone was going to die. Then it was pandemonium, it was so chaotic. I
a reporter for a Chilean TV station. What would you say to Latin people about Trump’s immigration policies? the reporter asked Raven. “He’s against illegal immigration,” Raven said. “I came from Spain to New York and when my time was up, guess what? I packed up and went back to Spain and got my papers in order.” “You don’t climb over the back wall and come into the garden,” Raven continued. “You come in the front of the house. If you have a guest in the house who’s there five days, you say it’s time to go.” Raven, English by birth, then started conversing in Spanish with the reporter on the topic. (This reporter has enough trouble transcribing notes in English and did not follow the conversation.) “Renting a building in Elmira, New York is very affordable,” Raven told a reporter from Miami. He’s got a 6,000 foot studio, on which he’s hung a 12 by 25 banner version of the mural, which has elicited complaints from neighbors. Raven describes himself as a preacher of the Gospel by vocation, and an artist by trade. “When he is elected, I believe the prophecy will be fulfilled,” Raven said. “I won’t want to say ‘I told you so,’ but it will be a little lah-dee-lah-da.” Reporters were pinging around the square looking for soundbites like a thousand Pac-Mans looking for fruit, filling in their quotas of the shocking, the conflicted, the absurd, or so far as everyone writing the same story 10 times a day allows for absurdity. One vendor named Terry Jones, selling “Trump-It” T-shirts showing a hand holding a royal flush, said he’d given 13 interviews in a day. Jones, it might be noted, is AfricanAmerican, as were many of the vendors selling Trump-related wares. Many of the same people will be in Philadelphia this week for the Democrats; it’s a job. •
( L e f t t o r i g h t) Tru m p s u p p o r t e r o n streets of Cleveland; K r aig Moss of O w e g o ; P r o t e s t o r s a n d m e d i a i n e q ua l n u m b e r s . ( P h o t o s : J o s h B r o k aw) remember smelling the smell of mist. At first I thought it must be what tear gas is like. I’m not sweating it out of every orifice, it was sour, disgusting, like smelling salts, it filled my lungs. It made me extremely lightheaded, but it wasn’t blinding.” “I was stumbling over to the entrance to security,” said the WVBR reporter, “and [police] pushed us back, said, ‘Get the f*** over there, not here’ – the fire department was putting out the flag. It was light flames, not, like, engulfed.”
Local Support For Trump
Singing about Donald Trump isn’t a job for Kraig Moss of Owego, at least not yet. Moss was singing selections from his Donald Trump for President CD for a crowd of the like-minded and the media. Moss was telling reporters that he’s played 36 Trump rallies, his songs including “Get on the Trump Train,” which will “keep on rolling on down the line.” Moss said he asked three or four Ithaca-area studios to help him record his Trump songs. “Nobody wanted to put their headphones on for 10 to 16 hours a day and listen to Donald Trump,” Moss said. “Music is a universal language, except when it comes to Trump.” Though Moss’s songs tend to identify Trump as “the man” for answering today’s problems, when on the mic between tunes Moss—a 57-year-old in a cowboy hat and boots—has things to say about political change that would warm the unshowered heart of any anti-authoritarian protester in red and black. “It’s not any one person or any one ruler that’s going to save us,” Moss said after finishing a song by repeating “save our nation” in the outro. “I’ve had a lot
of interesting conversations with the protesters … It’s only going to be the people that bring us together.” Moss rode out to Iowa in January, and has been on the road since. He was joking with listeners that he was hoping to connect with Trump and make an ask for some funding. Moss’s Trump train halted in Canton, Ohio, two months ago, when he ran out of money. He had been sleeping on the front seat of his truck before he found a job in the Utica Shale gas fields of Ohio and got a motel room. Moss said he likes Trump’s point of view about protecting the borders, with an eye toward “combatting the ongoing drug epidemic.” “This all started with losing my son,” Moss said. He found his son Rob “dead in his bed” two years ago from a heroin overdose. Every CD has a card with Rob’s photograph and story inside. “[Trump] came out of New Hampshire talking up there all the time about the drug problem,” Moss said. “Donald Trump has a vision to fix the problem, anyway. Even if he can’t address it.” For the most part, things weren’t so enflamed anywhere downtown. On afternoons in Cleveland’s Public Square, Elmira-based artist Julian Raven, also an alternate Republican delegate, was displaying a reproduction of his 20-by-30 foot mural, “Unafraid and Unashamed,” featuring a triumphant-looking Donald Trump. The original mural traveled to Iowa in January, and a reproduction was in a political art show in Los Angeles earlier this summer. Raven started painting the mural on July 9, 2015, when he says he was “inspired” to start the piece. “I believe it is a prophetic image of Trump as president.” “I don’t want to provoke, I want to talk, I want to inspire conversation,” Raven told T
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July 1 to July 22, with murdered her and her 7-year-old daughter, her new boyfriend Analiese, in honor of and left behind women who weren’t able 1-year-old Caleb. to get away. The Angel Run Thompson said initiative assists Break the she and Sacha fell fast Silence Against Domestic for their boyfriends, Violence in raising funds a common thread in for victims and survivors domestic violence in need. cases. And although Thompson walked for she never met Sacha, Team Sacha, one of the she’s talked with her Kayli Thompson (Provided)) organization’s 25 “angels” mother, Lisa. Caleb, who have died from now 15, was raised by domestic violence. She Lisa, his grandmother. chose an angel like herself. “Even though I don’t know Sacha, I Sacha Marino was 20 years old really connect with her and what she went when her relationship with her abuser through,” Thompson said. “We have a started, the same as Thompson. She left similar basic primal instinct in protecting her boyfriend when their son was six our young. Mama Bear kicks in and we months old. But when she was 22, the man need to get out. It’s so unfortunate that
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even though she got out, he still ended her life.” Thompson found the “Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence” Facebook group about a year and a half ago through a college friend who had also been in an abusive relationship. “I knew I had been in an abusive relationship, but it was a point where I kind of realized I wasn’t alone,” Thompson said. “It was mostly verbal and emotional and psychological abuse (by my boyfriend). It wasn’t as much physical abuse as others. So I felt like mine wasn’t as bad, so it wasn’t really a domestic abuse problem. Then as I was reading through the page I realized, yeah, it was. There’s other women and men like me who have gone through it.” Thompson didn’t share details of the abuse with friends and family while she was dating her ex. Even when her parents questioned certain things, she said she would deny it or explain it away. It wasn’t until her daughter was five months old that Thompson said anything. She said her daughter’s father came for a supervised visit and hurt the girl, prompting Thompson’s Mama Bear instincts to kick in once again. “I said to my parents, ‘We’re going to the police station.’ We’re going to file a report because yes, he was abusive and I’m not going to let this happen. I’m not going to let it happen to my daughter,” Thompson said. “My parents were just in shock.” Thompson assured her parents she wasn’t lying and they took her daughter to the Ithaca police station to take photos and put the incident on record. She said she grew up in a “safe, helpful home” and that her parents may have wondered how this all could have happened. “I had the best dad in the world. He poured all kinds of love and encouragement on me,” said Thompson, who graduated from Syracuse University with a journalism degree last winter and walked the stage for her diploma in May. “Same with my mom. And I think they felt like, where did we go wrong?” Heather Campbell, executive director of the Advocacy Center in Ithaca, said that can be a typical experience. “We can have these really stubborn stereotypes of domestic violence abusers and abuse victims,” she said. “We think, victims don’t look like me, they don’t look like my daughter. We tell people, the biggest risk factor in our culture for being a victim of domestic violence is being female.” Campbell said it’s common for family members and friends to struggle with guilt. She said it can also be really confusing to people who have grown up in good, loving families. That also might make it difficult for an abuse victim to speak up, because he or she doesn’t quite know how it happened. If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence and is looking for help, the Advocacy Center hotline is 607-277-5000. The National Domestic Violence Hotline can be reached at 1-800-799-SAFE. •
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Sled Hockey at Lynah
Racker Rival events attracts Paralympians By Ste ve L aw re nc e
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was a part of Team USA’s contingent to the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul, Korea, as I was a coach and a guide-runner for the U.S. Association of Blind Athletes. I guided my friend Rick Holborow—whom I had a part in developing into the nation’s preeminent blind runner for several years—into the Olympic Stadium as he finished off his marathon, and I will never forget the love and respect shown to the Paralympians as they gave it their all. That’s why I was thrilled to learn that U.S. Paralympian Josh Pauls—who has won two Paralympic gold medals in sled hockey—would be among those taking the ice at the third annual “Racker Rivals Big Red” event at Lynah Rink at 5 p.m. on Aug. 6. Josh will join a host of local hockey heroes—like Joe Nieuwendyk, Dustin Brown, Ben Scrivens, Mike Schafer and Greg Hartz—but his appearance will be special for a number of reasons. For one, Josh is a superb athlete, and we all love to watch people do things we cannot do, and two, Josh’s efforts will advance the Racker Centers’ mission statement, which says, “We support people with disabilities and
their families to lead fulfilling lives by providing opportunities to learn and be connected to others.” Josh was born without shinbones, and his legs were amputated at the knee when he was less than a year old. He was kind enough to speak to me by phone, and I asked him if he had ever visited Ithaca. He said he had not, but traveling is no big deal to this road-tested veteran. As a member of Team USA, Josh plays about 20 games per year, and his St. Louis sled-hockey club plays an additional 20. Team USA won gold medals in Vancouver in 2010 and in Sochi in 2014, and the St. Louis-based team travels one weekend per month during their season, where one of the league’s four teams hosts a tournament (the other three teams are in Chicago, Denver and San Antonio). Josh told me, “Sled hockey traces its roots to Sweden in the 1960s, and it started up in the United States in the ‘80s.” Josh first tried sled hockey at age 8, and two years later he was playing competitively. In 2010, at age 17, he was the youngest member of that gold medal-winning team, and he has evolved into one of the sports’
elite players. The Racker Centers are making this event better every year, and on Aug. 6 they will welcome the Ice House Hawks, a team from Binghamton. The Hawks consist of players from age 5 to 18, all of whom have a physical or developmental disability. One of their players, a 9 year old, is an aspiring sled-hockey player, and the event organizers Sled-hockey medalist Josh Pauls skating for the USA team in the Paralympics. are thrilled that this (Photo provided) young man will get the opportunity to • • • meet Josh. I asked Once again, local luminary Richie Josh if he was aware that the Ice House Moran will be one of the coaches at the Hawks would be there demonstrating Racker event, and will look to extend (to some of the new adaptive equipment, and three games) his long winning streak. he said, “Yes, and I’m really excited to see Those who know Richie are aware that he what they’ll be bringing.” is connected to a lot of organizations that This May Pauls graduated from do a lot of good in our community, and Lindenwood University with a degree in to address that point, I would like to draw sport management, and he doesn’t lose any sleep over the prospect of entering the readers’ attention to the Just Be Cause party, coming up at Agava Restaurant on “real world” and continuing to compete. Sunday, July 31, from 5 to 9 p.m. Music He told me, “It’s all about finding an will be provided by The Destination employer that is on board with me taking some time to pursue my dreams and win a (one of Ithaca’s favorite groups), and proceeds will benefit the great work done couple more gold medals.” by Gadabout. Please visit www.gvgb.co/ For more info, please visit www. jbcparty4 for more details. • rackercenters.org.
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dismissed by a judge because of a failure to agree on the definition of “bathing.” “We’re not looking for people wading up to their ankles, looking for salamanders,” she said, with the implication being that children were unlikely to be ticketed for demonstrating curiosity about nature, even within the natural areas. Holcomb made it clear that her primary concern was public safety and that it could be better assured with a consistent city code. “We saw 250 people [at the same time] at Second Dam last summer,” Holcomb said. “The most we’ve seen this summer at one time is 50 to 55 peole. We’re making a difference with the increased number of rangers and patrols and the body cams. I’ve watched the body cam video feed; we’re getting 99 percent compliance.” Unfortunately, she said, many people simply return to the water after the rangers leave the scene. “We have a ways to go,” said the Ithaca native and daughter of former city mayor John Conley, “to return the area to the one everyone remembers and loves.” Fewer than six tickets have been written so far this year, but the heavy use of the area means it may take some time to restore the natural area to its “intended glory,” said Holcomb. “Safety is our first priority,” said Smith. “Enforcement is paramount. Can we further restrict the area to which this rule change is applied?” Lavine assured him that was possible from a legal perspective. Holcomb noted that the gorge walls near the dams have been spray-painted, and she would like to protect all the natural areas. “How is swimming prohibited and where?” asked committee chair Deb Mohlenhoff (D-5th). Holcomb said it had not been allowed in any natural area in
the city since 1974. The Watershed section of the city code prohibits swimming in Six Mile Creek and refers to the area outside the city. There are no designated swimming or bathing areas in the city, except for municipal pools. Lavine reminded the committee members that the revisions to the law were two-fold. They sought to clarify the prohibition as applying outside the city and to prohibit standing in the water (wading), as defendants had been claiming in court to not have been actually “swimming” and had avoided fines. The confusion over the interpretation of the code had led to officers writing tickets for trespass. “This concerns me,” said Holcomb, “because it is a public natural area.” Smith said he was sure that if swimming was shut down in one place, it would simply move to another. “We need to facilitate swimming somewhere,” he said. “I only want to address the problem spots.” The city clerk disagreed. She preferred to emphasize the accessibility of the state parks for swimming and the public pools. “Budget cuts,” she said, “have prevented enforcement [of the swimming prohibition]. We need a clear direction [from the committee] for the best use of resources.” She publicly thanked the Town of Ithaca for helping to finance the expansion of staff and patrols and hoped it would continue. “If we scale back now,” she said, “we’ll lose ground.” McGonigal suggested using the open container law, but Holcomb pointed out that it took officers too long to arrive at the dam sites to enforce that regulation effiectively. The First Ward alderperson really wanted to focus only on graffiti, open containers and public drunkeness, and cliff jumping, preferring to ignore mere swimming and wading. Lavine said that public works director had found there to be a legal morass
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Swimming illegally at Second Dam. To get out of paying fines, many have successfully claimed that they were not “fully immersed.” The city is changing language in the code to help law enforcement. (File photo)
around allowing swimming in natural areas. “Is saying, ‘Swim at your own risk’ an invitation?” asked alderperson Rob Gearhart. Lavine assured him it was. Fleming said she had no objection to Holcomb’s proposed rule changes because she had hiked into Second Dam last summer and had found the huge crowds to be “not enjoyable.” McGonigal reminded her that the crowds were much reduced, but 50 people at Second Dam still didn’t seem acceptable to Fleming. “Try thinking of it in terms of
speeding,” suggested Mohlenhoff to the committee. “Not everyone who speeds gets a ticket. What Julie wants is for us to make clear rules for ticketing to deter the worst behavior.” Gearhart was concerned that adding details to the regulations would actually make them harder to enforce. Holcomb said that law enforcement prefers the rules to be clear.• – Bill Chaisson editor@ithacatimes.com
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t the end of every school year the Ellis Hollow Nursery School has a big event that involves all the children and invites are the parents to the school, which is in the community center on Genung Road. “In the past we had a circus,” said Ellie Biddle, one of the teachers, “and once we had a slideshow, but two years ago we hit on the idea of an art show. The circus terrified some children; some of them were just not ready for performance.” “We wanted something that met all the children’s needs,” said Kai Dickinson, Biddle’s colleague and co-conspirator. “I started college as an art major,” said Biddle, who has been at Ellis Hollow since 2007. Dickinson joined her at the school in 2011. “When I met Kai, I found out that she loved art, so we did art all the time from day one. It makes the kids think outside the box.” The end-of-year show is the teachers’ compilation of all the artwork that the 3 to 5 year-old children have created between September and June. Ellis Hollow Nursery School starts about a week after public schools open and closes about a week
before. Classes are held Monday through Thursday morning from 9 a.m. to noon. They enroll up to 15 students and accept children who will eventually enroll in any local district. “They aren’t at the reading and writing level,” said Dickinson. “Most of these kids express themselves in art. Wherever they are in their developmental trajectory, they express that.” After the first art show, Biddle and Dickinson began putting aside pieces through the year, framing and otherwise readying them for the show. “The first year it took us 10 hours to set up the show,” said Biddle. Dickinson said that it was more like 17 hours. Biddle convinced her husband and teenage children to come to the first art opening at the nursery school. “They were honestly moved,” she said, “and were surprised that pre-schoolers could do this kind of thing.” Biddle and Dickinson have had 3 to 5 year-old children do still life paintings. They put an object on the table and the children draw it with a Sharpie. They make sure that it is something with distinct or exaggerated features. All the children then Ellis Hollow Nursery School teachers Ellie Biddle and Kai Dickinson with Carl the Cardinal (Photo: Bill Chaisson) continued on page 14
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paint their drawings. “We put them all together in the art show,” said Biddle. “Parents can put on a 3-year-old’s lens,” Dickinson said, “and then they can see the elephant. That’s been really fun. We try to get from the kids what they are really seeing ...” “... rather than defining it for them,” finished Biddle. The most rewarding thing, said the former art major, is having people see what their kids can do and have them appreciate it. “And the kids,” she said, “see that their artwork is good enough to display.” Dickinson and Biddle start each project by asking the kids what interests them—“If it’s penguins, then we make Antarctica,” said Dickinson—but they then integrate the children’s fascinations into a pedagogical mission. For example, they allow them to work with blue and yellow paint until they get to an “aha” moment, when someone discovers what happens when you mix the two pigments: art and science in one lesson. All of their art projects incorporate and address other academic disciplines. Two years ago they derived many ideas for art projects from children’s literature, but this past year their inspirations were more wide ranging.
