August 28, 2011
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Many Chautauquans know Alumni Hall as the place where the authors read, where the banners hang and where people bring lunches and hear literary lectures on the front porch.
It also is a place where Chautauqua writers learn how to get published.
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August 26, 2011
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Many women during the Civil War would not dance with a man if he was not in uniform, said Pat Carr, writer-in-residence at the Writers’ Center, and some would refuse to flirt with, go on a date with or get engaged to a man if he was not in the Army, either.
“Having been through almost all the wars we’ve been through in this century, I’m pretty much a pacifist,” Carr said. “So I find it pretty reprehensible that women told guys, ‘Go fight, go fight.’ It’s like standing around in the school yard encouraging the boys to beat each other to a pulp.”
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August 25, 2011
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The final week of the Chautauqua season has been spent discussing “The Path to the Civil War.” Yet it was the long path after the war that Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle author Isabel Wilkerson is concerned with in this week’s selection, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
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August 24, 2011
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After a summer of writing and revising, the winners are in. On the front porch of Alumni Hall Sunday, winners of the annual poetry and prose contests were announced and given their awards.
Sponsored by the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends, the contest was coordinated by Karen Wyatt and Fred Zirm. It opened early in the season on June 25 and closed Aug. 15.
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August 24, 2011
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As a child, the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell used to sneak down into her great-grandmother’s cellar, where it was “black as pitch.”
It was just like any old cellar — used to store jarred fruit preserves — except that this cellar had a secret that was hundreds of years old.
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August 23, 2011
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The last poet-in-residence of the season, Nancy Krygowski, will give a Brown Bag lecture called “The List Poem: More Than The Sum of its Parts” at 12:15 p.m. today at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
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August 22, 2011
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On Bryant Day, members of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle gathered to ring the bells of Miller Bell Tower.
Bryant Day was the last hurrah of the Class of 2011 and the first of the 2012 reading season, whose vertical theme is “Character.”
At the service, Sherra Babcock, director of the Department of Education, announced four of the upcoming CLSC book selections, the most that has been chosen this early in years.
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August 21, 2011
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Civil War buffs will relish Pat Carr’s workshop this week on writing a Civil War novel, and poets looking for new work will find it with Nancy Krygowski’s fresh prompts.
It is the first visit for both writers-in-residence, and they will read selections from their work at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
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August 19, 2011
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On Saturday morning, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Class of 2011 will climb the steps of the Miller Bell Tower, take hold and pull the ropes for the Bryant Bell.
The 1,000-pound chime will ring in the new CLSC reading season — and say farewell to the old.
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August 17, 2011
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Golden Little Dreamer, Avatar of Bright April, Satrap of the Endless Sky, Patient Priestess of Ever-afters.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
No power? No problem.
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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