Ithaca, New York

Ithaca (named for the greece city in Homer's Odyssey) sits on the shores of Cayuga Lake, in Upstate New York.

Ithaca is home to Cornell University, and [Ithaca College]?.

Ithaca's current major industries are tourism for its many waterfalls and gorges, and educaction.

Utne Reader once named Ithaca the most enlightened? city in America. Residents of other nearby municipalities think that's pretty typical.