Scholar in Residence

On July 23, historian Ralph Young used the Amphitheater stage to discuss dissent and its prominence in American history —

A generous gift from the Edward L. Anderson Jr. Foundation sponsored this year’s Scholar in Residence program, which was led

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.