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Kimberly Michaels of Trowbridge Wolf Michaels landscape architects, along with Steven Hugo of HOLT Architects, presented the plan to the full town board at their May 19 meeting. The developer needs the town board to recommend the site for planning board review through the “planned unit development” process.

Within zoning rights, Michaels told the board that Sloan could build 28 units on the property, but that would “spread it out” and “not conglomerate the open spaces or preserve evergreens.”

“This site is higher than the roadway, and with evergreens all around there’s very little public space in which you’ll see this

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n May 17, the Ithaca City School District’s 2016-17 budget and board election brought approvals for the district’s expenditures and one new board member.

Nicole LaFave was elected to the board with 661 write-in votes, filling one of four open spots. The other three slots were filled by incumbents: Eldred Harris (1,741 votes), board president Robert Ainslie (1,685), and Bradley Grainger (1,641) were all re-elected to terms that end in 2019. LaFave will take the seat vacated by Jen Curley and serve out a term that ends in 2018.

LaFave is employed by Cornell’s Public Service Center, is a member of the Community Police Board, and is mother of three children, two of whom attend Beverly J. Martin Elementary. Her writein campaign became Facebook official on May 13.

The 2016-17 budget of $119,088,829, including a 0.35 percent decrease in the tax rate, received 1,797 yea votes and 788 no votes. Propositions to spend capitalreserve funding on new school buses and other improvements, and to lease a portion of Enfield Elementary’s land for a community center, both passed with more than 2,000 votes each.

The only controversy over the election concerned the district taking its time to release the results. Typically, districts will notify news media of informal results on the evening of the election—polls closed at 9 p.m. on May 17—or the morning after. ICSD chose to wait for a certification vote from the school board at 8 p.m. on the evening of May 19 before confirming the vote, prompting a hand-delivered Freedom of Information request from the Ithaca Journal and some exasperation on the “Nicole LaFave for ICSD School Board” Facebook page.

“I want to thank my friends and loved ones who gave me an ole kick in the butt to reach for the stars and run for a write in campaign,” LaFave wrote on that page after the vote was final. “[I]f we want to see structural and systemic change, we have to start with the structures themselves. We have to begin shifting the culture before we can expect policies to follow.”

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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In March developers Todd Fox and Charlie O’Connor of Modern Living Rentals received approvals, after a long process, to build a 10-unit, 32-bedroom complex at 902 Dryden Road.

Two more projects are starting the process of official review: One is at the corner of Freese and Dryden roads, and another is sited right next to the rail trail and F.H. Fox railroad bridge.

The “Tiny Timbers” project at 5 Freese Road, where mounds of dirt now stand, received a generally favorable public reception at an April 27 planning board meeting held at the Varna Community Center, according to Deborah Cipolla-Dennis’ report to the full town board.

Mounds of dirt (at left) within sight of Fall Creek in Varna (Photo: Diane Duthie) Architect Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative presented project,” Michaels said. “If there’s a place the project, along with Buzz Dolph and to increase density, and promote ideas of developer Nick Bellisario. No further nodal development in Varna. This is ideal.” details were available as of press time.

Michaels noted that about two acres A larger project is proposed for of trees would be left standing on the 1061 Dryden Road (across from the site, which at present is largely open field. new Pineridge Residences), where She also praised its connection to public Squeaky Clean Car Wash owner Gary transit, with a TCAT stop with three Sloan, of Lansing, is proposing a 36routes near the proposed entrance. unit development containing two-unit A traffic study from SRF Associates, townhomes. The site is above the railroad Rochester, analyzing the impact of the bridge; pedestrians would be able to get development, was given to the town to the hamlet using the recreational way, which passes along the west side of the continued on page 4 parcel. There are no sidewalks on Rt. 366

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IC contingent full-time faculty will join SEIU Local 200 United as part of Faculty Forward.

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Shoshe Cole, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, reflected on the victory: “It was exciting to go to the NLRB in Buffalo and watch them announce all of the “Yes” votes! We look forward to meeting the administration at the bargaining table as legal equals.”

Full-time contingent faculty at Ithaca College currently teach on a limited-term basis without any assurance of reassignment and with no path for promotion. Like their parttime colleagues, they lack a voice in shared governance and work without job security.

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Legal Swimming in the gorges: a Good idea?

Home for Women Needing Place to Stay In her work as the service navigator for Catholic Charities, Liddy Bargar said she sees lots of women who need stable housing, though they may not be homeless by official definition.

“They might not be considered literally homeless, because they have a place to stay for a night or two,” Bargar said. “That’s jamming up these women when they look to qualify with help finding housing.”

The Department of Social Services and not-for-profits have rules they must follow about who qualifies for financial assistance, rules handed down by federal and state agencies which give them funding. People who are couch-surfing don’t qualify for much of this assistance.

The women she was seeing, Bargar said, often did not feel secure staying at the shelter or were in otherwise uncomfortable situations. One example she gave is a woman in recovery, who was staying with her adult child.

“She was welcome to stay as long as she wanted,” Bargar said, “but didn’t feel it was a safe place for her at that point. We want to be a place where people can use their own judgment about why they’re here.”

Bargar hopes to help women find some stability in their housing situation with a new home sponsored by Catholic Charities, called “A Place to Stay.”

The downtown, four-bedroom home was recently renovated and features glossy, hardwood floors downstairs and two full, spacious bathrooms. Bargar has been furnishing it with the help of donations and drivers from Love Knows No Bounds since Catholic Charities took over the lease at the beginning of May. The name is a nod to women’s rooming houses that operated in the days when checking into a hotel wasn’t an

“Designated bleeding heart Ithacans who can swim and have a Red Cross certification should be there. Gorge mommas.”

—Amanda Holly

“I’ve been doing it since I was born and I hate they’re taking it away from me.”

—Charlie Broadwell

“I understand it can be dangerous and people have died, but it can be really fun.”

—Iris Kadane

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“I’m not in favor. Wholesale swimming presents a public safety hazard.”

—Rebecca Kelly

council. SRF estimates four entries and 19 exiting during the peak morning hour, with 17 cars entering the site and nine exiting during the afternoon peak hour.

The most recent annual average daily trip traffic data for that portion of Dryden Road, taken in 2013, estimates 7,126 vehicles use the road per day.

Neighbors of the project came to the board meeting to express their concerns.

In a letter to the town board that she also presented in person, Carol Whitlow, a Dryden Road resident, wrote that “keeping housing density at a manageable level is essential” to maintaining a friendly and

“Free the damn gorges.” ­—Sequoia Allison

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per week, but the women will have house option for traveling, single women. keys, cook their own meals, and otherwise This Place to Stay will have a focus on operate as self-sufficient people. Bargar getting women settled into new digs and said when interviewing potential tenants, independent living, ideally within three she’s been looking for “people who have months. three goals they’re working on.”

“It sounds like a short time, but with Volunteer work and projects will take some support I think it’s doable,” Bargar said. “I’d love to let people stay forever, but up some of the women’s time. The home will be decorated and improved by those we want to serve as many people as are who live there. Sewing some curtains qualified.” and couch covers and some raised-bed So far, the program is funded by gardening in the ample backyard are a grants unencumbered by state and federal couple of projects Bargar has in mind. requirements, including one from the For now, A Place to Stay will not Women’s Building Community Fund, formerly Women’s Community Building, giving flexibility in who can take advantage of the place.

Women will pay for their stay with any rental subsidies they might get, or 30 percent of their net income, up to $400 a month.

Bargar said Liddy Bargar of Catholic Charities in their new residence, A Place to Stay. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) she, along with staff provided by Americorps and volunteers, would be focusing on what be for children. Without 24/7 staffing, “insurance recommended we try it for a they’re calling “rental stewardship.” That year,” Bargar said, as a pilot program. It is a includes the basics of home maintenance, drug- and alcohol-free house; it’s not a safe and also the basics of talking to landlords. house for victims of domestic abuse, but is Many people she works with, Bargar said, “discreet,” Bargar said. had one bad experience with a landlord, Call Catholic Charities for more and now won’t speak to whoever owns information: (607) 272-5062 their home under any conditions—the heater breaking down in wintertime – Josh Brokaw included. reporter@ithacatimes.com Someone will be at the Place to Stay house from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., six days safe community.

“Concentrated housing without a good plan can lead to community, problems, traffic, policing, drugs, and potential deterioration due to neglect of property,” Whitlow wrote. She called for more owner-occupied housing and questioned the site’s layout, saying it is “packed together with few to no windows and only a parking lot to and fro which people run.”

Planning board member David Weinstein, a Dryden Road resident, told council that the Varna comprehensive plan’s objective, when written in 2012, was to “concentrate new density within the hamlet proper, so we can make a nice walkable community that has businesses.”

Weinstein also questioned whether

the town has enough available sewer hookups to support a project of this size.

Jim Skaley, another neighbor of the project, noted that Tompkins County is in need of affordable housing, and that the project could be a boon to the tax rolls.

The project team was asking that the project go before the planning board, but town supervisor Jason Leifer demurred, stating that the board had just received the traffic study.

At its June 9 meeting the Dryden town board will consider recommending the 1061 Dryden Road project to the town planning board.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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he word “archives” can conjure up an image of dusty boxes of documents and sepia photographs.

Do not be deceived. In fact, the files in the Tompkins County History Center Archives are filled with stories and all manner of tantalizing clues and evidence about the lives of those who came before us. And in the hands of Archives Director Donna Eschenbrenner—knowledgeable, helpful, ever eager to assist—those files can come alive.

Such a collection is file V-63-7-6, the ‘Meredith Brill WWII Correspondence Collection. In early 1944 15-year-old Caroline resident Meredith (“Bub” to his family) Brill was a shortwave radio enthusiast. What made Brill remarkable is that he was able, with his radio, to get information from Nazi-occupied Europe thousands of miles away, about American servicemen who had been taken prisoner by the Germans. He wrote the names, ranks serial numbers and home addresses down, and then sent letters to the families of the prisoners. He wrote dozens of such letters. The archives file is comprised of thank-you letters from those families, Brill’s notebooks and some of his letters that were returned unread.

His own letters are extraordinary.

They are simple without being blunt, and his all-caps typewritten directness doesn’t disguise the very human impulse to ease a family’s anxiety. “I hope this information will be of help to you because I know many parents worry a great deal about their sons and daughters in the service.”

Shortwave radios captured the imagination of a lot of young people in those days. The technology has been called the “first internet.” A shortwave radio uses frequencies just above the medium AM broadcast band, and it can be used for very long distance reception by means of “skip propagation,” in which the radio waves are reflected back to earth from the ionosphere. It allows communication around the curvature of the earth. Sound quality can vary greatly, and it depends on the season and time of day, but you can hear broadcasts from around the world.

Generally, the signals are best at night.

By spring 1944 the United States had been at war for over two years. Fighting on land, sea and air in two separate theaters of war was an all-out effort, and here at home it was all war, all the time. Sixteen of the 21 (yes, 21) stories on the front page of the March 14, 1944 Ithaca Journal were warrelated. The Strand Theater was showing The Purple Heart, Watch on the Rhine was playing at the Ithaca, and the State was featuring Spencer Tracy in uniform in A Guy Named Joe. Advertisements in

Meredith Brill (Courtesy of the History Center)

the April 14, 1944 Cornell Bulletin urged students to come to the Sport Shop at 401 College Avenue or 209 East State Street to get measured for naval officer uniforms

by Palm Beach. Young Meredith Brill and his father took shifts scanning the skies for enemy aircraft on the 7-foot-tall Slaterville Springs airplane spotter’s platform. The war showed no sign of ending any time soon.

Brill’s letters went to all corners of the 48 states: Snowville, Virginia; Waterloo, Iowa; Lebanon, Indiana; Nitro, West Virginia. The most affecting passages are in the thank-you letters from grateful families. Many times, Brill’s letter brought the first concrete news they’d heard. Mrs. Ray Howe of Littleton, New Hampshire wrote, “It was such a relief to know he [her son, Pfc. Bernard Howe] was still alive somewhere, words will never tell you how much I appreciated it. You see we are farmers and I have a battery radio and the battery is worn out and can’t buy one now … but thank God you heard it and was so kind to let me know.” Mrs. Howe went on to say that her other son was going into the navy after the harvesting was over.

In April 1942, 20-year-old Wayne Ross of Harvard, Nebraska enlisted in the United States Army. Wayne came from a farming family, and Harvard (1940 population 704), was a farming community situated in the Dust-Bowl prairie of Clay County, in the southcentral part of the state. By January 1944, Staff Sergeant Ross was a right waistgunner on a B-24 bomber with the 449th Bomb Group out of Grottaglie, Italy, when his plane was shot down during a raid on a German airfield in Perugia as part of the preparations for the Anzio landing. Ross was taken prisoner by the Germans and

eventually found himself a prisoner at Luft Stalag IV in Pomerania, Prussia, near the Baltic Sea. The Ross family back home in Harvard was notified by the U.S. Army that their son was missing, but it was one of Meredith Brill’s letters that first let them know that Wayne was alive and a prisoner of war. Meredith had heard it on his short wave radio.

Wayne Ross’ mother penned a poignant thank-you to “Dear Friend Mr. Brill.” “Oh I can not thank you and God ever enough for this new hope,” she wrote. “May God bless you richly for your time and trouble in bringing new hope and cheer to many grief stricken homes.”

