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Ithaca, New York
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Ithaca /ˈɪθəkə/ is a city in the Southern Tier-Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area and this area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tompkins County. The city of Ithaca is located on the shore of Cayuga Lake. It is named for the Greek island of Ithaca, Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school of over 20,000 students, most of whom study at its local campus. Ithaca College is located just south of the city in the Town of Ithaca, nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College. These three colleges bring tens of thousands of students who increase Ithacas seasonal population during the school year, some students settle in the area after graduation. The citys voters are more liberal than those in the remainder of Tompkins County or in upstate New York. In 2010, the population was 30,014. Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca is the North American seat of Tenzin Gyatso, indigenous people occupied this area for thousands of years. At the time of European contact, this area was controlled by the Cayuga Indians, jesuit missionaries from New France are said to have had a mission to the Cayuga as early as 1657. Saponi and Tutelo Indians, Algonquian-speaking tribes, later occupied lands at the end of Cayuga Lake. Remnants of these tribes had been forced from North Carolina by tribal conflicts, during the Revolutionary War, four of the then six Iroquois nations were allied with the British, although bands made decisions on fighting in a highly decentralized way. Conflict with the colonists was fierce throughout the Mohawk Valley. In retaliation for conflicts to the east, the 1779 Sullivan Expedition was conducted against the Iroquois peoples in the west of the state, destroying more than 40 villages and stored winter crops. It destroyed the Tutelo village of Coregonal, located near what is now the junction of state routes 13, most Iroquois were forced from the state after the Revolutionary War, but some remnants remained. The state sold off the former Iroquois lands to development and settlement by European Americans. Within the current boundaries of the City of Ithaca, Native Americans maintained only a temporary hunting camp at the base of Cascadilla Gorge, in 1788 eleven men from Kingston, New York came to the area with two Delaware people guides, to explore what they considered wilderness. The following year Jacob Yaple, Isaac Dumond, and Peter Hinepaw returned with their families and that same year Abraham Bloodgood of Albany obtained a patent from the state for 1400 acres, which included all of the present downtown west of Tioga Street
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Public library
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A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are civil servants. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries, Public libraries exist in many countries across the world and are often considered an essential part of having an educated and literate population. Public access to books is not new, romans made scrolls in dry rooms available to patrons of the baths, and tried with some success to establish libraries within the empire. In the middle of the 19th century, the push for public libraries, paid for by taxes. Public libraries were started with a donation, or were bequeathed to parishes, churches. These social and institutional libraries formed the base of many academic and public collections of today. The establishment of circulating libraries in the 18th century, by booksellers and publishers provided a means of gaining profit, the circulating libraries not only provided a place to sell books, but also a place to lend books for a price. These circulating libraries provided a variety of including the increasingly popular novels. Circulating libraries were not exclusively lending institutions and often provided a place for other forms of commercial activity and this was necessary because the circulating libraries did not generate enough funds through subscription fees collected from its borrowers. As a commerce venture, it was important to consider the factors such as other goods or services available to the subscribers. The Malatestiana Library, also known as the Malatesta Novello Library, is a public library dating from 1452 in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna and it was the first European civic library, i. e. belonging to the Commune and open to everybody. It was commissioned by the Lord of Cesena, Malatesta Novello, the works were directed by Matteo Nuti of Fano and lasted from 1447 to 1452. In the early years of the 17th century, many famous collegiate, norwich City library was established in 1608 and Chethams Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653. Claude Sallier, the French philologist and churchman, operated an early form of library in the town of Saulieu from 1737 to 1750. He wished to make culture and learning accessible to all people, the Załuski Library was built in Warsaw 1747–1795 by Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, both Roman Catholic bishops. The library was open to the public and indeed was the first Polish public library, at the start of the 18th century, libraries were becoming increasingly public and were more frequently lending libraries. The 18th century saw the switch from closed parochial libraries to lending libraries, before this time, public libraries were parochial in nature and libraries frequently chained their books to desks
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Ezra Cornell
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Ezra Cornell was an American businessman, politician, philanthropist and educational administrator. He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University and he also served as President of the New York Agriculture Society and as a New York state Senator. He was born in Westchester Landing, in what would become the Bronx, New York, the son of Eunice, and a potter, Elijah Cornell and he was a cousin of Paul Cornell, the founder of Chicagos Hyde Park neighborhood. Cornell was also a distant relative of William Cornell, who was a settler of Scarborough, Ontario whose name was used for the planned community of Cornell. Having traveled extensively as a carpenter in New York State, Ezra, upon first setting eyes on Cayuga Lake and Ithaca, ezekiel Cornell, a Revolutionary War general, represented Rhode Island in the U. S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782, upon arriving in Ithaca, NY in the spring of 1828, Cornell first found work as a carpenter before being hired as a mechanic by Otis Eddy to work at his cotton mill on Cascadilla Creek. On Eddy’s recommendation, Jeremiah S. Beebe then hired Cornell to repair and overhaul his plaster and flour mills on Fall Creek. During Cornell’s long association with Beebe, he designed and built a tunnel for a new race on Fall Creek, a stone dam on Fall Creek, which formed Beebe Lake. By 1832, he was in charge of all Beebe’s concerns at Fall Creek, Ezra Cornell was a birthright Quaker, but was later disowned by the Society of Friends for marrying outside of the faith to a worlds woman, a Methodist by the name of Mary Ann Wood. Ezra and Mary Ann were married March 19,1831, in Dryden, so, having purchased rights in a patent for a new type of plow, Ezra began what would be decades of traveling away from Ithaca. His territories for sales of the plow were the states of Maine and his plan was to sell in Maine in the summer and the milder Georgia in the winter. With limited means, what transported Ezra between the two states were his own two feet, happening into the offices of the Maine Farmer in 1842, Cornell saw an acquaintance of his, one F. O. J. Smith, bent over some plans for a scraper as Smith called it, for services rendered, Smith had been granted a one-quarter share of the telegraph patent held by Samuel F. B. Morse, and was attempting to devise a way of burying the telegraph lines in the ground in lead pipe. Ezras knowledge of plows was put to the test and Ezra devised a special kind of plow that would dig a 2½ foot ditch, lay the pipe and telegraph wire in the ditch and cover it back up as it went. Later it was found that condensation in the pipes and poor insulation of the wires impeded the electrical current on the wires and so hanging the wire from telegraph poles became the accepted method. To address the problem of telegraph lines shorting out to the ground, Cornell, Speed and Smith also built the New York and Erie line competing with and paralleling to the south the New York, Albany and Buffalo line in which Morse had a major share. The line was completed in 1849 and Cornell was made president of the company, Cornells sister Phoebe married Martin B. Wood and moved to Albion, Michigan, in 1848
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Cornell University
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Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and land-grant doctoral university located in Ithaca, New York. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornells motto, the university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of three private land grant universities in the nation and the one in New York. Of its seven colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York system, including its agricultural. Of Cornells graduate schools, only the college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension program in every county of New York. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens are considered. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race, the student body consists of more than 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and more than 120 countries. Cornell University was founded on April 27,1865, the New York State Senate authorized the university as the land grant institution. Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York, as a site, fellow senator and experienced educator Andrew Dickson White agreed to be the first president. During the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the first two buildings and traveled to attract students and faculty, the university was inaugurated on October 7,1868, and 412 men were enrolled the next day. Cornell developed as an innovative institution, applying its research to its own campus as well as to outreach efforts. For example, in 1883 it was one of the first university campuses to use electricity from a dynamo to light the grounds. Cornell has had active alumni since its earliest classes and it was one of the first universities to include alumni-elected representatives on its Board of Trustees. Today the university has more than 4,000 courses, since 2000, Cornell has been expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and it has partnerships with institutions in India, Singapore, and the Peoples Republic of China. Former president Jeffrey S. Lehman described the university, with its international profile. On March 9,2004, Cornell and Stanford University laid the cornerstone for a new Bridging the Rift Center to be built, Cornells main campus is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake
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Finger Lakes
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The Finger Lakes is a group of 11 long, narrow, roughly north-south lakes in a region called the Finger Lakes region in Central New York, in the United States. This region is defined as a bioregion and is a popular tourist destination, the lakes shapes reminded early map-makers of human fingers, and the name stuck. Cayuga and Seneca Lakes are among the deepest in the United States and they are also the longest Finger Lakes, though neithers width exceeds 3.5 miles, Cayuga Lake is 38.1 miles long, and 66.9 square miles, the largest in total area. Oneida Lake is generally not considered one of the Finger Lakes and it is located in Appalachian hill terrain, with a historic village linked to other Finger Lakes by US20. It may have formed in the same manner as the Finger Lakes. The first is the Tully Valley, which includes a chain of lakes at the south end that could be a Finger Lake that never formed because of a terminal moraine. The moraine caused the Tioughnioga River to flow south instead of north, the next two valleys to the east contain Butternut Creek, which flows north, and the East Branch of the Tioughnioga River, which flows south. The next valley contains Limestone Creek, which flows north, the next valley after that contains Cazenovia Lake. Oneida Lake, to the northeast of Syracuse, New York, is included as the thumb, although it is shallow. Onondaga Lake, though located just north of the Finger Lakes region, is not considered one of the Finger Lakes, as with Oneida and Cazenovia Lakes, it drains into Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Conesus, Hemlock, Canadice, Honeoye, and Otisco are considered the minor Finger Lakes, other, smaller lakes, including Silver, Waneta, and Lamoka lakes, dot this region. East of Oneida and Cazenovia Lakes are the headwaters of the Susquehanna River, the 2, 000-acre muckland of a valley located in Potter, New York, which is part of Torrey Farms, was almost a 12th Finger Lake, as the waterline is just below the surface. It lies between Lakes Canandaigua and Seneca, and was once a swamp, the lakes originated as a series of northward-flowing streams. Around two million years ago, the first of many continental glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area and these scouring glaciers widened, deepened, and accentuated the existing river valleys. Glacial debris, possibly terminal moraine left behind by the ice, acted as dams. The deep cutting by the ice left some tributaries hanging high above the lakes—both Seneca, much of the Finger Lakes area lies upon the Marcellus Shale and the Utica Shale, two prominent natural gas reserves. Due to the recent popularization of fracking technology, the gas is now available to extraction. The first direct actions and local actions against fracking occurred in the Finger Lakes bioregion
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,564, the name is in honor of Daniel D. Tompkins, who served as Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States. Tompkins County comprises the Ithaca, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is home to Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College. When counties were established in the British Province of New York in 1683 and this was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. This county was reduced in size on July 3,1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, on March 12,1772, what was left of Albany County was split into three parts, one remaining under the name Albany County. One of the pieces, Tryon County, contained the western portion. The area then designated as Tryon County now includes 37 counties of New York State, the county was named for William Tryon, colonial governor of New York. In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada, in 1789, Montgomery County was reduced in size by the splitting off of Ontario County. Herkimer County was one of three counties split off from Montgomery County in 1791, Onondaga County was formed in 1794 by the splitting of Herkimer County. Cayuga County was formed in 1799 by the splitting of Onondaga County and this county was, however, much larger than the present Cayuga County. It then included the present Seneca and Tompkins counties, in 1804, Seneca County was formed by the splitting of Cayuga County. On April 7,1817, Tompkins County was created by combining portions of Seneca, the county was named after then Vice-President and former New York Governor Daniel Tompkins. Tompkins almost certainly never visited the county named for him, in 1854, the county lost the town of Hector and the west line of lots in Newfield to the newly formed Schuyler County, New York. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 492 square miles. Tompkins County is in the west central part of New York State, south of Syracuse and it is usually geographically grouped with the Finger Lakes region, but some locals consider themselves to be part of Central New York or the Southern Tier. As of the census of 2000, there were 96,501 people,36,420 households, the population density was 203 people per square mile. There were 38,625 housing units at a density of 81 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 85. 50% White,3. 64% African American,0. 28% Native American,7. 19% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,1. 09% from other races, and 2. 26% from two or more races
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New York State Route 79
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New York State Route 79 is an east–west state highway in the Southern Tier of New York, in the United States. The western terminus of the route is at the intersection with NY414 near the end of Seneca Lake just northeast of Watkins Glen. Its eastern terminus is at the Pennsylvania state line in the town of Windsor in Broome County, NY79 passes through three regions, it starts in the Finger Lakes region, runs through Central New York and ends on the western fringes of the Catskills. Portions of NY79 parallel waterways, between Whitney Point and Chenango Forks, it runs along the eastern bank of the Tioughnioga River. From the town of Colesville to the Pennsylvania border, NY79 runs along the bank of the Susquehanna River. NY79 also begins adjacent to Seneca Lake and passes near Cayuga Lake, NY79 serves the city of Ithaca and connects to three Interstate Highways, Interstate 81 near Whitney Point, I-86 in the village of Windsor, and I-88 in Harpursville. The route also passes through the villages of Lisle and Burdett, NY79 begins at an intersection with NY414 just north of the Watkins Glen village limits in the Schuyler County town of Hector. The route heads north, climbing the side of the bluff along the eastern edge of Seneca Lake. At the top of the hill, NY79 enters the village of Burdett as Main Street, as it passes through the village, NY79 turns eastward as Lake Avenue. East of Burdett, the passes through the hamlet of Bennettsburg prior to intersecting NY227. While NY227 heads north to serve Reynoldsville, NY79 continues east to Mecklenburg, East of Mecklenburg, NY79 passes into Tompkins County and the town of Enfield. As Mecklenburg Road, it heads eastward through rolling farmland and hills toward the city of Ithaca and it intersects NY327 at Enfield Corners in this stretch. As NY79 approaches downtown Ithaca, it becomes Hector Street and curves to the northeast, at the base of the hill, the route crosses the Cayuga Inlet and enters downtown, where it splits into a one-way couplet along State Street and Seneca Street. NY79 eastbound shifts one block south at Fulton Street to use Green Street, the one-way couplet ends one block east of Aurora Street at the Tuning Fork as Green and Seneca streets merge into East State Street, recently double-named Martin Luther King Jr. Street. NY79 follows State Street southeastward through eastern Ithaca into the town of Ithaca, the portions of NY79 between the Ithaca west city line and NY 13A, between NY 89/96 and Meadow Street and between Green Street and the Ithaca east city line are maintained by the city. The portion of NY79 east of the city limits is markedly more rural and it heads southeastward as Slaterville Road through the towns of Ithaca, Dryden, and Caroline, serving several small communities along the route. NY79 crosses into Tioga County upon passing over the west branch of Owego Creek, NY 79s stay in Tioga County is wholly confined to the town of Richford. The routing of NY79 in Richford is hilly and heavily rural, the route heads into Broome County, where it meets U. S. Route 11 in the town of Lisle just east of the Lisle village limits
