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he March 3 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature kicked off with a poetry reading after John Spence, executive director of the Community Arts Partnership, introduced the 2015 Tompkins County Poet Laureate, John “Jack” Hopper. Hopper released his first poetry collection, Miscellany, in 1962. He also released 1994’s The Ympes of Wanton Youthe and 2012’s Doubles. He founded the magazine Works: A Quarterly of Writing and served as chief editor of AMS Press in New York City until 2005, when he moved to Ithaca. Spence noted that there had been several nominations, which he took as an indication that poetry is “alive and well” in Tompkins County. Despite the numerous nominees, the selection committee unanimously recommended Hopper. After Spence’s introduction, Hopper stepped up to the podium and read two poems, including one quintessentially Ithaca piece about the Wegman’s parking lot. Legislature Chair Mike Lane (D-14th) approved Hopper’s appointment during the meeting. (For a full interview with Hopper, see the “Speakeasy” this week on p. 5.) • • • Next, the legislature heard an annual State of the College speech from Tompkins Cortland Community College President Carl Haynes. “If you look at TC3’s accomplishments this past year,” Haynes said, “you might find it unlikely that a college so clearly committed to developing cutting-edge innovative programs finds itself in the midst of one of the more financially challenging periods in its history.” Haynes went on to highlight some of the college’s work in the past year, including the farm to bistro initiative at Coltivare, the solar farm development, the growth of the college’s Network Peer Mentor Program, a professional development Writing to Learn program, an expansion of the library’s online offerings, and an increase in enrollment in the TC3 Global Connections Program. Among the challenges facing the college, Haynes cited the difficulty students are having in affording a college education, a decrease in taxpayer support, and media coverage calling into question the value of a college degree. Haynes concluded, “In closing, I continued on page 4

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calls for boycotts until Israel retreats from territories in the West Bank and Gaza occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967; until Arab Palestinians are given “full equality” as Israeli citizens; and Palestinian refugees are allowed to return to homes from which they were displaced. “The situation in the occupied territories of Israel right now is extremely urgent, although it’s not being covered by the press,” Harris said. GreenStar is “very committed to this idea of grassroots democracy. We recognize the political content of the merchandising of food … this kind of thing has been central to the culture of the local food co-op. We’re excited to participate in this grassroots democracy infrastructure.” The proposed referendum asks for a

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ember-owners of GreenStar Coop might soon have to decide whether the local food market should boycott products associated with Israeli companies. The “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement grew out of tactics used in international actions taken against South African products during the apartheid era. The current iteration calls for boycotts on products like Sabra and Tribe hummus, marketed by StraussGroup and Osem, respectively— companies with Israeli ties. BDS garnered national press and The Daily Show coverage in March 2012 when members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Co-op debated the issue and ultimately decided not to vote on a boycott. Here in Ithaca, Local group affiliated with the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” movement urges Ariel Gold and Beth GreenStar members to boycott Israeli foodstuffs. (Photo provided) Harris of the local Jewish Voice for vote on four separate issues, which Harris Peace chapter are behind a campaign that said she hoped would allow “people to began March 5 to gather the 100 signatures grapple with each of the issues, learn about required to have GreenStar members vote on referendums that could lead to boycotts. it, and see where they personally stand.” The first question is whether GreenStar Their effort is called the Ithaca Food Justice should boycott anything grown in the for Palestine Campaign (IFJPC). They occupied West Bank. Whether products believe that GreenStar’s certification as a Sabra hummus, co-owned by Strauss “food justice” market “requires diligence and Pepsico and from Osem (51 percent and responsibility,” Gold said, “in adhering owned by Nestle) should be boycotted are to the highest standards for labor and trade practices.” continued on page 7 According to IFJPC materials, BDS

▶ Gorges Can Be Dangerous, Ithaca Police Department Chief of Police John R. Barber would like to remind Ithaca’s residents and visitors to use extreme caution when visiting the many beautiful parks and waterways in Ithaca. Please follow posted signs and do not veer away from a designated path, even if it appears safe to do so. Ice that appears to be thick and safe can in fact be dangerously thin. Please keep clear of any body of water until the ice is completely melted throughout the area. With

temperatures slowly rising as spring approaches ice becomes unsafe to walk on and terrain on pathways becomes slippery and difficult to traverse. This includes the Cayuga Lake inlet near Stewart Park and the areas encompassing the Cascadilla Falls and the Ithaca Falls. If you or someone you see that is in danger please call 911 immediately and give calm, clear directions. Chief Barber encourages parents to communicate this important safety messages to their children.

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What Book are you reading right now?

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Municipalities Can Now Buy Energy

“ A Nero Wolfe mystery.” —Cal Wood

“As You Wish by Cary Elwes.” —Chris Mazer

“The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore” —Julia Corrice

ocal municipalities in New York may soon receive more power to choose how their electricity is generated and distributed. A pilot program called “Community Choice Aggregation” (CCA) was recently approved by the state Public Service Commission for New York State municipalities. “This turns the concept on its head that utilities are the default electric supplier,” said Mike Gordon, CEO of Joule Assets and Sustainable Westchester, which applied for the dispensation from the PSC. “Deregulation has succeeded for large commercial, but not small commercial or residential users. This should make a competitive market where consumers are well-served.” Sustainable Westchester, like Sustainable Tompkins, is a not-for-profit that includes several municipalities under its umbrella. Its petition to institute CCA there was filed on Dec. 23, 2014, and granted on Feb. 26, 2015. That was “record time” for a decision, Gordon said, once the PSC decided it could make this power program go into effect by edict, rather than through legislative channels. The pilot project is intended to “include residential and small nonresidential customers and to permit aggregation of both electric and naturalgas purchases,” according to a PSC press release. The theory, in short, is CCA should enable localities to take bids on power generation like they do already for road salt or dump trucks.

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think one message that I’d like to convey is that TC3 has always believed that change is good. And we understand that not all change is easy. Recent changes have provided serious challenges.” • • • Also during its first March meeting, the legislature approved the county’s new comprehensive plan. Early in the discussion, Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-10th) proposed an amendment noting that the comprehensive plan is not intended to address human services concerns for the county. Legislator Carol Chock (D-3rd) commented, “This in no way means that the county doesn’t do human services planning.” Legislators unanimously approved the amendment. Legislator Mike Sigler (R-6th) spoke, explaining why he planned to vote against the comprehensive plan. He began, “I really do appreciate the 1 1 -1 7 ,

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the state’s power grid more flexible and less dependent on monopoly utilities. Hearings across the state were held in February about exactly what the reformed vision should be, and local environmentalists held a webinar to explain their take on REV. “The hope we have for REV is less money flowing to utility companies and more staying in our own communities,” said Jessica Azulay, of the Alliance for a Green Economy. “We’re doing our best to break the Public library solar panels could be supplier under new aggregate scheme. process open and get the public engaged.” (NYSEG, the (Photo: Mike Blaney) local utility company, is owned by Iberdrola, a Spain-based According to the PSC edict, multinational energy corporation.) consumers can opt out of any CCA Old, inefficient power lines are going contract made by municipalities, which to cost energy users lots of money to may be made for “residential and small replace in the next decade, Azulay said, commercial customers who are not unless the grid can be made to generate currently served by an Energy Services more local power with less transmission Company (ESCO) or are enrolled with costs and less fossil fuel usage. an ESCO for the provision of gas and/ The Platonic ideal of REV should or electricity at a rate which either saves them money, is a fixed rate contract, or is a be to “localize energy cooperatives,” said Ithaca planner Krys Cail, like Nebraska’s contract for a green product.” public power districts that have about 1.8 “Local alternative generation can be million customers, providing them with supercharged by this,” Gordon said. “The power to make group buys of fuels like oil community can fix power costs, fix price, and propane, renewable energy systems, and not be exposed to changes.” and solar hot water equipment. A county like Tompkins, with a “I love the idea of giving the population of just over 100,000, can Hippocratic oath to utility companies, but achieve the economies of scale needed to I can’t quite see it working,” Cail said. “I acquire power through a CCA, Gordon think they’re devoted to the bottom line.” said. “The idea is creating microgrids that The first order from the PSC are knit together.” regarding REV was released on Feb. 27 To add another acronym into this and calls for utilities participating in mix, the PSC passing this CCA program efforts to distribute energy; utilities not jibes with the commission’s “Reforming owning generation unless truly necessary; the Energy Vision” (REV) initiative, proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in April and emphasizing energy efficiency. • 2014 as a general push toward making — J o s h B r o k aw planning department’s work on this.” However, he said, in talking to his constituents, he found that “they felt that it was very focused on the city.” Specifically, Sigler said that the plan failed to take into consideration the need for additional natural gas infrastructure in areas like Lansing. Sigler noted that the City of Ithaca already has natural gas infrastructure and that the lack of such infrastructure in outlying areas will make the development of affordable housing a difficult task. He concluded, “I find it an interesting problem that we’re going to have moving forward.” Despite the dissent of Sigler and fellow Republican Legislator David McKenna (R-8th), the plan was approved in an 8-2 vote. Legislators Jim Dennis (D-5th), Glenn Morey (R-9th), Leslyn McBeanClairborne (D-1st), and Kathy Luz-Herrera (D-2nd) were not present. • • • It is rare that a committee appointment would spark an animated debate. But the decision to appoint Morey,

who won a special election in February to replace the departed Brian Robison, as the alternate representative for the legislature at the Tompkins Council County of Governments (TCCOG) did just that. Legislator Martha Robertson (D-13th) questioned why someone as new as Morey would be named as the alternate, saying, “I don’t know why Jim [Dennis] was not reappointed as the alternate.” She added, “It should be somebody who could represent the county well, and I think it’s a little too soon.” Chock expressed discomfort with approving or denying the appointment in Morey’s absence: “I just think it’s not fair to the guy to vote on this when he’s not even in the room.” Morey was excused from the meeting due to illness. Robertson continued to question the appointment, asking, “Does he even know the names of the department heads?” Despite Robertson’s dissenting vote, the yearlong appointment was approved. • —Keri

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Speakeasy

Jack Hopper, Poet Laureate

ohn “Jack” Hopper is your newest Tompkins County Poet Laureate. (Yes, for those of you who just arrived, this county has its own poet laureate. Broome County does too; it’s not that weird.) Hopper, a Philadelphia native, moved to Ithaca in 2005. His most recent collection of poetry is Doubles: Poems 1995-2012, from Cayuga Lake Books, a publishing venture Hopper runs jointly with Edward Hower and Peter Fortunato. His other books of poetry are Miscellany (1962) and The Ympes of Wanton Youthe (1994). We sat down with Hopper to talk about his writing, his publishing, his role as poet laureate, and characters and places he has known. Ithaca Times: So how do you spend your days as a poet? Jack Hopper: I still edit for AMS Press part-time. We do a lot of things you see in libraries, but not in bookstores. It’s humanities, social studies, the Dickens studies annual, Spencer studies, studies in medieval and Renaissance history. All written by professors for their 10 best friends and their mother. But now that I’m retired, I’ve turned my full focus on poetry, which I’ve always been interested in and been writing. IT: How did you end up in Ithaca, anyway? JH: My wife and I used to come here in the summers, and everyone always say ‘Wait till you see this place in the winter.’ For the last nine years it’s been mild, but this year … I bought a house over in Fall Creek, knowing nothing about Fall Creek. It turns out I have this gorge on one side and the falls on another. And these incredibly good neighbors, and that’s the whole town. It’s amazing. I seem to have just walked into it, and it’s been such an adventure for me. And you know how busy for a small city this is, it’s like Manhattan shrunk. I’ve made more friends in eight or nine years that I had in 20 years in New York.” IT: Tell me about your publishing venture, Cayuga Lake Books. JH: Edward Hower said he was sick and tired of traditional publishers, and the rejection letters that he’d been getting. He said he wants to start a press of his own, so he can make his own rules. And he asked me to join and another poet, Peter Fortunato, and it’s been a little over two years and we’ve done seven books. We’re more agents than publishers. It’s what used to be called vanity publishing, but we don’t use that word except in very small print. We walk people through who might have had stuff sitting around forever, but it was good and they had a talent. If the three of us like it, that’s the hitch. The three of us have to get together on it, and we show them who

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to go to, who to use as a publisher, as a jobber. We arrange readings for them, we arrange interviews. Just as an example, we have an English lady well into her 80s, who came over here during World War II as a small child on a boat that zigzagged across the ocean ducking U-boats. They fired at her, and they almost brought the ship down. She had all this written up in poetry, it’s beautiful stuff. Ann Day is her name. These are people who

say, ‘You want to publish me, really?’ Yes, you’re good.” IT: What are you supposed to do as Tompkins County poet laureate? JH: I’m not quite sure officially what they are. It’s more of an honorary thing. It means a bunch of people like your poetry, so you’re the poet laureate of this town. I think it’s pretty well laid out by the people who preceded me. They may have classes, or get people together at Lifelong—I’ve noticed at readings that there’s always a coterie of old ladies, mainly, and some old gentlemen, too, and they’re really excited, really listening. They have intelligent questions afterwards. I’d love to tune into these guys. Spreading the word of community. I’ve read out at the library in Trumansburg, and they have a whole program that people turn out for. That sounds like exposure for me, but it’s exposure for somebody else, because I’d share the podium with someone with whom I feel a certain kinship. IT: What drew you into writing? JH: When I came out of college I was drafted into the Army. Just after the Korean war, or police action. And I got sent to Paris, I don’t know how, pure luck. And I was there for 16 months or so, and then I came home, did a quick turn and went right back. I stayed there for two years, writing the Great American Novel, hah, and having a helluva lot of fun. And writing a lot. Writing more and more became meeting people over there, and truly involved, it spurred me on. I pursued it when I came back, started a magazine (called Works). We published 14 issues. It was good—paid contributors, which is unusual.” IT: Any good stories from your time in Paris? JH: Seeing Burroughs was good. I was taken to see him by a good friend of mine who was a French writer and translator. We went up to his hotel room and knocked on his door, and immediately you could hear this (tapping)—the paraphernalia being put away. ‘Come in,’ with his rapsy cigarettelaced voice. And he was the sweetest guy in the world. He was always the nicest person, the couple times I met him, in New York in his bunker on the Bowery.” IT: And you spent some time at Time magazine? JH: I worked there for exactly one year. My girlfriend at the time was working in a gallery, and she quit her job the same day. And the rest was history. It was political— they were still under the thumb of the Luce family. Every Thursday when the issue would come in, I’d throw it the length of the office. And the guys I’d work with would say ‘Oh, there he goes again.’ After a year I went to this wonderful old guy who was our boss, Alex, and said ‘Alex, I’ve got to go.’ He immediately offered me a pay raise and a new job. And I said, ‘Nope, I’ve got to go’—I had lunch with my girlfriend, and that was more important. Hopper’s website: johnhopperauthor.com —Josh T

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Ups&Downs ▶ Noteworthy buildings, Three local building projects - Cayuga Medical Center’s Cayuga Birthplace, Breckenridge Place owned by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and PathStone Development Corporation, and Tompkins County’s Legislature Offices were named recipients of the prestigious American Institute of Architects’ Southern New York Design Awards. All projects were designed by HOLT Architects. Tompkins County’s Legislature Relocation received the AIA SNY’s Honorable Mention Award. 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 ▶ Suicide Prevention, SafeTALK, a project of Living Works, is a world renowned suicide prevention system used in over 20 countries around the world. SafeTALK is a 3-hour training that uses discussion, short video dramas, and practice. Wednesday, March 25, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m at Country Inn & Suites, Danby Road. To register contact Teri Reinemann at 2741607. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of March 4-10 include: 1) Texas Trip Causes Trouble at Newfield School Board 2) “Kingsman: The Secret Service” Review: Demented, Entertaining 3) Joni Mitchell Tribute at CSMA 4) Fast and Funny “Anything Goes” at Lansing 5) Plan to Restore Simeon’s Underway For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Would you support a boycott of food products from Israel? Please respond at ithaca.com. L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Should the Cascadilla Boat Club be allowed to use the Stewart Park boat house ?

