Around 13 billion quarter-sized plastic toys later, it’s possible Cracker Jack owes its survival to an organ manufacturer in Erie, Pennsylvania. Harry and Ruben Kugel
Literary Arts
For the final Chautuauqua Writers’ Center Brown Bag of the season, novelist Ron MacLean will discuss the social novel and its relevance in the 21st
A little more than a decade ago, Georgia Court and President Tom Becker had a conversation. As an active member of Chautauqua’s literary arts community,
Three kids from different parts of the world with completely different life experiences are all linked together by one common thing: music. The CLSC Young
Winners of the annual writing contests, sponsored by the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends, were announced Sunday on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at
According to Neil Shepard, American poetry has two very famous great-grandparents: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. They’re two prolific writers who have given all following
Beatrix Potter was a fancy lady with simple aspirations. “Here is this person who had grown up, it wasn’t ‘Downton Abbey,’ but she is what
Three books have just been added to many Chautauquans’ reading lists: Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett, Jane Hamilton’s The Excellent Lombards and Everybody’s Fool, by Richard
Authors Ron MacLean and Neil Shepard will close out the 2016 season at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. MacLean will serve as the prose writer-in-residence and
Nancy McCabe said when she got the invitation to teach at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center during Week Eight, she began planning for her reading, workshop
A week focused on war will bring Chautauqua veteran Brian Castner to the grounds to talk about his experiences and his new book, All the
Editor’s note: Stanley Lombardo’s presentation of Homer’s Iliad at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy has been canceled. The book still serves as
How do you measure the impact of war? Is it enough to count the victories and loses? Pax, by Sara Pennypacker, explores the effects of
Week Eight’s theme is “War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices,” which brings military veterans such as Phil Klay and David H. Petraeus to the morning
The Irish have Ulysses. The French have Les Misérables. The Russians have War and Peace and Crime and Punishment. The Spanish have Don Quixote. The
On Aug. 14, 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the Amphitheater stage to give his famous “I Hate War” speech at Chautauqua Institution. At 10:45