The Front Porch: Talk batty to me
Column by John Warren M y folks were broke young marrieds in the early 1960s, and their Chautauqua home-by-necessity was the…
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Jacobsen to take audience on tour of Chautauqua with Tallman Tracker Organ
When Jared Jacobsen wanders around Chautauqua Institution’s grounds — both in real life and in his head — he likes to imagine music that fits the scenery.
Little brown bats almost gone, not forgotten
A single bat dips and weaves over Chautauqua Lake.
It is a remarkable sight. The creature makes such tight turns that it seems ungoverned by inertia. It flies low over the water, leaving a thin wake behind it as it picks bugs out of the air, making tiny corrections in its flight path based on where its echolocation indicates there’s an insect. It may eat half of its body weight tonight.
In making plans for Amp, Chautauqua goes to bat for bats
High above the platform for world-renowned lecturers, resounding symphonies and graceful ballets, two men — armed with a device that looks like an old-fashioned transistor radio — investigate a dark, sweltering area of the Amphitheater few people aside from stagehands ever see.
A musty scent lingers in the dusty air, and the worn, wooden floor is wrought with holes that could send someone through with one miscalculated step. Light peeks in through the holes, revealing a small glimpse of the programs below, a stage for more than a century of Chautauqua tradition.
John Shedd, Chautauqua’s administrator of architecture and land use regulations and capital projects manager, is joined by John Hermanson, a professor of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University.
They are on a hunt. Their target: bats.
BTG offers a season in full bloom
The Bird, Tree & Garden Club will sponsor a variety of events this summer at Chautauqua. The BTG House Tour will be a highlight, as will the weekly Brown Bag lectures, Lake Walks and Ravine programs including storytelling and tree talks. Week Four will also feature additional lake programming. Not to be overlooked will be the numerous Garden and Nature Walks, Bird Walks & Talks, Bat Chats and Purple Martin Chats.