Mrs. Ross also enclosed three cents to reimburse Brill for the postage.

The next year, in early February 1945, Luft Stalag IV’s 9000 NCOs and enlisted men, including Staff Sgt. Ross, were marched out of their camp in advance of the approaching Russian army. In groups of 250, they walked 15 to 20 miles a day on starvation rations for the next 86 days, fighting dysentery, typhus and exposure before being liberated by the British army on May 2. Thirteen hundred of the prisoners died on that march, but Ross survived and returned home to Nebraska, where he married in 1946 and took up farming for the next 55 years. He died in 2005, leaving two daughters, a son, 9 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Meredith Brill’s sister Hazel lives in Cayuga Heights today. A member of Cornell’s class of 1946, she was on a campus of men in uniform while her brother was up nights listening to his radio and writing his letters. “Bub bought his radio in April, 1942 for $29.99,” she remembers. “He paid $7.00 down and then $4.00 a month until it was all paid for.” She also remembers his meticulous nature. “He kept very careful notebooks of all the radio transmissions he could hear,” she said. Five of those notebooks are in the archives file, and they detail, in fastidious pencil writing, the dates, contents and strength of the signal for each broadcast.

A born tinkerer, Meredith Brill was mechanical by nature, and even as a kid, he loved cars. He graduated from the Cascadilla School and, after the war, attended a technical school in Binghamton that was later folded into the university. After working at various local dealerships, he went on to open his own used-car dealership in 1958, across from the Caroline Elementary School—Cars By Brill—that he operated until his death in 1999 at age 70. His sister Hazel donated his wartime letters and notebooks, which he had kept all those years, to the History Center archives.

The story of Meredith Brill’s letters is but one of many in the files of the archives.

Next time you round the tuning fork to head up East State Street past the History Center, listen. That sound you hear is hundreds of human stories, yearning to be told.

Ups&Downs ▶ The Sheep of the Dead, According to city forester Jeanne Grace, a flock of sheep is being introduced to the Ithaca City Cemetery in order to help city crews with maintenance of the 16-acre burial ground, which lies on steep ground between Stewart and University avenues. It was established around 1790 and includes over 7,700 graves.

Grace said that the sheep will arrive on Thursday, May, 26 and that their handlers have asked that people refrain from visiting the cemetery until that afternoon.

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 ▶ New Exec at Family Reading, Sherri Koski, president of Family Reading Partnership’s Board of Directors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Alyson Evans as the organization’s new executive director. Aly brings over 25 years of experience in nonprofit education leadership, where she has worked to develop, fund, and sustain quality programming that supports children’s success in school and life. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of May 18-24 include: 1) Reborn Inn at the Falls: Taughannock Farms Inn under new ownership 2) Trumansburg Woman Arrested for Dealing Drugs While Children at Home 3) A Celebration for Moog: Synthesizer pioneer is celebrated in Trumansburg 4) 5 Opioid Deaths Since April 12 5) Man Arrested for Attempted Murder in Candor For these stories and more, visit our website

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Ithaca: The New Florida?

J ohn L. Gann, Jr. would like to save college towns from themselves. In his short book The Third Lifetime Place (74 pages; available as a PDF) he outlines 12 aspects of college-town life that are imperiling their future prosperity and proposes a proactive solution for their economic salvation. In short, they should become retirement communities for Baby Boomers.

Much of the peril that Gann describes is based on accepting that universities and colleges are essentially businesses.

He repeatedly compares them to the automobile industry, and like that formerly complacent sector of the economy, academia has made a lot of mistakes that have painted it into a corner. It isn’t entirely necessary for the reader to fully accept Gann’s assertion that Cornell and GM have a lot in common to go along with his proposal for reforming the economics of college towns.

Anyone who looks at the economics of Ithaca in a clear-eyed manner will recognize its problems in most of Gann’s 12 college-town faults. He notes that starvation of the local tax base and declining government support for education makes college towns overly dependent on philanthropy. But it is his recognition that universities have increasingly acted like businesses that accounts for much of their vulnerability.

They have allowed themselves to be regarded as a service to which students avail themselves in order to gain access to a well-paid career and the comforts

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By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r (seemingly without irony) describes the criteria for selecting a university as equal to selecting “a discount store, cola drink, ews item: For almost a year, or a phone company.” Universities and Ithaca’s Planning and Economic colleges face a challenge because “a small Development Committee has number of companies dominate the been debating revising the city’s policy market. Their economies of scale mean that high quality products don’t call for a on backyard chickens. Following a 4-1 committee vote, a new ordinance will finally big expenditure.” make its way to the Common Council for He warns that the rising cost of education may cause some campuses to consideration during the June meeting. The decrease in size or simply disappear. Rising new approach would establish a two-year pilot program limited to 20 city residences, tuition, “degree glut,” and globalization will all lead to more off-campus learning, each being allowed to keep a maximum of four hens per 3,000 square foot lot. dissipating the focus of resources that One of the biggest issues was whether make college towns attractive places to live.

As the campuses shrink the college- or not it should allow for the slaughter of the animals on the property, with some town economies become vulnerable because they tend to be overly dependent people having concerns about noise or sanitation issues, as well as if on-site on a single employer, and this lack of economic diversity makes it difficult for slaughter would be done humanely.

Ultimately, the committee decided not students to remain after college if they wish to and for those related to academics to add any restrictions for slaughtering chickens at an owner’s residence. to find work.

“They are a food animal, most of Universities have traditionally fostered the existence of research parks to diversify them are going to be eaten at some point. local economies, but Gann advances eight Whether they’re being killed on-site or being taken off-site, I think that’s a reality reasons why this conventional solution of this issue,” said Alderperson Josephine usually is inadequate or fails, including th geographic isolation, underfunded local Martell (D-5 ). “From an animal welfare government, and general ineptitude when perspective, I think it’s actually more humane to kill them on site, its much less it comes to marketing. stressing to the animal and probably nicer Gann’s solution is a modification of sociologist Ray Oldenburg’s “third place” to be killed by someone they know than a idea. Oldenburg described our daily lives stranger,” she added. (Ithaca Times, May 18) We go now to the residence of Willard continued on page 11 and Melisha Tweedy, a tidy stucco-covered Italianate house on the south side of the 300 block of West Buffalo Street in Ithaca, New York. With a lot of precisely 3,000 square feet, Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy were able to acquire one of the 20 coveted special licenses to keep four hens in their backyard. It’s shortly after dawn in that very backyard—an enclosure secured by two separate barbed wire fences anchored by a guard tower at each corner—and like every morning, roll call has been called in

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Ginger, one of the chickens, leans ever so slightly toward Bunty, a white Leghorn and her neighbor to the left, and whispers out of the side of her beak, “how’s the egg count?”

“I’ve laid five eggs this morning. Five!

Well chuffed, I was,” Bunty clucks under her breath. Both hens stare straight ahead.

“Shush,” barks Mrs. Tweedy. She thrusts the clipboard in front of her husband, who tries to hide an involuntary cringe. “One of these hens isn’t pulling its weight, Mr. Tweedy. Which one is it? Our profits are minuscule enough without non-laying hens eating all our feed.” Mr. Tweedy frowns and looks at the list.

“Oh, no,” whispers Ginger. “Edwina!

Why didn’t you give her her one of yours?”

“I would have,” groans Bunty. “She didn’t tell me. She didn’t tell anyone.”

Mr. Tweedy reaches over and picks up Edwina by the neck. Ginger and Bunty can’t help but look at the stump in the corner of the yard. There’s an axe with its blade partly buried in the top.

“Ooh! Is Edwina off on holiday?” asks Babs, the fourth hen.

Ginger’s wings curl into fists. There’s a look of grim determination on her face and her giblets begin to churn. “Not now, Babs,” she says through gritted beak. “On my signal, we charge … Go!” There’s no rhyme or reason to why some stories go viral. Perhaps the local headlines are to blame: “Hen Keepers Cry Fowl,” “Perfidious Poultry Perpetrate Pitiless Pecking.” In any event, there’s a new opening for the backyard chicken pilot program. Just bring $35 and a survey map of your property to the fourth floor, City Hall. •

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Corrections to Handwork Article

Handwork thanks the Ithaca Times for writing an article (“Handwork has made the cooperative model work”) acknowledging our 40th anniversary in the April 20 issue.

We would like to take a moment to clarify and correct some of the information that was published.

Each new item or idea from a member does not need to be juried. However, we do jury new work if it is created in a different media. For example, if a pottery member would like to sell textiles at Handwork, they will need to have the textile work juried in.

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Handwork co-op acts similarly to that of a not-for-profit in regards to financial matters.

The majority of sales income is distributed to the makers, with the remainder going toward overhead and operations expenses of the cooperative. Handwork employs two managers, marketing and promotions continued on page 11

CommunityConnections

Finding Our Way

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It’s one of a very few communities where veryone—her grandfather, father, no one is turned away, and I think that’s mother, brother, and sister—in Laura’s family was not just academic, a really powerful thing, that people can come together over shared struggles and but science-oriented on top of that, most misgivings. of them focused on chemistry. Family “In the work I’ve done in prisons and members did science, talked science, read reentry,” she said. “I think I came to this science things. realization that everyone at some point can Laura’s mother Pat modeled another become deeply immobilized by loneliness, way to “do science”; she taught teens and having support and understanding struggling academically. At home she can make such a huge difference. Speaking spoke about standing up for students honestly and confidentially to people who were in need of special support, who genuinely care is some who had no family very freeing. It’s not to advocate for them. just addicts—really Every night Pat would anyone can benefit speak affectionately of from unconditional and the progress her teenage compassionate support; students (without naming everyone has something them) were making. She they want to work on, emphasized the many and we all can use others’ challenges that they had comradery while we to contend with while struggle to change.” trying to learn: poverty, Before Laura homelessness, foster care returned to Cornell, she while parents were in juggled jobs so she could jail, or in rehab, wrestling research and write more, with addiction. something she continues When Laura started as a freelancer today. She at Cornell University, also joined the Cayuga she was a chemistry Heights Volunteer major too. While she Fire Department and enjoyed her studies she earned her state EMT realized she was restless certification. and not ready to commit Laura Komor (Photo provided) By the time Laura to a professional life in returned to Cornell science. She mulled over she had lived in two what she had seen in worlds—as part of a middle-class family high school. Students fell into one of two and, briefly, among the working poor. As crowds: all the kids who assumed they would take college preparatory classes and she delved back into her academic studies she incorporated what she learned outside go on to college as part of an elite slice of into what she was studying. When she society, and everyone else. Kids in one began volunteering with Cornell’s Prison group in high school barely crossed paths with kids from the other crowd; and when Education Project (CPEP) she knew that although she would always love science, they did pass each other, that was all they she wanted to share it with people who did; there was little or no mixing. were waiting to discover it, people who Laura left college to take time off to had missed opportunities that collegefigure out where she was heading in life. bound kids take for granted.

She spent the next few years working in “Science has a special place in my restaurants and bars, working alongside heart,” she said, “not just because as a co-workers struggling to live paycheck to discipline I was surrounded by it growing paycheck on minimum wage. Restaurants up, but also because science makes sense and bars readily hired people who had to me. It allows humans to discover and brushes with the law, and a surprising number of staff were in recovery, attending control their world, and it lends itself to definite answers. But I think I realized AA, working with counselors if they were that’s not what the real world is like, that’s fortunate, attending court appearances, not how humans operate. Humanity is visiting parole officers. Laura had grown filled with social nuances and ambiguities up at the same time in the same place as and things that don’t make sense. You can many of her local co-workers, but hadn’t never really achieve some logical rational inhabited the same world. solution when you’re dealing with humans “The recovery community in Ithaca and relationships, because humans are can be really welcoming,” said Komor. emotional and irrational. But that’s what “You see all kinds of people sharing their makes us so interesting and that’s what struggles together, regardless of class or makes our connections so strong.” race or religion or job or what have you.

These days Laura is busy. She teaches with CPEP in Cayuga Correctional Facility in Moravia, and helps out with an undergraduate evolution course at Cornell. Tom Ruscetti, solar engineer with Taitem Engineering, recruited her to the MacCormick Secure Center (MSC) Community Advisory Board, where she now serves as the treasurer. The board focuses on providing community connections within maximum-security facilities.

Laura helped her supervisor Benay Rubenstein start the Mary Bogan College Initiative (MBCI), a program of Opportunities, Alternatives, and Resources (OAR) of Tompkins County.

Laura and Benay now have the help of 10

volunteers who are working with MBCI to mentor, tutor, counsel, and support recently reentering community members go on in school.

While teaching at Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximumsecurity prison in Auburn, Laura met many inmates for whom opportunities had been few and far between growing up. No one encouraged them to pursue higher education or vocational training.

Most of the incarcerated had grown up dealing with family addiction issues and poverty. Very few role models achieved a good paying, satisfying job in the trades or found their way to vocational or academic training. Her inmates’ stories were the same as those of her mother’s students. •

Summer Construction

The Lake Street bridge over Fall Creek south of the city school campus is closed until at least August. Traffic is being diverted to Cayuga Street. This is a major route used to travel from East Shore Drive (Rt. 34) and Rt. 13 into the city and to the west campus area of Cornell. The city has also blocked off all access to Ithaca Falls for much of the summer. The public is not allowed down to the creek area.