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Ithaca Commons
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The Ithaca Commons is a three-block pedestrian mall in downtown Ithaca, New York that serves as the citys cultural and economic center. The Commons is a regional destination, and is filled with upscale restaurants and shops, public art. The Commons is shaped like an inverted T, many of the buildings are mixed-use, with apartments or offices on the upper floors. Tompkins Cortland Community College has a satellite campus on the Commons. During the summer, local musicians and other entertainers put on concerts and performances. The Commons is also used for many protests, rallies. The Commons hosts several festivals throughout the year, including Ithacas main annual festival, a scale model of the solar system, the Sagan Planet Walk, begins in the Commons. The Planet Walk is named after famed Cornell University astronomer Carl Sagan, the inner ring planets all fit on a short section of Bank Alley. The two main hubs of Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit s bus network are located adjacent to the Commons, by the 1960s, the rise of car culture, suburbs, and urban renewal had severely hurt downtown Ithaca. Many storefronts were empty, and many buildings had been torn down. In 1971, newly elected Mayor Ed Conley, pulling on a 1950s-era suggestion from a Cornell city planning student, at the time, many small towns in the United States were experimenting with using pedestrian malls to revive downtowns. Formal design began in 1972, under the direction of local architect Anton J. Egner, construction began in 1974, and the Commons opened in 1975. It faced immediate competition, with the Ithaca areas first mall opening the year in Lansing. Together with the rest of Upstate New York, the Commons suffered through the 1990s with many empty storefronts, rothschilds, a local department store, closed in the early 1980s, and its successor, a McCurdys store, closed in the mid-1990s. A McDonalds and a CVS also closed on the Commons in the mid-90s, and a block away, then-Mayor Alan Cohen proposed removing the Commons and opening up the two-block portion of State Street to automobile traffic. At the turn of the century, the Commonss fortune began to turn around, due to increased investment, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, a business improvement district, was created in 1997 to revitalize the Commons and its surroundings. The vacant former Woolworths was renovated into the new home of the Tompkins County Public Library in 2000, another luxury apartment building, Gateway Commons, was completed nearby in 2007. But the Commons aging infrastructure started to cause problems, in the late 1990s, an ad hoc city committee formed to discuss the future of the Commons
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F. W. Woolworth Company
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The F. W. Woolworth Company was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was arguably the most successful American and international business, setting trends. The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22,1878, as Woolworths Great Five Cent Store in Utica, though it initially appeared to be successful, the store soon failed. When Woolworth searched for a new location, a friend suggested Lancaster, using the sign from the Utica store, Woolworth opened his first successful Woolworths Great Five Cent Store on July 18,1879, in Lancaster. He brought his brother, Charles Sumner Woolworth, into the business, the two Woolworth brothers pioneered and developed merchandising, direct purchasing, sales, and customer service practices commonly used today. The chain went out of business in July 1997, when the decided to focus primarily on sporting goods. By 2001, the company focused exclusively on the goods market, changing its name to the present Foot Locker. Retail chains using the Woolworth name survive in Austria, Germany, Mexico and, until the start of 2009, however, Woolworths Limited did take their name from the original company, as it had not been registered or trademarked in Australia at the time. Similarly, in South Africa, Woolworths Holdings Limited operates a Marks & Spencer-like store and uses the Woolworth name, the property development company Woolworth Group in Cyprus began life as an offshoot of the British Woolworths company, originally operating Woolworths department stores in Cyprus. In 2003, these stores were rebranded Debenhams, but the property arm of the business retained the Woolworths name. The F. W. Woolworth Co. had the first five-and-dime stores, Woolworth, as the stores popularly became known, was one of the first American retailers to put merchandise out for the shopping public to handle and select without the assistance of a sales clerk. Earlier retailers had kept all merchandise behind a counter and customers presented the clerk with a list of items they wished to buy, the store failed and closed in May 1878, after Frank earned enough money to pay back William Moore. Frank soon made an attempt, and opened his Woolworths Great Five Cent Store, using the same sign, on June 21,1879, in Lancaster. Lancaster proved a success, and Frank never forgot the city for the rest of his life, Frank wanted to open a second store in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and so he asked his brother Charles Sumner Sum Woolworth to join him by managing it. The Harrisburg store opened as, 5¢ Woolworth Bros Store on July 19,1879, after a falling-out with the landlord, that store moved to York, Pennsylvania, opening in March 1880. That store did not last long either, closing three months later, Frank searched for a larger, low-rent building. He found a location in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at 125 Penn Avenue. The Scranton store is where Sum fully developed the brothers 5¢ & 10¢ merchandising model, Sum spent a lot of time working the sales floor, talking with customers and employees
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Department store
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A department store or magazine is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as departments. In modern major cities, the department store made a appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits. Similar developments were under way in London, in Paris and in New York, customers check out near the front of the store or, alternatively, at sales counters within each department. Some are part of a chain of many stores, while others may be independent retailers. In the 1970s, they came under pressure from discounters. Since 2010, they have come under even heavier pressure from online stores such as Amazon, big-box stores, hypermarkets, and discount stores are modern equivalent of historical department stores. Before shopping malls, department stores were standalone, the origins of the department store lay in the growth of the conspicuous consumer society at the turn of the 19th century. As the Industrial Revolution accelerated economy expansion, the affluent middle-class grew in size, urbanized social group, sharing a culture of consumption and changing fashion, was the catalyst for the retail revolution. One of the first department stores may have been Bennetts in Derby and it still stands to this day, trading in the same building. However, the first reliably dated department store to be established, was Harding, Howell & Co and it is fitted up with great taste, and is divided by glazed partitions into four departments, for the various branches of the extensive business, which is there carried on. Immediately at the entrance is the first department, which is appropriated to the sale of furs. The second contains articles of haberdashery of every description, silks, muslins, lace, gloves, &etc. The fourth is set apart for millinery and dresses, so there is no article of female attire or decoration. This venture is described as having all of the characteristics of the department store. This pioneering shop was closed down in 1820 when the partnership was dissolved. Department stores began large scale establishment in the 1840s and 50s, in France, the UK, all the major British cities had flourishing department stores by the mid-or late nineteenth century. Increasingly, women became the major shoppers and middle-class households, Kendals in Manchester lays claim to being one of the first department stores and is still known to many of its customers as Kendals, despite its 2005 name change to House of Fraser. The Manchester institution dates back to 1836 but had been trading as Watts Bazaar since 1796, at its zenith the store had buildings on both sides of Deansgate linked by a subterranean passage Kendals Arcade and an art nouveau tiled food hall
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Ithaca Discovery Trail
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The Ithaca Discovery Trail is a collaboration among hands-on museums and the public library in Tompkins County, New York. Prior to the founding of the Discovery Trail, museums worked together informally on joint promotions, in 1999, the Ithaca Discovery Trail was established using a grant to fund a part-time coordinator. It was incorporated in 2007 and gained a Section 501 tax exemption in 2008, in 2005, the Discovery Trail began the Kids Discover the Trail. Project with the Ithaca Public Education Initiative and Ithaca City School District, KDT connects the eight ICSD elementary schools with the eight Discovery Trail institutions by providing curriculum-based field trips and instructional materials. About 2,900 students participate each year, the Discovery Trail cross-promotes the eight member institutions which form a 33-mile loop of exploration. The Discovery Trail also maintains a joint calendar of events, the Discovery Trail is funded by the Tompkins County Strategic Tourism Board and by member contributions
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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
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The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is an art museum located on the northwest corner of the Arts Quad on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its collection includes two windows from Frank Lloyd Wrights Darwin D. Martin House, and more than 35,000 other works in the permanent collection and it was designed by architect I. M. Pei and is known for its distinctive concrete facade. President Deane Waldo Malott established the original University Art Museum in 1953, the A. D. White House was renovated to house Cornells art collections. The Johnson Museum of Art was designed by architect I. M. Pei and it can be characterized by its fifth floor, which cantilevers over the open aired sculpture garden. It was designed so that it would not block the view of Cayuga Lake and it also houses a room for meetings on the sixth floor, which was used for many years by Cornells Board of Trustees. The unique location of the museum presented several challenges, building space was limited. Moreover, it would sit atop the knoll where tradition said Ezra Cornell chose the site for his university, at the end of the Stone Row of McGraw, Morrill. The design sought to terminate the north end of Library Slope. The resulting design was a tower and a bridge, which critics have likened to a giant sewing machine. The building was awarded the American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 1975, the buildings design also appeared on the cover of Scientific American as an early example of computer graphics. In 2011, the Museum opened renovated spaces and a 16, the head architect was John L. Sullivan III, Cornell class of 1962. The 16,000 sq ft project cost $22 million, including renovations to the main building, and was funded by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Asian art storage area was relocated from the center of the floor to the lower level of the addition. An outdoor Japanese garden was created outside the extension, the permanent collection consists of more than 35,000 works of art. The Collection of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs consists of more than 22,000 works, including works by Berenice Abbott, Robert Frank, Alfred Stieglitz and its fifth floor houses the museums extensive Asian collection. The permanent collection includes works from Africa, pre-Columbian America. Although for-credit classes are conducted by Cornells academic departments rather than the museum and it also hosts faculty-conducted gallery tours and course-related exhibitions. The museum also hosts tours for local school student field trips
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State Theater (Ithaca, New York)
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State Theatre of Ithaca is a historic, 1600-seat theatre located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York that hosts various events from bands, to plays, to comedy acts, to silent films, and more. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, the State Theatre building dates back to 1915. Designed by local architect Henry N. Hinckley, it was originally the Ithaca Security Company auto garage, the Berinstein family purchased the building in 1928. Opening night was on December 6,1928, beginning with vaudeville, the theater has evolved with the times. When movies became popular in the early 1930s, the theater thrived primarily as a cinema house. After World War II, with the advent of television and suburban movies houses, to adapt, the owners added a second movie screen in the 1970s, dividing the balcony from the main house. Ultimately, the closed in the 1980s because of financial difficulties. Attempts to revive the theater over the fifteen years have failed. The owners seriously, though reluctantly, considered demolition, community anxiety about the State Theatre was intense. Downtown Ithaca once boasted seventeen grand theaters, including the Lyceum, the Crescent, the State Theatre is the last remaining cinema and vaudeville palace in Ithaca. Historic Ithaca staff and volunteers accepted the task of reversing the building’s condemnation. In 1999, the American Institute of Architects recognized the State Theatre as one of the most significant architectural landmarks in New York State, between 1998 and December 2001, Phase I of the State Theatre Restoration Project was completed. After years of community effort the State Theatre regained its occupancy permit, in the spring of 2009, The State Theatre of Ithaca, Inc. a newly formed 501 not-for-profit organization, purchased the State Theatre from Historic Ithaca. A twelve-member board of directors oversees the State Theatre of Ithaca, volunteers assist as ushers, ticket takers, concessions workers, office helpers, and stagehands. The State Theatre of Ithaca, NY website
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Gimme! Coffee
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Coffee is a coffee roaster, based in New York, with espresso bars in Ithaca, Trumansburg, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Coffee has a service that caters to coffee and espresso establishments. A focus at Gimme is to form relationships with farmers who grow coffee, as part of this bond between consumer and producer, the farmer may receive a price premium, which in turn, can help them improve their operations. For example, since 2009, Gimme has worked with a farmer in Colombia, helping the producer to attain organic certification and win awards. The director of coffee at Gimme is working with Boyce Thompson Institute to map the arabica coffee genome to improve taste, in 2006, the New York Times named Gimme. Coffee among the best espresso bars in New York City, coffee received a Good Food Award, in the coffee category, for 2011 and 2012. Coffee as winner of their 2013 Roaster of the Year contest, Gimme offers guidance and advice on equipment and technique for the home coffee brewer. In 2013, Gimme switched to biodegradable coffee bags, which can be composted, in August 2014, Gimme opened an espresso bar in Gates Hall on Cornell University main campus. S. Coffee Bars by Nick Pandolfi, Food & Wine, September 2008 Official website
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Ithaca Gun Company
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The Ithaca Gun Company is a manufacturer of shotguns and rifles originally established in Ithaca, New York in 1880. Over the years, Ithaca made numerous firearms, most notably the Ithaca Flues double barrel shotgun, the all-time best-selling American made double, Ithaca became famous for building firearms based on expired patents owned by Remington Arms. Ithaca also produced the M1911 pistol during World War II and the M3 Grease Gun during Korean War and its hunting shotguns were known for their fine decorative work, typically waterfowl or hunting dogs. In 1989, Remington purchased a design from Ithaca, the Mag-10 shotgun, around 1877, Leroy Smith went into business with William Henry Baker. They moved the W. H. Baker Company, which manufactured double- and triple-barreled shotguns, from Center Lisle, in 1883, Baker, Smith, and several partners moved to Ithaca and established the original Ithaca Gun Company. The company was responsible for much of the industry of Tompkins County, especially during World War I and World War II. The Lefever Arms Company was a manufacturer of guns in Syracuse, New York founded by Daniel Myron LeFever who was an American gun maker and he is best known as the inventor of the hammerless shotgun, first introduced in 1878. The company was in the business of gun manufacture until 1916 when they were incorporated with Ithaca Gun Company in Ithaca, New York who continued with the LeFever gun production until 1921. The original factory was located in the Fall Creek neighborhood of the city, on a slope later known as Gun Hill, in later years, the company came under criticism regarding environmental pollution of Fall Creek, especially by lead, which led to a Superfund remediation effort. Various plans to demolish the plant and to redevelop the land failed over the years, on account of the cost of remediation. The factory was condemned in March 2006 and only the smokestack presently remains, an apartment project has been proposed for the site. Despite having moved 6000 tons of lead-contaminated material between 2002 and 2004 at a cost of $4.8 million, it was necessary to perform even more clean up at the superfund site in 2015. General Recreation encountered financial problems in the late 1970s, selling off all its subsidiaries except Ithaca Gun, after a failed attempt to move manufacturing to Colorado, it filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in December 1978, shuttering the plant on December 20 for several months. General Recreation filed for bankruptcy a second time in September 1985, in 1987, new owners Ithaca Acquisition, Inc. moved manufacturing to King Ferry, New York. In 2005, it received a $150,000 development loan from Cayuga County, the physical goods were relocated to Floyd Marshalls 30+ years tool and die shop where all prints, programs, and processing were converted to CNC machine tools. Unable to secure state or local financing assistance with the startup conversion, dave Dlubak purchased the company in June 2007, and it continues to operate in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. It has undergone a revamp with newer manufacturing equipment, and still many of the people from Floyd Marshalls original staff. The Ithaca Gun Company, From the Beginning, ISBN0962946907 Ithaca Gun Company EPA to Begin Site Work Preparation at Ithaca Gun Company Site Gun site cleanup raises concerns
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Moosewood Restaurant
