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(TMPUD), requiring developers to get approval from Common Council.

“There’s certainly a level of uncertainty that we did not anticipate when we initially purchased the land,” Phil Maguire said in an interview on Friday. “The level of uncertainty that comes with the investment, having things change after the fact, and then not knowing what the future holds, that’s all part of reality at this point.”

“I think that the committee is trying to find a balance on what’s the best thing to do for the site of Carpenter Business Park,” he said.

But while committee members did not rule out the idea of a car dealership in that location, all five made it clear that they

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he Tompkins County community has already reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 21 percent between 2008 and 2014, putting it ahead of its target goal of 20 percent reduction by 2020, but also included in a recent study was an alternative method of calculating emissions to include shale gas, which told a very different story.

The summary of the 2014 inventories of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Use states that since 2008 the source of natural gas used in Tompkins County has “likely transitioned from wells drilled through conventional methods to fracked gas, primarily coming from the Marcellus Shale in Katie Borgella Pennsylvania.” About 11 percent of the reduction in emissions has been achieved through a major shift from coal to natural gas.

Utilizing the knowledge of local experts including Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University, the study found that if fracked natural gas is accounted for, the community has not seen a 21 percent reduction in emissions but instead a 67 percent increase in total greenhouse gas emissions.

The alternative calculations take into account two things. There is an international consensus developing that methane should be accounted for at its 20-year warming impact (80 to 100 times that of carbon dioxide) rather than the 100-year impact (20 times CO2) reflected in studies to date, the study states.

Secondly, evidence suggests that more methane escapes to the atmosphere in the fracking process than from conventional natural gas production, and this can have a profound impact on the effect of gas production on the climate. The data indicates that even a low-end estimate of five-percent leakage would offset any other gains.

“These factors fundamentally alter our understanding of the impacts of use of natural gas in Tompkins County,” including the drawing of electricity from a more gas intensive grid, the report says.

“We are thus faced with the dilemma of trying to use consistent methodology continued on page 4

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n Wednesday, Sept. 14 all five members of the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Economic Development Committee, a subset of Common Council, expressed reservations with the Maguire Family of Dealerships’ proposal to convert six parcels of land near the Cayuga Inlet into a new car dealership.

The committee’s only power is to send a recommendation to Common Council, but because the committee is composed of five of ten of the voting Common Council members (not including the mayor, who votes only in the case of a tie), it is unlikely that the Maguire proposal will advance in its current state.

After hearing from more than 30 members of the public, including several Maguire employees Proposed Maguire dealership. Rt. 13 at right. (Image provided) and multiple Northside residents, the latter of whom were especially opposed to the dealership were not in favor of the current proposal. because of traffic concerns and a lack of “I have to come back to the question, communication with the neighborhood, committee members said that the proposed is a car dealership the appropriate use for the waterfront?” said Seph Murtagh, chair dealership did not mesh with the city’s of the planning committee and a Second comprehensive plan.

Ward alderperson. “And when I look at a Maguire purchased a little over 8 car dealership, I see a very low-density use. acres of land on Carpenter Park Road and Cascadilla Road, near the Inlet, in October It definitely does produce jobs, but in terms of jobs that are produced per acre, it’s going for about $2.7 million, deeds show. The to be producing fewer jobs than you would plots were zoned as “industrial” when be getting with high-density mixed-use Maguire purchased the land, but the area development.” has since been converted to a temporary mandatory planned unit development zone continued on page x

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Cornell Honors Abrams’s Legacy

By C a se y Mar tin

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n Sunday Sept. 25, from 1 to 5 p.m., Cornell Plantations (CP) will host the 11th annual Judy’s Day in the F. R. Newman Arboretum, a celebration in memory of Judy Abrams (1940-1996), a friend, teacher, and mentor to many Ithacans. As a learning festival with hands-on activities, storytelling and food to sample, this year’s theme “Food Plants of the Americas” will feature plants originally native to South, Central and North America.

A great deal of planning goes into this biennial event involving an organizing committee comprised of 12 staff and volunteers with three core staff members: Raylene Ludgate, youth education coordinator; Diane Miske, visitor services coordinator; and Dave McGraw, facilities maintenance mechanic, who builds whatever is needed for the event. Over 400 students have signed up to volunteer during the event with over 60 booths and 10 professors will share their plant-related research. Fifteen exhibition tents and scattered pop-ups will be set up around the pond. The Town of Ithaca inspects the tent layout with designated fire extinguisher locations before issuing a safety code compliance permit. Tompkins County Health Department issues a food service permit to a staff person (Ludgate) who must take and pass a food safety test.

Judy’s Day 2016 will showcase an inventory of native plants with hands-on activities that demonstrate their evolving cultural uses throughout history and in mythology. The horticulture staff and interns grew containers of tropical plants such as amaranth, peppers, papaya, pineapple, avocado, and in the Pounder Garden corn varieties such as popcorn, sweet corn, dent corn (ground for corn

“Viva Burrito!”

—Amy Chapman

“I’d buy a new graphic novel from Comics For Collectors.”

—Elijah Cronk

“Oysters and a glass of rosé from Maxies” —Jessica Phillipe

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to measure change across time while recognizing that the science is rapidly evolving and methods of calculating emissions will likely change to reflect increasing concern regarding the impacts of methane as a greenhouse gas,” states the executive summary of the energy use inventory.

According to the summary, the conclusion that emissions are “sharply increasing” due to reliance on fracked gas calls for a transition to renewable energy more quickly than previously thought.

That’s not to diminish the progress that the county has been making over the last eight years, said Katherine Borgella, deputy commissioner of planning for Tompkins County. Without accounting for

“A fresh, cold 12 pack of cascazilla from Ithaca Beer.”

—Judd Wipf

“I’d buy myself a nice exotic lunch -- Something I couldn’t get from my hometown.”

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from The History Center will display historic images from the 1800s and tell the story of George Crumm’s invention of the “Saratoga [potato] Chip”.

Plant pathologist Keith Perry will share information about potato diseases and their flowers. When asked about other plants Miske added, “Amaranth was first cultivated in Mexico, then Central America and quinoa was cultivated in Peru, Equador, Bolivia and Columbia.

Important in religious ceremonies, both of these staple food crops were high Young naturalist takes part in Judy’s Day activity (Photo provided) in protein and nutrients, and were able to survive harsh growing conditions … bread, tortillas, and corn chips); and They are good for today’s growing world multi-colored flint corn (used to make populations and climate change.” hominy and can be popped).

Judy Abrams’s family and friends have Staff also grew seven kinds of potatoes made this program possible to celebrate selected from various native regions to Judy’s love of life, work, kids, and the demonstrate different cultural uses. One natural world. The Saquish Foundation hands-on activity will present a former and the SIRUS Fund have provided practice of preserving potatoes by the Inca generous gifts to support the program. people who lived in Peru, South America Judy’s Day is held every other year during the early 13th-century until 1572 in the arboretum. During the off year, when the Spanish conquered them.

Ludgate takes several themed activities Potatoes were grown in the mountains are taken into the public schools as part where they were freeze-dried for longof Kids Discover the Trail. In March she term storage. According to Ludgate, “Ripe teaches third graders in their classrooms potatoes were dug up, then crushed or durin g the day, the kids then teach stepped on to squeeze out some of the their parents at home about what they’ve liquid. They were then left out over night learned from her. In May and June the to freeze, thawed out during the following students go on a field trip to Cornell day, and again stepped on to release more liquid.” This crush/freeze/thaw/crush cycle Plantations where they are given notes about the plants and clues for where to was repeated until there was no liquid find them in the gardens. inside the potatoes. Freeze-dried potatoes This event is held under tents rain could be stored up to 10 years with only or shine, there is a suggested donation a remote chance of developing mold and of $5 and free parking with a shuttle rot. Kids will be shown how to start their bus between Cornell’s B-Lot and the own Inca-style freeze-dried potato that arboretum. Mobility-impaired attendees they can then take home to complete the may park in the arboretum. Direct all process. inquiries to rgl3@cornell.edu or 607-255Matt Felice will exhibit his research breeding for potato characteristics that will 2400. • result in purple potato chips. Carol West

the fracked natural gas, Tompkins County government reduced its emissions by 53 percent from 2008 to 2014. This puts both the community and county government ahead of not just the 2020 goal, but also positions both to achieve the goal adopted by the county legislature of at least an 80 percent reduction in emissions from 2008 levels by 2050. The 2014 inventory also showed that renewable energy generation in the county increased by 136 percent since 2008.

“I think what’s exciting in this whole report is the focus on energy use and renewables,” said Borgella. The one area where the county could use some improvement is in its transportation emission levels, she said. It’s the only sector that has risen slightly rather than decreasing over time, and she said she expects it to drop as people transition to

– Deirdre Cunningham electric vehicles.

“It’s slow, but its growing,” she said of the electric car market. Longer-range batteries are helping to boost their popularity, she added, “I see it really starting to percolate.

Transportation emissions will also improve if the community can come up with innovative ways to get people out of single occupancy cars, build more housing in the city closer to jobs, and use bus system and carpool more, she said.

Results from the inventories will be used to inform the update to the County’s 2020 Energy Strategy, as well as future efforts to reduce emissions and energy consumption in Tompkins County. • – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org

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hen Dan Cogan succeeded Kevin Sutherland as chief of staff at the City of Ithaca in May, he was a familiar face to many. Cogan was an alderman for the Fifth Ward between 2002 and 2011 and before that had been involved with the Citizens’ Planning Alliance, a group of development advocates.

Cogan worked for TAITEM Engineering for 15 years before joining the staff at city hall. He is originally from the Bay Area in California, attended UC Berkeley for civil and environmental engineering and then moved to Cornell to do his graduate work. He stayed in Ithaca for six years after graduating, thinking it was just a temporary home. But in 1998 he moved back to San Francisco and ended up staying for only six months. It was the middle of the dot-com boom and it just didn’t feel like home anymore. He found that liked the snow, the change of seasons, and in the end, the human scale of Ithaca.

Ithaca Times: Why did you want to be chief of staff for the City of Ithaca?

Dan Cogan: In 2011 I was ready to take a break from Common Council and I focused on my work at TAITEM for awhile, but I missed being in the thick of things and missed the work of city of government.

I find the work compelling because it has a tangible effect on our lives. The work I did as an engineer has a tangible effect, but it is more hidden and it was also all over the state.

IT: What does the chief of staff do?

DC: The way I think of it the mayor’s job has three legs: there’s the legislative aspect of it, working with Common Council and passing laws; there’s the public part of it, the handshaking, the lobbying in Albany and Washington, and getting in the national news; and there is the CEO aspect of it, basically being in charge of all the departments in the city. The chief of staff is involved with the last part of the job.

I keep an eye on the internal aspects of the government, how the departments talk to one another. The organization has to be as responsive to the public as we can be, and we have to be as efficient as we can be.

When I talked to Svante [Myrick] about this job, he said the chief of staff basically lives in city hall. The mayor’s job has those other two pieces. The focus of the chief of staff is internal; this is a world unto itself.

IT: Was it an advantage to have been on Common Council before being chief of staff?

DC: I can’t imagine what it was like for Kevin. I already knew most of the department heads. There were only a few new ones. I understand the politics and the process. I understand the needs of

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Next week there will be a presentation the council members; they need before the budget comes out. It will be answers and responsiveness. I’m about what capital projects are to be the liaison between the council finished and what is going on with and the staff. I can answer parking. most of their questions or Parking is another area where get them for them. They, of I am focusing a lot of my time. course, still have the right to There are a lot of costs associated talk to the staff themselves. with parking, but there is also a lot IT: So, what are some of of revenue. We have to make it pay the issues you’ve had to deal with? for itself. Right now there is a big DC: The water issue deficit. We also don’t want to became all-consuming. kill the downtown or It was all about Collegetown. the drought and The mayor’s budget brown water for will have an October about a month 3 release. He will talk and a half. The about what went into challenge was to it and what were the get information major drivers of out quickly, the budget. Then but have it we’ll start having be thorough meetings—six of and accurate. them in October— Sometimes and different those two departments will things were at present at each cross purposes, one. Then we but my will have some background public hearings, in engineering and then we will was helpful. get to the voting But I still to adopt the budget. needed to get the That is scheduled for information.

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Our best IT: How is this understanding is different from what that the manganese you did at TAITEM? came from the DC: I had a lot of sediments in the meetings there, but I also reservoir and was had more time to geek out a product of the on a spreadsheet. Now I am temperatures and spending a lot more time the low flows. When going through my email. But you are talking about it’s interesting; it’s so varied, millions of gallons per HR, the budget, public safety, day, you can’t make youth services … changes instantly [in IT: Do you come from a the treatment]. It’s like family that was civically active? turning around an DC: No, I’m an anomaly in aircraft carrier. But we’ve my family. No one is involved got the treatment right in boards or government. I got now and the amount of bit by the bug; I was my senior manganese coming in is class president. I like having also less now. The lack input in my community. When of rain seems to have I moved to Ithaca I even got caused stratification of into shoveling my sidewalk so the reservoir, leading to people could get where they were anaerobic conditions at going more easily. I would watch the bottom, which drew them struggle along until they the manganese out of the got to where I had shoveled and sediments. that would make me feel good.

IT: What is coming up?

