The Chautauqua Institution was in the news with the attempt on the life of Salman Rushdie while he was giving a talk there 2 years ago.
Hey, I was believing someone else on the spelling.
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.
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.
And I was believing you!
#&#$#@_)(+!!
That Dog!
I knew not to trust his spelling.
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.
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.
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”).
I remember seeing ads for a Canadian TV film in the 80s, starring the woman who played the lawyer in “Seeing Things”.
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.
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.
Since my mother and her best (lifelong) friend are leaving Chautauqua today, after their annual visit, I have some notion of one of its contemporary meanings.
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”.
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.
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.
That’s not the one I’m thinking of. It was the early 70s at the latest.
There’s a 1969 movie about a traveling Chautauqua troupe called The Trouble with Girls.
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.
Yes, but my mind persists in thinking of Chautauqua as a musical event only, a la Big Top Chautauqua’s event each summer.
That’s an Elvis movie and definitely not what I’m remembering. Maybe I’m hallucinating some inaccurate memory.