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Community project’s documentary debuting

100 years later, it still flies

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Ithaca rapper’s impressive debut

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Saturday marked 100 years since this Tommy Plane rolled off the Ithaca assembly line, Saturday’s celebratory flight marked the culmination of a years long effort to rehabilitate the plane. (Photo Mike Brown)

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flight that had been 15 years in the making went off without a hitch on Saturday, as “Tommy” -- a 100 year-old World War I Thomas Morse Scout S2B plane-- took off and majestically soared through the sky.

Onlookers were awed as Tommy flew a sweeping pattern through the air and came back to the ground safely. This Tommy plane was built in Ithaca during the late 1910’s as a means of training soldiers getting ready to fight in World War I. Since then the plane has lived in more tropical climates after being purchased by Doctor Bill Thibault.

Thibault purchased the plane with the intention of restoring it and repairing it himself but that dream wasn’t able to come to fruition without some help. He donated the plane to the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation and Don Funke, the foundation’s president, and eventually it was restored to its former glory. Thibault was more than happy to see the finished product glide through the air.

“The idea when I first acquired the plane was that I would get it fixed and fly it and then years went by before I realized that wasn’t going to happen,” Thibault said.

“Don Funke was the one who had the idea of bringing it to Ithaca and everyone in the community participate in getting it into flying condition and actually flying it. It seemed like the obvious thing so it really is like 35 years of what I dreamed about now come true.”

Thibault has been interested in World War I aviation and purchased the plane after seeing it advertised in a flying magazine as a part of the contents of an airplane museum in Orlando, Florida. For his donation, he was presented with a plaque from Tompkins County at the event on Saturday.

Aside from the historic flight other events during the day included showings of a 1918 film “A Romance in the Air” in which the plane was featured. Also, a collection of cars from the period were on display. Tompkins County Legislature Executive Martha Robertson and Commoun Council member Deborah Mohlenhoff (on behalf of Mayor Svante Myrick) declared Sept. 29 as “Tommy Comes Home Day” in Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca, respectively.

Kenwood “Ken” Cassens, the pilot of the historic flight, spoke about how it felt to be flying the plane after it had undergone over a decade of restoration.

“It’s different,” Cassens said. “They

T a k e ▶▶ Lecture. As part of the Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences’ 2015-18 Mass Incarceration Project, Yale Law School professor James Forman Jr. will visit Alice Statler Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4 to present his debut publication “Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment

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all fly a little bit different they’re not like your modern airplane, there is not much stability to them, you have to fly them all the time. Whereas a modern airplane you have to trim it up and you can fly it hands off.”

Cassens said his work at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome helped him adapt to the Tommy’s handling. He flies another 100 year old plane there, with its original engine still intact after several restorations, fueling an interest he’s had since the age of 10. Cassens, who has flown several different types of vintage aircraft, said while this plane is a great flier it is not quite as stable as more modern airplanes.

“It’s not as stable,” Cassens said. “It’s got a rotary engine, which has the fuel and air mixture by the pilot, so the pilot is actually the carburetor. The whole engine spins and it doesn’t really respond to changing the fuel air lever. [...] When we’re flying it here today you’ll hear the engine cutting on and off, that’s how you control your speed.”

Once he completed the flight, Cassens described Tommy as a typical WWI airplane that is unstable but flew perfectly that day.

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reen Street could see a major increase in traffic once the intercity buses move there. Since the closing of the intercity bus station at West State street, the city of Ithaca scrambled to locate a new place for those buses to pick up and drop off passengers. Now those buses will be using the Green Street TCAT [Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit] for passengers.

The biggest concern about the move is the potential increase in traffic. The Green Street stop, Green @ Commons, has been the most popular stop throughout the TCAT system several years because it serves as a nub for most of the bus routes in the system.

Annual ridership at Green @ Commons, as well as systemwide, fell from 2013 to 2017.

However, system-wide ridership has been on the rebound since about May 2017, and currently, it looks like ridership at Green Street is rebounding faster than the system as a whole, however, the analysis remains incomplete. Despite the concerns about increased traffic, JoAnn Cornish, Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of Ithaca, is sure the city has found a way to keep commuters on their way.

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a lot of disruption to traffic,” Cornish said. “We are rethinking some of the parking on Green Street, switching it over from pay stations to shortterm, 15-minute parking for passenger drop off and pick up and it will be on the north side of the street. The south side, which is the lane where TCAT [Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit] buses stop, in front of the library and in front of Urban Outfitters, that will all be dedicated to buses.”

Cornish also feels that the new bus lane will alleviate any additional bus traffic from the regular traffic. Since the largest influx of intercity buses comes around the holidays, there won’t be a daily disruption for those who use Green Street to leave Downtown Ithaca. The other site really considered for the intercity buses was the airport but, according to Cornish, there were more perks to having the buses downtown.

“We looked around but it’s long been a goal of the city to have the buses go downtown,” Cornish said. “In the late 90s and early 2000s we did have a proposal on the table to have the intercity bus station moved to the ground floor of the Green Street Garage.

It was part of our Downtown Redevelopment plan so it’s been a goal to get those buses

downtown. We didn’t really have that many other spaces.

We worked with Mike Hall a bit up at the airport; thinking since they had already set up waiting areas, but the intercity bus carriers felt that it was too far out of town and that wouldn’t be convenient.”

Cornish described some of the perks as bringing the buses to a hub of activity, where there’s goods and services, where there’s already a TCAT station down here. People using the intercity bus station will be able to use the Green Street Station to stay warm while waiting for their bus during those chilling winter months. In terms of ticket counter, however, passengers will have to go to the Green Street Pharmacy, which will profit from ticket sale commissions.

With plenty of positives to the move, the only negative attributes are those that remain to be seen. One place that has an eye on the new bus station as well is the Tompkins County Public Library. Annette Birdsall, Director of the Tompkins County Public Library has the library patrons’ best interest at heart.

“Our foremost concerns for our patrons are safety and accessibility, which the City of Ithaca is taking into account,” Birdsall said. “For example, the City was very helpful in understanding that having intercity buses merging in and out of traffic with TCAT buses right in front of the library could create potentially difficult congestion issues. We look forward to their continuing

this pattern of listening to and addressing needs as they arise throughout the transition.”

According to Birdsall, the city is working with the library to relocate their book drops as well as mitigate any issues patrons have with accessing the library. During the initial six-month evaluation period, Birdsall as well as library patrons will discover the impact of the buses to the library and Green Street. Even though the situation will be monitored, Cornish is adamant that, despite a few hiccups, this is going to work out well for the city.

“I think it’s going to be a really good shot in the arm for Downtown,” Cornish declared.

“Whenever you do anything new, it is always of concern to a lot of people but, for the city, I think it’s going to be great and I think the people will benefit.

If they [bus passengers] have a layover they can get a bite to eat, walk around the Commons, buy something from one of the shops. It’s a way for the Green Street Pharmacy to increase their revenues and have a healthier business. We have the TCAT shelter there and the station so it’s set up right now to accept passengers, so we’re pretty excited about the change.”

Plans to build a new bus station are not in the works and have not been discussed by the Planning Board or the Common Council.

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N e w s l i n e The decision by the NYS Hornbrook Road Supreme Court 6th Judicial District to drop the property owners’ complaint was made after initial investigations by the C.O.P.S. organization and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The decision by the court summarizes the events that took place in December, 2014, when two uniformed Tompkins County Sheriff Deputies attempted to execute a bench warrant on Cady.

His wife, Melissa, opened the door and informed officers that her husband would not cooperate and that he was armed with a loaded gun.

While multiple police agencies had a presence at the scene, it is undisputed that Lansing was in charge.

Over the course of the next The aftermath of the controversial Hornbrook Road Incident in 2015, which left a two days, robots, house effectively destroyed and one man dead. (Photo by Tommy Battistelli) tear gas, and noise-flash devices were all deployed without success. Finally, lawsuit brought against kins County Sheriff Kenneth Lansing directed his officers to the Tompkins County Lansing come during a rough use an armored vehicle called Sheriff ’s Department campaign season for Lansing, a ROOK to remove the walls by the property owners of 127 in which he lost the September of the residence, and Cady was Hornbrook Rd. in Danby has Democratic primary to former found inside, dead of a shelfbeen dismissed by the New undersheriff Derek Osborne. inflicted gun shot.

York State Supreme Court. The In May 2015, Ithaca Times The property appeared to case is directly related to an obtained a letter by Osborne the court to be a total loss, infamous stakeout that took from an anonymous source; in according to the court’s stateplace on the property in 2014, the letter, Osborne called for ment of facts, but the court ultimately resulting in the the resignation of Lansing and ruled that the Sheriff ’s Departdeath of David Cady, the man Undersheriff Brian Robison. ment could not be held responrenting the house.

In the letter, Osborne takes sible for the damage.

The owners, Robert Bartholf issue with any implication “The use of the ROOK… and Joseph Petricola, claimed that he fell short in failing was not the first, second or there was property damage and to contact the Sheriff on his even third option employed,” “excessive and overwhelming landline during the Hornbrook the court states in its decision. force” used by the Sheriff ’s De- Road incident. He claimed that “Its use was the embodiment partment during the incident, although he tried Lansing on a of ‘the exercise of reasoned as well as negligence in direccell number, the Sheriff never judgement’ and as such the tion and coordination. got the call due to a lack of cell defendants are immune from A press release by the phone reception in his home. liability for the injurious conSheriff ’s Department issued on In his letter Osborne says that sequences.”

Sept. 25 states that the Court he didn’t have the number for The Sheriff ’s Department dismissed the case because the Sheriff ’s landline at the states in its recent press release “no factual issues remain to be time of the incident. In a May that although a decision has tried regarding this incident 17 interview, Lansing said that been reached regarding the and therefore a cause of action the dispatch center had his case, the Sheriff ’s Office conin the complaint was decided landline number and “Maybe tinues to be saddened by the upon the facts presented and [Osborne] chose not to have loss of life and destruction of do not require further trial.” it.” property that occurred during The decision siding with He goes on to say that the incident. the Sheriff ’s Department and Lansing is “completely over his defending the actions of Tomp- head and always has been.”

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▶▶ Thumbs Up: To the downtown Apple Harvest Festival, which celebrated its 36th year last weekend. The festival, presented

by Tompkins Trust Company, introduced a Cider Trail this year. Upon ordering cider or Apple Harvest Festival specials (mixed cider cocktails) from a selection of downtown businesses, trail-goers were entered to win prizes such as gift cards to local bars, shops, and eateries.