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One Party is Not Enough W e should begin by apologizing to Tompkins County Legislator Peter Stein (D-11th). In an article by Keri Blakinger in the Feb. 25 issue, Stein objected to remarks by Legislator Jim Dennis (D-5th), who reminded his fellow legislators and members of the public that in New York State sheriffs are elected officials, and they are not removed by legislatures in response to demands from the public. Stein is quoted as responding: “The sheriff was not elected … he just walked into that position.” In a certain sense Stein was right, Ken Lansing did not have an opponent in the September primary or the November election. But it was irritating to read Stein’s comment because in Tompkins County a lot of elected officials run opposed. We consulted the election data at the county board of elections website and found that Stein himself hadn’t had an opponent in either of his general elections runs. What prompts the apology, however, is that we failed to notice that the emeritus physics professor did have a Democratic opponent in the September 2009 primary, when he first ran for the seat. He defeated the incumbent Democrat, Michael Koplinka-Loehr, who had been a member of the legislature for 12 years, by a scant six votes. He then faced no opponent in the general election in November 2009. (The present editor should have remembered all this, as he was then the reporter for the Ithaca Times and interviewed both Stein and Koplinka-Loehr about the contest.) But as he made his extemporaneous remarks last month Stein apparently

did not recall that in 2010 Lansing also had a primary opponent in his first run at office. He lost a close race to the incumbent Democrat Peter Meskill, who had been in office for 12 years, and then ran under the Independence Party banner in the November general election and defeated Meskill by about 1,200 votes. So, while Stein and Lansing faced opponents in their first county elections, neither faced one in their primary or general campaigns in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The differences between the Stein and Lansing experiences shine a light on some of the problems with the Tompkins County political culture. After a series of well-publicized statements and votes against the status quo in the Democrat-dominated legislature, Koplinka-Loehr was not endorsed by the Democratic Party in 2009, but chose to run anyway. Stein, who was an Ithaca town council member, was nominated by party caucus to run against the incumbent. In contrast, in his first primary Lansing ran as an “independent Democrat” against an incumbent who had received the nomination from the party. Then—just as Democrat Seth Peacock did in the recent city court judge race—Lansing used an endorsement from a third party to get on the November ballot. All of this jockeying among Democrats is the result of the hopeless scarcity of Republicans in Tompkins County. (For the 2012 presidential continued on page 7

Low Key St. Pat’s By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

t. Patrick’s Day has never been a really big holiday in Ithaca, which is odd in a way, as it is a bibulous day, and Ithaca is not inimical to the taking of a drink. You know that about Ithaca if you ever go to hear music at a spot here that also sells alcohol and doesn’t mind people socializing somewhat during the show. Often the drinking and talking will supersede the listening to music. New Year’s Eve, a holiday focused on drinking, is immensely popular in Ithaca, and even Halloween has adopted a tone here of vast vat consumption, although this is also is true in other places, particularly other college towns. Maybe St. Patrick’s Day is muted here with the lack of a sizable, or at least overt, Irish community. There is no St. Patrick’s Day parade here, as there are in nearby cities such as Syracuse and Scranton, which do not ordinarily have the celebratory nature of Ithaca, but have notable Irish histories as old northern manufacturing towns. Big northern cities, such as Chicago and New York, with large and lively Irish heritage, tend to go all-out on St. Patrick’s Day. Chicago, famously, dyes its river green. New York City’s normal life (such as it is) is massively disrupted by throngs commandeering Fifth Avenue for almost two miles, as they’ve done for 252 years. (I went to high school two blocks off the parade route; the school did not even bother to open on March 17.) A few restaurants in Ithaca attempt to ply trade for the day with special drinks and dishes. A couple of years ago, a local place had a promotion of free dessert and a free whiskey with dinner. Giving away whiskey on St. Patrick’s Day seemed a bad idea to me, if not actually criminal entrapment for the potentially rowdy, but I went to the event (to paraphrase the famous line in The Godfather, I left the whiskey, took the cannoli), and was pleased to note the day was convivial and devoid of mayhem. Maybe Ithaca is most Irish in that it is political. The Irish are known for their love of politics and Ithaca is, too. A noted intertwining came on March 17, 2003, with the arrest of the St. Patrick’s Day Four.

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It took place at an army recruitment center off Triphammer Road. Four peace activists of the Ithaca Catholic Worker group—Peter Demott, Daniel Burns, and Clare and Teresa Grady—staged a protest, non-violent but dramatic (it involved spilling vials of their own blood) to protest warfare in Iraq. The action brought both praise and criticism. It garnered wide attention, including a film documentary in 2006. The four were exonerated by a hung jury in Ithaca. The government brought retrial in Binghamton, where a more conservative community, it was thought, might convict them. The four faced felony charges, but the Binghamton jury found them innocent of all but misdemeanors. The impulse for political protest is not ubiquitous among the Irish, certainly, and might not even be inherent, but might be something close. Ireland is marked by centuries of oppression, including slavery and starvation. Known as the land of saints and scholars, there is a strong sense of justice, and a long memory. As a nation, it has never colonized nor occupied another. In Ireland, March 17 is a day of solemnity as well as celebration. They say everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. If that means both loving life and fighting for what’s right, let’s wish it. •

Monks join demonstration in Dewitt Park to commemorate the 56th

anniversary of the Tibetan uprising. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) Approximately 30 members of the local Tibetan community gathered in Dewitt Park on Tuesday, March 10 to commemorate in the community, “to remind ourselves to the 56th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising carry forward the non-violent struggle of against China. “We are also gathered here,” the Tibetan people with great determinasaid Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay, a leader tion, courage, and resolve.”

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old and snow silenced Construction on the Commons, but pallets of pavers are sitting patiently just waiting for the good weather to return. Bank Alley is partially open—the pavers are mostly installed and the area is walkable. Even new light poles have been installed. While fences remain in place on the Commons proper, the pedestrian walkways remain smoothed and easy to navigate. When work re-starts somewhere around April 1, look for the crews to finish Bank Alley, then tackle the east end of the Commons, and finally end up on the western block. Work will all be surface level—visible and easy to follow. As the work progresses, you should be able to get around to all the stores and eateries without trouble. The new Bernie Milton Pavilion should be ready for use at the Ithaca Festival and the summer concert series. If everything goes as projected, the Commons work will be finished by mid-summer. The Downtown Ithaca Alliance has actually scheduled the official Commons Re-Opening Festivities weekend for August 28-29. Bookmark that date: it will be a memorable and fun community celebration. But that is not all that has been going on. The long awaited Marriott Hotel is now under construction. This 159-room full service hotel will anchor the east end of the Commons—next to our popular Madeline’s restaurant. Good news for motorists and pedestrians: the Marriott project is contained on its site and will not impede vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Diagonally across the street, the Carey Building, home to Rev, the new community business incubator, is beginning its project to add an additional five stories, one for incubator expansion and four for new housing. Immediately adjacent to the Carey Building is the proposed location for the new Canopy by Hilton Hotel project. Canopy is a brand new boutique hotel line introduced by Hilton and Ithaca will be one of eleven cities worldwide where the initial ones will be built. If all permitting and tax approvals are obtained in a timely fashion, construction should begin later this year. Both the Carey and the Canopy projects will be staged on-site and should not affect traffic in any measurable way. The Lofts at Six Mile Creek project is tucked behind the Cayuga Street Garage and Tompkins County Public Library. All winter long crews have been building 45 units of new housing into the sevenstory steel frame. When it is completed this spring, Lofts at Six Mile Creek will provide exciting and attractive urban living, overlooking Six Mile Creek and the creek walk. If you haven’t visited Coltivare yet, be sure to make it one of your downtown

destinations in the weeks and months ahead. The Culinary Art Center is a project of TC3 and offers a bold and lively venue to for dining, special events, and culinary education. Of course, downtown is home to some 80 retail, 50 service and 55 eating and drinking establishments as well as well over 250 office and professional businesses. Every day, winter or summer, they are open to serve you and our community. They have not only weathered the cold and snow, but the intense Commons construction over the past two years. As we move into the final phase of that construction, remember to pay a visit to your favorite downtown businesses. If you are unaware of what downtown has to offer, go to www. downtownithaca.com and learn about the vast array of goods and services that await you in our center city. We know that when you shop or dine locally your impact to the community is magnified. Now, more than ever, your patronage of our downtown businesses will make a difference. • editorial

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election there were fewer than 13,000 registered.) There are GOP strongholds like Groton, and places like the towns of Dryden and Lansing where there is balanced party membership, but in the 2013 general election in Tompkins County (ignoring highway superintendent positions, which are not really political), out of 50 seats, 27 were uncontested. These included both alderpersons in all five wards of the city, as well as four seats on the council and the justice for the Town of Ithaca. All 15 candidates were Democrats running unopposed. In five other races Democrats or Republicans won by margins larger than two-to-one. The turnout in some of these races was very low. Both alderpersons in the city’s Fourth Ward (Collegetown) were elected by a total of 63 people. In other words, this doesn’t look very much like democracy. And this may very well be what Stein was really upset about when he grumbled about Lansing’s lack of an opponent. The 11th District legislator can’t help it if no one ran against him. It was perhaps not coincidental that it was Jim Dennis who reminded the rest of his legislator peers that Lansing was an elected official. Dennis was part of the minority of legislators who actually faced an opponent in November 2013. In addition to Stein, Will Burbank (D-12th); Dooley Kiefer (D-10th); Brian Robison (R-9th); Dave McKenna (R-8th); Nate Shinagawa (D-4th); Carol Chock (D-3rd); Kathy Luz Herrera (D-2nd); and Leslyn Clairborne-McBean (D-1st) all

ran unopposed in the general election. (Only Luz Herrera had a primary opponent.) Robison has since resigned and been replaced by another Republican, Glenn Morey, the former Groton town supervisor, who won by more than two-toone in the special February vote. Tompkins County doesn’t look like a democracy as much as it does a collection of fiefdoms, most of them dominated by one party or the other, with the more suburban towns tending Republican and the rural towns split between Democrats—with their bedrooms in the country and their desk jobs in town—and Republicans—with the names on the road signs in the country and their jobs where they can get them. As more transplants choose the rural life, towns like Danby and Caroline will move toward being solidly Democratic, as evinced by the 2013 defeat of long-time Republican county legislator Frank Proto of Caroline. In 2008 journalist Bill Bishop published The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. “In 1976,” Bishop noted, “only about a quarter of America’s voters lived in a county a presidential candidate won by a landslide margin. By 2004, it was nearly half … People living in homogenous communities grow both more extreme and more certain in their beliefs. Locally, therefore, governments backed by large majorities are tackling every conceivable issue. Nationally, however, Congress has lost most of its moderate members and is mired in conflict.” Sound familiar? Tompkins County can claim to be unique and quirky in plenty of ways, but it is bang on the national trend when it comes to segregating itself politically and socially. The Republican Party doesn’t necessarily have to stage a resurgence. It would be great if a Socialist or Green party returned to be the standard-bearer for a disenchanted left wing (we know you’re out there). This coming Wednesday, March 18, there will be elections in villages of Dryden, Groton, and Cayuga Heights. Please vote. And please consider running for office in the fall. Now is the time to start thinking about it. • Israelboycott contin u ed from page 3

two separate questions. The last question is whether GreenStar should “be required to halt the sale of all Israeli products and produce until the United Nations recognizes that the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are no longer under Israeli military law or control.” Opposition to the BDS movement here has coalesced into a group that calls itself the Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation in the Middle East (ICUC-ME), formed in early February. “We believe very deeply this issue does not belong at GreenStar,” said Linda Glaser, a member of the ICUC-ME steering committee. “BDS is a very divisive movement that rejects any kind of dialogue between Israel and Palestinians. It rejects T

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Frances Perkins (left) with Eleanor Roosevelt (Library of Congress)

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n the lives of these four women— Jennie McGraw, Grace Miller White, Frances Perkins, and Barbara McClintock—we see the evolution of the role of women in American society from the mid-19th to the first half of the 20th century. Aside from all of them being white and spending time in Ithaca, they have little in common. But each of these women, even McGraw, had a level of autonomy in their lives that was unusual, although not unknown, in their times. McGraw was an heiress and in her short life she traveled much and supported the welfare of retired women. Miller White was a self-made woman who, after a divorce in 1902, became a well-known author, writing books that dramatized the second-class status of women and the plight of the poor. Perkins was an academic and government official who worked for better working conditions for women and was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Labor. McClintock was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered transposable elements in corn chromosomes and inspired her fellow woman scientists by her indomitable example.

