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The Textor Disc sculpture was created by Jack Squier and mounted on the top of Textor Hall at Ithaca College in 1967. Also known as the Textor Ball or Textor Fish, the silver-colored 10-foot (or 3-meter) high circular abstract sculpture is carved from styrofoam supported on a steel frame, which was then covered in fiberglass and finished in aluminium leaf. Read more...
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The city of Ithaca, New York, sits at the south end of Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes of New York state. Cayuga Lake is the longest of the state’s glacial Finger Lakes, so named because of their long, narrow shape, formed in an overdeepened glacial valley, and it is the second largest in surface area and volume. It Read more...
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Cornell University’s Libe Slope is a shortened form of the name Library Slope, so named for the library built at the top of the grassy incline. Cornell’s University Library, nicknamed ‘The Libe’, opened in 1891 and was the main library until 1961, after which it was renamed the Uris Library. Libe Slope’s green space is the location of the annual Read more...
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Cornell University’s main campus is in Ithaca, New York, where it covers some 2,300 acres in the city. Cornell’s medical campus, known as Weill Cornell, is on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and the university’s Cornell Tech campus is on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Read more...
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