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▶▶ Thumbs Down: To Expedia, who apparently has no idea where the East Coast is. Ithaca was recently named one of the top 21 East Coast cities, which is the kind of meaningless title that is entirely insignificant but we’ll occasionally write a small story about it because it will then trend for weeks on the site (Hello, Airbnb). But even this was too beyond the pale for us. Ithaca is around 400 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean as the crow flies. Try to figure out where upstate New York is before you start making Ithacans into coastal elites.

Tracy Mitrano addresses the crowd at Southside during last week’s town hall appearance. (Photo by Vaughn Golden)

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▶▶ Heard & Seen: Keep your head on a swivel, kids. Who knows if this will become a pattern or not, but law enforcement raided two bars on the Commons last Thursday night, looking for underage drinkers and fake IDs. Moonies and Silky Jones both got hit, and it’s not clear if other alcohol establishments were targeted as well. ▶▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This

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emocratic candidate for New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Tracy Mitrano, stopped at Ithaca’s Southside Community Center Friday evening on a town hall tour across the Finger Lakes and southern tier where she continued to lay out her policy platform. Before Mitrano began laying out those thoughts, her campaign manager spoke on their team’s plan to mobilize Democrats by increasing voter turnout in an attempt to flip a reliably red seat in Congress. She later asserted that Democrats in areas like Chautaqua County didn’t show up to polls in 2014 and blue voters from Tompkins and Tioga Counties should help those areas of the district leading up to election day.

“There are at least 25,000 registered Democrats in Chautauqua County, but they

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1. The Quest to Find Charm 2. Best of Ithaca: Essentials 3. Reed spends heavily ahead of November showdown with Mitrano 4. Here’s Tommy: A local group’s struggle to fly a Tommy Plane is rewarded 5. Musical Medicine: Heartstrings heals from a homeless shelter to a supportive community

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rowing up Brandy Nielsen observed first-hand the challenges children with developmental diagnoses and their families face. Some families cannot find

the time, energy and resources essential to address special needs. Brandy’s family encouraged each person’s development, according to his or her needs and strengths. Later in life she experienced how difficult it can be to track down, navigate and coordinate essential services young adults need to live as fully as possible when they have finished school.

After completing her education Brandy taught 12 students with special needs in Bethlehem, PA. This confirmed her belief that people with developmental difficulties want what everyone else wants—to prepare for the world of work and to develop a rich social life.

Four years ago Brandy and BOCES colleagues Tina Sevola, Nate Laufman, Tom Watts, and others developed the Career Skills program, partnering with the Public Service Center at Cornell University. Each semester a group of BOCES students spend a few days a week on the Cornell campus with Brandy and Nate.

Career Skills days begin at BOCES. Students have breakfast and complete their sign-in sheet (required in many real world jobs). Next the high schoolers call to check in with their BOCES homeroom teachers; then students sign out their laptops for the day. At 9:00 AM Brandy, Nate and their lively group of no-longer-hungry-studentsclutching-laptops are on the bus to Cornell.

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here just wasn’t room for all the winners in one issue, so some of the categories in last week’s Best of Ithaca 2018 results were omitted, and appear here for the very first time…

Best Place to Watch People Who Don’t Understand How Stop Signs Work - The newly-configured intersection of Floral Avenue and Route 79.

The concept of taking turns, formerly instilled in kindergarten, has been consigned to the dustbin of history, along with answering the telephone, saying “you’re welcome,” and nominees displaying a judicial temperament during Senate confirmation hearings.

Best Recurring Pothole – Elmira Road in front of Squeaky Clean Car Wash. For 12 hours a day, 365 days a year, a parade of dripping SUVs pulls out of an establishment known the world over for grumpy employees and fresh water usage. Recently, the moonscape in front of Squeaky Clean was paved with a state-of-theart mixture of cold-mix asphalt and ground-up tax dollars, which should hold until the first freeze-thaw cycle.

Best Place to See a Limebike Just Before Impact – Ithaca city sidewalks.

Best Place to Find a Stolen Shopping Cart - DMV parking lot, Third Street. The word on the cyber-street is that the collection of abandoned and

derelict shopping carts can be seen from the International Space Station, but Cornell astronomy professor Dr. Steven Squyres assures us that’s a myth.

Best Place to See Tom Reed - Not Ithaca.

Best Place to Get Run Over by a College Student - Ithaca Shopping Plaza parking lot in front of Northside Liquor. Studies show that a pedestrian’s best shot at surviving an encounter with a student-operated vehicle is to get the hell out of the way in the 2.5 seconds between ignition and the commencement of texting.

What’s fun about this location is the gigantic new speed bumps which can be used as ramps, giving vehicles a little extra air time.

Best Non-Functioning Water Feature – Commons Fountain. In a city famous for numerous actual natural waterfalls, the man-made one never fails to deliver in the category of ironic failure.

Best Place to Run Over a College Student - Cornell Campus. Nowhere on the planet earth do so many (16,000) obey so few (zero) traffic control indices. Do not look up. You’re a Cornell student on Snapchat. The world will certainly stop while you walk into the road… continued on page 7

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overnor Jerry Brown of California recently signed a bill that commits California to 100 percent zero-carbon electricity by 2045. But he failed to include methane in the legislation, which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon, and he continues to permit fracking for natural gas in CA. News coverage of the bill portrays California as moving to 100% renewable energy, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. California and New York are supposed to be climate leaders, but their energy policies are ignoring the devastation that methane pollution is wreaking on our planet.

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efficiency measures and renewable energy production has stagnated, while new construction and expansion of fossil-fuel based electricity generation continues.

Power plants that burn diesel fuel and natural gas, like the CPV plant recently built in Orange County, are being proposed all over New York State. If these plants go online, they will lock us into decades of greenhouse gas pollution--further igniting climate change, devastating our public health and economy, and jeopardizing the safety of New Yorkers. Locally, there is one of these plants known as the Cayuga gas plant in Lansing.

If New York and California want to be the climate leaders that Governors Brown and Cuomo tout them to be, California needs to ban fracking and New York needs to deny permitting of continued on page 7

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Best Urine Stains on a Man-Made Structure - State Street/MLK Street walls of the Chanticleer. These are so varied and suggestive that local psychiatrists have been known to bring patients and engage in Rorschach-style shape identification exercises. This location edged out last year’s winner, the Department of Social Services Building (also on MLK/ State Street).

Best Place to Watch Naked People Clip Their Toenails in a Quasi-Public Space - Locker rooms, all over ithaca.

Not that we need it, but this constitutes compelling scientific evidence that there is nothing left to the privacy of home.

If you notice that half a dozen people are frozen in place and staring at you in slack-jawed horror, it might suggest that you’ve crossed a line.

Best Place to Hear ArtisticallyHurled Obscenities — Mobil Station, corner of Meadow and MLK/State Street.

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are an essential part of the Cornell Public Service Career Skills Club. In addition to Club students, CU Professor Bryan Duff’s Education Psychology students work on employment skills with BOCES students. The young adults gravitate to their college age partners.

Employment skills are interspersed with visits to many popular Cornell sites: The Orchards, Dilmun Hill Farm, Johnson Art Museum, Schoellkopf Field (football and lacrosse), Uris Hall (coffee shop), Oxley Stables, Beebe Lake, Statler Hotel. These visits are integral to understanding the world of work. BOCES students get to see many different types of work, and fun places they may revisit long after they have completed Career Skills.

Brandy and Nate’s goal is to introduce students to as many job possibilities as they can squeeze into a semester: BOCES students have observed crews in the Dining Program where they learned about teamwork, food preparation, janitorial services, food safety, problem solving.

The horticulture crew at Cornell Plantations demonstrated how they transplant, weed and care for their plants all over the beautiful campus. At the Cornell bookstore, high schoolers practiced how to use a cash register; at the Orchard they made cider the old-fashion way. In the Veterinary Hospital teens learned about animal care and the technology that is used.

Several days a week the high school crew study at BOCES. As they see what possible jobs are available at Cornell,

down. It can be so intense that the paint on passing vehicles has been known to flake off. Next time you’re stopped at the light, roll down your windows and bask in the warm mixture of profanity and vape mist.

Best Enormous Construction Crane – The one looming like a colossal sledgehammer over the Commons. Anyone else nervous about minor earthquakes?

Best Place to Get the Stinkeye for Having a MAGA Bumper Sticker Parking spaces on Buffalo Street across the street from GreenStar at Dewitt Mall.

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Guest speakers from Acces-VR, Finger Lakes Independence Center, Challenge Industries, and other community assets describe the rich array of services that are available to support the students’ entry into the world of work.

Being referred by a school counselor and being accepted into some of these state and federal programs may insure a lifetime employment security net. When a young person needs additional employment training or some job coaching, they will have trusted guides in place to lend a helping hand.

By the time Brandy and Nate’s kids graduate from BOCES they are familiar with the Cornell campus: they have visited work sites and challenged themselves at the Climbing Wall; and picked their favorite Cornell ice cream flavor. They have learned from and taught their Cornell student friends a few things about overcoming obstacles and not giving up.

Cornell, Ithaca College, TC3 are wonderful local treasures where people go to work, and to study, and to enjoy life. People just like Brandy and Nate’s students.

Applying to go on to college or work in a college setting is no longer mysterious or scary. Been there. Done that. Thanks to Brandy Nielsen and Nate Laufman, their BOCES colleagues, and Cornell University Public Service Center.

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hank you very much for the Times September 19th issue featuring Tommy on the cover. We were particularly glad that the article acknowledged our many volunteers and recognized Dr. and Mrs. Thibault as the donors of our Tommy plane. We also would appreciate the opportunity to thank our lead donors for IAHF’s “Tommy Come Home” project, Triad Foundation, Tompkins Trust Company and Borg Warner. Without their assistance, bringing Tommy home to Ithaca would not have been possible. We hope everyone will visit Tommy in his new home at the Tompkins Center for History and Culture opening on The Commons early next year.

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have seen the reward signs for Charm everywhere, not just in Ithaca, but in the surrounding towns too. Each time I see one, my heart fills with sadness but then my brain chirps up and say’s “hey maybe Charm has been found and they just didn’t take down the signs”. Each time I would see the sign, I would wonder. I thank you for including an update on the quest to find Charm in the last issue of the Ithaca Times.

Now that I have heard the story, I just wanted Sue to know that I would be doing the same things if I had lost part of my family. There is nothing I can say or do to ease the anxiety and heartache that she must be going through but I just know that she should not be feeling alone.

