August 26, 2011
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Chautauqua Institution is in line for nearly $700,000 in federal and state grant money, which will be used over the next three years to accelerate development of its natural stormwater runoff filtration systems.
“If good fortune is where preparation meets opportunity,” said Doug Conroe, director of operations, “we can count ourselves fortunate indeed in Chautauqua.”
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August 26, 2011
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Sherra Babcock, director of the Department of Education, received mixed reviews on the morning lecture series from those attending Week Eight’s Trustee Porch Discussion.
One attendee suggested the lecture themes each week are becoming too broad, while another said they had become too specific.
“It’s wonderful to have different points of view about that,” she said in response.
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August 26, 2011
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After 10 years of dedication and work with Chautauqua Theater Company and Chautauqua Opera Company, house managers Ken and Carolyn Benton have decided to retire.
Carolyn, now a retired music teacher, began coming to Chautauqua each summer as a child and is in her 10th season as the chimemaster at the Miller Bell Tower.
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August 26, 2011
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Lee Heinz never had a doubt in her mind about what she wanted to spend her life doing.
“I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be an actor,” she said.
Heinz, a fifth-generation Chautauquan who has been coming to the Institution since she was 2 months old, originally is from Warren, Ohio. She now lives in New York City working as an actress. Chautauqua was a place that nurtured Heinz’s love of acting.
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August 26, 2011
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When Nancy Hahn and Bol Malual stood together in a large white house on Elm Lane, their minds were not in Chautauqua — rather, they had been transported far away by the scents of Ethiopia.
Hahn had achieved her aim with a perfume she created using Ethiopian flowers and extracts when Malual, a Lost Boy of Sudan who presented at Chautauqua earlier this season, smelled the perfume and said, “This is Africa!”
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August 26, 2011
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It has become something of a tradition, the Oliver Archives’ presentation of “Five More Giants of Chautauqua” at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ. To be asked to select a giant, a person has to “get it,” said Jon Schmitz, Institution historian and archivist, referring to the panel of people who chose figures of Chautauqua history to honor.
Of course, there are many, many significant figures who have contributed to the founding, success and longevity of Chautauqua Institution — figures such as Arthur Bestor, Sam Hazlett, Ida Tarbell, Dan Bratton and more. This year, there will be five giants more.
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August 26, 2011
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When filmmaker Sam Hampton’s mother, Elizabeth, was becoming heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement in Rochester, N.Y., Sam was just 5 years old.
“I really didn’t understand what they were doing, besides seeing all these people organizing and having meetings in my living room,” Sam said.
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August 25, 2011
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Every morning, Chautauqua Health and Fitness manager Andy Freay heads to the Turner Community Center to open up shop. Both the pool and the fitness center, which boasts a large selection of treadmills, free weights and strength training equipment, open at 7 a.m. every day of the week.
The facility has to open that early, Freay said, because of the morning rush it sees, made up of Amphitheater patrons exercising before the 10:45 a.m. lecture. Then, around 3:30 p.m. or 4 p.m., more exercisers flood Turner for an after-work gym trip.
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August 24, 2011
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Gerard Schwarz led New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival for 18 years, so it’s only natural that the composer would turn up for the season-ending program of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in the form of the Piano Concerto No. 19, K.459.
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August 24, 2011
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When Linda Silverberg enters the Main Gate for the first time each season, she said she starts humming the theme song from “Brigadoon,” the 1954 film about an enchanted Scottish village.
“I think (Chautauqua) is magical,” Linda said. “It’s a Brigadoon or a Camelot; it’s truly unique.”
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Audubon Quartet to perform final concert
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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