Bird Tree & Garden Club

NICHOLE JIANG - STAFF WRITER From left, Mary Beth Jeffers, Donna Smith and Jane Couch use a smartphone to scan a redwood tree using the Chautauqua Bird Tree & Garden Club app Wednesday on the

Caroline Van Kirk Bissell started coming to Chautauqua in 1946. A certain presence caught her attention and fascination from a young age, swirling in the night skies, living in her attic — bats. For 18

It is easy to get distracted by the wide array of programming and lectures on the grounds and take the variety of gardens and foliage for granted. For Melinda Wolcott, who has seen the gardens’

  An image from the Chautauqua Archives shows what is thought to be the establishment and initial planting of the Bird, Tree & Garden Club Arboretum in 1915. Henrietta Ord Jones is thought to be