I was also horrified to hear that there would be such apathetic people in the world who would call a grief stricken woman and pretend that they had Charm. What is the world coming to! I suppose some people just don’t understand the powerful relationship one can have with a dog.

The article got me thinking about how there is nothing she could have done differently. As an owner of two dogs myself, I often let them run loose in the forest behind my house and I have always felt comfortable with that because it is not new territory; the dogs are familiar with it just like Charm was with Yellow Barn State Forest. Dogs are meant to run and they cannot be leashed up at all times so I hope Sue is not blaming herself for this either. When the time was right, I would like to know if there is anything she thinks other dog owners can learn from this terrible occurrence.

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don’t vote,” Mitrano said. “I will be watching personally if you do not come out and vote. You know, what a way to lose an election- people just not coming and showing up.

That’s not what we’re going to do this year. There’s too much at stake,” she later added.

Mitrano’s not shying away from addressing the heavily entrenched and well-funded Republican campaign machine she’s facing.

She claimed that after a contentious, nearly year-long primary her camp only had $8,000 in the bank, but after nearly three months of heavy fundraising, she’s been able to recoup about $750,000. Still that dwarfs in comparison to Reed’s nearly $3 million war chest.

“We will not match Mr. Reed dollar for dollar, but we can amass a different power,” Mitrano said, sporting what she says is a Democratic campaign focusing not just on Tompkins County, but the 11-county region stretching across the southern tier to Jamestown and as far north as Geneva. “We can exceed him. We can exceed him in phone calls, we can exceed him in the spirit of creating one district.”

Mitrano has placed heavy focus on the region’s dairy farmers and other agricultural sectors. She also touts her work in cyber security at Cornell University as proof of her ability to push for broadband deployment to those rural areas.

“It’s how people who want to advance their skill-set, maybe they’ve been displaced by the economy that’s moving from industrialization to the information economy,” Mitrano said, emphasizing the importance of broadband. “The government has a role to return the infrastructure that’s there in place to attract business to come here, to invest, to bring jobs- everything that people want.

She also asserted that Reed hasn’t proactively pursued broadband deployment while in Congress.

A slough of other questions also came up during the nearly twohour event. Mitrano addressed her views on taxes, abortion, the environment, the second amendment and healthcare among others.

The town hall in Ithaca is the second in a series of eleven in each county across the congressional district over the next few weeks. Mitrano’s tour comes as Reed returns from Washington permanently through the election on Nov. 6.

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M att Bu tler Amanda Kirchgessner, a progressive democratic candidate contending for a seat in the New York State Senate representing the 58th District, has been accused of several instances of domestic violence and abuse during her marriage that ended in 2016.

Kirchgessner’s ex-wife, Brandi Morgan, has told the Ithaca Times that Kirchgessner participated in a pattern of abusive behavior during the latter years of their marriage, which officially ended in 2016.

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While acknowledging there will inevitably be questions about the timing of her decision to tell her story and any political motivations, Morgan, herself a Democrat and self-described “pretty far to the left,” decided coming forward was necessary once she saw the primary results and knew Kirchgessner was advancing to the general election in November. Morgan has chosen to come forward and gave the Ithaca Times permission to use her name despite her status as a survivor of domestic violence. She presented evidence of the abuse through tape recordings, pictures, corroboration from friends, a police report and blog posts from the time.

Kirchgessner and Morgan met and began dating in 2008, and were married in November of that year. By Morgan’s recollection, the marriage proceeded fairly

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normally for the first several years though, eventually, Kirchgessner’s alcohol usage began to emerge as an issue that culminated in a DUI arrest in 2011, confirmed by a Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office police report. Morgan said the relationship began to change after that incident, saying she felt more like Kirchgessner’s mom than a spouse.

The relationship further changed significantly in 2014, according to Morgan.

Seemingly without explanation, Kirchgessner’s behavior shifted and Morgan said the marriage was marked by Kirchgessner’s erratic behavior. This progressed from arguments and alcohol abuse, Morgan said, to physical outbursts that spanned from throwing things around the house to violence towards Morgan.

Morgan can’t describe what the circumstances were, normally, around Kirchgessner’s angry episodes. She said any incident,

from trivial to significant, could trigger something.

The first time Morgan said she recalled any direct violence was during an argument in late 2014, during which Morgan was on the stairs. Kirchgessner, standing at the top of the stairs, dislodged part of a dog-gate from its bolts and threw it at Morgan. Morgan wasn’t seriously injured during the incident, and didn’t report it to the police. At the time, she said she did tell friends about that first appearance of physical abuse; the incident was corroborated both by a long-time friend of Morgan’s with whom she communicated daily, and another person who wished to remain anonymous.

Another incident came shortly after that, though Morgan doesn’t remember what sparked this one either. The couple was in their home’s bedroom, when Kirchgessner cornered Morgan. As Morgan tells

it, in a fit of anger Kirchgessner pushed her down and began trying to remove Morgan’s pants, meanwhile telling her she “wanted to choke [Morgan] to death.”

When Morgan reacted fearfully, Kirchgessner stopped.

“I’m scared, we’re in the house and if I scream nobody’s going to hear me outside,” Morgan said of the incident. “I was terrified.”

She said Kirchgessner was “angry,” but that she later tried to explain that she thought it would be “sexy,” until she saw how scared Morgan was, according to Morgan. After this incident in particular, Morgan said, she wanted to leave the house and called a friend, who has corroborated the story of events.

“I think Amanda knew I was going to leave, so she threatened to kill my dogs, said she was going to burn the house down with all the animals in it,” Morgan, who owned five cats and three dogs at the time, said. “Any time I tried to leave, she would threaten my pets or hurt the pets [...] I didn’t want them to die. She probably wouldn’t have done anything, but I didn’t trust her as far as a I could throw her.”

Threats to Morgan’s pets, in addition to fear for her own safety, emerged as the primary reason Morgan stayed with Kirchgessner instead of ending the relationship and leaving. It also prevented her from going to the police, along with truly wanting to make the marriage work and not wanting to put Kirchgessner in legal trouble.

When Morgan would confront her about

the abusive occurrences, Morgan said that Kirchgessner would shift the blame, responding that if Morgan’s actions hadn’t caused an angry response, Kirchgessner wouldn’t have to react physically.

As time went on, the incidents continued. Morgan recounts another event in which she took Kirchgessner’s phone and, in an effort to get it back, Kirchgessner “grabbed [Morgan] by the neck and pulled me down.” Morgan, who is diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, said a neurostimulator implanted in her spine stopped working directly after this fall, which she blames on Kirchgessner’s actions. Morgan’s insurance has covered the cost of procedures to have the broken device -- which uses electricity to override nerve signals to suppress pain in her foot -- removed and replaced (the latter of which she had last week), with each procedure costing tens of thousands of dollars.

These events have been corroborated by two people Morgan spoke to at the time of the incident, who also spoke to the Ithaca Times. They are also documented afterwards, via a tape recording Morgan secretly made during a discussion with Kirchgessner(which is legal in NYS) a few days after the last incedent.

The audio recording, just over two minutes in length, shows a conversation between the two in which Morgan accuses Kirchgessner of much of what’s been described here. A transcript of about 70 seconds of the tape follows:

Brandi Morgan: My head still hurts from where you got the back of it. That’s f*cked up. How do you think physical violence is okay?

Amanda Kirchgessner: How do you think emotional and mental torture is okay?

BM: It’s not, and I’m not doing that.

AK: You say you don’t want to do this but then talk to me through a door.

BM: You should never react violently towards me.

AK: Well [inaudible] my behavior. I can’t change yours.

BM: No, but you need to change yours, because physical violence-AK [interrupting]: I told you, I can change my behavior, but I can’t change yours.

BM: Well then why aren’t you changing it?

AK: I’m working on it. But your behavior hasn’t exactly changed.

BM: You should never, ever react towards someone physically. You threw me to the ground, you pulled my pants off, you told me you wanted to choke me to death, you took my phone away. And now you grab the back of my head and pulled my hair out to get your phone.

AK: Well, you still wanted to be with me.

BM: I don’t want to be with you.

AK: Well you still did at that point.

The final physical incident, which came in June 27, 2015, saw an argument over the couple’s ending marriage boil over into an altercation. According to a New York State Domestic Incident Report, filed at the time by a New York State Police Trooper, Kirchgessner became angry at Morgan for having Morgan’s new girlfriend (who was not there at the time) over to their house while she was house-sitting for Kirchgessner during a recent vacation.

According to the police report, Kirchgessner demanded Morgan leave the house and began yelling at her; Morgan then screamed out of the house’s window for help. When she did, Kirchgessner “grabbed [Morgan], and pushed her away from the window.”

The New York State Police confirmed the validity of the report.

It notes verbal abuse, as well as pushing and grabbing actions committed by Kirchgessner, but also states the offense only would have warranted a second-degree harassment charge since there were no injuries reported (Morgan said it wasn’t mentioned at the time, but she did provide a picture of bruising from the incident).

With such a low level charge, which didn’t even reach the level of misdemeanor, Morgan decided not to file charges and an arrest was subsequently not made.

As further evidence of her circumstances during the time period, Morgan provided the Ithaca Times with time-stamped blog posts from the period around the latter stages of their divorce. While no direct mention of domestic violence is made in these posts, they do address “abusive and controlling” behavior by Morgan’s ex-wife.

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Morgan now lives outside of Ithaca, with her new fiancee.

When presented with the accusations against her, Kirchgessner offered the following statement, confirming she would remain in the race for New York State Senate.

“In 2015, I left an abusive relationship with my ex-wife. It was my first serious relationship, I was deeply in love, and I did not recognize the signs of abuse, depression and dysfunction,” Kirchgessner said.

“My relationship became a psychological nightmare, and leaving that relationship was the most difficult thing I’ve done in my life, even harder than the death of my father when I was 13, even harder than running for office. Having to relive this experience now is extremely traumatic. But I plan to keep running, and I hope that the fact that this is now public, will help others feel less alone.”

Since declaring her candidacy, Kirchgessner has become a favorite of the local progressive community, easily defeating fellow liberal Michael Lausell in the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 58 to advance to November’s general election against incumbent Republican Tom O’Mara. She’s received numerous endorsements from local Ithaca officials, as well as from the Tompkins County Democratic Committee and Tompkins County Progressives.

If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, know that there are resources available to discreetly and safely help. The Advocacy Center in Ithaca’s hotline is (607) 2775000, and the National Domestic Violence hotline is 1-800-799-7233.

