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w s l i n e In his January state-of-the-city speech Mayor Svante Myrick listed the merger as one of his policy goals for 2016. Southside is an independent 501(c) 3 non-profit, but the building is city-owned and much of its budget comes from city coffers. “For me the pride of Southside is in its independence,” Nunn said. “I grew up in both GIAC and Southside … both organizations are beautiful and needed, but GIAC is GIAC and Southside is Southside. We are already in an ongoing partnership … [GIAC executive director] Leslyn [McBean-Clairborne] and

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he Town of Ithaca planning board had a full room of residents show up for a meeting on Tuesday, June 21. The occasion was a public hearing on the Maplewood apartments rebuild proposed by Cornell; the project will replace the current 480 beds with 887 beds in one- to four-bedroom townhomes and three- to four-story apartment buildings. Before public comment began, Jeffrey Resetco, vice president for real estate development with EdR, the private firm that would be managing the rebuilt Maplewood, told the committee that his firm does intend to pay property taxes. “This project should contribute over one and a half million dollars annually to the tax base,” Resetco said, “and that’s a conservative estimate.” Resetco also announced that EdR intends to work with LeChase Construction on the Maplewood rebuild. Several representatives of local union labor in the crowd later expressed their pleasure at that decision; LeChase uses union labor and is presently beginning construction of the Tompkins Trust Financial Group’s new headquarters on East Seneca Street. The hearing was on “scoping,” the process by which the town decides what issues the developer must address in its “generic environmental impact statement.” Or, as planning board chair Fred Wilcox III put it, the town is creating “a laundry list of environmental issues the applicant will study.” “If you come up and say, ‘The buildings are too tall, and I don’t like it,’” Wilcox III said, “that doesn’t help us tonight.” That the project is out of character for Belle Sherman, the city neighborhood that adjoins the 17-acre Maplewood parcel, was one concern raised by area residents. John Dennis told the committee that he was of the opinion Cornell either needs to make improvements to the project or pull it: “Their projects don’t need to be lean and mean in order to afford it.” What type of LED lights might be used, exactly; what sources of energy the project will use; and further concerns about increasing density in the area were other concerns raised by commenters. The Town of Ithaca planning board will next consider the Maplewood project at a meeting on July 5. continued on page 5

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he Southside Community Center is looking for its next executive director, according to current interim director Nia Nunn. Nunn, an assistant professor of education at Ithaca College, said she has some “very specific purposes” for her short time in the director’s seat; Nunn took over for Davi Mozie, who left about three weeks ago to travel in Africa. The executive director listing is asking for applications by July 8, with a July 25 start date. “I want to do what I can with others collectively, to restore the faith in this organization,” Nunn said. “I want to help transition an executive director who has the administrative skills to operate financially and all of that jazz, and someone Nia Nunn at Southside Community Center (Photo: Diane Duthie) who’s also very innovative and has a passion for the mission and a willingness to learn the history of this [program administrator] Travis [Brooks] place.” Nunn is suggesting that people talking are my greatest mentors and always have been.” about a merger of the Greater Ithaca The pride in Southside, Nunn said, is Activities Center (GIAC) and Southside “very specifically, unapologetically black.” under the auspices of city government “There is a desire to honor that take some time, perhaps a year, to assess and protect that,” Nunn said, “where we the situation. Southside board member learned as kids about an Afro-centric Richard Onyejuruwa and Khalil Griffith foundation, where we could welcome appeared before Common Council on and appreciate our African ancestry in a June 1 to present ideas about how a way we couldn’t necessarily at school. As potential merger would work, including part of that Afro-centric philosophy, that putting older youth programming at Southside and younger children at GIAC. continued on page 4

▶ Fireworks Laws, The state passed a law in 2014 that allows fireworks leading up to the 4th of July and New Year’s Eve – but only in counties that also pass a local law to allow it. What kind of fireworks are legal? • Sparkling fountains (cylindrical and cone) • Sparklers on wooden sticks, but not metal • Smoking devices • Snakes • Confetti-filled party poppers • Paper-wrapped snappers What kind of fireworks are not legal

anywhere in New York State? • Bottle rockets and other fireworks that fly, such as ... • Firecrackers • Bottle rockets • Roman candles • Spinners • Other aerial devices Sparklers are legal in Cayuga, Cortland, Schuyler, and Tioga counties, but they are not legal in Tompkins or Seneca counties because no local law has legalized them.

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Cleaning Up the Lake With Wetland Plants

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If you gave the U.S.A. a New Name, what would it be?

S “I would probably knock off ‘America’ because I don’t understand why it’s there. It doesn’t make sense because we don’t have much to do with Amerigo Vespucci so I’d say for it to be just the ‘United States..” —Emily Mercurio

“True squad.” —Luke Santanar

“‘Unstapled’ because there is way too much politics and people don’t know which way to sway. There is no candidate that everybody is 100 percent in touch with.” —Stacy Harrison

tudents at New Roots Charter School are out to demonstrate the cleaning power of plants. As one of the school’s “intensive week” projects, New Roots students planted a 50by-50 foot area of Stewart Park’s lakeshore near the Cascadilla boathouse with cattails (Typha latifolia) and green arrow arum or tuckahoe (Peltandra virginica). The gist of the idea is to use the natural properties of the wetlands plants to help clean Cayuga Lake, which suffers from high levels of phosphorus pollution. [See “Clear as Mud—Cayuga Lake Modeling Project Incomplete,” Nov. 18, 2015 Ithaca Times for more details on the whys of high phosphorus in our local Finger Lake.] On a recent afternoon, New Roots’ student body hiked up to Stewart Park to learn about their classmates’ efforts. “Before Ithaca was a city, it was a swamp,” physics teacher David Streib told the assembled students, explaining that the build-out of dry land has affected the lake’s chemistry. “Cayuga means ‘people of the mucky land,’ in their [Haudenosaunee] language … this place is yours to work with until 2021.” New Roots dean of student life Jhakeem Haltom said that the students will be sampling water in Cayuga Lake to track the presumptive changes in phosphorus levels. “Hopefully we can show the impact on the area around the wetland,” Haltom said, “and get permission to do more.” “If you want to see an example of the natural capacity for a lake to be as clean

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kinship network, collective, concept, we serve everybody, baby. We make sure if we have resources beneficial to human beings in Tompkins County we provide those resources. We have a pet clinic that’s nearly free to low cost every other Wednesday. There’s a food pantry twice a month and we make emergency packages … ” Nunn is heading a fundraising campaign for a Southside van, something she hopes will help people access programs and get out of downtown. “Southside needs a van,” Nunn said. “When I was here, there was a Girl Scout troop here, we went places around Ithaca and traveled outside of Ithaca.” A van, Nunn said, will also allow the Southside Community Center to pick up and drop off students who live in places outside a walkable distance, in increasingly

“I would say ‘Diverse Unity.’” —Tami Tabone

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laid down “logs” made of coconut fibers to as it could be, go to the southern end of help break up incoming waves before the Seneca Lake,” Haltom told the students. lake level was raised for the summer. The “They’ve kept a lot of the wetland there, “logs” are intended to protect the plants and people still swim in that water.” from the worst of stormy waters. New Roots student Sam Greenhouse Using wetlands to treat polluted appeared before the city Board of Public water was first put into practice in 1974 in Works (BPW) three times over the past Arcata, California, the home of Humboldt year in the effort to get approval for the planting project. In May BPW gave final approval for the project to continue, though the suggestion of putting up explanatory signs was shot down due to all the hurdles that arise for any kind of citysponsored signage. One misconception that arose in his conversations with the city, Greenhouse said, was the idea that cattails are an invasive species “because they like to swim.” “They have a lot of useful parts,” Greenhouse said of New Roots students Thomas Payton-Harp and Riley LaDieu plant cattails at Stewart Park. cattails. “They’re a (Photo: Josh Brokaw) sponge for toxins.” Greenhouse went on to add that State University. Based on research by cattails’ pollen spikes can be cooked and George Allen and Robert Gearhart, 154 eaten like corn on the cob, and can also acres of wetland and grassland were be used to make a starchy flour—though planted in what had been the site of a eating the Stewart Park cattails, once sawmill and a landfill. The marshes now they’re established, might not be the best treat all the sewage for the city of 12,500. • idea given their absorbent nature. According to student Riley LaDieu, – Josh Brokaw students spent much of their intensive reporter@ithacatimes.com week outside of the classroom planting the plot along Cayuga Lake; that was after they expensive downtown Ithaca. In her office at 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, with the Congo Street Market going on outside with young people singing and spinning tunes, Nunn is hard-pressed to sit down for more than a minute. There’s a knock, then another knock—sometimes it’s one of Nunn’s three boys, sometimes it’s new program director Harmony Malone, or it’s her mother asking to take the kids swimming. Southside hosted Juneteenth on Saturday, June 19, an all-day event of singing, dancing, and food that, in 2015, was first postponed, and then canceled. “I don’t like to say busy, there’s negative connotations—I say they keep me full,” Nunn said in her office between interruptions. “There’s a village of people here, who have their kids here and are around to take them swimming. Yes.” “I get happy about the energy of this space,” Nunn continued, “and I want to

find creative ways to share it with more people. You can come here and you know Charles Rhody is going to feed you and your babies are going to run around and the mothers can just talk .. we can be processing with each other. You need the organized, structured programs, and you need that other aspect that’s very informal.” The Southside Community Center will be holding an open sharing session for people to talk about the past, present, and future of the Center on Saturday, July 9, at 2 p.m. People interested in the executive director position should mail or drop off their application at the Southside Center with “Attention: Thia Harriett” or email wytheria.harriett@tcaction.org. – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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or some Ithaca middle school students designing, constructing and engineering are no longer tasks just for adults. Members of the DeWitt Middle School Technology Student Association (TSA) team designed and are in the process of renovating the campus greenhouse to compete in the Construction Challenge at the 2016 National TSA Conference June 28 through July 2. The greenhouse located at the middle school is used for educational purposes, specifically for students who have special needs. The team of seven students and students from the community-basedlearning class are constructing new hardening-off tables and planters both used for seedlings as well as cleaning up pre-existing areas of the garden. “In the beginning we had no idea what to do [for the competition], but when we saw this place we knew this was what we needed to fix. We saw it was a mess and wanted to help,” eighth-grade student and Construction Challenge project manager Isabelle Zanen said. To compete in the Construction Challenge, students must identify a construction-related community need and address it with a combination of their leadership and technical skills. They are required to submit a scale model or prototype and a portfolio that documents their work. DeWitt Middle School TSA students will present their work at the national competition, which will be hosted in Nashville. Zanen, age 14, used computer-aided design (CAD) programs to design the hardening-off tables, planters, benches and a pyramid planter, divided into three levels for by those with a range of physical capabilities, that is to be put in the garden. “Because I made the designs, I know the designs and the dimensions to create it. It was so amazing to see what I’ve been working on for two months to finally come together and actually be in front of me,” Zanen said. The Construction Challenge team began brainstorming ideas for the competition in the end of March. Fixing the greenhouse garden was considered as a top choice for the challenge after specialeducation teacher Patricia Armstrong brought attention to the garden’s need for improvements. “If [the greenhouse garden] is nicer and more beautiful and appealing, and actually useful for the kids, more people will use it. That’s the goal,” Zanen said. In order to compete in the competition, the students had to complete

electronics, programming and coding,” said Buchner. “We go really deep. These kids actually come out with sell-able skills and a number of them will go on to the engineering programs available at the high school.” The TSA offers more than just set skills for the future, Buchner said. It’s not a program to create upcoming engineers but rather future outstanding Students at Dewitt Middle School constructing hardening-off tables. citizens. He said that (Photo courtesy of David Buchner) seeing these students, especially Isabelle the Construction Challenge by June 24. Zanen, create and design such complex David Buchner, who teaches sixth through things inspires him. eighth grade engineering, oversaw the “Isabelle not only understands the project. He said the project was studentbasics of engineering, but her designs driven and he was there only to “steer” and ability to pull our group together is them in the right direction. incredible to watch,” he said. Buchner said the program has been The entire group is extremely running since 1984, and the students have sharp. Buchner said it is one of the most won over 600 trophies as a result. Out of accelerated groups he has overseen in a the 48 states and six countries coming, he expects the students to place at least in the long time. “They are so smart and so bright,” top ten. Dewitt students have received first he said. “I think they really feel that they place in the Construction Challenge twice can make the world a better place. I have before and have been in the top ten about tremendous optimism when I see our every year since the middle school began young people and think, ‘Thank god the program. we’ve got people like this who are going to The Construction Challenge is only replace me,’” one out of 35 other competitions available “I always ask,” Buchner said, “‘Who at the conference. Other competitions are going to be the engineers and that DeWitt Middle School TSA members designers? Who’s going to solve our and other school can enter include Digital problems of transportation and fossil Photography, Website Design, CAD fuels?’ All I have to do is look at these Foundations and many more. kids.” “TSA students go way above and beyond what their general knowledge is of computer-aided design, robotics, Bigprojects contin u ed from page 3

