UPCOMING TOUR DATES: 9/1, 9/2, 9/3 and 9/8, 9/9, 9/10
Thursday & Friday tours begin at 5:30pm, Saturday tours begin at 2pm. All tours meet on the Ithaca Commons.
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Tickets are $15/person. Pre-registration required.
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Join us as we do a deep dive into the "History of the Commons" for a more intimate understanding of the history of Ithaca city streets and the community they've housed over Ithaca's many decades. This tour is adapted from the 'Around the Block' exhibit on display at The History Center in Tompkins County Exhibit Hall.
This one hour tour will explore the city block which now houses the Tompkins Center for History & Culture (including The History Center in Tompkins County), the Masonic Temple, the Ithaca Times, and the south-west side of the Ithaca Commons.
All tours will begin in the atrium of the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons.
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PHYSICAL ACCESSIBILITY - The 'History of the Commons' tour traverses 0.4 miles of flat paved surfaces, and time will mostly be spent standing or walking. This tour is accessible for wheelchair users, and those with other mobility support devices. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/accessibility.
CANCELLATION POLICY - This program supports educational programming from The History Center. We are unable to accommodate cancellations or refund ticket prices as we depend on these funds, however if you contact us 24 hours in advance we are happy to re-schedule to any of our other walking tours this summer (thehistorycenter.net/tours).
WEATHER POLICY - If there is inclement weather predicted for the day of the tour, we will decide by 9am the morning of the tour whether to cancel or go ahead. If the tour is cancelled we will offer a later rain date to all registrants or refund your ticket price in full.
This event is offered as part of the reCOUNT : Facing Our Census exhibit on display at The History Center in Tompkins County. reCOUNT traverses the history of Tompkins County and the United States Census across 23 decades. Six interactive exhibits drawing from local HistoryForge records focus on race, employment, education, family origins, census taking, and the exclusive Around the Block feature. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/reCOUNT
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event will take place in the traditional and contemporary lands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ' Nation (often known by the mispronunciation Cayuga), one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/land-acknowledgment.
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