Morgan Kinney

The East Winds Symphonic Band will perform at 2:30 p.m. August 28 in the Amphitheater as the last afternoon concert of the 2016 season. Based in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh, the group started in 1981

Chautauqua President Tom Becker and two Institution vice presidents provided an overview of the 2017 season during the summer’s last Trustee Porch Discussion Thursday at the Hultquist Center. Becker spoke briefly about the process of

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 we’d called upper class — a very privileged upbringing,” said

There’s a moment in “The Matrix” when Keanu Reeves realizes his life is a simulation and physics don’t apply. Everything moves in slow motion, and he impossibly dodges punches, anticipating the attacks of Agent Smith

  Last Tuesday at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Brazil, one of the two pools turned green. “Wait is someone playing a joke or are we celebrating St. Patty’s Day early here in Rio?” tweeted

  Biodiversity scientist Chris Martine will speak at 12:15 p.m. today in Smith Wilkes Hall to make the case for why plants are just as fascinating as the animals usually targeted by nature documentaries and

  True to its name, Chautauqua’s Bird, Tree & Garden Club honors birds in regular bird talks and purple martin chats. Trees are highlighted in nature walks and the Arboretum on the south end of

  Conservationists recently flipped over a rock in Chautauqua County to discover a four-legged, 2-foot-long salamander. Small, beady eyes stared back from either side of a slimy head at the end of an equally slimy

Dozens of Chautauquans gathered Friday afternoon in Smith Wilkes Hall to participate in an interactive discussion moderated by Dan Moulthrop, CEO of The City Club of Cleveland, and Matt Ewalt, associate director of education and

  Ken Parker can usually tell where he is based on the plants. Sometimes, though, he’s thrown off by non-native or invasive species. There will often be burning bush thriving outside its Asian point of

  Eight million pounds — that’s how much thick, tangly, smelly seaweed the Chautauqua Lake Association has harvested so far this summer. The nonprofit fleet of eight harvesters, essentially aquatic lawnmowers, comb the shore five

  A year ago, Judy and Roger Doebke had 8,000 square feet of lush, green lawn at their home in Carlsbad, California. That was amid what remains the worst drought in decades, when California Gov.

There’s a reason why Chautauqua has a Bird, Tree & Garden Club, and there’s a reason why the Institution maintains a groundskeeping staff: Flowers are pretty. But bees, butterflies and hummingbirds don’t much care if your daylilies are orange or cream; there’s an

Sherri Mason is waging a war on body wash, or at least the kind with exfoliating microbeads. Microbeads are the small, plastic orbs routinely found in cosmetics. They’re in hand soap, face wash, even toothpaste.

Nalini Nadkarni is one half of Procryptocerus nalini, a species of ant her ecologist husband named after her. This particular ant inhabits twigs of the tropical rainforest, has hair all over its body and glides

  Jack Gulvin is the building superintendent for local bird condos, where the resident purple martins need not lift a claw. Every couple days, he lowers the condos from their high-up perch to change out