They had a loom in the classroom through the entire session. A collage gradually filled a 3-foot-by-4-foot wall space. Carl, the neighborhood cardinal who pecks at the nursery school window, became a favorite subject, and each child was assigned their own bird species, which led to them constructing nests of varying materials. They ironed crayons and painted on corrugated surfaces. They made monoprints with finger paints and constructed mobiles. They used chalk and Q tips to draw on black paper, and an entire window of the classroom was filled with sea turtles made of cellophane. All of this is in the service of preparing the children for school, to help them grow up. “In preschool we help children identify and label feelings,” said Dickinson. “It’s our job.” “We give them tools,” said Biddle, “to help them get their brains and bodies ready for school.” Most of the children are at Ellis Hollow for two years. The preschool teachers said that the advent of the Common Core has made kindergarten more academically stringent—children should be reading by the end of that year—which has caused Biddle and Dickinson to retool their own approach. They have a simple litmus test: “If they’re sick of us by April or May,” said Biddle, “they’re ready for kindergarten.”§ For more information about Ellis Hollow Nursery School, see ellishollownurseryschool.com.
Move & Count Kinesthetic way to learn mathematics By Erica Dischino
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fter having children, Math and Movement program founder Suzy Koontz found a gap in the public education system: there was little to no variation in math teaching methods, leaving students to fall short of their potential for success. Through several attempts of practicing with her daughters, she developed a method that worked: teaching math through physical activity. “Unless we do something about it, we won’t have people that will be our next generation of doctors, dentists, engineers, lawyers; the list goes on,” Koontz said. “Almost every profession involves math, even if it’s just a little bit. Unless we have students that are competent in math, our society is going to go down.” This is how the Math and Movement program developed. On June 24 the nationwide program officially opened its first learning center in DeWitt Mall Suites. Students and their families from Ithaca and the surrounding area were invited to attend the launch of this new space with an open house that introduced the participants to this new learning style. Math and Movement, which acts as a supplement to existing curriculum, is a kinesthetic, multisensory teaching method that incorporates physical exercise, stretching, cross-body movements and yoga to improve students math competency. It introduces the fundamentals of arithmetic and early algebra concepts to children through teacher instruction combined with labeled floor mats that guide their movements. Students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade are the program’s main audience. Approximately 1,000 schools and companies have used Math and Movement and over one million children have participated in the program overall, Koontz said. “The best part about [this program] is to see the children engaged in math and movement. They get so excited to learn,” Koontz said. “We’re able to convince children that learning is so much fun, and all they have to do is just keep playing the game. It’s incredible.” The open house included four agespecific workshops, including “Fun with a Math Rug,” “Marvelous Multiplication by Sixes,” “Telling Time is Terrific,” and “Fractions are Fantastic.” Several children and their families attended, including Jessica Gavurnik, a mother of two from Trumansburg. “Both of my children do quite well in math,” Gavurnik said, “but it’s an area where a lot of children struggle. The public school system falls short in
accommodating different learners and [Koontz] could fill that space.” Through the program, Gavurnik hopes that her children, 8-year-old Hana, and 6-year-old Genevive,, will be able to have fun and experience a different way of learning. She said eventually she would try to implement some of the exercises learned at the open house in her own home. “It’s a great learning tool, and they don’t always offer these sorts of things in public school. They just don’t have the capability,” Gavurnik said. “This is a nice creative approach to learning math and numbers. It’s like a foreign language for some people. This taps into the other side of the brain, the more creative and visual part.” Koontz, the author of several math education books, found children’s skills to be generally improved. Both the students and teachers notice a difference almost immediately. These results are presented in the Math and Movement research studies, which measure the outcome of each session. For example, the program hosted a symposium at J.D. George Elementary School in Verona, New York where thirdgrade students worked with teachers for four sessions over a two-day period. On average, there was a 56-percent increase in the student’s scores over that time period. As an Ithacan, Koontz hopes this success to spread through Tompkins County. With the sponsorship of 83488
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School Choice
Public schools are many and varied in Ithaca By Erica Dischino
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chool just around the corner again, and the Ithaca area has various educational options that allow parents and guardians to choose what best fits their child’s needs. From public school to charter school to homeschooling, the variety provides an interesting mix of traditional and nontraditional choices, which is beneficial, but at times overwhelming, to those deciding where their child should go. The Ithaca City School District (ICSD) reaches the Ithaca, Caroline, Danby and Enfield area. There are eight elementary schools—Caroline, Fall Creek, Belle Sherman, Cayuga Heights, Northeast, Beverly Martin, Enfield, and South Hill—and two middles schools—DeWitt and Boynton. Typically, the address of their parent or guardian determines which elementary school at student attends. But the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) offers an open enrollment program that allows children to attend an ICSD school outside of their zone. The program calls for an application— submitted between April 1 and August 1—to be completed by parents or guardians of the child. Whether a child’s transfer is accepted depends available space as well as current and future staffing considerations at the requested building. Decisions are made according to grade level, and the application will be denied if the requested school does offer any service programs, such as Special Education or English as a New Language (ENL), needed by the student. Dr. Matthew Landahl, the ICSD deputy superintendent, has been involved in the open enrollment program for the past 4 years. “We are able to accept around 95 percent of the applications,” he said. “We do everything possible to make it happen. There are times when the numbers [of students enrolled] are just too high to get every open enrollment applicant in, but we really work hard.” ICSD receives about 100 applications each year. The deputy superintendent said the reasons for participating in open enrollment is specific to each application and that he has not found any consistencies. “It creates an element of choice in the district that a lot of other districts don’t offer. We try to meet all the reasons and make sure they’re considered accurately,” he said. In addition to the elementary and middle schools, ICSD includes the Lehman Alternative Community (LACS), which runs grades six through twelve, and the Ithaca High School. LACS is an alternative public school, with no tuition or fees for
district students, that allows students to study in-depth about subject areas that interest them. Students are graded with written evaluations as opposed to standard report cards or letter grades. Graduation requirements are met through a “Graduation by Exhibition,” in which students are required to fulfill and demonstrate a variety of “essentials” or tasks. Those interested must apply before March 31. Acceptance, which is granted to 36 students annually into the sixth-grade class, is decided through a lottery system. Public school is not the only option available for students in the Ithaca area. New Roots Charter School, located at the Clinton House on North Cayuga Street, provides hands-on, community-based learning that aims to gear students in solving “real-world problems.” A charter school is a public school that is financed by local, state and federal resources. It is not under the control of the local school board and is governed under Education Law Article 56 “Ultimately our goal is to prepare young people to successful and engaged citizens of the world. The more experience the students have in hands-on activities, the easier it is for them to develop skills needed to create a life plan,” said Tina Nilsen-Hodges, the principal and superintendent of New Roots Charter School. The school currently has around 35 students per grade enrolled at the high school level. Nilsen-Hodges said that
Beverly J. Martin Elementary School on West Buffalo Street in downtown Ithaca . (Photo: Erica Dischino)
because of the small size, students are often encouraged by their teachers to create projects that will be “long-lasting and impactful.” To enroll at New Roots, parents or guardians must fill out a student enrollment application form by April 30. Students in ninth through 12th grade are eligible to enroll. Those from ICSD are given preference, but any student eligible to attend public school in New York State may apply. Many Ithaca families are choosing to homeschool as well. Both Ithaca Loving Education at Home (LEAH), which is the local chapter of the New York State LEAH, and Northern Light Learning Center (NLLC) are organizations that provide support for those who have decided to homeschool. Heather Woodie, one of the
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The ‘60s For Everyone
How an everyman experienced an era of upheaval By Bil l Ch ai s son Until the Birds Chirp: Reflections on the Sixties Marc A. Catone (Self-issued; 2016)
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parents’ cohort. Catone was born in 1950 and brought up in Danbury, Connecticut, the son of petit bourgeois parents, who both worked hard outside the home throughout his childhood. By his own account he was an indifferent student, but upon graduation from high school in 1968, he enrolled in Western Connecticut State College in his hometown, drew a high lottery number in the draft, and was ensconced in a federal goverment job by the time he was 23 years old. This took him to Arizona and then to Ithaca, where he still lives, now retired. What distinguishes Catone’s memoir
