Ithaca

Calmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with a rocky start. Transient teamsters and salt barge workers gave the town a rowdy reputation in its pioneer days, and the fledgling village seemed doomed as the �most isolated place on the Eastern Seaboard.� Over the course of the nineteenth century, Ithaca�s character swung like a pendulumfrom debauchery to temperance, from boisterous vagrancy to relig