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n his first full-album effort, Ithaca rapper Anthony Kannon delivered a striking official introduction of himself, putting out an album that sounds far more mature than a typical debut. It’s a project loaded with lyrics to the point it may take a few listens to digest them all, but luckily each replay is enjoyable.

The album, titled Color Blind, is available on essentially all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music, and Kannon, whose real name is Anthony Henry, is selling physical copies as well.

It’s a debut that doesn’t sound like the more conventional releases one might hear when perusing the internet today. The production is clean throughout, using a selection of beats primarily purchased over the web. Kannon is also endlessly lyrical, packing so much into his bars that it can be tough to keep up. While some rappers are criticized, somewhat justifiably, for using complex lyrical schemes or rapid flows to cover up for a lack of meaningful content, Kannon’s able to deliver quick, attention-demanding lines that aren’t just nonsense, but also don’t detract from the album’s more fun, braggadocious moments. Frankly, it’s a risky balance, but he pulls it off seamlessly.

One thing that’s clear, both when asking Kannon and from his lyrics, is that he’s not satisfied with being pigeonholed for certain parts of his personal story. Kannon is black, but very light-skinned, something he said has been a struggle to deal with while rapping since people often perceive him as white. He addresses some of that tension in the album-opening title track “Color Blind,” rapping that he’s got “the lightest skin that you’ve ever seen, still glad to be black.” It’s a gutsy way to start an album, particularly his first, but it’s a stellar introduction to a good first track.

Beyond that, Kannon also suffered a gunshot wound several months ago, which served as another hurdle to overcome. But again, Kannon does not want to let the experience define him, either as a person or as an artist: he calls out those respon-

sible, and several references can be heard in the chorus of “Superman.” But, though Kannon admits the incident dominated his mind and his pen for quite a while after, he again successfully avoids allowing it to derail the album.

Arguably the album’s most impactful song is “Blue.” It’s a true tour de force, the kind of song with just enough humor to make you chuckle at the start, then immediately hit you with an unexpected blow of reality, which don’t stop. That’s probably best exemplified by the very opening line: “I’m from a pretty city of hippies and self-pity/There’s too much irony in my life to be straight-forward/Drug addiction is a real serious mental illness/And my whole life I done paid for it,” referencing his mother’s struggles with a drug problem that affected his early life. It’s a gutwrenching listen, but never to the point of discomfort. Truthfully, it’s like hearing a friend vent after keeping quiet for too long. His relationship with his mom comes up a few times on the album, with Kannon even acknowledging he connected with Eminem’s early music due to his anger at his mother (a hallmark of Eminem’s first two albums).

Other highlights from the album include “Reflections,” another deeply personal track, and “Crash,” which has a beat that will threaten your computer’s speakers. The most romantic moment is “One in a Million,” which features Matthew Cornwell singing.

The album is light on features in general, though there’s also a very impressive guest spot by Promise NYC that comes through on the album’s second track. Kannon only has one feature from a local artist, the verse delivered by Mr. McBean (real name Kelsey McBean) on “Superman,” which he said was actually a purposeful choice and an homage to McBean’s influence on his career to this point (Kannon calls him the “Yoda” of his musical path).

Kannon’s also sure to emphasize how important other people have been to his career, particularly local hip-hop label Smacked Records and most of all his dad, who encouraged him to keep writing rhymes from a very young age and introduced him to the local music scene. He also noted Ithaca artists Dimitri Robinson (who raps as “Meech”) and the Gunpoets as large influences on his music.

Color Blind is not, as Kannon puts it, fast-food music. Music, he said, saved his life after all, and keeping that in his mind seems to mean there’s always going to be depth and a little more seriousness when Kannon writes a verse. •

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hroughout life, people ultimately try to keep themselves from being stressed out. While this is something that sounds quite easy, it can be very difficult to achieve. Stress always seems to be imminent, between rising workloads or a slight change in a schedule that has become routine. However, Nick Boyar is teaching people a way to channel their presence in certain spaces and situations into relaxation.

Boyar teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction, which is a class about practicing meditation and developing a daily meditation practice. Boyar describes the class’s overall function as “a way to help people discover how to bring some of the calmness and awareness that they cultivate during their meditation into their daily life and into the places in life where it’s stressful for them.” His start in the area comes from the 15 years he has spent as a yoga teacher.

“Originally, I first taught the mindful stress reduction class when the Cancer Resource Center of the finger lakes got

a grant to offer stress reduction to their clients and I had done training to teach people with cancer and so they invited me and another woman to teach together and then I have been teaching since,” Boyar said.

He trained at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Center for Mindfulness and has taught a class at Island Health and Fitness for 11 years.

During the program, people are mostly taught meditation practices from the Buddhist tradition. However, according to Boyar, the meditation is taught in a secular way, which for him means without a religious purpose, and instead is used for the purpose of relaxing as well as cultivating awareness. One method the class uses is employing different forms of meditation to better serve each student’s needs.

“So, we teach different forms of meditation,” Boyar said. “For example sitting meditation, walking meditation, yoga, movement-based meditation and then we also teach people to monitor themselves to some degree; to try and be more aware

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With the course having been developed in 1979, Boyar has found that some aspects of the class have to be altered to accommodate for the lives of his students.

For instance, Boyar’s classes are a tad shorter than the conventional mindful stress reduction programs, something he said makes the class more feasible, and accessible, for those who might not have the full time allotment available.

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Nick Boyar preaches a more introspective method of stress reduction. (Photo by Casey Martin)

in their day to day lives that are most stressful and try to find a way to bring mindfulness and present moment attention to those areas specifically, and those exercises have been helpful for people,” he said.

The class begins again on October 30 and runs for eight weeks at Rasa Spa from 6 to 8 pm; the course is also taught with Eve Abrams. A class is also being held at Island Health and Fitness starting on November 3 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. •

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he Ithaca College women’s soccer team just put up a big win last weekend – shutting out previously undefeated St. Lawrence - to push their record to 8-0-2, and despite the fact that the Bombers struggled last year, head coach Mindy Quigg is not surprised that the team has turned it around.

“We’re pretty much where we thought we would be,” Quigg told me, “and I’m really happy with our level of focus on what we have to do on a daily basis.”

Mindy is in her 24th year at the helm of the program, and she knows better than to panic if the team has an off-year.

She added that the team “struggled last year,” and when asked why, she stated, “It was our first year in the new league (Liberty League), and we weren’t mature enough to sort things out. We couldn’t get out of our own way. The players didn’t want a repeat of last year (they were 7-9), they challenged themselves to step up, and they made a collective commitment from top to bottom.”

Quigg continued, “We realized we need

a ‘culture recheck,’ so to speak, and we needed to minimize our weaknesses.” The result, the coach said, is that “They are feeling really empowered and we’re playing some really good soccer.”

Ironically, the collective maturity level has been enhanced by a very solid group of first-year players. The Bombers brought in nine freshmen and one transfer, and Quigg says, “It’s a great incoming class… it’s a very diverse group. They are already contributing.”

The Bombers are getting production from many players, and two Syracuse-area athletes are among those contributing in a big way. In Quigg’s words, “Alex Epifani is a sophomore, and a lot of our offense rotates around her. She moves the ball really well and she draws a lot of attention, and given she’s a very unselfish player creates a lot of opportunities for her teammates.

She is as happy with an assist as she is with a goal. She elevates the play of everyone around her.”

The coach also had high praise for senior Reid Garner. She said, “Reid played

Through the season’s first several weeks, sophomore Alex Epifani has been crucial to the Bombers’ success. (Photo provided)

midfield for her first three years, but this year she had an opportunity to move into the backfield and she jumped at the chance. She really complements and solidifies the defense.”

The Bombers will play against Bard at home at 12 p.m. on Saturday.

••• It’s almost time for the Cancer Resource Center’s 24th Annual Walkathon and 5K Run, and as usual, Jyl Dowd of the CRC is full of energy regarding the fundraising component. Jyl and her supporters are among the events most successful fundraisers, and there is still time to get involved. The event will take place at Cass Park on October 13 (Saturday), and will kick off with registration at 9 a.m., fol-

lowed by a Zumba warm-up at 9:45. The Walkathon and 5K Run starts at 10 a.m., and a pancake breakfast will follow. For more info, please visit the event’s GiveGab site.

••• On the topic of worthwhile community endeavors, it’s time to give a shout-out to the efforts put forth by my friend Mary Grainger, who has been working tirelessly on the Enclose Cass project since 2016.

The organizers want to wrap the oftenchillingly cold Cass Park Rink in glass, and they set a lofty goal of $1 million.

Two years into the effort, they are about halfway there, with $480,000 being raised.

Sean Whittaker - the President of Ithacabased Incodema, Inc. – set up a matching gift challenge, and that initiative has netted over $200,000 thus far. Given the facility is vital to the continued delivery of quality programs and services, the City of Ithaca had allocated $100,000 in budget support and Tompkins County Tourism provided a $50,000 grant.

On Nov. 3rd, the Enclose Cass Extravaganza will take place, featuring a SkateA-Thon, a silent auction, a Broomball tournament and bake sale. Many gifts have been made in honor of the late Sam McLafferty – a native Ithacan and businessman who was passionate about youth hockey – and many people are donating in honor of Linda McKeown, who just retired after teaching skating at Cass Park (and other rinks) for 42 years. For more info, please go to https://www.friendsiyb.org/ enclose-cass-extravaganza.

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he Wharton Studio Museum is gearing up for their annual Silent Movie Month, which has only grown in popularity since its inception seven years ago, as a way to pay tribute to the role Ithaca’s Wharton Studios played in early American filmmaking.

October was specifically chosen by Diana Riesman, Executive Director/Co-Founder of the Wharton Studio Museum because it is the same month that Theodore and Leopold Wharton opened their studio in Ithaca. After writing in to Mayor Svante Myrick about why October rightfully deserved to be the month honoring silent films in Ithaca, Riesman got her wish.

At a ceremony in front of the Wharton Studio Building, located in Stewart Park, Mayor Myrick proclaimed October was Silent Movie Month.

Ithaca’s place in the history of silent films lies at the beginning of the 20th century, from 1914 to 1919. Even though this period was fairly brief, it was also significant. As Riesman points out, the Wharton’s films weren’t just simple local productions but attracted the attention of silent screen icons, featuring actors such as Irene Castle, Pearl White, and Lionel Barrymore, the granduncle of actress Drew Barrymore.

“The Whartons opened their studio here, in Ithaca, New York, where they were pioneers in this new artform and emerging industry,” Riesman said. “They were making it up as they went along. They were making special effects in the camera, they created their production studio,

they used Ithacans as their costume designer and production designers, actors or extras in a lot of the movies. Some Ithaca people went on to star in some of the Wharton’s films; so, it was big and for quite a short time, a successful movie making enterprise.”