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The Lake Street bridge that crosses Fall Creek a few hundred yards below the Ithaca Falls was closed to traffic on May 16, with a detour sending north and southbound traffic west to Cayuga Street.

After the fences were put up blocking off the Lake Street bridge, there was a rather steep pedestrian access way left open for a few days from the parking lot on Lake Street down into the gorge. By the evening of May 19, more fencing had been put up to block off that access.

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The state Department of Environmental Conservation has granted permission to work in the bed of the creek earlier than anticipated, Gebre said, which could prove expeditious for finishing the bridge construction. If all goes well, opening the bridge up by August is a possibility.

Once the structure itself is complete, the contractor will also make improvements to the Lake Street Park, as the lawn area along Lake Street that leads to the natural area is being called.

The city is saying that construction will be finished in the area by Oct. 3.

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Hear the Cider Boom The Finger Lakes region has some advantages

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ur second POTUS, John Adams, is said to have downed a daily glug or two of hard cider with breakfast as preventative and curative.

Thomas Jefferson, too, was a cider fan and swelled his fortunes by shipping cider apples to England. Ever practical, George Washington concentrated his wealth by distilling his cider into brandy. In 1767, the average Joe in Massachusetts drank 35 gallons of cider. And Cornell University’s early students were known to raid the cider mill in Forest Home as a Saturday night prank, when they had run out of outhouses to tip over.

If you hadn’t noticed, hard cider is back again, everywhere in the Finger Lakes region. And it’s not only happening around here; it’s a national, even international, phenomenon. With New York State’s Farm Winery Act of 1976 providing an opening for the state’s grape growers to make and sell their own wine, followed by the craft brewing boom, then the distillery boom, it was inevitable that somebody would realize that, indeed, hard cider would be a valueadded product for growers in the secondlargest apple-producing state in the union.

In fact, with the wheels greased by the wine and beer folks, cider has taken off in the last three years, since the Andrew Cuomo administration paved the way for less-cumbersome hard-cider licensing.

Compare that with advance of the Farm Winery Act, which the elder Gov. Mario

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Cuomo signed into existence. It wasn’t until sixteen years later, in 1992, that New York State could boast 75 wineries; there are already about 75 registered cideries in the state – it took sixteen years for the wineries to achieve what the cideries have achieved in three.

Why the Finger Lakes?

The Finger Lakes’ cider industry has boomed into existence around its perfect combination of climate and soils, orchard experience, the cooperative approach of local farmers, the ongoing success of farm-based wineries, breweries, and distilleries, and the ever-blooming search for something new and different, or, in this case, old and lovely.

Excellent paired with local artisanal cheeses, cider has a culinary affinity to nearly anything porcine, and will happily wash down a warm crepe or two. Compared to wine, its slightly lower alcohol content (under 8.5 percent) means that a bottle is just about right for two, and cider-based cocktails range from the traditional, such as the Stone Fence (dry cider and rum) and the Snakebite (hard cider and lager beer reportedly favored by Bill Clinton in his years at Oxford), to the Young Buck (cider, ginger beer, hibiscus syrup) and the Cider Spritz (cider, Aperol, club soda, and a muddled orange) served up by today’s mustachioed mixologists.

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But this is where things begin to get complicated. Local cider makers agree that eating apples, so-called “dessert” apples, don’t have the necessary flavor elements required to make good hard cider, and look to apples specifically bred for the purpose, or gathered from abandoned orchards or wild hedgerows.

Cider apples are classified as “sharps,” with plenty of acidity, such as Bramley’s Seedling, Ashmead’s Kernel; “bittersharps,” with high tannins and acids, such as Kingston Black (hailed as “spitters,” take one bite, and “ptui!”); “bittersweets,” with high tannins and sugars as well as floweryfruity perfumes, such as Porter’s Perfection, Dabinett, Brown Snout, Chisel Jersey; and heirlooms, good for eating too, with intense aroma, ,such as Golden Russet, Newtown Pippin, Northern Spy, and Tompkins King, many of them developed right here in upstate New York.

New York ciders come in a range of styles, from a champagne-style bubbly, to minerally and austere, or dry and tannic ciders meant to be paired with foods, to sweet dessert ciders. Like wine, good cider reflects the fruit it was made from, the soils in which it was grown, and weather conditions.

The Growers

There has been a rush to plant cider apples, which take three to five years to produce. Locally, the go-to grower is Steve Cummins of Cummins Nursery at Indian Creek Farm, a fifth-generation producer who, with a production of 30,000 to 35,000 trees a year, considers himself a small player in the fruit-tree industry. To put things in perspective, Wafler Nurseries in Wolcott sells three quarters of a million trees a year.

Cummins’ business, which he started in 1995 with his father, pomology researcher Dr. Jim Cummins, caters to organic growers, cider orchardists, and, oddly, hunters, who, he said, might drop fifty grand on a truck and a bass boat “to catch a fish” and who also want to buy trees from the experts to help them attract wild game.

While in years past orchardists planted full-sized trees 20 or more feet apart, many of today’s orchardists prefer a trellised orchard with as many as 1,000 or more dwarf trees per acre.

He recalls working with his siblings to help his father develop hardy rootstocks, which determine the ultimate size of the tree. “We kids would take pollen from a tree and put it on another tree, say a coldhardy variety crossed with a dwarf,” said Cummins. “Then in the fall we would take the fruit, mash it up, take the seeds and grow them. And [my father] would inject

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Autumn started out as a star-struck kid, enamored of farming, and, through a series of odd jobs and chance encounters realized she wanted to make the world better through agriculture, selling a highquality product from her own land. James Cummins introduced her to the world of orcharding, and, she said, she first tasted cider, a Golden Russet bubbly made by a local cider maker, which she described as a revelation.

In 1999 pioneering New Hampshire cider maker Steve Wood appeared on the cover of Fruit Growers News. “I was working on a farm during the day, waiting tables at night,” said Stoscheck. “I was on a leave of absence from Cornell. I was totally blown away because [Wood] had 30 acres of apples I’d never heard of, and a real business, with bottles and labels. I was 19.

I got into my car and drove up there. He actually gave me the time of day, talked to me about varieties, and how I could make a living from farming, and gave me a bunch of scion wood from his orchard. I was hooked.”

Eve’s Cidery has orchards in Newfield on Cummins’s farm, where, she says, their fertile glacial till soils are deeply graveled and well drained, and on the farm which once belonged to her grandmother, where they do their cider making in a 1950s converted dairy barn. “I’ve planted orchards that are way too close and others that are way too thin,” she said. “We’re not growing like a commercial orchard. We believe passionately that, almost as important as the varieties you grow, it’s how you’re growing fruit that matters.

Ian and Jackie Merwin started their Black Diamond Farm as an offshoot of Ian’s work as a Cornell pomology professor, recently emeritus. The Merwins have fenced acres of cider and other heirloom apple trees and fruit that Jackie sells at the Ithaca Farmers Market. They sell quite a bit of their Black Diamond Cider through Greenstar, and on tap or by the bottle at the Rongovian Embassy, Atlas Bowl, Hazelnut Kitchen, Moosewood Restaurant, at a couple of places in Geneva, as well as at the cider-only restaurant, Wassail, in New York City.

“It’s happening all up and down the west coast, in Michigan, Minnesota—the Trump crowd has not discovered the drink yet, but everywhere else in the country, it’s booming,” Ian Merwin said. “If we don’t f*** it up, we’re going to be the major cider producer in the country, and we’re near one of the major markets,” he added. While he claims concern with the recent slowdown of mass-market ciders (only 11 percent increase last year, following on the heels of annual 50 percent increases), he applauds New York State’s encouragement of cidery growth with regulations that eliminate much of the previous red tape.

As an authority on apples and cider, he travels to China to work with the

them with fire-blight venom, which would kill 99.9 percent, then inject others with other diseases. You’d start with 10,000 seeds and end up with 10, and you’d have no idea how they’d behave. So you’d take those 10 and graft on Mutsu rootstock. If it didn’t produce apples until year four, he would throw it out. If it leaned, he would throw it out. He was left with four or five. Then he’d take the original mother plant, take buds off of it and graft it, and from that you’d get 1,000 trees.” Complicated. Torturous.

“Dad started a breeding project in 1968 and released his first rootstock in 1991.”

Nowadays that’s all done via tissue culture.

Cidermaking Pioneers

In 1996 Bill Barton’s Bellwether Cider, now on Route 89 just north of Trumansburg, was the first hard-cider producer in the Finger Lakes to be licensed. More recently, he also co-wrote the legislation allowing cider makers to increase their alcohol content to 8.5 percent.

He and his wife Cheryl had sampled cider in France and wondered why there wasn’t any here. He’d had enough of his job in software, and decided it was time to remedy both situations. He learned more about cider from members of a brewers’ group that met at Collegetown’s once-andpossibly-future Chapter House, and rolled up his sleeves.

He experimented with marketing, selling his ciders both in 750 ml wine bottles and in six-packs like beer, but found the competition with the powerful beer industry for shelf space in supermarkets made it unprofitable. He considers this still cider’s big issue. “There’s total chaos in the market,” he said. “There’s a fairly big camp that wants it to be beer and wants it to be inexpensive and not high quality. That’s hurting people who would prefer to make higher end products. I’m just not sure that the market place is ready. We’re getting some appreciation for it locally, but outside of the area, not so much.”

Autumn Stoscheck, of Eve’s Cidery, took a different marketing approach. With her partners Ezra Sherman, who is also her husband, and James Cummins, who grew up in the apple business and owns orchards, she started in 2002, driving down to New York City every weekend, to sell at the Union Square Farmers Market, sleeping overnight in the van. There, she and Sherman introduced Big Apple residents to the virtues and delights of cider.

“During that time that we had to explain that, yes, it had alcohol,” she recalled, “and, no, it wasn’t sweet, and, yes, you could enjoy it with food. It was such a wonderful thing to watch somebody try something they’ve never had it before, and like it, and buy a bottle. We converted one person at a time over those 11 years that we were in NYC.” Fortunately, many of those first converts are now famous Big Apple chefs, and Eve’s Cider is happily ensconced on their wine lists. Eve’s Cidery has been written up in Vogue, Wine Enthusiast, Saveur, Martha Stewart Magazine, the

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government and growers there, and with Angry Orchards, a large commercial cider operation on the Hudson.

Cidermaking Blossoms

Eric Shatt and Deva Maas of Redbyrd Orchard Cider came to cider through Eric’s experience as a Finger Lakes vineyard manager and winemaker, and he is now Cornell’s horticulture research farms manager.

The couple owned four acres of abandoned orchard in Burdett, and began to collect and harvest those apples for

cider. “I was immediately blown away by the complexity and flavor I was getting from those mostly hedgerow and heirloom apples,” he said.” We planted three quarters of an acre of 60 different varieties, definitely an experimental orchard. We grafted a lot of the wild apples, and planted a bunch of bittersweets, as well as other heirlooms.

In five years we had the quintessential cider orchard.” In 2011 they bought 10 acres closer to Trumansburg and this year finished planting nearly four and a half acres with about 2,000 trees, the varieties based on what they liked in their Burdett orchard. With three children, aged 11, 9, and an infant, “Deva and I are definitely busy,” he said. “We were forced into incredibly efficient management of our

farm.”

Shatt and Maas also operate a small cider CSA (community-supported agriculture), which they hope will become a larger part of their business. Their customers pay for a number of refillable bottles of cider.

He looks to the metropolitan New York market, which, he said, is one of the fastest growing regions in the world for cider appreciation, and credits Finger Lakes pioneers Ian Merwin, Autumn Stoscheck, Bill Barton, and Peter Hoover. “They’ve all done a great job getting us going,” he said, “and we’re all really appreciative.”

Another cider-making wiz, Steve Selin, is also an old-timey fiddler and luthier. His fiddle-neck cider bar pulls are distinctive.

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Selin started making cider in 2003, then met local cider-maker and musician Peter Hoover through music and worked with him for a couple of years on his cider crew.

Connections with winemaker Daniel Sweeney and Eric Shatt helped him educate his palate. “I started realizing that the ciders I was making were as good as any I could buy in the store,” he said. “The ciders all of us were making around here were as good as any—they were world-class ciders.” Local orchardists, cider makers, and winemakers were happy to teach. “I felt,” said Selin, “that my chances of making a worldclass product here were better than my opportunities as a luthier.”

An organic grower, he notes that peerreviewed articles show that organic apples and apples with scab, unsalable as eating apples, have higher levels of tannins and other flavor compounds in them. “We talk about how the way you manage soil and trees affects the flavor, which is why we’re struggling with weeds instead of using Roundup. And it’s better for our kids playing in the orchard.”

In 2015 Selin made 3,500 gallons of his South Hill Cider. He distributes his cider to wine shops, restaurants, bars, and via direct sales at farmers market-type events.

He also has a wine distributor in New York City who sells his ciders to restaurants like Hearth, Reynard, OWO (at the top of the World Trade Center), Wassail, and, in Brooklyn at Roberta’s. “But most of my cider that gets sold goes through the Finger Lakes Cider House,” he said. “We all host events there, participate in some of their events, and help train their staff. Sometimes I play music there.”

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Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller started Good Life Farm in 2008, and then, having begun making cider with Stoscheck as their guide, they converted their barn into a spiffy cider house, and invited the other cider makers to join them in their tasting and sales room.