I was a renter for most of my DC: One of the things life, but if I saw something was about this job is that I can broken, I would fix it. I like get into the weeds on a lot of the saying, “It’s better to light a topics, but not too far in; I have candle than to curse to keep a broader Dan Cogan (Photo: Casey Martin) the darkness.” • view. Right now we’re getting ready for the budget. I’m – Bill Chaisson the liaison between Common Council and editor@ithacatimes.com the department heads. I need to know what areas [council members] have question about and what information do they need.

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Ups&Downs ▶ New Rotarians, The Rotary Club of Ithaca is pleased to introduce six individuals who have recently joined the service club. These community members volunteer in Tompkins County and bring professional experience from the business and not-for-profit sectors. Ithaca Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self.” Membership is open to all who share in this belief; new members are accepted year-round. The new members are Jeff Bricker; Matthew Forney; Richard Higgins; Norma Jayne; Paula Perna; and Steve Savage.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Women with fossils, PRI and the Museum of the Earth; just received a $137K grant from the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) for a traveling exhibit focused on the contributions of women in the field of paleontology.

This project is unique, as it will highlight the struggles and success of women in STEM fields on a national scale. Congressman Tom Reed also released a statement about the significance of the grant and how it will expand educational opportunities here in New York. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 14-20 include: 1) Motorcyclist Crashes While Driving 123 mph Through Ovid 2) Idealism and Famous Chicken in Ovid 3) Ithaca PD Still Looking for Public’s Help in Cornell Stabbing Case 4) Friday Night Football Week 3: Groton Keeps Rolling 5) Newfield Rescues Give Horses a Second Chance at Life For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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The Government & the Governed Constricted Urbanity

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n one public meeting after another in Ithaca we are treated to the spectacle of the dysfunctional relationship between the governed and the government. There is nearly always a “privilege of the floor” segment in the beginning of a meeting, during which members of the public express their support or dislike of a particular project.

The government officials listen patiently, respond politely, and then apparently do what they had intended to do based on advice from civil servants and consultants, and public input that was received through that filter.

A recent instance of this dynamic was played out at the meeting of the Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) on Sept. 14. The committee is a subset of Common Council and includes half its members.

The topic was the Maguire Family of Dealership’s proposal to build a dealership in the former Carpenter Business Park, a flat, open area adjacent to the Ithaca Community Gardens between Rt. 13 and the Cayuga Inlet.

The area had been zoned for industrial use, but nothing had ever been done with it because—among other reasons—the presence of overhead power lines makes only 45 percent of the parcel usable. Recently the city has rethought the land use for the entire Cayuga Inlet area and has suggested

that the Carpenter Business Park have mixed uses. In early June 2015 the Form Ithaca group chose to include the parcel in a charette that invited public input to plan a neighborhood in an area that also includes the present state Department of Transportation depot, which will eventually be vacated, once the state makes up its mind where to move it.

Last week, one after the other, residents of nearby Northside came to the microphone and told the government body that they were upset that the Maguire people had never consulted them about the planned development across the highway from their neighborhood. Northside is part of the Second Ward, which is represented by alderpersons Seph Murtagh, PEDC chair and Ducson Nguyen, a member of the committee. The Carpenter Business Park is in the First Ward, represented by alderperson Cynthia Brock, a member of the PEDC. In other words, although public input on the future of this parcel had already been sought and incorporated in formal plans, twice, and this plan has been presented at several public meetings already and no public official has endorsed it, the electorate still wanted to have a say in government policy.

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nyone living in Ithaca a while knows the aphoristic description of our town as “centrally isolated.” It was funny to hear of this trait (though not in so many—actually, so few- words) from a well-known show business visitor this past month.

It was meant to be funny: professionally so. The visitor was Pete Davidson, a popular comedian and cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He was here for a show at Cornell’s Bailey Hall.

Davidson flew from Los Angeles for his performance here. He landed in New York City and was driven from the airport there to Ithaca.

He opened the show by talking about his disorientation about our (then, his) general whereabouts.

He admitted to a weak grasp of geography, even within New York, his home state (he is from Staten Island). He said he did not realize the drive from the airport would take five hours. That’s how long the cross-country flight took, after all.

As the drive progressed, and hours passed, he got worried, he said. Were they lost? They had passed through New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Why would you do that to get from one place in New York to another?

After four hours, they were (ostensibly) back in New York, but Davidson said he remained anxious and skeptical. If it was New York, why was it dark? New York is light, not dark, even at night.

Long-time residents can forget how disconcerting road travel to Ithaca can be, especially the last hour: on two-lane roads, shoulders narrow or non-existent, lighting largely lacking.

A first-time traveler through Lisle and Latersville (to Ithaca via Route 79), or Candor and Wilseyville (via Route 96), can be excused for thinking that surely there can’t be a major world university around here, like just a few more miles up the road (i.e., even further than nowhere).

Onstage, Davidson’s lingering preoccupation was with physical visibility.

“Why is it so dark here?” he asked (or actually hollered, in comic voice, and more than once), referring not just to our larger

environs, but to Ithaca itself.

Well, we’re in the country, I thought in (silent) response; but I took his point.

How should he know we’re in the country?

Ithaca is a city, and the city is the opposite of the country. One expects cities to be lit up. But Ithaca’s physical urbanity is pretty constricted.

Go three or four miles from downtown at midnight, and look up and see a panoply of stars; perhaps the Milky Way. But look around downtown, at this same hour, for well-lit, vibrant streets, and you will find but minor spurs in an earthly galaxy that is barely urban at all.

I don’t blame Davidson for being nervous, even once safely here. Ithaca, New York is a long way from New York, New York in very clear ways, and I guess jarring ones, to someone visiting here from there with limited (or no) preparation.

Like Pete Davidson, I am from New York City, and although I have lived in Ithaca for years, and long ago became attuned to its city/country dichotomy, I still favor the city aspects, and remain fairly foreign to the country ones, charming as they might be, like the darkness Davidson cited, and its partner, quiet, and the peace that goes with them. I don’t really like all that.

I like bustle, and busy people. These things create a peace I understand, because they mean things are going on, and no one has the time or inclination to be troubling or annoying to others.

It was a bustling scene for Pete Davidson at Cornell. It was a packed house.

He was wearing a Cornell hoodie. He praised Bailey Hall as “plush,” and much nicer than he was used to, in his trade.

It’s too bad the State Diner is no longer open 24 hours. A generation ago, when I worked for the Cornell Concert Commission (no longer named such), that’s where we’d take artists after shows, to unwind, and see people late. As things are, I hope Davidson maybe stayed in a place with an all-night gym or something. And that no one mentioned things like country coyotes, mere miles from our Ivy League outpost, eyes shining midst the highway dark. It’s a long ride back, too. •

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better, for the gardens.”

But Dan Hoffman, who said he is a longtime supporter of Community Gardens and had provided pro bono legal consulting for the organization in the past, said the Maguire proposal could give the gardens a level of land security that they do not currently have.

“Community Gardens could lose its lease with the city for any reason—or no reason—with approximately one year’s notice,” he said at Wednesday’s meeting.

The offer from Maguire to relocate

“My concern is that this project goes against the vision we have for that waterfront,” Murtagh concluded, noting the “huge amount of parking” that the project would include.

Graham Kerslick, Fourth Ward alderperson and a member of the planning committee, emphasized that the committee’s role is to review the proposal and determine whether it is consistent with the comprehensive plan, not to decide whether the dealership is a good or bad one.

“It’s not sufficiently in line with the goals of the comprehensive plan to really allow me to say this is consistent, which I think is our role,” Kerslick said. “I would hope that this is an opportunity to at least better refine what we’re looking for. I’m sure this community is willing to try and look at other options.”

Several Northside residents lamented that no one from Maguire Phil Maguire of Maguire Family Dealerships (File photo) had communicated plans of the dealership to the neighborhood. portions of the gardens, but not reduce “I find it really telling that I haven’t their total acreage, and also give the heard one single member of the Northside organization the opportunity to purchase community speak in favor of this plan,” all of the land, “is the only pathway to said resident Armin Heurich, who added ownership that the Community Gardens that he chose the Northside neighborhood has at this point,” Hoffman said. community because of its walkability. “No Ducson Nguyen, a Second Ward one came to my house and knocked on my alderperson who sits on the planning door to speak about this proposal.” committee, said he would not rule out a The loudest applause of the night car dealership in that area, but that the came when local activist Phoebe Brown “extreme housing need” and the desire for said Maguire had failed to reach out to “urban, mixed use of our land, especially residents who would be impacted by the near waterfronts,” led him to believe that dealership. the current proposal was not satisfactory.

“You went to the farmers market, you Nguyen added that the increase in parking went to the garden, but you never crossed is “not in line with our goals.” that bridge or that highway to come see us First Ward Alderperson Cynthia Brock in Northside, to come ask us what we think was blunt in saying that “the proposal that we could do together,” she said, referring to is put forward here today is one that is not Maguire. likely to win support in council.”

Maguire acknowledged that his “I’m willing and interested to company should have communicated continue to work with [Maguire] and the more directly with Northside residents, community to come up with something saying that he failed to meet with that that meets all of our needs,” she said. Brock neighborhood “because it was one of the 500 juggling components ... of the situation added that Maguire had put much thought into their proposal and was sensitive to that we’re in.” the farmers market and the community Another controversial aspect of the gardens, but noted, “it’s also clear that the proposed dealership is the relocation Northside neighborhood would like to be of Ithaca Community Gardens. When involved” in future discussions. news of the land purchase first broke in Brock said the issues that she saw December 2015, Mayor Svante Myrick as inconsistent with the comprehensive told the Ithaca Voice that the city did not plan were the volume of the parking and want to displace the gardens “without an the lack of any other possible use for the alternate location that works as well, or area. She noted that, in contrast with other

council members, she does not believe the area is suitable for housing because of petroleum storage tanks near the area.

If the proposal is amended to encourage more mixed use and address the high volume of parking, Brock said, “I could see this as being consistent” with the comprehensive plan.

Mayor Svante Myrick attended the meeting, although he is not a member of the committee, and extended an olive branch to Maguire, which he called “one of the top 10 most important businesses” in Ithaca.

Myrick said he hoped Maguire and the city could work together to find a more suitable location for a new dealership, but that “on this spot, the community’s got a different vision.”

Committee members plan to make their official recommendation at next month’s planning committee meeting on Oct. 12. They hope to include a rationale that explains to Maguire which parts of their proposal the committee believes fit within the comprehensive plan and which do not.

Maguire said Friday that a rationale would aid him in determining whether to continue to try and build a dealership at Carpenter Business Park or begin to look elsewhere.

“It would be helpful to have more specifics on what would be approvable and what would not,” Phil Maguire said.

He said Maguire Dealerships is anxious to move forward, whether that means amending their proposal, using only part of the Carpenter Business Park site, or liquidating all of the land and working with the city on alternative sites. • – Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs editorial

too much space has opened up between the governed and the governors. The public routinely expresses little faith in the intention of the government to act in its interest. The professional employees of the city who work in the planning department know that the city must grow its tax base through development, and the elected officials generally seem to grasp this, albeit less firmly. The general public, on the other hand, repeatedly shows up at civic meetings to oppose increasing the density of development at designated nodes within the city. In other words, the government is not adequately explaining the situation to the public.

At Carpenter Business Park the governed and the government are both on the same page, but the members of the public spoke as if they wanted to be at the table for this decision because they expected the government to sell them out. Increased density in downtown, Collegetown, and on Hancock Street is all in the public’s best interest, but they speak as if they have been betrayed. The government’s complaint against Maguire is that it is proposing a low-density project— most of the plan is a parking lot—when the city’s consistent modus operandi has been to become more urban and less sprawled-out suburban.

Staël believed it was the responsibility of the government to understand and respond to the will of the people. The people, she believed, ought to be allowed to simply go about their business. The French Revolution failed because the government stopped paying attention to the public will and lost their support. Will the building of a sustainable tax base in Ithaca fail because the government stops paying adequate attention to the public and loses their support? • youropinions

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clear to Phil Maguire that his plan did not mesh with the city’s comprehensive plan, a document that had extensive input from the public over the 10 years it took to put together. The Maguire plan entirely ignored the efforts of Form Ithaca, which had invited public input. The residents of Northside either didn’t trust the elected officials to carry out the comprehensive plan or they were unaware of its existence or purpose. Or both.

This is a problem. It suggests a disconnection between the governed and government. Two centuries ago Madame de Staël identified this as a reason for the failure of the French Revolution.

“‘In modern nations public opinion—a different thing from the immediate presence of the citizens in the public square—emerged to occupy the space that separated the government from the people.’ If too much space opened up between the governed and the governors, public opinion could turn against the political class, even against the system itself.

(Robert Darnton, “Mme. de Staël and the Mystery of the Public Will,” New York Review of Books, June 23)

families, and plan special activities. I would also like to thank the individuals and local businesses who so generously give their time and resources to make The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Towns Program throughout New York’s Southern Tier a great success each year.

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Time for ConCon? A Pandora’s box or an opportunity for an extreme makeover ?

By Bill Chaisson

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ike the arrival of the 17-year locusts, the New York State Constitutional Convention referendum comes before us too infrequently for most people to remember the last time it happened. During the 1846 convention the delegates decided that presenting the referendum to New York voters should occur every 20 years. Between 1777 and 1967 the average gap between conventions has been 23 years, but there hasn’t been one since ’67.

“There’s a feeling throughout the country,” said Henrik “Hank” Dullea, vice president of university relations emeritus at Cornell, “that people should have an opportunity to reflect on the structure of government.” Dullea, who attended the 1967 convention, has been advocating for a 2017 convention and at Ithaca’s town hall on April 7 debated Assemblywoman Barbara J. Lifton on the subject.