• • • New Trebloc Proposal Another developer is ready to try its luck with city of Ithaca residents and officials and develop the State Street Triangle/Trebloc site at the intersection of East State and North Aurora streets. In a release sent out on June 22 by local planner Scott Whitham, plans for a nine-story building on the site with market-rate apartments and groundfloor retail space were announced. The developer is Newman Development Group, LLC, of Vestal. The plans for the Triangle space, called “City Centre,” include a roof terrace, space for a restaurant with outdoor seating, and eight stories of market-rate housing in studio, one- and two-bedroom formats with about 250

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Ups&Downs ▶ Thankful, My family would like to thank the personnel of the Cayuga Medical Center and the Trumansburg EMS for their outstanding work this Father’s Day weekend. My wife, sister in-law, mother in-law and I were visiting Ithaca for a family wedding. My elderly mother in-law fainted prior to the ceremony. The EMS team arrived promptly and treated her with professionalism, patience and courtesy. Likewise, the Cayuga MC ER staff and the 4th floor medical staff when she was admitted. Peter Herbst, Montclair, New Jersey If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Open House, Longview, an Ithacare Community, will hold an Open House celebration for the community on Thursday, July 28 from 4 to 7 p.m. Guests can enjoy tours of the facilities and consult with staff about independent living, assisted living and enhanced assisted living options. Tours of the Main Building are scheduled for 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. No registration is necessary. For more information, call 607-375-6315 or email kabarnes@ithaca.edu. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of March 9-15 include: 1) Selling Heroin: In Ithaca the quality and price varies, but the supply is constant 2) Bluegrass Bands Playing On Fools Hill This July 4 Weekend 3) Four Arrested in Drug Raid 4) “I Loved, I Lost I Made Spaghetti” Comes to the Hangar Theatre 5) Peddling And Soliciting Law Gets New Look

units. “City Centre will provide the complete Ithaca living experience,” Newman principal Marc Newman was quoted in the release, “where residents will have fabulous apartments, the best amenities in the market, and all that downtown Ithaca has to offer out their front door.” Newman is the developer behind 140 Seneca Way, a mixed-use residential and office-space building that opened in 2014. The developers were on the agenda to present a sketch plan to the city planning board at its June 28 meeting, after the Times’ deadline; we’ll have more on that meeting and other city development fun like the 201 College Avenue project in next week’s edition.

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Is There Hope for Collegetown? There Will Be No Ithexit N I o one seems particularly happy about how Collegetown has been developing over the last decade. No one except perhaps the few developers who have deep enough pockets to build the high-rise buildings that are now not just permitted but encouraged by the new form overlay districts. The “canyon” along Dryden Road between Eddy Street and College Avenue was actually constructed before the overlay district went into effect in 2014. As you go up the hill you are looking at the properties of Ithaca Renting (public face: Jason Fane) on the right and Travis Hyde (public face: Frost Travis) on the left. The buildings on the right are arguably the less attractive because of the (over) use of a rough-faced concrete-block facing, which makes their surfaces look oddly unfinished and bland. Reporters sitting through city planning-board meetings have witnessed the architect being taken to task by board members, who accuse him of slipping that particular material past them. They were apparently also a bit surprised at the appearance of all the single air conditioners sticking out of the walls; they were under the impression that the buildings would have central air. These kinds of “oops” situations make the planning board wary and ornery; subsequent developers have paid the price for foregoers’ slipperiness. The form overlay districts are

an attempt to concentrate the tallest buildings along College Avenue north of Bool and Cook streets, where fiveand six-story structures are permitted. Four-story structures are permitted on lower College Avenue and Catherine Street. This stepping down away from a tall center is part of the approach of form-based zoning. The other important principle associated with this planning practice is to encourage mixed-use buildings. To that end the new buildings proposed for College Avenue tend to have retail on their ground floors. The existing structures along College Avenue are mostly three-story frame houses, most of them in the postVictorian cottage style, although the prominent four-story Grandview is in the late Victorian Stick style. If one takes a tour of the East Hill neighborhoods between Linden Avenue on the east and Stewart Avenue on the west, especially between the Cornell campus and Bool Street, one will find it to be almost entirely student rentals. These are easily recognized by their tendency to have nearly all horizontal surfaces either paved or in lawn. Landscape plantings are rare and signs of domesticity are limited to Weber grills, vintage couches (mostly on porches, but occasionally on lawns), and the odd ping pong table (forgotten after several rounds of beer pong).

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By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

thaca has some lessons to teach England. Feeling irreconcilably different from its continental neighbors, England has decided to leave the European Union. The move seems based not on any real trouble, but a loathing of difference itself, ignoring the idea that other people are bound to be different, somewhat. The idea of the Union is to recognize national differences while convening for mutual benefits that neighbors can enjoy by working together. But a majority of English voters aren’t having it anymore. The major English complaint seems to be that non-English Europeans continue to speak non-English languages, practice nonEnglish customs, and remain less pale. If England wants to see irreconcilable differences, it should take a look at Ithaca’s situation with the United States. The differences are pretty pronounced, but Ithaca hangs in anyway. Ithaca remains committed to the United States even though the U.S. has Republicans, and sometimes even elects them to public office. Sometimes U.S. Republicans are in a position to make you adopt their party leaders as members of Congress or even presidents. One could understand England leaving the E.U. if the Union had the power to make Donald Trump England’s prime minister; but it doesn’t. So why the drastic feelings? Ithaca endures a certain amount of bullying from its host country. When Ithacans go to Syracuse to protest drone warfare conducted from an airfield there, the commander of the base gets an order of protection from a grandmother involved with the peaceful assembly and when she steps off a particular curb she is arrested

and sentenced to a year in prison. Ithaca doesn’t rupture relationships, but tries to show a better way. While people like Trump exhort new laws and walls to keep people out, Ithaca forms a group called Ithaca Welcomes Refugees to help them in. The rest of the U.S. spends a lot of time watching television. Ithaca has no free TV reception and spends a lot of time not watching it. Instead we create our own news and entertainment. We don’t rescind citizenship; we become better ones. The U.S. shrugs at problems of poor food choices and bad health. Ithaca has a world-famous vegetarian restaurant downtown but no burger chains (there used to be a McDonald’s on the Commons, but it closed). We have a food co-op with two branches, soon to be three. We have a wildly popular farmers market. When its popularity started creating traffic problems, we built not more roadway, but a bike path along the lake. The U.S. has corporations making billions for stockholders, and paying millions to executives, but fighting a political battle against a living wage for workers. Meanwhile Ithaca has scores of modest businesses adopting the living wage, including a used-book store and farms. England has made a mistake of intolerance, impatience, and maybe sheer stupidity. Far be it from me, usually, to give the last word to Donald Trump, but let him make the point. He is not unfamiliar with bizarre and hurtful divorce(s). When the news came of the British rupture, Trump called it “a great thing.” If that ringing endorsement doesn’t prove the cataclysm, it certainly forecasts it.•

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Bagnall-Graham Asks For Votes

It’s no doubt that Albany corruption has reached incredible levels, and voter frustration is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, our senator, James Seward, failed to deliver real ethics reform during the 2016 legislative session. Passing pension forfeiture for convicted officials is just the beginning of what we really need. After the convictions of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, 2016 was the year to pass real ethics reform that tackles the root of the problem. Cleaning up a corrupt campaign finance system that creates pay-to-play special interests and banning outside income for our legislators should have been dealt with on day one of the legislative session. Perhaps Senator Seward failed to deliver a ban on outside income because he accepts 6

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Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters. outside income from the banking industry. Perhaps Senator Seward also failed to deliver on real campaign finance reform because he benefits from astronomically high donations from the insurance industry, which he is tasked with regulating as Senate Insurance Committee chair. My name is Jermaine Bagnall-Graham, and these concerns are what prompted me to run for state senate. As your senator, I will fight to ban state legislators’ outside income, reform our corrupt campaign finance system, continued on page 7

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Envisioning Change By M a rjor i e O l d s

through school at Shaw University t 86 years of age Dorothy Cotton in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dorothy is strikingly beautiful, with lilting transferred to Virginia State University in voice, expressive gestures and Petersburg, where she graduated in 1955 graceful movements. Not long ago she and received her B.A. degree in English and travelled to Selma, Alabama, accompanied library science. by her dear friend Aloja Airewele, himself Upon graduation Dorothy married a tireless champion of international human George Cotton. Later she went on to rights. There they commemorated the 50th Boston, where she studied and received a anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery master’s degree. But Petersburg remained civil rights march depicted in the movie Dorothy’s “home” to which she would Selma. Born in Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1930, she was 3 years old when her mother died, leaving Dorothy and her three sisters under five years of age to be raised by their father, Claude Foreman. “My father worked long days,” recalled Cotton, “hard labor in the fields, in a tobacco factory, plus raising us alone.” She remembers growing up in her simple house in the African-American section of her town. “Black people lived in black sections; white people lived in Dorothy Cotton (center) with Aloja Airewele and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (Provided) white sections, while living on the same streets. You could tell where the African-American return to visit for the rest of her life. Church life was important to Cotton. neighborhood began because there was When she visited home in the early 1950s no paving. When you left the white part of she attended the church. Dorothy recalls town there were just dusty roads and no one visit home when Reverend Wyatt Tee paved sidewalk or streets.” Walker spoke to his congregation about “I remember standing out front of segregation in their community. He was my house on Greenleaf Street as a young stirred up by the mistreatment of Negros. child,” she said, “and a boy about my age “There’s something wrong,” he said, “with came riding by our house on his bike. He a public library, our public library, being was singing the song ‘Deep in the Heart segregated.” of Texas’ in a loud voice. But as he rode “We strategized,” Cotton recalled, “as in front of me he sang ‘Deep in the heart to how African-American citizens could of Niggertown.’ I remember feeling mad, gain full access to public infrastructure, to feeling insulted. At the time I didn’t think public life. At that time men and women there was anything anybody could do.” all over the South and in other parts of the “One day Miss Rosa Gray, my high country were feeling churned up about school teacher, asked me to recite a poem the plight of the African American in the in class. I was a dramatic child and really United States. Rev. Walker announced threw myself into that recitation. As I that a recently ordained minister from was walking back to my seat Miss Gray complimented me: ‘There’s your ready, girl.’ Montgomery, Alabama was coming to speak to our church, and we would consult “Poor children were used to feeling with the visiting minister about the library worthless, without value. Children segregation in our town.” from down and out communities were “As was our custom we read poems programmed from birth to feel like nobody. and gave speeches to welcome Dr. King. I Just then I felt like somebody … I felt so recited a poem,” said Cotton. “Dr. Martin proud. Teachers were our heroes. I recall Luther King, Jr. was very young. Although around that time Miss Gray started paying special interest to me. She picked me to star small in stature, when he spoke in our church his voice resonated, and his words in plays, and she got to know me a little. It was only because of her that it was arranged stirred.” “Dr. King spoke with our Petersburg that I could board with a family she knew, congregation about the struggle to gain and arranged several jobs so I could go to access for Negroes in the town’s public college.” library. He was very passionate about After two years working her way

Negroes working together to make their lives better. After Dr. King spoke a group of us from the church were invited to Rev. Walker’s home in the parsonage where we would share dinner with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” “As the Young Women’s Parish Club began serving dinner,” Cotton said, “Dr. King referred to me and the poem I had recited earlier. I remember I was walking around the table, serving guests from a plate of chicken. I walked over to Dr. King, who was seated at the head of the table; and he asked me to again recite a few lines. ‘We look out upon the world, eyes deep in pain … ’ I told him this poem, written by a teenager, moved me when I thought of blacks unable to fully access the only public library in town. In our town black people were only allowed to enter the public library one afternoon a week. And that one afternoon they were permitted to come and read the handoff books in the basement.” “Near the end his visit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked Rev. Walker to come join him in Atlanta to expand the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to build on what they had learned from the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With the arrest of Rosa Parks, and the successful boycott of the buses, a new chapter in civil rights was beginning. Reverend Walker indicated he would go, if his co-organizer of the Petersburg library equality project would accompany him to Atlanta.” “I had just received my master’s degree in special education at Boston. I said I would accompany Rev. Walker to Atlanta to work with Reverend King for a few weeks. We didn’t know exactly what we were heading into; but we were content to ‘make our path by walking ... We will beat a path.’ I didn’t know I would be gone for 25 years following that path.” As the only woman in Dr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner circle, Dorothy Cotton found herself at the center of America’s civil rights movement. Here she “immersed herself in the struggle for freedom.” After serving as national director of education at Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960 to 1968, Cotton later became the director of the Citizenship Education Program of SCLC, which has influenced civil rights movements all over the world. Drawn from the belief that people who are seeking equal opportunity are the experts on their own situation, Cotton helped people move from feeling powerless to seeing themselves as agents for change. “There are ways we can help each other describe the current situation and what it is each person wants to change in their community. What is holding them back from making a good life? Once a person can put words to those ideas, those feelings, they can begin to imagine how their community can move forward; they can envision change ... As we talked together, they discovered their own power. People who work in the fields, who are paid minimum wage, many people may feel helpless and trapped. Yet they discover in our program that they know more than they think they know. This discovery can be T