Good Life Farm has become the hub of the hard-cider renaissance in New York apple country, featuring the artisanal ciders of Eve’s Cidery, Black Diamond Cider, Redbyrd Orchard Cider, South Hill Cider, and their own Good Life Cider, produced by cider-making brothers James and Garrett Miller.

They offer flights of cider, along with cheese, charcuterie, and bread-and-pickle boards, and crêpes, soups, sandwiches and salads on Friday nights and, beginning June 9, all day Saturday and Sunday too.

Coming up, the Cider House celebrates its first anniversary on May 28 with the farm’s fifth annual Asparaganza, a festival of food, drink, games, and music for people of all ages. For weekly cider updates, check out local blogger Meredith Collins’ “AlongCameACider.blogspot.com.”

Here’s to our forefathers’ wisdom in choosing cider, and to Finger Lakes cider makers in bringing it back, beautifully, to quench today’s thirst. Cheers! •

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as cycling among three places: home, work, and a third place, the identity of which varies, but is neither home nor work.

In Gann’s “lifetime place” scheme your hometown and wherever you spent most of your working life are analogous to home and work, and wherever you want to retire is your “third lifetime place” (TLP) in the sense that it is neither where you grew up nor where you spent your working life. For the pre-Baby Boom generations this was often a vacation spot. Gann identifies the 20th century evolution of Florida as exhibit A. After Gann makes his case for collegetown peril and describes his proposed solution, the rest of The Third Lifetime Place is essentially a bulleted marketing plan for college-town governments and business communities to make their place attractive to retiring Baby Boomers.

While it is hard to argue with Gann regarding how higher education got themselves into their economic pickle, his vision of the college town of the future is to be little more than a high-brow theme park for retirees. The tacit assumption that the sites of universities are economically artificialities and might as well go on being such, albeit a different kind of artificial, is depressing.

His final analogy likens college towns to Starbucks. That is, they are just selling coffee, but they manage to make you want to come to their store to get their coffee. All this does is set up a marketing arms race among college towns.

Gann’s relentless focus on the consumer experience means that he completely ignores the idea of making college towns into places where products could actually originate. He is content to accept that higher education is a service provider and that it attracts capital, which is used

to spawn a rich arts-and-entertainment community, above-average infrastructure, and a relatively upscale retail landscape. He seems to be imagining basically a suburb with better cultural offerings.

He repeatedly notes that many college towns are geographically isolated or in economically disadvantaged urban areas.

Why not use all that revenue coming in from the wider world to the institution of higher learning and instead invest it to develop the local resources? In rural areas that would mean the revival of sustainable farming and development of locallymade value-added products. In urban areas it would be reactivation of deserted warehouse districts as sites of artisanal industry to be served by a local creative class.

These things tend to happen in college towns anyway and are part of what makes them attractive to retirees, but emphasizing green and sustainable economies as merely attractive traits for consumers is troubling.

Economists, planners, and marketers like Gann should be focused on encouraging production, not consumption. Production is creation. Consumption is just appetite. • Youropinions contin u ed from page 6

managers, marketing and promotions manager, presently Jill Hoffman, and operations and finance manager, presently Elly O’Brien.

buildings that are 70 feet high with 70 percent lot coverage. 201 College Ave., at the corner of Bool is last parcel on the east side of the street that is included in this district.

The CR-4 zoning district is across Bool Street; four story buildings 45 feet high with 50 percent lot coverage are allowed there.

such a building would better belong. It’s on the periphery, a neighborhood of two- and three-story houses in the last century or earlier.

Directly across the street from 201 is the Snaith house, an older Victorian house with a recent addition that maintains the style; three houses up is the Grandview House, another beautiful landmark. Both of these houses have official historic designation. What would the new massive glass and cement building at 201 look like in this context?

The three tall spruce trees currently growing in front of 201 are perhaps 100 years old. Their greenery and all it brings to the world—especially to those walking or driving by or who see them from a distance—would be irreplaceably lost. They would be cut down to make room for a building that would cover 70 percent of the lot.

Of course Ithaca needs housing— especially for low-income people. The city has targeted Collegetown for increased density. Whether or not this makes sense and who ultimately gains in this real world Monopoly game, the building proposed for 201 College Ave. is way out of place. It needs to be seriously redesigned to fit better within the context of the neighborhood, and to save the tall trees out front.

Dear Ego-centered Driver,

I am walking within a crosswalk with the signal to travel to the other side indicated. I am being threatened by a driver in a car. The engine revs and pedal is put to the gas. I put my palm up to stop.

The car inches closer. I barely step on the curb. The car whizzes past. I am shaking uncontrollably. I can’t speak. That driver wanted to kill me, maim me. Extinguish me.

“Sorry, madam, you’re in my way.”

Little do you know that it takes great strength for me to carry on.

I do continue to live. I travel on my own two feet. I am so thankful to be able to move.

Hear, driver. What is with you that you don’t value or honor my life?

Don’t kill me because you have a heavy pedal.

I have a smile with determination How dare you threaten my life?

Sincerely, – Valerie Humnicky, Ithaca

– Neil H. Golder, Ithaca

Editor’s note: Ms. Humnicky is a pedestrian in part because her car was totaled when another driver hit it.

Editor’s note: Golder lives at 203 College Ave in the MU (Mixed Use)-1 zoning district, which allows the construction of five-story

– Jill Hoffman, Marketing and Promotions Manager, Handwork, Ithaca

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The planned apartment building for 201 College Avenue wouldn’t overshadow just my little house next door. This 70-foottall, five-story, box-like structure would dwarf all the neighboring houses. The location is not central Collegetown—where

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Spring Season Roundup Tennis, baseball, and softball

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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he 2016 spring sports season is just about in the books for colleges, and I want to say congrats to two Ithaca High grads who wrapped up their careers, and another who restarted hers after taking some time off.

Thomas Manning closed out his tennis career at Allegheny as a first-team AllNCAC selection after going 19-9 overall and 14-7 in “top flight” competition. The senior advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA Division III Central Regional in September, thus becoming the first player in school history to advance past the Round of 16. The ambitious effort also made Manning Allegheny’s first-ever nationally ranked player, as he reached #50.

I have written several stories about Thomas over the years, because as longtime readers know, I love the local athlete stories, and Manning’s rise to excellent collegiate players was unlikely, given he started playing the game several years later than did the vast majority of his opponents.

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Anthony Massicci also gave me a lot of material over the years, as I have written many stories about Ithaca youth baseball, and I have known Anthony’s parents—Pete and Nancy—since long before he was born.

Pete’s dad was a fine ball player, but after his dad passed when Pete was a young man, he stepped up to help out with the family business. I’m not saying Pete would have played pro ball (although he does have Steve Garvey-esque arms), but he would have had a solid college career.

Anthony was a leading hitter for the Canisius Golden Griffins for all four of his college seasons, and he closed out his career by hitting .326 and leading the team in doubles, triples walks and steals. In other words, if the Griffs needed an offensive spark, they knew who they could count on.

Readers know that I am also a big fan of young athletes who have learned the time management skills necessary to balance academics and athletics, but Anthony has taken the “full plate” lifestyle to the next level. His dad told me, “Last summer

Quincy English at bat (Photo: Darl Zehr)

Anthony played in the Northwoods League, which is one of the two best summer leagues for college players.” Pete added, ‘He was playing against guys from Florida State, LSU, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Louisville and a lot of other top-shelf programs, and he ended up with the seventh highest average in the league.” The Northwoods League is owned by Major League Baseball, and it is a tightly-run operation. The players are set up with host families; they are treated well and fed well.

That last component—fed well—is very important when you learn the teams’ schedules. According to Pete, “There are 18 teams in the league, and they played 65 games in two months. Then, the players return to college and start in with fall ball.

It was a grind. They never get a break.”

Pete is not complaining, however. He knows that when Division 1 players pay their dues, show they can handle a grueling schedule and play against elitelevel competition, doors are likely to open. Good luck, Anthony. I have enjoyed writing about you.

What do you say we keep it going?

• • • I was also pleased to see that Quincy English got back on the softball diamond after taking three years off. I spent a whole lot of time watching Quincy play over the past decade, as she and my daughter started off on the Ithaca Diamonds when they were 10, and played together on three other travel teams over the years. I know that she made a comeback because her parents— Kevin and Helen—missed my jokes and wanted me to come and sit with them again, but I am frustrated to say that while I scheduled two visits to see the Panthers play at TC3, both games were rained out.

Quincy could always hit the ball, and she didn’t take long to get her swing back after the long hiatus. She ended up with the second highest batting average on the team (.382), and drove in 18 runs. The team had an even dozen home runs, and had Quincy not played this year, that total would have been cut in half. •

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Dimensions of Fame at the Johnson Museum above epitomize the notion of 15 minutes of fame because, in a sense, they are forgettable; they tell us nothing about the individuals photographed, despite purporting to give some sense of importance to each face. Some pieces present a name, such as a photograph of fashion designer Diane von Fürnstenberg, but most provide little to draw from, resulting in just images of people, nameless, but recognized in passing as a person who was once photographed. Each photo is a form of preserved memory, lodged in our minds, forced

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t’s startling to stare at a stranger’s image and recognize that you don’t know them at all. Rather, you know only projected preconceptions, pieces and thoughts that merge the subjective and objective into a small pool of understanding, of assumption and flawed identification.

At the Johnson Museum at Cornell right now, a series of portrait photographs line two walls, numerous and repetitive. Subjects are meticulously posed with men sitting at a slant, hands raised to their chins as if in thought, though their eyes speak of their complete focus on the camera lens. Young boys cross their arms across their chests, resting their hands awkwardly across their shoulders. Women, faces heavily made up and hair styled, are observed from various angles, their shoulders bare. They tilt their chins upward and hold themselves at sharp angles. At times they face fully forward, eyes again engaged, though their expressions are indecipherable. Each photo’s background is a plain off-white, and the pictures appear to be small Polariods, framed against white matting and displayed side by side into two tidy rows, one after another.

This series of faces, photographed by Andy Warhol and now staring back from the museum’s pink-tinted walls, epitomize “15 Minutes: Exposing Dimensions of Fame,” up at the Johnson until the end of July. The exhibition, which was curated by students of the History of Art Majors’ Society at Cornell, delves into the Warhol-attributed statement that “In the future, everyone will be worldfamous for fifteen minutes.”

The hope to preserve some sort of fame, whether small or large, is inherent in the practice of photography, both among subjects who strive to be photographed, and among the photographers whose work may survive death and stand in one’s place.

The Warhol photographs mentioned

upon us through its presence as photograph.

Are these photographs, then, really about fame or celebrity? In the context of the exhibition, they question what even constitutes fame and when (or whether) one’s 15 minutes are up.

Mary Ellen Mark’s Jameelia Ricks and Marielle Evangelista, Ithaca High School Prom taken in 2008 presents a more obvious aspiration toward fame. In a series where Mark strove to capture high school students “presenting what each believes to be his or her best self ” during their prom celebrations, this particular photograph captures two very different personalities: Marielle who stands shyly with hands timidly together and Jameelia, a crown on her head and hands on her hips with a bold, attention-grabbing presence. For Marielle, it appears, this photograph will stand as a memory; for Jameelia, who aims to one day become a famous singer and actress, it stands as documentation of one moment during her rise to fame.

But fame, perhaps, is not always about being remembered for who you are or were.

Celebrity, at least if examined through icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Leighton, both included in the exhibition, is often a performance, a grand gesture of

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Magnitude of Being

by A mber Donofrio presence and glamour. Leighton, an actress from the mid-twentieth century who was then a household name, was documented by photographer Arnold Newman in 1968 in a photograph in which she presented herself fully made up in a frock and boa, her facial expression and pose emphasizing her actress composure. Monroe, meanwhile, is known primarily for her pin-up girl attitude, her playful sexuality. Bert Stern’s images in the exhibition, infamously taken six weeks prior to Monroe’s death, deviate from normal depictions of the starlet, so much so that Monroe rejected a number of them upon looking at the negatives. In particular, one work included in the exhibition presents four photos of Monroe taken one after the other. She wears a black wig that curls up at the edges, a white shirt with draping sleeves, and necklaces that adorn her neck. She is recognizably Marilyn Monroe, yet there is an expression of

( From Top Left) Barbara Morgan’s “Desperate Heart” ; Andy Warhol’s photo of Diane von Furnstenberg; Mary Ellen Mark’s “Jameelia Ricks and Marielle Evangelista, Ithaca High School Prom (Photos Provided)

incongruity to the photos, the way the actress poses as if in practice, unpolished, lifting her hands up to fix her wig. These aren’t the photos you might encounter in a magazine or used to help publicize one of her films. They are, for all intents and purposes, too real. Because Marilyn Monroe as we know her is not a real person. She is an idea of herself, the girl Norma Jeanne Mortenson chose to present, made up in a fashion that created an idealized vision of uncomplicated beauty and ineffable poise: the makeup of celebrity. continued on page 19

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film

A Throwback of Laughs

New comedy has the look and feel of the real thing

By Br yan VanC ampe n The Nice Guys, co-written and directed by Shane Black

great guitar lick on Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” that sends us off to the end credits.

