Few aspects of Chautauquans’ private homes hold more pride and care than the gardens and flowerbeds that help transform the landscape of the Institution each
Around the grounds of the Institution, natural, literary and cultural worlds are blended together. Author Marta McDowell has made a career of doing just that
His great-grandfather piloted steamboats around Chautauqua Lake. A fifth-generation resident of Bemus Point and self-described “lake rat,” Fletcher “Ned” Ward grew up across the street
When Melinda Walcott moved from England to Connecticut over 30 years ago, her new garden consisted of nothing but 18th-century stone walls. She started with
The question of whether to use herbicides still lingers over Chautauqua Lake nearly two months after chemicals were used to test killing invasive vegetation. “Herbicides
At Chautauqua, when it rains, it pours. And when it pours, rainwater picks up pollutants and flows into the lake. Chautauqua Institution, though, has several
After spending several years observing gardens while living in England and Italy, Melinda Wolcott realized a passion for designing arrangements of flowers. “I said, ‘I