Jennie McGraw (1840-1881)

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married into the prominent Southworth back to Ithaca. “She went to Europe as a family of Dryden. Jennie McGraw was his young woman,” said Rumsey, “and she was only child, born to his first wife, Rhonda part of Ithaca society, making her debut at (née Southworth), who died young of age 22. Aside from traveling in Europe, she tuberculosis (“consumption”). McGraw lived in Ithaca for the rest of her life.” Jane married Rhonda’s sister Nancy, who also McGraw was a prominent philanthropist died of TB. Jennie was a frail child who and one of the founders of the Ladies’ also seems to have had the disease; she Union Benevolent Society. According to would die at age 41, having had “weak Sisler, she involved her stepdaughter in lungs” all her life. the founding and running of “the Home,” According to Mary Ellen Rumsey, a residence for widows and single women the president of Southworth Library over age 65 who could not afford anywhere board, who has studied else to live. The original the McGraw family building, designed by “Each of these history, in about 1850, women had a level of architect William H. McGraw moved his Miller, stands at the autonomy that was family downstate. “They corner of Hillside Place moved to what is now and South Aurora unusual, although a section of the Bronx,” Its mission was not unknown, in their Street. she said, “because he continued in one wing times.” had bought some forest of McGraw House on on speculation for the South Geneva Street. timber.” The family The lumber baron settled in the area to be near the enormous took a strong interest in the founding market for lumber around New York City. of Cornell University. In 1869 Jennie Jane McGraw, the lumber baron’s met D. Willard Fiske, a librarian at the third wife, taught Jennie to be a lady. university. Because of the vast difference According to Carol U. Sisler’s Enterprising in their social stations and John McGraw’s Families, she could play the spinet and tendency to discourage suitors, Fiske kept dance and knew her classic literature. She his affection for Jennie private for several was formally educated in Canandaigua years. and by age 18 and 19 at Pelham Priory John McGraw died in July 1876 and left in New Rochelle, where she studied the largest portion of his $2 million (~$45 history, physical geography, grammar, million today) fortune to his daughter. Latin, “moral science,” arithmetic, French In March 1878 she once again sailed for composition, music and singing. Europe for a prolonged trip. In 1880 Fiske In 1862 her father moved the family was traveling in Europe and to Iceland

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to do research on Norse literature and language. According to Sisler, he confessed his ardor for McGraw to A.D. White, president of Cornell, who urged him to travel to Rome to tell her of his feelings. They were married on May 18, 1880 in Venice. Fiske signed papers that made sure that McGraw retained full control of her own money, even though contemporary laws would have given it to him. McGraw’s health continued to decline, reaching a dangerous low on a trip up the Nile. The couple returned home to Ithaca where McGraw died on Sept. 30, 1881.

Grace Miller White (1868-1957)

White’s popular novel Tess of the Storm Country, published in 1909, follows the life of a teenage “Rhiner” who grows up among the squatters that live around the Cayuga Inlet in Ithaca at the base of West Hill. White, who was born and brought up on West Hill included several historical events in her book, including the burning of the Chi Psi fraternity house in 1906. The French Chateau-style mansion had been designed by William H. Miller for Jennie McGraw, who lived there for only a few weeks prior to her death. Tess of the Storm Country was an example of the Progressive Era’s reaction to the Victorian empathy for the bourgeoisie. Tess is portrayed as being pure of heart in spite of her untidy appearance and untutored ways. In contrast, the residents of Ithaca are shown to be not always what

they seem to be or what they should be. White’s novels, which were immensely popular—two of them were made into silent movies— were melodramas. Tess was made into a film four times, most recently in the 1960s. As Carol Kammen points out in The Peopling of Tompkins County, evildoers were always punished by Miller White and the pure were always rewarded, and she did attack the hypocrisy of the elite. David Kramer, an English professor at Ithaca College, discovered Miller White while developing a course called “Ithaca: the Art of Place.” “I came across Tess, and I loved it,” he recalled. “And the kids fell in love with it too. “It is a melodrama, but it goes further than just heightened emotion and crazy plot points. It’s more than that: you sense all the social pressures, not just on the squatters, but on the people J e n n i e M c G r aw in town too. You can feel the (C o r n e l l A r c h i v e s) suffrage movement coming to a boil.” Kramer said, Tess baptizes the baby herself. Miller White, who was born Mary Kramer feels that Miller White may be Esther Miller in 1880 at a West Hill expressing a sort of “proto-feminism.” A farm, was one of 14 children. Her family subplot of the novel has female members of gave milk and eggs to the Rhiners, but a congregation attempting to get the right according to Carol U. Sisler in Ithaca’s Neighborhoods, they were, like most Ithaca residents, afraid of the Rhine residents. There was even an attempt to blame the typhoid epidemic of 1903 on the Rhiners. Kramer noted that Miller White was not an activist at all until her first marriage dissolved and she had children to support. Her fairminded portrayals of the poor were intended to improve the lot of the poor in Dav i d K r a m e r w i t h a c o p y o f “ Te s s .” the “Silent City,” so( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) called because none of the residents would ever speak to the to simply speak in church. authorities about anything that went on in Miller White was intermittently a the Rhine. local resident all her life—although she Her heroine, Tess, has her own did travel extensively and at length—and unschooled approach to religion, which wrote four more novels about the Ithaca Miller White contrasts with that of the area. Her second husband was an Ithaca organized religion expressed by a local attorney. minister. Her rendering of the early 20th century “Tess is thought to be the mother of local dialect is barely decipherable: an illegitimate child,” said Kramer, “but Tess air that cussed that keeps on saying it’s actually the child of the minister’s can feel when they gets out. She air worse daughter. She brings the child to the than that too. church—it’s very ill—to baptize him so that According to Kramer, there were eight he can go to heaven and ‘see his father’— squatter families living on her family’s who has died in the Chi Psi fire.” When the farm when she was growing up, giving minister refuses to perform the ceremony, her ample opportunity to hear the dialect.

Miller White’s portrayal of the Rhiners was not always accurate, Kammen wrote, but her intentions were to decrease the prejudice against them were sincere. “Her novels are somber,” said Kramer. “Terrible things—things that can’t be fixed—happen to people. I think they were intended for a general readership. People I’ve given them to—a lot of them English professors—have loved them.”

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911 in Greenwich Village. One hundred and forty-five workers—most of them women—died because safety features were neglected and exit doors in the building were locked. “It was a crucial event in labor history,” said the labor historian, “because it led to new safety inspections and new rules, such as that the fire escapes must reach the ground,” which was part the cause of the Triangle Shirtwaist disaster. Perkins, Deveault said, was instrumental in pushing Perkins, by becoming a member of worker safety regulation forward. After FDR’s cabinet, was the first woman to be the fire Perkins left the Consumer’s League in the presidential line of succession. She and joined the Committee on Safety for had been the head of the New York State the City of New York and was a civil servant for decades until “retiring” to a teaching position at Cornell’s ILR school between 1952 and her death in 1965. Perkins and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes remained in the Cabinet through all three FDR administrations. During the New Deal, Devealt said, Cabinet members, including Perkins, were not passive voices. They advocated for passage of legislation and the creation of programs. The Fair Labor Standards, National Labor Relations, and Social Security acts were among those that became law at this time. “We got most of what we think of as normal,” said Devealt. “The modern era of working was established.” President Harry Truman asked Perkins to stay on in his administration to work in the Civil Service Commission. B a r b a r a M c C l i n t o c k , G r a d uat i o n According to Devealt, when Photogr aph Alice Hansen Cook was hired (C o r n e l l A r c h i v e s) at Cornell in 1952, she was immediately told by the dean of Department of Labor under Gov. Franklin the ILR to recruit Perkins into the faculty. Roosevelt. She was part of a tradition at ILR of Perkins had deep New England bringing in Department of Labor officials roots—her parents were from Maine, and to give the government perspective. “ILR she was born in Boston and brought up in saw itself as a place where people could see Worcester, Massachusetts. Unlike McGraw the labor, business and neutral government and Miller White, she attended college. side,” said Devealt. Perkins went to Mount Holyoke During her time at Cornell Perkins, College in South Hadley and majored in a recent widow, lived in Telluride House chemistry and physics, graduating in 1902, and became active in the Episcopalian the year McClintock was born. In 1910 congregation at St. John’s. Her photo still she received a master’s degree in political hangs in the Doherty Lounge at the ILR science from Columbia. By 1929 she was school. the first commissioner of the state labor department. “It was controversial both because Like Perkins, McClintock had she was a woman and because she was New England heritage. Both of the not from the labor movement,” said Prof. biologist’s parents were originally from Ileen Devealt, a labor historian at Cornell’s Massachusetts, and McClintock was School of Industrial and Labor Relations born and raised to age 6 in Hartford, (ILR). “She was from the Consumer’s League, which was a women’s organization, Connecticut before the family moved to a rural part of Brooklyn in 1908. She and the labor movement was quite male at discovered her love of science in high that time.” school. Perkins had been galvanized by the experience of witnessing the

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According to Evelyn Fox Keller’s 1983 biography A Feeling for the Organism, although her parents were progressives in the sense that they did not expect their four children to conform to societal norms, McClintock’s mother worried that, because she was a woman,her daughter’s interest in the life of the mind would cause her to have no future . By Keller’s account, McClintock simply showed up at Cornell on the day of registration, expecting to be allowed in (she hadn’t formally applied). In hindsight McClintock believes that her mother

came around to the idea of her daughter attending college and threw herself into making it happen. Ithaca would become McClintock’s home and then home base from 1919 until 1936, as she earned a B.S. (‘23), M.S. (‘25) and Ph.D. (‘27) and then received a series of appointments, research grants and fellowships. Her early work with corn established the relationship between the physical structures visible in the cell and the transmission of specific characters via genes on the chromosomes. Keller tells a (perhaps apocryphal) story of an intervention by geneticist T.H. Morgan that caused McClintock to rush the paper to publication, beating out German biologist

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Curt Stern, who was doing similar work with Drosophila (fruit flies). In the 1940s she discovered what she called “controlling elements” in the corn genome, later referred to as “transposable elements.” McClintock looked at the appearance of both the chromosomes within the cells and at the corn plants from which the cells were collected. She was able to discern the mechanism guiding the chromosomal changes that predictably altered the appearance of an organism. In scientific journals from 1950 through 1953 she contested the prevailing idea that genes did not move spontaneously and suggested that some had regulatory functions rather than directly expressing traits. Her conclusionsabout gene mobilitywere not generally accepted for many years. “I looked at the slides she’d made in the 1930s,” said Lee Kass. “They were still being used when I took courses at Cornell in the 1970s.” Kass, who was trained in plant anatomy, plant physiology, and genetics, got her Ph.D. in 1975 and then taught at Elmira College and West Virginia University, and is currently an adjunct professor at Cornell. She is writing a biography of McClintock and has been publishing an incremental volume that examines McClintock’s early publications in the context of their time (available on the Cornell eCommons). “McClintock trained people to understand what was going on with the organism,” said Kass, “so they would understand the molecular biology.” In the 1970s Nina Fedoroff did pioneering molecular work at the Carnegie Institute of Science in Baltimore that led to breakthroughs in the understanding of transposable elements. “Nina went to McClintock for stocks of corn. She spent the summer with McClintock in the fields [at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, where McClintock was a visiting scientist at the time].” McClintock’s assertions about “jumping genes” had been widely dismissed, but Fedoroff ’s molecular worklargely bore out the cytologist’s earlier research, leading to McClintock’s Nobel Prize in 1983. Kass spent time with McClintock at Cornell during the latter’s appointment as A.D. White Professor-at-Large. McClintock famously had little patience for those who could not keep up in a conversation about science and was regarded as intimidating. Kass said she and McClintock got along, in part because she was naïve enough not be afraid and also perhaps because of their shared Brooklyn roots. She recalled one conversation that ended abruptly when Kass had not as yet read a newly published paper. McClintock said that they would resume the discussion after she read it. It turned out, Kass recalled, to be a quite crucial paper toward the completion of her d issertation. “She gave us confidence in ourselves,” said Kass of the young scientists who encountered McClintock. “We learned to say, ‘This is what we know’ and to also keep the bigger picture.” •

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enable him to start construction on a pole barn that would eventually be used as a waste transfer station. The suit came on the heels of the second of two moratoria on waste management facility construction. A oneyear moratorium was first enacted in July 2013, the year after Mente submitted plans for a waste transfer station at his 71 Bishop Road trash hauling facility. The first moratorium cited the need to complete an aquifer study, the need to finalize the Road Preservation Law, and the desire to undertake a noise and light pollution study. Although the town adopted a Road Preservation Law in December 2013, the aquifer study is still not complete. A second, nine-month-long moratorium was enacted in July 2014. In addition to the reasons mentioned in the first moratorium, the second moratorium also cited the need to have time for the planning board to report on and make recommendations regarding the construction of solid waste management facilities in town. Although the initial lawsuit asserted that Local Law #2 of the Year 2014 “was

not a legitimate exercise of the police or zoning powers of respondent Town of Newfield,” among the reasons for his decision, Hon. Robert C. Mulvey wrote, “The Court finds that the Town of Newfield has the power or authority … to enact laws or ordinances which regulate, restrict or ban waste management facilities within its borders.” Also, while the lawsuit alleged that the second moratorium targeted Mente’s property, the decision notes, “The Court is not persuaded that Local Law #2 of the year 2014 targets only the petitioners’ property. The provisions of the law do not refer to any specific piece of property and the law applies to anyone who proposes to construct or operate a waste management facility within the Town.” Another of the points made in the September lawsuit was that the moratorium extension was unreasonably long and did not serve a legitimate public purpose. After citing the ongoing aquifer study, Mulvey noted, “Upon the record presented, the Court finds that the respondents have demonstrated a valid public purpose and legitimate reasons for the extension of the moratorium and that the extension for a period of nine (9) months is not unreasonable given the circumstances in this instance.” Although the lawsuit decision has been issued and—as of last month—a permanent waste management facility ban has been put in place, AWS is not giving up without a fight. In recent months, Mente and his wife Ashley have indicated that they believe the ban is worded in such a way that it does not apply to them. Thus, they believe that when the moratorium expires in April, they may be able to proceed with construction. Given that, Bob Mente said that he was not concerned with the outcome of the court decision. He said, “The way I look at it, the way [the law] was worded it doesn’t apply to us anyway.” As it was passed, the law allows for a number of exemptions, including solid waste management facilities previously in existence, which would be allowed to operate under the existing conditions of their permits. The Mentes assert that their current facility already meets the definition of a solid waste management facility. Also, they note that—given the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s decision to grant AWS a waste transfer station permit on Jan. 6—the existing conditions of their permit would include operating a waste transfer station. •

The Changing World of Rugs and Carpets ABC Oriental Rug & Carpet is taking care of what is underfoot in your life By Bi l l Ch a i s s o n

arpet cleaning and repair have changed in several ways over the years since Ken and Harriet Adams got into the business in the 1970s. Wallto-wall carpeting gave way to the return of area rugs. Materials used by manufacturers changed. Who was responsible for warranting the materials shifted from the rug manufacturer to the producer of the rug materials. In 1971 the Adamses began multiple businesses at the same time, including cleaning home exteriors and taking on custodial work for commercial enterprises. Ken, said Harriet, had been doing custodial work for the Ithaca schools and had learned to do it correctly and well. They began to specialize in remedial work, fixing water and fire damage and ridding buildings of mold. By 1977 they had added carpet care to their skills and became ABC Oriental Rug & Carpet Care. When they first started they were doing rug cleaning in a specially modified space in their barn. The business grew until they had 22 to 27 people in the custodial business, 4 to 8 doing restoration work, and 6 to 8 in mold remediation. “In 1982 Ken said ‘We need truckmounted equipment,’” recalled Harriet. And they got into the business of cleaning wall-to-wall carpeting. In the 1950s when wall-to-wall came in, Ken said, the cleaners would actually take up the carpet and bring it back to their facility because they were used to doing

Harriet and Ken Adams of ABC Carpets. (Photo: Tim Gera)

that with area rugs. This created problems with shrinkage, among other complications. So equipment was developed to clean the wall-to-wall in place. It was very expensive equipment. Carpet manufacturers like DuPont also continually introduced new materials to carpet making, so carpet cleaners had to develop new methods for keeping them

clean. To keep up with these and other changes, carpet cleaners have offered training through their professional association. “We got involved in the national scene by taking courses,” said Ken, “and then we started teaching them.” A visitor to to the ABC offices on Cecil Malone Drive will find one room devoted

to teaching. A list on a whiteboard is left over from a lesson that explained how to sanitize and deodorize rugs and repair damage done by moths. When the National Institute of Rug Cleaners began in the late 1940s people’s relationships with their rugs were different than they are now. “In the 1950s people only had area rugs,” said Adams. “If they were wealthly, then they changed their rugs seasonally. The cleaning facilities had to be monstrous buildings because they stored the rugs there too. The winter rugs were kept there during the spring and summer.” Many of these rugs were made over a broad region between Turkey and China. The rug cleaners in the U.S. back then were mostly Armenian immigrants, according to Adams. There is a map of the Middle East on the wall of the receiving room at their Cecil Malone Drive facility. It shows all the rug-making countries and Adams has drawn in a line somewhere east of Turkey. On west side its says “Turkish knot” in magic marker and on the east “Persian knot.” Adams has an encyclopedic knowledge of rugs; he could easily find work as a curator in an art museum. ABC also repairs—not just Oriental, but all—rugs. They have a collection of rug pieces from different countries and different eras that they use to fix damaged heirlooms with the same materials with continued on page 17

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the app enabled, the transmitter could send that information to her phone in the lobby. The “iBeacon” is so-called because the transmission technology was created by Apple and then released into the public domain. How it can be used is a question with lots of answers. Besides real estate, on the Push Interactive website museums are another suggested customer for the iBeacons. Someone perusing pictures in the Johnson could get information and interpretations sent to their phone about each painting while looking at the piece in front them. However, more suggestive of the possibilities for this technology is the other “use” Push mentions: “Anything Else: If your industry involves customers in a physical location we can work with you.” Ellis said that how little the iBeacon has been used so far is what’s most exciting about getting into “nearable” transmitters. “This is a generic technology that’s not been exploited much at all yet,” Ellis said. “There are significant tracking capabilities with Beacons.” Push’s Austin Shoecraft with GORGES CEO John Sammis at Rev. (Provided) Hospitals are one market Ellis thought could be receptive to using iBeacons: “The clipboard and chart they into GORGES’ push into the “nearables” used to have on beds could reappear as a market, said Don Ellis, director of Beacon.” technical planning at the software Restaurants are another industry that company. might adapt the technology. “The essential technical difference “In Europe every waiter has a mobile from the Internet with this iBeacon device,” Ellis said. “If the waitperson has a technology is you don’t have to seek device, the restaurant can put one of these information out,” Ellis said. “If you on the underside of each table and it can indicate you’re receptive to being found tell them, ‘Is this a group of four?’ ‘What [on your device], information finds you.” did they order?’” The transmitters GORGES have been Ellis thinks these transmitters might playing with in their office come in little, prevent radio-frequency identification oddly shaped rubber casings. Inside with (RFID) tags used to track inventory that the transmitter is an accelerometer, so leaves large warehouses from finding a anyone managing the devices can know market among small-businesses. Small when they’re being moved about. retail shops might instead find the Push Interactive had found uses for iBeacons in the real estate market, where it iBeacons useful, if they are used correctly. “They could tell you as you’re walking developed an app for C.S.P Management, by, if Fred’s Shoes on the Commons has a Jerry Dietz’s real estate company. That sale, ‘Come in here’ – and then when you allowed an apartment hunter near a get closer, ‘Come in and save 40 percent,’” building to receive information about Ellis said. the nature of rentals available inside. For Where the transmitters get their real example, if a one-bedroom apartment was available on the third floor of a building continued on page 17 for $900 a month, and the hunter had thaca’s GORGES Inc. software firm added some “near-ability” to its range of services recently when it acquired Push Interactive. Push Interactive was founded by recent Ithaca College graduates, including CEO Austin Shoecraft, and run out of Rev, Ithaca’s start-up works located in the Carey Building. Push’s focus on developing uses for “iBeacons,” low-powered Bluetooth transmitters that talk to smartphones, fits

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Kendal at Ithaca expansion gets a winter start By Michael Nocella

story nursing wings added to the northeast endal at Ithaca—a senior living corner of the existing nursing home, community on a 105-acre campus and a new, centralized entrance to the on North Triphammer Road in facility that will be large enough for TCAT Cayuga Heights—recently broke ground on its $39 million expansion in an effort to buses to enter—an option the campus’s current entrance does not allow. The new complete the project in a timely fashion. Kendal at Ithaca Director of Marketing apartments will bring the total number of residences on site for community members & Admissions Betsy Schermerhorn said the unorthodox construction start date was “living independently” from 212 to 236. Residential capacity will not be the something that was always a possibility. only part of the community that will Although she admitted the ideal start grow. The number of rooms in the new date would have been late summer or fall, skilled nursing homes will increase from beginning construction in the winter has 35 to 48 using three separate wings—each been surprisingly productive. The project is expected to be completed a year from it’s with 16 private rooms. Each wing will start date. “Our official groundbreaking was January 19,” she said. “One of the questions we get a lot is ‘How were we able to [break ground] in the winter?’ We always planned this project to be able to accommodate a winter start. We were hoping for late summer [or] early fall, but we had to have certain approvals from New New wing of Kendal at Ithaca rises out of the frozen ground. York State before we (Photo: Michael Nocella) could get started. “We’re still on include a central kitchen, dining and the one-year start-to-finish plan,” she continued. “They’re going to begin pouring living room, and adjoining outdoor space. The three nursing wings will be begin a the foundation next week. They’ve been game of musical chairs. Once they are using ground heaters to be able to work completed, the current nursing rooms on the site. It’s just amazing. They’ve been will become residential health services working non-stop since they started. and current residential health services There’s been a couple of days where the will become welcome new office space for cold was just so bad that they couldn’t, but administration. other than that, we’re only three days off Schermerhorn said the project has schedule, which is remarkable given the current residents “a-buzz,” with many weather we had.” of them trying to find a window in the According to a project update issued current facility to get the best view of to Kendal residents from Project Director the work being done outside in the lately at Kendal Stephen Bailey, the following work has already been completed “despite a often-frigid conditions. She added that the expansion is exciting because “there little snow and cold weather”: storm water are going to be a whole bunch of new management measures, donor trees were people moving in all at once, and they’ll be moved off-site, existing water main was relocated, and installation of the new storm bringing their energy.” Before Kendal could break ground, water and sanitary sewer lines has started, a certain number of the apartments had prepping the new apartment building pad, and the installation of underground grease to be sold. Schermerhorn noted that new residents will be coming from all over the traps for the new kitchens. country, including Boston, Colorado, and When all is said and done, the Washington D.C. Not only are current expansion will include renovations to residents excited to meet their new Kendal’s dining experience, wellness and neighbors, but they are also starting to look fitness programs, nursing-home capacity, forward to the new facilities for all of the and residential living with a two-story building with 24 apartments on the continued on page 16 southeast corner of campus, three one-

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small, narrow storefront that will act as an a place for customers to come place orders for any kind of screen printing, embroidery or award work they need done. Hogan has also filled his limited space up with things like seasonal commodities. For instance, if you need to

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round up some party favors and an outfit for a St. Patrick’s Day party or pub crawl, Pastrick’s will have you covered. There are also sample trophies on display, along with T-shirts and hats. “Right now,” Hogan explained, “I just brought some shirts and hats in to have some stuff to sell and give people some things to look at when they come in to see what we’re about. I’m hoping for a lot of foot traffic.” You might not think it, but Hogan said the trophy business is surprisingly breakingground contin u ed from page 15

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community to use, Schermerhorn said. “No pun intended,” she said, “but it’s nice to have something concrete for our residents to see. They’re beginning to think ahead to the changes that are going to be made that will have an impact on their lives here. They’re going to have a new dining room, a new fitness room. Right now they’re making compromises during this period of construction, but soon it’s going to blossom and be really great.” For those that are interested in

strong. He explained that there is plenty of demand, especially for one distributor. “I have a person in Elmira,” he said, “who walks in every day for a trophy or plaque. Every fire department needs an award every month. If someone wants to honor a bench, we can do that plaque. Eagle projects for scouts. Then you have all sorts of corporate stuff, like employee of the month, and of course sporting events: every award, every tournament. It comes from a lot of different places, but it adds up.” In addition to conventional work, such as embroidering restaurant logos on a polo shirt for its staff or making plates for Little League trophies, there are also the not-so-ordinary orders. In recent years, Hogan has seen a dramatic increase “like you wouldn’t believe” in people needing real trophies for their fantasy football leagues. Trophies also come in all shapes and sizes, Hogan said. “We can build whatever you want,” he added, “in pretty much whatever size you need it in. Whether it’s a plaque, medals, or trophies, we do it all both low end and high end. Events like spelling bees, church programs: you’d be surprised how many events need them. “There’s some big trophies people want built for some crazy reasons,” Hogan continued. “Someone will come in and be like ‘I need a seven-foot trophy’ and in your head you’re just like ‘Why?’ In Corning, there’s a guy that every year, needs a bigger and bigger trophy for the Pinewood Derby. He goes all out. Last year the one we built for him was six-feet tall. And that’s going to some little kid.” Hogan said most orders, whether it’s for T-shirts or trophies are completed in two weeks. He noted that if someone needs a rush job, he can usually turn an order around in one week if need be. He stressed that getting orders done in a timely, high-quality fashion has become what Pastrick’s is known for. “That’s what everyone wants when it comes to this kind of work,” he said. “It’s very important to us that we provide that for our customers.” § living at soon-to-be renovated Kendal at Ithaca, the best way to inquire about living arrangements is to visit its website at www. kai.kendal.org and or call 607-266-5300. Schermerhorn said it’s a great place to spend one’s retirement years. “People get excited about the community at large,” she said. “Ithaca has so much to offer. We get a lot of good press about what a great place it is to live, with all the special kinds of activities that go on around here, along with the cultural enrichment. That’s got a lot of appeal. The whole college-town atmosphere is a very big draw for people looking for a retirement community. There’s a lot to like.” §

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anywhere else,” he said. “Although it is a misnomer that we only do Oriental rugs. We actually do any kind of rug: Navajo, hooked, braided, broadloom, or cut-andbound.” Problems with mold and the health issues it caused was part of the reason for the return to popularity of hardwood floors in the 1980s. As a consequence area rugs again became more common, so once again cleaners had to have facilities to clean them. Adams doesn’t think you can really effectively clean an area rug in place. Furthermore, he said it is non-trivial to start up a rug cleaning business: you need about $ 1 million to buy a large enough parcel and to purchase the necessary equipment. After spending a lot of money to get

which they were originally made. In the late 1950s Dupont, the first manufacturerer of nylon, introduced it to wall-to-wall carpeting. “At first they were made from cotton and wool,” said Adams, “but when the synthetic was introduced, everyone wanted it.” The first question, according to Adams, was “How do you clean a wall-to-wall carpet?” Because rug cleaners already had washing plants and because portable equipment had been invented yet, they took up the wall-to-wall carpeting and took it to the plant to clean it. In the 1970s and ‘80s DuPont went through several generations of fiber invention, said Adams. Olefin replaced nylon, and then polyester came in and it could be dyed more different colors. Carpet fiber makers began to warranty the product instead of the carpet mills. “Ed York invented equipment to clean on location,” continued Adams. “It was mounted on a truck.” Once the operation was mobile, other parts of the house could be cleaned too. Other professionals joined the association; it grew and the name kept Ken Adams in the ABC rug repair facility. (Photo: Bill Chaisson) changing. Founded as the National Institue of Rug Cleaners in 1946, the organization kept new equipment and training to deal with adding professions to its ranks until it mold removal in wall-to-wall carpeting, became the Association of Restoration and the Adamses decided it was not worth it Cleaning Specialists (ARCS). anymore and got out of the business. Ken Adams was a member of the He watched carpeting being torn out board of trustees (eventually president). By of public places because of the potential for 2010 ARCS had grown to include 1,400 to mold to be replaced with tile, engineered 1,500 firms from the around the world and flooring or hardwood. And, he said, they had more than 25,000 members. had mold anyway. Once it is in a building, it “The association took in restoration is exceedingly difficult to get rid of. contractors,” said Adams, “and they are a ABC now concentrates on the washing different breed from the cleaners, which plant, although they still have two trucks are mostly mom-and-pop operations.” for cleaning wall-to-wall in place. Adams and some other colleagues decided In the washing facility Adams has to refocus and formed the Association of some handmade “hooked” rugs hanging to Rug Care Specialists in September 2010. dry after they have washed by hand. All the Adams joined the board of the fledging shampoos are made from plant-based and organization to get it on its feet and pass seed-derived sources. “This,” he said, “was on knowledge that he had learned from his made by someone’s grandmother. The work older peers. manship is extraordinary. We want to make “You can’t learn about Oriental rugs sure its passed down to this person’s kids.” § Youwant

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power is from the network behind them, and that might play better for big retailers if they can convince people to turn on the app that connects to the iBeacons. “They can tell you ‘She bought shoes, and socks,’ and that’s deposited into the database as they move around the store,” Ellis said. “If they have the app on, you get to know about people based on what they volunteer or unwittingly provide … the

Beacon can tell you who they are, and the network can tell you what they’re about.” For retailers, restaurants, or any other industry, the iBeacons should be considered “a way of supplementing skills,” Ellis said. “The big thing that pushes all this [technology] is the lack of employees,” he said. “There’s a huge shortage of people, in restaurants and other places, who aren’t on the level to get things done. The app can provide you with real, quality information.” §

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hile hockey teams do not use the term “March Madness” as an official slogan, there was plenty of madness to be had on the ice over the past few days. Some local teams saw their seasons come to an end in the way nobody wants to go out—with a loss—while one swept to a title.

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the way, to senior captain Brianne Jenner on being named ECAC Player of the Year for the second time, making her the first player in the history of the program to win the award multiple times. Jenner was joined on the All-ECAC First Team by teammate Jillian Saulnier. Emily Fulton and Erin O’Connor were named to the Second Team.) Cornell was denied a NCAA bid, and thus their season is over as well. After a great season, the Ithaca High girls were eliminated from the state playoffs by Skaneateles, and the boys lost to Baldwinsville. Another local team played in a breathtaking tournament final, and Rick Kuhar, one of my favorite local youth sports coaches, filled me in on the drama. Rick updated me, and I will share some excerpts from his inspired account: “The Rink in Lansing was the scene this past weekend for the New York State Club Hockey JV Championship Tournament. Eight teams from across the state met for a round of pool play and single elimination playoffs. The Ithaca Bandits swept through pool play defeating Lewport 4-2, Bellmore Merrick 7-1, and Dunkirk-Fredonia 5-0. On Sunday morning Ithaca shutout a tough St. Francis team 3-0, to earn a spot in the Sunday afternoon championship game against Grand Island. “Near the end of the first period, Grand Island struck first, and in the opening minute of the second period, Ithaca’s Nick Miller returned the volley with a sharp wrister tying the game at one each. Late in the second period, Grand Island scored on a heavily disputed call. With the start of the third period, Ithaca came out firing with intensity. Ithaca got the break they needed on a Grand Island penalty setting up a power play, and Eamon Bollinger ripped a shot that rebounded off the Grand Island goalie’s pads. Nick Miller was right on the crease to clean up the rebound to knot the score 2-2. Regulation came to an end with the combatants dead-even, and the first overtime came to an end. “In the second overtime, Ithaca dug down deep and played inspired hockey. With the clock ticking down to the oneminute mark in the second overtime of an intense championship game, a wild scramble ensued in front of the Grand Island net. With players pushing and falling in a frantic battle for the loose puck, Ithaca’s Woo Cheol Hyun spotted the puck lying on the goal line just inches from the Grand Island goalie’s outstretched glove, who was desperately attempting to cover. Hyun deftly tapped the puck over the line and triumphantly raised both arms in the air as the referee signaled the goal had been scored. In a dramatic, come-from-behind, double overtime epic battle, the Ithaca Bandits persevered with a 3 – 2 victory.” • • • For the hardiest among us, this reminder from Janet Krizek of the local Special Olympics chapter: “Just a quick note to let you know Special Olympics is holding a Polar Plunge on March 21 at Taughannock Park. We will start congregating around 11 am. The actual plunge is 1:00 pm. Last year, nearly 100 people plunged and we raised $23,000!” •

Kroch Library exhibition looks back 150 years

by Charley Githler

n exhibition of original documents, photos and other artifacts celebrating and reflecting on a century and a half of Cornell history, “150 Ways to Say Cornell,” is currently on display at Cornell’s Carl A Kroch Library. There could be no more congenial venue for such an event. The Kroch Library, a state-of-the-art, three-story underground building, houses Cornell’s Rare and Manuscript Collection. It is secure, climate-controlled and clean and fairly radiates reverence and respect for historic objects. One might argue that it is a hallmark of a civilization that such care is taken of its documents and artifacts, and it is entirely proper that an exhibit chronicling Cornell’s growth and honoring its beginnings should be displayed there. A subterranean temple to stored knowledge, the library’s rooms are well lit in the sense that they are bright without being harsh. And they are absolutely quiet but for the sound of carefully turned pages. It’s a rare document library from the imagination of a Hollywood set designer. Yet, it is accessible. It’s one of the great research collections and resources in the country, and it’s right up the hill and available to everyone. It’s an atmosphere conducive to lingering over the exhibition. Cornell got its start as a beneficiary of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, which was set up to establish institutions in each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions (like military tactics) that were deemed practical at the time. Under the terms of the Act, New York received the proceeds of the sale of 989,000 acres of federal land in the forests of Wisconsin. The funds were to be used to establish a university. A number of groups were interested in availing themselves of that money, but after a certain amount of political jockeying, on April 27, 1865, New York Governor Reuben Fenton signed the bill that constitutes the Charter of Cornell University, to be located in Ithaca. It was an otherwise eventful month. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, and President Lincoln succumbed to an assassin’s bullet on April 15. Ithaca was at the time a village of 4,000, and there were no bridges yet over

Cascadilla or Fall Creeks. What would become Cornell University was little more than a cow pasture. It was not immediately apparent that Cornell would become a great institution. A photograph of Morrill Hall (then known as South Hall), the first building erected on the campus testifies to humble beginnings. Named after Justin S. Morrill, author of the Land Grant Act, it was barely completed at Cornell’s opening in October 1868. It provided dormitory rooms at each end (accommodating 60 students) Clockwise from upper left: Morrill Hall, the first building of Cornell and four University, completed days before the university opened in fall 1868; lecture (at right) co-ed photos from 1929 yearbook; established as a co-ed rooms. institution Cornell remained predominantly male until the 1960s; The shed (above ) a cover of the 1926 Christmas edition of The Widow, Cornell’s at the legendarily wicked humor magazine. (Courtesy of Cornell Archives northern end is

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No Pain, No Gain Whiplash & Into The Woods By Br yan VanC ampe n Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle, playing March 12 and 14 at Cornell Cinema; Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall, playing March 12, 14, and 15 at Cornell Cinema.

toward his own destiny. We’ve all seen movies about drill sergeants with hearts of gold, but Fletcher might actually be evil; we’ve never quite seen anyone in a position of power that’s so ruthless. Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist appear from time to time as Andrew’s father and girlfriend, but Whiplash is really one terrifying and elating two-hander between Teller and Simmons.

was so moved by Kent Hartman’s book The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret that after years of playing guitar, I decided to go back to school with the great Jan Nigro and attempt to read music for the first I played Cinderella’s father in a 1996 time. I’m kind of dyslexic about certain stage production of Into the Woods, so I things, and I’ve had better results with think I’m qualified to say that if you don’t guitar tab over standard notation. But I like the film version, it’s not a pig in a was so knocked out by Hartman’s behindthe-music stories about legends like Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine and Tommy Tedesco— musical wizards who could nail the most complex melodies on the first take—well, I had to try. I went through it all and tried my best and realized that my great career as a demon sightreader was not to be. I’ve gone Miles Teller and J.K.Simmons in Whiplash (Photo: Provided) back to tab and learned some great chord-melody stuff, but the notes on poke, even if one of the main characters is a cow. That’s the Stephen Sondheim show, the page still elude me. But at least I had and while my friend Dan Jones speaks a nice guy and a cheerleader like Nigro knowledgeably about cuts in the text, in my corner, and not an insidious bully seeing Rob Marshall’s version the day after and hothead like Fletcher, the college Christmas, it sure felt like what we were jazz teacher played by Oscar winner J.K. doing on stage. Simmons in Whiplash, a most amazing When you’re doing a show, you’re and absorbing film about what it takes not crying; you’re creating an effect to to be one of the greats. It could be any make the audience cry. So finally being creative field—acting, dance—but here it’s all about executing a perfect double-swing able to step back and take the journey, I was in tears for the last 20 minutes of the over a jazz standard, and how terrifying it film. The ways that Stephen Sondheim can be when you as the student just don’t and James Lapine mix and match classic have it together. fairy tales characters, take back the happy Damien Chazelle’s film nails that endings and drive them to darker, more need, that drive to keep practicing and resonant places was finally translated to pushing. It pulses with the jazz rhythms the screen without losing the power of live that obsess the very talented Miles Teller performance. (The Spectacular Now) as Andrew, an Plus, you get to see who can carry a aspiring jazz drummer in college who doesn’t want to aspire. As he tells everyone tune these days. Meryl Streep is terrific, sure, but so are Anna Kendrick, James in his life, he wants to be among the Corden, Emily Blunt, and a host of greats. To that end, he works his way newcomers. Chris Pine steals the whole into Fletcher’s class, and soon Simmons’ thing as a vainglorious prince. • Fletcher is firing chairs at his head and hurling verbal abuse at him, shoving him

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By Jane D ie ckm an tonality, like having a play from the past done in modern dress. The work was revised in 1947. Apparently during the 1940s Stravinsky, realizing that he was going to lose some copyrights, made substantial changes to several works, including three major ballet scores, so the copyrights could be renewed. The CCO will perform the revised version. The concert’s central work is not often performed. It is the very moving Serenade for Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten (Photo: File photo) Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Op. 31 by Britten. The soloists anfranco Marcelletti, the popular are tenor William Ferguson music director of the Cayuga from New York and principal horn Adam Chamber Orchestra, is in his farewell Schommer, in his first year with the CCO. season with the orchestra. This Saturday, He asked to audition with this very piece. March 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall, he Composed in 1943, the Serenade is a song will conduct his next-to-last concert, cycle of six settings of poems by different featuring unusual music by J.S. Bach, English poets, framed by a solo-horn Benjamin Britten, and Igor Stravinsky. The Prologue and Epilogue. Marcelletti says customary pre-concert chat is at 6:45. the horn part is very difficult, and that the The program opens with Bach’s songs are like Lieder—a great deal has to Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major (BWV be conveyed in a short time. 1068, c. 1730). “Bach is my most beloved Ferguson, who has considerable composer,“ Marcelletti told me. “Since I experience with Britten—in operas and [first] heard his music when I was about 9, the War Requiem—calls the Serenade I never got tired of him.” “unique” and “the piece that put Britten The orchestral suites played an on the map.” Commissioned by Dennis important role in the conductor’s career, Brain, the greatest horn player of the time, as they were assigned to him when he and written for the celebrated tenor and was just starting out in Brazil in 1992. He Britten’s close collaborator Peter Pears, the “freaked out” when he saw the score with work deals with the theme of evening; and no articulation and bowing markings. So, for Ferguson the conversation between he filled them in himself, and after the the horn and the singer gives it special concert was lambasted by Brazil’s most meaning. The work was written during important violinist, who customarily the war, and in several places, like in the came to coach but had missed the setting of Blake’s “Elegy,” the horn sounds rehearsals. The young musician replied, like the bugle. “Instead of complaining, you teach me.” The dirge movement (the 15th-century So, the seasoned violinist sat down with poet is unknown) reflects the idea of life the fledgling conductor, who “learned between Purgatory and death as no-man’s tremendously.” land on the battlefield. Ferguson really He has wanted to do this work with enjoys the variety in the songs, some the CCO for years. A typical baroque suite very serene, others dark and sinister, with dance movements, it was among “all different sides of different coins.” the first pieces that Bach wrote for larger This is “difficult music” and “extremely secular audiences and has notable parts for rewarding.” It is about the night and all it trumpet and timpani. symbolizes—tranquility and happiness, Closing the concert is the Pulchinella the evening of life, the end of the day, and Suite (c.1920) that Stravinsky adapted for the end of the world. • string orchestra from music for a ballet with song commissioned by Russian Also, on Thursday at 4:30 the CCO impresario Diaghilev for his Ballets and the TC Public Library present a family Russes. This music was based on a catalog concert, including a chance for youngsters of 18th-century pieces, and when creating to meet the musicians and try out the the suite, Stravinsky gave the original voice instruments. The concert is in the library’s parts to the orchestra. In eight movements, Cornell Reading Room at 101 East Green the suite uses the style of a baroque Street. Both events are free and open to concerto grosso, where solo instruments the public. alternate with full orchestra—the soli vs. tutti effect—but with more modern

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Stratocaster Blues Master Robert Cray at the State Theatre By Br yan VanC ampe n

workhorse. You can beat it to death and obert Cray is a five-time Grammy it just keeps on goin’. [laughs] I don’t play winner who has been plying any Telecasters, but in the studio I do play his brand of strong blues and different stuff: Gibsons and kinda offsmooth vocals for more than 30 years. brand stuff, just for different sounds. Keith Richards recruited him to play in IT: I love the new album. the house band for Chuck Berry’s 1987 RC: Thank you. film Hail Hail Rock n Roll. Along with IT: What made you decide to go Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cray kept the blues in a more in fashion soul-styled with hits like direction? “Smoking RC: It Gun” and “The just kind of Forecast Calls happened. For Pain.” His We started, latest record, months In My Soul, is before in the terrific. In his planning own words, it’s stages, looking “been a while,” for cover but he’ll be in songs. And Ithaca for a with Steve gig at the State Jordan as the Theatre on producer, Friday, March that’s kind of 13. He spoke the producer’s to the Ithaca job: check out Times from other material Santa Fe, New for the band Mexico. and monitor Ithaca the original Times: songs coming When you in. And a first started few choices popping up were thrown on MTV in out that I the mid-80s, immediately I recognized agreed to, you as the bass Robert Cray (Photo: Provided) one of which player from was “Your Otis Day & Good Thing Is Coming To An End,” and the Knights in Animal House. Any good also the Otis Redding cover, “Nobody’s stories from working on the film? Fault But Mine.” And after that, the rest Robert Cray: It was a lot of fun being kind of came together because [bass on the set. I had never been on a movie player] Richard Cousins and [drummer] set. It was a gas, it was pretty cool. Les Falconer brought in some songs as IT: I’ve never seen you play anything well, and I brought some songs in, and but Fender Stratocasters. Have you always everybody seemed to be on the same page played them exclusively? as far as material. It was all coming in as RC: No, I just started off playing a soul music and that’s why the record came Harmony electric guitar. Then I went to out that way. a Gibson SG Standard, and then I had a IT: I’m a huge Steve Jordan fan. He’s Gibson ES-345, and then I went to the the only drummer aside from Charlie Stratocaster. I got my first Stratocaster in Watts who I love to hear play with Keith 1979, I think it was. Richards. What’s he like? IT: What was it about Strats that won RC: Steve’s great, just a great, down you over? I’ve been playing for years, and to earth guy. Of course, you know he’s a I just found a Strat that I liked in the last great musician. Working with him in the few years. studio, it’s great to have as good a musician RC: That’s basically all I play, onstage as Steve is to produce. He comes into anyway. I just like the sound. The sound, the room, and he’s directing you in the and it’s a great workhorse. Less knobs to studio. He’s either playing a conga drum, mess around with, you know, compared or dancing, and conducting, and makes to the big Gibson I used to play. Because everybody feel like a part of what’s going the Gibson had the six-position selector on. • switch as well—the two volumes and the two tone controls. It’s a just a great

