Aug 26th, 2016
Rabbi Kenneth A. Kanter’s Friday lecture in the Hall of Philosophy was less of a lecture and more of…
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Aug 26th, 2016
At 9:42 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, the national operations manager of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration invoked SCATANA… -
Aug 26th, 2016
Longtime friends Geoffrey C. Ward and Wynton Marsalis joined in conversation reflecting on the events of the week and… -
Aug 26th, 2016
Mabel Powers was a woman both ahead of and behind her time. A writer, lecturer, feminist and pacifist, Powers… -
Aug 26th, 2016
Traditionally, cantors were central figures in Jewish synagogues who led Jewish prayers and memorized chants line by line so… -
Aug 25th, 2016
American actor Wendell Pierce’s voice boomed through the Amphitheater, deep and clear: “O for a Muse of fire, that… -
Aug 25th, 2016
In a week dedicated to “America’s Spiritual Songbook,” one of the most potent messages is this: The history of… -
Aug 25th, 2016
The last time Rabbi Ken Kanter visited Chautauqua Institution, he presented a program at the Everett Jewish Life Center… -
Aug 25th, 2016
Each Sunday, Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey and Diane Raines Ward meet for breakfast at the Wards’ home. Over coffee… -
Aug 24th, 2016
Some Americans like to show their patriotism by wearing a flag pin on their lapel or hanging the stars… -
Aug 24th, 2016
For Michael Weis’ 30th birthday, his then-girlfriend gifted him a session with a psychic. Weis went into the meeting… -
Aug 24th, 2016
Many people may know him from HBO’s “The Wire” or “Treme” but New Orleans native Wendell Pierce knows the… -
Aug 23rd, 2016
Before jazz became “high art,” before it was played in Carnegie Hall and the world’s finest concert venues —… -
Aug 23rd, 2016
At age 9, Geoffrey C. Ward fell ill with polio. In 1949, doctors thought it was best for young… -
Aug 23rd, 2016
Inheriting genealogical documents presents a challenge and an opportunity. Not everyone is able and inclined to carry on where… -
Aug 23rd, 2016
The Rev. James H. Evans Jr. grew up in Detroit where “music is everywhere.” The city’s public schools had… -
Aug 23rd, 2016
Cécile McLorin Salvant will be sharing her voice with Chautauqua Institution today, in more ways than one. The jazz… -
Aug 22nd, 2016
Since America’s founding in 1776, the arts have been representative of American culture. The tempo of music runs through… -
Aug 22nd, 2016
It’s the seventh inning stretch at Turner Field, the home of the Atlanta Braves, when the noisy ballgame comes… -
Aug 22nd, 2016
Presumably, art has rarely, if ever, been a parent-preferred college major in the United States. Creative — yes. High… -
Aug 22nd, 2016
Everyone knows that rock ‘n’ roll emerged in the mid-1950s as a primal cri de coeur from disaffected teenagers… -
Aug 21st, 2016
In 1878, Floyd Hatfield may or may not have stolen Randolph McCoy’s hog. There was a trial and Hatfield… -
Aug 21st, 2016
Most people are surprised to learn that the guy sitting at their table in a noisy jazz club is… -
Aug 21st, 2016
At 6 years old, Wynton Marsalis already had a trumpet in his hands. Growing up in New Orleans in… -
Aug 20th, 2016
Veteran Shareda Hosein was sitting in her first class to become a Muslim chaplain when she learned terrorists had… -
Aug 20th, 2016
On Jan. 13, 2008, Bryan Doerries saw Sophocles’ Ajax within the pages of The New York Times. The article… -
Aug 20th, 2016
Definitions of “success” typically include one or more of the following: achievement, accomplishment, attainment and triumph. Each word is… -
Aug 18th, 2016
Pamela Lightsey demonstrated a fist-bump on the Interfaith Lecture platform at the Hall of Philosophy Wednesday afternoon. It… -
Aug 18th, 2016
Army combat veteran Wes Moore and retired four-star Gen. David H. Petraeus assumed plank position on the Amphitheater… -
Aug 18th, 2016
Capt. Paul K. Chappell’s parents thought he was a freak. But that notion wasn’t based on anything Chappell did;… -
Aug 18th, 2016
Bryan Doerries doesn’t seek the answers. Drawing on the wells of the past, he instead strives for solace and… -
Aug 18th, 2016
The main reason Lt. Col. Shareda Hosein joined the United States military was so she could go to college.… -
Aug 18th, 2016
David Petraeus is a warrior, but he also understands the importance of making and keeping the peace. What happens… -
Aug 17th, 2016
“I am sure that you, like me, rue the day you started spouting phrases your parents said all the time… -
Aug 17th, 2016
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the suicide rate for young veterans had rocketed to… -
Aug 17th, 2016
Chautauqua Institution is renowned for bringing treasures from afar to its Schools of Fine & Performing Arts, as… -
Aug 17th, 2016
Once when Kayla Williams walked her dog in the park near her home, a man asked her if… -
Aug 17th, 2016
They called them “shell-shocked,” the men who came back from World War I amnesiac, bipolar or worse. After… -
Aug 17th, 2016
The Rev. Pamela Lightsey is a liberationist, a war veteran and the first out black queer lesbian woman ordained… -
Aug 17th, 2016
“Thank you for your service.” That’s what a majority of Americans say when they are reminded of the sacrifices… -
Aug 16th, 2016
“The truth of being human is that sometimes the reality of loss, the reality of losing someone close, keeps… -
Aug 15th, 2016
Eighty years and one day earlier, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood on the Amphitheater stage and declared, “I… -
![Thomas Edison and his wife Mina Miller Edison are seated in the center front row in a group photograph taken during a celebration of Lewis Miler’s 100th birthday in 1929.