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life changing.” After Cotton’s service with SCLC, she was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 to serve as the southern regional director for ACTION, the federal agency for volunteer programs. She was next vicepresident for field operations at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Change before moving to Ithaca in 1982. Many of us met Dorothy Cotton when she served as the director of student activities at Cornell University for the next nine years. In retirement her consulting company, Dorothy Cotton & Associates embodied the work she began years earlier empowering people to help them. • Cotton’s 2012 autobiography, If Your Back’s Not Bent: the Movement from Victim to Victory, recounts the story of the civil rights movement. Youropinions contin u ed from page 3

and restore pride in our state government by serving with honor. As an Army veteran, I know what it’s like to serve with honor. It’s about time our state legislators learn to do the same. Sincerely, Jermaine Bagnall-Graham, Democratic candidate for New York State Senate (51st District)

Manktelow Asks For Votes

Friends, New York State has the highest property taxes in the country. In my county of Wayne, 99 cents of every property tax dollar raised must be spent on something the state gives us no say over. Issues like this are exactly why I decided to run for the State Senate. As a current member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors, I have experienced firsthand the weight these state mandates place on our county governments. Our constituents make it clear year after year that taxes are too high, and we hear them. The state, however, ties our hands to these mandates and gives the taxpayer virtually no say on where their money goes. State mandate keep property taxes high. High property taxes discourage hard-working families from moving to or staying in our region. They discourage industry and small business from sprouting up, damaging our local economy. This drain leaves our region more and more dependent on the state government. This cycle needs to end. New York expects more from its counties than any other state in the union. We can fix what is wrong with through common sense, principled budgeting at the top. If elected your State Senator, I will fight for your tax dollars every day. Yours, Brian Manktelow Candidate for the New York State Senate, 54th District

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The theory stated at city meetings among planners, city officials (professional and elected), and even some developers is that by building upward in the form overlay districts, students will be encouraged to abandon the frame houses that have been cut to pieces and rented to them by the room. Ideally, this will allow that real estate to return to the open market to be purchased by non-students and renovated into duplexes or some other lower density use. Some city residents are concerned that the new high rises have little or no parking. The fact is that far fewer students

have cars now. Car ownership, according to a survey done by the university and cited by Brian Crandall at Ithacating in Cornell Heights, has declined from 47 percent in 2000 to 27 percent and falling in the early 2010s. While car ownership is declining, the sheer numbers of Cornell students has been steadily increasing for about a decade. The number of undergraduates rose from about 13,500 in 2007 to 14,300 in 2015. Graduate student and professional students numbers are smaller, but their increases are steeper and the trend began a few years earlier. (Hence the proposal to rebuild a denser Maplewood development out in the town.) Cornell hasn’t really built any new

dormitories since 2001, when CourtKay-Bauer Hall was completed. The West Campus “houses” completed between 2004 and 2008 constituted more of a reorganization into “residential colleges” than an expansion. Without significant new on-campus housing the students have to move into the surrounding city. Since the increase in student numbers isn’t particular steep, but has been steady, few seem to have noticed the steady rise of the proverbial tide. (For the record, Ithaca College enrollment has been generally declining for the last four or five years.) Collegetown’s core residential areas are generally paved and run-down. The high rents have already driven out most non-students. Its commercial

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sector is struggling and lacking a lot of practical businesses, largely because of the increased concentration of students and their tendency to buy everything on line (no more book stores, no more clothing stores) or at big box stores (no more second-hand shops). Collegetown is turning into a suburb (i.e. dying) because mostly unreconstructed suburbanites live there. The mixed-use emphasis of the overlay district is part of the reason a Greenstar Cooperative Market will open in August on College Avenue, the first grocery store in the neighborhood since the IGA closed in the 1980s. Its presence and the potential emptying of those frame houses on the side streets, may attract non-students back to Collegetown and bring it back to life. That is, the form overlay districts just may work, as long as the new tall buildings are not quite as ugly as some of those that have already been built. •

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ompkins County district attorney Gwen Wilkinson will be retiring from her position, effective July 8. “My doctors strongly recommend that I cut back both on my schedule and on any stress,” Wilkinson said in a release from her office, “and I find that I am unable to do that while continuing to perform my duties as I expect them to be performed and as my constituents deserve.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo will appoint an interim district attorney to serve until a special election for district attorney this November; Wilkinson would have been eligible to run for another term in 2017. Wilkinson said in the release she hopes, after some recovery time, to “be able to participate in some of the committee work with the county and city that I have enjoyed over the past few years.” Wilkinson was a co-chair of the Municipal Drug Policy Committee that released the Ithaca Plan, a comprehensive drug policy, in February. Wilkinson was first elected district attorney in 2005 after defeating incumbent George Dentes. She was an assistant district attorney in Dentes’ office for five years before running for district attorney. Dentes was an opponent of the Alternatives to Incarceration drug court program, claiming that it did not save money; Wilkinson supported the ATI drug court program, which continues today. Wilkinson was reelected in both 2009 and 2013 with no opposition. – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

Public Art

Three New Public Murals Funded by CAP

ibrant murals—some abstract, some of nature—occupy the exteriors of many buildings and structures in the downtown Commons and surrounding Ithaca. Three new public-art murals will be installed on the city Department of Public Works building, the Tompkins County Public Library, and the NAPA auto parts store located on Main Street in Trumansburg funded in part or in full by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County’s (CAP) Public Art Grant. The three works will be completed by September. Over 45 mural proposals from 27 artists located from the Finger Lakes to San Francisco to Texas were submitted to CAP in February. Three designs were chosen based on several characteristics including the quality of the artist’s work, the appropriateness to the subject matter’s location, originality, and feasibility. CAP’s goal is to help artists to advance their careers in Tompkins County through five grant programs, oneon-one artist services and professional development workshops. They previously have created the Greater Ithaca Art Trail, Ithaca Artist Market, Spring Writes Literary Festival and CAP ArtSpace Gallery. “We want a vibrant community here

Tompkins County

Amici House Funded; Tax Levy Override OK’d

onstruction is slated to begin by 2018 on a new development on Spencer Road in Ithaca to house otherwise homeless young people ages 18 to 25, some of whom may have children. At the Tompkins County Legislature meeting on June 21, the county agreed to purchase property for the project. The board voted to authorize the county to purchase land from Tompkins Community Action, Inc. (TCAction), for $118,000, which will come out of the county’s general fund balance. The vote was unanimous except for Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca), who recused herself due to her family connection with Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, which is involved in some aspects of development of the project. The project is called Amici House, and it will be run by TCAction. It includes 23 units of supportive housing and a separate structure for five Early Head Start classrooms, according to a letter sent

Program, provided $7,500 for the three murals. The mural planned for the Department of Public Works wall was fully funded by the grant, but the other two received additional outside funding from private donors, the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation and Trumansburg artists. According to the CAP Public Art Grant guidelines and application, the Public Art Grant is a pilot and, if it is successful, it may be expanded in 2017 to include other types of public art besides murals. The work of the chosen artists incorporated aspects of the mural’s location into elements of their design. The mural of artist Nestor Madalengoitia will be painting of a words overlaying a portrait of Ezra Cornell on wall of the Tompkins County Public Library that faces the Cayuga Street parking garage. Mural proposed for the wall of the Tompkins County Public Library. Danielle Hodgins, who (Image: Nestor Madalengoitia) is painting the mural on the Department of Public Works building south of the Sciencenter in Tompkins County and the arts are and visible from Route 13, was inspired by definitely a part of having an interesting the connections between nature, human community that encourages people to creations, and space. She will add organic, live here and enjoy living here,” Robin naturally occurring shapes in nature, Schwartz, CAP program director, said. such as leaves and flowers, to the left side “By helping the artist with money for of the building. They will transform into their programming and so they can live geometric shapes in the center, which here, it’s also helping the audiences enjoy then leads into a galaxy on the right side. their art.” “The geometric shapes represent what The 2016 Public Art Grant, provided we create [as humans],” said Hodgins. by CAP in partnership with the City of “The more organic aspect of it includes no Ithaca Public Art Commission (PAC) and right angles, because those don’t exist in the Tompkins County Strategic Tourism

nature. It’s supposed to show the contrast between those two things and yet how they meld together in harmony.” Hodgins, who has painted two other murals on the Cornell Campus, said that creating public art makes it available to everyone. “The gallery scene and the museum scene have become quite exclusive,” she said, “because of socio-economic status and clientele. Public art puts it in the face of everyone.” While Hodgins’s mural is more abstract, the mural on NAPA auto parts store located on Main Street in Trumansburg, painted by Kathy Armstrong has a stronger sense of realism with hints of mystery and wonder. The trompe l’oeil mural will be visible on the bridge and is meant to seemingly “fit” into the area Armstrong said. Located next to a creek, she wanted to paint a more natural landscape but with something eye-catching. “[The area] felt like old archeological ruins. It had a pretty rustic, imperfect feeling,” Armstrong said. Because of the atmosphere, she chose to create a tunnel that seemingly led to another side with ivy and leaves growing out of the barely worn path. Armstrong wanted it to seem like something unusual was happening to the wall so that the audience to be drawn into the painting. “The people of Trumansburg will hopefully be really happy to have this mural,” Armstrong said, “because it’s adding rather than taking away the look of the town. It was just an old oblique wall and now there will be something interesting there.”

from Tompkins County administrator Joe Mareane to the Health and Human Services Committee of the legislature. The development will be located on the county-owned property at 701 Spencer Road and the adjacent parcel, 661 Spencer Road, the property the county just agreed to acquire. “Amici House is not a shelter but a residence that is available until the occupant is ready to transition, with support, to a more independent living environment,” wrote Mareane in his letter. Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) said she supports the project because it will meet a significant need for childcare and infant care, provide 42 Early Head Start spaces for children, and create 25 living wage jobs. • • • In other county business, the legislature voted unanimously in favor of the creation of a new county employee position. The board approved the dedication of $75,049 in county funds for the funding of the new compliance program coordinator. That pays for the new employee’s salary, fringe benefits and office supplies for the first half of 2016 and all of 2017. The board also voted to override the New York State tax-levy limit. The tax cap for the 2017 budget is an estimated

discuss it further at future meetings. Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses), chair of the Budget, Capital and Personnel Committee, said it would continue to come back to the legislature. Mareane said that if the local law wasn’t passed by the time he had to present a budget in September he would have to revise the budget not to exceed the cap. “I think this is a game I don’t really want to play at quarter of ten when we’ve been here since 3:30 p.m.,” said Robertson. “We could vote it down and talk about it two weeks from now and two weeks after that, but we have never, I’m pretty sure, ever had anybody come to the microphone—because we always have a public hearing about the levy limit—I don’t remember anyone saying, ‘Don’t you dare go over that limit.’ Andrew Cuomo would, but I’m not listening to him. So let’s just do this, please.” The board passed the local law in a vote of 10 to four with legislators Glen Morey (R-Groton), Mike Sigler (R-Lansing), Peter Stein (D-Ithaca), and Dave McKenna (R-Newfield) voting against the resolution.

2.5 percent increase in the county’s tax levy over the 2016 levy. In a May 3 vote the legislature set its financial goals at a 3-percent increase, 0.5 percent over the cap. Overriding the tax levy requires the passage of a local law, which can be repealed later. To adopt the law, 60 percent of the legislators had to vote in its favor. The county was required to hold a public hearing on the law, which it did at the June 21 meeting, though no members of the public showed up to speak for or against the new legislation. “My support for this is not to say that I want us to have the flexibility and I feel flippant about exceeding our cap,” said Legislator Anna Kelles (D-Ithaca). “That to me is not the reason I’m supporting this.” “For me,” said Kelles, “the idea of having a financial situation we’re not expecting and then to have to exceed the cap and be penalized for that financially and have that be a double burden that goes to our constituents is what makes me nervous. My understanding is that it would protect us from an additional fee.” “We’ve always done this,” said Chock. “I don’t want people to confuse this with budget decisions.” She questioned what would happen if the vote didn’t pass that night and asked if the legislature could T

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These Are the Days ...

