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Five Giants Stand Tall — as do those who commemorate them

August 26, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

It has become something of a tradition, the Oliver Archives’ presentation of “Five More Giants of Chautauqua” at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ. To be asked to select a giant, a person has to “get it,” said Jon Schmitz, Institution historian and archivist, referring to the panel of people who chose figures of Chautauqua history to honor.

Of course, there are many, many significant figures who have contributed to the founding, success and longevity of Chautauqua Institution — figures such as Arthur Bestor, Sam Hazlett, Ida Tarbell, Dan Bratton and more. This year, there will be five giants more.

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The speeches before the war

August 23, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The names Antietam, Shiloh and Chickamauga bring to mind famous and fiercely contested Civil War battles. Perhaps not so evocative but still significant are the names Grimké, McDuffie, Calhoun and Webster, names of people who in years preceding the Civil War conducted a battle of words regarding the viability and ethics of holding slaves.

Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua archivist and historian, will bring the war of words to life at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ in collaboration with a number of Chautauquans in a presentation titled “War of Words: The Slavery Debate.”

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John Vincent’s Sabbath: Surrender to productive leisure in diverse program

August 18, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 1 Comment

The diverse offerings of a Chautauqua summer, with their various epistemological assumptions, befuddle people. Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua archivist and historian, will help to sort out any confusion in a lecture at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ.

Schmitz has titled his talk “Creation and Recreation: Science and the Sabbath at Chautauqua.”

The Pillars: Arts, Recreation, Education, Religion. … Or is that Religion, Education, Recreation, Arts?

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PBS documents controversial Roycroft founder Hubbard

August 16, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

He is a man, they say, either to love or to hate: Elbert Green Hubbard. The utopian. The craftsman. The visionary. The charlatan. The introduction to the PBS documentary on the Arts and Crafts Movement champion said that Hubbard was a 19th-century hippie.

Paul Lamont, the director and writer of that documentary — “Elbert Hubbard: An American Original” — might clarify that point if you ask, and he will be here to do that at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ.

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The second Colonnade fire: A pile of debris, seared beams, death and destruction

August 12, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

An article in the July 3, 1961, issue of The Chautauquan Daily reported, “Grim silence and scarred walls shrouded the Colonnade for weeks after the tragic fire of Jan. 22 which left a pile of debris, seared beams, death and destruction in its wake.”

It was the second time that the Colonnade had burned.

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A measure of leadership: The power of words

August 9, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

It might be Ronald Reagan demanding the Soviets “Tear down this wall.” Or Martin Luther King Jr. proclaiming, “I have a dream.” Or Franklin Delano Roosevelt saying, “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” In these cases, as in many more, Robert Bullock, of the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, admires the power of words.

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Orlando holy land theme park popularizes ancient sacred space

August 5, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

It is a re-creation of sacred space, Joan Branham said. At the same time it is, somewhat paradoxically, a recreation of sacred space. Branham is professor of art history at Providence College and a specialist on sacred space in ancient Jewish and Christian art and architecture.

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U.S.-Soviet 1986 conference documented for all time

August 4, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Chapter 9 of Jeffrey Simpson’s Chautauqua: An American Utopia is titled “Glory Days” and refers to the Institution’s situation in the 1980s, made especially important because of the Chautauqua Institution/Eisenhower Institute Conference on U.S./Soviet Relations in Riga, Latvia in 1986.

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Photo | Greg Funka Morning breaks over the Miller Bell Tower

Chautauqua pays homage to Miller Bell Tower and the man whose name it bears

August 2, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The Miller Bell Tower presides over the lake as a Chautauqua icon and has done much in its singular way to represent and promote the Institution — just as did the man it memorializes. Dedicated on Aug. 1, 1911, the Tower will enjoy a 100-year anniversary celebration at 4 p.m. today at the water’s edge, at the tower’s base.

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Archives lecture to trace history of traditions

July 29, 2011 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Gladiolas, fireworks, Old First Night, Bryant Day — and there are more, some of them beginning even as we speak: traditions at Chautauqua. Jon Schmitz, archivist and historian at Chautauqua Institution, will ferret out the origins of Chautauqua traditions in a presentation at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ: “True Tales, Tall Tales, Trivia and Traditions of Chautauqua.”

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