Chautauqua conversations: Bahamian Allen combines spirituality, psychiatry to fight drug scourge
It all began for Dr. David Allen in the Bahamas, his native land, where he has achieved a professional pre-eminence…
It all began for Dr. David Allen in the Bahamas, his native land, where he has achieved a professional pre-eminence…
There’s an old aphorism that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. In Chautauqua, where the…
Arnie Bellowe extended a welcoming hand to a visitor at his spacious lakeside home south of the grounds on Chautauqua…
Column by John Ford John Dilley welcomed a visitor to the surprisingly capacious wrap-around porch on the house near the…
Column by John Ford The early season pattern of alternating heavy rain and pleasant days tilted to monsoon mode as renowned…
The weather reporters called it a July polar vortex, but by any name the weather was unseasonably cold and drove us inside from a capacious porch. Comfortably settled, we reviewed the remarkable career of long-term Chautauquan Allen Steere, who played the violin with Itzhak Perlman and is credited with identifying Lyme disease.
Chautauqua County is one of the poorest in New York state. Since the demise of a once-healthy manufacturing and industrial base decades ago, the county has increasingly relied on tourism for revenue, with the Institution as one of its most important draws.
Rich Koerner may be the most important man that many Chautauquans don’t know.
Sitting on the porch of Bill Clinger’s traditional Chautauqua cottage near the lake on the south end of the grounds, it was very easy to relax in the company of this accomplished former congressman from northwestern Pennsylvania whose Chautauqua lineage is much longer than most.
We are sitting sitting in the sunroom of a comfortable, elegant home in the south end of the grounds. The owners of the house are relaxed and reflective as they consider their lives together and separately.