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Moosewood Restaurant is a restaurant that was founded by Therese Tischler, Judy Barringer, Kris Miller, Josh Katzen and others in 1973 in downtown Ithaca, New York. Moosewood is located on the first floor of the Dewitt Mall building, when The Seed Company closed, the owners gave Therese Tischler the money they had left saying, Were giving this to you because we know youll find something good to do with it. Therese had been active as a student at Cornell and was very concerned with ecology and the health of people. The work of Frances Moore Lappé and Adelle Davis formed part of her inspiration and she wanted to open a vegetarian restaurant and went to Judy Barringer and Kris Miller with the idea. About a year later Moosewood opened its doors, Moosewood Restaurant is known for its vegetarian cooking, and was named one of the thirteen most influential restaurants of the 20th century by Bon Appetit magazine. It won a James Beard Foundation American Classic Award in 2000, while they are most known for vegetarian cuisine, their menu does feature a daily fish entree. The restaurant is owned by Moosewood, Inc. a collective group of 19 owners which operates the restaurant, frozen Moosewood dinners under the Moosewood name are available in grocery stores. The meals were produced, under license, by Fairfield Farm Kitchens until March 2008, list of vegetarian restaurants Moosewood Restaurant, at 40, still cooking, creating cookbooks and alternatives. Moosewood turns 40, new book captures legendary restaurants spirit, Moosewood Restaurant, Vegetarian Cuisine from an Egalitarian Collective. Serving More Than Just 70s Leftovers, the Legendary Moosewood Collective Is Still Healthy After All These Years, Moosewood Restaurant Favorites, The New Book + A Recipe for Classic Tofu Burgers. Official website Epicurious. com listing MollieKatzen. com Are you a vegetarian
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Tompkins Financial Corporation
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Tompkins Financial Corporation is a small, diversified financial services company based in Ithaca, New York. It is the parent of the Tompkins Trust Company, as well as other banks, an insurance agency. The bank traces its history to 1836, when the Tompkins County Bank was chartered by an act of the New York State Assembly. After the National Bank Act of 1864, it was reorganized into the Tompkins County National Bank, in 1891, the Ithaca Trust Company was formed, in 1935, the two banks merged into the Tompkins County Trust Company. For many years the bank was associated with the locally-prominent Treman family, from 1978 to 1989, the bank was led by Raymond Van Houtte, a late opponent of the Glass–Steagall Act. Under the leadership of James J. Byrnes, CEO from 1989 to 2003, in 1995 the bank created a holding company for itself, Tompkins Trustco, which was renamed in 2007 to Tompkins Financial. In 1996, the bank opened its first branch outside of Tompkins County, with the purchase of a branch office in Odessa. In 2000, it acquired the Bank of Castile in Western New York, while most of the banks Tompkins Financial has acquired have kept their separate identities, in 2008 it paid $30.2 million for Sleepy Hollow Bank and merged its assets into Mahopac National Bank. In 2012, Tompkins Financial acquired VIST Bank in suburban Philadelphia, after the 2008 financial crisis, Tompkins Financial was lauded for not issuing subprime mortgages or investing in securities backed by them. Tompkins Financial also declined to participate in the governments bank bailout in 2008. The company has raised its dividend to shareholders every year since 1987. On August 1,2013, Tompkins Financial announced that Byrnes and he was succeeded by Ithaca College President Tom Rochon. In March 2014, Tompkins Financial announced that it was rebranding itself by adopting a new logo, previously, all its acquired banks had retained their original names, keeping with Tompkinss promise of local control. In April 2015, Tompkins Financial announced plans to build a new headquarters in downtown Ithaca, currently nearly 300 corporate and back-office employees are spread throughout the Ithaca area, the seven-story,110, 000sqft building would bring them all under one roof. Construction began in June 2016, and the building is expected to be finished in 2018, at a total cost of $26.8 million
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Ithaca College
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Ithaca College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational liberal arts college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York, United States. The college was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the City of Ithaca, Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and gorges. The college is best known for its large list of alumni who have played roles in the media. The college has a liberal arts core, and offers several pre-professional programs. Ithaca College has been ranked among the Top 10 Masters Universities in the Northern United States by U. S. News & World Report every year since 1996, and was ranked 6th in 2016. Ithaca College was founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a violin teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms. In 1931 the conservatory was chartered as a private college, the college was originally housed in the Boardman House, that later became the Ithaca College Museum of Art, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. By 1960, some 2,000 students were in attendance, a modern campus was built on South Hill in the sixties, and students were shuttled between the old and new during the construction. The hillside campus continued to grow in the ensuing 30 years to more than 6,000 students. As the campus expanded, the college began to expand its curriculum. By the 1990s, some 2,000 courses in more than 100 programs of study were available in the five schools. The school attracts a multicultural student body representatives from almost every state. Ithaca Colleges current campus was built in the 1960s on South Hill, the Colleges final academic department moved from downtown to the South Hill campus in 1968, making the move complete. Besides its Ithaca campus, Ithaca College has also operated satellite campuses in other cities, the Ithaca College London Center has been in existence since 1972. Ithaca runs the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program at the James B, additionally, there is an Ithaca College Washington Semester Program, and a recently launched Ithaca College New York City Center. Former programs include the Ithaca College Antigua Program and the Ithaca College Walkabout Down Under Program in Australia, the college offers a curriculum with more than 100 degree programs in its five schools. As of the 2014-2015 academic year, Television-Radio and Business Administration were the two most popular majors, while the School of Humanities & Sciences had the most students overall. The Ithacan and its staff have won over 200 major collegiate journalism awards and is recognized as one of the top student-run newspapers in the country
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Tompkins Cortland Community College
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Tompkins Cortland Community College is a public two-year college supported by Cortland and Tompkins Counties. The main college campus is located in the Town of Dryden, extension sites are located in Cortland, New York and Ithaca, New York. Tompkins Cortland Community College is one of 64-member institutions of the State University of New York system, the College was founded in 1967 and opened in 1968 in Groton, New York. The College moved to its current Dryden, New York campus in 1974, the original campus buildings were designed by the architects Caudill-Rowlett-Scott. A multimillion-dollar construction project completed in 2007 recently added a new facility, a student center. The College has seen an increase in enrollment over the past decade. The student body includes students from all parts of New York, a dozen other states. The College sponsors ten intercollegiate athletic teams, the Panthers compete as a Division III member of the National Junior College Athletic Association and as part of the Mid-State Athletic Conference. TC3 offers mens soccer, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, and golf and womens soccer, volleyball, basketball, softball, the College offers a lighted turf soccer/lacrosse field, a 1, 500-seat gymnasium, an 18, 000-square-foot field house, and on-campus baseball and softball parks. The mens soccer and golf programs and the soccer and softball programs are routinely nationally ranked. Dozens of former TC3 student-athletes have gone on to play at four-year institutions, former Panthers have continued their playing careers at places like Drake University, Wofford College, Post University, SUNY New Paltz, Cortland State, and Ithaca College. In 2009 the softball team won the NJCAA Division III National Championship, in 2008, mens golfer Kris Boyes won the NJCAA Division III Individual National Championship. TC3. biz is the Colleges business development and training center, TC3. biz works with regional businesses and organizations to design and develop training programs, often helping secure funding for the training. In addition to customized training, a schedule of dozens of non-credit professional development programs is offered to individuals. Both on-campus and online classes are offered to help people learn skills needed to improve their positions in the workforce, Tompkins Cortland was one of the first community colleges in New York to offer on-campus housing, beginning its residential life program in 1999 with two buildings. The program has grown to now include seven buildings and more than 800 bedrooms, the residence halls are all apartment style, with each apartment including three or four private bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, and living room area. CollegeNow@TC3 is the Colleges concurrent enrollment program, TC3 works with school districts in Central New York allowing high school students to earn college credit while taking classes in high school. The College partners with institutions in foreign countries to provide educational opportunities on our campus to their students through the Global Connections program