Babe Ruth baseball is better than ever By Ste ve L aw re nc e

wish I had a time travel machine. When I was 12, I played about 16 or 18 baseball games with my Little League team, we played in one All-Star game, and perhaps another three games in a Moose tournament. Then, we put away the gloves for nine months, dreaming of getting back out there. These days, the Ithaca Babe Ruth players are so much more fortunate. They have better equipment, better facilities, better coaching and a lot more time on the field (some of them might play 40-50 games in a year). In fact, several local Babe Ruth teams have done exceptionally well of late, and many readers may recall that in 2015, the 13U team won the western New York championship and advanced to the Babe Ruth World Series. This year, the 12U team is working overtime to follow suit, and they just won the District 6 championship and are now preparing for the western New York tournament in Jamestown. The winner of that tournament will move on the regional tournament, with the World Series as the big prize. Tony Caudill is the head coach for the 12Us, and he told me, “These kids—the core group—have been playing together since they were 8 years old. At that time, there really weren’t too many summer programs, and this group of parents was really enthusiastic about creating an opportunity.”

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Some of those parents are still connected, as the team has a total of four coaches. “Even back then,” Tony said, “these kids were battling against 10U and 12U teams, and they really came together as a team.” I asked Caudill if the kids were excited about the upcoming tournament in Jamestown, and he said, “They’re really thrilled. They made it to Jamestown when they were 10, and they loved the picnics, the lake —it was a great family environment.” That is not to say, however, that the team is going to Jamestown for a picnic. Coach Caudill said, “They are really working hard, practicing four days a week, two hours each time, sometimes in 94degree heat.” He was quick to add, “They’re having fun. They have great attitudes.” Those great attitudes serve the collective cause well. “These players are learning how to sacrifice for the team,” Tony said. “Each knows he—or she—has a role to play, and while it may not be that player’s favorite position or lineup spot, but if that’s what we need it gets done.” He added, “They work hard to back each other up, they cheer on their teammates for being ready to make a play, like I said, they’re working hard.” Caudill really enjoys working with this age group, and he knows that the coaches, parents and players will need to adjust to some changes over the next few

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Left to Right: Kyle Caudill, David Johnson Ben Petrich, Chase Sposito, Garrett Backus, John Wiiki, Jackson Yaggie, Corinna Petrich, Elijah Widercrantz, Tysan Gingerich, Tyler Antonyak (Photo provided)

years. Some of the players might choose a different sport (for example, Chase Sposito also loves and excels at lacrosse, and both are spring sports in high school), and some may sign on with what Caudill called “the Academy teams” (other regional travel teams). For now, these players are enjoying the fruits of their labors, playing tough against tough teams and learning what hard work can bring. The Ithaca Babe Ruth program—led by some very dedicated and knowledgeable coaches—continues to represent our town very capably, and the 12U team hopes to carry on the tradition in Jamestown in July. • • • On Saturday, I attended the memorial ceremony for Tob de Boer, who passed last month, leaving behind a legacy of towering accomplishments as a professor, an endurance athlete and especially as a husband, father and grandfather. After Tob’s passing, I recalled in this column his

many achievements, and the plethora of stories I have been able to write over the course of 25 years about his daughters— Claire and Yvette—who are athletic powerhouses in their own right. There was a time at the ceremony when people were invited to speak, so I took the microphone and made this brief statement: “I am about to make a comparison that has never been made before … as a local sports writer who is always looking for material, I will say that the de Boers are to me what the Kardashians are to the paparazzi.” •

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Bombs and Scandals Aliens and political campaigns By Br yan VanC ampe n

f you like stock characters, situations and dialogue that were clichéd back in the World War II era, if you like characters who punch each other out when the story needs them to hate each other, and manly knowing glances when the story needs them to like each other, and if

Independence Day: Resurgence, co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich, playing at Regal Stadium 14; Weiner, directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, playing at Cinemapolis.

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you like the stilted soap opera approach to alien invasion movies, to the point where you’re rooting for the aliens, you’ll probably want to disregard my comments regarding Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence. Don’t ask me why I even went. Aside from White House Down and maybe Stargate, I’m not a big Roland Emmerich fan (As bad as the recent Godzilla was, at least Godzilla looked like Godzilla, which is more than you can say for Emmerich’s execrable 1998 remake.) and I pretty much hated the first Independence Day, which laid the groundwork for all the collateraldamage porn that’s ruined almost every comic book movie this year. And shame on this movie for making Bill Pullman, Sela

Anthony Weiner (Photo Provided)

Ward, Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth and Maika Monroe (It Follows) feel so patriotically generic. So I guess I’m either an optimist or a masochist. The optimist would tell you that he did enjoy the return of Brent Spiner as a kooky mad scientist—I would watch Spiner’s Dr. Brakish Okun in a spinoff movie or a weekly PBS science show—and the plight of Goldblum’s dad Judd Hirsch and a school bus full of survivor kids. The masochist would admit that whenever they cut to anyone else, he just tried to enjoy the special effects. • • • Now if you want to talk about the apocalyptic free-fall horror show of the year, you can’t do much better than Weiner, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s unblinking look at Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York City mayoral campaign as a second sexting scandal erupts eight weeks before Election Day. The film details Weiner’s previous troubles in 2011, which led to his resignation from Congress. Then the film cuts to a generous montage of late night show wags doing Weiner gags. At one point late in the film, Kriegman asks Weiner why he’s still letting himself be filmed. Weiner just stares; he has no answer. And it’s not just him. It’s his mother, making cold calls at headquarters. It’s his wife Huma Abedin, now being filmed through her second round of humiliation at her husband’s transgressions. It is his assistant and his election staff, who also feel betrayed. There are only two instances in the film when Weiner asks the cameras to leave the room. This is real fly-on-the-wall documentary stuff, and it’s disturbing yet honest to see how much Weiner is willing to play dirty hardball when push comes to shove, as he evades one of his sexting partners who staked out his headquarters on Election Day, and gives the order to send protestors to shout her down if that fails. Yikes. (When it’s clear that he’s fed up with a constant camera crew, Weiner makes a tight-lipped joke about fly-on-the-wall documentarians being seen and not heard.) Perhaps the most chilling moments are when this man who always seems to be able to deal with the camera simply slumps in his seat and shuts down like a robot. Weiner should be shown on a constant triple bill loop at the Smithsonian, with Elia Kazan’s A Face In the Crowd (1957) and Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog (1997). Like the recent Popstar, it shows in cleareyed fashion the folly of spin in the age of social media, and the damage that it does to everyone in the process. And I sat there as the end credits rolled on Weiner, thinking, He didn’t have to let the cameras in. He could have said no. •

One Fest 2016

One Fest, Saturday, July 2, 12:00 p.m., The Haunt, Ithaca Underground presents

very story is eternal: every life a blazing amalgamation of poetry, depth, and opportunity. There are some souls who harness the ability to interpret such extremity in a stirring and magical way, pursuing something truly beyond. This Saturday at The Haunt, the waters of perpetuity will ebb and flow in response to a great many extreme musical and artistic visions: the swirling nature of the universe, bursting in the minds of each and every one of these auditory prophets. A plethora of stories will come together in waves: crashing, frothing, and detonating amazingly. The intensity of underground music—its realms, visions, and sagas—will be at its apex: One Fest Ithaca: the second annual jamboree of metal, hardcore, experimental, and noise music. “We are heavily into narrative. We want to tell a story that’s complex; so that means trying to express these emotive qualities in the music,” explained Mers Sumida, guitarist and vocalist of the New York/New Jersey-based experimental black metal band Black Table: one of the 24 artists on this year’s very, very, stacked One Fest bill. “And life is not one feeling, it’s full of crisis, madness, elation, hope, and cruelty. So when telling a story we want to give all our songs a full immersive emotional world to explore.” Black Table’s rolling progressive jaunts, mysterious escapes, and widening dark-forms mirror Sumida’s vision: one with a wide spectrum of high-amplitude variability. One of the coolest and most explosive bands on this year’s schedule, the shadowy collective

Arts&Entertainment

Darkness and Noise by Christopher J. Harrington

digs through the ether to mine and refine their strengths. “If the songs we write don’t inspire in me a visual journey, we rewrite and refine until it does,” Sumida noted. “I guess when I think about us, I don’t think I see some visage of what we are, because the music is sort of our simulacrum. It’s our conjuration of our efforts together.” A cross pollination of substances wide and diverse, Black Table is an ideal representation of the kind of all-around existential might packed into this year’s One Fest. Free from any sort of conceptual canon, the band creates with the power of the earth moving through space: deepening, wide, and free. The work required for such a presentation is what sets the band apart; and really, it’s what sets each and every one of the musicians at One Fest apart: the collective and sustained effort. This isn’t just about music—it’s about the entirety of life. Sumida fronts the band with a sort of darksorceress air— something built up over time, patience, and trust. “As for vocals, I didn’t want to do any clean singing, I wanted my voice to be another texture in the music,” Sumida said. “I taught myself to inhale scream, but it took years to really build up my voice that way and produce polytones. Outward screaming was pretty hilarious when I tried that method. I sounded like “a little girl trying to make a muscle”—that’s from the Nathanael West book, Miss Lonelyhearts. I love screaming. It’s elemental.”

Above: New York’s experimental metal behemoths Black Table. Second from left, lead singer and gutarist Mers Sumida. (Photo: Dean Chooch Landry)

a second stage outside on the waterside deck will serve as a sort-of spaceship launching pad for varying noise artists. One musician will be performing on both stages: Ithaca native VII Caso. He’s the guitarist for the grindcore infusers Escuela, and the one-man wrecking ball behind Eating Scabs for Protein. Two projects that equate similarly in depth, raw emotion, and outward zone, but are worlds apart in galactic resemblance. Escuela is a grindcore trio churning out riffs of insane speed and flailing brevity: Eating Scabs For Protein an auditory onslaught of electronics, industrial hemorrhage, and brave individualism. Both projects crossover in intensity though: spiraling, tunneling, and mad. “I am very excited! Honored actually, I feel pretty fortunate to play on both stages,” Caso said, emphatically. “I can’t really say there’s any overlap between Escuela and Eating Scabs For Protein, in terms of sound or delivery, but both groups are intense—that’s for certain—and both exist comfortably as their own entities. As for the challenge of two sets in a day, I think I’ll be fine. I played three sets on Record Store Day a couple months ago; anything after that will be a breeze.” Caso has a unique outlook on One Fest and Ithaca underground music in general. He’s been part of the glue of the local scene for some time, witnessing the transformation of Ithaca

The Power of the Two

This year’s One Fest features two stages (from hell). The main stage will showcase metal, grind, experimental, and hardcore bands; and

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Dyed in Vitality

Canadian psychedelic masters visit The Haunt By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Black Mountain, Friday, July 1, 9:00 p.m., The Haunt

axing the auditory sky-lanes with a giant dimensionally chromatic wand, the Vancouver-based psychedelic infusers Black Mountain protrude a stunning multi-layered expression and hazy soulful doom. With a sound positioning somewhere in the nexus of Meddle and Live in Pompeii-era Pink Floyd, late ‘70s Black Sabbath, and European progressive rock (think Magma, Soft Machine, and Uriah Heep), the band dwells in a sort of retro hue: mixing inspired methods, divine melody, and layered visions to forge something truly epic and space-aged. The sound of Black Mountain is that of the universe, the earth, and the perpetual ‘70s: a place of endless inspiration, wonder, and vision. Since the band’s first album, the selftitled Black Mountain, the collective has made it a mission to experiment and delve towards a rustic infinity: adjusting to the shifting diameters of group art. Their large

sounding form harkens to the mystique of early FM radio as much as it does the avant-garde. The swirling psychedelic bouillon the band dips from is one of bright and striking colors: a sea of vast acid trips, Krautrock sensibility, and undeniable inner nostalgia. “We’re all part of the first wave of FM radio—all ‘70s music kids you know,” relayed guitarist and singer Stephen McBean. “Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” —all that stuff. You know every dance I ever went to “Stairway to Heaven” was played for the slow song. I’ve always been a huge fan of Uli Jon Roth [Scorpions], and the riff god, Tony Iommi [Black Sabbath]. ” The timeless musical dimension that was the ‘70s figures prominently in subtle ways for Black Mountain: pockets hidden with deep movements and beautiful feelings immerse and submerge themselves like a cubist painting throughout their catalog. “In a lot of ways its very visual music,” McBean noted. “There’s a certain escapist angle to it—it’s slightly cinematic

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Talent Created and Honed

String quartet holds fast to progressive teachings By L e a h K al l e r

n Wednesday, July 6, at 7:30 pm The Ithaca College Suzuki Institute welcomes the world-renowned New Zealand String Quartet to the Ford Hall stage at the Whalen Center. The quartet, along with special guest artist Maria Lambros, will perform a pair of Brahms String Quintets, and the Haydn Quartet in D major. The New Zealand String Quartet (NZSQ) is celebrating its 29th season this year. They are known for their innovative programming and for their ability to connect with audiences of all kinds. Monique Lapins joins the quartet this year as their second violinist, marking the first personnel change for the quartet in 22 years. At age 16 Lapins founded her first string quartet, and she is a former Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The NZSQ also enjoys frequent collaborations with artists from a wide variety of musical genres. Earlier this year they toured around New Zealand with jazz pianist Uri Caine. This time they have invited Grammy nominated violist Maria

