Here's the obligatory description of the gorges:
The water that rushed over the top looked like bundles of silken silver thread spooling over and over upon itself, infusing the air with a fine mist and an echoing roar.The authors liked Rulloff's, as well as its namesake's story:
After lunch, we drove up toward the Cornell University campus, stopping first in Collegetown at Rulloff’s. A local hangout with a large stained glass window on one end, a back bar intricately carved in thick mahogany, and window seating at the other end with a great view of College Avenue, this place charmed. Its namesake, Edward Rulloff, didn’t, though. A self-described genius, he spoke 28 languages; however, his dark side was responsible for the reported poisoning of his sister-in-law and niece, and the killings of his wife and daughter. After murdering a store clerk, he was executed in the last public hanging in New York State. His unusually large brain is on display in the Psychology Department at Cornell.Up at Cornell, they were a little confused about the A.D. White Reading Room in Uris Library, compared to the not-so-famous White Hall, which houses the Government department.
Next, we paid a visit to a study room in White Hall that Bill had deemed “Captain Nemo’s Library” over 30 years ago. I loved the antique hardwood study tables; the metal bookshelves, lined with hundreds of volumes; the two spiral staircases that wound their way up to the second floor of stacks; the intricate wrought iron work throughout, and the overstuffed leather chairs in front of huge windows with a view of the city. There’s no doubt that at Cornell, serious learning meets serious money, all against a backdrop of age-old tradition.And the closer:
It seems that no matter what your choice of pleasures, Ithaca is, in fact, not just “gorges,” but gorgeous!"Aww."
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