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Although she’s a veterinarian by training, Nina Schoch doesn’t work in an office, and she doesn’t see patients. Much of her time is spent outdoors,
It was all about the numbers in Monday’s Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees meeting with community members. Board member Ron Kilpatrick facilitated the Trustee Conversation
Jack and Diane Voelker, now retired, grew up in suburban Buffalo where they said it wasn’t uncommon to visit the shore of Lake Erie and
After delays totaling an entire calendar year, the multimillion dollar upgrading of the Chautauqua Utility District wastewater treatment plant is moving ahead and is back
Siblings Victoria and Bennett Thompson play with Play-Doh during second annual Summerfest. File photo by Ruby Wallau. There are baby boomers, Generation X’ers, millennials and
When Pari Tuthill moved into her first home, she planted a rhubarb plant. When she moved to another home outside Cleveland, she took the rhubarb
Dick and Margie Buxbaum at the Chautauqua Property Owners Association Potluck at the Athenaeum Hotel porch. Photo by Carolyn Brown. Chautauqua Institution property owners had a
Bruce Stanton, general manager of the Athenaeum Hotel, addresses attendees at the Chautauqua Property Owners Association Potluck. Photo by Carolyn Brown. Chautauqua Property Owners Association
After a four-year hiatus from Chautauqua Institution, The Temptations and the Four Tops are returning at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater. Classic Motown sound
The former director of the United Nations Environment Programme has said that “we used to think that energy and water would be the central issues for the next century. Now we think that water will be the critical issue.”
“Water is the oil of the 21st Century,” a former Dow Chemical president told The Economist magazine.
Filling in the fiscal gaps occupied Wednesday morning’s Trustee Porch Discussion at the Hultquist Center.
Sebby Baggiano, vice president and treasurer, and Geof Follansbee, vice president for development and Chautauqua Foundation chief executive officer, both spoke on the topic of “Financial Sustainability.”
Chautauqua Institution lost electric power throughout the grounds just before 3 p.m. Thursday on a sweltering and humid afternoon. A transformer at the local National Grid substation failed, and power was not restored until 6 a.m. Friday.
George Murphy, vice president and chief marketing officer, described the scene on the second floor of the Colonnade after initial word reached President Thomas Becker’s office that the blackout might last for 24 hours.
Barbara Smith Conrad’s career has been tumultuous.
She went from being forcibly expelled from a college opera role to performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a span of a few years. Now, her story is coming to Chautauqua.
Ron VanBlargan and Susan Nusbaum have a truly great Chautauqua story.
While many couples have married or met on the grounds, VanBlargan and Nusbaum can claim both. With strong memories that span several stages of both of their lives, VanBlargan created his own legacy, naming Chautauqua as a beneficiary in his will.
VanBlargan and Nusbaum’s romance was sparked by an Opera Guild cast party in 2003. VanBlargan served on the Opera Guild board, while Nusbaum was an incoming member; the two were assigned to plan the cast party.
If you love opera, you’ll love hearing Mikael Eliasen, director of the Curtis Institute of Music Voice Department and Chautauqua Music School voice teacher, explain “Opera — What Is It?” at the Chautauqua Speaks program 9:15 a.m. Thursday at the Chautauqua Women’s Club. If you hate opera, you’ll still love hearing Eliasen explain “Opera — What Is It?”