Lifton opposes holding a convention.

“Our constitution … has many good things in it,” she said that night, “that I and other progressives want to preserve, such as support and protection for public education, for both public and private workers, for social welfare, and for the environment, among other area.” Lifton said that the unbridled spending allowed by the Citizens United decision would skew the selection of convention delegates in favor of the rich and powerful.

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constitution has only been adopted Th e o r i g i n a l 1 7 7 7 c o n s t i t u t i o n o f N e w Yo r k S tat e (p r ov i d e d) four times. We are still operating under the 1894 document, although it was to give the public time to mull over the and the governor in the normal course of substantially revised by the actions of the proposed changes. If the vote is held in business to look at themselves,” he said.

1938 convention. A referendum to have a early November, then the convention must Dullea has the perspective of an convention was on the ballot in 1997, but end in September. appointed state employee, not an elected it failed by a wide margin. The public votes The selection process is at the root official. He served from 1983 to 1991 as three times in the convention process: of Lifton’s concerns. “This is not going director of state operations and policy first, to decide whether or not to have to be the average person going to the management for Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, the convention; convention,” responsible for directing the day-tosecond, if that she said. “They day activities of New York State’s more “ The unique democratic passes, then they couldn’t raise than 65 departments and agencies. purpose of New York’s vote to elect the money [for a He was also assistant secretary to the delegates; and periodic constitutional campaign] and governor for education and the arts in the third, they vote make themselves administration of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and convention referendum is ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ on known. It tends was a legislative budget analyst for the the changes that to implement New Yorkers’ to be 25 to 30 New York State Assembly ways and means are proposed by committee. inalienable right to alter their percent of the the convention. delegates are Lifton was on the staff of her constitution in cases where The changes can sitting legislators; predecessor Marty Luster, but has been be presented in the interests of the legislature they may be an assemblyperson since 2003. “What parts (as was done just fighting for would change the current dynamic?” she and people conflict. ” in 1938) or as a the status quo.” asked, after noting how many legislators —NewYorkconcon.info single package That said, if the would be convention delegates. “There is (as was done in referendum to polarization in our state. It’s not as bad 1967). have a convention as Washington, but there has been major The number were to pass, erosion on the issues of education and of convention delegates is written into Lifton said she would run to be a delegate women’s rights.” the state constitution. There are to be 15 in order to preserve progressive gains.

As an example, Lifton described statewide (“at large”) members and three the current effort in Albany to put an from each of the state Senate districts. education tax credit into place. The law There are presently 62 districts, making a would allow someone to donate $1 million total of 201 delegates. If the public passes Dullea believes that it has simply been to any school, public or private, and then the referendum in November 2017, then too long since there has been a convention; receive a 90 percent tax credit. In response, the convention would convene on the first the 50 years since the unsuccessful 1967 the governor has proposed a 75 percent Tuesday in the following April. It must event is nearly double the average gap. credit. “These contributions would go to end six weeks before the general election “It is almost impossible for the legislators

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private schools,” said Lifton. “And where would all the charitable contributions go, if you could get 90 percent of what you donated back in this case?” She said that several hedge-fund billionaires donated to the campaigns of the opponents of four of her colleagues who had opposed this taxcredit bill.

The assemblywoman believes that with this kind of money in the mix, a constitutional convention at this time would be a disaster. “All the case law based on this constitution would be swept away,” she said. In her remarks on April 7 she mentioned the Campaign for Fiscal Equity ruling of 1995 as an example. It led to a state Supreme Court decision in 2005 that determined “many New York children were not being afforded [an] adequate education,” Lifton said, “and the State had to reform the school aid formula and add money … so that poorer schools could be brought up to adequate standards and performance.” This process was brought to a halt by the Great Recession and is still not complete; Lifton does not want to lose the promised changes through alterations to the Education Clause in the state constitution.

Dullea, on the other hand, finds the existing clause inadequate because it makes no mention of levels of preparation for higher education versus the workforce.

In fact, it makes no mention of higher education at all. “With the [presidential] candidates talking about free community college,” he said, “they should be given more recognition.”

In addition, Dullea sees a great deal to fix in the running of the state government.

He said over 100 agencies report directly to the governor, but cabinet meetings are rarely called. “The staff in the executive chambers seems to be running things,” he said, “not the commissioners. The constitution says there should be 20 civil departments and agencies.” The additional departments have been created by the legislature.

Dullea believes a convention should take a look at the powers of the governor, the attorney general, the controller, and the legislature. “The constitutional convention takes place in the context of national events,” he said. “In recent years the U.S. attorney has been the focus of public corruption cases. Why not the state attorney?” At present the state constitution does not allow the state attorney to look at the affairs of other departments. Issues have to be referred to the state attorney by the controller.

Dullea would like the convention to discuss term limits and changes in term length for legislators (both senators and assembly members have two-year terms now), and term limits for chairs of legislative committees. The retired state official and college administrator also questions why there should be two houses of the legislature. The existence of two houses leads to many “one house bills,” wherein legislators pass a bill in one house and it (or a version of it) dies in the other

house.

In the original constitution the senate was largely elected by wealthy property owners, which ended in the mid-19th century. The “one person, one vote” decision by the Supreme Court (Reynolds v. Sims in 1964) erased the difference; now equal population is the standard for electing members of both chambers. “Now each house shapes district lines for its own people,” Dullea said. “Both agree to not touch each other’s lines.”

Dullea cited a 2007 report by Hon. Judith Kay, which called the state court structure “the most archaic and convoluted in the nation.” Its complexities, he said, cost business, industry, and municipalities millions each year. In contrast, California has a single trial court system for the entire state.

responsibilities—not just Medicaid—to the state, rather than saddling counties with them, as is done in New York now. He recalled that at the failed 1967 convention a 10-year phase-in was proposed, but conservatives had opposed it as too much of a burden on the state. Today, however, State Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke has claimed that shifting Medicaid costs to the state would increase the state budget only 1.5 percent. (Medicaid constitutes 33 percent of Tompkins County’s and 89 percent of Chemung County’s budget.)

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which is why Assemblyman Brian Kolb (R-Canandaigua) is in favor of the convention. Most majority party members in each chamber oppose the convention.

Dullea cited polls that suggested— albeit indirectly—that the public may favor a convention. A Gallup Poll of Feb. 20 asked “Do you have confidence in your state government?” New York State ended up eighth from the bottom (which was occupied by Illinois). A Siena Research Institute poll at the end of June asked New Yorkers to rate corruption in state

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A Slippery Slope?

Lifton views the convention as primarily an opportunity for well-funded conservatives to remove or diminish many of the protections provided by the government to the Vice president of university relations emiritus Hank Dullea and Assemblywoman Barbara J. Lifton (Photos provided and file) citizenry, but also benefits promised to its employees.

“One of the biggest concerns government. “When it comes to ethics progressives have is that pension reform, the Governor and Legislature did protection could be undercut or little to win over the hearts and minds of Lifton is firm in her belief that a eliminated,” she said on April 7. “Currently New Yorkers. A strong majority says that constitutional convention held in the our constitution says such pensions ‘shall legislation passed this session will not current political climate would be a be a contractual relationship, the benefits reduce state government corruption. That “Convention of Elites, if you will, who may of which shall not be diminished or sentiment is shared by half of Democrats, impaired.’” This language was added to the be pre-disposed to deal with the concerns more than 60 percent of Republicans and of the elite, … [and not] with the concerns constitution in 1938. independents, a plurality of New York of most people,” she said at Ithaca town Dullea doesn’t agree. “There is the City voters and a majority of non-City hall, “Many think that we would need to fear that anything in the constitution that voters,” said Siena College pollster Steven fix that before the call for a convention, is amended to deal with public officials Greenberg. and all acknowledge the difficulty of doing convicted of violating the public trust— The same poll did ask New Yorkers that.” that they should have their pensions about a “ConCon.” “Two-thirds of New Dullea attended the 1967 convention taken—will threaten all public pensions. I Yorkers have heard or read nothing about and wrote his doctoral dissertation on it. say, ‘Where is the organized group gaining a vote next year on whether New York “Relationships among the delegates are traction to remove public pensions?’” should hold a Constitutional Convention, different than they are in their regular He likened it to the NRA’s fear that any with another almost quarter hearing jobs,” he said. “Everyone is on an equal restriction in gun ownership was a threat very little,” Greenberg said. “While New footing.” He said the legislators chose not to Second Amendment rights.

Yorkers haven’t heard much about a to run so they wouldn’t be seen has having But Lifton’s more general concern is ConCon, they know they want one—by a two jobs at the same time, drawing two for the public. “In spite of the enormous margin of 68-19 percent, unchanged since cutback in public assistance that happened salaries, and getting pension credit for it was 69-19 percent in early May. Support both. with welfare reform in the ‘90s,” she said is strongest with independents, 72 percent, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a in April, “the right is once again attacking nearly as strong with Democrats, 69 commission to prepare for the convention assistance to those in need.” percent, and ‘weakest’ with Republicans, this year. The Republicans are the minority Dullea looks at the convention as an who ‘only’ support it 63-20 percent.” • in the Assembly and therefore the most opportunity to devolve all social welfare left out of political power, Dullea noted,

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Hang On, a Climbing Wall is Coming Soon

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mateur and expert climbers alike will soon be able to grapple with Cornell’s expansively updated climbing wall, which features 80,000 pounds of additions and 4,500 brand new climbing holes.

The $847,000 upgrade to the Lindseth Climbing Wall in Bartels Hall—funded entirely by donors—will open the week of Sept. 26 and features a new, 14-foot tall bouldering wall with compression foam flooring so that climbers can tackle the wall without a harness or rope.

Marc Magnus-Sharpe, Lindseth Director of Cornell Outdoor Education (COE), said advanced climbers would have plenty of challenges getting to the top of the new wall.

“People are going to have to work at it for a while to catch up to the advanced end of this new wall,” Magnus said.

But there is also lots of room for beginners—30 percent of the climbing wall is now designed for beginner-level climbers.

“The 40[-year-old] is going to find terrain, the retiree is going to find terrain,

Climbing wall under construction in the background at Bartels Hall (Photo: Casey Martin)

and the cub scouts are going to find terrain,” Magnus said. “This climbing wall is for the community.”

There had been no major update to the Lindseth Climbing Wall since it was built more than 25 years ago, Magnus said. And with Cornell offering about 15 climbing classes every semester and still having students end up on the waiting list, it was clear that the capacity was exceeded.

“There’s a strong climbing community in Ithaca that was pretty hungry to have more opportunities locally,” Magnus said.

The wall, built by the Boulder, Colorado-based Eldorado Climbing Walls, has 13,500 peanuts, meaning that

the climbing holds can be moved around to create an endless amount of combinations.

“People are climbing in warehouses and big climbing gyms where those walls are constantly adjusted,” Magnus said.

“So people get a variety of challenges any time they

come into a gym.”

Cornell Outdoor Education plans to host climbing events and competitions at Bartels Hall, where climbers can work through 34 different belay points, climb in nooks and crannies, and deal with positive and negative angles, meaning that they could be “hanging to the wall like a cat,” Magnus said.

The larger wall means that climbers don’t have to just climb the same few routes and head back to the bottom to wait in line, Magnus said, which often happens at an amusement park or ski resort.

More than 260 people donated to make the wall possible, including two

donors who gave more than $200,000 each. All 81 of the COE student climbing instructors also made a gift on the first day that donations were accepted, Magnus said.

The wall also could not have happened, Magnus said, if it was not for the cooperation of athletic director Andy Noel, who gave up 14 feet of a multipurpose room so that the climbing wall could match the vision that COE staff had for it.

Magnus said that Cornell and other universities often have a perception of being “on the hill and out of reach” but that he hopes the climbing wall, which is open to the community, can help to change that, especially in the chilly winters when everyone is looking for something to do.

It can also help students who are stressed about tests during the winter season and need an outlet.

“We always start from the important foundation that students have to have outlets for stress relief ... and for health and wellness,” Magnus said. “We want to develop really strong climbers who can use the winter and the indoor gym to really get people strong so they can climb safely and have high-quality climbing experiences.

The climbing wall opens the week of Sept. 26, and will be offering one-day, 10visit, monthly, and annual memberships.

“This is a brand new baby that loves to be held,” Magnus said of the wall.

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CU football coach looking for a better year

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n some long ago and far away Sales 101 training, I heard the trainer say, “People do not buy rationally, they buy emotionally. If you can stir up emotion, they will ‘buy in’ and find ways to rationalize their decision.”

While this adage has been amplified to near-deafening levels in this election cycle, I realized last week that it is also relevant to Cornell’s football team.

I went to the weekly luncheon featuring the three local football coaches— Mike Welch (Ithaca College) Kelly Gordon (Ithaca High School), and Dave Archer (Cornell). It is a great event, and when one team has a bad weekend, one of the other coaches will do his best to prop up his friend and colleague and keep it all in perspective.

When I attended that luncheon, Cornell had yet to open their season, but Archer gave one of his typically rousing presentations. The Big Red were coming off a tough season, and the pre-season coaches poll was not kind in their predictions for the 2016 campaign. That said, the rational among us might wonder if it is worth going to watch the Big Red play this year.

