Opera Guild’s adoption program aims to recruit ‘parents’ with porch chat
On Thursday, 15 or so Chautauquans sat on Hale and Judy Oliver’s porch to chat about adoption over red-peppered quiche and coffee.
The Arts
Jack Keenan draws his memories, talks watercolors and war
Keenan’s drawing talents, along with past experience with horn playing and typing helped him advance to master sergeant, the top grade for enlisted men, in just over two years.
CLSC authors answer: What book would you want with you on a desert island?
Ever wonder what books famous author’s like to read? The Daily’s literary art’s reporter Ryan Pait decided to found out with an interesting situation.
Review: Boico leads ‘bittersweet’ CSO season finale
The perpetual motion of the 20th century — age of the Internet, speed and the bomb; of image and invention, for better or for worst, danced to an accelerated clock, ceaseless, relentless, stopping only on occasion, to catch a breath, to grieve, or for a night’s breeze, a dog’s bark, perhaps the last concert of the 2014 Chautauqua season.
Fallenberg to talk world literature, global citizenry at final Brown Bag
Evan Fallenberg, author of When We Danced on Water and Light Fell, will close out the season’s Brown Bag lectures with his talk, called “Reading Globally,” at 12:15 p.m. today on the front porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
Friends of Chautauqua Theater to hold play reading
For years, David Zinman attended parties where he was consistently mistaken for a celebrated conductor of the same name. After confessing his true profession as a journalist, conversation partners would often drift away to another corner of the room.
CLSC author Fink to discuss lessons from ‘Five Days at Memorial’
William Faulkner once wrote that, “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” Sheri Fink found herself having to do that as she wrote “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” an investigative piece for the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica that won Fink a Pulitzer Prize.
Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends announce results, celebrate winners of 2014 Literary Arts Contests
The winners of the 2014 Literary Arts Contests Awards were announced on Sunday on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
Babcock announces three 2015 CLSC selections on Bryant Day
Dozens gather around in a circle, waiting for word from on high. It’s not the Sermon on the Mount — it’s Bryant Day.
Young Readers wrap up season with Newbery winning ‘Flora and Ulysses’
This week’s CLSC Young Readers selection is Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery winning Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, a novel in which young readers meet Flora, a self-professed cynic, and her amazing squirrel, Ulysses.