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Lambros to the stage. Lambros is one of the most sought after chamber musicians today. She is a founding member of the award winning Meliora String Quartet and currently plays with the New York-based chamber ensemble La Fenice. She also serves on the chamber music faculty at the Peabody Conservatory and Yellow Barn Music School. The NZSQ has been performing at the Suzuki Institute regularly for the past two decades. The quartet members are dedicated teachers as well as performers. First violinist Helene Pohl will hold a master class on Monday, July 4 for some of the participants of the institute. When asked why they return to Ithaca year after year, they replied that they have a great passion for inspiring young people about chamber music, and love having the opportunity to play for students and their families at the institute. Pohl is an Ithaca area native. She attended the Suzuki Institute five times as a teenager and considers her studies there to have been very important preparation for her later career in chamber music. This year J

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and let’s you forget about things. It’s the magic of the drone man. I think even in songs like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” there’s a certain drone to the music, it feels good, it’s transcendent, and time moves in a different sort of way.” The band’s currently touring on the strength of their newest LP IV, released April 1 on the label Jagjaguwar. The record is a rousing descent into the complexity of a harnessed form: bitingly spirited, interstellar, and poetic. The LP also shines with an inner punk realism within its lucid walls. “Josh [Wells], me, and Amber [Webber] have all been really influenced by punk; more so than the other members,” McBean said. “I’ve just always been into underground music— inclined towards it. The Cramps, Black Flag, The Melvins, the old SST bands—just weird stuff you know. Mix-tapes were always getting passed around.” Black Mountain scrapes the horizons of an atmospheric artistry like few others. Booming with dyed vitality, riffs shaped like diamonds, and icebergs of barreling combinations, the band sets out for Jupiter on the reg, and jaunts to the fourth

Black Mountain (Photo Provided)

dimension en route. “It’s the attitude of rock-and-roll, weirdos pushing what they like,” noted McBean. “We don’t want to stay the same; we want to keep it exciting, try something different, make it work. The band is always collaborative and always evolving.” The mysteries and dimensions of a great many worlds collide in the band’s swirling trance: conjoining the latitudes of the heavens with the spirit of youthful abstraction. The band hijacks The Haunt this Friday: taking aim at the infinite. This is a show that’s really going to rule: so grab your space suit and get ready to lift off with some Canadian rock masters. You’ll never drift back the same. •

her son Peter Gjelsten—his father is NZSQ cellist Rolf Gjelsten—is attending the institute for the fifth time. Shinichi Suzuki believed that every child had the potential to learn how to play music. He believed that “talent is not inborn, it is created.” He said that if you started a child on an instrument at a young age, and encouraged them, any child could succeed at playing an instrument. He believed that a child should achieve a basic level of comfort with their instrument before The New Zealand String Quartet (Photo Provided) they were required to read music. He emphasized listening repertory classes and chamber music. ITE and developing aural skills. He asked the is now spreading the Suzuki’s method parent to become the “home teacher” and to Guanajuato, Mexico where they are work with their child to ensure correct training teachers and working with and effective practice. He created group students. ITE families have gathered lessons that developed ensemble skills as instructional materials and other U.S. well as friendships. Finally, he required programs have raised funds to donate his students to give frequent recitals and instruments to children who are interested concerts to instill confidence in them. He in making music. As a result of their efforts, said, “Every child can be educated: it is there is now a national Suzuki Association only a matter of the method of education. in Mexico. Poor training produces poor ability. People ITE also enjoys a close relationship should make every effort, even though it be with Ithaca College. The college has been difficult, to accumulate and build superior hosting the Suzuki Institutes since 1974, ability.” making them the longest running in the The Suzuki Method was introduced Northeast United States. The institutes are to the United States in 1964. Not long modeled after Suzuki’s summer school in after that, Joan and Sandy Reunig created Matsumoto Japan. They are designed so the Ithaca Talent Education School that teachers, students and parents have an (ITE). Instruction at ITE includes private opportunity to learn about music, create lessons for violin, viola and cello, recitals, music, and share in its beauty together. • concerts, workshops, orchestras, group

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Romeo Had Juliet

Classic musical moves with the times By Br yan VanC ampe n West Side Story, book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, libretto/lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins; directed by Nathaniel Shaw; choreographed by Barbara Hartwig; set design by Shelly Barish; costumes by Jimmy Johansmeyer; music direction by W. Brent Sawyer; at CRT through July 9.

t’s interesting: until last year’s production at the Merry Go Round Playhouse in Auburn, I had never seen a live production of West Side Story, and on the heels of Cortland Repertory Theatre’s (CRT) new version, I’ve now seen it twice. Given the size of the CRT stage, you might not think it would be ideal for a sprawling, urban ballet based on Romeo and Juliet. But that lack of space has been turned into one of the strongest aspects of Nathaniel Shaw’s production. Backed by slanted A-frame girders and ladders and stair units, the big city becomes insular and claustrophobic, blocked off by fences, brick and mortar. It’s as if all the characters are trapped by their own prejudices. West Side Story was also created in the wake of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. Seeing it twice now is like looking at a Rorschach; the images and influences keep piling up in my mind. You can see Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video in it, not to mention Irving Shulman’s Amboy Dukes, West Coast jazz, Ginsberg’s “Howl”, the novels of Hubert Selby, the films of John Cassavetes, and Law & Order. It’s really wonderful seeing another generation of young actors—and three authority figures—putting their stamp on a classic like this. It’s equally wonderful to see that the show still works, that it’s still alive and relevant. No one ever tries to re-invent the wheel with West Side Story. Shaw and choreographer Barbara Hartwig preserve the show’s iconic Jerome Robbins choreography. In a way, the Robbins style is like Bob Fosse’s style: why stage Pippin or Chicago, if you’re not enamored of the style? There were a few stretches of choreography that felt “off book,” but when I got home and checked out my Bluray copy of the film, they were, indeed, Robbins canon. WSS has a big cast, and everyone deserves mention. There’s our star-cross’d lovers Tony (Justin Luciano) and Maria (Brittany Santos). Of course, there are the Jets, led by Riff (Jacob Major); Action (James Spencer Dean); A-rab (Drew Carr); Baby John (Richard Westfahl); Snowboy (Ezekiel Edmonds); Diesel (Logan Mortier); and their girls: Graziella (Caroline Kane); Velma (Erica Nicole Rothman); Clarice (Bailey Kote); Minnie

(Cassidy Halprin); and Anybodys (Lizzie Markson). Then there are the Sharks, led by Bernardo (Pasqualino Beltempo); Anita (Melissa Rapelje); Chino (Giovanni Da Silva); Luis (Nicholas Berke); Pepe (Anthony Wright); Indio (Michael Ivan Carrier); and their girls: Consuela (Joan Heeringa); Rosalia (Alexa Shanahan);

and Teresita (Musa Hitomi). Wandering through this ugly cityscape like aliens are the adults, druggist Doc (Greg Bostwick), Lieutenant Shrenk (Rob Lescarbeau), and the eternal Officer Krupke (Bill Lee), as memorialized in song within the show. Luciano and Santos anchor all the epic battles and torment with refreshingly vulnerable, life-sized performances; Tony and Maria seem like real kids, and become legends as the play progresses, but they’re not quite so God-like. Luciano in particular plays Tony in a kind of highstrung melodramatic, neurotic frenzy. There’s not a wrong move among the entire ensemble, but Rapelje’s fiery Anita, De Silva’s shy, stilted Chino and Bostwick’s Doc deserve special mention. West Side Story runs through July 9. Details available at 607-756-2627, 800-4276160, or online at www.cortlandrep.org •

Brittany Santos stars as Maria and Justin Luciano as Tony in “West Side Story” (Photo: Kerby Thompson)

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A plethora of amazing prints from Japan By Ar thur W hitm an

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oncentrated in its expansive and beautiful fifth-floor galleries, Asian art is a major focus at Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. After China, the second best-represented region is Japan, with work ranging from the ancient to the contemporary. Another strength is a collection of European and American work of the late 19th and early 20th-century bearing the distinctive influence of Japanese aesthetics. These two worlds come together this fall in a much-anticipated special exhibit, “JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970.” (It opens August 27 and runs through December 18.) Funded in part by an NEA grant, the exhibit was put together by Nancy Green, the museum’s curator of modern European and American art. The show will center on the international expositions that helped shape global culture throughout the period. It will travel subsequently to several museums around the country. Running concurrently at the Johnson, three peripheral exhibits promise to round out this rich historical narrative. While two of these begin in August, one is open now. For “American Sojourns and the Collecting of Japanese Art” (through December 18), Asian art curator Ellen Avril has assembled an eclectic collection of artifacts from the museum’s collection. The exhibit highlights the insight and generosity of several Cornell-affiliated collectors. It emphasizes 19th and 20th century work (some earlier) in ink painting, calligraphy, printmaking, photography, and books as well as the functional and decorative arts. Color woodblock prints are a focus here and the viewer can begin to trace their history. Particularly striking are four small surimono, incorporating calligraphic poetry and varied imagery. The word literally means “printed thing.” Unlike standard ukiyo-e prints, which were mass-produced and sold on the open market—as a kind of popular art—surimono were produced in limited editions and given away on special occasions. Many marked the lunar New Year. The prints here are gifts from Joanna Haab Schoff, whose important collection was the subject of a major Johnson exhibit in 2006. They’re all quite rich, with their formal refinement and layered allusions. (The catalog for the 2006 show, written by the guest curator Daniel McKee, is very useful here.) Kitao Shigemasa’s A Picture Calendar for 1817, Year of the Ox is particularly transfixing: a still-life with two ink seals—one black, the other visible through embossing and bearing a carved ox. The latter rests on a round case patterned in swirls of intense red. The seals have been applied to sheet of paper at left—they bear

lunar calendar months indicating the year. A pair of commercial portrait prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from his series Men Worthy of the Name in Costumes by Kuniyoshi (1843-46) are just as compelling with their empty white of faces and forearms acting as foils for the bold color and abstract patterns of the fabric. The ukiyo-e print went into decline during the Meiji period (1868-1912), which saw Japan’s opening up to Western trade and an ensuing period of rapid modernization. One cause of this fall is surely the introduction of photography. “Sojourns” includes an abundance of Meiji-era tourist photos. Although mostly

Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820), “A Picture Calendar for 1817, Year of the Ox.” Gift of Joanna Haab Schoff, Class of 1955 (Photo Provided)

unengaging as art (the colored ones are particularly vulgar), they do take over ukiyo-e’s function as social document. Artists and publishers involved with the shin hanga movement of the early 20thcentury sought to revive the collaborative methods and traditional subjects of classic ukiyo-e. Although the style may also seem timelessly Japanese, subtle innovations are characteristic: a new subtlety of color and light, a greater naturalism, the use of Western perspective. The exhibit includes three of these prints including Kawase Hasui’s soft-spoken, poignant Evening at Byodo-in Temple (1950). Along with several hanging scroll paintings, the exhibit includes Waterfall and pine, an undated folding screen by Yamaguchi Soken (1759-1818) combining spare, suggestive marks in black ink with scattered clouds of gold dust. Functional pieces include works of supernal refinement in black lacquered wood and ceramics. A small case holds four carved wood netsuke: tiny toggles used to hold containers from a sash. These delicate pieces take the form of miniature Noh masks—some comical and grotesque. This is wonderful in anticipation of what’s to come. Museum visitors interested in seeing more historical Japanese work now are advised to also visit the fifth floor Asian collections. •

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into a sort-of hot spot for extreme music: or at least a place where underground things “happen”. “The biggest reason the Ithaca scene is so special is that pretty much every genre is supported,” Caso pointed out. “Ithaca Underground has really helped create a thriving, creative hotspot filled with many amazingly talented people. Unlike a lot of scenes around the country, there’s really no segregation between musical styles, we all kind of have each other’s backs. The smalltown factor really helps us be a lot closer together and more inspired by each other. One Fest is an amazing continuation of the May Big-Day-In show that IU used to put on. The heavy music scene here is better than it ever has been in my opinion, and I think the word has spread about Ithaca enough to make this place a trusted spot for touring bands.”