The light of Archer’s enthusiasm and optimism burns through the fog of negativity, and he “sells” the program compellingly. He brings a multidimensional view, given he played for Cornell (class of ’05), took a position as an assistant coach and was promoted to head coach four years ago at age 32. In fact, he was Division I’s youngest coach at that time, and as Cornell’s website says, “Archer has always bled Big Red.” Archer talked about how many different ways there are to measure a program’s success, and whether it is on an upward or downward track. He spoke of the big numbers this year, and how those numbers fuel the competition in practices. This, of course, translates to better conditioning and game-readiness, and Archer knows that the harder a college athlete works, the more it pays off in all areas of his or her life, now and forever.

Hearing him speak made me want to get up and put on a helmet and pads and hit the tackling dummy a few times, but I hurt my back getting out of the chair.

• • • One game does not a season make, but the Big Red is feeling good after traveling to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania last weekend and putting a big “W” in the column. Cornell fell behind 10-0 at Bucknell before turning the table and coming away with a 24-16 win. The Big Red got production from sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks and several of his classmates, and whenever a team gets big help from the younger guys.

Everyone says the Ivy League schedule is what really matters, and Cornell opens Ivy play at home on Saturday against Yale.

I hope they get a great crowd. And win or lose, this is a program that is doing a lot of good things and is well worth watching.

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Congratulations to but a near-fatal car accident Ithaca’s John Murray on the changed the course of his life. honor he received from the At age 23, Murray became the National Wrestling Coaches youngest wrestling coach in the Hall of Fame on Sunday.

NCAA when he was hired at Murray was awarded a Ithaca College, and he built that “Lifetime of Service to program into one of nation’s best.

Wrestling Award” at the Six years later, he was hired as a Doubletree in Syracuse. full-time coach and the Bombers John is well known in went on to win three national the business community, titles (1988, ‘89, ‘94). as he and his college Murray has provided a lot Dave Archer buddy John Pfuntner have of opportunities on the mats (Photo provided) built Advantage Sport and in the workforce, and he and Fitness into a real is a guy who sets the bar very player in the industry, but prior to that high in every area of his life. He’s only 60, incarnation, “Coach” really earned that so I have a feeling many such awards are name. He arrived at Cornell in 1974 as a forthcoming. Congratulations, Coach. • two-sport athlete (wrestling and football),

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The school of rock, so to speak, is run out of Hickey’s Music Center and is taught

by Ryan Vanderhoof, an Ithaca College graduate who plays multiple instruments and has toured the world as a member of the band based in Brooklyn.

Vanderhoof pairs his students with people of similar skill levels in groups of three to five and then they jam for a couple of hours each week at Hickey’s. Vanderhoof also meets the individually for private lessons. Often, Vanderhoof gets to jump in and play an instrument for the band as well.

“It’s been really cool to see people

professors jamming out,” he said. “The ideal outcome is to match people up, and then they go on and do their own thing” after the program is over.

Vanderhoof noted Singledowt, a band that participated in his program and now writes its own music and performs locally.

Singledowt is recording an album and performed at PorchFest on Sunday, Sept.

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Vanderhoof, whose favorite instrument is the guitar, said he has helped people get better at playing dozens of instruments including guitars, drums, keyboard, horns, electric ukulele, and more. His students have ranged in age from younger than 10 to older than 60.

After Vanderhoof graduated from Ithaca College in 2001, where he studied

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come out of the woodwork—kids or adults who just wanted to play music with other people but haven’t had the opportunity to get together with others,” Vanderhoof said. “A lot of people will start playing an instrument but then not have that opportunity to play in a band or do a show because it does take a lot of time to get people together.”

The program runs from September and December, culminating in the bands performing at The Haunt on Dec. 11 at 6 p.m., free and open to all ages. The bands play for about 15 to 20 minutes, sometimes performing original music, more often playing covers of songs.

“The concert can range from a couple of kids and myself to a band playing some Jimi Hendrix to a group of Cornell

classical guitar and jazz, he moved to New York City and founded Akron/Family, a band that performed in the U.S., in Europe, and on popular radio stations including WNYC. “That was a really amazing experience but I got kind of burned out on the touring lifestyle,” Vanderhoof said. “So when I stopped touring, I started teaching more.”

He still records original music and plays in a couple local bands, but has focused more on teaching others how to get the most out of their musical abilities.

“It’s a fun to live those life experiences and then share those with people who enjoy music,” he said.

Vanderhoof grew up about 45 minutes from Ithaca in Union Springs, and said he was surprised how many people play music in Ithaca, noting that in addition to the many who play professionally, there are lots of Ithacans who are very skilled musicians who just play on the side.

In addition to teaching music skills to young people, Vanderhoof is also an advocate for a dedicated, all-ages venue in Ithaca. He appreciates that The Dock and The Haunt sometimes allow all ages at their shows, but believes “there’s more room for a teenage audience and teenage musicians to create a moving scene,” which would be greatly aided by a venue that always allows all-ages audiences” “Whatever we can do to help foster that is a great thing,” Vanderhoof said.

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any people would be wary of giving a group of high school students $25,000 and telling them to spend it how they please. But for the last 16 years, more than 200 high schoolers have used the cash to fund dozens of nonprofit organizations in Tompkins County, many of which are desperate for money to serve people who most need their help.

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Middle school students in Dryden have been especially enthusiastic about the program, and Dryden high school students who are involved with United Way have acted as leaders and counselors to the younger students, Brown said.

Many students who participate in the program have gone on to work in public service careers or even work with the United Way while in college.

Brown said overseeing the program taught him that when young people are not involved in local projects, “It’s not for lack of interest or ability, it’s for the lack of opportunity.”

“We’ve learned a lot through this program about the capacity of young people and the willingness of young people to be engaged,” Brown said. “It has changed our United Way.” Students will be reviewing proposals over the next few weeks and the United Way Board will likely vote on how to spend this year’s $25,000 in November. §

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Ithaca City of Asylum’s 15th anniversary

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n the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Yi Ping and his wife, Lin Zhou, boarded a bus for Ithaca at the Port Authority in Manhattan. Ping had recently been selected as the Ithaca City of Asylum’s (ICOA) first exiled writer-in-residence and was on his way with Zhou to their new home. Yet when their bus reached the Lincoln Tunnel, it was closed due to the attacks on the World Trade Center, and they were returned to the station.

Meanwhile Bridget Meeds, who founded ICOA with Anne Berger, was waiting for the couple at Ithaca’s bus station just in case they’d made it out of the city.

As she was sitting at the terminal, listening to the news unfold on the radio, a thought struck her: “When towns and cities across the world were closing their doors and bridges and airports, Ithaca was standing there with its arms wide open.”

It was clear that Ithaca was suited to be a city of asylum for exiled writers.

ICOA hosts one writer-in-residence every two years, a process that entails assisting the writers with relocation, accommodations, employment, community

involvement, and the promotion and publication of their writing. During this time, the writers teach courses in their area of expertise at Ithaca College or Cornell while also continuing to produce their own work.

To date, Ithaca has provided six writers from China, Iran, Swaziland, Georgia, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan with this opportunity.

In return, the writers have provided the local community with a “wonderful opportunity to get to know the story of a place through an individual,” said Klein, especially at a time when as “Americans we get lots of information, but it’s so seldom connected to a personal story.”

On Sunday, Sept. 25, ICOA will celebrate its 15th anniversary of supporting dissident voices at its annual “Voices of Freedom” event, which is free and open to the public and will take place at 7 p.m. at the Kitchen Theatre Company on 417 W. State Street. Fittingly, the event will kick off Banned Books Week and will feature four ICOA writers.

Raza Rumi, a Pakistani journalist, policy analyst, and the current ICOA

writer-in-residence, will be reading from his memoir-in-progress. Rumi arrived to the United States in May 2014, just months after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt in which his driver lost his life in Islamabad. Presently he is teaching at Ithaca College while working on his memoir and contributing to a variety of media outlets— including the Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Friday Times.

Following Rumi’s reading, there will be a panel discussion with former ICOA writers: Yi Ping (2001–2003), a poet and activist from China, who still resides in Ithaca and serves as the editor of the website Human Rights in China; Sarah Mkhonza (2006–2008), an outspoken journalist for women’s rights in Swaziland, who now teaches in the Center for African and Middle Eastern Languages at Stanford University; and Sonali Samarasighe (2012– 2014), a Sri Lankan journalist and human rights activist, who left Colombo after her husband was assassinated in 2009. She currently serves as the Minister Counsellor to the Sri Lankan mission to the United Nations and plans to return home in the near future.

In the panel discussion, the writers will speak about how living in exile has affected their creative process, the current state of freedom of expression in their native countries, and their hopes for the future. At the same time, Meeds hopes that the event will also serve as a “moment for Ithaca to reflect, as the refugee crisis grows, and to think about what it means to be in a community where you keep the gates

Journalist Raza Rumi (Photo provided)

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For more information about Ithaca City of Asylum and the 15th anniversary “Voices of Freedom” celebration, go to: ithacacityofasylum.com.

From Sept. 15–Oct. 15, the Tompkins County Public Library and Olin Library at Cornell University are both featuring exhibits about ICOA’s history in honor of the organization’s anniversary. For those interested, the publications of the ICOA writers-in-residence can also be found at the Tompkins County Public Library. •

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Concurrent with the Apple Harvest Laughing Goat Fiber Farm will once again bring its adorable goats to pet and their fiber Festival, the Gnome and Fairy Fest will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at to feel. Some of the new farmers include Press Bay Alley, 118 West Green St., Ithaca.

Robbie’s Produce with its fresh and juicy In addition, the First People’s Festival, an apples and concord grapes and other freshly picked items and Raw Gold Honey with annual celebration of indigenous culture their all-natural honey varieties. coordinated by the Multicultural Resource Center, will be taking place at Dewitt Park, If you’re looking for a nice hot meal or 315 North Cayuga St., Ithaca. The event will snack, more than 20 food vendors will be feature a traditional opening at 10 a.m., folserving up delicious dishes to suit every pallowed by live music, performances, arts and ate. Festival newcomers include Trini Style, crafts, food vendors, children’s activities, and who will set your taste buds ablaze with its a smoke dance competition.

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Apples Through the Ages From the bible through isaac newton to johnny appleseed

By Cassandra Palmyra

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he ancestors of the domestic apple (Malus domesticus) are M. sieversii and M. sylvestris. They are native to the Trans-Caucasus region of centralsouthern Asia— southern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and southwestern China—but the center of diversity for the genus Malus is eastern Turkey.

It may be the oldest domesticated fruit.

But it was not actually identified as the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Genesis accounts. Various interpretations of the text have that fruit as a grape, a fig, or ... wheat. (Michaelangelo went with figs on the the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.)

In any case it was not until depictions of the myth during the Middle Ages in western Europe did the fruit become an apple. It is possible that this was a mordant joke on the part of various artists, who knew enough Latin to know that malum means both ‘apple’ and ‘evil’ (spelled the same, but pronounced differently).

Apples were known in the Middle East in the centuries before the Christian Era. They are mentioned in Proverbs and they are also used as metaphors for sweetness, desire and the female breast in the Song of Solomon.

Further west in classical Greece Homer had the Trojan War ultimately caused by an apple. A golden apple label “To the fairest” was thrown among Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena by Eris, the goddess of discord. Paris, who was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time, was forced to choose among them.

There was, of course, no right answer. The losing goddesses gave Paris a run of bad luck that basically we still talk about.

Everyone knows the story about Isaac Newton hitting upon the theory of gravity after being hit on the head by a falling apple. Unlike the completely apocryphal business of George Washington and the cherry tree—like the apple, a member of the rose family—there is some truth to Newton and the apple.

Apparently the natural philospher did indeed like to sit contemplatively in a Lincolnshire apple orchard (owned by his mother), watching ripe apples fall to the ground. According to the memoir of his contemporary William Stukeley, Newton told him at tea one afternoon in the 1660s that he couldn’t help noticing that the apples always fell straight down.

He concluded that the Earth was actually drawing them towards its center.

“If matter thus draws matter,” wrote Stukeley, quoting Newton, “it must be in proportion of its quantity. therefore the apple draws the earth, as well as the earth draws the apple.”

Of course there had to be “the tree” and so a likely suspect was dug up and replanted outside the window that was formerly Newton’s quarters at Cambridge.

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Grafts from that tree have been replanted and the apples from it turn out to be a variety called “The Flower of Kent,” which is neither red nor round. It is green when ripe and pear-shaped and is used for cooking not eating.

Like Newton’s apple the story of “Johnny Appleseed” is a combination of

At that time his father apprenticed him to an apple orchardist. When he resumed his nomadic life he began planting apple nurseries wherever he went. This is in contrast with the Walt Disney depiction of Johnny Appleseed simply scattering seed as he walked along with a pan on his head.

The pan on the head represents true

John Chapman, a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed Tompkins King (Image: adamsapple.blogspot.com) actual history and a fair amount of fable.

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eccentricity on the part of Chapman. He dressed in rags, preached the gospel of the Swedenborgian church as he roamed, was kind to animals in an era when such was rare, and most significantly apple-wise, he was strictly against the grafting of apple trees.

The only way to get a variety to be consistent through generations is to graft cutting from the previous generation onto a stock root system. Chapman would have none of it. Apples that grow from seed are a tart fruit that is primarily good for making apple cider. And in an era before the advent of refrigeration, nearly all cider was hard cider or “apple jack.” In The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan refers to Chapman as “the American Dionysus.”