She also mentioned how the Whartons produced hundreds and hundreds of films as well as episodic serials, such as “The Romance of Elaine” or “Beatrice Fairfax.” Riesman discussed how their films touched on different styles as well as different genres.

“The Whartons made dramas, they made comedies, and they made these episodic serials,” Riesman said. “One of their serials was called “The Mysteries of Myra” and they kind of dabbled in the occult, they made World War I propaganda films, obviously, the studio was here in Ithaca, exactly during the first World War. So, they made all kinds of films.”

With a variety of events going on throughout October, Silent Movie Month officially begins on October 5, with a special First Friday Gallery opening. The gallery, which will be held on the second floor of Petrune, is going to feature black and white images from the Wharton era. Some of the other events include silent film screenings like “Safety First” starring Harold Lloyd.

However, one of their signature events will be a showing of the film, “Within Our Gates” by filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, will take place at Cinemapolis on October 10. Riesman said this is one of the events that she is most looking forward to.

“It was made in 1920 and Oscar Micheaux was one of the most famous film directors of what were called ‘race films,’ they were usually films that were about, starring and directed by black filmmakers, so they were made for a black audience,” Riesman said.

Another big event is the premiere of an operetta called, “A Name for A Baby or The Curse of Oc to b e r

Eve” at the Cherry Artspace. Created by singer and composer Anna Coogan, this production takes its name from the somewhat eponymous episode of the Wharton Brothers serial, “Beatrice Fairfax.” The multimedia operetta will feature Coogan’s distinctive operatic singing, as well as her playing electric guitar and piano to create a stunningly vivid composition.

Originally, Coogan was going to make this into a modern rock opera because the electric guitar is her specialty, but instead found, that remaining faithful to the music of the time was a better choice. However, as someone who has done a lot more horror movie scores, this presented a much different challenge.

“Well, I think this is a little bit more in a certain musical box,” Coogan said. “Here you have certain characters singing these arias at certain moments and it just has to be in that spot otherwise, it’s gone, so you lose some of the flexibility.

There’s also a little more form to the songs than in some of the other scores that we’ve done.”

Coogan decided to use this particular Wharton Brothers serial because of the large female cast. Despite the somewhat lighthearted tone of most episodes, Coogan chose the episode, not just because of its storyline but for its timeliness with current events.

“It’s basically the story of ‘a fallen woman’ who has a baby without being married and the man is marrying someone else,” Coogan said.

“It’s incredible how even in this very positive female series, what happens to her is sort of horrific, sort of at the hands of everyone including Beatrice Fairfax.”

This operetta is making a one-time only debut on October 6, but is not the only selection by Coogan that will be shown during Silent Movie Month. Her 2015, modern rock opera, “House of Usher” will be shown on October 30.

This opera is a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous story, The Fall of the House of Usher, with

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Diana Riesman, Executive Director/Co-Founder of the Wharton Studio Museum (Photo: Casey Martin)

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music by Coogan starring Florence Outside the Wharton, Inc Studios circa 1915. Leopold and Tzar being Turner, Laughing Wharton (with his hand on his hip) stands along Ithaca’s the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts presents: paired with the 1928 Gas from 1907 Thomas-Morse Aircraft Co. employees and pilots.

Jean Epstein adapstarring Bertha Whartons used Thomas-Morse aircraft in their films. tation of the story.

Regustus and One of the other Mabel’s Strange important events of Predicament Silent Movie Month from 1914 touches on some of starring Mabel the feminist history Normand and associated with Charlie Chapsilent screen film lin, in his debut actresses. “Specters as his classic of Feminist Silent character, “The Film Comedy” is Tramp.” being hosted by Cornell Cornell Cinema, Cinema will also with WSM sponbe premiering soring the event. the documenProfessor Margatary film, Saving ret Hennefeld of Brinton on the University at October 25. This Minnesota, will be movie, directed presenting several of her favorite films that focus

by Andrew Sherburne, Tommy Hanes, and Serge on female stars using slapstick comedy for feminist Bromberg tell the story of a Michael Zahs, a beaims. This event will be held on October 23 at 7 loved rural Iowa history teacher who preserves the pm. Some of the observations that Hennefeld has century-old showreels of one of America’s first mofound show just how feminism and comedy has tion picture impresarios and shows them at some offered a way to break the rules by saying what you of the country’s oldest theaters. really think or acting and behaving in ways that Other events that Cornell Cinema is hosting aren’t allowed. include showings of films such as The Ancient Law “In silent films from the early 1900s, female from 1923 starring with a live score performed by housemaids break free of the domestic sphere, Alicia Svigals & Donald Sosin, The Phantom of sometimes by exploding out of the chimney,” the Opera from 1925 starring Lon Cheney with a Riesman said. “Many of these film comedies also live score performed by The Invincible Czars, The deal with the topic of sexual assault-- for example, Passion of Joan of Arc from 1928 starring Renée women working in a laundry team up to dump Jeanne Falconetti. a bucket of soapy water over the head of a male Along with the series of events hosted by WSM Oct. 5 - 7 | Oct. 12 - 14 | Oct. 19 - 21 abuser. [...] These short films are incredibly timely, and Cornell Cinema, Terry Harbin, creator of the and they give us windows onto the ambiguities website Ithaca Made Movies, will be presenting of our own culture, as we still struggle today to the Pearl White--Silent Screen Star. This includes Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, 5:00 - 8:00pm imagine a society that would not be so oppressive showing episodes “The Romance of Elaine” as well for women and for sexual minorities, and also to as episodes of Pearl White’s other serials at the at the Cherry Artspace: 102 Cherry St. | Ithaca understand what role laughter can play alongside Tompkins County Public Library. these rising feminist political movements.”

This serial is known for being one of the many Some of the movies Professor Hennefeld will be “damsel in distress” film serials the Wharton Info: saltonstall.org showing are Mary Jane’s Mishap from 1903 starBrothers made, as well as being the inspiration for ring Laura Bayley, Daisy Doodad’s Dial from 1914 the animated Hanna Barbera television series, “The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.”

Even though most of the events are Season special to this year’s Silent Movie Month, Sponsor: WSM does hold some annual events that will be returning this year or in 2019, according to Riesman, such as “Silent Movie Under the Stars.”

Some of Riesman’s hopes for the future Get your of WSM is to take the Wharton Studio tickets Building in Stewart Park and repurpose it today! for a combination museum space and park visitor center, primarily focused on the unique history of Ithaca’s presence in silent film history. Despite being the brainchild of WSM, Reisman is more than proud that the event has spread around the Ithaca RED CHAIR film community.

SPOTLIGHT “Now, Cornell Cinema does a whole bunch of silent movie screenings for Silent Sun, Sept 23, 2018 at 3:00pm Movie Month,” Riesman said. “It was MAGIC, MOVIES & MUSIC First Unitarian Chamber Music Series: Sun, October 7,Church, 2018Ithaca at 4:00pm started by Wharton Studio Museum but Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:00pm First Unitarian Church, Ithaca Victoria Miskolczy, viola I like the idea that it becomes a thing and State Theatre, Ithaca NINO ROTA: Trio for Flute, Violin, Piano Charis Dimaris, piano people can interpret it anyway they like.”

DIANE JONES: Three Songs for Piano Trio Music from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Star Trek, More information about all of the DVORAK: Piano Quartet No. 2 J.S. Bach, Ligeti, Lord of the Rings and more! Special Guests events during Silent Movie Month is availincluding Seishi Karate.

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inger-songwriter, guitarist and activist Melissa Etheridge is making a return trip to Ithaca this week, celebrating the 25th anniversary of her most significant album’s release.

“I’m looking forward to getting to Ithaca, ‘cause that’s been one of my favorite places to play since the very first album.

It’s all about the live music so much, and it’s always such a pleasure,” says singersongwriter, guitarist, and activist Melissa Etheridge.

Her self-titled debut album was released in 1988 and became an underground success, peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, “Bring Me Some Water,” garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. In 1993, she released what would become her mainstream breakthrough album, Yes I Am, featuring the hits “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window.”

Etheridge returns to Ithaca and the State Theatre on October 3, touring for the 25th anniversary of Yes I Am. She spoke to the Ithaca Times about the impact of that album, and her decision to come out.

IT: Can you talk a little bit about the jump from your previous album to Yes I Am, what that meant for your career?

ME: Oh wow. I had put three albums out in ’88, ’89 and ’91. And they had done just fine, they had gotten rock n’ roll play, I was this up-and-coming artist. But I felt I had plateaued out, my third album kinda sold less than my first two. It sold about 900,000. I was kind of, “Uh-oh”. I didn’t know what was happening. So I remember thinking, “Look, I just gotta make an album that is just great songs that I love, that’s rock n’ roll, get back to the basics.”

So I really thought about my first album when I made Yes I Am. I just wanted to make solid tracks. And boy, coming out as a lesbian was not a plan. It was something I knew I was going to do, but it didn’t really have to do with my album. That sort of became rocket fuel for it also, so I went from selling 900,000 to over six million. So it was a big, huge change.

IT: How long had you felt that way before coming out?

ME: For me, it was the sort of thing where I always knew I was different, and you didn’t know what term to use until I got into junior high and high school, and then you realized it was a derogatory term; people were saying “Oh, she’s a lezzie” sort of things. And I thought, “Oh, that doesn’t sound good.” [laughs] By the time I was 17, I had my first girlfriend and realized, “Oh, I’m very different, I better get out

of Kansas,” where I grew up. So I went to Boston, and from then on out I just knew that was my lifestyle. That was who I was.

And it’s a funny journey that you’re on [when you’re] on your own. And then professionally, I was discovered playing in lesbian bars. I was in gay bars playing music when I was discovered, so everybody knew I was out. I just wasn’t out to the public, I wasn’t out to the press. So it was this sort of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” situation.

And finally, I just stood up and told. It gave them all permission to ask me all the questions. So, God, for about two years, that’s all I talked about, was being gay.

IT: In the first piece I ever read about you in a guitar magazine, when it was all about crazy gymnastics and speed, you were talking about playing rock-steady rhythm, and creative rhythm is something I always think about when I play, and I wanted to thank you for that.

ME: That’s so how I approach live music. It’s the reason I still enjoy it, and it’s the reason I have gotten better as a guitarist. In the last few years, I have really been concentrating on my playing, and I had to go, “Okay, I’m not going to be the fastest.

