Word by word — page after page — chapter upon chapter. And finally, book following book. The bookwriting process requires guts to start and grit to finish; personal and professional integrity to get it right;
Deborah Trefts
Lemer Blaze. Cupcake. DragonSlayer. Luv Bug. Mamacita. Prima. Sugah. The Rev. They are eight of 23 “TMR Moms,” and one Dad, across the globe who parent children with autism spectrum disorder and chronic childhood diseases
Fechter Vaccine hesitancy — “anti-vaxxing” — is one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. WHO defines vaccine hesitancy as the refusal to be vaccinated or
Louden For universities, Master of Fine Arts programs are moneymakers. Many have been creating new M.F.A. visual arts programs, adding specialties, broadening and deepening course offerings and increasing the number of students admitted. It takes
Bonner Monday, June 24, was the first day of the 2019 season for Chautauqua Institution’s Children’s School and Boys’ and Girls’ Club. On feet, scooters, tricycles, bicycles and buses, a steady stream of kids passed
McFate It’s the wee hours of the night, but that barely registers because a fast-paced geopolitical thriller, Shadow War, has a firm hold and has left an unsettling feeling that it could very well be
Rovegno One of Chautauqua Institution’s most amazing gifts comes in the form of a willowy, gracious redhead who can be spotted each Sunday morning of the season ushering at the Ecumenical Service of Worship and
There’s a morning lecturer in the Amphitheater wowing the audience and leaving them with a message so memorable that many Chautauquans will take it to heart, and even take action. When this occurs, here’s something
In rain and sunshine, the Chautauqua Women’s Club celebrated its 130th anniversary and largest 2019 fundraiser with four events over the July 19 weekend. Over 33 consecutive years, through 2018, CWC has donated nearly $1.6
Year-round, there’s an exchange of local, child-centered, arts-based energy and creativity entering and exiting Chautauqua Institution’s gates, transforming them into gateways of learning and extraordinary opportunity. Brightly costumed girls and boys from the Chautauqua Regional
When seeking help with math homework, the children of many engineers learn pretty quickly that there’s more than one way to solve nearly every problem. But figuring out additional methods of solving just one problem
Richard Langston For tenure-track faculty at most American colleges and universities, “publish or perish” is a mantra, and vacations are few and far between. Given the exceedingly high cost of higher education and increasing preference
Wes Cowan In partial celebration of the Chautauqua Women’s Club’s 130th anniversary, Wes Cowan is taking on separate but related roles. One is similar to his “Antiques Roadshow” persona, and the other is more akin to
Hope Zielinski, left, and Jane Becker will speak about the Women2Women coaching program in Chautauqua County July 18 at the Chautauqua Women’s Club. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR Fourteen of New York State’s 62 counties — including Chautauqua
Eleanor Clift Last July, an injury temporarily sidelined multimedia political pundit, The Daily Beast columnist and author Eleanor Clift, preventing her from giving the Chautauqua Women’s Club’s final Barbara Vackar lecture. At 2 p.m. Saturday,
Heads-up all book lovers and porch sitters: “Porch Reads 2019” is the topic for this week’s Chautauqua Speaks program sponsored by the Chautauqua Women’s Club. At 9:15 a.m. Thursday, July 11 at the CWC