Noise

What is noise? Deep down … we all know the answer. The question is: do you welcome noise—let it fill your heart with wonder, brawn, and inspiration—feel its pure form. Or do you flinch, twisting in wretched knots? Noise—red and white—is crucial to the great infinite, and therefore a natural aspect of the infinite story. It’s the pathway to the echoing chamber of eternity. Its true nature is the present. It’s both complementary and progressive. “Part of the noise experience is experiencing it live. You can only convey so much of a mood on a recording as compared to in a live setting,” relayed Taylor C. Duffy, the artist behind the power-electronics noise project paper skin., one of the 10 noise artists performing on the second stage. “I’ve always have seen noise as the missing link between punk and the avant-garde,” said Duffy. “There is a huge emphasis on D.I.Y. culture in both and a feeling of limitless possibilities in both as well. I wouldn’t say noise sides with one more than another—it directly falls on the borderline of both. It’s much more artistic than punk, and it’s much more crudely constructed than avant-garde.” Noise and experimental music has always shown certain enthusiasm for a mindset favoring ideology over technical and mechanical innuendo, and artists have grasped this powerful lightning rod and struck hard. Noise channels the human spirit in a basic stripped-down Darwinistic kind of way. The spirit is engulfed in the premise of all nature: evolve with what is offered. “I’ve always felt passionate about noise, the idea of creativity over skill has always been a driving force behind what I do,” said Duffy. “I know a lot of people want to create something but then give up when they feel like they aren’t talented enough. I believe no one should feel stifled to create based on lack of talent. I feel like some of the most interesting pieces of art have been created by accident or with lack of experience. I personally would rather listen to someone find a way to use something like a steel pipe as an instrument than listen to someone riff on a guitar.”

Lucky for us, we’ll get to bear witness and with the added (Left) Taylor C. Duffy of paper skin. (Photo Provided) (Right) VII Caso to both on Saturday: a blazing day of second stage the totality is quite performing as Eating Scabs for Protein (Photo: Capture The Core) eternity filled to the brim with metal immersive, expansive, and behemoths like Dragged Into Sunlight, rousing. hop, etc), so as One Fest has become our Primitive Man, Meek Is Murder, and Bleak; “Once the support of Primitive celebration of extreme music in Ithaca, and noise monstrosities like Sunken Cheek, Man and Cult Leader was announced I the only thing more extreme than metal is Limbs Bin, and Sparklebomb. Seriously, practically lost my mind. I was literally noise.” this thing is so stacked you’ll probably wind running around the house in excitement,” See you Saturday. up hanging at The Haunt for the whole 12 said Ithaca Underground president of the For the complete One Fest lineup and the full hours—because missing anything is going board Bubba Crumrine. “IU enjoys mixing interviews with Black Table, VII Caso, and toITsuck—and not going happen for 6/15/16 genres and scenes BBQ BASH that’s 2016 2.4x5.5_IT 1/8 pg 2.4x5.5 2:15 PM Pageat 1 our major events (like paper skin., visit ithaca.com • you. This year’s One Fest is beaming hard, with Big Day In crossing indie, punk, hip-

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6/29 Wednesday Music & Margaritas: Virgil Cain | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | Celebrate summer with Virgil Cain at the first Music & Margaritas of the season. Pop, Rock.

6/30 Thursday Casey Max & The Dixie Kats: CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Dixieland Jazz & Gumbo. Fallingstarsfest: New Riders of the Purple Sage, Terripan Flyer, Evil City String Band | 6:30 PM | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 NY-89, Ovid | Psychedelic, Rock, Funk, Bluegrass, Folk Rock, Folk, Country, Old-Time. Marie Burns and Friends | 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM | New Park Event Centre,

1500 Taughannock Blvd, Trumansburg | Food and beverages provided by Agava.

7/01 Friday Zydeco Trail Riders | 7:00 PM | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Zydeco Trail Riders have been playing dance tunes for zydeco, Cajun, and creole music aficionados in upstate New York since 2004. The band is led by its founder, Greg Grodem, who learned to play accordion zydeco-style on trips to southwest Louisiana in the 1990s. Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday. Russell Posegate: Piano Recital | 7:30 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Program will include pieces by Mozart, Brahms and Debussy, but also a selection of American pieces to kick off the July Fourth weekend.

7/05 Tuesday Traonach | 7:30 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Irish traditional dance music at its straight-ahead best.

Film Summer Cornell Cinema: Moonrise Kingdom | 8:15 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Willard Straight Terrace, Cornell University, Ithaca | A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them | 94 mins PG-13 | The Intern | 1:30 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin. Catching the Sun | 7:00 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Spencer Town Hall, 81 E. Tioga St., Spencer | The story of the global energy transition to solar from the perspective of workers and entrepreneurs. Refreshments provided. cinemapolis

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Swiss Army Man| A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. | 95mins R | Dark Horse | An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse | 85 mins PG | Our Kind of Traitor | A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. |117 mins R | Weiner | An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign and the landscape of today’s political landscape. | 96 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 | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. |92 mins PG |

NT Live: One Man Two Guvnors 2016 Encore | Thursday, 7/07, 6:30 p.m. | Two Guvnors is based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding. The story revolves around the permanently ravenous Francis Henshall (played by Corden) who gets himself into a slew of hilarious situations while trying to keep two guvnors apart. Regal Cinema

Wednesday 6/29 to Tuesday 7/05 | Contact Regal Cinema Ithaca for Showtimes The Neon Demon | When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has. | 118 mins R | The Purge: Election Year | Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. |105 mins R | The Legend of Tarzan | Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment. | 109 mins

PG-13 | The BFG | A girl named Sophie encounters the Big Friendly Giant who, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kindhearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants because, unlike them, he refuses to eat children. | 117 mins PG | Free State of Jones | As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army. | 139 mins R | Independance Day: Resurgence | Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind’s new space defenses be enough?. | 120 mins PG-13 | The Shallows | A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. | 127 mins PG-13 | The Conjuring 2 | Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. | 133 mins R | Now You See Me 2 | The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. | 129 mins PG-13 |

Captain America: Civil War | Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. | 147 mins PG-13 | X-Men: Apocalypse | With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. | 144 mins PG-13 | Alice Through The Looking Glass | Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. | 113 mins PG-13 | Finding Dory | The friendly-butforgetful blue tang fish reunites with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way.| 103 mins PG |

Stage From Here to Eternity | 7:30 PM | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Sir Tim Rice’s new musical makes its US premiere right here in Auburn. Don’t miss this epic, sweeping story of love, redemption and hope set against the backdrop of a beautiful but conflicted paradise. Tickets and info at fingerlakesmtf. com/2016-season/from-here-toeternity/index.html In The Heights | Hangar Theatre,

801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, In the Heights uses contemporary music and dance to tell the story of the American Dream. For showtimes visit www.hangartheatre.org Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 10:00 PM, 6/30 Thursday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Burlesque, Cabaret, Dance, Avant-Garde. Baby Boom Baby | Ti-Ahwaga Community Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | National Lampoon veteran Tommy Koenig sings original songs and parodies from The Beatles to Lady Gaga in the musicomedy “Baby Boo. For tickets and showtimes visit tiahwaga.com West Side Story | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | One of the greatest musicals of all time in its CRT debut! In this breathtaking musical, two rival gangs struggle for control of their west side New York City neighborhood. Amidst the chaos, star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria find themselves wrenched between their worlds. Beautiful, passionate, with shades of violence and heartache, this innovative adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet still dazzles after more than fifty years! The treasured songs Something’s Coming, Tonight, I Feel Pretty, Maria and America have become classics in the American Songbook. Info at www. cortlandrep.org

Notices Audition Season For the Vitamin L Singing Group | This is for youth who will be entering 6th - 11th grade who like to sing, perform, and make a positive difference in this world. This is a unique and wonderful opportunity for young people. Check it out! For audition info, and more info about Vitamin L go to vitaminl.org or call Vitamin L’s director, Janice Nigro at 273-4175. American Red Cross Blood Drives | Wednesday, 6/29 Brooktondale Fire Dept. 2:30pm to 6:30pm. Thursday, 6/30 Ithaca YMCA: 1st Annual Battle of the Badges 11:30 am to 4:30 pm – donate in honor of your community heroes – Fire vs. Police!! Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 6/29 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 Ithaca Sociable Siungles Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 6/29 Wednesday | Kilpatrick’s Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca | RSVP fleischmann_hans@yahoo.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods. Info: (240) 538-3917. Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University. Easy Square and Contra Dance | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, 7/01 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | No experience or partner needed. Must be Lifelong members. For more information call 273-1511. Bake Sale and Book Sale | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 7/02 Saturday | Lodi Historical Society Building, S. Main St., Lodi | 4th of July Chicken Barbeque | 11:00 AM-, 7/04 Monday | Myers Park, , Lansing | Hosted by the Lansing Lions Club. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/05 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, , Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market. For more information, contact the library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. The Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/05 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 524 Valley Rd, Brooktondale | Enjoy farm fresh produce from Elmer Family Farm, Whispering Willow and Nook and Cranny, organically raised meat products from Hog Wild and Shelterbelt Farm, hanging baskets and vegetable seedlings from R & C Plants and

Boathouse Beer Garden, Rt. 89, Ovid Thursday, June 30, 6:30 p.m.

Coltivare, South Cayuga St. Thursday, June 30, 6 to 9 p.m.

Featuring behemoths like New Riders of the Purple Sage, Terrapin Flyer and Evil City String Band, Fallingstarfest is a festival that really pakcs a punch. New Riders of the Purple Sage formed in the ’60s with Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. Terrapin Flyer consists of Melvin Seals, a longtime member of the Jerry Garcia Band; Tom Constanten, former keyboardist for the Grateful Dead; and Mark Karan, a longtime member of Ratdog.

A spectacular evening of Finger Lakes Cuisine, Wine, and Music- all to benefit Gas Free Seneca! Regional wineries, farmers, and musicians are collaborating to share the rich, colorful bounty that makes the Finger Lakes great. Featuring Old Time Music from members of the Horseflies with Mac Benford, Country music with Laila Belle, and piano lounge music with Travis Knapp.

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Produce, prepared foods and desserts from Brookton’s Market and nature drawing activities with natural science illustrator Lucy Gagliardo, free for kids of all ages. Circle for Healthy Eating and Wellness (CHEW) | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 7/05 Tuesday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | A peer-facilitated support group for people in recovery or recovered from eating disorders. An affiliate of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). Info at chewithaca@ gmail.com Tompkins County Amateur Radio Association | 7:00 PM-, 7/05 Tuesday | Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, 92 Brown Road, Ithaca | The Association meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend! Visit tcara-ny.org for more information Ithaca’s own emo-pop-punkers Maple Hill break down the walls this Saturday, July 2, at 10 p.m. at The Nines. If you’re in the mood for post-pop punk and Taking Back Sunday-like jauns: this is your jam. (Photo: provided)

Learning Summer Exhibition: Motion Mania | 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 607-2720600. Supervising Difficult Employees with Arpi Hovaguimian, LCSW-R | 8:45 AM-12:30 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A workshop for supervisors and anyone else interested in the topic. 3.5 HRCI and SHRM CEUs available. Visit www.hsctc.org/workshops for details. Live Demo: The Coolest Science | 1:00 PM-, 6/29 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. Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. Groundswell Technical Course: Managing Soils for Better Crops Cover Crops and Soil Amendments

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more information, please visit www. IthacaRedTent.com Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 7/03 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make your own whirling, moving machines to take home. Materials provided by Cornell XRaise. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600. The Cayuga Trails Club | The Cayuga Trails Club will be leading hikes on Tuesday evenings. Start times and locations vary. Please visit our web site at cayugatrailsclub.org for further details. Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 5:45 PM-, 7/05 Tuesday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. We minimize transitions from standing to the floor, and stay clear of poses and exercises that could inflame injuries or trouble sore joints. Class designed to create a safe and supportive environment to meet the needs of those who don’t wish to practice more strenuous styles of yoga. More info at www.YogaFarm. us

| 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Tree Gate Farm, 1401 Mecklenburg Road, Ithaca | Info at: groundswellcenter.org/events/ Making Non-Dairy Yogurt | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how easy it is to make yogurt using different non-dairy milks such as soy, coconut, almond, cashew, and hemp. Samples and recipes provided. The instructor is Theresa Joseph. Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/calendar. Ithaca Red Tent | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 7/03 Sunday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Ithaca Red Tent - A place for women, created by women, where we can explore all that it means to be a woman. Join us: first Saturday of every month from 10:00 – 3:00 PM. For

Kids Sciencenter Mini-Golf | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Enjoy 18 holes of

science fun! www.sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600. Open Registration: Little Voices Music & Motion’s Songs of Summer | Little Voices Music & Motion is a research based class for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, with parents or other caregivers along for the fun. We sing, we dance, and we play with instruments and movement props to music that varies widely in tonality, rhythm and style. Scholarships are available for all Little Voices Music & Motion classes. Please go to the website www.LittleVoicesMusic.com for registration instructions. Summer Meals for Kids Kick-Off Event | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Northside Community Center, 625 Hancock St., Ithaca | Come enjoy hot dogs, hamburgers, beans, watermelon and more. Code Red Robotics | 2:00 PM-, 7/02 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Meet Ithaca High School’s Code Red Robotics team as they show off their competition robot. www. sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/05 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. Anime Club | 4:15 PM-6:00 PM, 7/05 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 rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Special Events Sterling Renaissance Festival || Join us for the 40th Anniversary Season at the Sterling Renaissance Festival! Show schedule, special events, and more at www.sterlingfestival.com. Bike Night | 6:00 PM-, 6/29 Wednesday | The Parkview Restaurant, 145 Front Street, Owego | Live music, chat with friends, eat good food, and look at motorcycles! A different band will be playing each week.

