August 25, 2011
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Every summer, the children who attend Children’s School do everything normal children do: make arts and crafts, play on playgrounds and hear stories. However, they also get to experience the arts in a way Children’s School administrators say is unique.
“It’s been a strategy for some time at Children’s School to take full advantage of the rich resources at Chautauqua, and particularly around the arts,” said Jack Voelker, director of the Department of Recreation and Youth Services.
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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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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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Down on the waterfront of Chautauqua Lake, directly next to Seaver Gymnasium, sits the Youth Activities Center. If you’ve been around Chautauqua for long enough, you know that. What you might not know is what lies just beneath the ping pong table, the video games and the grilled burgers of the YAC — the modest workout facility at Heinz Beach.
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August 22, 2011
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In August 1962, Kathryn Ford set sail on Chautauqua Lake with her parents. Cruising in the family’s mahogany Chris-Craft, her father caught a 48-inch, 28-lb. muskellunge with a Silver Flash lure. Instead of keeping and eating the fish, Ford’s father had it stuffed and mounted in Jamestown.
“I don’t remember her fighting very much. She was an old fish,” Ford said. “She was too old to eat.”
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August 22, 2011
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The Children’s School now has a Sensory Garden for the children, thanks, in part, to contributions by the Bird, Tree & Garden Club.
“When the committee from BTG met with the staff of the Children’s School, along with Jack Voelker (director of recreation and youth Services), and Ryan Kiblin (supervisor of gardens and landscaping), the excitement of that staff was contagious,” BTG President Norman Karp said. “They felt the Sensory Garden would be a tremendous teaching tool that would also be a lot of fun for the kids. The BTG is happy to fund this project and create a long-term improvement to the school and the grounds.”
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August 22, 2011
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Last Tuesday afternoon, players in the Chautauqua Women’s Golf Association slowly trickled off the lush, green Hill Course to reassemble for pizza, drinks and a tallying of scores. It was the end of their annual championship at the Chautauqua Golf Club. The ladies sat around at tables in the clubhouse as workers sifted through scorecards and counted strokes.
After everything was computed, golfer Barb Blanchard took home the honors as 2011 champion, with a combined score of 182 of both rounds.
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August 17, 2011
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In Flory’s world, squirrels are giant beasts and bats can be dangerous predators, but this little fairy has the magic and the heart to face any danger — even when she no longer can use her wings to fly away.
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August 16, 2011
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On a sunny Friday morning at Boys’ and Girls’ Club, the grassy waterfront behind Beeson Youth Center was unusually quiet. There were no campers gathered in groups on the grass behind the Boys’ Club building and no kids chatting on the green benches inside the Girls’ Club.
Everyone flocked to one location — the recreation field between Club and the John R. Turney Sailing Center for Club’s annual Track and Field Day.
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August 13, 2011
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It’s 10 a.m. on a sunny Monday, and Chautauqua Lake is spotted with tiny sailboats. Freshly launched from the waterfront of the John R. Turney Sailing Center, white-sailed Optimist Dinghies and multicolored Sunfish float a few hundred feet down the water from each other.
No, these aren’t professional sailors by any means — they’re kids.
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Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. Over the course of nine weeks, more than 170,000 visitors will participate in programs, classes and community events for all ages—all within the beautiful setting of a historic lakeside village. Learn more →