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Cascadilla School
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Cascadilla School is a co-ed preparatory school, in Ithaca, New York, established in 1876 as a tutoring and college preparatory school for Cornell University. It was founded in 1876 as a preparatory school for Cornell University. At this time Universities typically required students to be proficient in Latin, however, students from rural areas often did not have access to instruction in these subjects. Some early members of the Cornell faculty became concerned about the quality of available to such students. However, students also pursued athletic activities such as football and crew, shortly after the First World War, the school fell on hard financial times. They were forced to sell buildings and parcels of land including the Cascadilla School Boathouse which still stands and is the center piece of Stewart Park. The accelerated program allows students to one unit of credit in one semester. In 1999 John Kendalls wife, Patricia Kendall, officially became the Dean of Students and in 2001 she took over as Headmistress, between 40 and 60 students from ten different countries are guided by a faculty of twelve teachers, many of whom hold advanced degrees. William Thomas Tracy, designer in the U. S
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Ithaca City School District
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The Ithaca City School District is a public school district centered in Ithaca, Caroline, Danby, and Enfield. Approximately 500 teachers work in the district, along with 100 other professional members and 200 paraprofessionals. The districts central offices are located on the Ithaca High School campus at 400 Lake Street in Ithaca, the 2016-2017 budget is $119,088,829 with approximately 65. 9% coming from property taxes. Dr. Luvelle Brown began as superintendent January 1,2011 and he took over from Dr. Judith C. Pastel who had been Superintendent of Schools since 1996, the districts administrative team now includes, Matt Landahl, Deputy Superintendent, Robert Van Keuren, Director of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and Amanda Verba, Chief Operations Officer. Robert Ainslie is the President of the Board of Education, Christopher Malcolm is Vice-President, there are nine members of the Board of Education elected at-large for three-year terms
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Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York)
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For other schools by this name, see Ithaca High School Ithaca High School is a public high school in Ithaca, New York. It is part of the Ithaca City School District, and has an enrollment of approximately 1,675, Ithaca High School is located at 1401 North Cayuga Street in the north end of Ithaca, near Stewart Park, Cayuga Lake, and Ithaca Falls. The current principal is Jason Trumble, Ithaca High School has historically had a reputation for strong academics. While today the school faces various problems, many common to most high schools, by most objective measures Ithaca High School students still score well above state, the mean SAT score in 2003 was 1169, compared to 1026 nationally. Typically, about 70% of students matriculate at colleges and 20% at two-year colleges following graduation. Nineteen advanced placement courses are offered, There are 140 professional staff members, including about 120 classroom teachers, two Ithaca High School math teachers received the prestigious Edyth May Sliffe Award, given annually to about 25 math teachers nationally, Dave Bock, and Roselyn Teukolsky. The school is part of the Southern Tier Athletic Conference. Athletic teams compete as the Little Red, in counterpoint to the Big Red of nearby Cornell University, Ithaca High School has won five New York State Class A Boys’ ice hockey championships, as well as four Upstate New York Girls Hockey League championships. The Ithaca Womens Varsity Swim team has had more than two decades of consecutive Section IV titles, several state titles, and countless undefeated seasons. Since 1989, the team has lost only one dual meet in 1998, the team has been coached by Roy Staley for through all of these successful seasons. Furthermore, Little Reds lacrosse team has been a recent hot streak, making the Section IV, tough loses, but helped solidify its reputation as a local lacrosse hub in upstate New York and a dominant program for years to come. And the Boys and girls Track and Field Program went undefeated in dual meets for eight years until 2005, the program turns out state competitors regularly in both Cross Country and Track and Field. In 2005, it produced two state and Federation Champions, Drew Hilker and Peter Thompson, in addition to offering most traditional school sports Ithaca offers a large array of private sports teams which are mostly made up of Ithaca High School Students. Notable among these teams is Cascadilla Boat Club which has gone undefeated in section III championships for its entire existence, from 1955 to 1967, the Ithaca High School Band received national recognition for its musicianship and innovation under the direction of Frank Battisti. A book, One Band that Took a Chance by Brian Norcross, was published about the IHS band of this era. The Ithaca High School Orchestra, meanwhile, is one of the oldest high school orchestras in the country and it celebrated its 100th anniversary with a celebration and concert that included a newly commissioned work entitled Enlightened City by composer Robert Paterson. The Ithaca High School newspaper, the Tattler, founded in 1892, is one of the oldest high school student newspapers in the country, at times in its history it has been involved in controversy over claims of unconstitutional school censorship. Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen L. Carter were both editors for the paper during their time at Ithaca High School, in their 2012 season, they won the Regional Engineering Inspiration award, the second most prestigious award given in the FIRST organization at a regional level
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The Cornell Daily Sun
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The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent daily newspaper published in Ithaca, New York by students at Cornell University and hired employees. The Sun features coverage of the university and its environs as well as stories from the Associated Press and it prints on weekdays when the university is open for academic instruction as a tabloid-sized daily. In addition to regular issues, The Sun publishes a graduation issue and a freshman issue. The paper is free on campus and online, the Sun is staffed entirely by Cornell students, aside from a few full-time production and business positions, and is fully independent of the university. It operates out of its own building in downtown Ithaca, the Sun is currently the number one college newspaper in the United States, according to The Princeton Review. The Cornell Sun was founded in 1880 by William Ballard Hoyt to challenge Cornells original and leading publication, the Sun boasted in its opening paragraph, We have no indulgence to ask, no favors to beg. The paper incorporated and changed to frequency, earning its longstanding boast Ithacas Only Morning Newspaper. In 1912 it added a second, first collegiate member of the Associated Press, throughout its history, the publication has faced competition from The Cornell Review and the Ithaca Journal in the market for Cornell news and analysis. Common features include Cornells 161 Faces, which highlights a diverse group of Cornell students and this period also marked a shift in The Suns content from national to local and university-related stories. In January 2003, the Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association purchased the former Elks Lodge in downtown Ithaca, erected 1916. Led by Stanley Chess, the president of the Association, John Schroeder 74, and Gary L. Rubin 72. Now called the Cornell Daily Sun Building, it has housed the papers offices since June 2003 and is located next door to the Ithaca Journals offices. In the fall semester of 2004, The Sun turned free and started featuring full-color front, on September 17,2005, more than 370 Sun alumni and guests gathered in Manhattan to celebrate The Suns 125th anniversary. Speakers included Kurt Vonnegut 43, Carl Leubsdorf 59, Sam Roberts 68, Jay Branegan 73, S. Miller Harris 44, the emcee was Stan Chess 69. A 130th anniversary dinner was held on September 25,2010, the Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association, comprising former editors, managers and staff of the Cornell Daily Sun, exists to further journalism by Cornell University students. Gannett – media mogul and founder of the Gannett Company, Inc. S
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WFIZ
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WFIZ is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 format. Licensed to Odessa, New York, USA, the serves the Ithaca. The station is owned by Saga Communications, Inc. as of February 2014. The station signed on in 1968 as WFLR-FM and had been broadcasting a Country music format on 95.9 FM in Dundee, New York as Country 95.9. On September 15,2008, the station was moved to the current 95.5 FM frequency in Odessa, in February 2014, Saga Communications completed their purchase of WFIZ-FM, along with its HD-2 frequency. In August of that year, the broadcast studio was moved from its location on Danby Road in Ithaca to join the other studios already owned by the company. Dub Past Air Talent from Z95.5 Corey Anthony From The Deli Mikey V Jess Nikki Guido EJ Harper Bentley Nikki Z95
