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ITHACA, NY -- This year, Ithaca turned 200 years old — on March 16, 1821, an act was signed by Gov. DeWitt Clinton officially establishing the town of Ithaca. The

In the booklet “2011 A Year to Celebrate” written by Kathy Bond, she describes the beginning of the Ulysses Philomathic Library (UPL) from its shaky start in 1811. Abner Treman decided to start a lending library and the first organizational meeting was held in Snell’s Tavern. A Board of Trustees was established and Herman Camp became the first librarian. His store on the corner of Union and Main housed the library which contained 232 books, a large quantity for that time. However, the library closed in 1839 and all of the books were sold.  In the early 1900s, two attempts we...