Black, the screenwriter whose first script for Lethal Weapon revitalized the whole odd-couple action picture, also made the fantastic Robert Downey Jr.-Val Kilmer L.A. puzzle flick Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; if you smiled at the memory of that movie, you’ll dig The Nice Guys; they

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hane Black’s goofy P.I. buddy comedy mystery The Nice Guys doesn’t just take place in 1977, it looks like it was made in 1977, right down to the vintage Warner Bros. logo that opens the picture—Joe Dante always called it the “worm logo”—and that

would make a great double bill.

The Nice Guys kicks right off with one of the best car crashes in recent memory, resulting in the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio). Ryan Gosling, whose talent for physical comedy isn’t seen enough, plays this corruptible hot mess: single dad and licensed PI Holland March is hired to investigate the case.

His daughter Holly (Angourie Rice) is smarter than he is, and is his partner for all intents and purposes.

The trail leads him to a girl named Amelia (Margaret Qualley), and he runs into no-b.s. private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe in one of his best recent roles). Amelia vanishes and both men are forced to team up and make their way through the X-rated hedonistic heyday of porn. (If you want a triple bill, throw

Get back to doing what you love.

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling star in “The Nice Guys” (Photo Provided)

Boogie Nights in there. Just don’t watch it last.)

Co-written with Anthony Bagarozzi, the movie deals with all of Black’s predilections: Los Angeles (usually at Christmas), oddball male relationships and twisty, meta-noir plotting that periodically steps back and wisecracks on itself. I may be jinxing the fun of the experience, but I’m all in for a sequel.

• • • Let’s play a game.

Think of your favorite movie. Got it now? Maybe you’re thinking of Citizen Kane, or Die Hard or Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. (If you’re thinking of Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, I would strongly urge you to see a whole lot more movies, but that’s another story.)

Now admit that your favorite movie continued on page 19

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By Ambe r D onof r io make up its environment he subject matter of Seneca Tree, colors in her photographs, it’s exists softly in the a print on canvas taken by local unsurprising to find that Lafaye carries background. photographer Hobit Lafaye, is a background in film photography, Other pieces, Seneca in certain respects just what one might though here she aims to merge those Tree among them, exhibit expect: a leafless tree in near silhouette, techniques with images that are captured a different point of seeing: The photographer Hobit Lafaye (Photo Diane Duthie) evidently captured locally. However, as digitally. “While each format shares a sophisticated and with most of Lafaye’s photos, each piece essential elements,” she writes in her artist oftentimes mesmerizing hadn’t realized until that moment that isn’t quite as simple as that. The tree statement, “they have distinct defining experimentation of nature’s possibilities spring has arrived and the outdoors are itself, its trunk mostly in focus though characteristics. I utilize their languages and of Lafaye’s unique and inquisitive becoming alive again. the entire composition plays with out-ofas tools for expression, as well as to eye. Spring, a photograph along a wall It’s easy to step into the show and focus blur, is a dark black against what experiment with mediums themselves to of sepia prints, is a refreshing take on identify Lafaye as the photographer, looks to be a white near-evening sky. Its discover their dualities.” the often-explored theme of rebirth and whether one examines Hudson Pearls, branches jut out haphazardly like thin A little over a year ago, I reviewed bloom. A shot taken of water so calm that which explores the repetitive nature of scrawling lines, their edges blurring into another one of Lafaye’s shows, describing the objects and their reflections on the dew drops, or Surface Tension, which a reddish purple that, paired with the her work as ethereal and vibrant. With water’s surface exist in complete harmony, highlights dried leaves that stand out darkness of the trunk, appears gothic and time passed and more work up now, identifiable and yet simultaneously in detail, floating against a mirrored foreign. There’s an illustrative quality to this time in a show entitled Through the reduced to form. A log or stick is visible lake or puddle. With intrigue present the image, a digital manipulation that Looking Glass in the Mezzanine Gallery above the water (presumably a puddle), in nearly every print, Lafaye’s mastery adds to its surrealism. It’s hard to believe at Benjamin Peters downtown for the as are a pile of sharply photographed in developing her own distinct style that this photograph started out (or still remaining week of this month, she proves rocks, and a plant shoots upward from definitely deserves praise. Especially in is) of something real. It looks instead like once again the mesmerizing beauty of her the surface: the only green object against the nature photography field, where so a series of brushstrokes of ink or some work and the astute focus and gentleness the brownish sepia of the rest. The plant many artists deal with the same subjects, undecipherable use of medium. It could with which she approaches the natural perhaps is notable because it is barely it’s inspiring to encounter a photographer very well have come from a Tim Burton world. Some of the pieces in the show tinted, somehow fitting with the rest of who consistently stands out from the rest. film, from some parallel universe of are stunning bursts of brightness. Pizazz, the scene without feeling forced. It evokes Through the Looking Glass is on fantasy. for example, focuses almost primarily on a similar emotion to staring outside at display at Benjamin Peters, 120 East State IT woofstock 1/8emanating pg 2.4x5.5 5/19/16 2:29 PM Page 1 Due to the depth and pronounced color, yellow2016 and 2.4x5.5_IT green pops winter’s end, and realizing in ways you Street, through May 30 • art

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The Space of Expression

Four artists find the groove in a world of books

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Tompkins County Public Library presents “Four Artists,” an exhibit curated by Arthur Whitman, through June 30

graphical heft. Though it’s a shame that some of the works have price listings right out there in the open (I think it sort of defeats the whole point of exhibiting at a library), the work is overall pretty excellent; particularly the work of local artist Stephen Phillips, who revels in a sort-of renaissance tonality-meets Lucian Frued lushness, countered with the dagger-in-the-heart of end-game absolution (death). His lengthy “Palette with Brushes II”, hung by the selfcheck stations, has the total honesty of someone who lives to paint. At first glance this painting appears like scattered bones and cold skulls, but alas, it’s the artist’s palette and brushes. A sort of metaphorical study, it succeeds in its painterly form and abstract dualism. Phillips’ “Shell on Book”, located by the audio materials area on a standing column, exists in a lush haze of warmness: the weight of the two objects perfectly situated and present.

Gizem Vural, an Ithaca transplant, has a series of graphic digital prints that are totally playful, direct, and quaint. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, and lives in that very direct, tranquil, and glossy magazine dimension. “Leaving for Spring”

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ften the very best fine art can be found in public libraries: particularly in smaller cities.

Nestled between the history and passion of a plethora of print, these works of art absorb and reflect the fabric of real time. That is, by their placement, they are a substantial presence, equal to their counterweights (the books). Art galleries, particularly in smaller cities, sort of reflect the insecurity of a city’s self-perception, which is often circumspect. It’s a game, and too rarely a fun one. The current exhibit at Tompkins County Public Library entitled “Four Artists” highlights a fundamental difference between a small city gallery and a real fluxing art space. The gravitational weight of the exhibit shines with in its stoic surroundings: communal and equally representative of the dreams of all thinkers.

A whole within a whole, as it were.

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has the color of manga spirituality and an expression of cherubic glee: in it a bear-like form in a dress is traveling through a door from a gray world into that of a colorful and abundant one. Perhaps it’s Vural’s meditation on experiencing an Ithaca winter. His “Psychology of Resilience” shows a figure looming through a dimensional wetland: like the former, a work presenting a state of change, hope, and consideration.

Scout Dunbar, a former Ithacan, and now New York City resident, has a series of monoprints that showcase a sort-of heritage folk astrological abstraction. The prints also appear to delve into microbiology imagery. Her “String Study”, in the study section by the large translucent windows, is a practice in visual bacteria and looseness: a pulling attraction threatens to break the print’s plane, but it’s ultimately parallel and the print defuses.

Madeleine Bialke, a native Trumansburger, currently doing an MFA in Boston, is represented most prominently throughout the library. Her large landscape paintings have a sort-of Van Gough meets Mark Bradford quality to them; and they work well in the library space, as they have an abstract quality to them that shines with the distance the viewer has between them. The further away one views them, the more intriguing they appear. Up close a lot of the space in her paintings appears to be wasted and mismanaged, but with a proper distance they work better. “Light, Shiver”, located by the self-checkout, has a yellow hue that

Gizem Vural’s “Leaving for Spring” (Photo Provided)

permeates your whole purview; and next to it, the equally wholesome “Unsubstantial Territory” stands in contrast, with it blue erosions doubling a sense of longing. Bialke is probably the greenest of all the artists presented—and it shows—though she’s given the most space.

There’s a lot to dig about “Four Artists” and the fact it hangs in a public library means you can visit, visit, visit, and ponder, ponder, ponder; and read, and move around, and think about where you’d like to go, and what you’d like to do: the proper environment for dreams and creation. •

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Take the Plunge

Grassroots offshoot rocks Owego

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Donna the Buffalo at 8 p.m. Owego-area band The Second Class Citizens, returning from a lengthy hiatus, will bring together all of their members from various lineups over the years for a reunion show of sorts before Pennsylvania-based Hot Beer closes out the evening with a midnight set of their self-described reggae-countrybluegrass sound.

On Sunday, after morning yoga, Adam Ate The Apple will get the speakers humming at noon with some sultry R&B grooves and saxophone. Binghamton Americana act Milkweed, Trumansburg’s Laila Belle, CC Ryder, and Pasty White & Double Wide will all play afternoon sets.

Jeb Puryear and Ghanian dub vocalist Yao “Cha Cha” Foli Augustine will both play sets with friends on the afternoon: it’s always a guess, but let’s assume that some of Puryear’s friends are from Trumansburg and play stringed instruments, and some of Cha Cha’s will be pulling double duty on the Big Mean set later that evening.

And that brings us Marco Benevento plays Big Splash on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. (Photo Provided) to the party evening, with Jimkata taking the stage at 6 p.m., fresh from a stop touring their new album In from recycled materials; Binghamton altMotion at the Summer Camp festival in monthly Triple Cities Carousel will show Chillicothe, Illinois. Marco Benevento will how to make recycled beads from unused take the dance tent stage at 8 p.m. – the newspaper; and there will be exhibitions very danceable keyboard maven will have from solar installers, organic farmers, new selections from his recently released conservation groups, and a workshop on Royal Potato Family album, The Story of community solar projects.

Fred Short. And to close out the evening, Life wouldn’t be very sustainable without music, and as this is a GrassRoots Big Mean Sound Machine will take the show, there’s lots of good acts lined up for stage at 10 p.m. to investigate the question Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29. of how long this party can be sustained During the booking process, the into the night. two days took on thematic characters of If you don’t pack a lunch, or dinner, their own, according to organizer Selena or midnight snack, the GrassRoots Hodom. It’s a pleasant accident that Farm to Festival Cafe, Silo Food Truck, sometimes happens in the booking game.

Copper House Coffee, and Belgian Love, “Saturday became a really great string- a fundraising project of WNY Wildlife centric lineup,” Hodom said, “and on Service, will be slinging festival fare on site.

Sunday, we’ve got the party line-up with For those looking to stay the weekend, Jimkata, Marco Benevento, and Big Mean camping is available: The short and dirty Sound Machine closing it out.” rules are no pets, no open flames, no Ten acts will play on two stages on outside alcohol. Tickets are available at Saturday, with the New Roots Rock Band, Grassrootsbigsplash.org.

Vermont-based groove-grass act Jatoba, If you want to make your way down and Norwich’s Tumbleweed Highway some to Big Splash, you will find it at the Tioga of the afternoon entertainment.

County Fairgrounds (aka Marvin Park) on Appalachian guitar-picker Aaron West Main Street in the village of Owego, Lipp’s all-electric Outland County project about 45 minutes from Ithaca via Rt. 96B. • takes the stage at 6 p.m., followed by eoples looking to make a “Big Splash” with this upcoming Memorial Day weekend should flow on down to Tioga County, where the GrassRoots Big Splash Sustainability Weekend—Susquehanna River edition—is returning to Owego for the third year in a row.

Since its first go-round in Binghamton in 2011, Big Splash has been put on to showcase people and businesses that have suggestions as to what makes for sustainable living. Head 2 Toe Organique Creations will be showing the kids how to make flower pots and wind chimes

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icholas Nicastro - Hell’s Half-Acre A compelling, true story is a windfall to a writer, and still she may lose interest putting it into a novel.

In her faith to facts, the characters turn tiresome as that one neighbor, and the plot pours out like a lip-synched set list.

But a real history with unsettling facts, contested happenings, and no conclusion is a dream that devotes writers to their desks and keeps them cloistered there. It begs to be written, I imagine, because it demands to be read.

The history of the “Bloody Benders” was new to me, but no less striking than that of Jack the Ripper.

In his literary thriller, Hell’s Half-Acre, former Ithacan Nicholas Nicastro uses what is known of the Bender family—they murdered for money and were perversely uninterested once they had it—but, more importantly, he exploits what might have driven them, leaving open certain mysteries of desire that in some crime novels are reduced to courthouse “motive,” a back-of-the-cereal-box maze of logic.

Nicastro shows us, further, how lazy it looks from today’s perspective to call the Benders “possessed,” as many did a hundred years ago.

The Benders, except for Kate, are a family of German immigrants.

They settled along a trail in rural Kansas just after the Civil War in a cabin with a sign that reads “Grocry.”

Efforts to conceal their scam are just as slapdash. Once inside, hungry travelers are invited to share a bed, either by suggestion with the young, “adopted” Kate, or with the mother, Almira, by overt invitation. Invariably the men are entranced in conversation with Kate while her “father” remains hidden behind a canvas curtain.

