Tag: Chautauqua
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A Review of Chautauqua: An American Utopia
Simpson, Jeffrey. Chautauqua: An American Utopia. New York: Abrams Books, 1999. I have visited Chautauqua four times, and it is one of the most-serene, intellectually stimulating places I have ever been. Jeffrey Simpson’s book provides a comprehensive picture of Chautauqua’s origins and the changes it experienced over the decades that made it what it is…
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Poem by Committee: How It Worked *
There’s an old saying that is trite but often true: “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” Get too many people managing a project and “creative differences” among them cause the project to fail. That could have happened when members of the 2022 CLSC** Class Vigil Committee were asked to help write a poem for their…