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Press Bay Alley, Friday, July 1, 5:30 p.m. Art in the Heart, now in its 17th year, brings diverse and exciting contemporary art to downtown Ithaca. An opening reception and tour will be held in conjunction with Gallery Night and will feature free wine tastings by Six Mile Creek Vineyard, cupcakes by Collegetown Bagels, cello music by Chris White of the Binghamton Philharmonic, and wandering entertainment by Circus Culture. A walking tour led by exhibition coordinator Evan D. Williams will depart promptly at 6:15 PM.

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Sahlen’s Six Hours Of The Glen | Thurday, June 30 through Sunday, July 3 | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | The Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen weekend is set to feature the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, Mazda Prototype Lites, Porsche GT3 Cup USA, and Lamborghini Super Trofeo. Bridge Street Bikes, Brews & BBQ | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/30 Thursday | Bridge St. and William St., Bridge St. and William St., Corning | Help us kick-start the summer with great music, a street full of bikes, craft beer tastings, and a barbecue contest! Join us on Bridge Street for the fun! Music by Devon Franks and Wendy Owens & Renegade. Special guest Jason ‘Captain America’ Britton. For more information, visit gafferdistrict.com/events/BBB Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM-, 6/30 Thursday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night. Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com Save The Bounty Wine and Food Pairing | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/30 Thursday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A spectacular evening of Finger Lakes Cuisine, Wine, and Music- all to benefit Gas Free Seneca! Regional wineries, farmers, and musicians are collaborating to share the rich, colorful bounty that makes the Finger Lakes great. Featuring Old Time Music from members of the Horseflies with Mac Benford, Country music with Laila Belle, and piano lounge music with Travis Knapp. Limited Seating available. Go to www.gasfreeseneca.com for reservations. Call 607-769-4639 for more information. Great Blue Heron Music Festival 2016 | 2361 Waits Corners Rd., 2361 Waits Corners Rd., Sherman | July 1, 2, 3. Featuring Donna The Buffalo, The Horse Flies, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Jimkata, Driftwood, Big Mean Sound Machine, and many, many more. Also features Zydeco Dances, Kids’ and Teen Programs, Hiking and Biking Trails, Songwriters Circle, Dance Instruction, Drumming Circles, and Supervised Swimming. For full listings, info, and tickets visit greatblueheron.com/wp/ Nerf Wars Night | 7:00 PM-11:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | AMBC Gymnasium, 8 Foundry Street, Candor | An epic battle of Monsters vs. Hunters Vs. Knights. There will be Food and some prizes as well. Proceeds for this event go directly to off set costs for the NYC Missions Trip happening August 2016. For more

information and a registration form call 659-5335. Owego Elks Antiques And Collectibles Market | 8:00 AM, 7/03 Sunday | 223 Front Street, 223 Front Street, Owego | Shop over 40 dealers from across Central NY and PA. 10,000 sq. ft. of quality merchandise and fabulous food, oldies music and more! Every first and third Sunday year-round. Candor’s 4th of July Festivities | 10:00 AM, 7/04 Monday | Candor Ball Park, Rt. 96 and Spencer Ave, Candor | Carnival and Firework! Contact: 607-659-4724 or 607-2276378 Tioga County Fair | Tuesday, July 5 through Saturday, July 9 | Marvin Park, Route 17C, Owego | The second oldest in NYS! Shows and fun events for all! $5 admission. Separate price for Carnival and Grand Stand. 4H Exhibits, Midway, Open Dairy, Horse Barrel Racing, Baby Contest, Demo Derby/Powder Puff Derby. Info at www.tiogacofair.com

Books Bob Proehl | 7:00 PM, 6/29 Wednesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come to shape us. Bob Proehl grew up in Buffalo, New York, where his local comics shop was Queen City Bookstore. He has worked as a bookseller and programming director for Buffalo Street Books, a DJ, a record store owner, and a bartender.

Art First Friday Art Walk | On the 1st Friday of every month, Owego’s galleries, boutiques, and restaurants showcase a broad range of artists, musicians, writers, and performers. Enjoy an art-filled night out with friends- come dine at our fabulous eateries, stroll our historic village, and enjoy shopping in our downtown marketplace. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | Ithaca, Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www. downtownithaca.com for details Cortland First Fridays | 5:00 PM-8:00

Zydeco Trail Riders, Cornell Arts Quad, Friday, July 1, 7:00 p.m.

Pack your picnic baskets and grab your frisbees for the first of Cornell’s free summer concerts on the Arts Quad! Playing together since 2004, the Zydeco Trail Riders are led by accordionist Greg Grodem, who learned to play zydecostyle in southwest Louisiana. Cornell’s free summer events, which run from June 28 to August 5, include Tuesday performances at Klarman Hall Auditorium and Friday concerts on the Arts Quad.

PM, 7/01 Friday | Multiple Locations, Downtown Cortland, Cortland | First Fridays celebrate the art and culture of the local community on the first Friday of each month. Surroundings by Juliet Turback | 5:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | Gimme Coffee, 430 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Through the month of July. Paintings put together like a jigsaw puzzle, mixed media art that includes pieces of paper with acrylic paints. Verdure: The Art of Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman | 5:30 PM-, 7/01 Friday | Eye Gallery, 126 E. State St., 2nd Fl., Ithaca | Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman bring the lush expanse of the plant kingdom to the Commons. Join them (5:30 to 7:30pm) for a glass of wine, a gourmet treat, and the perfect antidote for the summer heat. The show will run through July 31st. Conceivably Plausible: Prints from the Collections of Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Conceivably Plausible presents prints from the collections of Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer that test the limits of belief. The works in the exhibition depict a range of subjects, from unusual medical cures, to strange creatures and artifacts from distant cultures. Bowman, Bowman and Kather | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/01 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | A lively and colorful mix of photographs, digital manipulations and sculpture by three gallery members during July. Jan Kather will show photographs in her Imitation Painting series. The digital manipulations are Stan Bowman’s App-stracts and Mary Ann Bowman will show Odd Birds, her recent sculpture. www.soag.org Art in the Heart | 5:30 PM-, 7/01 Friday | Press Bay Alley, 116 West Green Street, Ithaca | This year’s show, running July through November, features a mural, a sculpture, and a series of painted panels by three up-and-coming professional artists from three states: ARCY of Wallingford, CT; Chris Oliver of Ithaca, NY; and Marlana Adele Vassar of Pittsburgh, PA. For more information, please email info@downtownithaca.com or call 607-277-8679. First Saturdays on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 7/02 Saturday | Greater Ithaca Art Trail, , | Artists exhibit in studios across Ithaca and

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olks who dig cool, wooded spots and hot string-band music wouldn’t be foolish to attend the inaugural Togethernessfest this Fourth of July weekend. Travis Hutchins, his wife Carrie, and their two children live at Fools Hill Farm, in the town of Spencer. They bought the 13-acre parcel in 2004, and have gradually made the farm into a working homestead—cutting trees, planting gardens, raising chickens. Last year, Hutchins and friends built a small stage in what he calls the farm’s “nanoamphitheater”—a hollow in the middle of the property that sits below a two-plusacre pond, surrounded on three sides by forest. The sound that results, Hutchins said, is “ethereal.” And, as a bonus, the pond overlooks the stage for people who want to cool off after a dancing session and still catch the on-stage action. “The setting is almost surreal,” Hutchins said. “We wanted to share that, and a music event seemed the best way … so we built a stage.” The “Tumen Stage” is where about 20 acts will be playing from July 1 to 3. The lineup is string-band heavy, with Still Hand String Band and Dishonest Fiddlers headlining Friday night; Deadgrass and

Tompkins County. More information at www.arttrail.com. ongoing 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 stylized landscape illustrations. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Personal Abstractions: Paintings and Collages by Laura Glenn. | www.artspartner.org Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Nature Made. Don’t let modernization make you forget the taste of real food. This show emphasizes the importance of our everyday produce by presenting them in beautiful, colorful and sometimes abstract ways. Each piece is titled with words to remind us of the local and organic movement and to connect us

Blind Owl Band closing out Saturday night; and Milkweed and the Coal Town Rounders on Sunday night. There will be a kids’ jam on Sunday afternoon, and an all-star jam late on Sunday night. All of the bands are from New York or Pennsylvania, something that’s important to Hutchins. “Many of the bands are Ithaca, Southern Tier, or Finger Lakes bands, the rest are local enough to hit at least some of their other shows within a two-hour drive,” Hutchins said. “We also promote those shows as if they were our own.” Togethernessfest is part of a longterm business plan for Fools Hill. Hutchins and his sweat equity business partner, Jerry Tanner of Technicolor Trailer Park, have been graveling roads and working with the chainsaw to make the property accessible enough for a maximum of 300 people. They installed a 55-amp power line to the stage to ensure constant power for amplification. Eventually, the plan is to put in a three-barrel brewing system and build cabins, turning Fools Hill into a farm/brewery/resort inn. “The land isn’t really the best suited for farming, so it hasn’t been the most lucrative,” Hutchins said with a laugh. Fools Hill still offers a “homestead” CSA share with chickens, maple syrup, and vegetables, but improving the soils in the two gardens from its rocky base is still a process. “When I bought the land there was no clear space for gardens at all and it all had to be cleared by hand and chainsaw,” Hutchins said. “This is a new beginning for the farm, so we decided to create an event to help propel the business plan and build a community at the same time.”

back to how nature intended to provide them. | 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. Works range from realistic to abstract, each expressing an artist’s personal vision while challenging the dimensions of fiber art through manipulation of techniques and materials. | www.csma-ithaca.org Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink. Decorum Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too for the months of June and July. Best known for large mixed media canvases, these small to medium sized pieces are more contemplative, featuring saturated color achieved by working with various inks. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com

The Blind Owl Band play the inaugural Togethernessfest Saturday night. (Photo: Facebook) Fools Hill has already hosted a few informal gatherings and a couple of small festivals, including the Paleophonic Festival earlier this month, dedicated to suicide prevention and awareness in honor of the late John Elliot. “We chose the name Togethernessfest and the date in direct opposition to Independence Day,” Hutchins said. “We have no issue with Independence Day itself, but feel the need to celebrate our community and coming together more than our independence.” The Togethernessfest organizers are asking that people carpool to Fools

Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman bring the lush expanse of the plant kingdom to the Commons. Home Green Home | 215 East State/ MLK Street | Water & Life: Fernando Llosa and Ryan Curtis. An invitation into a spiritual experience of Nature, 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. The works in the exhibition depict a range of subjects, from unusual medical cures, to strange creatures and artifacts from distant cultures | www. ink-shop.org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Benjamin Slatoff-Burke will be exhibiting his series of abstract paintings through June 30 |

Hill and people should know that RV parking is not available, and gates close at 10 pm Friday and 5 pm Saturday and Sunday. They also ask people leave glass, pets, drugs, fireworks, and bullshit at home. Over the Moon Grilled Cheeserie truck, out of Alpine, will be there to serve food. Technicolor Trailer Park kicks off Togethernessfest at 5 p.m. on Friday, with music going until late Sunday and campers allowed to stay until early Monday afternoon. Visit togethernessfest.com for the full band lineup and ticket information – day passes are available. •

607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com 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. Both focus on color, depth, and texture, bringing the artist’s unique sensibilities into play. | www.padmacenter.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August 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. Jan Kather will

show photographs in her Imitation Painting series. The digital manipulations are Stan Bowman’s App-stracts and Mary Ann Bowman will show Odd Birds, her recent sculpture. | www. soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Landscape Paintings of Ithaca Scenes by Nari Mistry Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. Rose is a resident of lovely Ithaca. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied illustration. | www. wafflefrolicking.com