When the time comes he raises his hammer and brings it through the curtain and through the guests’ heads.

This is a brutal routine, but for Kate, whose biological father gambled her away as a child, the hope of escape outclasses morality. Although her exact line of thought isn’t given, you know she’s less cooperating than waiting for an opportunity to leave.

The story revolves for the most part around Kate. She is most often depicted in the vein of some classic female villains, like Becky Sharp of Vanity Fair and, at times, even Cathy Ames from East of Eden. Like them, Kate can be wicked, but she is also trapped, desperate, brilliant.

She does at one crucial point let out some jealous rage that feels, to me, reductive if not out of place. Leroy Dick, the married preacher, doesn’t fall in love with her, and 18

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so, at a moment when Kate is deciding whether to run away for good and establish her own business, she throws herself, willingly this time, back into her adoptive family’s killing spree. It could be that, from the perspective of a prisoner, every encounter brings with it some make-or-break cathexis.

Leroy is, if there is one, a kind of hero, although we know less about him.

The narrative jumps back and forth from the 1870s, which is when the Benders are at work, to the same Kansas Territory

in the 1850s, an important backdrop for the main story. Leroy and his brothers witness a lot of conflict between the Defensive (pro-slavery militants) and the more local jayhawkers. This is a place and age where fundamental laws are being written. Choices grounded in morality often lead to heinous outcomes and viceversa. Thought we aren’t given it, we can imagine Leroy’s call to the religious life in the time between narratives.

Aspects of just about every legend behind the family manage to survive Nicastro’s telling, and, with a background in film, he whips up a corrupt, cockeyed scene as if it was all that nature has ever given us. Maybe it’s necessary to keep some narrative, filmic distance from these characters, to let the crazy just be crazy, evil or whatever we might call it now. But between the mystique and the blunt trauma, I wished more than once for an internal vitality in these characters.

Then again, vitality wasn’t allowed in the Bender’s house. •

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The famous may be unrecognizable depending on the reasons for their fame.

Barbara Morgan’s photograph Desperate Heart, a print of the dancer Valerie Bettis in action, exemplifies another kind of celebrity. The picture is black and white, a swish of fabric forming a crest as Bettis dances, her foot presumably lifted in the air as her skirt obscures her face and figure. What is left is the form created in movement, a swift-flowing shape that encompasses both Bettis and the viewer.

The dancer is her dance, her movement.

The two become one. Thus, Bettis’s iconic stature, at least as recorded in the history documented in this photograph, has nothing to do with the way she acts or looks or even any semblance of persona.

She is performing, but it is a different type of performance. Dancing is her profession, so it is through dance that she is remembered.

Surveying the numerous photographs exhibited in “15 Minutes,” it is, in a way, easiest to take it all in bit by bit, one idea among the many present at a time. The exhibition itself is divided into segments that each examine their own facet of fame and remembrance, one presenting Meiji-Era prints meant as a generalized representation of Japanese culture (a “constructed legacy”), while another focuses on numerous works that embody fictitious narrative. My focus, then, landed on notions of authenticity, not so much in whether or not any of these photographs were “real,” but in my own bias (as a viewer) toward portraits that struck me as more genuine than others. Desperate Heart was one among them, but in addition to Bettis, the show includes portraits of other famous individuals as well: Arnold Newman’s photographs of architect I.M. Pei and Carnegie Hall composer Isaac Stern; portraits of artists Matisse and de Kooning taken by Edward Steichen; as well as a portrait of Steichen taken by Yousuf Karsh.

There are those, the curators observe in one of the show’s statements, “whose names are known, but whose faces are not instantly recognizable.” We become familiar with these people through their professions, but they themselves might go unrecognized if we passed them on the street or glimpsed their image in a book. Even so, their fame is just as real as Warhol’s or Monroe’s, just perhaps not as widespread or extreme.

“I can’t ‘photograph the soul,’” Arnold Newman once stated, “but I can tell and show you something fundamental about them.” Fame needn’t be all about looks or persona. There is something deeper to it than that, something that can be produced through one’s life work that can exceed the supposed 15 minutes allotted.

Portraits such as those of Matisse and Steichen differ from celebrities’ such as Monroe in particular as they function as documentation of them as people, separate from their fame, that neither fuels nor dispels their renown.

One of the most poignant pieces in the show, however, is surprising in its

illustration of the wear and ephemerality of fame and memory without use of a recognizable subject. Sequoia Alina, a black-and-white print by Slater Bradley, focuses on a woman named Alina whose idolized portrait emphasizes her function as muse. She looks ahead, her hair swept to the side, but the image is superimposed with the rings of a sequoia tree suggesting age and time. There are tears down the print, which itself appears worn with the scrapes and imperfections of years. The piece elicits nostalgic desire and the wish to be able to freeze a moment and keep it safe, to maintain the youth and beauty of celebrity and the potential yearnings that lie in the possibility of fame. Or it presents the obsessive viewpoint of a fan or lover, someone who covets this woman enough to keep her photograph on some mental pedestal, while the real world outside of one’s mind progresses and changes, and Alina’s fate and future go unrecorded.

Once again, the Johnson and members of the History of Art Majors’ Society have succeeded in producing a show that is undeniably and intellectually challenging in the best of ways. “15 Minutes: Exposing Dimensions of Fame” manages to exhibit, deconstruct, annihilate, and reconfigure perceptions of what it is to be famous and how, as a society, we interact with this fame. As per usual, there is so much more that could be said about this show than space allots, which is all the more reason to go witness the exhibition for oneself.

15 Minutes: Exposing Dimensions of Fame will be on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, until July 24. •

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would be just that much better if it had a kitten in it. This isn’t just crazy cat-person talk: Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key, better known as “Key and Peele” from their recent Comedy Central series, figured out the whole kitten thing with their first film, Keanu, and don’t they look smart now?

Even better, Peele (who co-wrote Keanu with Alex Rubens) have an even smarter and fresher comic notion at work here. Talk about nice guys: you see so many black gangsters in movies, Key and Peele are practically an alien race: best friends, what Larry Wilmore would call “blerds” (“black nerds”) with no gangsta in them at all. Key prefers George Michael to N.W.A. When Peele’s kitty Keanu gets cat-napped by bad guys, the nice guys have to play bad to get Keanu the kitten back. (When Peele has to reveal something bad-ass about himself, he talks about seeing an early screening of The Blair Witch Project, “before anyone knew if it was real or not”.)

Keanu has a fresh, improvisatory flair that’s probably well thought out, as the best comedies usually are. There are also several left-field and cool casting choices that are neat surprises in themselves, so don’t let anyone tell you all the best bits before you see Keanu. •

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Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

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

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

Music

Brewing, 4880 NYS Rt 414, Burdett | American Folk, Country, Blues, Rock.

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

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

Raven & The Wren | 9:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St Unit 2, Ithaca | American Roots, Indie Rock, Americana, Rock, Folk.

The Bombadils | 8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Celtic, Bluegrass.

The Destination | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, R&B, Rock.

bars/clubs/cafés

5/25 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Janet Batch | 8:00 PM-10:30 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Hilariously irreverent and heartfelt, Janet performs originals with a hint of the familiar, and has lovingly been referred to as The Voice of the Hills. First time at the Stonecat!

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

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

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Skribe | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Folk, Americana. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

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Stone Cold Miracle | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Soul, Funk, Gospel, Blues.

The Flying Broadwell Brothers | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Country, Bluegrass, Folk.

The Ilium Works, Ithaca Bottom Boys | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Experimental, Rock, Pop, Bluegrass, Old-Time.

The Mary Ott Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Folk, Americana, Old-Time.

Universal Constant | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Classic Rock, Folk Rock, Modern Rock.

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Ampersand Project | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Rt 414, Burdett | Rock, Pop, Country.

City Limits | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blue Rock, Blues, Soul, Rock.

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

Mary Lorson and Rachel Reis | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Next to Kin, The Originals | 8:00 PM| Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Jazz, Funk, Rock, Folk, Appalachin Elementary Rock Band.

Steve Southworth and The Rockabilly Rays | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Wagner Winery, 9322 NY-414, Lodi | 50’s early 60’s Rockabilly and Rock-n-

5/26 Thursday Chris Merkley | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Acoustic, Roots, Americana, Singer Songwriter.

David Pulizzi | 6:00 PM | Grist Iron

Acoustic Remedy | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Rock, Blues, Acoustic.

Dapper Dan | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Rock.

Kite string, Big Upstate, Bigfoot | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Americana, Indie Rock, Reggae, Dub, Rock.

Kolby Oakley, Tim Ruffo | 8:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Folk, Country, Rock, Outlaw Country, Blues.

NEO Project | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 NY-89, Ovid | Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock. / Grand Re-opener of Boathouse Beer Garden.

Purple Valley | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Blues, Country, R&B, Soul, Rock and Roll.

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BigFoot | 2:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Rt 414, Burdett | Rock and Roll.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Jen Cork & The Good Hope | 11:00 AM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Folk, Country, Bluegrass, Americana.

Lucky Old Sun | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Folk, Rock, Blues, Jazz.

Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Country, Rock and Roll, R&B, Soul.

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5/25 Wednesday Memphis May Fire, Thoughts In Reverse, Far From Over, West Berlin | 6:30 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Hardcore, Metalcore, Post-Hardcore, Emo, Punk.

5/26 Thursday Broca’s Area, Thunder Body | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, Jazz, American Roots and Dub. Music in the Hollow: Grassanova | 6:00 PM | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Bluegrass.

5/27 Friday Jatoba | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Bluegrass, Groove Newgrass.

Somos | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Punk.

5/30 Monday Pearly Baker’s Best | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Grateful Dead Tribute. Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock.

5/31 Tuesday

Film

Bert Scholl and Friends | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred

Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents | 6:00 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will offer a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the renegade sound and video collective, The Residents, during a free screening.

Theory of Obscurity spans 40 years of

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Sirsy | 6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Rt 414, Burdett | Rock, Soul, Duo. Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 9:00 PM-12:00 PM | Cortland Ramada Inn, 2 River St., Cortland | 50’s early 60’s Rockabilly and Rock-n-Roll.

The Mockingbeards | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk Rock.

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mystery and intrigue surrounding The Residents, an American art collective recognized as much for their group members’ anonymity as for their avant-garde music and multi-media productions. The film includes footage from the group’s 40th anniversary tour, as well as interviews with fans, music critics, industry insiders and bands they inspired, including Devo, Talking Heads, Pinback, Ween and Primus.

This screening is intended for an adult audience.

Offbeat Films with Ron Krieg | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 5/31 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This is a series of 12 films that evoke a director’s independent vision and fearless exploration of eccentric or mysterious subject matter. Included are Frankenheimer’s, Seconds, Altman’s, Three Women, Scorsese’s, King of Comedy, Weir’s Picnic, at Hanging Rock, Strick’s, Tropic of Cancer, and 7 more unique films. More info at www. tclifelong.org cinemapolis

Friday, 5/27 to Thursday, 6/02.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes A Bigger Splash | The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter. | 125 mins R | The Meddler | An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away. | 98 mins PG-13 | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. |92 mins PG |

The Man Who Knew Infinity | Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy. | 108 mins PG-13 | Sing Street | A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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Wednesday 5/25 to Tuesday 5/30 | Contact Regal Cinema Ithaca for Showtimes Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | When their new next-door neighbors turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there, Mac and Kelly team with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down. |92 mins R | The Angry Birds Movie | Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to.| 97 mins PG | The Nice Guys | A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. | 116 mins R | Money Monster | Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.| 98 mins R | The Darkness | A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation, haunted by an ancient supernatural entity they unknowingly awakened and engages them in a fight for their survival.. | 92

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mins PG-13 | Captian America: Civil War | Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. | 147 mins PG-13 | Keanu | Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen kitten by posing as drug dealers for a street gang. | 100 mins R | Mother’s Day | Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother’s Day. | 118 mins PG-13 | The Huntsman: WInter’s War | Eric and fellow warrior Sara, raised as members of ice Queen Freya’s army, try to conceal their forbidden love as they fight to survive the wicked intentions of both Freya and her sister Ravenna. | 104 mins PG-13 | X-Men: Apocalypse | With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. | 144 mins PG-13 | Alice Through The Looking Glass | Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. | 113 mins PG-13 | The Jungle Book | After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. | 106

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Amber Brown Is Not A Woman | 7:00 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Amber Brown is having what may be the worst year of her life. She and Justin Daniels were the perfect team: they laughed at each other’s jokes, sat next to each other in class, and stayed best friends when Justin’s dad had to move away. But now things are different. Now, Justin’s house has been sold and he is going to Alabama; that’s too far from New Jersey to think about. For groups of 25 or more, please contact Jessica Allen at 315-781-5483 or jallen@thesmith.org.

Middle Eastern Music and Belly Dance | 8:00 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Open Drumming and Dancing with CUMEME. Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 10:00 PM, 5/26 Thursday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Dancers, Burlesque, Costumes, Stage.

Shadow Puppet Shows and Silent Auction | 4:00 PM-11:00 PM, 5/27 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Earth Arts Presents: Miss Angie from Miss Angie’s Music has been working with the kids to create shadow puppet

shows for you! There will also be an opportunity for everyone to create and their own shadow puppets.

Amazing prizes. Musical performance

by The Honeybees: Ithaca’s beloved folk quartet featuring Nate Marshall, Travis Knapp, Angie Beeler, and Leon Arguello. Other performers include Pierce Walsh.