from many others is the everyman quality of his life. In contrast to more privileged writers, Catone, while by no means poor, often refers to the cost of things and is genuinely nostalgic about his hometown, very red-brick American concerns that you don’t hear about in many accounts of the 1960s. By anchoring his narrative in concrete, mundane details and by beginning it in the 1950s, Catone makes you experience the gradual, but inexorable and pervasive changes that were happening in all places to all people during the decade—he rightfully places it between 1963 and 1973—that people called “the ‘60s.” Catone was 13 years old when JFK was assassinated, old enough to feel the pall settle over the country in its aftermath, and also old enough to feel it lift with the arrival of the Beatles. He is actually enough of a Fab Four fanatic that he remembers their recorded music being played on the Jack Paar television program even before they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. He attended both Shea Stadium concerts and even the post-Beatles Bangladesh concert organized by George Harrison. He was emotionally devastated by the assassination of John Lennon on December 8, 1980. So much so that he actually ends “his” 1960s with that event. If you don’t share Catone’s love for the Liverpudlian quartet, then you will appreciate even better how odd it is for a pop group’s catalog and ostensible ideology to be guiding light in the lives of a substantial number of people in a generation. He is matter-of-fact about the effect of each Beatles’ release on his emotional life. His memory is uncanny and his tone is frank and open; you can bear witness to the dawn of the era in which rock music actually began to teach people about themselves and about living. This period of our history is arguably over; the World Wide Web has replaced pop music as the people’s oracle. Catone gives you an unvarnished look at a time before young people were cynical about such things. As an overt chronicler of his generation, as opposed to narrator of his own experience, Catone is a bit of an apologist. He hates and rejects the term “Baby Boomer” for its origins as a marketing term (his aunt was on Madison Avenue), but his trajectory through life is interesting because it follows a quite typical Boomer arc. After a rather innocent high school experience, he embarks on an idealistic college sojourn, working in both the anti-war movement and the McGovern campaign. His adult life is then spent primarily working for the government, with a brief, unsuccessful foray (eerily echoing his father’s life) into small business ownership. Adulthood is punctuated by exercises in self-actualization and occasional political activism. These and other details are those of a quintessential Boomer existence, even if he prefers the term “Sixties Gen.” Like many self-published authors, Catone needs an editor, but readers will be won over by his earnestness, candor, and marshaling of details. •
The story of a homegrown pattie
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ou’ll see it listed on diner menus as a Tullyburger or, in more recent years, as a Tully Burger, a tummyfilling grilled cheeseburger on a bun, topped with raw onion, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. It’s an Ithaca original. You’d be hard-pressed to find it even a few miles outside of Ithaca, and even less likely in the nearby town of Tully, where they may have heard of it only from itinerant Ithacans asking irritating questions. The Tullyburger is an Ithaca-born-andbred diner specialty, and though we’ve shed a tear over the loss of beloved diners—Manos on Route 13, Dryden Road’s Greek House, and Carl’s in the Ithaca Shopping Plaza—there are still a few good places where you can chow down on a tasty Tullyburger and speculate on its possible status as precursor to the Big Mac. Cornell cultural historian Corey Earle was able to track down mention of it as far back as 1951, in a Cornell Daily Sun ad for a
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(Top) The Tullyburger (Below in rows) A breakdown of the process diner on the inlet called Wes & Les’s, across of making a Tullyburger (Photos Diane Duthie) the street from the old Lehigh Valley train station at 1002 West State Street. That puts it somewhere near the lot now occupied the gas class of ’56, responding to the inquiry, wrote pumps at Pete’s Grocery. The location would “The Tullyburger was the gustatorial (and have made it a popular spot for passengers intellectual) property of Wes & Les’s, located ready to climb aboard or disembark from the in downtown Ithaca, hard by the railroad Erie-Lackawanna Railroad’s Phoebe Snow passenger train on its route between Hoboken tracks. Wes & Les’s was open until the wee hours, and purveyed Tullyburgers by the and Buffalo through Ithaca. Wes and Les’s, open all night, served the college students too. bagsful to hungry Cornellians fortunate enough to have the cars required to journey One of these was John Martin Tully, class of from the Hill to fetch them.” Bloom added 1946. And this, we think, is how the Tullyburger “The burger served in [the town of] Tully is not a true Tullyburger. It is a cruel hoax.” came into being. In later years, responding In their 1951 Cornell Daily Sun display to a request in the Cornell Alumni News ad, Wes & Les billed their place as “The Home from an alumnus searching for leads on its of the Tullyburger”, “still only 25 cents.” Their origins, Frank Senior, Cornell class of 1949, subtitle read “Consolation also a specialty,” responded, “Wes, the [Wes and Les] night cook, would make anything you wanted and continued on page 24 together he and John [Tully] created the Tullyburger.” Another alum, Bruce Bloom, T
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What They Do For Love
It’s your last week to check out a great musical By Br yan VanC ampe n A Chorus Line, conceived, originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. Directed by Nathaniel Shaw, musical direction by Joel Gelpe, original Broadway choreography
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I’d have seen many productions of West Side Story, which I’ve finally seen twice in the past year, and now A Chorus Line for the very first time. It is on stage at Cortland Repertory Theatre for the first time in its 45 summer seasons. To put it in perspective, this 1975 musical, drawn from real stories told from veteran show dancers, was the Hamilton of its day, winning several Tonys and even the Pulitzer Prize. Take the opening cattle call sequence from Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz (1979), make that into a musical, and you have the story. Zach (Tom DeMichele), a director of a musical that is never named, is auditioning 20 hoofers of both sexes for four male and four
The cast of “A Chorus Line” (Photo: Eric Behnke)
female roles, so competition is fierce. Set in an anonymous dance studio with painted lines on the stage and a backing mirror that reveals most of the CRT audience looking back at the action, Zach doesn’t just put them through routines and patterns; he wants to talk to them, find out why they need to dance, and where the pain is behind all these performers infected with “hey look at me” disease. I am always fascinated by performers who can do what I can’t do, and the manic energy of the show often tips over into terror and flop sweat. At just about two and a half hours with intermission, the show/ audition process thrums with exhilaration and near exhaustion. Most of the cast was previously seen in CRT’s production of West Side Story, and it’s always fascinating to see performers talented in one area encouraged to grow and stretch. Three new actors joining the cast are Emma Degerstedt as Cassie, a former rising star going back to the chorus, and a former flame of Zach’s; Andrea Dotto, capturing something very 1970s in her performance, reminding me of Gilda Radner in Godspell; and DeMichele. In alphabetical order, the remaining cast members are: Nicholas Berke as Al, Drew Carr as Mike, Michael Ivan Carrier as Larry, Giovanni Da Silva as Paul, James Spencer Dean as Bobby, Ezekiel Edmonds as Don, Joan Heeringa as Judy, and Caroline Kane as Val. Also, Lizzie Markson as Kristine, Logan Mortier as Greg, Melissa Rapelje as Shelia, Erica Nicole Rothman as Maggie, Brittany Santos as Diana, Alexa Shanahan as Bebe, Richard Westfahl as Mark and Anthony Wright as Richie. Appearing in the opening number are Jacob Major as Roy, and Bailey Kote as Tricia and Cassidy Halpin as Vicki. This is compelling adult stuff, and quite a bit more frank than the kinds of backstage banter scenes from the MGM/Warner Bros. era. Kane as Val is utterly honest when she tells us in “Dance Ten, Looks Three” that she didn’t start booking jobs until she underwent extensive plastic surgery in certain, ahem, key areas, and Da Silva is heartbreakingly good as Paul, a confused and insecure gay man; Paul’s centerpiece monolog is the epic tale of act two, and Da Silva pulls off every word without one slick dance step. The show moved me to tears on three occasions, none more so than Brittany Santos, expressing the dancer’s passion for us all with the moving standard “What I Did For Love”. The entire cast may be earning a living and accumulating Equity points but you can see that they’re doing it for love, too. •
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Late American playwright’s final act By Ros s Ha ars ta d Chronicles in an era (the late 1980s) that the Great White Way featured few female playwrights. That play managed atching Third, currently enjoying to speak to a certain part of the zeitgeist: the aftermath of the heady movement of a sharp and invigorating second-wave feminism, women’s liberation, production at the Hangar, my with a woman finding herself stalled, first reaction is that playwright Wendy bereft of both sisterhood and a satisfying Wasserstein left us (at age 55) much too relationship. soon. Wasserstein’s breezy humor makes her Hilarious, tough-minded, rueful, people a delight to watch but sometimes and full of a wry wit, Third tackles issues trips up her bigger issues. She is best of privilege, political polarization and, enjoyed as a fine writer of the comedy most poignantly, aging in the playwright’s of manners: her material being a liberal familiar mix of sharp satire and robust Eastern elite, both Jewish and gentile, that character-driven comedy. The Third of features strong-minded women. At heart the title is nominally Woodson Bull III, she is humanist who opts for optimism as attending a small liberal northeastern an answer to the vicissitudes of a politically college on a wrestling scholarship, who mad world. prefers his nickname. He is the chosen Michael Barikiva’s fluid, sure direction, nemesis of one of his teachers, renowned graced by touches of stage magic, makes the play sparkle, cry urgently, and settle for hard but satisfying hope. Aiding him is Shoko Kambara’s superb set: an ivied, brick edifice dominates the background, complete with an imposing set of doors, while the foreground is laid out as an inside/outside arena; Steve Ten Eyck’s typically adroit lighting keeps a cinematic flow in cahoots with Don Tindall’s smart sound design; Suzanne Chesney fits character to clothing in her costumes (they all comes together in a marvelous fantasy sequence, as Jameson undergoes Dee Pelletier stars as Laurie Jameson in “Third” a hot flash at a climatic moment.) (Photo: Rachel Philipson) Dee Pelletier grabs hold of Jameson’s thorny arrogance and rides it to dizzying comic effect, yet also lays bare the anguished heart of a feminist literary critic Laurie Jameson. To woman up against the uncertainties of a her, he appears to be everything she detests suddenly unraveling life. David Patterson about the world of one President, who has navigates Third with assurance, starting just pushed through an authorization for with an easy bonhomie that turns into use of force in Iraq (the play covers the moments of sharp bitterness. As Jameson’s first year of the Iraq war under George W. colleague, Nancy Gordon, Catherine Bush). Weidner puts forth a wealth of nettles and The affable boy, who well aware of warmth, as Gordon maintains a moral the shadow he casts as a heterosexual compass through a recurrence of cancer. white male, seeks out courses on feminist Eunice Akinola plays Jameson’s approaches to Shakespeare and Developing daughter Emily with a solid spine and a World authors. sure sense of her own self-worth. In two Unable to get her hands around Bush, roles, Malcolm Ingram brings an old-style an empty nester disconnected from her stage presence, which fits well with both own offspring, with an offstage husband undergoing a mid-life crisis, and an onstage the posh Professor Havilland and the father in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s, the bewildered but doting father, Jack. Lear echoes gently through the play brilliant and caustic Jameson makes war with focuses on aging, generational wars, on Third, accusing him of plagiarism when and the blindness of power until stripped he turns in a sharply argued paper on King of its robes. Third has a second meaning, Lear. advanced by Gordon: the final uncertain, Wasserstein had the dubious fortune but to be relished, chapter of a life. • to break through to Broadway success with her Pulitzer-winning The Heidi Third by Wendy Wasserstein, Hangar Theatre through July 30
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Infrared Radiation Orchestra and Misses Bitches By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Infrared Radiation Orchestra, CD Release Show, Silver Line Tap Room; Misses Bitches and Danny Speer’s Cat Opera, Rongovian Embassy; both on Friday, July 29, 9 p.m.