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sciences—biology, to be exact. DiSalvo project Biagio DiSalvo started one recently completed an undergraduate day as a bored 14-year-old has degree at Cornell and has now moved on now been published. Released last to graduate school, also at Cornell. He said November, Galileo and the Maze Maker’s that being in the sciences makes fantasy Treasure is the young-adult fantasy novel writing all the more fun: “I feel like for me that is DiSalvo’s first book. Now a 21-yearold graduate student, DiSalvo said that he wrote most of Galileo between ages 14 and 18. He decided to embark on the project largely out of boredom, he said. “I was on vacation with a family friend and a great aunt, and they were dragging me to all these classical music concerts and one day I decided to stay home and write.” DiSalvo hastened to add that he does like classical music concerts—there’s just a limit to how many a 14-year-old can endure in the course of a week. After vacation, DiSalvo continued working on the book throughout the rest of high school. He said, “Basically I wrote mainly during breaks, during summer breaks and winter breaks because Biagio DiSalvo (Photo: Keri Blakinger) I didn’t really have time during school. But I always kept thinking writing is a break from science—especially about the story. I like to run, so that’s in my genre, where you break all the rules when the majority of the story comes out. of science—and I like that.” Basically I come up with the story while While he enjoys breaking the rules of I’m running, and then I keep thinking science, DiSalvo also has an unpublished about it and then when I’m done running work more in keeping with what one I take notes.” might expect of a biology major. An avid The book follows the adventures mushroom hunter, DiSalvo has written of Galileo, a high school student who a field guide to Ithaca area mushroom secretly has magical powers. One day, his hunting. school’s science teacher is replaced by a Though the field guide is complete substitute teacher who turns out to be a with no plans for publication, DiSalvo wicked witch. The teacher attacks a group is partway through another book that of non-magical students, but Galileo steps he does plan to publish—the sequel to in to save them. As a result of the attack, his first book. He said, “I have the whole the students acquire magical powers and plotline planned out, and I’m about so they decide to find out more about the halfway through, so there will be a sequel witch who cursed them. The quest for eventually.” The first book took place knowledge leads to a treasure hunt and a during the summer after Galileo’s tenth book full of adventures. grade year, so the sequel will follow him Not surprisingly, DiSalvo cites J.K. during his eleventh grade year. In the first Rowling—the author behind Harry book, Galileo attended a regular, nonPotter—as one of his main influences. He magical school, but DiSalvo said there’s added, “I’m a huge Lord of the Rings fan.” no plans to change that in the sequel. He He also points to Edward Eager’s Half added, “Maybe he’s still waiting for his Magic as a big influence. letter from Hogwarts.” • Although he enjoys fantasy writing, DiSalvo’s field of study is in the hard

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he cold weather made itself at home here in Ithaca over the last several months, and despite the beauty that snowtopped houses and the bare branches of trees may hold, their attractiveness ran thin when paired with the relentless cold and mute gray sky defines a normal Ithaca winter. Cue Hobit Lafaye, a local photographer who has made it her mission to remind viewers of the beauty that surrounds them. “All types of my prints provide you with an exceptional, archival work of art for your home or office,” she wrote in her artist statement, “that allow you to savor a moment in time capturing the ephemeral beauty of the natural world.” Lafaye’s work, which focuses on the Adirondacks and natural areas of upstate New York, is currently on display at Alternatives Federal Credit Union through the end of the month, and if nothing else the show deserves accolades for its wonderful timing. Titled simply “Shooting Water Studio: Photography by Hobit Lafaye,” the photographer accomplishes exactly what she promises, which is an exhibition of nature photography that prompts viewers to linger in the moment and appreciate the details and colors they see. From Cascadilla Gorge to Robert Treman State Park and Cornell, Lafaye has covered well-trod ground in the Ithaca area, and yet there is a freshness to her perspective that is both surprising and rewarding to see. River Dusk, taken at Buttermilk Falls one evening as daylight began to fade into night, presents a dark forest standing before water. The tree trunks and branches appear nearly nonexistent, blending into a backdrop of black, but their orange-yellow leaves illuminate in the late autumn light, starkly contrasted and inviting. The water looks almost white, as if it was snow, and the entire image seems nearly surreal in its existence, perhaps even on the verge of sublimity. A triptych of photographs printed on canvas, Seasons is an obvious standout in the show with its emphasis on color and texture. Unified by a palette of intensely saturated oranges, pinks, and blues, each of the three prints could easily cause

Photo: Hobit Lafaye

viewers to double take as they become absorbed in the details. One image zooms in on the underside of a single red oak leaf, each vein and little crack visible in sharp focus while all else but the leaf blurs in a phantasmagoria of shades. In another a yellow-orange maple leaf takes the stage, its sides curling inward as it lies against dark dirt and brush. Raindrops reveal themselves against the leaf ’s waxy surface, transparent and delicate. There’s always a bias in nature photography, present in both the photographer and the viewers, where nature appreciators are those who gravitate toward nature photos. The reality of the matter is that a show featuring Ithaca’s outdoors may not appeal to everyone, nor will everyone become equally excited by an image of leaves. Even so, the passion and excitement Lafaye undoubtedly experiences when confronted by the natural world is heavily present within her work, palpable in every leaf ’s crevice and the curve of every branch, the spray of every gorge. Her photographs are vibrant and joyful, a welcome contrast to the presently gloomy and snow-caked Ithaca that sometimes dominates late winter into early spring. Lafaye’s photos are a reminder of all that is out there for us to see once the snow melts and seasons continue: the beauty that comes with the rain and how often moments that already exist outside of our imaginations can be more breathtaking than what we might envision. Like Lafaye herself noted, we just need to take the time to look, and then we can begin to witness the glory of upstate and the simple brilliance of the gorges and forests that populate it. • Shooting Water Studio: Photography by Hobit Lafaye will be on display at Alternatives Federal Credit Union, 125 N. Fulton Street, until March 30.

Cornell ephemera. Most of the exhibit is available online (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/cornell150/). It’s worth a trip to see it in person, though. There are additional documents and displays, and an impressive collection of books on Cornell history available for visitors to browse through. • 150 Ways to Say Cornell will be on view Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Sept. 30, 2015. (Saturdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on March 14 and 21, April 11, 18, and 25 and May 2) Living elephants contin u ed from page 11

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Barton Hall during World War I and the Arts Quad looking north circa 1910. (Cornell Archives)

the “power house” sheltering an engine that ran a hastily installed printing press. Immediately in front is a watering trough for horses. The charter itself was an extraordinarily progressive document for its time. It reflected the forward-thinking— even radical—ideas of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. The overarching goal was to provide educational opportunity for everyone. It was explicitly non-sectarian and co-educational, and specifically included mandates to provide instruction in “agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics ... [and] such other branches of science and knowledge … as the trustees may deem useful and proper.” More than just memorabilia, the documents and artifacts in the 150 Ways to Say Cornell exhibition chronicle Cornell’s growth as an institution from land-grant experiment to world-class university. Cornell University Archivist Elaine Engst has selected and arranged the exhibits to reflect each element of the university’s charter. “We wanted to highlight how each part of the charter was addressed as the university grew,” she says. Each aspect of the charter, including co-education, agricultural instruction, non-sectarianism, military instruction and diversity of subjects has its own section, tracing that theme through Cornell’s history. There are also displays on college

life, sports and the growth of the university. There are photos, maps, historic hockey pucks, an enlargement of the plans for the iconic Library Tower, pages from yearbooks, sheet music, and all manner of

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In the United States, elephants have always been imported, and the humanelephant relationship is fraught with fear and misunderstanding. While elephant trainers, zookeepers, and animal rights laws have been progressing steadily to a more humane treatment of elephants and other animals, animal rights activists can take their concern for elephants too far, insisting that the only life for an elephant is one in the wild- an ever-diminishing option. “Elephant trainers are being picketed and treated like baby-killers,” said Thurnheer. “Elephant people are scared… When I see one of my friends, whose family’s been in elephants for 500 years (being picketed) and the activists are standing out there with a picture of an Asian elephant and his elephant is African… They’ve never talked to him and they don’t know him or his elephant- he doesn’t beat it, and it’s part of the familyI’ve got to believe that their objectives are pure, but it’s hard.” “You don’t want to pick a fight with an elephant; you’re gonna lose,” said Thurnheer. “Those elephants are doing what he asks them to.” Ringling Bros., the circus whose name and image is synonymous with

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elephants, announced last week that in three years they will retire all their remaining elephants to their facility in Florida. The action follows on a number of municipalities banning the use of bullhooks, a nasty-looking device commonly used in elephant training. A spokesman for Ringling Bros. said the bullhook ban was not the reason for the circus company’s ending the use of elephants, but public opinion against the use of animals for performing may be. When Cole Brothers circus appeared in the Shops at Ithaca mall last summer, protesters showed up with signs: but the elephant family performing for the circus did only simple stunts, like standing on a platform, and posing for pictures. The family of humans accompanying the elephants, who were clearly bonded with them, had even lost a member to a human-elephant encounter: such is the tenor of the debate that animal rights activists posted gloating comments on the man’s death, saying how glad they were that he died and assuming that his death was revenge by the elephant for some abuse. Few seemed willing to entertain the possibility that an animal that can weigh up to six tons and stand 13 feet high could crush someone without meaning to; assigning a preternatural grace to elephants that anyone who has ever stepped on a dance partner’s foot would hesitate to claim. Around the world, elephant populations and elephant habitats continue to shrink. At Syracuse’s Rosamond Gifford zoo, the elephants are part of a breeding program to preserve the Asian elephant. “I think the important thing with elephants is to enjoy and appreciate the fact that we’re living on the planet at the same time as elephants,” said Thurnheer. “I think that just appreciation makes a difference- I really do.” •

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Al Hartland Trio | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Happy Hour jazz.

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Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bound for Glory: Pat Wictor | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | He’s been on Bound for Gory as part of his wonderful trio, Brother Sun. But it’s been many years since he did a solo Bound for Glory. Here’s our chance to hear him. Really good slide guitar, really good songs. Pat Wictor is always welcome back on the show. patwictor.com . Comedy FLOPs | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Sunday matinee improv FLOPPY hour. Doolin O’Dey and Friends | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. Marc Berger | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Marc has performed at Austin’s SXSW Music Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, and opened shows for Bob Dylan and other national acts. Sophia Maranca | 12:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Contemporary, Alternative.

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The Tarps | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Traonach | 7:00 PM- | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress and McLallen Streets, T’burg | The Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA) is excited and pleased to present Traonach, Ithaca’s premier Irish band, well-known for their infectious, dedicated performances of traditional dance music. Come enjoy an Irish fling with this excellent group for St. Patrick’s Day weekend. For more information, contact S.K. List: 607-387-5627 or <skl@lightlink.com>.

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Midday Music for Organ: Jonathan Schakel, harpsichord | 12:30 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Music of Böhm, Fischer, Scarlatti, and Bach. Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features OSSIA, Eastman’s new music ensemble, performing works by Cornell graduate composers.

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Chemung County Historical Society Recital/Lecture: Piantist Azusa Ueno | 7:00 PM- | Clemens Performing Arts Center, 207 Clemens Center Pkwy, Elmira | Award-winning pianist Azusa Ueno will present a combination lecture and recital “Charles Griffes: The Quest for Identity,” a musical, historical, and psychological look at Elmira native Charles Tomlinson Griffes, one of America’s pioneering composers in the early 20th century. Free and open to the public. Call 607-734-4167 ext. 205 for more information. Made possible in part by the QuickARTS grant program administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and funded by the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc.

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Royal Southern Brotherhood | 8:00 PM- | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Before they even strike a chord, Royal Southern Brotherhood grabs your attention. In the US South, where music is religion, two rock ‘n’ roll bloodlines, an awardwinning guitarist, and “God’s own rhythm section” converge to cast a magic spell by which the planets align. Robert Cray Band | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Widely recognized as one of the greatest guitarists of our time, Robert Cray has written or performed with everyone from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan,Bonnie Raitt, and John Lee Hooker, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011.

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Look and Listen | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Area musicians including the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble will create installations and performances throughout the Museum at this event, held as a tribute to CAGE founder Taylan Cihan. Cosponsored by Cornell’s Department of Music. Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:30 PM- | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Lanfranco Marchelletti, conductor; William Ferguson, tenor. Music by Bach, Britten, Stravinsky. Pre-concert chat at 6:45 p.m. Tickets online at www.brownpapertickets. com/profile/453493 or by phone: 800-838-3006.