Anniversary Event. 1929/08/??.
B&W print photo, 4 x 6” showing a group of people seated on a bench and larger group standing behind. Includes Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison, Nancy Miller [Arnn], and Adolf Ochs, all present for the 100th birthday of Lewis Miller and the 50th anniversary of the light bulb.
Notation on back:
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Mrs Henry Ford, Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Mrs Thomas Edison (Mina Miller), Adolph Ochs/
Miller Garden/
100th Annivesary of Lewis Miller and 50th Anniv. of the electric light bulb](http://chqdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/081616_miller_heritage_group-300x204.jpg)
Aug 15th, 2016
The Miller Cottage, one of Chautauqua Institution’s earliest and most historic structures, has hosted the famous and powerful… -
Aug 15th, 2016
“In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” That’s what Ethan Allen thundered at Lieutenant Jocelyn… -
Aug 15th, 2016
On Monday, Chautauquans heard about moral injury from the Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock. Now they will hear from Jonathan… -
Aug 15th, 2016
Kayla Williams recently heard a story. A female Air Force veteran, not in uniform, parked her car at the… -
Aug 15th, 2016
There’s a moment in “The Matrix” when Keanu Reeves realizes his life is a simulation and physics don’t apply.… -
Aug 15th, 2016
“Sometimes it is hard to put ourselves in others’ shoes. Sometimes it hits too close to home, but when… -
Aug 15th, 2016
Welcome to the cyborg age, and if you count yourself among the world’s 2.2 billion Christians, the cyborg religion.… -
Aug 15th, 2016
“Peace begins or ends around the table. Stanley Hauerwas said that war is the great liturgical alternative to… -
Aug 15th, 2016
Infinite moments of lucidity and, if it were possible, infinitely more infinite questions arise when absorbing the tacit… -
Aug 15th, 2016
Doctor Herb — Dr. Herbert H. Keyser — is renowned for his joyful approach to fundraising for the… -
Aug 15th, 2016
The Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock grew up in a military family: Her birth father and stepfather were both… -
Aug 13th, 2016
In the summer of 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech at Chautauqua Institution on the pressing topics… -
Aug 13th, 2016
“A parable is usually an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. But most of the action in today’s reading takes… -
Aug 13th, 2016
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is fed up with this week’s afternoon lecturers. She’s not anti-science. To the contrary, she has studied… -
Aug 13th, 2016
Michael Sandel believes difficult questions about politics, morality and inequality need to be valued. Politicians should spend more time… -
Aug 13th, 2016
According to the price-comparison website NerdWallet in June 2013 and a 2009 Harvard University study, medical expenses are by… -
Aug 13th, 2016
The Rev. Amy K. Butler, who serves as the seventh senior minister of the historic Riverside Church in New… -
Aug 12th, 2016
Janet Mock came out as a transgender woman in May 2011 by sharing her story in a Marie Claire… -
Aug 12th, 2016
At 2 p.m. August 12 in the Hall of Philosophy, Ilia Delio, OSF, the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in… -
Aug 12th, 2016
The Pokémon Rattata appeared at the Hall of Philosophy Wednesday afternoon and Robert Geraci called it revelation. The Rattata,… -
Aug 12th, 2016
Due to unforeseen circumstances, prose writer-in-residence Linda K. Wertheimer had to cancel her Week Seven visit to the Chautauqua… -
Aug 12th, 2016
Peter Gallivan’s job is to tell stories. In a journalism career spanning 20 years in radio and television, mostly… -
Aug 12th, 2016
Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, truly believes the world can become a better place. With today’s limited, consumerist mentality, Delio… -
Aug 12th, 2016
Longtime Chautauqua Institution lecturer Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, will… -
Aug 11th, 2016
Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist Randy Schekman first became interested in microbiology as a child when he looked at pond… -