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number forged in fantasy and wit. An epic, hilarious, and sort of melancholy tale about rock-and-roll heaven featuring Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Paul Simon, among others. The song mimics, dances, and explodes into the stratosphere, engaging and wholly endearing. “Dolly Dagger,” a Hendrix cover, is really killer: bright, ripping, and explosive. “Always Ever Staring” revels in early punk, new wave, and science-fiction; a nice contrast and warming embrace to the album’s perpetual honoring of the progression of electric music. There’s a “Mission Impossible” number in the album as well, and it rules. HD76151 is awash in Draheim scorchers, blues underlinings, tight cohesion, and a driving spirit. It’s a really cool record that lies on a pedestal of it’s own impressions. Live, Infrared Radiation Orchestra do the whole thing even better. The formidable Misses Bitches are glued together like some kind of hippie wolf pack. Their EP Self Preservation— released April 2—is a specimen of unique individuality that widens every angle, every corner, and every morphing apex. The honesty of the record wins you over with each listen—warm, melodic, earthy, and just plain whole. Every characteristic that circles its way towards defining the structure of the band clings together happily and swiftly throughout the collection of songs; blending a sort of
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naturalistic ideology with an edgy contemporary thump. The album is a bit like shaking Townes Van Zandt and Neko Case upside down, wringing out their loose attributes into cooking bowl; throwing in some vegan butter made from the sinew of Pharaoh Sanders and the Talking Heads; adding some mystical air bottled up from all that psychedelic static from the Summer of Love—baking it all up—and spreading some thick and chocolaty Meat Puppets fronted by Janis Joplin-frosting all over the thing. “Daggermouth” opens the sixsong EP up with a call to the wild moons of yesterday: the harmony breaking your inner misanthropic nature, letting you loose and wild and ready to be picked up. It’s a scorcher and a nimble prelude to the evenness and heartiness of the album. “Heartbreak Shoes” has the fortitude of some divine energy from god knows where. Misses Bitches’ three front women make it their mission to wake your oppressed heart up: pulling it out and spinning it on a fluxing carousel. The song drives with an inner punk rage carefully disguised with normal levels, neat excursions, and wizard like bass playing. “Nothing Was Wrong” is a really flexible textural gem, with saxophone soundscapes painted dotingly over cool jazz, ambient tones, and Fleetwood Mac dualism. The guitar work is ethereal, layered, and wide; the melody is exaggerated by the abstract nature of the song; and the over all feeling is that of
(Top) Kim Draheim from Infrared Radiation Orchestra (Below) April West and Amara Steinkraus from Misses Bitches (Photos Facebook)
liquid birth emersion. “Lady Loo” and “Traveling Song” continue the overall liberation of folk rock from its muddy and stagnant designs: weaving through notes and melody with a purpose. Misses Bitches move their own way with their own set of rules, aspirations, and visions. •
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comedy, characters, guest cast and scientific gobbledygook that sounds cool when people say them, and Star Trek Beyond feels like one of the good ones. If every comic book is some kid’s first, this is a great first Trek movie for the kid in your life (or in you). It’s one of the summer’s few really fun romps. Part three kicks off with Kirk (Chris Pine) bringing an artifact as a peace offering to an alien culture. It all goes wrong, and Spock (Zachary Quinto) files the artifact away. We then hear Kirk’s latest captain’s log—a scene that really establishes the reality of the crew we’re always hearing about—and on the eve of his birthday, he’s considering a desk job. Then the SS Enterprise answers a distress call that turns out to be a trap. Once the ship crashes on yet another harsh, inhospitable planet, the crew is separated and a villain named as Krall (Idris Elba, maybe 2016’s busiest actor with this, Finding Dory, The Jungle Book and Zootopia already) shows up, and he
wants the artifact. Separating the crew is always a good way to go, and we get Kirk paired with Chekhov (the late Anton Yelchin), McCoy (Karl Urban, finally given the role in a ST story he deserves) tending to a wounded Spock, Sulu (John Cho) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) and the rest of the crew, held captive by Krall and his crew, and Scotty (Simon Pegg) teaming up with a Zachary Quinto stars as Spock in “Star Trek Beyond” (Photo Provided) powder-white scavenger woman named Jaylah amazing BBC series Spaced. (Sofia Boutella). Oh, It’s impossible to overstate the and Sulu’s gay, and I understand him to innovative visuals and light touch that be the first gay character in the history of the ST shows and films. (See that, Donald the series’ new director, Justin Lin, brings to this latest version of Star Trek. Lin Trump? That’s called progress, and you has been a favorite director of mine for can’t stop it.) quite some time; some would argue that Now that Abrams has moved on to his Fast and Furious films are the most reboot the other big “Star” property with entertaining flicks in the series, and he’s Star Wars The Force Awakens, the new directed some of my favorite episodes series gets passed on to director Justin of Community, notably the paintball Lin, and in a nod to the late Leonard shows that parodied Die Hard, spaghetti Nimoy’s input into the series, the script Westerns and Star Wars. Star Trek Beyond for Star Trek Beyond is co-written by is a robust, muscular thriller in the classic co-star—and Trek nerd—Simon Pegg. tradition, and yet over and over again, Anyone who questions Pegg’s geek Lin’s visual imagination results in angles credentials only needs to see his films and shots that we’ve never seen before. • made with Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End, and their
of Engineering degree in 1948. Going home to Memphis, he rose to the position of president and chairman of the board of directors of Anderson-Tully Co., one of Memphis’ oldest lumber firms, according to his obituary. He died in 1993. He had been a Navy officer during World War II, and was a member of the Memphis Country Club and Memphis Hunt and Polo Club. And John Martin Tully’s presence is still felt in Ithaca, at a handful of local joints. At the Glenwood Pines for $4.50, you can enjoy a lake view while chowing down on a ¼ pound cheeseburger served on a sesame seed roll with mayo, lettuce, tomato, and raw onions. At the iconic State Diner, you have your choice between a ¼ pound or ½ pound cheeseburger with (you guessed it) lettuce, tomato, raw onion, and mayo for $5.29 or $7.29 Louie’s Lunch, Ithaca’s original food truck, serving since 1918 from its perch across from Prudence Risley Hall and known in the wild ‘60s as Lousy Louie’s Luncheonette and Country Club “open all day and most of the night—and when it’s not open, you should be sleeping.” offers a Tully Burger as a single or double at $3.85 or $5.00 Up near Ithaca College, Rogan’s Corner has reinvented the Tully Burger as a sub consisting of two burgers, tomato, mayo, lettuce, onion, and cheese, half sub for $5, or full for $8. Even the Ithaca schools serve them
to elementary school kids, with a side of hummus and carrots. It is reputed that the late, great local journalist Payne Peterson did a significant study on the subject back in the late 80s, but there is no index to Ithaca Journal articles, and many nauseainducing hours reviewing Journals of that period before a microfiche machine produced no results. So I hereby declare John Martin Tully ’46 the “official” inventor. Of course, the higher-end restaurants would rather throw ingredients like smoked cherry or shallot aioli, tarragon Russian dressing, barbecue sauce, caramelized apples, Cajun spices, bleu, Gorgonzola or Brie, pico de gallo, pickles, Creole ketchup, caramelized onions, John Martin Tully in his Cornell yearbook photo (Photo Provided) guacamole, pesto—even crabcakes!—at burgers and charge twelve to fifteen bucks a pop (with through the garden,” the Tully Burger a side, of course). And who can blame lives on, 70-or-so years after its invention, them? a true and ongoing Ithaca original. • But for the hearty souls who can appreciate a basic burger, “dragged
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Third film in Star Trek reboot hits the mark By Br yan VanC ampe n Star Trek Beyond, directed by Justin Lin, playing at Regal Stadium 14.