Notices Candor Historical Society’s Talk | 7:00 PM-, 5/25 Wednesday | Candor Fire Hall, 74 Owego Rd., Candor | The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779, will be the topic of the Candor Historical Society’s talk presented by Gary Emerson. The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign was one of the largest military operations of the American Revolution, yet it is mostly forgotten.

For more information contact President Milt Dougherty: 607-659-7357; mhdough@frontiernet.net.

LEGO Build | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) is hosting a LEGO Build, the community-wide construction of a 6’ x 6’ model of our iconic downtown Ithaca building. 100,000 LEGO bricks will be assembled between May and mid-June, culminating in an installation and unveiling of the completed model on Saturday, June 18, in TCPL’s

BorgWarner Room. Be a builder, be a supporter. Visit www.tcplfoundation. org/#!tcpl-lego-build/tivro and select either Click to Reserve or Click to Donate. Contact Josiah Jacobus-Parker at jjacobusparker@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 ext. 261.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Playful Nature Garden Preschool Open House | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, , Ithaca | Playful Nature Garden Preschool is a morning program for ages 3+ that brings a world of discovery, learning, and joy to your child’s day and season through nature and play immersion. No need to pre-register for the Open House. Drop in any time. When you arrive, please check in at the Kid’s Kitchen with the red roof, just inside the Garden’s main entrance. We’ll play on, rain or shine.

Ultimate Frisbee League | Interested in Ultimate Frisbee? Summer league registration is now open, league starts in early June . All levels of experience welcome – show up and play! Go to www.iaua.com to register or learn more Tarot Salon Ithaca | 7:30 PM-, 5/30 Monday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Tarot Salon Ithaca is a co-manifested space for all who are drawn to, enchanted by, and create with Tarot. Come share your insights, engage in discussion, exchange readings, and explore Tarot in a supportive community setting. Every last Monday of the month, beginning March 28, 2016.

Volunteer for the 2016 Cayuga Lake Triathlon | Please consider volunteering with us for pre-race registration or set-up, race assistance or post-race break-down. We have many options available! Sign-up is easy at the link below - You’ll see all the volunteer jobs we need to fill - with descriptions and shift times. Info at cayugalaketriathlon.org/cltrace/volunteer/ Volunteer_reg-2016.php Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the

Glassfest,

Rongovian Embassy, Thursday, May 26, 8:00 p.m.

Corning Museum of Glass, Thursday, May 26 through May 29

Canadian maritimer Luke Fraser and prairie-girl Sarah Frank share a love of folk songs and fiddle tunes. Drawing from the Canadian, American, and Celtic traditions, the two pour the spirit of story-telling and kitchen parties into their own writing.

Luke brings guitar, mandolin and home-grown east coast vocals in harmony with Sarah’s singing, lyrical fiddle playing and claw-hammer banjo. The effect is dazzling as the duo bend and flow towards a sustained whole. Don’t miss out!

GlassFest kicks off on Thursday night with the Glass Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and 2300°: Friday begins with the Finger Lakes Wine & Craft Beer Tasting throughout Corning’s Gaffer District. Finish off the night on Friday at the Rock The Park concert in Riverfront Park. For the weekend watch live glassblowing demos on the outdoor stage in Centerway Square, listen to music during Rock The Park on both days, enjoy activities and fireworks for the whole family.

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league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 5/26 Thursday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA. Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Theatre Games for Children | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 5/26 Thursday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Registration is now open for an added section of Imagine That, the extremely popular creative play program that introduces children to theatre games. Children will learn and understand storytelling, art, movement and music concepts through guided acting instruction. Children develop their imaginations while building confidence and group skills. Instructor is Camilla Schade. To register, go to www.iybrec.com, write to iyb@ cityofithaca.org, or call (607) 273-8364.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 5/26 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 5/27 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

American Red Cross Blood Drives | 9:30 AM-, 5/27 Friday | Location and times: Friday, May 27th at Cayuga Medical Center from 9:30am to 2:30pm / Tuesday, May 31st at NYSEG Ithaca from 11:30am to 4:30pm Easy Square and Contra Dance | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, 5/27 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | No experience or partner needed.

Must be Lifelong members. For more information call 273-1511.

Fundraiser: Mecklenburg United Methodist Church | All Day, 5/27 Friday | Check It Out Shoppe, 6069 Turnpike Rd., Mecklenburg | Grand reopening of the Check It Out Shoppe.

Friday, May 27 and Saturday, May 28 from 9-2 PM and every Friday and Saturday until the last of September.

Quality household, children’s clothes and craft items at reasonable prices.

Cayuga Trails Club Hike | Hike in the Watkins Glen area with the Cayuga Trails Club. For further information visit our website at www.cayugatrailsclub. org Chicken BBQ | 12:00 PM-, 5/28

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Tioga Downs Opening Day Of Antique & General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 5/28 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2016. Also open Monday, July 4 and Monday September 5.

Dryden Chalk Art Festival | All Day | 5/29 Sunday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | art contest festival with bands, vendors, food, and family friendly activities. Four live bands will play while our guest chalk artist designs a large feature chalked image. Come compete for cash & prizes to our 2016 theme Heroes as a amateur chalk artist. Art vendor and family friendly activities. Event is free and open to the public. Visit www. drydenchalkartfestival.weebly.com for artist/vendor registration and band schedule.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 5/31 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

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

The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/31 Tuesday | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us!

Folk and roots band Raven & The Wren bring their haunting and intimate sounds to Casita Del Polaris Thursday, May 26 at 9:00 p.m. (Photo Provided) PM, 5/25 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Dr. Jaclyn Borza Maher, holistic chiropractor, will discuss holistic healing techniques and dietary changes to nourish your adrenal glands, restore your energy levels, and help you maintain a sense of calm, despite how overwhelmed you may feel. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Art Classes for Adults | 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.

Tai Chi for Arthritis & Fall Prevention | 1:00 PM-, 5/25 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad, 58 Main Street, Candor | Hour-long sessions meet twice a week for eight weeks. Each session is taught by a certified instructor and includes warm-up and cool-down exercises and tai chi forms. Night light and take-home materials provided.To register call Sue at 607-659-3022 or email sueheaven@gmail.com Yoga Mind and Body Meditation

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Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 4:15 PM-, 5/26 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. We minimize transitions from standing to the floor, and stay clear of poses and exercises that could inflame injuries or trouble sore joints. Class designed to create a safe and supportive environment to meet the needs of those who don’t wish to practice more strenuous styles of yoga. More info at www.YogaFarm. us Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of

City Limits,

The Dock, Friday, May 27, 6:00 p.m.

City Limits are a high-energy blues-rock band with a threepiece horn section playing tunes from classic rock and soul to contemporary blues. Dan Paolangeli plays the guitar, Andy Lockwood sings vocals, Glen Porter slams the drums, Lisa Bloom lays down the bass, Bob Fisher plays trumpet, Jim Hull on trombone, and Robert Sarachan plays sax & keyboard. The band covers tunes from the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Blues Brothers, Lennie Kravitz, and more!

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Spring Bird Quest | 8:30 AM-, 5/30 Monday | VanRiper Conservation Area, Romulus | Join the Finger Lakes Land Trust for a walk led by experienced birder Mark Chao at this natural area on the west side of Cayuga Lake featuring 1,400 feet of shoreline. www.fllt.org Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening at 5 PM. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 5:45 PM, 5/31 Tuesday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. We minimize transitions from standing to the floor, and stay clear of poses and exercises that could inflame injuries or trouble sore joints. Class designed to create a safe and supportive environment to meet the needs of those who don’t wish to practice more strenuous styles of yoga. More info at www.YogaFarm. us

Special Events Bike Night | 6:00 PM, 5/25 Wednesday | The Parkview Restaurant, 145 Front Street, Owego | Live music, chat with friends, eat good food, and look at motorcycles! A different band will be playing each week.

2300°: Bill Gudenrath | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/26 Thursday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | At 2300°F, hot glass gets interesting— and so do things at The Corning Museum of Glass. Enjoy glassmaking demonstrations, live music, and great food and drink. Free and open to the public. www.cmog.org GlassFest | May 26-May 29 | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | GlassFest kicks off on Thursday night with the Glass Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and 2300°. The festival features live glassmaking, music entertainment, shopping, food, and drink. For more information on GlassFest call (607) 937-6292 or visit www.gafferdistrict.com/glassfest BBQ and Art Show | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/28 Saturday | Ellis Hollow

Nursery School, 111 Genung Rd., Ithaca | Enjoy the 2nd Annual Works of Heart art show while enjoying the festivities. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and veggie burgers donated by local vendors. Free pool admission, lawn games and music.

Grand Re-Opening of The Cellar at Damiani | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/28 Saturday | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Rt. 414, Burdett | Bocce, lawn games, wines by the glass, Pi Food Truck, complimentary hors d’oeuvres.

Contact: davido@damianiwinecellars. com Grass Roots Big Splash Sustainability Weekend | 9:00 AM, 5/28 Saturday | Marvin Park, The Tioga County Fairgrounds, Route 17C, Owego | Please join us for two days of music, green business exhibitions, local foods, and workshops. There will be a presentation from Southern Tier Solar Works about the community solar initiative. The music line up is bigger and better than ever this year!

We are excited to announce that Marco Benevento, Donna The Buffalo, Big Mean Sound Machine, Jimkata, The Second Class Citizens, Jeb and Friends, Outland County, Jatoba, Hot Beer, Bobby Henrie and Aaron Lipp, The Linears, Laila Belle, Milkweed, Pasty White and Doublewide, Triple Down, CC Ryder, Next to Kin, New Roots High School Rock Band, and many more will be joining us this Memorial Day Weekend. The Sustainability Fair will feature renewable energy vendors, home efficiency companies, Daily Yoga Classes, Farm to festival cafe, not for profit groups, environmental advocacy groups, and local artisans. www.grassrootsfest.org facebook.com/ fingerlakesgrassrootsbigsplashsustainabilityweekend.

Dryden Chalk Art Festival | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | 5/29 Sunday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Art contest festival with bands, vendors, food, and family friendly activities. Four live bands will play while our guest chalk artist designs a large feature chalked image.

Come compete for cash & prizes to our 2016 theme Heroes as a amateur chalk artist. Art vendor and family friendly activities. Event is free and open to the public. Visit www.drydenchalkartfestival.weebly.com for artist/vendor registration and band schedule.

Majorpalooza | 8:30 AM, 5/29 Sunday | Downtown Auburn, Auburn | Catch Me if You Can 5K run/walk, Stefanak Sprint for children, Taste of the Region Tent will showcase downtown’s

eateries, craft breweries & regional wineries. Music by Jeff Penden, Genesee Elementary Ukulele Club, Weedsport High School Songwriter’s Club, Brad & Jen, Have You Heard, Jeff Penden, Perform 4 Purpose All Stars, Great American Songbook, A Cast of Thousands, Diana Jacobs Band, Molto Bene and Mixed Tape. For more information, please contact Chris Major at majorpalooza@hotmail.com, or call the BID office at 315.252-7874.

Memorial Day Cemetery Walk, Annual Memorial Day Parade | 5/30 Monday | Maple Grove Cemetery, Candor | Special historic walking tour of Maple Grove Cemetery on Memorial Day, immediately following the Annual Memorial Day Parade. Contact Dick Zavatto for more information: 607-2364011; dzavatto@hotmail.com Owego’s Memorial Day Parade | 9:00 AM, 5/30 Monday | The Veterans Memorial, Courthouse Square, Owego | 9 am-Roll Call of Honor for Deceased Tioga County Veterans: 10:30 am-Parade Downtown Owego: 11 am-Service of Remembrance at Veterans Memorial.

Books Around Caroline: A Book Signing with Author Patricia A. Brhel | 2:00 PM, 5/28 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Author Patricia A. Brhel was a Caroline resident for 17 years. During that time, she enjoyed many volunteer commitments. As the deputy historian, she worked closely with Caroline town historian Barbara Kone and several amateur historians.

Join us for a brief discussion of the book presented by the author followed by a book signing. Images of Caroline will be on display.

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

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

Successful proposals for these three boxes take into consideration the natural beauty of the area, a sense of community, and/or the Commons as the heart of Ithaca. This information

GrassRoots Big Splash,

Marvin Park, Tioga County Fairgrounds, Saturday, May 28, 9:00 a.m.

The Big Splash program is a weekend long celebration of how we can help enrich the world we live in. The festival features great local and regional music, including Donna The Buffalo (pictured), Marco Benevento, Jimkata, and Big Mean Sound Machine, among many others, sustainability innovators, and progressive technology. With a goal of creating stronger communities and a stronger world, the festival stands as one of the most progressive gatherings on the East Coast. Great bands for a absolutely essential cause.

is also available on the City of Ithaca’s website at: http://www.cityofithaca. org/353/Public-Art-Commission Proposals. Deadline: Proposals must be submitted by Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Andrea Millares: Body Pain, Blood Logic. This series of black ink drawings and acrylic paintings focuses largely on the everyday-ness of pain, the inseparability of the body and the self, and our relationship to objects.

Some of the pieces were made using a stippling technique, which consists of creating images using tiny dots. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Jari Poulin: Dance Images/ Southside Emerging Photographs.