Chapman planted his nurseries and later orchards in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Orchards were established in what is now New York while it was still New Holland under Dutch. Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of the colony, planted a tree in front of his residence in New Amsterdam in 1674. At the other end of the state the French colonists were planting orchards along the Niagara River in the late 17th century.

The first commercial apple tree nursery was established in 1730 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and by the end of the 18th century orchards were well established up and down the Hudson and Mohawk valleys. By the 1760s apples were be exported to England.

According to the New York Apple Growers Association, in the late 18th century John Chapman visited his uncle’s farm in Olean, N.Y. and planted his very first nursery.

Some of the apples that are now regarded as “heritage varieties ” were first planted in New York in the latest 18th and early 19th centuries. The Northern Spy, which is still grown and used for hard cider making today, was first planted in East Bloomfield in 1800.

The Tompkins King was once thought to have originated in Jacksonville, N.Y. (a hamlet between Ithaca and Trumansburg), but none other than Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cornell professor and dean of American horticulture, took a look at the purported original tree and found that it was a graft. The variety was apparently developed in New Jersey brought to upstate New York sometime after 1804. •

Donuts & the Crisp

An apple a day is fine, but what about the baked goods?

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he Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival, a staple of the fall calendar, is now, according to the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, celebrating its 34th year of bringing folks down to the Commons to celebrate one of New York State’s major agricultural products: its apple crop.

Celebrants enjoy sweet ciders, and will get to sample some of the new hard ciders now being produced in the Finger Lakes, and, because people can’t live by cider alone, all sorts of other comestibles and delectables, among them a variety of apple-focused pastries. Long-time participants Tucker’s Catering will be there with their noteworthy handmade pies, and Newfield’s Littletree Orchards, known for U-pick tree fruits, berries, and vegetables, as well as its family-friendly picnic areas will again offer sweet cider and cider donuts, staples of both the Ithaca Farmers Market and the festival.

For Terry Little, chef/owner of the Center Café in Center Ithaca, the festival is a big deal, as he and his staff produce Macintosh- and Cortland-based apple crisp popular with hungry visitors.

“Everything’s done from scratch,” he said.

“My daughters work with me. We skin the apples, peel them, core them, make the

crumb topping—we put love, sweat, and tears into them.”

Little said that they are contemplating making an apple cobbler as well, for people who want more of a cake topping.

They make as many as 60 pans of apple crisp for the weekend, and with approximately 15 servings per pan; my calculator comes up with 900 happy festival-goers. He also offers an apple harvest soup, which he describes as sweet, savory, and vegetarian, and a vegan pumpkin soup to head off the chill of a fall day. Said Chef Terry, “A lot of people are excited about the event itself. They just love the whole fall harvest festival.”

Dennis Hartley, co-owner of Newfield’s Littletree Orchards, will be there not only with the orchard’s famous fresh apple cider donuts, but with apples, apple sauce, apple butter, apple chips—“all things apple!” according to Hartley. The folks at Littletree are currently picking Paula Red, Burgundy, early Macintosh, Akane, Empire, Cortland, Northern Spy, Idared, Jonathan, and Melrose apples, and are looking forward to the ripening of their block of 23 different kinds of Golden Delicious apples. In all, Hartley said, they have close to 40 different varieties in the

orchard.

Littletree has been participating in the Apple Harvest Festival since the festival’s inception, and, reminisced Hartley, it’s ever changing.

“It goes from perfect weather, to rain, to horizontal snow, weatherwise.”

Littletree is known, not only for its u-pick fruits and vegetables, but for the line of people waiting to buy apple donuts at the festival. “I’ve counted over a hundred people standing in line at one time. They’re crazed about the donuts—they can’t help themselves.” He has observed waiting customers playing hacky-sack, communicating on their mobile devices, even breaking into little a cappella singing groups. You can find Littletree Orchard’s stand on Bank Alley— just look for the donut line.

While some will be right on the Commons, most of the festival’s food purveyors congregate on the 100 block of South Cayuga and the 100 block of West State Street, while farmers exhibit and sell their products on the Commons itself. According to the Downtown Ithaca Association’s Chris Lewis, last year was

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omething remarkable begins tomorrow when the world premiere of PalestinianSyrian writer Rama Haydar’s Desert of Light opens at Cornell’s Schwartz Center. Haydar’s play will launch a theater season of all women playwrights for the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA).

Also of them are contemporary playwrights, still at it in the field. PMA Faculty member Sara Warner, who chaired last year’s performance and events committee, said the department didn’t exactly set out to create a feminist season, it was a collision of a theme (‘Captivity’) and ongoing conversations about diversifying the plays being staged. Incoming faculty member Rebekah Maggor proposed Haydar’s work, set in a Palestinian refugee camp in modern-day Syria; Professor David Feldshuh thought of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and the “captivity” of Hades; grad student Nick Fesette suggested a production of Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek.

The big final production was originally set to be Brecht’s Mother Courage, but when the logistics of that play caused it to be postponed, the committee decided to cap the season by again collaborating with Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble, and put up Kirsten Greenidge’s Baltimore.

The focus on women playwrights continues in PMA’s Black Box exploration series: undergrad Aleksej Aarsaether will direct Paula Vogel’s 1992 breakthrough play, The Baltimore Waltz, a comedy about AIDS, written in memory of her brother Carl.

Pulitzer-winner Vogel is not only celebrated as a leading American writer, but also as a teacher, the mentor to an exciting generation of playwrights; one of her students was Sarah Ruhl. A graduate student at Cornell in the ‘80s, Vogel finally was awarded her Ph.D. just this

past year, her dissertation was her latest play, Indecent, which may be on its way to Broadway this season.

The spring Black Box is PMA senior Gloria Majule’s Life Sentence, set in her home country, which she describes as “a family drama set in Modern Day, Tanzania in a globalized society.

This tragic comedy sheds light on the patriarchal expectations and elicits how the women bound by the them attempt to break free.”

Also on dock: Gregory Bright brings the story of his wrongful conviction in a play written with Lara Naughton (Oct. 15); Beth Milles will direct a staged reading this spring by another contemporary playwright (possibly Lisa Loomer’s Roe, about Roe v. Wade) and Vogel will likely be in residence to continue work on a new piece.

• • • In the Flex Theatre last Sunday night laptops, plastic tables, headsets and displays (along with a couple of ladders) take most of the audience seats, along with a small army of designers and their assistants. Also in a seat is playwright Haydar, who had just flown in on Friday. Just before 6 p.m., students, a dozen in all, start filtering in. At first glance this multi-ethnic group seems to be in their street clothes, but as they line up for a costume check, one notes hints of now U.S. blending with now Middle East, and elsewhere.

In an alcove musicians Dara Anissi and Max Buckholtz are going through their score, a mix of Middle Eastern and American folk. They are soon joined by Nikolai Ruskin, the instruments include violin, guitar, oud and tabla. Sound designer Warren Cross is testing out bombs and machine-gun fire. After director Maggor takes her cast through a vocal warm-up the stage clears. Other than some patterns on the T

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floor created by light designer E.D. Intemann, and two non-nondescript speakers, the stage is absolutely bare.

Just three weeks before, there were only stacks of plastic chairs in the seats, though the vocal warm-up was the same. Ten of the students make up a chorus of sorts, performing a prologue to the play. They all hold sheets of text, translations of poetry: they’ve undergone an intense week of rehearsal, diving into the material—words and implications—that is still being shaped.

Stage manager Howie Klein sets off to locate a lectern. Maggor goes through a quick rundown for the guests—choreographer Byron Suber and composers Anissi and Buckholtzor— for this first read-through. They will be adding elements of movement and music to the text, which will be cut shorter. Even the actors in the main play—Irving Torres and J. Michael Kinsey—are dealing with a shifting text, having just received re-writes as Haydar re-shapes the English version of her play with her cotranslator Maggor.

“Haydar’s black tragicomic play about two Palestinian refugees under siege in Syria, takes place in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus,” writes Maggor in her notes to the play. By 2011, the beginning of the Syrian uprising, the Yarmouk camp had “… become a bustling urban neighborhood outside Damascus with around 160,000 residents.” The camp then split between pro-government Palestinians and Palestinians who join the Free Syria rebels. Then continued on page 28

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A Glimpse Into the Danger Two films deal with real life drama

By Br yan VanC ampe n the Condor. At first, things look tense—and promising.

But as JG-L’s Snowden begins filling in his background, Snowden settles into the usual plodding, beat-by-beat biopic clichés that have you wanting to watch Citizenfour, Poitras’ HBO Snowden doc. Over and over again, Snowden plays the same scene of realizing what the NSA is really up to, and becoming disillusioned.

We are clearly in bio-pic Oscar bait territory, and that means composite characters and the Dutiful Wife/Girlfriend who’s only there to talk to the hero about what a great guy he is, In this case, Snowden’s girlfriend Lindsay Mills is played by the very talented Shailene Woodley.

Woodley is saddled with some of the film’s worst dialogue, telling us over and over what a liberal she is, and how she’s released Snowden’s “inner liberal.” And of course, he can’t talk about any of it, leaving Woodley to alternate scenes of anger with scenes pledging eternal love, etc.

Gordon-Levitt is about as good as a cipher can be in nearly every scene of a two-hour-plus film, and there are good

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Oliver Stone’s Snowden—written by Stone with Kieran Fitzgerald, based on The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena—is not one of his best, and hardly a return to form.

But it has a beginning and ending and a few sequences that don’t know that. Stone’s look at Snowden begins in Hong Kong in 2013, when Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meets journalists Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) and Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto), having decided to go public about the NSA. Stone finds a great urgency to this stuff—it’s all very reminiscent of ‘70s paranoid thrillers like All the President’s Men, The Parallax View, and Three Days of

(Above) Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in “Snowden” (Right) Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger in “Sully” (Photos provided)

performances, as far as they go, from Rhys Ifans as Snowden’s mentor Corbin O’Brian, Timothy Olyphant, a surprisingly subtle turn from Nicolas Cage, and Joely Richardson. Not as infuriating as W. nor as dull as World Trade Center, the best thing you can say for it is that it encourages questioning of authority and speaking to power, never a bad thing in my book.

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Best of all, to the naysayers who didn’t think there was a dramatic way to tell this story, screenwriter Todd Komarnicki finds an interesting structure with which to tell the tale, and for a director who rarely relies on special effects, the take-off and crash are almost as realistic and upsetting as the one in Robert Zemeckis’s Flight.

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Hanks’ easy empathy and controlled anxiety as Sully sets the tone for the rest of the cast; Aaron Eckhart gets one of his best roles as Sullenberger’s co-pilot Jeff Skiles, and the best line in the film. And here’s Laura Linney as Lorraine Sullenberger, the Dutiful Wife who’s always on the phone reassuring her man: “Well, sweetheart, they named the movie after you …” •

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blends into the background, and Luke bsolutely unbelievable” remarked Darnell, as Sam Phillips, offers a nice mix one fellow after the opening night of eager entrepreneur and supporter of his performance of Million Dollar boys. And the music—country, rockabilly, Quartet, a 2010 jukebox musical now at blues, rock ’n’ roll—he loves it all (though Auburn’s Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. he’s less fond of Cash’s partiality to And it was. From David Arsenault’s gospel). setting alone the audience knew a treat was Jerry Lee Lewis is the new kid on coming: the weathered recording studio this block, but he bursts into the studio of Sun Records in Memphis, showcasing with enough confidence for ten. Redhead those gold records on its shabby walls. The day was December 4, 1956, when legendary Noel Carey delivers him as scripted—raw, redneck, and outrageous. A master of rock ’n’ roll producer and former DJ Sam braggadocio, Lewis takes over the studio, Phillips saw four of his most famous the piano, and nearly every jam session stars under one roof—for the first and until Sam and the others squelch him and last time. When you put together Elvis he finally becomes one of Presley, Johnny Cash, the guys.

Carl Perkins, and thenWith rural roots newcomer Jerry Lee from Mississippi, Lewis, you’re gonna get a Tennessee, Louisiana, whole lotta shakin’ going and Arkansas, these boys on. know the people’s music.

The story line is The first number they downbeat, even though share is Perkins’ “Blue the music isn’t. Phillips is Suede Shoes”. Nearly two considering an offer from dozen songs follow, and RCA, now producing if you never saw these Presley’s work, and Elvis men live, this is the next really needs his guidance. best thing. Carl bops out But he’s more focused on “Who Do You Love” and renewing Sun’s contract “See You Later Alligator”; with Johnny Cash.

Elvis whips them up with One by one the singers “Long Tall Sally” and arrive, compete, and “Hound Dog.” jam impromptu, making Not just arm candy, musical history. But by Dyanne delivers “Fever” evening’s end, Phillips Dyanne (Dana Parker) in Million Dollar in a version that will learns that both Cash Quartet (Photo: Ron Heerkens Jr.) curl your socks. And and Perkins have already Cash takes us to familiar secretly signed with haunted places with bigger record companies.

“Sixteen Tons” and “I Walk the Line.”