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mmm … if the best original cast Star Trek movies were the even ones, the odd ones in the post2009 J.J. Abrams reboot are shaping up to be the best iterations of a 50-year-old franchise as re-imagined. I really enjoyed the Abrams version, loved the new cast and appreciated the alternate time line notion that seemed to promise so much freedom and possibility within a wellestablished sci-fi franchise with a definite house style. Into Darkness suffered for trying to retell Wrath of Khan, a story about mortal enemies over time when not enough time had elapsed; we hadn’t lived with the characters like we had with William Shatner and Ricardo Montalban. (They should have done the TOS Space Seed as a film, and saved Darkness for ST 10 or something.) Certain Trek episodes just seem to achieve the perfect blend of action,
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which is rather mysterious. Whether they were consoling lovelorn late-nighters, crew race losers, or January mornings’ sanitation engineers will probably remain a mystery. By 1956 they were also advertising the “Super Tullyburger,” according to Earle. Editor of the Ithaca Journal, and then of Cornell Alumni Magazine, as well as a local denizen, John Marcham ‘50 credited John M. Tully ‘46 in one of his columns in the magazine, saying he remembered when Tully was still in Ithaca in 1948. He also calls Tully the “father of the burger” in the 1980 book A Century at Cornell, according to Earle. In his yearbook photo, John Martin Tully, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, sports his United States Navy uniform. He is listed as a member of Psi U, an athlete lettering in varsity baseball and varsity football, a member of the Civil Engineering Honor Committee, and a member of the Navy V-12 program, which was established in 1943 to produce commissioned officers to command ships and fly planes in World War II. Other graduates of V-12 programs included Robert F. Kennedy, actor Jack Lemmon, commissioner of baseball Bowie Kuhn, newsman Pierre Salinger, and senator and ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Tully actually graduated in 1945, then returned to Ithaca to receive his Masters 24
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7/27 Wednesday Mac Benford and Upsouth | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Traditional, Old-Time, Americana. Whistling Dyl and the Wild Band of Cowboys | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Hillbilly Soul, Alternative Rock, Texas Waltzes. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Wei Zhongle, BRIAN!, Tender Cruncher | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Progressive Rock, Experimental, Punk, Avant-Garde. Ithaca Underground presents.
7/28 Thursday The Way Down Wanderers | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Bluegrass, Americana. Don Slatoff | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz. David Pulizzi | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | American Folk, Country, Blues, Rock. Harry Nichols | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Indie Rock, Pop Punk, Rock.
CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz. Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night. Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com Ley Line | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Folk, Soul, Americana. The People’s Champs, World Beat Thursday | 8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Afrobeat, World, Indie, Experimental, Rock, Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Funk, Soul.
PM | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | Country. The Sara Hulse Band | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Folk, Bluegrass, Rock, Indie, Reggae. Misses Bitches, Danny Spears | 9:00 PM-11:30 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Folk Rock, Punk, Americana, Psychedelic. Infrared Radiation Orchestra: CD Release Party | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Progressive Rock, Funk, Psychedelic, Blues.
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Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Stella’s Barn, 1346 Elmira Rd., Newfield | 50’s, 60’s, Rockabilly, Old Rock and Roll. Black Mountain Symphony | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | Baroque, Classical, Folk, Funk, Rock, Motown, Blues, Jazz. Randy Z | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | The Purple Valley | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Wagners Winery, 9322 NY-414, Lodi | Blues, Soul, Rock, Country. Under Construction | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Funk, Soul, Rock, Blues, Dance. St. Vith | 8:00 PM-10:30 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Folk Rock, Jazz, Soul, Psychedelic, Jam, Americana. Glacial Erotics, Barroom Philosophers | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock and Roll, Rock, Post-Rock, Funk, Blues, Punk.
Ley Line | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Folk, Soul, Americana. Mad Cow Tippers | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Alternative Country, Cow Punk, Psychobilly, Rockabilly. Rebecca and the Soul Shakers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Soul, Psychedelic, Blues, Americana. Katherine Aelias Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Folk, Americana. Long John and the Tights | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Old-time, Americana. Suspect | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | Rock, Classic Rock. The Tarps | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Classic Rock. Sim Redmond Band | 7:00 PM-10:00
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Dyden Music Series: Stone Cold Miracle | 6:00 PM | VFW, 2272 Dryden Rd, Dryden | Soul with funky beats & Gospel vocals. Concerts In The Park: Woodshed Prophets | 7:00 PM | Hickories Park, Hickories Park Road, Owego | Kick back in the grass and enjoy free concerts by local and regional musicians.
7/31 Sunday Blue Skies | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Vintage Jazz, Blues Standards. Music and Mimosas: | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Spend your Sunday afternoons this summer at Hosmer Winery with live entertainment. Jerome Attardo | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano. Distilled | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | Rock, Pop. The Tarps | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Classic Rock, Covers. Gerard Burke | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Mississippi Delta Blues. B.D. Lenz | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.
8/02 Tuesday Miss Tess & Thomas Bryan Eaton | 6:00 PM-8:15 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Americana, Roots, Folk. Pete Panek & the Blue Cats | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Chicago Blues, Rock. Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach. Tuesday Bluesday | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Weekly Blues. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.
7/28 Thursday CFCU Summer Concert Series: Wassa Pan Afrika Dance Ensemble
| 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | World, International, Dance. Fabi World Xperience | 7:00 PM | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route 414, Burdett | Latin, World, Funk, Roots. Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM | DeWitt Park, Ithaca | The choral portion of the concert will include the first movement of Vivaldi’s Gloria; show tunes from Rent and The Wiz; and the 1930s vocal jazz medley, It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Sing! Sing! Sing! The band segment will include
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Jeff Beck & Buddy Guy | 7:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Blues, Rock, Fusion, Jazz, Progressive. Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.
7/30 Saturday Lyle Lovett and His Large Band & Emmylou Harris | 7:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Texas Country, Americana, Alternative Country, Bluegrass, Folk, Country Rock.
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The Lumineers, Langhorne Slim & The Law and Rayland Baxter | 7:00 PM | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown | Indie Folk, Folk Rock, Americana. Taughannock Falls Summer Concert Series | 7:00 PM | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath House Stage, Trumansburg |
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Cafe Society | Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. | 96 mins PG-13 | Captain Fantastic | In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent. | 118 mins R | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. | 101 mins PG-13 |
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Cornell Summer Cinema: Top Hat | 9:30 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Edward Everett Horton. An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer. | 101 mins |
Music in the Hollow: Jeff Love Band | 6:00 PM- | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Motown, Funk & Soul. Journey West | 7:30 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | The ensemble will focus on melodies and instrumentation that started in the Middle East and traveled through Europe and across the ocean to the New World. Journey West with Max Buckholtz | 7:30 PM- | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell College, Ithaca | Chronicles the migration of musical melodies from their countries of origin to distant lands. Straight No Chaser | 8:00 PM | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | If the phrase Male A Capella group conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses… think again. Straight No
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In this tragedy by Oscar Wilde the beauty of Princess Salome can enchant anybody except the imprisoned prophet Iokanaan. Faced with rejection by the one she loves, Salome casts a death wish on Iokanaan, forcing King Herod to decide between his own desire for her and his fears from the uncanny powers and influence of the prophet. Esthetically elevated text, based on the Gospels: Power, passion, and prophetic visions intermingled in a modernized interpretation.