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beautiful flooring, not all of it on the floors. When you enter through the front door you find yourself standing on very tight-grained yellow pine, which extends under the dining area, the living area and into the front room. The room at the front of the house can be used as a downstairs bedroom. It has a large closet with louvered doors and an alcove, where a desk and shelves could be built or inserted. The rest of the downstairs is one large L-shaped open space, brightened by more skylights over the kitchen. The floor of the kitchen is maple. The counter is stone, punctuated by a double sink and with a gas stove at one end of it. The laundry is in an adjacent alcove with the refrigerator. The cabinets, like the floor, are maple with steel pulls. There is by several arborvitae planted between the blue ceramic tile on the wall behind the house and the sidewalk, which provided countertop that has been artfully bromore privacy than would ordinarily be ken and attached to the wall in a jagged expected in a city house. In addition, a mosaic. skylight had been installed in the porch There is a full bathroom off the dining roof, which not only bathes the porch with room where the floor matches the wall light, but also brightens up the front room behind the kitchen counter. It has a tub of the house. equipped with a shower. This is a home with many types of The stairwell to the second floor winds past two landings and the walls on either side of the stairs have been covered with oak flooring, which makes the space much more attractive andin interesting and for At A Glance Before you set foot that first open some reason also makes it look wider. house,Allget forsecond a mortgage Price: $198,800 theprequalified floors on the story are and know exactly what you new blonde oak. There are can two afford. bedrooms Location: 524 West Clinton Street, upstairs, both of them lit up by skylights. City of Ithaca The larger one also hasof a large We offer plenty loan closet with School District: Ithaca City Schoos more louvered doors. programs for Belle Sherman Elementary options and special All the trim in this house is apparMLS#: Not yet listed first-time Ithomebuyers. ently originally. was painted white by Contact: Leslie Intemann, Licensed the present owners, who report that it had Salesperson, RealtyUSA And not days. beendecisions stripped take downminutes, to the wood. It is not, Phone: 607-351-2233 (cell) however, Happy hardwood and was meant to be shopping.* Website: www.realtyusa.com painted. It is simple and striking as is. houseor is talk over to a century ApplyThis online one ofold, ourbut efore you even get in the front door of 524 W. Clinton St. you start to notice interesting features about this house. First of all, the floor of the front porch is made out of mahogany. In other words, not only will it look pretty if properly oiled, but it will last forever. The front porch has been screened

525 West Clinton Street, Ithaca; front (above) and back (left) (Photos: Cassandra Palmyra)

its interior has been transformed into a light-filled place that is quite different from that of most late Victorian homes. It was never a fancy house and its simplicity may have been a response to the trend toward a hand-crafted look that became popular after 1890 in this country. This was meant to simultaneously evoke medieval aesthetics and point toward the future and Modernism. The renovations in this house catch that spirit and build on it. The lot is relatively large for a city par-

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Experimental classicist at his Candor retreat B y J o s h B r o k aw Calm your fears, and hope to cope at least a hundred years. Make your mark! If need be, even make it in the dark. - Louis Hardin, “Do Your Thing”

here’s a mythic aura that surrounds the life and work of Louis Hardin, Kansasborn in May 1916. Stories about Hardin, a blind, homeless composer who became known as Moondog still make the rounds in Candor and Owego. Since moving to Candor in the late 1980s, Glenda and Angelo Hickman have heard “wonderful tales” about Moondog. “We’ve heard that he used to get people from the New York City Philharmonic orchestra on his land,” Glenda said on a recent sunny afternoon on Logue Hill. “Legend has it he brought the whole philharmonic up here.” The Hickmans live just above the tract of land that was once Hardin’s place of respite from sleeping rough on New York City streets. There’s no visible signs of Moondog’s presence on the property anymore, where Robert Ketchum has lived with his family for about five years. “It’s nice and peaceful,” Ketchum said. “The deer come down in our yard. There are rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels.” Acorn-laden oaks and pines ring the lot; walk far enough up and the woods begin. When conversation and dogs go quiet, frogs and birds can be heard chirping. Slate Road isn’t the kind of road used by heavy trucks; when Ketchum moved his father’s trailer to the property, the truck had to back up the entire way from Route 96.

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M o o n d o g at h i s C a n d o r C a b i n ( P h o t o : Da l e B u c k t h a l) them down in Braille by poking holes in notecards. To find that peace, Hardin first had to get to Candor. Most of the trip was by bus, coming from New York City to Owego. People saw Moondog when he walked up the hill on foot. “My boys were small at that time,” Roger Westgate, who lives on Brink Road, said. “They were outside and running in the house screaming ‘There’s somebody out there, you won’t believe it!’ He’s coming down the road with a big walking stick, he had a helmet on with horns and big long robes.” When he got off the bus from Owego, Moondog stopped in at the grocery now called John’s Fine Foods. John Hitchings took a few minutes off from prepping for a Friday fish fry to share his memories of Moondog: “He walks in the front door, and I’m back here cutting meat. You can’t miss him. He was a very tall man, and his outfit was outstanding.” Hardin had a grocery list, written in

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Braille, and when he was done shopping Hitchings would call him a taxi to take him to Candor. “When you talked to him he was clearly an intelligent man,” Hitchings said. “He was no dummy or freak show. He was sincere.” The grocer recalled that Hardin had been robbed once in Owego, but never in New York City. Hardin’s appearance always attracted the attention of newspeople, even before he took to wearing a Viking helmet to discourage comparisons between his appearance and that of Christ. An Owego paper noted Hardin’s visit to check out the Slate Road land in the mid-1950s: “Moondog said he has modeled his clothing after that of the Indians. His apparel consisted of material resembling an army blanket equipped with a hood. The entire exterior clothing consisted of only one piece of garment.” Hardin was blind from the age of 16—an abandoned blasting cap he picked up exploded in his face—but he was self-

reliant, what would be called now a “do-ityourselfer.” The late Bucky Moon, a longtime country-music performer, told a Candor Historical Society gathering celebrating Moondog some years ago that he first saw Hardin pulling an eight-foot log of red oak with a leather strap for some reason or another. When he first came to Candor, Moondog was living in a hole in the ground. “It is warm down in the earth—let the wind blow, I’ll be fine,” was what Moon remembered Moondog saying. “I had gotten my vacation check of $222 that year, and I bought the materials for him to build the small house closer to the road,” Moon said in an account written up by local historian Carol Henry. “When I drove by I would toot my horn and if he wanted anything he would raise his broom for me to stop. Usually he would need some provisions. I remember he always wanted Chock-Full-of-Nuts coffee, and he would make it in a tin can over the open fire and it looked just like tar. I couldn’t stand it, but I drank it because I didn’t want to hurt his feelings.” “He wouldn’t sleep in a bed, but put his sleeping bag on the floor.” Moon, who convinced Hardin to stay with him sometimes during winter storms, said. “We did a lot of traveling together. He was a real friend. He had a lot of pride. He was my kind of man.” There was a problem with the hut Hardin built, though, which he related to Steve Knowlton for a 1970 story in Upstate magazine. “Somebody, I guess some of the kids before they got to know me, kept taking the sod out from between the stones and it got cold in the winter. And then, the mice could get in.” Hardin built an 8-by-16 foot log cabin in about 1961, with more help from the neighbors. That was both insulated and had a wood stove, according to Bob Berg. “I remember several of us went up there to help him put a roof on him,” Berg said. “After we shingled the roof, Moondog picked up a Maxwell House coffee can with several dozen nails in it and he started shaking in tempo and singing. He sang the song with several of his dogs.” Hardin had a penchant for improvising percussion instruments out of materials at hand; he made triangular drums he called “trimbas” because they fit him better while squatting in doorways.

He once expressed a desire to build “earth drums,” by digging out holes in the ground and stretching the skins over top, so people could play by dancing. Native rhythms were influential on Hardin’s music; he often repeated a story about sitting on an Arapaho chief ’s lap at age 6, playing a drum at a tribal dance. According to Hardin biographer Robert Scotto, there was an outhouse and a hand pump on the property that was dug by hand, but no earth drums ever came to be. Both Lloyd Quick and his brotherin-law Frank Updyke remember finding Moondog’s rope-based navigational systems in the woods while hunting on Logue Hill. “He had trails all through there,” Updyke said. “He could probably see better there than I did.” There was a pond on his land, too, since filled in, where Moondog is said to have rigged up ropes to keep himself in the lane while swimming. According to Knowlton, a winter visitor needed to wear snowshoes to get up Slate Road. Once there, you might see Moondog burning half a cigar as an offering to Odin, for the Viking horns were an expression of Hardin’s affinity for Scandinavia. One might also run into him in a place called Lela’s Restaurant in Owego, since closed. “I come here a lot,” Hardin told Knowlton. “Particularly in the summertime when there’s not this problem with the snow. I sit and talk for hours and sometimes just listen to the old-timers come and go. Fascinating old people. Listen and talk—until it’s time to go back.” According to Mike Gulachok, who first saw Moondog standing out front of the Owego Smoke Shop from a bus window, Hardin lived full-time in Candor for about 16 months, starting in 1972. For a time, he shared space with Thelma “Teddy” Burlar, a local painter. It was during this time that Moondog decided to have a summer concert series. “A bulldozer leveled a stage and

rough cleared a meadow,” Gulochok wrote in a Tioga County Courier story. “On three Sunday afternoons innovative classical music was made. String quartets performed original pieces while he read his poetry. Edward Brewer give a harpsichord recital of music by the Baroque masters and Moondog.” The whole philharmonic never visited, Scotto said, but some of those players were on his records and could have visited. Hardin, soon after moving to New York City in the mid-1940s, was granted the rare privilege of listening to Philharmonic rehearsals by director Arthur Rodzinski. Moondog was known first for his appearance, but years of prominence brought people into his life who recognized how serious a musician he was: to give just one example, he lived for a time with the composer Philip Glass, who considered Hardin’s work influential on his own. Alfred University was happy to have Moondog perform, when Berg asked him to play at a benefit concert for the Steinham, a campus building. “He had a concert with a choir made up of students from the music department which helped him do the production,” Berg said. “He played the piano, did some drumming, recited some poems and did a lot of interesting musical things.” Fortunately, the Alfred concert wasn’t Moondog’s last. “We hit an icy patch on Route 17 in Chemung,” Berg said of returning home from Alfred, “and rolled the car—a brand new Volkswagen Beetle—but we all survived because of a great deal of luck. We did all have our seat belts on and no one had to go to the hospital. We were a bit battered.” A more tranquil trip for Moondog was on the paddleboat “Susquehanna Queen”; Gulachok took him out on the river with a friend, with Moondog’s Viking horns standing at the wheel for part of the journey.

Moondog Moves On

Hardin’s time in Candor ended rather abruptly in 1974. Paul Jordan, a Binghamton University professor of music, had a former student in Frankfurt, Germany, who invited Moondog there to play on a program in “unclassifiable”

(C l o c k w i s e f r o m u p p e r l e f t) H a r d i n ’s g r av e i n M ü n s t e r ; S e c o n d a l b u m (1 9 5 6 ; P r e s t i g e) ; “ t h e Wi t c h o f E n d o r” (1 9 69 ; C o l u m b i a) ; r e c e n t c o m p i l at i o n (2 0 0 4 ; R o o f) ; R e c r e at e d Candor cabin in Glasmoog exhibition in Cologne (Photo P r ov i d e d) music. Once in Europe, Hardin decided to stay. A family ended up taking him in and reforming him of wearing the Viking helmet and had loose tailored clothes made for him. In Germany, Moondog continued to compose, write, and perform. His works included a composition called “Overtone Tree” that would require four conductors to play properly and was Hardin’s attempt at perfecting his lifelong dedication to counterpoint. Many of his works have not yet been transcribed from Braille. There are also 1,000 couplets which Hardin called his “milleniad;” the poems, he told an interviewer in the ‘90s, are “about our abuse of nature, our contempt for primitive societies, and about a discovery I recently made which indicates the existence of what I call the Megamind.” Moondog returned to the United States once, for a 1989 concert series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He sold the Candor land to Burlar, who died in 1982, and it’s seen several owners since. Though Moondog is gone from this earth—he died in Germany in 1999—he is still being honored as more people become aware of his work. The Viking of Sixth Avenue, a featurelength documentary with the same name T

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as Scotto’s biography, will be out in 2017, according to filmmaker Holly Elson. Three people were in Mr. Pat’s Antiques in Owego looking for Moondog records in just one recent week. A replica of Moondog’s Candor cabin was built for a 2014 exhibition at glasmoog, part of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. The show included original notations and recordings made at his Slate Road address, along with a Moondog sing-along. Roughly translated, the curators said that Moondog’s residence in Candor is “representative of Moondog: nomadic, simple, a self-determined and radical art and philosophy of using the smallest possible space … for a music that is elementary and simple.” There will be a celebration of Moondog’s Centennial on August 12, at Damiani Wine Cellars in Hector. Lansing artist Gerry Monaghan is spearheading the event, which will include musicians playing Moondog and related art— Monaghan is making a sculpture inspired by Hardin’s rope navigation system. “Moondog is the closest thing the 20th century has to Johnny Appleseed, and he’s real,” Monaghan said. “He was someone with incredible resources.” • u n e

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