Aug 10th, 2016
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson studied natural philosophy of the Middle Ages for several years, and now is conducting a research… -
Aug 10th, 2016
Monica Roberts and Janet Mock are making their own history on stage at 10:45 a.m. Thursday in the… -
Aug 10th, 2016
There is a problem with the little snapshots of life in the early church found in the Book of… -
Aug 10th, 2016
One major religious sect is already embracing the next era of human evolution. Since 2006, the Mormon Transhumanist… -
Aug 09th, 2016
Eleven years ago, a microbiologist at a Danish food company spotted several peculiar strands of DNA in the bacteria… -
Aug 09th, 2016
In the early 1990s, the link between the economy and job creation began to deteriorate. Typically, after a recession,… -
Aug 09th, 2016
Putting a book out into the world can be a fulfilling experience for a writer. For Cyrus M. Copeland,… -
Aug 09th, 2016
Week Seven chaplain the Rev. Thomas G. Long began the 9:15 a.m. Tuesday morning worship service with a short… -
Aug 09th, 2016
For those struggling to understand transhumanism, it may be best to start at the finish. By and large,… -
Aug 09th, 2016
Art, knowledge, music and religion. Those words, inscribed at the base of Fred M. Torrey’s 1946 sculpture in… -
Aug 09th, 2016
Robert Geraci studies magic. But there are no card tricks or wizards involved in Geraci’s research. Geraci focuses on… -
Aug 08th, 2016
When the Chautauqua community converses with Fareed Zakaria today, they’ll be joining an exclusive club with the likes of… -
Aug 08th, 2016
From last Friday to Aug. 21, people around the globe will watch as the world’s best athletes compete for… -
Aug 08th, 2016
Frank Lloyd Wright was arguably America’s greatest architect. In a career that lasted 70 years, Wright built 532… -
Aug 08th, 2016
“In this cultural moment, the heresy in America is not atheism, it is superficiality. We can walk across the… -
Aug 08th, 2016
James “J.” Hughes identifies as a Buddhist, socialist and transhumanist atheist. Hughes is also a sociologist and bioethicist… -
Aug 07th, 2016
“We are running out of time. But it is not life that is running out of time. It is… -
Aug 07th, 2016
The Rev. Ron Cole-Turner is already a Chautauquan — he and his wife worked for years at the… -
Aug 07th, 2016
More than 50 years after Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation, race relations are still a potent political… -
Aug 07th, 2016
In some contexts ignorance is bliss; in others, it is harmful. Many of us know little about the… -
Aug 07th, 2016
At 4 p.m. Monday in the Hall of Philosophy, popular lecturer Braden Allenby returns to Chautauqua Institution to give… -
Aug 07th, 2016
Traditional Christianity is going down in a fiery ball of turd. At least that’s the metaphor the Rev.… -
Aug 05th, 2016
When swastikas appeared on David Bloom’s predominantly Jewish dorm at Indiana University and someone threw rocks through the Chabad… -
Aug 05th, 2016
In the hours after a Muslim man massacred 49 people in a gay nightclub, as Donald Trump used the… -
Aug 05th, 2016
A city is more than just tall buildings, busy streets and traffic jams during rush hour. To Saskia Sassen,… -
Aug 05th, 2016
When it comes to race, the Rev. Thomas G. Long believes we are on the edge of a “major… -
Aug 05th, 2016
Starting in the 1920s in New York, black artists, musicians and writers spawned a Harlem Renaissance that celebrated… -
Aug 05th, 2016
The largest amount of growth across the globe will occur in small, developing cities like Mangshi, China; Hosur,… -
Aug 04th, 2016
The Cleveland Foundation, presenting sponsor of Week Six “The Future of Cities,” in partnership with The City Club of… -
Aug 04th, 2016
“Before the mountains had been shaped and before the skies were formed, God, with the feminine sacred wisdom, drew… -
Aug 04th, 2016
Southern Gospel musician Yara Allen sang “Woke up this morning with my eyes … .” Wednesday’s… -
Aug 04th, 2016
Chautauquans know the Rev. John Philip Newell from his sermons this week and Diana Butler Bass from Monday’s… -
Aug 03rd, 2016
Stop worrying about New York City, London and Tokyo. They’re fine. It’s the small cities people should be…