I don’t want to be the fastest.” I want to be the most soulful. I want people to feel something when I play. And rhythm was a big part of it. Timing was such a big part.

My guitar teacher when I was a kid, he would tap his foot. It was scary. He would tap his foot. He goes, “I don’t care what note you play, just never go out of time. [laughs] It taught me how important it is to listen to each other when you’re playing in a band. To listen and create the music together.

IT: Any other tricks up your sleeve for this tour, any B-sides?

ME: Well, I’ll do the regular old hits too, from the first couple albums. People like to hear those. I’ll probably like a bonus track; we’ll release a 25th anniversary addition with some bonus tracks, and I also have a new album coming out at the end or beginning of the year.

IT: You’re on a desert island, but there’s electricity so you could have a guitar amp if you wanted. What would be your go-to guitar?

ME: I’d probably have my Gretsch Country Gentleman.

IT: Tell me about your first really good guitar.

ME: Well, I had acoustics first. The first guitar I had was a Stella, by Harmony, so it was a little kid’s guitar, but it was actually a good kid’s guitar.

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e Are Ithaca project continues to grow By Arthur Whitman Last fall, photographer and Ithaca College lecturer Robyn Wishna shot free portraits of over 1200 people – mostly local residents – as well as video for her ambitious “We Are Ithaca” project. Following exhibits earlier this year at the Community School of Arts and the Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace gallery, a new display was installed last month at the Tompkins County Public Library. This Friday, in conjunction with downtown’s monthly Gallery Night, Wishna will be premiering a short movie documenting her collaborative labor of love. (Showings will be held in the library’s Borg Warner Room at 5:30, 6, and 7pm. A Q&A will follow the final screening) The Ithaca Times recently interviewed Wishna about her journey.

Robyn Wishna’s “We Are Ithaca” photos are once again on display at the Tompkins County Public Library, with a new documentary short premiering this week.

IT: Could you say something about your background as a photographer -- your training, your career, your passions? Have you always focused on portraiture? What is it that draws you to photographing people?

Robyn Wishna: I have been a photographer and photojournalist for a long time.

I grew up in the ‘60s and was inspired by the socio-political climate and the images produced at the time: Women’s Rights, the Vietnam War, protests, Civil Rights marches, assassinations. I saw as a child the power of photography for social change. I was a newspaper photographer and we had to do everything: sports, features, news -- but a lot of portraits. I have been drawn to the power of portraits, especially by Verne Morton, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Mary Ellen Mark, Louis Hine and others.

IT: What was it like collaborating with others -- with Jon Jensen at the Park Foundation, with John Spence at CAP, with IC students and others? Have you worked like this in the past? Did working in this way challenge you or open up new ways of thinking about photography?

RW: I had not worked collaboratively aside from covering stories with reporters.

It was an amazing experience to work with Jon Jensen and John Spence. I had a thousand ideas, Jon and John had many and over the course of many early meetings we culled it and sculpted it into the final project. Jon and John had great ideas and the synergy was palpable. I am so grateful for the opportunity given to me by Jon Jensen and the Park Foundation. It has inspired me to continue to do public art -- to keep

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working with others and the community in creative ways.

IT: What about the community aspect? Did you learn interesting things about Ithaca, its neighborhoods, its people? Does your project shed new or unexpected light on the city?

RW: What I learned is that we are much more alike than we know. I’m not sure if the project shed any new or unexpected light on our fair little city but we set out to celebrate the people – all the people – through portraits and I think we accomplished that. We made sure we had portrait sessions in all areas of town. We wanted to include everyone who wanted to participate. I learned so much about so many people! I was surprised at what people shared on video. Some talked about how they love Ithaca, some shared intimate pieces of themselves.

IT: Perhaps you could tell me something about the new display at the library. Who helped you putting the exhibit together and what was it like working with Them?

RW: The exhibit inside the library is portraits and quotes, including the large piece with all 1,276 portraits. We are very interested in reaching as diverse an audience as possible. Yvette Rubio, the volunteer Coordinator and Art Exhibit Coordinator at Tompkins County Public Library has been incredibly helpful and wonderful to work with. I wanted to do something bold and beautiful on the outside of the library. I had bigger ideas in mind but settled on the current installation on the Green Street windows. It took the help of many people to get the images up at the library and make the project happen this past year: Maggie Morales, Elise Skalwold, Patricia Rodriguez, Simon Wheeler, Elena Piech, Jon Jensen, Yvette Rubio, Karen Adams, Ciana Elison, Carol Chernikoff, Christian Savini, Deirdre Cunningham, Anna Gardner, Julia Tricolla, David Cedarbaum, Benjamin Torrey and Barbara

Mitchell have all contributed to the success of “We Are Ithaca.”

IT: And finally, could you say something about the documentary? Who did you work with and what was the process like?

RW: I decided that since I would have people in front of a camera, white background and lights, that I was going to take advantage of the opportunity and give anyone who wanted to, a chance to share something on video. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the videos in the beginning, but I wanted to make sure I had them and then figured I would come up with some idea later on. About a third of the people decided to speak, sing, play an instrument or recite poetry. All of the clips are on our website, thanks to Julia Tricolla, and also as an installation at the History Center. We also shot some behind-the-scenes video and I shot a short interview with Mayor Myrick. We were lucky that my friend and colleague Simon Wheeler joined the team so we have some great photos and video. The project and the process were interesting to me and thought others might think so too. After we wrapped the portrait sessions, I hired local filmmaker Becky Lane to direct the doc and make something compelling from our array of clips. We became fast friends and colleagues and it’s been fun and wonderful to work with her. We also brought on Christian Savini to do the editing and were really lucky to get composer Mary Lorson to create the soundtrack with other local musicians. It’s been a gift to work with all of them.

Images from “We Are Ithaca” will be on display at the Tompkins County Public Library between Sept 1 and October 21. The complete series can be seen at www.weareithaca.org as well as in a recently published 106 page book, available for purchase online as well as at Ithacamade in the DeWitt Mall.

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Maybe its shape conjured up a bird, animal, or a person. As you turned it around, or upside down, perhaps a spiritual shape emerged. This fascination with driftwood set Donna Faivre-Roberts on an exciting art career transition. Her Soul of the Wood art show currently hangs at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca on Buffalo and Aurora Streets, and will be featured in this week’s First Fridays gallery event.

Soul of the Wood features this Lansing artist’s figurative wood sculptures that range from whimsical to spiritual -- many with dream-like qualities. Her artistic process begins with wood she has collected along the shores of our lakes or the ocean.

After cleaning the pieces with soap and water, she dries them before storing. In her studio are boxes of odds and ends labeled as potential “arms, legs, torsos” that have been dried and oiled with a bee’s wax and orange mixture for future works.

Faivre-Roberts’ artistic intent is to maintain the beauty and integrity of the wood while creating art that speaks to the soul. When inspired to start a new piece, after meditating to center herself, she selects the main piece of wood as a starting point. As the image begins to emerge, these shaped-by-nature forms are given their voice by adding other pieces of wood as limbs from her stored boxes. Often, she scupts faces or hands to add to the piece; then she adds other found natural materials to bring forth its message -- pods, bark, feathers or stems. Her current spiritual show presents 20 new images plus four decorative mirrors. Each mirror invites the observer to see beyond the surface and to look within.

An amusing piece is titled “Fido.” Although this dog is small, he appears fierce with the addition of teeth in his open mouth, maybe from a fish. “‘Fido’ is totally different from anything I’ve ever created before,” Faivre-Roberts said. “It still blows my mind at how the teeth that I found in New Foundland long

hers was telling a watercolor artist friend she visited on Cape Cod this summer about FaivreRoberts’ work. Enchanted by the idea, the woman dashed to her basement to retrieve an unusual piece of dark driftwood she had found along Cazenovia Lake over 25 years ago and had stored in her own artist cache. Since she never could figure out what to do with the interesting shape she gave it to her friend to gift it to Faivre-Roberts who accepted the piece with astonishment.

“It was love at first sight,” she said, and set about creating the magnificent “Whisper,” now on view in her current Donna Faivre-Roberts stands beneath one of her driftwood gallery show. sculptures, currently on display at the First Unitarian The power Soul of Society of Ithaca. (Photo by Casey Martin) the Wood show will be on display through Oct. 24 and can be viewed ago fit so perfectly in his jaw. He is so Monday through Friday between 10:30 happy. How could you not feel happy just a.m. and 4 p.m. Since the church doors are looking at him?” generally locked, on weekdays, enter via A story comes with many of her imthe administration office on Buffalo Street. ages.

The artist reception will be held from 5-8 The largest piece in the show (45x9 p.m. on on Friday, Oct. 5. • inches), titled “Whisper of a Dream,” carries an interesting back-story. A friend of

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Bars/Bands/Clubs

Dead Night with Terrapin Station | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

10/3 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Eric Aceto | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca IU: The Natvral, Palleon, Motorcyclez, TBA | 7:00 PM, | Chanticleer Loft, Ithaca | $7 Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Ray McNamara’s WednesRay Monk’s Raysidency | 7:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca Reggae Night w/ the Analouge Sons & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

10/4 Thursday Firelight Live! | 6:00 PM, | Firelight Camps, Ithaca Ithaca is Music: Kitestring | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Richman and The Poor Boys | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca The Revelers | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-$18

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Bottom of the Lake w/ Black Leather Jesus, Kjostad, Faith Void & More | 3:00 PM, | Community School Of Music And Arts, Ithaca

Stone Cold Miracle | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Charlie Young & London McDaniel | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Gratefully Yours | 7:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca Hop City Hellcats | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

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Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca

10/9 Tuesday

Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Firelight Live: Tuesdays with Ted

Trumansburg Community Session | 7:00 PM, | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg

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BREW FEST 2018 Saturday, 10/6 at noon | The Boathouse Beer Garden, Rte. 89, Romulus | Over 30 local and regional brewers will be on site for a full day of music, food and beverages. Enjoy sets from Los Blancos, The Lightkeepers and The Prezence – Led Zeppelin Tribute Band.

Additionally, the City of Syracuse Highland Pipe Band will be on hand to play during the band breaks. The is the Boathouse Beer Garden’s biggest event of the year! (photo provided)

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Cayuga Vocal Ensemble | 4:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Avenue, Ithaca | A performance of Maurice Durufle’s monumental Requiem version for choir and solo organ.

Aztec Two-Step featuring Rex Fowler & Friends | 8:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

Eu4ia | 3:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Grace and Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court Street, Cortland | A group of four remarkable Central New York musicians who share a passion for chamber music.