Jari Poulin exhibits a body of work featuring polymer photogravures, a contemporary variation on photogravure, which is a process dating back to the early years of photography.

Her work draws from her “Dance/ Memory” photography series and upon themes of trust, ascension, and the transformative powers of dance. | www.csma-ithaca.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Rachel Philipson photographs, “La Habana” through June 15th. Rachel Philipson photographs of the streets of Havana, Cuba. Her small scale photographs capture the intimacy and pace of the streets of Havana, Cuba.

Creative Space Gallery | (215 The Commons) | BANG! Ithaca College students will showcase a variety of art practices, including painting, sculpture, printmaking and more.

Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Emerging Artists from DeWitt Middle School. Student Artists participate in a choice based studio program that provides opportunities for them to think about art (and life) from many points of view with a multitude of materials. These artists think both creatively and critically. This allows the artists to feel inspired and empowered to communicate and thoughtfully reflect. | Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Spring Loaded, The Art of Melissa Zarem, opens May 6th and runs through Jun 26th at eye gallery on the

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ummertime nearing brings thoughts of camping, live music, and good beer.

Ithaca promoter Dan Smalls is entering his sixth year of helping bring those three pastimes together at Brewery Ommegang, outside Cooperstown.

The 2016 Brewery Ommegang season begins on May 28 with Lake Street Dive and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings playing an outdoor show.

Ommegang is located on a rural highway a few miles south of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Food vendors and trucks, along with Ommegang’s own food and beer tents, are set up around the stage. Hops vines crawl up trellises a bit up the improvised amphitheater’s slope, all contributing to give the venue a county fair vibe on a show night. The acts on stage, though, would be headliners anywhere.

“We’ve got five shows right now,” Smalls said, “and there’s always the potential for one or two more. The way the schedule laid out this year is a bit odd, with the Memorial Day show and the rest in July … I’m kind of excited to have August without a really big show, to take a little time off for a change, but

Commons. The collection will feature many new, never before seen paintings and the black and white imagery from her new coloring book, Spring Loaded, published by eye.

The Frame Shop | 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM | Celebrating the Outdoors: Mary Michael Shelley Carved Pictures. This show will be outdoor themed to celebrate the coming of spring and the outdoors time of the year. Mary Michael Shelley has been making her carved and painted folk art self-taught pictures for more than 40 years and her outdoor pieces are some of her best. | www. theframeshop.com Gimme! Coffee | 506 West State Street, Ithaca | “Stacked: A New Way of Seeing”. Photography by Jon Bosak | Through the end pf May. www. gimmecoffee.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave.,

I suspect we’ll have one more in September.”

On July 8, the String Cheese Incident will play a jam-heavy show with Twiddle in support. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals headline the next night, July 9, with Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, a Finger Lakes GrassRoots headliner in 2015. Norah Jones plays with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on July 21, the Thursday before Hall of Fame induction weekend.

The Lumineers play with Rayland Baxter and Langhorne Slim & the Law on July 30.

The schedule is always Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings play Ommegang on Saturday, May 28 (Photo Provided) dependent on “who’s touring and when,” Smalls said, with radius clauses beautiful night to catch some music. they like to call their products. We want a written into contracts preventing artists Brewery Ommegang has a national show that’s smaller, intimate, more fun.” from playing shows too close together in profile, which helps in attracting both Since he started booking a given season. For example, a band like crowds and artists. They make a series of Ommegang in 2011, Smalls has been Wilco, which is headlining Mountain Jam officially licensed Game of Thrones beers pleased with the mix of artists that have in June—72 miles from Cooperstown— and just won the 2016 World Beer Cup played there—everyone from rockers like won’t be playing Ommegang in the award for best mid-sized brewery. As a Modest Mouse to “more sit-down crowd” same summer. The nature of booking a venue, artists have been talking amongst acts like Lyle Lovett and Bonnie Raitt. “destination market” like Cooperstown themselves of its merits.

Intimacy doesn’t preclude impressive also has to be at the forefront of Smalls’ “Ommegang is 15 miles off the attendance numbers, though. In 2015 mind. highway, but it’s worth every bit of what over 35,000 people attended the eight “We have to draw people from not it takes to get in there,” Smalls said. “With shows at Ommegang. The first time Old only Albany and Utica, but Syrcause and that backdrop, we’ve had some shows Crow Medicine Show played there— Ithaca, from 90 or 100 miles in every that have become pretty legendary.” they’ve since returned twice—Smalls direction,” Smalls said. “The acts have to Visit dansmallspresents.com or said his crew was scrambling to park the represent what brewery is all about— ommegang.com for tickets. • 800-some walk-ups that came out on a small amounts of perfect beer is what

Ithaca | Revealed: WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island - January 30-May 29 | The fire is gone but we have the light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai - January 23-May 29 | Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in East Asian Art January 23-June 12 | Works from the Johnson’s collection explore how Chinese cultural images and artistic styles were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan. | www.museu cornell.edu The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | I See You, IC/ CU: The Ink Shop is pleased to host the first joint show of prints by faculty and students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University. These works are richly diverse with unique approaches using traditional methods, ranging from beginner to advanced practitioners | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Keepers of the

Sky: New Paintings by Nicholas Gecan Gecan says, “I’m painting spaces— fragments and moments of the ephemeral fabric of the natural world. I often feel I’m not the artist, that nature is the artist, that I’m a component and a mechanism connecting the dots.” | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Benjamin Slatoff-Burke will be exhibiting his series of abstract paintings through June 30 | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Moosewood Restaurant | 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 607-273-9610 | Jay Hart and Patty Porter. Prints and Paintings. Through May. | www. moosewoodcooks.com Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Lynn Capani-Czebiniak: Breathing Dreams. Goddess lore and mystic dreams are the palette from which artist Lynn Capani-Czebiniak draws, transforming the ordinary into magickal journeys of the soul. With

pencil, pastel, acrylic and watercolor, she calls up the spirits of lost memories and the ghosts of childhood’s dreams. | www.sacredrootkava.com State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | “Members’ Show” Artists at State of the Art will hold a Members’ Show of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculpture, collage, mixed media and more in both of its galleries. There is curbside parking with ADA accessibility. soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Victoria Connors: Needle Felt Paintings. Inspired by the landscapes that she sees in her local community of the Finger Lakes region, Victoria Connors creates scenes from Cayuga, Seneca, and Canandaigua Lake. | Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | “Four Artists.” Local art critic Arthur Whitman presents the work of a quartet of diverse and talented picture-makers

which includes Madeleine Bialke, Scout Dunbar, Stephen Phillips, and Gizem Vural. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@ tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Sabah Light, a freelance artist and student at IC, working mostly in paint but has started to experiment with print as well. The show will run through May 31 | www.wafflefrolicking.com

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Dryden Middle/High School, Sunday, May 29, 9:00 a.m.

Silver Line Tap Room, Saturday, May 28, 8:00 p.m.

The first ever Chalk Art Festival will take place in Dryden this weekend. Families and individuals of all ages to enjoy the simplicity of artwork. There will even be vendors for everyone to enjoy. So what is chalk art you ask, and what is this event? Chalk art is a form of artistic work where people draw with chalk to create imagery on things such as sidewalks.

These beautiful images can convey deeper meaning, or they can be quite literal. This year, the festival’s theme is heroes.

The Mockingbeards are a folk-rock quintet from Ithaca, New York playing original music from the band’s multiple songwriters.

Featuring lush vocal harmonies, mandolin, violin, guitar, bass, and drums, they play a wide range of traditional, original and contemporary folk music, drawing upon rock, soul, and bluegrass influences. If you’re looking to get your boogie on, have a few microbrews, and just flat out enjoy a Saturday evening: you’ve found your jam!

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Atkins Farm Inc.

Amherst, MAneeds 2 temporary workers 5/30/2016 to 10/28/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day.

Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at, Franklin Hampshire Career Center, Northampton, MA 413-586-6506 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Jo order #7118398. Work may include but not limited to cultivating, thinning, harvesting, grading and packing. One month experience is required in apple duties listed.

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Church Financial Manager

Hamden, CT needs 2 temporary workers

Guilford, CT needs 10 temporary workers 6/1/2016 to 11/1/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr.

Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #18867. Diversified fruit and vegetable farm. General duties include: seeding, transplanting, writing labels for transplants, weeding, thinning, cultivating and pruning, less than 15% of the season; planting 15% of the season; harvesting, picking and packing by hand various crops such as leafy vegetables, legumes, squash, tomatoes root crops, berries, apples, peaches and pears 70% of the season. Other duties include weeding, cutting, and arranging cut-flowers, use of hand tools, setting up, operating and/or repairing farm machinery and fencing. Ability to withstand prolonged exposure to variable weather conditions; also required to bend, stoop or stand for extended periods and lift and carry 50 pounds on a frequent basis. 1 month experience required in work listed.

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Full-time position with growing automotive parts distributor located in Ithaca, NY. Responsible for handling various data systems, processing reports and pricing contracts for customers. Strong computer skills required particularly with Excel software. Background with auto parts is helpful but not required. Pay rate: $9.00 to $12.00 per hr benefits. Apply at Advantage Auto, 225 Elmira Rd., Ithaca, NY or e-mail resume to Mkasel@ hahnauto.com. For more company information, please visit our website: www. hahnauto.com

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Experienced Dump Truck Drivers for local construction and gravel companies. Lansing- Genoa - Moravia area. Class B license required. Full & Part-Time. Email: renee@alexcolepavinginc.com

SWA. Job order #19288. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of apples, pears, peaches, prunes, plums, and vegetables including, but not limited to driving, operating, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading

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Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at North Central Senior Citizen & Veterans Discount Career Center 978-534-1481 or apply for Major credit cards accepted. the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #7150127. May perform any combination of tasks, in any type of weather conditions, related to; driving, operating, adjusts, and maintains of farm machines, preparing soil. Planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, A FULL LINE OF VINYL irrigating, harvesting, grading, and packREPLACEMENT WINDOWS Call for Free Estimateing. & May use hand tools such as shovel and hoe. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. 1 Professional Installation A FULL LINE OF Custom VINYL made & manufactured months experience in vegetable duties AREPLACEMENT FULL LINE OF VINYL listed is required.

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Downtown Ithaca One room is available in a three bedroom house, preferably for a graduate student, for the 2017-2017 academic year. Continuing tenants include graduate student and working professional. The rent is $425/month not including utilities, which average $80/ month. Amenities include wifi, washer/ dryer, tub/shower, backyard compost bin, off-street parking, and furniture.

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OCM BOCES has the need for an Art Teacher (Half Time) at the Seven Valleys New Tech Academy in Cortland NY. Start Date: September 1, 2016, some summer work required in July and August. Duties include: Create and maintain a student centered classroom that supports the principles of project-based learning and integration of curriculum. Be flexible, resourceful and innovative while using data, feedback and reflective practice to drive instruction and facilitate student learning. Connect with local businesses and community agencies to build partnerships that support student learning and internships. Show confidence in working with technology and exhibit a desire to learn new software applications to manage a projectbased curriculum. Work closely with the program director to collaboratively lead the school through a shared decision-making process. Special Education certification and experience with project-based learning are recommended and strong technology skills are a must. Applications accepted online only. Register and apply by 06/03/16 at: www.olasjobs.org/central.

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Perhaps that is what drew Laurence McDaniels to the house after he became a horticulture professor at Cornell in 1923; the 1920s were first three decades of the 20th century were the heyday Arts & Crafts in the United States.

Nearly all of the four acres of the parcel are surrounded by a deer-proof fence, which protects that extensive gardens of herbs, shrubs, and ornamental plants in several gardens throughout the property. McDaniels was interested in nut-producing trees and they cover the property.

Solar panels on the house roof supply electricity.

You will tend to enter the house at the rear entrance through the kitchen or through the side entrance what would naturally be used as a dining room (there are built in shelves for the display of china).

The kitchen has dark stone counters and single deep steel sink. The oak cabinents have simple enamel pulls. There are more cabinets in the butler’s pantry in adjacent hallway. The kitchen has a woodgrain laminate floor.

The dining room floor is oak, as are

At A Glance Price: $499,000 Location: 422 Chestnut St.,

City of Ithaca School District: Ithaca City Schools Beverly J. Martin Elementary MLS#: 305874 Contact: Claudia Lagalla, Associate Broker, Keller Williams Realty; homes@ clagalla.com Phone: (607) 275-5610 (office) Website: www.kwstfl.com

most of the floors in the house. The room is lit by a large picture window, an Arts & Craft touch, with decorative rectangular panes around the periphery.

There is an adjacent sun room, a heat-

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ed all-season room with another picture window and double and triple casement windows.

The downstairs living room is dominated by a (very un-Victorian) woodburning fireplace with a brick hearth, a wood mantel, and a tile apron.

The front room, probably once a parlor, is used as a bedroom and has an adjacent full bath with a shower stall and attractive maroon tiling.

The railing on the staircase to the second floor looks like hickory, but the rest of the wood is painted in the Victorian manner.

There is another bedroom in the front that also has a full bath adjacent, this one with an extra deep soaking tub and cherry cabinetry. Another living room with an identical fireplace is behind it.

The back third of the second floor is a separate apartment with a bedroom, full bath, sitting room and kitchen. The floors there are yellow pine.

The barn has been finished on two floors as an art gallery and dance/music space and is heated with a wood stove. It would need plumbing to make it into a second living quarters. •

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