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Continuing: Schedule starts Friday, March 13. Visit www.cinemapolis.org for showtimes. Birdman | A black comedy that tells the story of an actor - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Leviathan | In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. | 140 mins R | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | A hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny, and it’s making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina. | 122 mins PG | Still Alice | Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested. | 101 mins PG-13 | Timbuktu | A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. | 97 mins PG-13 | What We Do in the Shadows | Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts. | 86 mins NR | cornell cinema

Visit cinema.cornell.edu for showtimes. Outside | Wang Wo’s experimental documentaries take the direct cinema approach to the realm of avant-gardism, immersing the viewer in a non-narrative, highly sensory experience of urban China in its visual and aural splendor. | 3/11 Wednesday. Into the Woods | Stephen Sondheim’s fairy tale musical takes the leap from stage to screen with the help Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, and Anna Kendrick. | 3/12 - 3/15 Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. Whiplash | A promising young drummer enters a conservatory to hone his craft. There he meets the school’s resident gorgon, who is also the teacher/mentor/ bully who can help turn him into one of

the greats. 3/12, 3/14 Thursday, Saturday. Internet Cat Video Film Festival | Maru. L’il Bub. Grumpy Cat. All your favorite felines from the web come to the big screen for a night of curated kitty cats. 3/13 Friday. Stray Dogs | A chilling portrait of homelessness and despair, Stray Dogs follows an unnamed character as he struggles to support himself and his two children, giving us a stark and upsetting portrait of poverty on the streets of modern-day Taipei. 3/13 Friday. MET OPERA LIVE IN HD Shown at Regal Cinema, Ithaca Mall. Rossini’s La Donna del Lago | 12:55 PM-, 3/14 Saturday | Regal Cinema, Ithaca Mall.

Stage AGIT Company Spring Laboratory | 3/12-3/14, Wednesday to Friday; performance times TBD | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University | Staged reading of a Gothic drama, directed by Aoise Stratford. Schiller’s Bad Girls’ Club, directed by Nick Fesette and Erin Stoneking. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM- 3/11 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs. Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM- 3/12 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 126 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM- 3/13 Friday| The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Sizwe Banzi is Dead | | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | In this intensely funny and poignant drama, a black man in apartheid-era South Africa tries to overcome oppressive work regulations to support his family. Feb. 25 through March 15. Times and prices at www.SyracuseStage.org. Pao Bhangra XIV: The Bhangra Olympics! | 6:30 PM- 3/14 Saturday | Barton Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Come watch Ithaca’s own America’s Got Talent Quarterfinalist, Cornell Bhangra, perform in Barton Hall on Cornell University’s campus with other nationally recognized dance teams at the largest Bhangra exhibition in North America! Tickets at www.campusamp. com/paobhangraxiv. Sesame Street: Make a New Friend | 7:00 PM- 3/16 Monday; 10:00 AM-, 3:30 PM-, 7:00 PM 3/17 Tuesday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center, , Elmira | No matter

TREE + landscape Exhibit of two different but characteristic representations of the landscape, in paintings on panel and works on paper, by CU Professor Stan Taft. Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd., March 10-April 4; artist’s reception, Friday, March 13, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

where you’re from or where you’ve been, everyone is special - so join in! Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, and their Sesame Street friends welcome Chamki, Grover’s friend from India, to Sesame Street. Together, they explore the universal fun of friendship and celebrate cultural similarities, from singing and dancing, to sharing cookies!

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | all day | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play

Special Events Ithaca Community Childcare Center Annual Silent Auction | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 3/14 Saturday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | All proceeds will benefit the IC3 scholarship fund. Live music, cash bar, food, and hundreds of items to bid. VIP tickets include 5-6PM champagne/ hors d’oeuvre reception, VIP parking, free child care during event. Call 607-257-0200 or e-mail office@icthree. org for more information; more event details at http://myemail.constantcontact.com/You-Are-Invited-To---.ht ml?soid=1113290589974&aid=OUP UujXIAjE. Alternative Community School: Square Dance Fundraiser | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, 3/13 Friday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | There will be a family group benefit fundraiser at the LACS Gymnasium on Friday, March 13th. No experience necessary! Panel Discussion: Life in the Hole | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, 3/12 Thursday | Myron Taylor Hall, Rm 186, Ithaca | Cornell Law School, Cornell Advocates for Human Rights, and the Public Interest Law Union will host “Life in the Hole: A Panel Discussion on Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Prison System” with Johnny Perez, survivor of solitary confinement; David Fathi, Director of the ACLU National Prison Project; and Martin Horn,

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Finger Lakes School of Massage Open House | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 3/13 Friday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Meet the staff, enjoy massage from current students and learn about the school and its massage therapy training programs. Free and open to the public. St. Baldrick’s Day Children’s Cancer Fundraiser at The Dock | 8:00 PM-, 3/14 Saturday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | St. Baldrick’s Day: Children’s Cancer Fundraiser w. Spacetrain, Ego Band & more. Enfield Blood Drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, 3/17 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Stateion, 172 Enfield Main Rd | The Enfield Volunteer Fire Company is hosting a blod drive through the American Red Cross. Call the Red Cross at 607-273-1900 to make an appointment. Lenten Study of Incarceration | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 3/15 Sunday | St John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Five-part series including book study of “Locked Down, Locked Out” by Maya Schenwar. Held in the Chapman Room.

Health & Wellness Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592. Alcoholics Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Rd, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday, 9-11:30 a.m. Appointments available Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30- 3:30 pm. Call 274-6604 to schedule an appointment or ask for further information. Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | This group meets

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All your favorite felines from the web --Maru, Grumpy Cat, and many, many, many more--come to the big screen for a night of curated kitty cats.

Executive Director of the New York State Sentencing Commission. Thai food will be served.

In his next-to-last concert as CCO music director, Lanfranco Marchelletti, conducts music by Bach, Britten, and Stravinsky. Pre-concert chat at 6:45 p.m.

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board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com. Ithaca Rotary Luncheon Series | 12:15 PM- 3/11 Wednesday | Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Rd, Ithaca | The Ithaca Rotary Club gathers every Wednesday for luncheon meetings. The public is welcome to attend and learn more about Rotary. This week’s topic and speaker: The Key West Story and local tourism – Bruce Stoff, Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM- 3/11 Wednesday | Kilpatrick’s Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca | RSVP 607-272-0837 or email cw27@ cornell.edu. Tompkins Learning Partners New Tutor Orientation | all day, Monday-Friday | | Tompkins Learning Partners seeks volunteer literacy tutors to meet on a weekly basis with adults needing help improving basic reading, writing, and math skills, and immigrants needing help learning English and preparing for the U.S. Citizenship Exam. Orientations for new tutors will be held in March and April at TLP. Please contact for dates; pre-registration is required as space is limited. To register, email Shannon Alvord TLPShannonA@gmail.com, or call 607-277-6442. Ithaca Festival: Community Meet the Staff/Register | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM 3/12 Thursday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | Community-wide meeting at the Southside Center gymnasium to meet the Ithaca Festival staff and board; sign

up to be a performer, food vendor, or volunteer; register your community group or business to be in the Ithaca Festival Parade; and share ideas about the festival and how it can best serve the Ithaca community. Take a Stand, Round 2 | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 3/12 Thursday | The CommonSpot, 126 3/4 Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Laura Ornstein of the New York State Sustainable Business Council will speak about the special significance of Ithaca and Tompkins County in the State level political landscape. Also, local policy activists will discuss victories, calls to action, and current policies being reviewed in key areas like energy infrastructure, workers rights, and food policy. Auditions for Theatre Incogita | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Auditions for Theatre Incogita’s Spring Season. More info at theatreincognita. org.

Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 272-2433. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, Tuesday | 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions, 272-1505. Walk-in Clinic | This group meets several times per week. | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited. Yoga School Classes | This group meets several times per week at various locations--pre-registration required. | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Powerful Tools for Caregivers: Pre-Registration Notice | all day, 3/04 Wednesday | Tompkins County Office for the Aging, 214 W State St, Ithaca | A free, six-week educational program designed to help family caregivers manage the stress and challenges of providing care for an elderly relative. Runs six weeks on Mondays, March 30-May 4, 5-6:30pm at the Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Registration required; class size is limited. Call David Stoyell at the Office for the Aging, 607-274-5492, to discuss the program or to register.

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM- Saturday & Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information. Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM 3/14 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified.

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several times per week at various locations. | For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org. Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public. Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday | Ithaca College, call for location | The group provides a casual and comfortable place for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder) to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday | Multiple Locations | We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441. Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall, 5th floor lounge, Cornell University, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30-7:30 PM, Tuesdays | Ithaca Community Recovery, W 518 Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine. Overeaters Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | A worldwide 12-Step program. Visit www.oa.org or call 607-379-3835 for more information. Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM Wednesday| ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers. Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More at www.DamodarDas.com.

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Lectures Bronfenbrenner Center Talks at Twelve: Ethics of Data Analysis | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 3/12 Thursday | Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca | M. Elizabeth Karns, CU Department of Social Statistics, will speak on “Ethics of Data Analysis.” Beebe Hall conference room, Plantations. Open to all; lunch served. See www.bctr.cornell.edu for info. Reppy Institute Seminar: “Dangerous Trade: Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation” | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM 3/12 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell University, Ithaca | Brown bag luncheon. Speaker: Jennifer Erickson, Political Science, Boston College. Visit http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/ Brake_seminar for more information. Johnson Museum Artist Talk: Alison Saar | 5:15 PM-3/12 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Artist Alison Saar will discuss her work in conjunction with the “This is No Less Curious” exhibition. Symposium: The Senses of Romanticism | 12:00 PM-5:30 PM, 3/13 Friday | Goldwin Smith Hall Lounge, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Cornell Dept. of English and Society for the Humanities present a symposium with papers by Miranda Burgess (Univ. British Columbia), Andrea K. Henderson (U.C. Irvine), Jon Klancher (CarnegieMellon), and Orrin Wang (Univ. Maryland). Johnson Museum Lecture: Chinese Art Provenance | 3:30 PM- 3/13 Friday | Johnson Museum of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Professor Nick

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Pearce of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, will discuss his research on Chinese art provenance. For information call 607-255-6464. 2015 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture: “A New Cold War?” | 4:30 PM-, 3/16 Monday | Statler Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Michael McFaul (U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2012-14), Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University) will speak on “A New Cold War? Explaining Russia’s New Confrontation with the West.” Free and open to the public; reception to follow in the foyer.

Learning Art Classes for Adults | all day | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org. Spring Writing Through The Rough Spots | all day | , , | 10-week series; class times = Wed. 7-9 pm or Thurs. 10 am - noon or 7-9 pm. See website or email schmidt.ellen@gmail. com for more information. Exploring Your Archetypes | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM 3/12 Thurssday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | An introduction to managing your relationship with power through your archetypes with Margaret Snow, Certified Spiritual Life Coach and Reiki Master. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Wholesome, Balanced, and Simple Vegan Meals | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM 3/12 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Lewis Freedman, RD and co-author of The Great Life Cookbook: Whole Food, Vegan, Gluten-Free Meals for Large Gatherings, for a class about preparing simple and delicious meals. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/13 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong. Location: 609

W Clinton St., close to Ohm Electronics. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall. Traditional Folk Song Workshop with Liz Simmons | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/13 Friday | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | Students will be taught songs the traditional way-by ear-drawing from Celtic, English, and North American musical traditions. Ages 14 and up- all levels! Liz Simmons is an experienced singer and guitarist of both traditional and original folk music who performs nationally and internationally with multiple groups. RSVPs requested to mike@cinst.org. Red Cross Trainings at the YMCA: Lifeguarding | 12:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/14 Saturday | YMCA, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | The full-service American Red Cross Lifeguarding course. Course length 28 hours (2 Saturday sessions, 12-7 pm, & 2 Sunday sessions, 9am-4pm; must attend all 4 sessions). Ages 15 and up; must pass basic swimming competency tests. March 14/15 & 21/22 and April 11/12 & 18/19. For information contact Ryan Allen at ylifeguard@ithacaymca.com. Two-Part Series: “Exodus and the Conquest of the Land” | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 3/15 Sunday | Congregation Tikkun v’Or, 2550 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Congregation Tikkun v’Or (Ithaca Reform Temple) presents a two-part series on: “Exodus and the Conquest of the Land: History? Fiction? Does it Matter?” The classes will compare the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and their arrival in Canaan with archaeological evidence; both will examine the relationship between history and tradition. All are welcome to attend one or both classes. Open to the public. For more information, contact info@ tikkunvor.org. Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Bridging the Gap about Education, Training, & Career Decisions | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/16 Monday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Are you thinking about training to improve skills or to learn a new skill? Do you need information on what’s available locally, who to talk to and how to begin? The Bridging the Gap Workshop will cover what is available locally for training, degree programs, certificates, and funding sources. It will also cover local labor market information to help provide the guidance needed to make such a valuable career decision. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Cooperative Extension Class: Deer-Resistant Ornamental Plants for Your Garden | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 3/17 Tuesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | This class will feature flowers, shrubs, and trees that are deer-resistant, based on feedback by Tompkins County Master Gardeners. In addition, fencing and repellents will be discussed. Pre-registration recommended. Call 272-2292 for more information or registration. Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof). Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Books Chats in the Stacks Book Talk: The Death of Caesar | 4:30 PM-, 3/11 Wednesday | Olin Library, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Barry Strauss will talk about his just-published The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination (suggesting Decimus was the true mole in Caesar’s entourage). Buffalo Street Books will offer books for purchase and signing; light refreshments served. Free and open to the public. For more information, visit booktalks.library.cornell.edu. Author Reading: Tod Marshall and Michael Morse | 6:00 PM- , 3/11 Wednesday| Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Tod Marshall reads from his new collection, Bugle. Author Michael Morse will be joining him to read from his upcoming debut, Void & Compensation. Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading: J. Robert Lennon and Valzhyna Mort | 4:30 PM-, 3/12 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Fiction writer J. Robert Lennon is the author of seven novels, two story collections, and additional short fiction and book reviews found in many prominent publications and anthologies. His story “The Rememberer” inspired the CBS detective series Unforgettable. Poet Valzhyna Mort will read from her collections, Factory of Tears and Collected Body. Poetry Reading: Bill Stratton | 4:00 PM-, 3/14 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Bill Stratton reads from his new collection of poems, Under the Water Was Stone.

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Literary Lunch w. Ithaca writer Leslie Daniels | 11:30 AM-, 3/17 Tuesday | 511 Cayuga Heights Rd, , Ithaca | Ms. Daniels’ first novel, Cleaning Nabokov’s House, came out in 2011. Hosted by Robin Davisson and David Skorton. A light lunch at 11:30 followed by the presentation at noon. Free and open to the first 25 who respond by March 10. Email specialevents@cornell.edu.

