# Chatauqua! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079 "2024-07-12T04:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/21 "2024-07-12T17:48:36Z")
The Chautauqua Institution was in the news with the [attempt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Salman_Rushdie) on the life of Salman Rushdie while he was giving a talk there 2 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/22 "2024-07-12T17:53:39Z")
Hey, I was believing someone else on the spelling. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/23 "2024-07-12T18:15:40Z")
I only knew Chautauqua as the name of a park here. Then I heard it as the name of things in lots of places (many mentioned in this thread). Then I found out it was all connected. > **[Chautauqua Park | City of Boulder](https://bouldercolorado.gov/locations/chautauqua-park)** ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/24 "2024-07-12T18:23:28Z")
Here is Western/Upstate New York, Chautauqua became a huge thing about two minutes after it started. Everybody has been to Chautauqua at least for a day or two. You go to Chautauqua, no the, because there is only the one that matters. I have a cousin who comes in from San Diego every year to spend a week there. It’s had several down periods over the years but today it is hideously expensive for nice accommodation and yet crowded. Personally, I thought that it was beautifully quaint, had many interesting speakers for those who are into that, and felt too much like an outdoor church service for me to be comfortable there. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/25 "2024-07-12T18:55:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hey, I was believing someone else on the spelling. And I was believing you! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/26 "2024-07-12T20:49:28Z")
#&#$#@\_)(+!!🤬 That Dog! I knew not to trust his spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/27 "2024-07-12T20:57:19Z")
Last night, the coyotes were havin’ a Jamboree out behind the house. But the more I listened, I realized they were slightly more serious than usual, and determined it was Coyote Chautauqua instead. 🐝 🪚 🐕 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/28 "2024-07-13T00:48:11Z")
Yes. There was a minor movie with a Chautauqua theme in the 60s. It caught my attention at the time, but I don’t remember anything about it now. I did later read the _Zen_ book, so it was not new to me then. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/29 "2024-07-13T02:59:01Z")
Already mentioned, there is a Chautauqua park in Boulder. It was part of the ‘Chautauqua circuit’. I have a bunch of relatives in Boulder, and one was the head chef at the Boulder Chautauqua. He left and opened Rocky Mountain Joes for those of you familiar with the area. Richard Brautigan spoke there and trout was the main course (reference to “trout fishing in America”). ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/30 "2024-07-13T04:36:41Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > There was a minor movie with a Chautauqua theme in the 60s. I remember seeing ads for a Canadian TV film in the 80s, starring the woman who played the lawyer in “Seeing Things”. > **[Chautauqua Girl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua_Girl)** > > Chautauqua Girl is a Canadian romantic drama television film, which was broadcast by CBC Television in 1984. Written by Jeannine Locke and directed by Rob Iscove, the film is set in 1921 and stars Janet-Laine Green as Sally Driscoll, a woman who is touring Western Canada as a representative of the travelling Chautauqua organization; arriving in the small town of Fairville, Alberta, she finds the town unprepared for the upcoming event but meets and falls in love with Neil McCallum (Terence Kell Th... ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/31 "2024-07-13T14:59:30Z")
When I was in college, I could send emails to some of my friends, as their colleges were also on Bitnet. When we graduated, we lost our email addresses and went back to handwritten letters. During this time one of my friends did summer theater in Chautauqua and sent a few letters, one of which explained the history behind Chautauqua. That was approximately 3 decades ago. So when I read the explaination, it was quite familar. But I would not have been able to provide the definition. > [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > It appears quite frequently in Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, which I read years ago. Maybe someday I will actually read this book. My husband’s grandmother and father both read it and recommended it. I don’t think my husband’s actually read it. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/32 "2024-07-13T15:03:24Z")
Since my mother and her best (lifelong) friend are leaving [**Chautauqua**](https://www.chq.org/) today, after their annual visit, I have _some_ notion of one of its contemporary meanings. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/33 "2024-07-13T15:21:11Z")
It (with an additional ‘u’) is very closely associated with Boulder, Colo. so I’m assuming a Native American term describing the landscape like “hills that look like feet” or “green meadow where the snow melts early”. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/34 "2024-07-13T15:45:35Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > a Native American term It appears that Chautauqua Park is so called because it has been used as a location for a Chautauqua event. I don’t think it could have been so called for a word in a local Native American language. Chautauqua, New York was so called for a word in a Native American language that’s native to there. There were many Native American languages throughout North and South America. Those were quite different and often completely unrelated. I think that’s too far to have any related words. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/35 "2024-07-13T19:39:32Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > > [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > > > It appears quite frequently in Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, which I read years ago. > > Maybe someday I will actually read this book. My husband’s grandmother and father both read it and recommended it. I should probably re-read it sometime. I read it once many years ago, I think in my 20’s, and was very impressed. I then read it again maybe 20 years later and remember being very disappointed; though I don’t remember details as to why. It might be about time to read it again and see what I think of it this time. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/36 "2024-07-13T19:57:57Z")
That’s not the one I’m thinking of. It was the early 70s at the latest. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/37 "2024-07-13T20:16:40Z")
There’s a 1969 movie about a traveling Chautauqua troupe called _The Trouble with Girls_. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/38 "2024-07-13T20:37:26Z")
The Chautauqua movement was a big enough draw in Ashland Oregon that there was a permanent domed building for it in the 1890s. The dome is long gone, but the perimeter wall is still standing, and is part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Elizabethan theater. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/39 "2024-07-13T21:51:04Z")
Yes, but my mind persists in thinking of Chautauqua as a musical event only, a la Big Top Chautauqua’s event each summer. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079/40 "2024-07-14T00:58:23Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > There’s a 1969 movie about a traveling Chautauqua troupe called _The Trouble with Girls_. That’s an Elvis movie and definitely not what I’m remembering. Maybe I’m hallucinating some inaccurate memory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatauqua/1004079.md?page=3)