Finding Ulysses

I will not donate to the Salvation Army red kettle bell ringers at the Trumansburg Shur-Save. Read to find out why.

Poet John Gill and the Crossing Press, in Trumansburg from the 1960s into the nineties, moving on to Northern California and a ten speed before death.

Is it a shroud, symbolizing the death of businesses that Trumansburgers can walk to? Does the white plastic perhaps symbolize the uniform, featureless commoditization of small town business that results when big chains buy out small, locally owned stores?

I certainly don’t know the truth of what happened to cause Simply Red to close firsthand. It is clear to me that Sam and Gary Izzo have been welcome contributors to cultural wealth of our community, and they have my regard.

Trumansburg Winterfest cancelled due to a stiff breeze in 2006. That ferocious storm never came.