In the face of Jerry Lee Lewis’ boasting optimism and outsized talent, Phillips stays (Fine musical direction here by Julian Reeve.) committed to his homegrown enterprise, Meanwhile brash youngster Jerry Lee where so many greats—both black and is all over the place, unable to keep still, white musicians—got their start. banging on that old upright with his feet, Director Scott Weinstein, who’s his seat, and practically upside down. He worked with Colin Escott and Floyd introduces himself with “Real Wild Child, Mutrux’s book before, knows how to then harmonizes with the gang on “Down maximize their simple story: feature a by the Riverside.” Jerry finally goes sologifted cast of performers who look and wild with “Great Balls of Fire.” sound so much like the originals you’ll The curtain call is four chartsmile just watching them. And this group is breaking songs, featuring each performer, dripping with talent: James Bock is tall and country Carl Perkins, backed by his brother in glittering outfit, at the peak of his career. There’s no describing this splendid Jay (Michael Fittipaldi) on bass. With his somber air and deep vocals, Justin Figueroa show; you’ve got to see and hear it. The devil’s music, indeed. seems like Johnny Cash in the flesh. (And Million Dollar Quartet, directed by Tiffany Howard’s costumes go a long way to Scott Weinstein. Written by Colin Escott characterize each musician.) and Floyd Mutrux. At Merry-Go-Round Luke Linsteadt’s Elvis may be too Playhouse, Auburn, through Sept. 10. • short, but he’s got the King’s voice and the moves down. His girlfriend Dyanne, a Barbara Adams, a regional arts stunning singer and honeyed bombshell in journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca a red dress, is perfectly rendered by Dana College.

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raham Nash will play the State Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 25. A two-time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with Crosby, Stills and Nash and The Hollies, Nash wrote some of CSN’s biggest hits, including “Our House,” “Teach Your Children,” “Just

a Song Before I Go,” and “Wasted on the Way.” Nash is also a perennial activist, a photograph collector, and a photographer.

This year, he released This Path Tonight, his first solo studio album in 14 years, but Nash has hardly been idle. He spoke to the Ithaca Times from Beverly Hills, California, about

the creative process, Joni Mitchell, and the time he played “Marrakesh Express” for Johnny Cash and friends … and what happened next.

Ithaca Times: I’ve been curious as to what a Graham Nash show would be like, since you’re so associated with harmony singing, singing with others.

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responding incredibly well.

IT: What do you do with down time on the road?

GN: Well, I absorb the news of what’s going on, and Shane and I write on the bus. That’s what we do, we write. We’re musicians. I’m always creating. But don’t forget, music is just a part of my life. In my book Eye to Eye, the first portrait is one I took of my mother when I was 11. I collect, and I’m a sculptor and a painter. I have to create every day.

IT: How is Joni Mitchell?

GN: I saw Joni a week ago. She is making remarkable progress. You know, she had a brain aneurysm and was unconscious on her kitchen floor for three days, and that can’t be good for anybody.

But she has a fantastic team of people, and even though it’s slow progress, it’s progress every single day.

IT: Please tell me about the night that you and Joni and Johnny Cash and some other people were playing each other new songs.

GN: Oh, yes. That was a nice night.

That was when Joni was doing The Johnny Cash Show [on ABC, taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee] in 1969, and I went down with her. And everyone was invited to Johnny and June’s house, and halfway through dinner, Johnny steps up, he clinks a glass with a knife to get everyone’s attention. And he said, “Here at the Cash house, we have a kind of tradition that people have to sing for their supper. There’s a guitar over there. Who’s gonna be first?” And nobody moved. And you know why nobody moved? Nobody moved because Bob Dylan and his wife Sara were sitting on the steps right there.

Of course nobody f***in’ moved. But I had just recorded the first CSN album, screw it, nobody knows who I am. So I got up and sang “Marrakesh Express.” And I did a pretty good job of it. I came to the end, and I put my guitar down, people were applauding, I turned around and I walked into a standing lamp that crashed to the ground.

IT: [laughs] GN: And that kind of broke the ice.

IT: As long as it didn’t break you.

GN: No, just the lamp. •

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with an early 20th century expressionist feel. And, with bright colored paper and sparkles and stars and a crescent moon and teardrop polka dots and hanging he eye Gallery, on the Ithaca triangles and plastic cartoon bones, it has Commons, is one of Ithaca’s newest a feel like 1950s UPA animation (that the galleries (launched in September of modern animation shows from studios 2015). It is the creation of Julie Simmonslike Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network Lynch, the former editor of Heavy Metal riff upon). magazine.

Feline Recline—Justin Hjortshoj: This All the eye exhibitions have been is an excellent black-and-white photo of consistently excellent and innovative. And, a cat, lying on her back, head on a pillow this month, eye is featuring a superb group … a close shot on her muzzle and whisker show called About Face … the focus being pads and forepaws. A beautiful photo. on the face (both human and animal).

Satchmo—Alan Lynch, is an Simmons-Lynch has chosen a extraordinarily charming and hypermarvelous selection of artists from the realistic oil painting of jazz giant Louis greater Ithaca area … and as far away as Armstrong. It looks a bit like a magazine Europe. The show features 20 painters, illustration from the golden age of magazine illustration and exudes all the charm and joie-de-vivre and love that “Pops” radiated.

Alice Muhlback (who I think of as the Picasso of Ithaca) weighs in with Buck … a painted sculpture made from a wooden cabinet with a long, thin, stylized, popeyed, cartoon face of an animal (that looks a bit like a donkey) attached to it.

Sue Burns’ Bereft is “Pearly’s” by Kaleb Hunkele (Photo provided) an oil painting … a selfportrait painted after the artist broke her foot. This is a hyper-realistic piece that, with its photographers and sculptors. It is dark and melancholy pallet, evokes the wonderfully diverse. No piece is like any melancholy master Rembrandt. other.

I’ll focus on the ones I find most I’ve always been huge fan of the Ithaca area artist Ben Marlan. Here, his compelling … and see how far we get here Portrait of a Jackalope is a miniature bas… relief sculpture of a little, furry, horned, My Bunny Did it, Ma—Janet Woolley: cartoon animal (made of felted wool) This is an expressionist piece … and sort with a background of floating flowers. A of cartoony in the modern “retro” style. brilliant piece.

A girl with an enormous head stands Pearly’s—Kaleb Hunkele: This is a before a wall scrawled with childish crayon drawings. She holds a toy bunny and points Pop Art installation of 24 ink drawings of cartoon faces. They have a feel like an accusing finger at it. An 18th century the cartoon advertising art of the 1950s cartoon style speech banner reads, “My (beady eyes, potato noses, bad toupees).

Bunny did it, Ma”.

They are all drawn on colored paper There is a giant pack of crayons in the mounted on plywood … and even the room with an expressionist cartoon bird colors feel like a garish 1950s advertising painted on them, giant scattered crayons, palette. The result is a very appealing and smeared colors on the girl’s smock Pop Art piece with a sort of Andy and face. The girl, although wildly stylized, could be 16 rather than a child, which is an Warhol feel …

There is a lot more to see (including effective touch. A great work … an exhibition called Small Mercies in The Gatekeeper—Camille Chew: the back salon) but we’re out of room This is a big paper mask of a creature. The here. Ergo, I would encourage the animal looks a bit like a cat (cat-like ears) Perspicacious Reader to visit the Eye although with a nose like a bat and little Gallery while this irresistible exhibit is batwings sprouting from the side of the head. It has the look of a tribal mask … but still up. •

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the government bombed the camp. “By July of 2013, thousands of residents had fled, hundreds were killed in the on-going clashes, and many starved to death. 18,000 residents remained trapped in Yarmouk.

Two of these residents were close friends of the playwright.”

To give the play greater resonance Maggor decided to use the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), widely considered Palestine’s national poet, especially excerpts from his book-length State of Seige (2002) in a prologue. As a child in 1948, Darwish was forced from his home village of Al-Birwa in Western Galilee (destroyed by the Israelis) into a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. His life became one of exile and return, politics and poetry.

The technical run-through has begun with a further surprise, a startling piece of video with an unmistakably American voiceover. Then doors burst open, we see the ensemble in silhouette, a woman (Julia Shebek) rolls out a lectern and says: “‘A Ready Script.’

A poem by Mahmoud Darwish” She is interrupted by a man (Mwangi Thuita): “In English translation”; she restarts: “An English translation of the poem ‘A Ready Script’ by Mahmoud Dar—.” She is again interrupted, this time by a different man (Matthew Shortell): “An English language interpretation of the original Arabic poem ‘A Ready Scenario’—” Sinuous music begins to play.

With State of Siege the whole ensemble comes to life. Each moment is marked by a number, as in: Day 13: To measure the distance between being and nothingness, soldiers use the scopes mounted on their tanks.

Day 49: Said the Mother: “I didn’t see him walking, bathed in his own blood. I didn’t see the purple mark on his foot.”

Audiences can discover the rest beginning Thursday. Desert of Light plays September 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. and September 24 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (Nov. 3 through 5) Ruhl’s Eurydice (Nov. 11, 12, 19 and 20), Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3, 4, 10 and 11) have all graced Ithaca stages before, but they are enormously rich, even haunting in language and theatricality; it will be a joy to see them reinterpreted yet again.

Baltimore, by African-American playwright Greenidge is receiving its regional premiere at the season’s conclusion. In describing the work, director Sarah K. Chalmers of Civic Ensemble also reaches for poetry, the words of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen: Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, ‘Nigger.’

I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That’s all that I remember.

The poem’s title is “Incident.” According to American Theatre: “Baltimore tells the story of Shelby Wilson, an AfricanAmerican resident adviser for a group of freshmen at a college in New England.

Shelby is focused on rebuilding her résumé after losing her job in the athletics department. But when a racist caricature is drawn on the dorm door of one of her

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black students, she is forced to reevaluate her naive belief that she lives in a postracial society, and she must help strive for peace on campus.”

Notably, Baltimore comes out of the Big Ten Theatre Consortium in which women playwrights were commissioned to write plays for university productions.

(It premiered this past February at Boston University.)

Chalmers believes the play is highly accessible to college students, “it brings up the issues people are already talking about.” She’s thrilled also that the cast will be multi-racial and that the people of color in the play bring different, even conflicting perspectives to bear, including a generational divide.

Civic will be working with Cornell students to do outreach around the play.

When racial conflict occurs, as in the play, Chalmers believes it’s important to remain brave in the conversation. “Not to walk away, to let it get messy,” especially for white people. She believes part of the problem, one that the play tackles, is not knowing “how to talk face to face, and … maybe be wrong, mad, upset, and disagree, and still stay, just stay.”

Across the nation, most theaters have been producing only 20 to 25 percent women playwrights. This year Cornell’s PMA is going for 100 percent. •

9/22 Thursday

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Kat Wright & The Indomitable Soul Band, Hannah Gill, The Hours | 8:00: PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blue Eyed Soul, Folk.

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9/21 Wednesday Mac Benford & Up South | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time, Americana, Bluegrass.

Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils | 7:00: PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Hill Country Outlaw Swamp Music.

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

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Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30: PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music, featuring Angie Beeler, Travis Knapp, Leon Arguello, and Special Guest Stars.

Dr. K | 8:00: PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Solo guitar with attitude.

9/22 Thursday Old Man Status | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Latin, Funk, Free Jazz, Groove.

CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00: PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Sunset Music Series | 6:00: PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night.

Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com

And the Kids | 6:00: PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Pop. Mama Rabwa | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | The Range, 119 E State Street, Ithaca | Funk, Blues.

Djangonersish | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time, Jazz, Swing.

Common Railers | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Country, Alternative Rock, Surf, Americana, Bluegrass.

Randy Z | 7:00: PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Acoustic, Trop-Rock, Classic Rock, Blues, Country, Americana.

The Sara Hulse Band | 8:00: PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Folk, Bluegrass, Rock, Indie, Reggae.

Saved By The ‘90s | 8:00: PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Everything ‘90s, Spice Girls, Beastie Boys, Backstreet Boys, Third Eyed Blond.

The Cabaret of Park Doing | 9:00: PM-11:45 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Impressario Park Doing is at it again. What will it be this time? Chinese acrobats dancing to multiple shortwave broadcasts interrupted by bursts of recordings of whale songs accompanied by a banjo playing through a marshal stack.

Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00: PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues, Progressive Rock.

9/24 Saturday The Small Kings | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock.

Mike Titlebaum presents: Music Because Music | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Music Because Music is rich with uplifting grooves, inspiring tales, colorful characters, and beautiful melodies, all performed by the most amazing musicians in the whole dang country. There’s only one way to discover The Way Back, and learn about the sordid tales of Glinkleglorp, Alisha and the World War II Pizza Man -- Come and check it out.

Kitestring, Kites in Space, Noon Fifteen | 7:00: PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Pop, Alternative.

The Purple Valley | 7:00: PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country.

Live at the Fillmore: The Definitive Tribute to the Allman Brothers Band | 7:00: PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Allman Brothers Tribute, Rock, Southern Rock, Progressive Rock, Blues.

Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield | 8:00: PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Blues, Country, Rock.

Zydeco Trail Riders | 9:00: PM- | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Zydeco, Creole, Cajun.

Fall Creek Brass Band | 10:00: PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Jazz.

9/25 Sunday Mary Ott Band | 11:00: AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector |

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Jazz, R&B. Jerome Attardo | 12:00: PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano.

Sundown Sally | 4:00: PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Soul, Alternative, Indie, Americana.

Under Construction | 4:00: PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock, Blues, Soul, Funk, R&B. Katama Bay Jazz Band | 6:00: PM-11:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Lucy Kaplansky, Ben Clark | 8:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Country, Folk, Pop.

Midday Music at Lincoln: Dominic Versage | 12:30 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | With accompaniment by graduate student Sergio Ospina-Romero.

Annette Richards presents: Glass Music and the Virgin Warrior | 4:30 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Poor Man’s Whiskey | 8:00 PM- | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Bluegrass, Alternative.

