Sundae Sunday

First Unitarian Society of Ithaca had a crucial role in the creation of the ice cream sundae. According to VisitIthaca.com, the Ice Cream Sundae was invented by FUSIT treasurer Chester C. Platt and first eaten by FUSIT’s Rev. John Scott on April 3, 1892. This adds to our rich history of connectedness with Ithaca and the Tompkins County. In honor of this history, we serve ice cream sundaes to the community on the first Sunday after Labor Day.

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Unirondack Labor Day Camping

What’s Unirondack?
FUSIT’s wonderful annual intergenerational family camp in the gorgeous Adirondacks. We cook meals together, swim and boat in the lake, sing songs, have campfires, go on hikes, play gaga, make arts and crafts, have discussion groups, and do all sorts of other wonderful things from the deeply philosophical to the wildly silly and fun.

Check back in the spring for registration for the fall 2026 Unirondack

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Annual Stewart Park Picnic

The last “regular” service of the year is held at Stewart Park on the second Sunday in June. We join together for our Flower Communion which is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. In this ceremony, everyone in the congregation is encouraged to bring a flower, which is placed in a shared vase. The flowers are blessed and redistributed. This ceremony represents how the presence of each one of us changes our community and is also changed by our community. The ceremony also symbolically represents the different gifts that we each bring to the community.

This is followed by a potluck lunch by the beautiful Cayuga Lake.

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Other Events

A list of weekly and one-time events can be found in the Weekly Announce email that is sent out every Wednesday (to be added to this list, email office@uuithaca.org) and on our Event page.