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WICB
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WICB is a radio station licensed to serve Ithaca, New York, USA. Established in 1947, the station is owned by Ithaca College, WICB broadcasts an alternative music format to the greater Ithaca area. Along with alternative music, the radio station reserves programming for several different formats—including jazz, reggae, urban/hip-hop, sports, news. The station features programming from Westwood One. It moved to the basement of Dillingham Center in 1968, then to the Roy H. Park School of Communications in 1989. 92 WICB is an affiliate of both Westwood One and the Associated Press, and has news and sports departments, which cover such events as Ithaca College football, soccer, baseball. The radio station is Ithaca Colleges only FCC-licensed broadcast facility, and is in operation 24 hours a day,365 days a year, the Radio Station currently operates with 4,100 watts of effective radiated power that is able to reach much of Tompkins County and beyond. The signal is capable of reaching nearly 250,000 listeners from parts of Northern Pennsylvania up to Lake Ontario, the recent addition of a live streaming webcast has expanded potential listener-ship even more. The station has an annual tradition of playing the radio station of Ithaca Colleges rival, SUNY Cortland. The game takes place in Cortland the evening before the annual Cortaca Jug game, WICB is run almost entirely by a staff of student DJs and executives. Aside from a technical and upper management support staff, all programming, talent coordination, WICB is most widely recognized as being ranked the #1 college radio station out of 364 colleges by the Princeton Review in 2010,2014, and most recently in 2016. In 2016, readers of the Ithaca Journal voted WICB as Best Local Radio Station In 2005 and 2010, in 2008, WICB won an mtvU Woodie Award for Best College Radio Station. WICB is a member of College Broadcasters, Inc and consistently places in the finals for the annual National Student Media Electronic Convention hosted by CBI. In October 2015, WICB was a finalist for Best Audio News Reporting and Best Audio Sports Reporting, the majority of WICBs programming falls under the modern rock category. WICB Music Schedule Other major programming categories include City Rhythms, Jazz Impressions, City Rhythms includes hip-hop, R&B, and other music considered to be Urban. Jazz Impressions runs during the time every week day and showcases both classic and modern Jazz artists. Specialty shows are run by both student DJs and community members, many of the shows have developed loyal listener bases from being on the air for a number of years. Shows come from genres like the popularly syndicated Acoustic Café, blues, Broadway, reggae, outside of mainstream music, WICB also provides an outlet for local bands
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WNYY
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WNYY is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Ithaca, New York, USA, the serves the Ithaca area. The station is owned by Saga Communications of New England, LLC and features programming from CNN Radio. WNYY, most commonly known as Pure Oldies 94.1 was owned by a company as part of an AM/FM combo with WQNY103.7 FM, then under the call letters of WTKO. The AM/FM combo was one of two in the Ithaca market - the other being what is now co-owned WYXL97.3 FM, the two combos were combined under the Eagle Broadcasting Company, before Saga bought out the company and its four stations in 2005. The WNYY call letters were put in place after Sagas purchase in 2005, WNYY also carried programming from the now-defunct Air America network, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2010. As of 2015, the station runs an all-syndicated lineup consisting mostly of progressive hosts, WNYY was one of several progressive talk stations in Saga Communications portfolio, others including WHMP and its two simulcast partners in western Massachusetts, and WKVT in southeastern Vermont. In March 2010, WNYY returned to the FM airwaves when sister station WQNY launched Progressive Talk on its HD2 channel, WNYY had been on the W277BS103.3 FM translator of WYXL before Saga began using the frequency for WYXLs HD2 channel, Hits 103.3. The use of WQNY-HD2 overcomes a tight night pattern on the 1470 AM frequency, in January 2017, Saga announced that it would change WNYYs format back to oldies on February 1. On February 1,2017 WNYY changed their format from talk to oldies
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WQNY
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WQNY is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. The station is owned by Saga Communications of New England, LLC, WQNY was the flagship station of the Rural Radio Network and signed on June 6,1948 as WVFC. WVFC served as flagship of the network from 1948 to 1981, on December 21,1982, the station changed its call sign to the current WQNY. Q-Country 103.7 is currently formatted as a station, with local personalities either live or voicetracking from 6 am to 7 pm weekdays. Prior to Saga ownership, WQNY was once an AOR type station known as Q104, in March 2010, WQNY began carrying its AM sister stations on its HD subchannels. WNYY now occupies the 103. 7-HD2 channel, while WHCU occupies 103. 7-HD3, the HD carriage enables the AM stations to overcome smaller, directional patterns used during nighttime hours. In August 2010, translator W240CB95.9 FM signed on the air and was assigned to relay WQNY, Saga uses the translator to relay the WQNY HD3 feed, WHCU. WQNY is the most popular station in the Ithaca market, according to Arbitron ratings, and is thus the most commercially successful of the former Rural Radio Network stations
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WSKG-FM
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WSKG-FM,89.3 MHz FM, is an NPR member station in Binghamton, New York. It has an effective radiated power of 11.5 kW, due to hilly terrain, the signal is repeated on several other frequencies located throughout South Central New York State. WSKG-FM began broadcast in October,1975 and its operator WSKG Public Telecommunications Council is a cooperative non-profit of the State University of New York Board of Regents and New York State Department of Education. The stations format is principally classical music, NPR talk radio programs, however, jazz is played Friday evenings after All Things Considered and various folk music is played on Saturday evenings after A Prairie Home Companion. WSKG-TV and WSQX-FM are other broadcast stations operated by the WSKG Public Telecommunications Council
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WVBR-FM
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WVBR-FM is a college radio student-owned and volunteer-run station that broadcasts to Ithaca, New York, and surrounding areas. It operates at 3 kilowatts from a transmitter on Hungerford Hill and it used to have a translator on 105.5 FM prior to 2016. The website WVBR. com provides an additional web-based stream, WVBR recently purchased, remodeled and relocated to a new studio in Collegetown, located at 604 E. A ribbon-cutting event was held on March 15,2014, the new building is named the Olbermann-Corneliess Studios, after Keith Olbermanns father, Ted, and his close friend and alumnus, Glenn Corneliess. In addition to the station, WVBR-FM is relayed by an additional translator to widen its broadcast area. WVBR is a radio station, and is unusual because it is owned, operated and managed by Cornell University students. WVBR is completely independent of the university, it supports itself by selling advertising, student and volunteer staff members are, for the most part, unpaid. The station is owned by the Cornell Media Guild, an organization composed entirely of students who work at the station. It acts as a ground for students interested in broadcasting. There are many community members, of all ages, who work at the station. WVBR is very involved in the Ithaca and Tompkins County community, the station features a Community Calendar segment twice daily, where non-profit organizations can send bulletins of their events to be read over the air during the morning and afternoon. WVBRs history goes back to 1935 when the Cornell Radio Guild was formed, as a Cornell student organization that produced radio programs that aired on WESG, in the early 1940s, the Guild started a network of its own low power AM carrier-current transmitters in the dormitories. It was at point, that the Guild began a search for a suitable frequency on either AM or the newly emerging FM to conduct a genuine regional broadcast service. That search was successful in 1957, when a permit was issued by the FCC to allow the Guild to build and operate an FM station. But before broadcasts were begun, the operating frequency was changed to 93.5 mHz. The call letters stood for Voice of the Big Red. In its early years, WVBR-FMs musical programming was mainly classical whereas the AM side carried popular music, WVBR-FM switched to rock and popular music in 1968 in a format change billed and promoted as The FM Revolution. It also became involved in live music, promoting its own series of concerts at local venues like the Strand Theater
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Ithaca College Television