Art Exhibit at Titus Gallery: The Stone Within | 11:30 AM-5:00 PM | Titus Gallery Art & Antiques, 222 E State St, Ithaca | Gemstone photography by Sarah Oros. March 6-29; closed Tuesdays. Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | This is no less curious: Journeys through the Collection, through 4/12 | Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, through 6/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, through 6/07 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Michael Sampson: Paintings and Prints | all day | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Showing runs through March 31st. Exhibit: “Five Uneasy Pieces: Reworking the Treman Willow” by Jack Elliott | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Tuesday-Saturday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | These pieces were once part of a living heritage tree known as the Treman Weeping Willow, located in the Newman Arboretum. Planted 80 years ago, the tree had to be cut back to its base in 2011 as it succumbed to age and carpenter ants. Sculptor Jack Elliott asked that the tree segments be delivered to his studio with the objective of reworking the pieces to let them reveal their own significances. Exhibit runs through April 30. For information call 607-255-2400. Opening: Tree + Landscape | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/13 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Paintings and works on paper by Stan Taft. Exhibit runs March 10-April 4.

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uccess has been a slow-burn for Dr. Dog, a laid-back act that has seen steady music-making and touring pay off. The band had a lucky break a decade ago when My Morning Jacket invited the Pennsylvania-based band on tour, and they have released a record every other year since. This year, they’ll make it to Madison Square Garden (albeit in an opening slot). They’ll also return to Ithaca Sunday, March 15 for a show at Cornell’s Bailey Hall. The sweetly eclectic Elvis Perkins will open the 7 p.m. show. An “unforeseen and pleasant surprise” is how Scott McMicken, one of the founding members, described the longevity and success that his act has achieved. “Everybody has landed on a conceptual view of what we are about,” he said, “and it is more or less aligning with what we play. We have been lucky that everybody still believes in what we do, and we have taken a long view that

Ink Shop Gallery Exhibit: Selected Prints and Artist Books | 12:00 PM-6:00PM Tuesday-Friday, to 4:00PM Saturday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Original prints and artist books by students and faculty at Ithaca College. TuesdayFriday 12-6pm, Saturday to 4pm. Johnson Museum of Art: Look and Listen - A Tribute to Taylan Cihan | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/14 Saturday | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Area musicians including the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble will create installations and performances throughout the Museum in tribute to CAGE founding member Taylan Cihan. Cosponsored by the Cornell Department of Music. For information call 607-2556464. Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland: Topographies | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM | Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland , Cortland | Features works by Ithaca artist Lindsey Glover and NYC-based artist Claudia Sbrissa. On view March 2-April 10, 2015. The Dowd Gallery is SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center Rm. 106, corner of Graham Ave. and Prospect Terr.

we will grow and go on for what we hope will be a long time.” McMicken continued: “There hasn’t been a year that has gone by that hasn’t looked better than the previous year. We haven’t gotten overnight success, but it has been a steady, and gradual process.” The typical Dr. Dog song doesn’t so much resemble My Morning Jacket as split down the middle between early 70s CSNY (the yacht-rock era) and mildly jamming Neil Young. The choruses tend to echo, the pace is often leisurely, and the vocal range frequently breaks into the upper octaves (perhaps as high as E6). On “Broken Heart”, off the recent record B-Room, McMicken’s guitar has enough squall to sound noisy, but not so meandering to be called wandering. B-Room was recorded in the

Kids Specific for This Week: Flandango | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/15 Sunday | GIAC, 301 North Albany Street, Ithaca | An event that celebrates Latino culture by having a dessert competition, several performances, and great food. This is a family event and will feature various activities for children such as storytelling and faceprinting. Free Family Concert by the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 4:30 PM- 3/12 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | CCO’s first Family Concert presented in partnership with TCPL will focus on the warm-hearted story by Judy Cox titled My Family Plays Music, and tell it in a very musical, family-friendly way. A wonderful array of music-related books for kids of all ages will be ready and waiting to be checked out and taken home. The free storytime will include a short performance by some CCO musicians and an opportunity for kids to try out an instrument or two at the end. Sciencenter: Chemsations! | 2:00 PM-, 3/15 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch as local high

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band’s new studio, re-built out of an old silversmith studio in Philadelphia. “The whole process of recording the album began with building the studio.” According to McMicken, bassist Toby Leaman found equal amounts frustration, intensity, and cohesion in both the recording and the building. “We keep working hard, do the best job we can, and organically grow,” McMicken said. Though the band has rotated some members (including, for a period, a litigation attorney!) McMicken and

school students demonstrate chemical reactions with color changes, bubbles and light. Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: First the Egg | 10:30 AM-, 3/17 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story “First the Egg” by Laura Vaccaro Seeger and then create butterflies to take home. Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: There is a Bird on Your Head | 10:30 AM-, 3/13 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story “There is a Bird on Your Head” by Mo Willems and then make birds out of paper and feathers.

Ongoing: Art Classes for Kids | | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org. Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, Thursdays | Dryden Baptist Church, 138 Virgil Rd, Dryden | For kids ages 3 to 8th grade. Any questions please call 607-844-8319.

• • • Another act that has achieved a certain longevity is Particle, a Los Angeles electronic dance music act that will stop by the Haunt Wednesday, March 18. The band toured with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh, and The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, and have returned after a hiatus that lasted several years.

Kids Club at Michael’s | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Saturday | Michael’s, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | 30 minutes of creative craft fun. Ages 3 and up are welcome to this event.

Sciencenter Sunday Science Demonstrations | 2:00 PM- | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate awe-inspiring science with colorful chemical reactions, fun with physics, and more! Visit www.sciencenter.org/ calendar.html for specific programs and dates.

LIFT After School Book Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 2/19 Thursday | Edith B Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | 6th grade students, enjoy fun activities and great books! Romulus Feb. 5 & South Seneca Feb. 12 & 26. Contact the library for more information. Sponsored by the Rosen Library Fund. Sunday Science Demonstrations | 2:00 PM-, Sundays through May 17 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate awe-inspiring science with colorful chemical reactions, fun with physics, and more! Visit www.sciencenter.org/ calendar.html for specific programs and dates.

Sciencenter Winter/Spring Exhibition: “TreeHouses” | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Spend time hanging out in the trees! Explore an indoor tree house while you look, listen, and smell for signs of animal tree dwellers at the Sciencenter’s new featured exhibition. Open Tuesday-Sunday.

Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday and Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Little ones (2 – 4 years old) with their parents explore science through hands-on activities, reading, and songs.

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Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273-8364. Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM-11:15 AM, 2/17 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather. Call 659-7258 with questions.

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Leaman have performed together since the eighth grade. “One of the more enduring aspects are ongoing relationships with the band,” said McMicken, “and of course Toby and I have been friends for more than 25 years. But the band’s ever-shifting context and outlet just means that we have built changing relationships. There are layers that clash when there are six people and various combinations.” “The band is not carved in a particular dynamic,” McMicken continued, “and though it always feels different, that is what makes it compelling. The demands are always present in the horizons.” •

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Full Time Provisional Payroll/Accounts Payable Clerk position available at T-S-T BOCES Central Business Office. Detailed job posting with requirements listed on the BOCES Web Site: www.tstboces.org and careerbuilder.com. Must complete county civil service on-line application: www.tompkinscountyny. gov/personnel. Apply by 3/13/15 to: TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, Phone (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)697-8273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

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HOME HEALTH AIDE

Part-time, 24 hours/week, 4:00pm10:00pm; Tuesday, Wednesday and every other weekend. Must have current NYS certification as a Home Health Aide. Must be able to push, pull, lift and transfer residents weighing up to 250 pounds. Good organization, time management and communication skills are essential. Current certification in CPR, First Aid and CNA are desirable. Supports activities of daily living by providing hands on care to residents including but not limited to bathing, dressing, toileting, meal preparation, light housekeeping, transportation and medication assistance as directed in the individual plan of care. Submit resume and application form. Applications accepted until position is filled. Apply: www.kai.kendal.org or at Kendal at Ithaca reception desk, 2230 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY or at Workforce Development Center, 171 Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. EOE

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BOATS/130 Boat Docking $600 Season. Next to Kelly’s Dockside Cafe 607-342-0626 Tom

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the place that’s right for you with Conifer. Linderman Creek 269-1000, Cayuga View 269-1000, The Meadows 2571861, Poets Landing 288-4165

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2001 VOLVO V70 WAGON, 149K. FREE BANKRUPTCY $4,500/obo CONSULTATION 216-2314 Real Estate, Uncontested Divorces. Child Custody. Law Office of Jeff Coleman and Anna J. Smith (607)277-1916

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607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage. Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

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LAND FOR RENT

Hay or Pasture. Danby. 60 acres. $1500/ year. 607-272-4576

695/Vacation OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND. Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800638-2102. Online reservations: www. holidayoc.com (NYSCAN)

700/Roommates ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roomate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates .com! (AAN CAN)

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ABSOLUTE LAND SELL OFF! MARCH 14TH & 15TH! COOPERSTOWN, NY! 60-70% BELOW MARKET PRICES FROM $19,900 or $254/MONTH! 26 TRACTS! WATERFRONT! VIEWS! WOODS! 6 miles from Village, low taxes, town rd., utils, 100% g’tee! Call: 888-9058847 to register! NewYorkLandandLakes. com (NYSCAN)

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CASH for Coins! Buying ALL Gold & Silver.NEED Also Stamps & Paper Money, Entire AFFORDABLE Collections, Estates. Travel to your LAND home. Call Marc in NYC 1-800-959-3419 for a Home, Recreation or Agriculture? (NYSCAN) Buy or Lease only what you need! (607)533-3553

Organically Grown Blueberries $1.60 lb. Open 7 days a week. Dawn-toDusk.2Easy to pick high bush berries. Bedroom/1 Bath Tons of quality fruit! 3455 Chubb Hollow in Newfield. 2 tipouts, 2 large awnings, road Pen n Yan. perenial garden, many extras! Credit 607-368-7151 check. $12,500. 607-564-6078 Leave Message.

Call us for a FREE solar assessment.

Paradise Energy Solutions 100 Grange Place, Cortland, NY 877-679-1753

855/Misc. AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/ MONTH! Call 855-977-9537 (AAN CAN)

Sebastian, Florida Beautiful 55+ manufactured home community. 4.4 miles to the beach, close to riverfront district. New models from $85,000. 772-581-0080, www.beach-cove.com (NYSCAN)

PIANOS

• Rebuilt • Reconditioned • Bought• Sold • Moved • Tuned • Rented

Complete rebuilding services. No job too big or too small. Call us.

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Ithaca Piano Rebuilders (607) 272-6547 950 Danby Rd., Suite 26

South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY

GREAT DEALS! on hundreds of new, vintage and used instruments.

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BOCES has the following opening: Teaching Assistant-Interpreter OCM BOCES Deaf and Hard of Hearing program Successful candidate will provide interpreting services and teacher assistance at Solvay Elementary, Middle and High School. NYS certification as a teaching assistant required. Must be fluent in American Sign Language. Comprehensive fringe benefit package. $23,560 base salary. Applications accepted on-line only. Register and apply by 03/17/15 at: www.olasjobs.org/central

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Ansen Corporation, a growing electronics contract manufacturer located in Ogdensburg, NY, has the following openings for technical team members in our Engineering and Quality Assurance Departments:

Process Engineer Quality Engineer • Quality Technician

We offer competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package. To view complete job descriptions or apply, please visit the Careers section on our website at www.AnsenCorp.com

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Cash for Cars Any Car/Truck,Running or not! Top Dollar Paid.We Come To You! Call for Instant Offer 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com

CVT, Silver, 26,565 miles, $17,997 Certified Stock #11171E 2010 Honda Insight EX, CVT, white, 35,224 miles, $14,997 Certified Stock #11124E 2010 Mazda 3 Wagon 6-speed, Blue, 44,329 miles, $14,997 Stock #11168E 2012 Mazda 2 Hatchback Auto, Red, 32,427 miles #12,997 Honda of Ithaca 315 Elmira Road Ithaca, NY 14850 www.hondaofithaca.com

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4 Seasons Landscaping Inc.

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Ithaca Community Childcare Center (IC3) annual silent auction will be Saturday, March 14 6-10pm at Emerson Suites, Ithaca College. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the IC3 scholarship fund. Live music by Paul Merrill Jazz Trio cocktails, an array of food, and hundred of items to bid on. Call 607-257-0200 or email office@icthree.org for more information

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ITHACA DISPATCH, INC.

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records (Autumn Leaves Basement) 319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

Ithaca’s largest and best paying Taxi Co. has Driver positions available! We want to put drivers on the road IMMEDIATELY! Up to $13/hr earnings potential when starting with us. We also offer benefits as well! Call Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm

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Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows Free Estimates South Seneca Vinyl 315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

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Half OFF NYS Auto Inspection

Ithaca’s Friendly local Game Store Board Games, Geek Collectibles, Educational games for Kids

with Greenback Coupon at Monro Muffler/Brake

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LIGHTLINK HOTSPOTS

Professional Insured Removal Call Greg at Solutions 607-793-8664

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Peaceful Spirit TAI CHI classes at Sunrise Yoga Classical Yang style long form Thursday’s 7:30-8:30 pm Anthony Fazio, LAc.,C.A,

Love dogs?

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Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

607-272-0114

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care! www.cayugadogrescue.org www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

MARMOT SAMPLE SALE! UP TO 60% OFF

Protect Your Home with a Camera Surveillance System Les @ 607-272-9175 Spring on wellness!

Outerwear Sportswear Kids Old Goat Gear Exchange 320 E. State St., Downtown Ithaca

YOGA FUNDAMENTALS

Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years

Sundays, March 15-29 1:30-3pm

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair. Same Day Service Available

John’s Tailor Shop John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons 273-3192

Middle Eastern (Belly Dance) & Romani Dances (Gypsy) Beginner Classes Starting Wed. March 11th with

JUNE Professional Oriental Dancer Call or E-Mail to Register 607-351-0640, june@twcny.rr.com www.moonlightdancer.com

MOBIL COMPLETE OIL CHANGE

3-Class Workshop Series

MIGHTY YOGA Sign up today! $40 for all 3 classes Vsit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682 SUNDAY FUNDAY with Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy Sunday, March 29 @2 pm Immaculate Conception School Gym (Plain St) $5 per person @ the door Sponsored by Hoopla Buttons.com

THINKING SOLAR? Call us for a free solar assessment

Paradise Energy Solutions 100 Grange Place, Cortland, NY 877-679-1753 We Buy, Sell, & Trade Black Cat Antiques

only $24.99 with Greenback Coupon Mobil 1 Lube Express 348 Elmira Road 607-273-2937

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our new Ithaca Health Center at

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