Vaud & The Villains | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Americana Noir meets Moulin Rouge with the presentation of a modern day, rock and roll spectacle.

9/24 Saturday A Taste of Broadway | 6:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | A musical and culinary delight to tickle the senses.

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Opening Night | 7:30 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Featuring selections by Ibert, Mozart and Schubert, and Simone Dinnerstein, piano.

NYS Baroque: Barbara’s Venice | 7:30 PM | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Music of 17th century Venetian composer and singer

9/27 Tuesday Better Weather String Band | 6:00: PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Americana.

Sally Ramirez and Doug Robinson | 6:00: PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Latin, World, Jazz.

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

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

Irish Music Session | 8:00: PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach. concerts

9/21 Wednesday Big Something, Annie in the Water | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Rock, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Hip Hop.

Beyoncé’s hour-long visual album, “Lemonade”, is a rapturous tour-de-force of the personal and the political with directorial work from Jonas Åkerlund, Kahlil Joseph, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek, Todd Tourso, and Beyoncé herself. A free screening and panel discussion is happening at Cornell Cinema Thursday, Septmember 22 at 7:15 p.m. (Photo provided)

9/23 Friday Piano Music of Enrique Granados | 7:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Classical.

Travis Knapp: All the Stars You Hold Circus | 7:30 PM | Circus Culture, Press Bay Alley, 116 W Green St., Ithaca | Two shows on Friday, September 23 and Saturday, Septmeber 24 at 7:30 pm.

Local singer, songwriter, and multiinstrumentalist Travis Knapp is hosting a circus show that features a live band performance of his new album All the Stars You Hold.

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Cornell University Glee Club: Homecoming Concert | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The program will include folk songs, Renaissance motets, world music, and spirituals, as well as Thomas Tallis’s monumental Lamentations of Jeremiah.

Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen | 8:00 PM | Toad Hall, EcoVillage, 100 Rachel Carson Way, Ithaca | Traditional Irish, Scandinavian, Renaissance, Appalachian, and Contemporary music.

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Syracuse | Alternative Country, Outlaw Country.

Piano Trio Concert: New Meets Classic | 3:00 PM | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Join the Binghamton University Piano Trio, Zachary Sweet, cello, Joel Harder, piano with guest violinist Uli Speth, featuring Timothy Perry.

Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes | 4:00 PM | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | Featuring John Williams’ Star Wars Overture, Piano Concerto #1 by Franz Liszt, to be performed by piano soloist Benjamin Pawlak., and Gustav Holst’s sweeping musical story of our solar system, The Planets.

Faculty Chamber Music: Susan Waterbury | 4:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Susan Waterbury, violin; Elizabeth Simkin, cello.

Graham Nash | 8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Folk, Folk Rock.

JACK Quartet | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | New music, including Kevin Ernste’s Palimpsest, commissioned in 2011 by the Fromm Foundation for this quartet.

Film You Are Here | 7:00 PM-9:00: PM, 9/21 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Event featuring five films focusing on gas and oil infrastructure, public health concerns, policy, and ways that communities are responding. Free Event.

Freedom Machines | 3:00 PM-4:30: PM, 9/23 Friday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 5th St, Ithaca | Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people ages 8–93, whose talents and independence are being unleashed by access to modern, enabling technologies. This screening is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Finger Lakes Independence Center at 607.272.2433 or Rachel@fliconline.org cinemapolis

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Ants on a Shrimp | One of the world’s best restaurant, the Copenhagen based NOMA and its

Whitey Morgan & Cody Jinks | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St,

renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo. | 88 mins NR | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Touring Years | A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966. | 137 mins NR | The Hollars | A man returns to his small hometown after learning that his mother has fallen ill and is about to undergo surgery. | 88 mins PG-13 | Don’t Think Twice | When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all. | 92 mins R |

Hell or High Water | A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas. | 102 mins R | Time Bandits | A young boy accidentally joins a band of time traveling dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. | 110 mins PG | Mia Madre | Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. | 106 mins R | A Night at the Opera | A sly business

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No Pants Unpinned Tour: Randy & Mr. Lahey from Trailer Park Boys | 8:00 PM, 9/21 Wednesday | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Comedy.

Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Play and Play | 7:30 PM-, 9/24 Saturday | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Known for its powerful and varied subject matter, the evening’s program, called Play and Play features three dance pieces with live music.

Chinedu Unaka | 8:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Chinedu is a Hollywood based comedian born and raised in Los Angeles.

Kelly McDonald | 7:30 PM, 9/24 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Coming all the way from Los Angeles for his first appearance in Cortland, Kelly will recount his comical childhood in Geneseo, his even funnier college experiences at SUNY Cortland (Class of ’74), and, alas, the adulting life topics of marriage, parenthood, travel and the constant struggle to keep up with a fast-changing world.

Notices Young Adult Book Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 9/21 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | TCPL will host the inaugural session of this year’s Young Adult Book Club, a monthly book discussion group for middle and high school students. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl.org.

The Rotary Club of Ithaca: Susan Currie, Director, Tompkins County Public Library: The 21st Century Library | 12:15 PM-, 9/21 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | www.ithacarotary.com.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner |

Cass Park, Saturday, Septmeber 24, 10:00 a.m.

Tompkins County Public Library’s READATHON is their annual reading challenge fundraiser. The community’s (and beyond) readers read out loud for 30 minutes each, to a fluxing audience on the corner at 101 East Green Street, right in front of the public library, for 24 hours straight. These amazing readers set various fundraising goals and invite friends and family to support their reading with a donation. Make sure you stop by to hear some books and support your local library.

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Danny Says | Danny Says is a documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields. Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and “culture” of the late 20th century: working for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, Nico, Judy Collins and managing groundbreaking artists like the Stooges, the MC5 and the Ramones. Danny Says follows Fields from Phi Beta Kappa whiz-kid, to Harvard Law dropout, to the Warhol Silver Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to “punk pioneer” and beyond. | 104 mins NR | Isolated | Isolated takes us in a journey to the most highly populated artificial island in the Colombian Caribbean while it muses on the role of men in society and uses this island as a metaphor of our planet. | 73 Mins NR |

visual album, Lemonade, a rapturous tour-de-force of the personal and the political with directorial work from Jonas Åkerlund, Kahlil Joseph, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek, Todd Tourso, and Beyoncé herself. | 60 Mins NR | Ghostbusters | Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service. | 105 Mins PG | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. | 115 Mins PG | The Lovers and the Despot | After the collapse of their glamorous romance, a famous director and actress are kidnapped by movie-obsessed dictator Kim Jong-il. Forced to make films in the world’s weirdest state, they get a second chance at love, but only one chance at escape. | 98 Mins NR | Containment | Containment is a documentary about the disposition of nuclear waste for now—and for the next 10,000 years | 80 Mins NR |

Avenue Q | September 15 - October 1 |Wednedays and Thursdays at 7:00 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM | Redhouse Theater, 201 S West St, Syracuse | This humorously irreverent musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment in search of his life’s purpose. On his quest, he befriends the zany inhabitants of Avenue Q and, together, the group of misfits muddle through the trials and tribulations of adult life.

Million Dollar Quartet | Septmeber 15 - October 1, Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Tuesdays amd Wednesdays at 2:00 PM | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | On December 4, 1956. A recording session that will go down in history as the one and only time that four legends came together to make music. This is the story of that fateful session between Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. This rock ‘n roll mega hit is electrifying!

Hand to God | September 4 September 25 | Wednesdays and Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 p.m, and Sundays 4:00 p.m. | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Directed by Rachel Lamper.

Wildly Irreverent In the quiet town of Cypress, Texas, recently widowed Margery takes over the church puppet club. But when one puppet is possessed by the devil, there are wildly funny and deliciously devastating consequences.

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Ithaca’s famous and fabulous Dog Fest, Sponsored by Bo’s Bones Gourmet Organic Dog Biscuits, is an amazing day filled with bones, barks, food, and fun. The magical fest benefits local rescues and shelters, and many of the workers from there will be on hand with some special dogs.

Delicious local food, crafts, gifts for people and dogs, and spectacular services for all sorts of dog lovers. Donations of dog food will be greatly appreciated. A general store will also have items for sale with all proceeds going to attending dog groups.

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6:00 PM-, 9/21 Wednesday | Ciao’s, 2 Hickory Hollow Ln, Ithaca | RSVP lldalve24@yahoo.com Networking@Rev: High-Growth Startups + 2nd Anniversary | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/22 Thursday | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca | Help celebrate two years of convening the entrepreneurial community. Networking@Rev is free, but RSVP here to ensure your spot.

The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary Annual Fund-Raiser | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/22 Thursday | The Salvation Army, 150 N Albany St, Ithaca | Soup-er Supper and Silent Auction.

Questions: Carol Osadchey (607-2722519) Carolosadchey@aol.com The Cayuga Trails Club: North Country National Scenic Trail Hike | 8:00 AM-, 9/24 Saturday | Start time is 8 AM and location in the Watkins Glen area. Please visit the website at http:// cayugatrailsclub.org at for further information about this hike.

The Taoist Tai Chi Society of Ithaca Open House | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | Taoist Tai Chi Society, 1201 N. Tioga St, Fall Creek Studios, Ithaca | For more information call 607-2775491. Runs Tuesday September 27th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm as well.

In Memory: Honoring Our Grief | 3:45 PM-, 9/25 Sunday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Event will begin at 3:45 pm with the creation of a memorial table. Musical performances will begin at 4:00 pm. For more information, go to IthacaCrisis.org, call 607-272-1505, or write to info@ ithacacrisis.org.

Ithaca Welcomes Refugees Potluck | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/25 Sunday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Bring a dish to pass and come be a part of building the IWR community. This social event will be open to the community, and the focus will be on getting to meet one another.

Yiddish Ithaca | 6:45 PM-8:15 PM, 9/26 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A new group for those who love Yiddish.

All are welcome who are interested in learning, speaking and learning Yiddish, and in sharing and promoting Yiddish culture. Beginners come early, at 6:45. Full group at 7:15.

TCPL Banned Book Display | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | From September 26 through October 1, library patrons will find a display of challenged books near the library’s main entrance. Each book will be wrapped in brown paper

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, the JACK quartet is focused on new work, leading them to collaborate with composers John Luther Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Simon Steen-Andersen, Caroline Shaw, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Matthias Pintscher, and John Zorn. Upcoming and recent premieres include works by Derek Bermel, Cenk Ergun, Roger Reynolds, Toby Twining, and Georg Friedrich Haas. The group will be in residence at Cornell University September 25-28, presenting two concerts in Barnes Hall on September 25 and 28 (both at 8 PM). Prepare to be amazed! (Photo provided) with a short description of why it was challenged. Patrons can check out the books, unwrap them and celebrate their freedom to read. For more information about TCPL’s Freedom to Read display or Banned Books Week, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@ tcpl.org.

Learning Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World | 4:30 PM-, 9/21 Wednesday | Olin Library, Cornell, Ithaca | Chats in the Stacks book talk by Peter K. Enns.

Seed Saving 101 | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 9/21 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Learn to save your own flower and vegetable seeds for next year’s garden and to share with others. To register by phone call 272-2292, or email cab69@cornell.edu Finding Calm and Improving Sleep | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 9/22 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Amanda Lewis will share natural treatment options and offer some calming tea samples.

Registration required - sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

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Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling Facilities | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/22 Thursday | Dick’s Sporting Goods, The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca | Great for Materials management professionals, municipal representatives, staff from non-profit and for-profit organizations, educators, and curious members of the public.

Whited Sepulcher: The Mormon Buried in Mark Twain’s Heart | 7:00 PM-, 9/22 Thursday | Chemung County Historical Society, 415 E. Water Street, Elmira | By Dr. Matthew Seybold, Elmira College.

The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life | 4:00 PM-, 9/22 Thursday | Mann Library, Cornell Library, , Ithaca | Chats in the Stacks book talk by Rodney Dietert.

The Corinthian Thesis: The Oratorical Origins of the Idea of the Balance of Power in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 9/22 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker: Nathan Dinneen, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Hide Tanning Workshop with Primitive Pursuits | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/23 Friday | Primitive Pursuits, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Runs Friday September 23, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24 and 25,

9:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Adult workshop teaching methods for fleshing and tanning hides. 607-272-2292 The Soloist Performs with an Orchestra of Events, The 2016 Rabindranath Tagore Modern Indian Literature Lecture: By Ranjit Hoskote | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 9/23 Friday | A.D. White House, Guerlac Room 29 East Ave, Ithaca | Ranjit Hoskote is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He is author of five collections of poetry, Zones of Assault, The Cartographer’s Apprentice, The Sleepwalker’s Archive, Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems 1985-2005, and Central Time.

Kofi Agawu on The Rhythmic Imagination in African Music | 5:00 PM-, 9/23 Friday | Whalen Center, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Ithaca Music Forum inaugural event.

Smithsonian Museum Day Live! | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Enjoy free admission to the Museum of the Earth as part of Smithsonian Museum Day Live! Present a printed Museum Day Live! ticket from the Smithsonian Magazine website to enjoy a free trip to the museum. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museumday-live-2016/tickets/

Fall Fungi Walk with Steve Gabriel | 10:00 AM-, 9/24 Saturday | Stevenson Forest Preserve, , Ithaca | Steve Gabriel, agroforester, ecologist, and co-owner of Wellspring Forest Farm & School, will lead a walk that will focus on proper fungi identification, the role of fungi in the ecosystem, and tips for ethical harvesting. More info and directions at www.fllt.org/events Cooperation Station: Women in the Building Trades Come Together to Explore the Many Avenues for Cooperation | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | More info and to register: tinyurl.com/coopstat Dr. Donathan L. Brown: The Struggle for Voting Rights | 7:00 PM-, 9/26 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Dr. Brown is a Fulbright Scholar, Chair of the Ithaca College Diversity Scholars Program, and lead author of the book Voting Rights Under Fire.

