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Festival HappeningsRhine Neighborhood Diorama: A scale model of Ithaca's old Rhine neighborhood is available for viewing on the second floor of Alternatives Federal Credit Union. The diorama is a detailed re-creation of the city's West End as it looked before Inlet Island was created in the 1960s by the construction of the flood-control channel and the notorious "Octopus" intersection. On the day of the Rhiners Festival, the diorama's creator, David Fogel, will be on hand to show the model to the public from 10:30am to 1pm on Saturday, September 19th, in the 2nd-floor lobby of Alternatives, located at 125 North Fulton St. Please take the elevator inside the front entrance. It can be viewed at other times: 9-5, Monday-Friday, 10-1 Saturday. Interactive Whodunnit Mystery Cast of character includes street urchins, pirates, tricksters, a robber, Rhiners, neo-Rhiners, Mill Streeters, silent film stars, card sharks, sailors, bootleggers, reformers, stumblebums, fat cats, a gentleman, a lady, and a detective and his assistant. Live music with performances by: Long John and the Tights, Burke and Bone, Thousands of One, Djug Django, Entwyned, Jiamie Pyles and her old time string players, 505 Blues, Mim and Onemanriot, Pamela Goddard, John Simon… plus strolling minstrels, bellydancers, vaudeville performers, wandering one-man-bands, and a real old-time jam! Speakeasy on Moonshine Island (Castaways): 8pm Even as history repeats itself the ingenuity of American spirit in having a good time and laughing in the face of economic turmoil remains intact. $5 dressed in 20's swank knock 3 times and tell them Josephine sent ya! This event will be the after-hours continuation of the first annual Rhiner Festival, a celebration of the early inhabitants and rowdy history of Ithaca's West End. When the music and activities wind down outside, the transformation of Castaways will commence, complete with a moonshine still, silent movies, cigarette girls and Ithaca's finest Vaudeville pit band, the Evil City Trio. (look them up on MySpace.) The highlight of the evening will be an old-school variety show. Already from the fertile waters of local talent have been harvested lovely ladies of burlesque, singers, acrobatic dancers, animal tricksters, stand-up comics and much much more! Activities: Antique Boat Flea Market by Cayuga Wooden Boatworks Artists Market along the waterfront by the Jewelbox Rhine Antiques Booth presented by Dave Bowlsby, grandson of 'Silent City's' unofficial mayor, Bogey Bowlsby. Free lighthouse cruises aboard the MV Columbia Sunset cruise aboard the Tiohero Tour Boat Silent City Movie Hall at Cayuga Lake Catering/Pure Bliss Events Center (featuring silent films and a documentary about the Rhine by local filmmaker Gossa Tsegaye) Tarot Card Reading in the Fortuneteller's Den - Moonlight Dance Studio National Talk Like a Pirate Day - lots of interactive, pirate-themed activities for kids!
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