The Daily Record: The old Amp, the new Amp: ‘no description can adequately picture it’
It was not something to construct a summer lecture platform around, but then again maybe it was. At any rate,…
It was not something to construct a summer lecture platform around, but then again maybe it was. At any rate,…
Recognition Day is a scene out of time. White-clad graduates march, music plays, flower petals drift through the air. Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent are even there.
Chautauqua Institution co-founder Lewis Miller was ahead of his time, particularly when it came to sewage. Concerned about waterborne pathogens, Miller mandated that all homes in Chautauqua connect to a sewer system in 1893, making the Institution the first completely sewered community in the U.S.
Chautauqua Institution’s outreach to community members on the Amphitheater project concluded its first week last Friday morning in the Hall…
Stand outside the Amphitheater and look in every direction — Chautauqua north, south, east and west. It is an exercise…
In her book Three Taps of the Gavel: Pledge to the Future, Alfreda L. Irwin, former Chautauqua Institution archivist and…
The 1899 Chautauqua season lasted 60 days, the most since the Assembly’s beginning in 1874. It was the end of the 19th century. In an article titled “The New Chautauqua” John Heyl Vincent, Chautauqua co-founder, reflected on the first Assembly.
Brothers- and sisters-in-arms march under a vaulted arch as music plays and children throw flower petals. It may sound like a Roman triumph, but it’s actually more of a literary one — all part of the festivities for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle’s Recognition Day.
The Chautauqua Science Circle, following a Darwinian model, wants to evolve to meet the demands of the future.
In the summer of 1953, Chautauqua Institution was in its 80th year, prompting some reflection on its origin — a material representation of which was published in The Chautauquan Daily in two parts on July 7 and July 10, titled “Early Days of Chautauqua,” by Kate P. Bruch.
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