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Ithaca College Television is Ithaca Colleges student television channel. Additionally, ICTV offers a livestream of its programming on its website, ICTV. org, along with episodes from past. ICTV cablecasts on Time Warner local educational access on channel 16, the channel programs twelve-week seasons during the fall and spring semesters, Sundays through Thursdays from 6, 30pm-11pm. When ICTV is not broadcasting original content, a view of Cayuga Lake is transmitted. Ithaca College Television was created to provide community-oriented public affairs and entertainment programming to the Ithaca-area cable audience, since almost all programming on ICTV is student-initiated, any semester’s productions depend upon the interests of the active participants. Currently, ICTV has five branches of programming - News, Sports, Entertainment, Original Series, re-introduced to ICTV in Spring 2014, Special Projects focuses on bringing live and non-traditional programming to ICTV. Projects include event coverage, student films, and extended sports, ICTV Shorts can now be found under Original Series. Though it varies from semester to semester, each ICTV semester features between 15 and 20 productions and over 400 participants, ICTV is a student television station led by a thirteen-person Executive Staff managed by the Station Manager. ICTV also has two faculty advisors - Chris Wheatley, Ithaca Colleges Manager of TV and Radio Operations, and Paul Stanion, all ICTV programs are student-led, with two or three producers per show. Each production team consists of 15 to 40 students, at the start of the Fall and Spring semesters, ICTV holds a Recruitment Night to kick off each new ICTV season. Students are briefly introduced to the productions for the semester through a video created by the ICTV Executive Staff. After getting an idea of which shows most interest them, students are free to explore their options and talk with current producers, ICTVs twelve-week season begins a few weeks after Recruitment Night and ends during the last week of classes. At the end of the Spring semester, i. e. every academic year and this ceremony serves as a send-off for graduating seniors, an awards ceremony for producers and programs, and a celebration of the years achievements. Topics include pop culture, current events, guest interviews and performer showcases, big Red Faceoff Sports show covering Cornell Colleges mens and womens ice hockey teams, including highlights, analysis and interviews. Bombers Live Live coverage and panel analysis of Ithaca College home game sports events, couples Clash Game show in which friends and couples put their relationships to the test through knowledge-based and physical challenges to win a prize. Entertainment Exclusive Fake Out Competitive game show which challenges contestants to guess which stories are true, Game Over Primarily a news show, centered around video game, movie, and comic reviews, as well as all things geek culture. Hold That Thought Live sports debate show, panelists discuss recent collegiate and professional sports, then viewers vote on who won and will return for the next episode. Newswatch News program covering local news for Ithaca and all of Tomkins County, Newswatch is the only local news program in the area
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Stewart Park
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Stewart Park is a municipal park operated by the city of Ithaca, New York on the southern end of Cayuga Lake, the largest of New Yorks Finger Lakes. The park offers space and facilities for recreation such as frisbee, tennis, baseball, softball. The park has a carousel that operates throughout the summer, in addition, there is a playground with slides and a fountain, along with sheltered areas for picnics and large gatherings. The park is equipped with grills dispersed around the grounds for barbecuing. Fall Creek empties into Cayuga Lake through Stewart Park, Stewart Park is also the location of the Cascadilla Boat Clubs boathouse. The Fuertes Bird Sanctuary sits at the end of the park. Stewart Park was originally part of Military Lot 88, a 600-acre tract of land granted to Andrew Moody after the end of the Revolutionary War, Moody sold the land to James Renwick on December 12,1790. It remained in his family for 104 years as a parcel of land. In the early 1890s,40 acres of Renwick land was purchased by the Cascadilla School to build athletic facilities. At the same time, a line leading to Cayuga Lake was constructed by the Cayuga Lake Electric Railway Company. The group of properties became known as Renwick Park, and opened to the public in 1894, upon opening, the park contained a zoo, a merry-go-round and a renovated dance pavilion for use as Ithacas first vaudeville theater. Trolley access to the park was discontinued in 1915. While this occurred,55 acres adjacent to the park were set aside as a bird sanctuary, now known as the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary, it was named after a former club president upon his death in 1927. The park officially closed in 1915, after which the land was leased to The Whartons film studio during Ithacas brief heyday as a silent film production center from 1915 to 1919. In 1920, Mayor Edwin C. Stewart declared during his speech that it was a travesty that Ithaca residents couldnt enjoy the lake without trespassing on private property. In 1921, the City of Ithaca purchased the former Renwick Park land, Mayor Stewart died before the official opening of the park on July 4, and it was renamed in his honor. In 1934, the land was raised by several feet to reduce flooding. Although swimming had previously been allowed at the park, since 1964 a prohibition against swimming has been strongly enforced, the ban came about after a boy drowned when turbid, sediment-laden water prevented lifeguards from seeing him
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Cornell Big Red
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The Cornell Big Red is the informal name of the sports teams, and other competitive teams, at Cornell University. The university sponsors 36 varsity sports, as well as numerous intramural, Cornell participates in NCAA Division I as part of the Ivy League. The mens and womens ice hockey compete in the ECAC Hockey League. The football, lacrosse, and sprint football teams play in Schoellkopf Field, the ice hockey teams play in Lynah Rink, which has a capacity of 4,267. The Cornell mens wrestling team competes at the Friedman Wrestling Center with a capacity of 1,100, the Cornell mens soccer team plays on Charles F. Berman Field on the southeast side of campus. The Cornell Mens and Womens Track and Field Teams compete in Barton Hall, a military hangar, for indoor track. There are also facilities about 2 miles east of campus that has multiple uses, other campus facilities include a Robert Trent Jones designed golf course, baseballs Hoy Field, the Niemand•Robison Softball Field, the Oxley Equestrian Center, and numerous fields and gymnasiums. A subsequent land swap resulted in giving the Agriculture College building sites at the east end of the fields in exchange for the site of what became Schoellkopf Field, the Alumni Fields became the site of an underground Synchrotron Laboratory. Since the 1970s, several of the fields were used as sites for new buildings and were replaced by new fields along Jessup Road. Today, facilities are spread around campus with tennis courts and basketball courts located near a number of dormitories, in addition, the athletics department operates Helen Newman Hall and Noyes Center as remote fitness facilities. Cornells teams did not have a name until after 1905. The lyrics included the words the big, red team, Cornell does not have an official mascot, however, the bear has long been a symbol of Cornell Athletics. In 1915, a bear named Touchdown first appeared at football games to represent Cornell. And recently, red man, a person dressed in a red suit, has been seen running up. Cornells colors, carnelian red and white, date back to the universitys Inauguration Day on October 7,1868, many of Cornells athletic directors have made substantial contributions to collegiate athletics in general, including Romeyn Berry, James Lynah, and Robert Kane. Big Red sports are covered in the two publications, the Cornell Daily Sun and the Cornell Review, as well as on various blogs. The song is sung to the tune of George M. Cohans Give My Regards to Broadway, Cornell maintains informal athletic rivalries with other collegiate institutions. The mens ice hockey team has a rivalry with Harvard that dates back to 1910
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Cayuga Nature Center
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The Cayuga Nature Center is an educational institution addressing nature and environmental issues. It is located on the west side of Lake Cayuga in Tompkins County, CNC traces back to the Cayuga Preventorium, which was a tuberculosis sanitarium founded in 1914. As tuberculosis cases diminished, the Preventorium turned to cardiac cases, in the 1930s, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Paine donated 75 acres of land at the current CNC site to serve children recuperating from cardiac, in 1939, the Works Progress Administration built the 10,000 sq ft main building on the site. The Preventorium closed during World War II, and after the war, decades later, the Board of Cooperative Educational Services used the site for outdoor education programs. Based on the success of the program, BOCES, Onondaga Nature Centers, Inc. the CNC was incorporated in 1981. CNC experienced funding difficulties, and in January 2011, CNC, CNC offers classes and camps focusing on nature appreciation and environmental issues. Programs are available for all ages from kindergarten to adult and cover subjects as varied as maple sugaring, classes typically feature six weekly one-hour sessions. Day camps are held in winter, spring, and summer, CNC also offers TEAM Challenge, a rope climbing / rope bridge course. Visitors can view a six-story tree house, a butterfly garden, a turtle pond. The lodge is heated by a furnace designed and installed as a Cornell engineering student project. Thirty animals are kept in captivity as a zoological collection, the center includes a 120-acre campus with five miles of hiking trails three miles south of Taughannock Falls State Park on the west shore of Lake Cayuga. CNC is a part of the Ithaca Discovery Trail