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Ithaca Community Emergency Need Blood Drive | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Visit www.redcrossblood.org Longview Open House | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/28 Thursday | Longview, 1 Bella Vista Drive, Ithaca | Guests can enjoy tours of the facilities and consult with staff about independent living, assisted living and enhanced assisted living options. Refreshments will be available, along with information about Longview’s programs and resident artwork on display. For more information, call 607-375-6315 or email kabarnes@ithaca.edu. Aurora Free Library Book Sale | 8:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/30 Saturday, 7/30 Sunday | Aurora Masonic Center, Main Street, Aurora | Proceeds will go to the library and Peachtown Elementary School. The Masonic Center will serve food from 11 am - 6pm on Friday, July 29th and Saturday, July 30th. Circle for Healthy Eating and Wellness (CHEW) | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 8/02 Tuesday | Just Be Cause Center,
Learning Cornell Free Lectures: Brian O. Earle: Civility and Manners—Do They Really Matter? | 7:00 PM-, 7/27 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Free summer lectures. Energy Bites | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Debra Walsh will show you how to make satiating protein snacks that get you through exercise routines or camping trips. Samples and recipes provided. Registration is required sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Candor Historical Society Talk | 7:00 PM-, 7/27 Wednesday | Candor Fire Hall, , Candor | Presentation of the many photographs taken of Candor’s older barns and farms in the Area. Professional, award winning photographer Bob Strickland, Candor resident, has been busy combing the area over the past few years chronicling a large part of Candor’s agricultural history. For more information about this and other Candor Historical Society events, contact President Milt Dougherty: 607-659-7357; mhdough@frontiernet. net. Leveraging Instagram for Business | 3:00 PM-4:30 PM, 7/29 Friday | Alternatives Federal Credit Union, 125 N. Fulton Street, Ithaca | Leverage the incredibly interactive Instagram network by tapping into the power of #hashtags, and learning visual techniques that will grab your customers’ attention. It is strongly recommended that attendees bring an Internet-ready device to class, as a wi-fi data connection will be available. All materials (”handouts”) for this mini-workshop will be delivered electronically via the Internet. www. alternatives.org How to Create a Healthy Home With Essential Oils | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 7/30 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Road, Lansing | Educational class and everyone leaves with a free gift.
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The choral portion of the concert will include the first movement of Vivaldi’s Gloria; show tunes from Rent and The Wiz; and the 1930s vocal jazz medley, It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Sing! Sing! Sing! The band segment will include American River Songs; Clarinet Candy, a Scott Joplin tune, and On the Commons written by the late Chas Hockett, a former member of the band.
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| Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Directed by Yavor Kostov. Runs July 28th and 29th. The beauty of Princess Salome can enchant anybody except the imprisoned prophet Iokanaan. Faced with rejection by the one she loves, Salome casts a death wish on Iokanaan, forcing King Herod to decide between his own desire for her and his fears from the uncanny powers and influence of the prophet. Esthetically elevated text, based on the Gospels: Power, passion, and prophetic visions intermingled in a modernized interpretation Visit HangarTheatre.org for showtimes. Crazy For You | Wednesday July 27, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 28, 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 29 and Saturday, July 30, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Monday, August 1, 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 2, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Gershwin’s musical is fun for the entire family and chock full of classic songs and toe tapping choreography. Third | Thursday, 7/21, 7:30 PM, Friday, 7/22, 8:00 PM, Saturday, 7/23, 3:00 PM, 8:00 PM, Sunday, 7/24, 7:30 PM, Tuesday, 7/26, 7:30 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | When Laurie Jameson, a charismatic professor at a prestigious New England college, accuses a student athlete of plagiarism, her seemingly well-ordered
life as a wife, mother and daughter is thrown into dizzying disarray. hangartheatre.org A Chorus Line | Wednesday, 7/27 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM, Thursday, 7/28, 7:30 PM, Friday, 7/29, 7:30 PM, Saturday, 7/30, 7:30 PM | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and celebrating its 40th anniversary, this dazzling musical tells the story of the unsung heroes of the Broadway stage – the dedicated, talented and overworked chorus dancers. A nine-time Tony-Award winner, this musical and dance spectacular brings to life the dream, the thrill and the hope of the Broadway audition. With one captivating song and dance after another, this show is also a brilliant metaphor for all human aspiration. Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 | 7/28 Thursday, 8:00 PM, 7/29 Friday, 8:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Til Death Do Us Part is the latest class to be unveiled in this sinfully funny series. After teaching countless students about the saints, venial sins, limbo and more, Sister is now offering up hilarious lessons on the Sacraments of Marriage and Last Rites, including her own wacky version of the Newlywed Game.
Special Events 42nd Annual Broome Country Fair | Broome County Fairgrounds, 51 Grand Stand Blvd., Whitney Point | Info at 607-692-4149 or via email at broomecofair@frontiernet.net. Newfield Old Home Days | 11:00 AM-9:00 PM, 7/29 Friday | Newfield Central School, , Newfield | Parade, live music, vendors, food, basketball tournament, car show, fireworks, and much more! newfieldoldhomedays.org Cayuga Lake SUP Cup | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/29 Friday | Myers Park, Lansing, 1 Lansing Park Rd, Lansing | Largest fresh water SUP race east of Lake Tahoe and the home of the WPA Region 8 National Points Race! Check out our schedule for the full list of fun SUP events and wellness activities at cayugalakesupcup.com Skaneateles Antique and Classic Boat Show | 7/29 Friday , 7/30 Saturday, and 7/31 Sunday | Skaneateles Lakefront, Skaneateles | Each summer during the last weekend in July, the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society invites wooden boaters from across the United States and Canada to gather at the north end of Skaneateles Lake. Skaneateles Lake is the eastern most of the Finger Lakes of Upstate New York and provides an elegant backdrop for this annual antique wooden boat show. Skaneateles Lake has also been named the one of the cleanest lakes in the United States. Come enjoy the natural beauty of the lake and over 80 antique and classic boats, both on land and in the water. Folk Art Series: Tuscarora Beading | 10:00 AM-, 7/30 Saturday | BementBillings Farmstead, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | Participants make a raised beadwork, 3 inch medallion rose & legends with Native American beading artest Rodie Hill. 607-6425412, 607-642-9974 Email: nvhistory@ stny.rr.com Cayuga Lake SUP Cup | 7/30 Saturday, 7/31 Sunday | Myers Park, Lansing, 1 Lansing Park Rd, Lansing | Largest fresh water SUP race east of Lake Tahoe and the home of the WPA Region 8 National Points Race! Check
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Ley Line is a multilingual folk and soul band from Austin Texas. Through vocal harmonies, upright bass, guitar, ukulele, and percussion, their influences draw from international folklore music from North and South America; imagine Devendra Banhart and Feist had four love children who grew up climbing trees and listening to Paul Simon and Sam Cooke. The band is all over town this week, playing Thursday, 7/28 at 8 p.m. at Casita Del Polaris, Friday 7/29 at 5 p.m. at The Rongovian Embassy, Saturday, 7/30 at 10 a.m. at The Ithaca Farmers Market, and Sunday, 7/31 at 12 p.m. at Agava. That’s some week. You have no excuses to not check em out at least once. (Photo Provided) out our schedule for the full list of fun SUP events and wellness activities at cayugalakesupcup.com 4th Annual Just Be Cause Party | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/31 Sunday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Featuring music by The Destination. Swingin’ On Cayuga | 12:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/31 Sunday | Big Pavilion at Stewart Park, , Ithaca | The Ithaca Swing Dance Network presents an afternoon of dance lessons followed by a pot-luck dinner and DJ dance. Lessons noon - 7 pm, dinner 5:30 - 7, dance 7 - 9. Free and open to the public. No experience or partner required. For lesson schedule go to ithacaswing.org. Chiming County Fair | 8/02 Tuesday | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Road, Horseheads | See listings at chemungcountyfair.com
Ongoing East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com. Beginner Belly Dancing Series | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/27
Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites adults of all ages to exercise their minds and bodies this summer by joining Belly Dancing Basics With Regina, a four-part introduction to belly dancing. This fun-filled, judgment-free program will be facilitated by TCPL Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro and feature—through beginner-level movements--an introduction to Middle Eastern dance. To register or for more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org. Live Demo: The Coolest Science | 1:00 PM-, 7/27 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Beat the heat this summer and experience the coolest science right before your eyes! Join our educators to discover how different items react to the extreme temperatures of dry ice and liquid nitrogen. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600. Exploring Science! | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 7/27 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you explore science through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn different science processes each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.
Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies. Sciencenter Mini-Golf | 7/27 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Enjoy 18 holes of science fun! www.sciencenter.org or 607-2720600. Bike Night | 6:30 PM-, 7/27 Wednesday | The Parkview Restaurant, 145 Front Street, Owego | Come down every Wednesday to listen to music, chat with friends, eat good food, and look at motorcycles! A different band will be playing each week. Contact: 607-972-5724 Tai Chi for Arthritis & Fall Prevention | 1:00 PM-, 7/27 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad, 58 Main Street, Candor | Hour-long sessions meet twice a week for eight weeks. Each session is taught by a certified instructor and includes warm-up and cool-down exercises
and tai chi forms. Night light and take-home materials provided.To register call Sue at 607-659-3022 or email sueheaven@gmail.com Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/27 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Summer Exhibition: Motion Mania | 7/27 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Design a roller coaster while making discoveries about force, energy, friction, and stability. Explore the science behind what it takes to build an amusement park and then create, test, and re-test as you build your own twisting, spinning, zooming coaster. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600. Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 4:15 PM-, 7/28 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-, 7/29 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and newborns under 18-months-old are invited to join Library staff Fridays for music, rhymes, movement and books. This storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime. All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/29 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods. Info: (240) 538-3917. Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-, 7/29 Friday, 7/30 Saturday | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015. Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00
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AM-12:15 PM, 7/30 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | OA is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835 Dryden Farmers Market | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/30 Saturday | Dryden Agway, 59 W Main, Dryden | Enjoy local fruits & veggies, honey, eggs, cut flowers, canned salsas & sauces, artisan crafts and so much more. Sterling Renaissance Festival | Sterling Renaissance Festival, Fraden Rd., Sterling | Stage acts this year include Warehouse Productions, Clan Tynker Circus, Draiku, Honor For Hyre, Jacques Ze Whipper, and many more. Info and tickets at sterlingfestival.com. Game on Summer: Larger than Life | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/01 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | An opportunity for gamers to try out giant versions of some of their favorite games, including Hungry, Hungry Hippos, Jenga, Angry Birds, live-action Wizards Chess and more. Popular Game On selections Exploding Kittens, Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons will also be available during this free, family-friendly weekly program. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org. or (607) 272-4557 extension 274. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 8/02 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, , Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market. For more information, contact the library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/02 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us! Anime Club | 4:15 PM-6:00 PM, 8/02 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Anime Club is open to young adults ages 11 through 19 with an interest in anime and Manga.Participants will watch films, discuss titles and share what they are reading during free Club sessions. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at
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onjuring the kind of image-behindthe-veil kaleidoscopic trance of America’s first wave of psychedelic rock bands, Hammondsport’s retro-hued St. Vith, forge the acid tones and bluesy stillness of yesteryear, happily searching the universe for that sacred ether of the mystical sixties. With numbers that run vibrant and loose, echoing a belief in a time, a place, and a destination, they lull you into a haze of jazzy tranquility, happily extending original compositions, Grateful Dead covers, and beatnik dreamscapes. I caught up with the band recently, as they prepare for a big liftoff Saturday night at the mighty Rongovian Embassy. Ithaca Times: Are you guys named after the Christian saint St. Vitus? And if so, is the moniker a tribute to the saint’s artistic devotion? Oliver Burdo (guitar, vocals): The name came to be as an off kilter Kurt Vonnegut reference. St. Vith is the Belgian City in which Vonnegut’s division (The Golden Lions) where reinforced after 5,000 troops were taken POW prior to the city during World War II; and the city was the base of reinforcement. The name is as much a tribute to Vonnegut as it is to the
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Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca | Two person exhibit featuring Suzanne Onodera and Stan Taft. An extraordinary exhibit of oil paintings On view through August 31. Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too through July. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too. com Eye Gallery | 126 The Commons Fl. 2 | Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman bring the lush expanse of the plant kingdom to the Commons. Hilton Garden Inn | 130 Seneca Street, Ithaca | Laura Soroka: State of Mind. Laura will display acrylic paint prints on watercolor paper which symbolize different mental health recovery projects. Home Green Home | 215 East State/ MLK Street | Water & Life: Fernando Llosa and Ryan Curtis. An invitation into a spiritual experience of Nature,
stylized landscape illustrations. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Personal Abstractions: Paintings and Collages by Laura Glenn. | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Gabe Carraher, “En plein air”, featuring oils and watercolors done in California. | www.thecellardor.com Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Nature Made. Don’t let modernization make you forget the taste of real food. | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, the Quilt Divas present an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by 23 past and present member artists. | www.csma-ithaca.org
ongoig Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Catherine Montgomery: Illustrations. This collection of bright and beautiful illustrations by local artist Catherine Montgomery, feature intricate figurative and floral patterns in gleaming gilt images | www. benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Rafe Harpending: Amateur Hour. A mix of geometric and
division. It isn’t fully known whether or not the city is truly named after St. Vitus, but most speculate it is. IT: You guys sound like you have an affinity for the past. What is it that attracts you to mindset and reality of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s? Alexander Devereaux (drums): Man, I was born in the ‘90s, and I’ve been stuck in the ‘60s and ‘70s. All my favorite music is from the time. I grew up listening to Ozzy, Zeppelin, the Doors, and Hendrix; but it wasn’t until I moved out here [Hammondsport] that I truly grasped the Dead. OB: There is a certain sense of romanticizing the ‘60s and ‘70s. It was a time like no other. Its attractiveness to me is probably similar to what attracted the individuals of that era to create, to rebel, and to announce themselves as individuals. These are the children and adults from a time of war. In my eyes, people simply wished to be, back then, and with that came a certain stray from the path. That era was in and of itself a witness to a birth of the world moving on. A new beginning that still keeps its foothold in the world today. IT: You guys do a really cool cover of “China Cat/Eyes of the Word/West L.A. Fadeaway.” I take it you guys are inspired by the Grateful Dead? In what ways do you think they pushed the artistic envelope concerning music, and why do you cover their music? Jordan Seager (keyboards): The Dead were among the first to bring elaborate improvisation—like in jazz—to the rock and roll format, and ultimately their great success allowed them to become iconic as the psychedelic rock
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PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Patty Porter’s oil paintings and Drawn Meditations show an up-close and intimate interpretation of landscapes, both real and imagined. | www.padmacenter.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August The Rook | 404 W. State St. | Phoebe Aceto: Fowl Play | Process in pen, print, and paint. Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | The Map is Inside. A voyage of paintings and recycled creations by Alice Muhlback of Spirit and Kitsch. | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Bowman, Bowman, and Kather. This is a lively and colorful mix of photographs, digital manipulations and sculpture by three gallery
members during July. | www.soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Landscape Paintings of Ithaca Scenes by Nari Mistry Landscapes in watercolors, acrylics, oils and a few pastel paintings make up much of his work. His paintings reflect his fascination with the theme of water in the natural landscape. Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. | www. wafflefrolicking.com
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Journey West chronicles the migration of musical melodies from their countries of origin to distant lands. With Dara Anissi, Mark Wienand Karlsen, Chad Lieberman, and Nikolai Ruskin, Buckholtz will demonstrate how tunes change as war, imperialism, mass emigrations, and musical crazes spread them across the globe. The ensemble will focus on melodies and instrumentation that started in the Middle East and traveled through Europe and across the ocean.
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featuring two local nature-centered artists. | www.homegreenhome.com The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Conceivably Plausible/Heidi E. Marschner. This exhibit presents prints from the collections of Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer that test the limits of belief. | www.ink-shop.org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Anke Hoffstaetter will be displaying her abstract series at Lot 10 through August. | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Mockingbird Paperie | 142 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850 | The exhibit “Cars and Cigars” ~ metal and paper prints from Cuba by Sheryl D. Sinkow, continues daily at Mockingbird Paperie through September 2016 Madeline’s Restaurant | 215 E State St, Ithaca | An exhibit of Guy Ciarcia’s Digital Art Paintings | guyciarcia.com
class. We derive our sound from a myriad of influences. As far as drumming goes I have a bigger hip hop and funk influence while Seager is a jazz cat and Burdo tends to be on the trippy-folk side. IT: In a song like “Take Me To Heaven” you guys really stretch it out—is extended playing a part of the band’s D.N.A., and what kind of dynamics do you use when “jamming” out? OB: Three minutes isn’t enough to vibe in brother. It just doesn’t do it justice. There are those straight songs: play and it’s over. We start playing and end up really interested in what each other are doing; you kind of get lost listening to it. •
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At A Glance Price: $375,000 Location: 2784 Slaterville Road, Town of Caroline School District: Ithaca City Schools Caroline Elementary MLS#: 306934 Contact: Claudia Lagalla, Licensed Associate Broker, Keller Williams Real Estate Phone: 607-342-3749 (cell) Website: www.kw.com
led to a grist mill. Only the foundation remains and it was converted to an inground swimming pool sometime in the past. The addition that extends south and east from the original portion of the house looks as if it were built later in the 19th century. The dining room in that part of the house is still floored with the original “yellow pine.” The floor of the back porch is mahogany. The floors and walls in most of the house were replaced with modern materials several decades ago when the house was renovated after standing empty for four decades. Many of the rooms now have wall-to-wall carpeting, and the walls are smooth rather than character-rich vintage plaster. Modern replacement windows make this old house tight and energy efficient, as does the soy-based foam insulation sprayed on the inside of the foundation in the basement. House shopping? The kitchen features custom-built hickory cabinets with rustic botanicalof mortgage experience motif pulls and a cork floor. There is a in the “cold room” across the dining area from the kitchen that is against an outside wall Tompkins County region. and serves as a large pantry. 607-273-3210
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