Murals depicting iconic scenes of Chautauqua Institution adorn several walls at a charter school in Panama City, Florida. The students walk by images of Miller
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Longtime Chautauquan Nancy Schrader is no stranger to the potential danger of international travel. As a child, she emigrated to Venezuela around the time
Call it kismet. Thomas Alva Edison was 38 and Mina Miller was 20 when they met in 1885 at the home of mutual friends
It’s not uncommon to hear chatter amongst the porches of Chautauqua. But on one particular porch between the Brick Walk Cafe and the Post Office
Four years after the death of Thomas Edison, his 70-year-old widow Mina married Edward E. Hughes, a widower and retired steel company executive. There is
Long before she was the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and before she became perhaps the most vilified American woman since Jane Fonda, Hillary
The Miller Cottage played an important role in the courtship between Thomas Edison and Mina Miller that eventually resulted in Mina accepting Edison’s marriage
On Wednesdays, Alan Nelson guarded the sugar. He was 8 years old and in the service of his aunt, the hostess at the Presbyterian House,
The doctors said there would only be one baby. They didn’t notice the second, identical brother hidden under the visible one. The boys’ parents
In its 142 years, Chautauqua Institution has attracted a who’s-who of cultural, educational, religious and political luminaries. Among them have been four sitting American presidents:
Ryan Kiblin was tall, with long, sometimes-blonde-sometimes-red hair often hidden beneath a visor. She came to Chautauqua as a seasonal employee in 2002; by 2014,
The Athenaeum Hotel general manager kept calling, but Michele “Mickey” Murray wouldn’t return his calls.
This went on for several weeks in 1993, the GM calling, Murray suspecting he wanted to offer her a job at the Institution. For her, having a summer vacation that year was more important.
SLIDESHOW: Scenes from the Music School Festival Orchestra on Monday, July 11, 2011.
SLIDESHOW: Scenes during the Firemen's Picnic on Sunday, July 10, 2011.
Fishing.
It has inspired some great minds, such as Washington Irving: “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
From their porch at the Keystone, Ed Anderson and Joan Parsons can look down to the street below them where Anderson’s children, and now their grandchildren, learned to ride their bicycles, and across to the trees that Anderson, as a birder, studies with a careful eye.
Chautauqua is as much a part of Anderson and Parsons’ lives as they are a part of the Institution; this is their second season sponsoring the Scholar in Residence program, which ran from Tuesday to Thursday.