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April 23, 2025 View this email in your browser You’re Invited: Open House and Design Presentation Sunday, April 27, 1 PM - 3 PM Ithaca Youth Bureau Friends of Stewart Park (FSP) and Wharton Studio Museum (WSM) invite you to an open house and design presentation all about the upcoming Wharton Studio & Café, the next major revitalization project in Stewart Park. Meet the project team -- the planners, architects, engineers, landscape architects and designers See renderings and drawings of the project Chat with FSP and WSM staff all about the project Get your questions answered Enjoy a family-friendly film-related craft for kids Learn more about the Open House and project at stewartpark.org/events/wscinfo, and Like and share the event on Facebook. Hope to see you at the Ithaca Youth Bureau on Sunday, April 27th! 1 James L. Gibbs Drive in Ithaca I Love My Park Day Join FSP Saturday, May 3, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM for I Love My Park Day! We’ll have a variety of projects to help prepare the park for summer. Dress for the weather and wear good shoes or boots. Feel Free to bring rakes, clippers or gardening tools, but we also have many available. This is an all ages event! Meet by the Wharton Building (DPW). If you can, please register with Parks & Trails New York. Can’t make it? FSP may also need volunteers Sunday May 4 for project follow up. Email info@friendsofstewartpark.org for more info for Sunday. Register for I Love My Park Day Painting Experience? We’re looking for a few I Love My Park Day volunteers with painting experience for a painting project. If this is something you’re interested in, please email info@friendsofstewartpark.org. Glider Adoption Friends of Stewart Park has a brand new beautiful swing bench ready and available, patiently waiting for the day it can finally join the other benches along the Cayuga Lake shore. Are you looking for the perfect way to honor a loved one or celebrate your fondess for Stewart Park? Sponsoring this new swing bench could be it! A $10,000 donation to Friends of Stewart Park to cover the cost of bench purchase and installation. Benches and swings are often sponsored by small groups to make the adoption possible. Learn more about the glider and other furnishing sponsorships at our website. LEARN MORE Carousel Ride Passes New! This year, Friends of Stewart Park and the City of Ithaca will be offering pre-paid multi-ride carousel cards! You can order cards pre-season on FSP’s website, or get one at the carousel once the season begins. Ordered cards will be mailed to you. Pre-paid Carousel Cards make great gifts! 12 Rides for $10 25 Rides for $20 ORDER Sponsor the Stewart Park Carousel! Did you know you can provide thousands of free Carousel rides while supporting Friends of Stewart Park with a tax-deductible gift? As a Carousel Sponsor, you or your organization or business will be recognized with: *Your name and/or logo featured on a prominent sign at the Carousel. *Ability to table at the Carousel. *Acknowledgements through social media such as Facebook, Instagram and the FSP newsletter. *As many as 2,500 smiles daily from children who appreciate your gift! LEARN MORE We’re Looking for a Golf Cart Friends of Stewart Park is on the hunt for a used golf cart to help us with park tours and light maintenance! A golf cart would make a huge difference by providing guided tours for visitors with mobility challenges, transporting supplies for volunteer projects, and assisting with light maintenance to keep the park beautiful. If you or someone you know has a working golf cart that’s no longer needed, we’d love to give it a new home! Your donation is tax-deductible and will directly support Stewart Park and our community. Email info@friendsofstewartpark.org if you can help! And please share to spread the word! 💚 Thank You to our Spring Cleaners! Thanks to the kind brave souls who came out in the rain Saturday, April 12th for our first Stewart Park Cleanup of the year! The small but mighty group of volunteers cleaned up an impressive amount of trash and also left the Picnic Pavilion windows sparkling! Thanks again to Zero Waste Ithaca for partnering with FSP on this cleanup. From Wharton Studio Museum, our Partner in Park Revitalization The Finger Lakes Film Trail (FLFT) presents Silent Films on Cayuga Lake: The Wharton Studio Story, a new multimedia exhibit at the Cayuga Museum of History and Art /Case Research Lab in Auburn, NY. The installation,designed and curated by Wharton Studio Museum, focuses on the history of the motion picture studio in Ithaca's Stewart Park, and runs through 2025! Take a trip to lovely Auburn -- birthplace of the talkies -- and have a look! The FLFT is a tourism initiative created by Wharton Studio Museum, the Cayuga Museum and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, to celebrate the role the Finger Lakes Region played in the early years of the motion picture industry. UPCOMING EVENTS ITHACA REGGAE FEST The 7th Annual Ithaca Reggae Fest returns to historic Stewart Park June 20-22, 2025! It's a conscious celebration to protect and highlight Cayuga Lake and Ithaca’s legendary reggae history. Join us for a beautiful weekend filled with reggae music, yoga, water, skateboarding, art, dance, delicious food & beverages and so much more. Learn More HISTORY WALK AND TALK SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2025 We invite you to a tour of historic Stewart Park hosted by Friends of Stewart Park, Wharton Studio Museum & Historic Ithaca. The tour will focus on the park's history and its current revitalization. This tour will be walking throughout the park please be sure to wear proper footwear and bring a water bottle. Meet on the Waterfront Trail in front of the Picnic “Large” Pavilion. Register Save the Dates We are looking forward to an exciting year in the park and along the Trail! Here are some of the dates we hope you will join us for. Stay tuned for more details! Watermusic & Dancing on the Trail with FSP and Triphammer Arts August 3 FSP and Wharton Studio Museum’s Tenth Annual Party for the Park on September 20 Copyright (C) 2025 Friends of Stewart Park, Inc.. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe

Friends of Stewart Park is pleased to announce their newest revitalization project: "The Cayuga Crusher," roller coaster

Friends of Stewart Park (FSP) is pleased to announce their newest revitalization project: "The Cayuga Crusher," a roller coaster boasting speeds of 155 mph, making it the world's fastest (beating out the Formula Rossa in Abu Dhabi by 6 mph). The proposed location for the new ride is the lawn between the park’s inclusive playground and the Cascadilla boathouse.

Meloney McMurry, FSP's Executive Director, explained the surprising shift from historical preservation to amusement park thrills, by referencing Stewart Park's past as an amusement park. “We love celebrating the historic aspects of the park, so we decided we are going to lean into Stewart Park's history as an amusement park and just run with it!”

When asked for comment from the City of Ithaca who owns the park, Mayor Cantelmo was quoted saying, "Wait…FSP said they want to do what?!??"

FSP is known for its commitment to accessibility and, as FSP’s Communications Director, Janelle Alvstad-Mattson, explained, “Of course, this new roller coaster will be completely accessible as well, including 'quiet cars' for those with noise sensitivity and adaptive seating for wheelchair users.”

The ambitious plan for a record-setting coaster was driven by FSP's desire to bring "only the best" to Stewart Park, even on April Fools' Day. Funding was expected to come from paid ridership, a departure from the usual grants and donations model.

If you'd like to help REAL revitalization projects for Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, visit www.stewartpark.org/give.

HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY!