| How has the modern chautauqua movement taken shape?
It appears in the form of the humanities chautauquas. Read an
article written by Carole Lee called
"Big
Top in a Small Town: The Revival of Chautauqua" from NEH's Bi-monthly
journal Humanities, May/June 2000, found on the website of
the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Here is a list of Humanities Council Chautauqua
Programs and Events, as well as
some general quotes about the chautauquas of today with web
links:
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ARIZONA -- "The Arizona Book Festival made its successful debut on
April 4, featuring novelist-journalist Pete Hamill and National Endowment
for the Humanities Chairman William R. Ferris. The Phoenix-based event featured
Chautauqua-style presentations of writers Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and F.
Scott Fitzgerald, along with storytelling for children, and a display of
rare books." -- From NEH's
Humanities,
July/August 1998.
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CALIFORNIA -- "History Alive!": A Chautauqua for California Produced
by the California Council for the Humanities, "History Alive!" features dramatic,
historically accurate portrayals of figures of the California Gold Rush.
A chautauqua performance, modeled after the tent assemblies of nineteenth-century
America, encourages audience members to engage directly with these historical
personalities and the scholars who portray them. Between February and the
end of the year 2000, the California Council will schedule appearances by
these characters in more than one hundred communities throughout California.
It is giving grants to enable smaller nonprofit organizations to stage
chautauquas in their communities." -- From NEH's
Humanities,
January/February 1998.
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COLORADO -- "Book lovers in Denver will gather on November 7- 8 at
the Denver Merchandise Mart for the sixth annual Rocky Mountain Book Festival.
The festival drew twenty-five thousand people last year. In addition to featuring
more than two hundred authors, festival-goers also attended Chautauqua
performances and received “bibliotherapy” (advice on what to read)."
-- From NEH's
Humanities,
July/August 1998.
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COLORADO -- "'A Millennium Retrospective.' August 7-10
(Greeley). Info: Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
(http://www.ceh.org/programs/programs.shtml)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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DELAWARE -- Delaware
Humanities Forum Chautauqua -- States that it is a part of the National
Chautauqua.
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DELAWARE -- "In 1998-99, more than 2,500 people attended
Forum-sponsored chautauqua presentations by scholars portraying Mark Twain,
W. E. B. DuBois, Zitkala-Sa, Kate Chopin, Will Rogers, and Jack London."
-- From the 1997-98 NEH
Report on State Activities.
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DELAWARE -- "'American Humorists Chautauqua (Twain, Will Rogers, Langston
Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Thurber).' June 24-28 (Dover and Rehoboth Beach).
Info: Delaware Humanities Forum
(http://www.dhf.org/news.htm)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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GREAT PLAINS (ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA) --
Great Plains Chautauqua Society
-- A travelling chautauqua supported by six state humanities councils:
North Dakota Humanities Council,
South Dakota Humanities
Council, Nebraska
Humanities Council, Kansas
Humanities Council, Oklahoma
Humanities Council, and Humanities
Iowa.
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IDAHO -- "Lewis-Clark State College held a chautauqua featuring
scholar-actor Clay Jenkinson at the public dedication of its Centennial Mall.
With $1,100 in Council support and $2,300 from the community, Jenkinson appeared
as Thomas Jefferson and then as explorer Meriwether Lewis in a program on
the commissioning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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ILLINOIS -- "The annual Chicago Humanities Festival—a combination
of chautauqua and open university, which annually draws upwards of 15,000
participants—has proved so succcessful that it is being spun off by
the Illinois Council as a separate entity. Among those who have appeared
there are Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, author David McCullough,
and composer Stephen Sondheim." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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ILLINOIS -- "The Missouri Humanities Council launched Missouri Chautauqua
in 1993 with historic characters representing various religious traditions
significant to the history of Missouri and the nation. The enthusiasm
of the 11,000 Missourians who participated in the 1993-94 programs
encouraged the Missouri Humanities Council to establish Chautauqua as a permanent
program. In 1995, the Illinois Humanities Council joined the Missouri Council,
becoming known thereafter as the Heartland Chautauqua. Admission has always
been free." -- source:
Chautauqua: A
History from Prairie: The Web Site
of the Illinois Humanities Council.
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ILLINOIS -- "Heartland Chautauqua (Missouri and Illinois state humanities
councils) will explore life during the Civil War through the stories of Union
spy Elizabeth Louisa Van Lew, Louisa May Alcott, Sojourner Truth, William
Tecumseh Sherman, and black soldier A. A. Burleigh:
http://www.umsl.edu/community/mohuman/chautauq.htm
and
http://www.prairie.org/chacha/hartcha.html."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 1999.
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ILLINOIS -- "'Inside the Civil War.' June 12-17 (Canton), June 19
and 24 (Belvidere), June 26-July 1 (Alton). Info: Illinois Humanities Council
(http://www.prairie.org/chacha/hartcha.asp)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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IOWA -- "At the 1996 Iowa State Fair, the Great Plains Chautauqua
raised its tent for ten days of living-history programs with support from
NEH, the Board, and the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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IOWA -- "'Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of America.'
August 4-8 (Council Bluffs). Info: Great Plains Chautauqua
(http://www.gp-chautauqua.org)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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IOWA -- "The Chautauqua -- called athe most American thing in America'
-- visited Council Bluffs this summer. On August 4th through the 8th The
Great Plains Chautauqua Society presented an exciting opportunity for the
citizens of Council Bluffs and surrounding communities. ... They heard the
young Teddy Roosevelt talk of his days in the badlands of the Dakota Territory;
Andrew Carnegie, the richest man of his time, speak on the virtues of
philanthropy and the American labor movement; Booker T. Washington, the Wizard
of Tuskegee, discuss the voices of the African American experience; and learned
of the social activism of America's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Jane Addams,
and Native American, Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) who was a proud voice
for his culture and tradition." --
"Chautauqua Returns
to Council Bluffs!" from
Humanities Iowa.
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KANSAS -- "Academic scholars portrayed Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale
Hurston, Langston Hughes, and other African American historical figures in
a chautauqua program presented in three urban high schools in Kansas City,
Wichita, and Topeka. Supported by an $80,000 grant to the Kansas Humanities
Council, the project included a summer seminar for teachers on the African
American experience in Kansas." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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KANSAS --
Sequoyan
Article, The; April, 1997 -- The Great Plains Chautauqua tent is coming
to Garden City, Kansas.
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KANSAS -- "The Great Plains Chautauqua, featuring costumed scholars
portraying famous writers and statesmen from the American past, played to
more than 5,000 people in Colby and Arkansas City in 1996." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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KANSAS -- "'Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of
America.' June 23-27 (Lyons), June 30-July 4 (Independence). Info: Great
Plains Chautauqua
(http://www.gp-chautauqua.org)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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KENTUCKY --
Kentucky
Chautauqua -- Presented by the
Kentucky Humanities Council.
It appears that scholars/characters are book individually, more like History
Alive! programs.
[CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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MARYLAND -- Maryland Humanities
Council Chautauqua -- A chautauqua website that has not been updated
since 1998.
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MARYLAND -- "'Lincoln, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd
Garrison.' July 5-12 (McHenry), July 10-13 (La Plata), July 10-13 (Wye Mills),
July11-14 (Germantown). Info: Maryland Humanities Council
(http://www.mdhc.org/chataqua.htm)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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MARYLAND -- "WYE MILLS, MD – Chesapeake College, in Wye Mills,
will be hosting 'Chautauqua 2000: Maryland in the Civil War' from July 10-13.
This program, endorsed by the Maryland Commission for Celebration 2000 (Maryland
2000), consists of a series of lectures and entertainers focusing on Marylanders
who had an impact on the Civil War. “Chautauqua 2000: Maryland
in the Civil War” examines Maryland’s Civil War history through
living history interpretations of Clara Barton, William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham
Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman. ... The Maryland 2000 Chautauquas recently made
an appearance at Garrett Community College and will also be traveling to
College of Southern Maryland (July 10-13) and Montgomery College (July 11-14)
in Germantown." --
"Maryland
2000 Endorses 'Chautauqua 2000: Maryland in the Civil War' at Chesapeake
College" in Maryland 2000 News, July 7, 2000.
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MARYLAND -- Article,
"Lincoln, Tubman, Barton,
and Garrison Are ‘Keynoters’ at Montgomery College Chautauqua,
July 11-14" from News
from Montgomery College.
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MINNESOTA --
"Old
Crossing Arts Festival and Chautauqua by AFRAN", a
Library of Congress American Memory project
abstract.
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MINNESOTA --
"Dakota
County Sesquicentennial Celebration" in 1999 included what they called
a chautauqua -- it looks more like a theatrical production.
Library of Congress American Memory
project abstract.
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MISSOURI -- "The Missouri Humanities Council launched Missouri Chautauqua
in 1993 with historic characters representing various religious traditions
significant to the history of Missouri and the nation. The enthusiasm
of the 11,000 Missourians who participated in the 1993-94 programs
encouraged the Missouri Humanities Council to establish Chautauqua as a permanent
program. In 1995, the Illinois Humanities Council joined the Missouri Council,
becoming known thereafter as the Heartland Chautauqua. Admission has always
been free." -- source:
Chautauqua: A
History from Prairie: The Web Site
of the Illinois Humanities Council.
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MISSOURI --
Fulton Chautauqua
Festival -- A 1998 Heartland Chautauqua presentation.
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MISSOURI -- "Heartland Chautauqua (Missouri and Illinois state humanities
councils) will explore life during the Civil War through the stories of Union
spy Elizabeth Louisa Van Lew, Louisa May Alcott, Sojourner Truth, William
Tecumseh Sherman, and black soldier A. A. Burleigh:
http://www.umsl.edu/community/mohuman/chautauq.htm
and
http://www.prairie.org/chacha/hartcha.html."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 1999.
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MISSOURI --
Heartland
Chautauqua in Lexington, June 1999, Library
of Congress American Memory project abstract.
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MISSOURI -- "'Inside the Civil War." June 12-17 (Neosho), June 19-24
(Springfield), June 26-July 1 (Osage Beach). Info: Missouri Humanities Council
(http://www.umsl.edu/community/mohuman/chautauq.htm)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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MISSOURI -- 2001 Chautauqua: "A new cast has been assembled for
a program on one of the liveliest eras of the twentieth century. Popular
entertainment was thriving in the decade after the end of The Great War.
The national touring Chautauqua movement was at its peak, involving twelve
thousand towns in 1925 and an audience of thirty-two million people. The
radio became a household appliance, and recording technology advanced
rapidly. America's roads improved as automobiles became status symbols.
Publishing thrived, the movies thrived, and sometime before the stock
market crash of 1929, all these developing technologies of
entertainment and communication undermined the audiences for "live"
programs. In Missouri, John William "Blind" Boone, the Columbia resident
who had become wealthy as a touring pianist in the 1890s, saw the demand
for his kind of entertainment gradually ebb away to just a few engagements
in 1927, the year he died, and the year Charles Lindbergh accomplished the
first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Join us this June and July to
enjoy visits with ten faxcinating people from this dynamic decade." ~ From
Chautauqua 2001
on the Missouri Humanities
Council Website.
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NEBRASKA -- "Imperial and Crete have been chosen to host the Nebraska
leg of the Great Plains Chautauqua in the summer of 2001. The popular traveling
tent show makes its weeklong stops in Imperial July 5-9 and in Crete July
13-17." -- From
"Imperial and
Crete host 2001 Chautauqua"
on the Nebraska
Humanities Council Website.
[CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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NEBRASKA -- 2000, Here is a whole page of
Chautauqua Articles
from The Independent.
There is even
a Chautauqua
Stories page.
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NEBRASKA -- "'Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of
America.' June 16-20 (Seward), July 7-11 (Grand Island), July 14-18 (Arapahoe).
Info: Great Plains Chautauqua
(http://www.gp-chautauqua.org)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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NEBRASKA --
Great
Plains Chautauqua appears in Plainview, July 1999,
Library of Congress American Memory project
abstract.
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NEBRASKA --
John
C. Fremont Days in Fremont included chautauqua portrayals, July 1999,
Library of Congress American Memory project
abstract.
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NEBRASKA -- "The University of Nebraska received $50,000 for
“American Encounters: Lewis and Clark, the People, and the Land,”
a series of public programs, chautauquas, and reading and discussion programs
which drew thousands of participants at 11 stops along the Lewis and Clark
trail." -- From the 1997-98
NEH Report on State Activities.
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NEBRASKA -- "60,000 Nebraskans in 25 rural communities have attended
the Great Plains Chautauqua traveling tent programs in the past 13 years.
In 1996, the Gilded Age Chautauqua in Chadron and Seward drew more than 8,000
people to its daytime and evening programs." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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NEVADA -- "The Great Basin Chautauqua, a living history tent show,
drew a crowd of 3,100 in Reno last year to see scholars portraying historic
figures such as Meriwether Lewis and Brigham Young; another 800 people took
part in the Boulder City chautauqua. In the last three years, the Great Basin
Chautauqua has attracted nearly $140,000 in private support." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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NEVADA -- Boulder
City, Nevada Chautauqua -- September 11-12, 1998 "Larger Than Life: Shaping
American Myths" with P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Calamity Jane.
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NEVADA -- "The Nevada Humanities Committee sponsors chautauquas in
Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Reno, Pahrump, and Boulder City with portrayals
of Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Mary McLeod Bethune, J. Robert Oppenheimer and others:
http://www.unr.edu/nhc/index.html."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 1999.
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NEVADA --
Nevada
Chautauquas 2000 -- Presented by the
Nevada Humanities
Committee.
[CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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NEVADA -- "'Chaucer, Maimonides, Francis Bacon, W.E.B. DuBois, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Bertrand Russell.' June 14-17 (Las Vegas), July 17-20 (Reno).
Info: Nevada Humanities Committee
(http://www.unr.edu/nhc/index.html)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE -- "For the first time since 1929, Portsmouth played
host to a chautauqua with scholars portraying figures such as P. T. Barnum
and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The theme, Democracy in America, was explored
in evening tent shows and daytime workshops with more than 1,000 adults and
children attending; the project was created and sponsored by the Inland Empire
Educational Foundation with local support." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE -- "The New Hampshire Humanities Council looks at the
shaping of New England identity through "appearances" by Abigail Adams, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Mark Twain, Daniel Webster, and Phillis
Wheatley:
http://www.nhhc.org/chautauqua/index.html."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 1999.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE -- "'Great American Humorists.' July 24-26 (Portsmouth),
July 27-29 (Keene). Info: New Hampshire Humanities Council
(http://www.nhhc.org/chautauqua/index.html)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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NORTH CAROLINA -- "'Southern writers (Twain, Katherine Ann Porter,
Faulkner, Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston.' June 19-23 (Asheville). Info: North
Carolina Humanities Council
(http://www.nchumanities.org)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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NORTH DAKOTA -- "The North Dakota Council resurrected the chautauqua,
or, traveling tent show, converting this uniquely American form of public
education into one based on historic figures portrayed by humanities scholars.
Since the early 1980s, the Great Plains Chautauqua, with its portrayal of
figures such as Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis, has reached tens of
thousands of people, not only in North Dakota, but across South Dakota, Kansas,
Nebraska, and Oklahoma." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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NORTH DAKOTA -- The Great Plains Chautauqua Society, Inc. (North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa state humanities councils)
sponsors "Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of America,"
with scholars portraying social activist Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, American
Indian physician Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman), Theodore Roosevelt and Booker
T. Washington:
http://www.gp-chautauqua.org/."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 1999.
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NORTH DAKOTA -- "'Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions
of America.' August 11-15 (Jamestown). Info: Great Plains Chautauqua
(http://www.gp-chautauqua.org)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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OHIO -- 2001, "Ohio Chautauqua will once again tour the state
in 2001. Buckeyes in the Civil War, the theme selected by The Ohio Humanities
Council and The Ohio State University Humanities Institute, will feature
exciting living history presentations that explore the role of important
Ohioans in our nation’s most monumental conflict. Visitors to the tent
will see scholar portrayals of George Armstrong Custer (by Jeremy Meier),
Emma Edmonds (by Karen Vuranch), Ulysses S. Grant (by George Dauler), William
T. Sherman (by Ted Kachel), and Sojourner Truth (by Anike)." -- From
Pathways
Winter 2000-2001.
[CURRENT INFORMATION]
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OHIO --
Ohio
Chautauqua -- Sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and
Public Humanities of The Ohio State University and the Ohio
Humanities Council, 1999 article.
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OHIO --
Ohio
Chautauqua -- Ashland, Ohio:
2000 Schedule.
Marietta, Lancaster, Peninsula, and Wilmington are the other towns
on the 2000 Ohio Chautauqua circuit sponsored by
The Ohio Humanities
Council and the Ohio State University Humanities
Institute. [OUTDATED
INFORMATION]
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OKLAHOMA -- 2001, "Enid has a chance to celebrate
one of its famous sons in a few weeks. Noted Enid author
and historian Marquis James will be fewtured in a Winter Chautauqua presentation
scheduled March 1-3. Also featured in the three-day celebration with
presentations in Enid's Symphony Hall will be noted historian Angie Debo.
"This does not replace our annual spring presentation. We have
another program planned for the spring," said Gary Brown, project director.
Enid has hosted Chautaugua presentations each spring since 1995 as
Government Springs Park. This year's winter presentation is an
added bonus from preparation begun in 1997, Brown said." -- From
Enid News and Eagle News
Briefs. [CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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OKLAHOMA -- 2001, "The Tulsa Chautauqua has announced its theme for
next summer's performances, "Navigating a Changing World: The American
20th Century." This unique, 5-day program illuminates important, and
often controversial, people in history. Characters are portrayed by
national and local scholars discussing ideas that will challenge Oklahomans
to think about the world, both past and present, in a new way. Historic
characters to be portrayed include Thomas Edison, Branch Rickey, Mary McLeod
Bethune, Orson Welles, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Presentations include evening
performances, daytime workshops, and local entertainment." -- From
"Chautauqua"
on the Oklahoma
Humanities Council
website. [CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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OKLAHOMA -- 2001, "The Great Plains Chautauqua will return next summer
for the final year of its successful theme, "Behold Our New Century," with
characters Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington, Jane Addams, Charles Eastman
(Ohiyesa), and Theodore Roosevelt. This Chautauqua explores the birth of
early 20th century American ideals and values that still hold true as we
travel into the new century. Enid, OK, has been chosen as an official host
site. We invite other communities to host this wonderful 5-day event filled
with evening performances, daytime workshops, and informal discussions. "
-- From
"Chautauqua"
on the Oklahoma
Humanities Council
website. [CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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OKLAHOMA --
Great
Plains Chautauqua in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- 1991 article from the Tulsa World
newspaper archived on the "Louisa May Alcott Web". It mentions that
the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa planned to present a local
chautauqua the next year. In fact the Tulsa Council Chautuaqua did
just that -- for nine years, with the June 2001 chautauqua Tulsa will present
its tenth original program.
[HISTORICAL
INFORMATION]
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OKLAHOMA -- "Mark Twain, Jack London, and Kate Chopin are some of
the historical figures portrayed by scholars in the Great Plains Chautauqua.
It has been traveling in Oklahoma every summer since 1990; in 1996, the
chautauqua attracted more than 2,000 people to its tent shows and workshops
in Clinton and Lawton." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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OKLAHOMA -- "Communities interested in hosting either the Great Plains
Chautauqua or the Tulsa Chautauqua during the summer of 2000 should contact
OHC for complete guidelines and an application packet. Application deadline
is September 1, 1999. In addition to requests to host a 1999 Chautauqua,
OHC also will accept applications from communities that wish to be considered
as possible permanent Chautauqua sites. ... Any community requesting permanent
site status must be prepared to accept either the Tulsa Chautauqua or the
Great Plains Chautauqua in a given year. Although the OHC hopes to
partner with a number of communities who will become permanent Chautauqua
sites, each serving a region of the state, we intend to continue to extend
opportunities to host Chautauqua to those communities that want to bring
the program to their towns only a single time. Oklahoma is one of only a
handful of states which has two different Chautauqua programs each summer.
..."
Article, "Host
communities sought for the year 2000 summer Chautauquas...and beyond!"
from the Oklahoma Humanities
Council.
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OKLAHOMA -- "'Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of
America.' June 9-10 (Miami). Info: Great Plains Chautauqua
(http://www.gp-chautauqua.org).
"The Evolution of the West: Myth and Reality." May 31-June 4 (Altus), June
6-10 (Tulsa), June 13-17 (Enid). Info: Oklahoma Humanities Council
(http://www.okhumanitiescouncil.org/chautauqua.html)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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OKLAHOMA --
Tulsa
Council Chautauqua -- Tulsa, Oklahoma is a chautauqua town. It
has been since The Great Plains Chautauqua visited there in 1991. Members
of the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa Board of Directors liked
the concept so well that they set out to produce Tulsa's own original chautauqua
programs with a different theme and characters each year. Now in its
tenth year the Tulsa Council Chautauqua is one of the longest running chautauquas
produced by a city, and it travels to two other Oklahoma towns each year.
The theme, scholars, and characters have already been chosen,
and work is underway to present the
2001 Tulsa Council
Chautauqua in June 2001. Presented by
The Arts and Humanities Council
of
Tulsa.
[CURRENT
INFORMATION]
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OREGON -- "A partnership with the Pioneer Place shopping center in
Portland, Oregon, provided the Endowment its first opportunity to hold humanities
programming in commercial public space. With the Rouse Company, which owns
the property, the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the Oregon Historical
Society are partners in what promises to become an annual humanities event.
The program, "Life and Times of a Nation," included the Endowment's "Hail
to the Chief: Presidents, Politics, and Power" exhibition, continuous-loop
tapes of NEH-funded documentaries, and Chautauqua performances of Thomas
Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis by Clay Jenkinson and of George Washington
by Greg Monahan. With no additional funding, the Endowment helped to leverage
$75,000 from partners and the media. It reached an in-house audience of more
than 1,600 school children and adults, and a statewide audience through newspaper
articles and television coverage. Because of its effectiveness, Oregon Public
Broadcasting and the Portland CitySearch website have joined the partnership
for the 1999 program." From the
NEH Office
of Enterprise Report, 1998.
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PENNSYLVANIA -- "Living Legacy Chautauqua was founded in 1999 by Sharon
Ann Holt, a historian and Research Associate at the Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies in Philadelphia, PA. The purpose of the organization is to mobilize
the humanities and the arts to strengthen local communities in the struggle
against organized hate, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Living Legacy programs,
for youth and adults, engage participants actively in educational, fun, and
expressive projects. Through chautauqua-style living history, we 'bring to
life' people from the past who helped shape our multi-cultural democracy."
-- From Living Legacy
Chautauqua at The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 18 S. 7th Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19106. (Added 01/23/01).
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SOUTH CAROLINA -- "'Southern writers (Twain, Katherine Ann Porter,
Faulkner, Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston.' Greenville. Info: South Carolina Humanities
Council (http://www.schumanities.org)." -- From
NEH Outlook,
June 2000.
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SOUTH DAKOTA -- "'Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions
of America.' July 21-25 (Sturgis), July 28-August 1 (Brookings). Info: Great
Plains Chautauqua
(http://www.gp-chautauqua.org)."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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WASHINGTON -- Bainbridge
Island Chautauqua: Visions and Revisions -- a May 1999 program.
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WEST VIRGINIA -- "Fifty thousand West Virginians each year meet Booker
T. Washington, Devil Anse Hatfield, and Margaret Blennerhassett, through
the Council's History Alive! program." -- From the
1997-98 NEH Report on
State Activities.
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GENERAL -- "And the state humanities councils are loaded with activity.
Among their programs are the famed chautauquas, whose costumed characters
bring history to life for people of all ages in communities throughout the
nation. As you plan your summer vacations, perhaps you will have an opportunity
to visit one of these extraordinary events." -- From
NEH Outlook,
June 1999.
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GENERAL -- "CHAUTAUQUAS AROUND THE COUNTRY -- It’s summer and
time to gather under the big tent to interact with period-clad scholars who
bring important figures and eras in American history to life. Called
"chautauquas" after the 19th-century cultural movement that began on the
shore of New York state’s Lake Chautauqua, these engaging public programs
for the whole family are again traveling this summer to communities in many
parts of the nation, thanks to the work of several state humanities councils."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 1999.
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GENERAL -- "From North Dakota, the blue-and-white striped tents of
Chautauqua blossomed across the landscape west to Nevada and east to New
Hampshire, with scholars playing Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain and Louisa
May Alcott. In or out of season, scholars crisscrossed the countryside to
cities and to isolated communities, carrying with them books and good
conversation." -- Exerpt from "Grassroots Humanities" by Mary Lou Beatty in
NEH's
Humanities,
May/June 2000.
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GENERAL -- "The thought of summer conjures visions of the great outdoors,
and outdoors is just where you will find a lot going on in the humanities
during coming weeks. This issue of NEH Outlook spotlights some of those
activities--chautauquas, interpretive walks at Mt. Rushmore, and heritage
tourism in Washington, D.C. To find out what’s going on in the humanities
in your neighborhood, contact your state humanities council. A full roster
of the 56 councils with contact information is located on NEH’s website
at
http://www.neh.gov/state/states.html."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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GENERAL -- "CHAUTAUQUAS AROUND THE COUNTRY -- Summer has arrived,
and people of all ages are pulling up lawn chairs under big tents on cool
evenings in communities across America to hear the likes of Clara Barton,
Civil War generals Sherman and Longstreet, Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, Abraham
Lincoln, W.E.B. DuBois, and many other famous Americans talk about their
lives and times. The format, called "chautauqua" after the movement that
began at New York's Lake Chautauqua in 1874, features scholars who portray
historical characters and interact with audience members while still in
character. More than 20 state humanities councils sponsor these popular
humanities events. An article about chautauqua in the May/June 2000 Humanities
magazine is online at
http://www.neh.gov/publications/humanities/2000-05/bigtop.html."
-- From NEH
Outlook, June 2000.
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GENERAL -- "LEARNING UNDER THE TENT -- From California to Florida,
a 20th-century version of chautauqua packs them in, with scholars portraying
significant figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark
Twain, in the kind of 'village university' envisioned by Thoreau." -- From
"Facts About the NEH" -- an article about the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
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