Gloria Joseph | 7:00 PM-, 9/27 Tuesday | Textor Hall, 101, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Ithaca College presents legendary feminist, activist, and author Gloria Joseph, founder of Cornell’s COSEP program and long-time partner of Audre Lorde.

Gardens and Wildlife | 6:30 PM-, 9/27 Tuesday | Lime Hollow Education Center, 3227 Gracie Rd., Cortland | Presentation on by Peter Harrity.

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Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Fraternity members will read and provide musical accompaniment to Zin, Zin, Zin!: A Violin, by Lloyd Moss. For more information, visit: http://tcpl.org/ kids/programs.php or contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Special Events Readathon | 12:00 PM-, 9/23 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | 24-hour celebration of the freedom to read. Each reader will read aloud from the book or books of their choice for 30 minutes in an effort to raise awareness and funds for the library’s collections.

Cornell University Football | 3:00 PM-, 9/24 Saturday | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell, Ithaca | Vs. Yale University.

Ithaca Dog Fest | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |Delicious local food, crafts, gifts for people and dogs, services for dog lovers! For additional info contact Pat@ bosbones.com ​ Renwick Part Redux | 6:30 PM-, 9/24 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | A Night of Great Food, Fanciful Cocktails and Entertainment to Support Stewart Park Revitalization. www.friendsofstewartpark.org The History Center’s Eight Square Schoolhouse Luncheon | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | The History Center’s Eight Square Schoolhouse, 1748 Hanshaw Road, Dryden | Bring a picnic lunch and come and learn the history of this over 200 year old school site!

Lakshmi Living Arts Perennial Plant Exchange | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | Lakshmi Living Arts, 1966 Trumansburg Rd., Trumansburg | Lakshmi has an overabundance of perennial wildflowers and grasses in our gardens that they want to share with the community.

Whingblinger Fall Heritage Festival | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/24 Saturday | 73 W. Pulteney St, 73 W. Pulteney St, Corning | Featuring a Country Store, Raffles, food and Bake Sale. There will be many hands on Children’s Activities.

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Kids Sensory Science: Science of Sound | 3:30 PM-, 9/22 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 3 through 7 are invited to use their senses to explore stories, songs and hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM). To register, visit tcpl.org/kids/ programs-sensory-storytimes.php.

Teen Writing Group | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 9/22 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens will join Ithaca College writing majors, Amanda Livingston and Alexa Salvato for fun-filled workshops featuring prompts, guided exercises and opportunities to workshop original pieces. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org.

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NYS Baroque will open its 28th season with a concert devoted to the stunningly beautiful yet rarely-heard music of 17th century composer Barbara Strozzi. A vocal ensemble of four early music singers (including Luthien Brackett (pictured)) will be accompanied by the rich sounds of lutes, lirone, gamba, and violins in music she composed and would have heard in Venice during her lifetime. Barbara Strozzi may not be well-known today, but she was famous in Venice in the 17th century.

Live At The Fillmore is a band dedicated to playing the music of the original Allman Brothers Band. They’re named after the legendary and mystical performance the Allmans delivered on June 26, 1971at the Fillmore East. Lou Maresca, the founder, guitarist, and singer of Live At The Fillmore, was at that show, and his experience was profound. He decided to start a band to continue the magic and tradition of the music of that original and interstellar Allmans crew. Expect to be dazzled.

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PM, 9/24 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Live DJ, All Levels Yoga with Jyoti Kessler of Singing Heart Yoga and DJ Nataraj, Dances of Universal Peace with Azad Volckhausen and Friends, Synchronized Global Peace Prayer led by HeartPath Institute, and much more. Info at www.earthdance. org Judy’s Day Family Learning Festival: Food Plants of the Americas | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/25 Sunday | F. R. Newman Arboretum, Cornell Plantations, Ithaca | Enjoy hands-on activities, music, storytelling and food at this fun and educational festival for all ages!

Streets Alive! Ithaca #9 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/25 Sunday | Southside Neighborhood, South Plain St. closed from Green t. to Elmira Rd., Ithaca | Streets Alive! activities include: Bike Rodeo, Bike Mechanics, Physics Bus, Dancing in the Street, Fall Creek Brass Band, Jump Rope, Hula Hooping and lots of space to walk, bike, roll, dance, jump, play, and visit with neighbors.

More questions? Contact Streets Alive!

Volunteer Coordinator at info@streetsaliveithaca.com Celebrate Judy’s Day: A Family Learning Festival at Cornell Plantations | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/25 Sunday | Take a journey of the Americas and discover the food plants that have shaped the cultures, communities, and industries of North, Central and South America at Cornell Plantations.

7th Annual Pink Ribbon Zumbathon | 1:30 PM-4:00 PM, 9/25 Sunday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Pink Ribbon Party will be donating its proceeds locally to the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. For more information, talk to a local Zumba instructor or contact Louise Watson at lmw417@ gmail.com.

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Nashville’s punk-indie-glam metal-hybrid Diarrhea Planet are not sloppy—quite the opposite in fact.

Their form is clean, soaring, ‘80s escapist, and happily paradoxical. These guys are serious. Four guitarists chug and collapse around a strong bass and drum tandem morphing and slamming a fluid and complete dimension. The band has the quaint honesty found in many of the early SST Records bands, the warm juxtaposition of sunny Seattle in the early ‘90s, and rage hard with some monster sounding pop. The band slides into town next Thursday, September 29, to rock The Haunt. I caught up with guitarist and singer Jordan Smith recently. Here’s the lowdown.

Ithaca Times: I feel like you guys are kind of playing with established notions of certain ideas and doing your own thing in the face of them. Does the band’s name stand for a sort of way of thinking?

Jordan Smith: I think the band name has come to mean a lot of different things to all of us. I think in particular it has certainly shaped our work ethic. Our name has forced us to prove ourselves every step of the way; we do not get many breaks that we haven’t had to earn through hard work and sacrifice.

We work hard, but I have to say that the experiences have made it worth it.

IT: You guys have a lot of guitars: is that a pleasant dimension, a difficult

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Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca Michael Goscinsky: Wood Block Prins.

Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | A group show of recent works by CSMA’s visual arts faculty and

Book Launch of Blissful Dying, A Living Love Story | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 9/23 Friday | Polaris del Casita at Northstar, 202 E. Falls Street, Ithaca | Blissful Dying is a love story about the life and death of Leyla Dietrich, co-authored by Leyla and Jessica DeAugistine Jones. Leyla’s last wish was to share her story of what it means to be truly alive, especially to those who are impacted by illness, loss and life-altering experiences.

barrier, or something else entirely?

JS: At this point it is second nature.

I don’t even think about it that much any more. Everyone plays so differently. We have been playing together long enough that everyone kind of falls into place on everything in their own way. We know each other’s playing well enough to stay inside our boundaries and not step on toes. It isn’t really something you think about. The more you embrace your own voice and tastes, the less you interfere with your bandmates’ playing.

IT: Nashville seems like a great place to live as a band. What’s some of the best angles of the city, and some of the worst?

And how did you guys come together?

JS: The best thing about Nashville is by far the amount of world-class musicians that live here. There is constant stimulation and if you are a visual/ auditory learner then you have an entire city full of free music lessons with the best teachers. Inspiration is very easy to find. The downside is that the secret is out that Nashville rules and now everyone is moving here. Real estate prices and rent are skyrocketing and it is getting harder to make a living as a musician and still afford to live in the city. It is all part of a big cycle that hits a lot of places and eventually tapers down again, but it really does put a lot more pressure on you to make ends meet. We all met in college.

IT: What kind of power does humor have in the creative process? Can you make you great art with no sense of humor?

JS: Humor gives you the power to step back and let off some of the pressure.

Creating should be fun, and humor is a good way to ramp that up. Humor is also pretty universal, people like to laugh and have a good time. You definitely can make art without humor. I struggle with it because I create best when I am happy,

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Dowd Gallery | Room 106, SUNY Cortland, Cortland | Jaime BrettTreadwell: Fade to Gray. An exhibition of new paintings on view from August 29-October 7.

Eye Gallery | 215 E State St, Ithaca | Eye, 126 The Commons, Ithaca | About Face is eye Ithaca’s first group show with over 20 painters, photographers, and sculptors’ depiction of the face, human and otherwise. Creators include Kaleb Hunkele, Janet Woolley, Giselle Potter, and some surprises.

PLUS! Diminutives: A Pop-Up of Small Mercies, featuring Leah Strogatz, Erin Deneuville, Ben Marlan, & Amy Browne.

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Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Ben Ortiz, aka DJ Hameen, will be exhibiting his work downstairs during the months of September and October. Check out his work while enjoying some killer cocktails, live music and street food by Luna.

Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Photographs

by Jhenah Telyndru and Emily Brunner: Sacred Sight, Sacred Rites.

Sarah’s Patisserie | 103 E Seneca St.,

Ithaca | Sally Ryan: Healing in Color. A lively journey of color and light with Sally’s latest abstracts in Acrylic and Collage.

State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Sheryl Sinkow: 5 out of 7. Exhibition of images made during Sinkow’s travels to five of our seven continents. Show dates: August 31-October. www.soagithaca.org www.soagithaca.org 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org

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Those who have lost a loved one by suicide, accident, unexpected illness or any other challenging circumstance are invited to this free concert this Sunday. The program will begin at 3:45 pm with the creation of a memorial table. Guests are invited to bring a small memento such as a photograph, sculpture, stuffed animal, or flower that signifies their beloved. Musical performances will begin at 4:00 pm and include an amazing lineup: Joe Crookston, Abbe Lyons, and Elisa Sciscioli.

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Cornell University’s dynamic men’s choir, the Glee Club, will present its annual Homecoming Concert this Saturday. The program will include folk songs, Renaissance motets, spirituals, and various world music, as well as Thomas Tallis’s monumental “Lamentations of Jeremiah,” written between 1560 and 1569. The Cornell Chorus will also make a brief guest appearance, and the program will conclude with traditional Cornell songs. The Cornell University Glee Club is Cornell University’s oldest student organization. h e

Ithaca | Early American Art/ 11:00 AM-4:00PM Saturday 9/24. Member art demonstrations by The Historical Society of Early American Decoration.

Johnson Museum of Art | Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970, Through Sunday, December 18. We Went to the Fair: Through Sunday, December 18.

American Sojourns and the Collection of Japanese Art: Through Sunday, December 18. Japonisme: The First Wave and Beyond: Through Sunday, December 18. Follow the enthusiasm for all things Japanese from the 19th century to today. Leo Villareal: Cosmos, Ongoing. | www.museum. cornell.edu

IT: With six members in the band what’s the writing process like? Is there a power struggle, a certain way you guys have figured out how to work?

JS: Man, it varies so much from song to song. Sometimes one of us will have a complete song and we all just learn to play it. Other times we have a riff, skeleton, or fragment of a song and work on finishing it together by banging it out at the practice space. There isn’t a real “this always works” methodology to what we do. I wish there was, but maybe that is why “art is fun”. •

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IT: How is the current tour going, and how does American look out there on the open road?

JS: Tour has been great. We just finished a Pacific Northwest and Midwest Tour. I have to say that I think we all really fell in love with Livingston, Montana. We played at this incredible venue called Pine Creek Lodge. It felt like something out of a dream: totally awesome. We hit a lot of great hiking spots as well (Badlands, Deep Creek).

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You will enter through the side door and find yourself in the kitchen, which is organized around a central island that includes a sink and breakfast bar with three chairs. The working area of the room is floored with hickory and the remainder is tiled.

The cabinets are custom-made with cherry panels and maple trim. This two-toned look actually works quite well because more of the surface is dark cherry and the light maple trim serves to brighten the room and define the doors of the cabinets.

The floor in the dining room (pictured at right) is oak, but the wainscoting is butternut. This species is related to walnut, but while that wood can have a purplish caste, this is a warm, yellowish-brown.

There are double-doors leading out to a side yard where a deck or a patio could be added. Although these doors provide a lot of light, there are also two skylights that let in even more.

A hall to the back of the house brings you past the laundry room and a wall of

built-in storage cabinets (also made of hardwood). There is a mudroom inside the back door and off to the right is another room that is large enough to be used as an office or even a bedroom. The floor here is a motley collection of all the hardwood left over from other jobs. This out of the way room actually has tiger maple trim.

The living room is at the front of the 131 E. Main St. in Trumansburg (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) house and still has the original 19th century wide There are three bedrooms upstairs, plank floors. They are in quite good shape including one that is essentially a masbecause they were covered with carpeting ter suite with its own full bath and twin for decades and have been painstaking closets. restored by the owners.

The upstairs bathroom has just been There is a brick hearth with a wood renovated and includes a tiled shower stall. mantel set into the front wall. It is built The full bathroom downstairs has a tub/ around a gas fireplace. shower.

There is a study in the front (southThe woodwork has been painstakeast) corner with hickory cabinets around ingly stripped throughout and much of the a built-in desk with tiger maple shelves. original hardware on the doors has been There is a computer workspace on the opretained. • posite wall next to the window.

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