Finding Ulysses

Good News! The Tompkins County Legislature passed our Resolution to Inquire into Impeachment of Bush and Cheney at 6:30 tonight. 9 voted in favor, 6 voted opposed. About 30 of us met on the Commons and listened to several great speakers including Marty Luster. We marched to the Court House and crowded into the small [...]

Local legend has it that, when he didn’t get his way in the past, Mr. Auble spitefully set up a pig farm on the property he now wants to be annexed, with school buses buried in the ground, in order to create a literal stink in Trumansburg, along an eyesore. I don’t know if this story is true, given that I didn’t live here at the time. If the story is true, Trumansburg ought to be very careful in dealing with such a person.

I’ve been going door to door collecting signatures on a petition to get the Village Board to pass a resolution to inquire into the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. I was hesitant to do it at first, because I don’t enjoy bothering my neighbors, but this is terribly important, and more than half of the [...]

If I were to go to England or Prussia, I would be genuinely native in neither place. How about garlic mustard and dame’s rocket? How long will they have to live here before they are regarded as natives? One hundred years more? A thousand years more? Will they never be natives, ever?