Symphoria Masterworks Series: Stravinsky’s Petrushka | 7:30 PM, 10/5 Friday | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | | $88$20. College $5. 18 & under $0

BREW FEST 2018! | 12:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus | Featuring Los Blancos, The Lightkeepers, & The Prezence Led Zeppelin Tribute Band | $29

Bert Salmirs - Jazz Piano | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector

Midday Music for Organ 10/3 | 12:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Jeff Snedeker: For the Birds - bird-related themes, performed on the 1746 Vicedomini Italian organ.

Michael Franti And Spearhead Stay Human Tour | 7:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca |

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10/7 Sunday

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Music Without Borders | 4:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Nino Rota, Diane Jones, Dvorak

Cracker | 8:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer |

The Yardvarks | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector

The Analogue Sons | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

An Evening With Melissa Etheridge - “Yes I Am” 25th Anniversary Tour | 8:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | | $45 and up

I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg

Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

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Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Morgan Opera House, 370 Main St., Aurora | Steven Page Trio | 8:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Co-founder and former frontman of Barenaked Ladies.| $20/$25 DJ/Dance/Trivia

Alice Cooper | 8:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Crouse-Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery St, Syracuse |

Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | $5

Decho Ensemble - Saxophones and Piano Chamber Music | 7:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The concert will feature Sarah Marchitelli and Jacob Swanson, saxophonist and Theresa Thordarson, pianists. | donations

Beginning Argentine Tango Class | 7:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Cornell University Physical Sciences Building, 245 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | $10

Ithaca Concert Band | 12:15 PM, 10/6 Saturday | 1836 Southworth Homestead, 14 North Street, Dryden | Final concert of the 2018 outdoor season when it plays at the Homestead Heritage Fair Day in Dryden.

An Intimate Evening with Bettye LaVette | 8:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | $29.50-$49.50 An Evening with The Chris Robinson Brotherhood | 8:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer |

Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 10:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Night | 8:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Tango Milonga, featuring local dancers and DJs! Come out and join the dance floor, new dancers welcome!

Trivia Night w/ Herman Nugent | 7:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca |

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Working with Pastel | 10:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Workshop with instructor Beverly Lombardo. Registration required:artsinseneca.org | $40

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Tango Tuesdays with Xavier Vanier | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Just Be Cause, 1013 W State Stree, Ithaca | | $15 for 1, $25 for both Trivia Night | 7:30 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Monk’s Patio BBQ, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca |

Stage Beehive - The Musical About the Women Who Rock Our World | Thru 10/6. Contact theatre for showtimes.| Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | $58-$60 Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games | 7:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | ComedyFLOPs Presents All You Can Eat Improv | 7:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | To benefit Addiction Recovery Services | $5 Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Harold Pinter’s Betrayal | 7:00 PM, 10/5 Friday & 10/6 Saturday | Auburn

Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Final weekend.| $20 Magic Beyond Imagination’s Mental Madness Tour | 7:30 PM, 10/5 Friday | CNY Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington St, Syracuse | $39 & $49 Bill Maher | 7:30 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Crouse-Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery St, Syracuse |

Art Learn How to Create a Labyrinth at TCPL | 5:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Adapting Conditions | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | A new site-specific installation by Saltonstall alumna Lorrie Fredette. Special preview and Saltonstall fundraiser on 10/4. Opening reception on 10/5.

Agua Kinesis - Opening Reception | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Presented by Cultura!

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Bow, Bend and Tarry - A Solo Exhibition by Mara Baldwin | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Wells College, 170 Main St, Aurora | At the String Room Gallery.

Dreams and Pressings: The Journey of Two Artist Friends | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, 330 East State / Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Ithaca | The Ink Shop is honored to exhibit the poetic documentations by book artists, Mary Ellen Long and Genie Shenk displaying three-dimensional works of paper, text, imagery, and found objects. Thru 10/27.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center Ithaca | Gallery | Movie Night! | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Join us for the opening of “LOVELETTERS / JUNKMAIL,” a solo exhibition of prints and illustrations by James Elkins.

Moving Stills: A Pop-Up Gallery from Wharton Studio Museum | 5:30 PM, 10/5 Friday | Part of Silent Movie Month 2018. Featuring photographs from the Wharton Studio era.

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A Star Is Born | 10/3, 9:15PM | Special advanced-screening of and the Bradley Cooper-directed film starring Cooper & Lady Gaga, offered FREE for Cornell students, first come, first seating, so be sure to arrive on time!

The Czech Year | 10/03, 7:15 PM| Jiri Trnka’s first feature film which established him as a world-renowned master of puppet animation. His feature debut celebrates the customs and folklore of the Czech people.

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Exhibit continues through October 31st, 2018 and can be visited while the shop is open.

Rural Landscapes at Harvest Time | 11:00 AM, 10/5 Friday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Paintings by Brian Keeler.

Annual Artisans’ Showcase | 9:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Lodi Historical Society Building, S. Main Street, Lodi | Cayuga Nature Photographers Installation | 9:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | First Saturday on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday & 10/7 Sunday| Art studios are open to you! Find the list of artists participating this month, and learn tons more at www.Arttrail.com.

The Catatonk Valley Woodcarvers 28th Annual Show and Sale | 10:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday & 10/7 Sunday | Candor Fire Station, 74 Owego Rd, , Candor | During Candor’s Fall Festival.

The Solitude of Selfie: An Exhibit

By Carol Flueckiger, | Ongoing | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls |

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 10/4, 7:00PM | Richard Burton narrates Trnka’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic fairy tale.

Trnka Shorts: Mature Mastery | 10/4 & 10/5, 9:00 PM | In the 1960’s, Trnka turned to increasingly dark, surreal, satirical, and politically defiant subject matter including religious parody and protest against state censorship.

Trnka Shorts: Early Years | 10/5, 7:00PM | Includes Trnka’s earliest experiments in animation including a modernist surrealist invention and 2D/collage combo that is an anti-Nazi lampoon.

Cinemapolis Week of Friday, October 5, 2018 through Thursday, October 11, 2018.

Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films are listed first.

The Children Act | As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle. |105 mins R The King | Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce

The Wife | A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. | 100 mins R BlacKkKlansman| 135 mins Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 10/3 through Tuesday, 10/9. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first.

Hell Fest | A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground.| 89 mins R Life Itself | As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child. | 118 mins R Lizzie | A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.| 106 mins R Venom | When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego “Venom” to save his life. |112 mins PG-13 A Star Is Born | A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. | 135 mins R Smallfoot |A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as “humans” really do exist.|96 mins PG Night School | A group of troublemakers are forced to attend night school in hope that they’ll pass the GED exam to finish high school.| 111 mins PG-13 The House with a Clock in Its Walls | A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world.| 105 mins PG Searching | 102 mins PG-13

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The Haunt | Do these fall days and chillier temps make you long for the warm nights at Grassroots? You can imagine you are back there when The Revelers make a stop in I-town all the way from their home base in Louisiana. Composed of founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers and the Pine Leaf Boys, The Revelers play all styles of Cajun, zydeco, Swamp Pop, and Americana.

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Southworth Homestead, 14 North St., Dryden | In their final concert of the 2018 outdoor season, the ICB will take its audience back in time to the early 1900’s with its concert entitled “Our Band Heritage”. In addition to ICB, enjoy a full day of wonderful music from the Fall Creek Brass Band and Cortland Old Timers Band. T

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Blaze | The life of musician Blaze Foley. |129 mins R Fahrenheit 11/9 | Michael Moore explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How did we get here, and how do we get out? | 128 mins R

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Special Events Cider Week FLX | | Finger Lakes Region | A full overview of the festival can be found on the Cider Week FLX website, CiderWeekFLX.com.

The Puppet Master: The Complete Jiri Trnka | | Cornell Cinema is thrilled to present six programs from the touring series The Puppet Master: The Complete Jiri Trnka, made possible with the support of the Cornell Institute for European Studies.See “Film” listings for specific dates and times.

2018 Candor Fall Fest | All Day 10/5 Friday thru 10/7 Sunday | So many activities! See candornychamber.org for full schedule.

Authentically Rural Weekend Opening Reception | 5:30 PM, 10/5 Friday | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Garden, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | $25 Death & Mourning in the Victorian Era | 5:30 PM, 10/5 Friday | The 1890 House Museum, 37 Tompkins Street, Cortland | Experience a 19th Century wake this October at the 1890 House Museum.

9th Annual Little Apple Fall Follies (aka LAFF) | 7:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A family friendly variety show. | $12 A Name for A Baby or The Curse of Eve | 8:30 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | Part of Silent Movie Month: Premiere of a new, original multimedia operetta.| Suggested Minimum Donation: $10 Authentically Rural Weekend Harvest Dinner | 6:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Coltivare, 235 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | $65

Authentically Rural Weekend Rural Heritage Afternoon Tour | 1:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | George Street Municipal Parking Lot, 12 South Street, Dryden | Take a guided bus tour to explore a heritage farm, a barn, and a rural schoolhouse in Dryden. | $35 Authentically Rural Weekend Rural Heritage Morning Tour | 9:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | George Street Municipal Parking Lot, 12 South Street, Dryden | Take a guided bus tour to explore two farms and a village in Dryden. We’ll stop for a behind-thescenes tour of Jerry Dell Farm, the Northeast’s largest organic dairy farm.

We’ll visit Rocky Acres Farm, a smallscale producer tapping into previously underserved markets. We’ll take a stroll to enjoy the historic architecture of the village of Freeville.| $35 Brewfest 2018 | | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | Live music and over 30 brewers on hand. | $29 Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Call†607-272-4830. | $57 Homestead Heritage Fair Day | 10:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Southworth Homestead, 14 North Street, Dryden | A full day planned of wonderful music from the Fall Creek Brass Band, Ithaca Concert Band, and Cortland Old Timers Band. Including horse drawn wagon rides, Cornell Raptor Program and Falconry demonstration, old time tools and demonstrations, and of course, guided tours of the Southworth House.

Newark Valley Apple Festival | 10:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday & 10/7 Sunday | Bement-Billings Farmstead Museum, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | $6 adults, $5 seniors, $4 students The Great Cortland Pumpkinfest | 9:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Courthouse Park, Court Street, Cortland | Also 10/7 from 12-5.

Veterinary Holistic and Integrative Wellness Seminar Series | 9:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Cornell University, 630 Tower Road, Ithaca | In Lecture Hall 4. Featuring five lectures and a performance from the Rising Stars of the Stradivari Society.

