With apologies for the complete lack of posting in the past month, I just got back from a summer sojourn to Ithaca for a faculty member's wedding on Seneca Lake. Complete with Finger Lakes Reisling, a drum circle, and a twilight swim, the weekend was exquisite, and made me miss Ithaca summers dearly. The weekend also reverberated with the following quote, with a kudos to Mr. Corey Earle for finding it: – Frank Gannett ‘98 in a 1902 editorial for the Ithaca Daily NewsIf a person is looking for an ideal place to reside where he can enjoy all the beauties of nature, breathe the atmosphere of intellectual refinement, have nearly all the pleasures that can be bought in the largest cities…, he should come to Ithaca.