Authentically Rural Weekend Farmhouse Brunch | 10:00 AM, 10/7 Sunday | Maryhill Farm, 85 Ferguson Road, Dryden | Please pre-register| $35

Cayuga St, Ithaca | Carmen works with found materials to create imagined homes for a multitude of mediums; poetry, collage, book-making, photography, and graphite drawings.

Sunday afternoon Cuddle Party | 3:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Alison Rawlins, Ithaca | A Cuddle Party is a Platonic Event where pajamas stay on! Experience Conscious Connection, Communication and Consensual Touch. | 20

Katie Vaz Book Release Party at Riverow Bookshop | 6:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Riverow Bookshop, 187 Front St, Owego | Celebrate the release of her second book, Make Yourself Cozy: A Guide for Practicing Self-Care.

Dr. Orinthia Montague “Women and Education: Past, Present and Future” | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join the Ithaca branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) as they host the newly inaugurated fourth president of TC3. Please bring a nonperishable food item to donate to TC3 food pantry for students.

Books American Girl Book Club | 3:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Dr. Luvelle Brown: Culture of Love Community Book Launch | 5:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Write Now Writer’s Group | 10:00 AM, 10/3 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Friends of the Candor Free Library Book Sale | 10:00 AM, 10/4 Thursday thru 10/6 Saturday| Candor Free Library, 2 Bank Street, Candor | Locking Up our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America | 4:30 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Statler Auditorium, 7 East Ave, Ithaca | Lecture featuring James Forman, Jr., of Yale Law School, Voices of Freedom 2018: Kanchana Ugbabe | 7:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Gallery Night: Carmen Adriana Torrado Gonzalez | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N

Elizabeth Holmes & Rhian Ellis | 5:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ithaca’s Elizabeth Holmes and Rhian Ellis will read from works emerging from intense historical research: Holmes’ new book of poetry Passing Worlds: Tahiti in the Era of Captain Cook and Ellis’ novel in progress based on composer Alexander Scriabin.

Friends of The Tompkins County Library Book Sale | 10:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday thru Monday 10/8| Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty St, Ithaca | Laura June, author of Now My Heart is Full | 2:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Sophie Fund, the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, and Buffalo Street Books announce the 2018 “Readings on Mental Health” series.†

Kids Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 10/3 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Lego Club | 10:00 AM, 10/3 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Comic Creation Workshop for Teens | 5:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Fife & Drum Corps Open House | 7:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Vfw (veterans Of Foreign Wars), 423 W State St, Ithaca | For young people, ages 8-18, to learn an instrument in a really great environment with amazing instructors.

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Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 10/5 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Also one from 3:30 to 4:00 PM. Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 10/5 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Storytime | 10:30 AM, 10/5 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Tompkins County Public Library to Offer Teen Writing Workshop | 4:30 PM, 10/5 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | 1st Annual Family Fun Day | 11:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Stewart Park, near the carousel and small pavilion by the playground, Ithaca | Bring the kids to enjoy FREE carousel rides, popcorn, and games! There will also be a FREE raffle for adults! At the same time, meet members of your local Democratic Committee, share your thoughts and questions, and learn about simple ways to get involved. In addition, many Democratic candidates for local offices will be in attendance.

Ceridwen’s Cauldron: Myths and Tales from Around the World | 11:00 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Maker Mondays for Teens at TCPL | 4:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | .

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 10/8 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 10/9 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 10/9 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 10/9 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor |

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Common Council | 6:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | ICSD BoE Audit Committee | 10:00 AM, 10/3 Wednesday | Meets in Board Room Lansing Town Council | 6:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing, NY. Tompkins County Government Operations Committee | 3:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Newfield Schools Board of Education | 6:30 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Weaver Room, 2nd Floor in Newfield Elementary School Building, Main St. Dryden Schools Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Meets in the Middle School Library.

Ithaca Town Council | 5:30 PM, 10/8 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Spencer Town Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | Town of Covert Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | Town of Covert Town Hall, 8469 Main Street, Interlaken | Candor Town Council | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Meets at the town hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor.

Groton Town Board Meeting | 7:30 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Groton Town Hall, 101 Conger Blvd., Groton | ICSD BOE Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting - | 6:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | ICSD Administration Building, 400 Lake St., Ithaca | ICSD BoE Curriculum Work Session | 5:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Meets in Board Room Seneca County Board of Supervisors Meeting | 6:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Once a year, Seneca County Supervisors meet in Ovid. This year we

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7:00PM at Buffalo Street Books | Two timely and important speakers will be in Ithaca on Thursday. At Cornell, James Forman, Jr of Yale University will deliver a lecture based on his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Later in the day at Buffalo Street Books, Kanchana Ugbabe (pictured), Writer at Risk in Residence at Fordham University, will read from her fiction and discuss her life as a South Asian, an expatriate, a woman, a teacher and a writer in exile. (photo provided)

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Kulp Auditorium at Ithaca High School, | A collaboration between ICSD’s Fine Arts department and the Rotary and Savage Clubs of Ithaca, the LAFF show will host an array of performers including Running to Places, The Ithaca High School Men’s and Women’s Choirs, Armstrong School of Dance, magician James Warren, soloists Davina Barrett and Canen, Savoyards Ithaca, and music ranging from Broadway to Jazz to Folk to Barbershop. (photo provided)

Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | McLean Community Church Columbus Day Chicken Parmesan Dinner | 4:30 PM, 10/8 Monday | McLean Community Church, 50 Church St, McLean | Take outs available!

Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale | Candor Fire District Commissioners Meeting | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Weltonville Fire Station, 3232 W. Creek Road, Newark Valley | HeatSmart Tompkins community meeting | 6:30 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Trumansburg Fire Hall, 74 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Science Cabaret Presents: Can we survive on planet Earth? Let’s Discuss! | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca |

AN EVENING WITH THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Sunday, 10/7 at 8:00PM | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer | The former lead singer of The Black Crowes makes a stop in CNY as part of his current band’s tour. The CRB recently released their third album in just two years, “Barefoot in the Head,” demonstrating Robinson’s songwriting and musical drive is as prodigious as ever. (photo provided).

would like to have library supporters on hand to let our Supervisors know you do support local libraries. The meeting will be held at the “Papa Bear” building.

at Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Road***) Diane Cohen, Finger Lakes ReUse, Inc: ReUse & Reducing Waste and Creating Opportunities | $15

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Ulysses Town Council | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm Street, Trumansburg |

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Dinner: Chili’s, Ithaca. Host: Jim H., RSVP: jrhaustein@yahoo.com

“Our Stories, Our Lives” a writing and storytelling workshop series | 6:45 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Regina Carpenter, Commonland Community, Ithaca | For more information contact regi@regicarpenter.comor 607-2801013 | $150.00

Notices Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale |

King Cemetery Association Annual Meeting | Ithaca American Legion Post 221, 1231 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Notice: Meeting will be held on October 10th at 6pm.

D&D Gaming Night | 3:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid |

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor |

Daily Sunset Cruise | | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Times vary as the sunset changes so please check our booking calendar for exact dates and times. | $40 regular fare

Parents of Adopted Teens and Adopted Teens Support Group | 6:30 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Beverly J Martin Elementary School, 302 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca |

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Blogging for Beginners | 6:30 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Ulyssess Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Moms All Striving Together | 9:30 AM, 10/4 Thursday | Candor Congregational Church Parsonage, 134 Main St, Candor | Trumansburg Zombie Night | 6:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Trumansburg Middle School, 100 Whig St, Trumansburg | Whitham Planning & Design Open House | 5:00 PM, 10/5 Friday |

Whithiam Planning & Design, 1 Bank Court (off Seneca Street), Ithaca | Eagles Club Chicken BBQ | 12:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Eagles Club, 161 Cecil A Malone Dr, Ithaca | Proceeds go to benefit the Southern Tier AIDS Program.| $10 per person Saddle Up for Jesus Horse Riding Club | 7:00 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Brooktondale Baptist Church, 2311 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | Contact Lawrence Canfield at 607-539-6440.

TCPL Board Game Club for Adults | 1:30 PM, 10/6 Saturday | Antiques, Collectibles and Bottle Show and Sale | 9:00 AM, 10/7 Sunday | Dryden Fire Hall , North St. , Dryden | $2 Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Upstairs from Autumn Leaves Books Ithaca-Cortland PFLAG | 4:00 PM, 10/7 Sunday | Interfaith Center, 7 Calvert St, Cortland |

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Yang style Tai Chi. | 2:00 PM, 10/3 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | S Yoga For Beginners | 9:00 AM, 10/3 Wednesday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Registration required. ovidlibrary.org Candor Tai Chi | 1:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | | $1/$3 per class Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 10/4 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Meets weekly on Tu/Th. Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 10/4 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net

Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM, 10/5 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Reframing Parenting Series | 9:35 AM, 10/6 Saturday | Higher Hope Church, 356 Maple Street, Big Flats | A Free Workshop for Adoptive and Guardianship Parents raising children with adverse childhood experiences or difficult past histories. Contact info@ affcny.org to register.

Dance Church Ithaca | 11:30 AM, 10/7 Sunday | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca | Dance Church Ithaca is a free-movement and conscious dance experience for all ages held weekly at the Fine Spirit Studio in Ithaca’s Fall Creek neighborhood. | $5 donation Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 10/7 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 10/7 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | American Red Cross Blood Drive | 11:00 AM, 10/8 Monday | Homewood Suites 11am to 3pm Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 10/8 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | American Red Cross Blood Drive | 10:00 AM, 10/9 Tuesday | Tompkins County Library 10am to 4pm.

Candor Tai Chi | 1:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | $1/$3 per class Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 10/9 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Ithaca Bipolar Support Group Meeting | 7:00 PM, 10/9 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 West Court St., Ithaca |

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Events continue through the weekend. | Tompkins County is a place where rural areas uphold long-held traditions that contribute to the county’s vibrant cultural and economic life. Come explore our rural history, architecture, landscapes, and culinary bounty on a New York State Path Through History. There are numerous events planned throughout the county including a Harvest Dinner at Coltivare, tour of a rural schoolhouse and heritage farm in Dryden, and a farmhouse brunch . (photo provided)

Willard Straight Hall, Cornell| Cornell Cinema is thrilled to present six programs from this touring series, the U.S.’s first complete retrospective of the works of Czech animation master Jiří Trnka (1912-1969). With 18 short and six feature-length animated films, Trnka was rivaled only by Walt Disney Studios in output. Revered as the pioneer of a remarkable new genre of animation that utilized puppets. (photo provided)

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