Guide to Chautauqua on the Web

By Jeffrey Scott Maxwell

     Chautauqua Definition

• The Chautauqua Movement in Encyclopedia.com
• The Complete Chautauquan: What Is Chautauqua?
• History of the National Chautauqua: What is Chautauqua? in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• National Chautauqua Movement in Chautauqua Preservation Society

• The Complete Chautauquan: Lyceum and Chautauqua

     Lyceum History

• The Complete Chautauquan: The Lyceum
• From Pierogies to Prairies: A Celebration of People and Place -- Education Division Launches First Lyceum

• The Complete Chautauquan: Institution
• A Year in Chautauqua by Laurie A. Watters
• A Year in Chautauqua: The Chautauqua Story by Jonathan Nassif

• Chautauquas Literary Roots Produced Americas First Book Club in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• The Complete Chautauquan: The CLSC
• Education: Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle in the Chautauqua Institution

     General Information

• The Complete Chautauquan: Independents by Meeting Dates
• The Complete Chautauquan: Independents by Name
• The Complete Chautauquan: Independents by Town
• The Jewish Chautauqua Society
• The Jewish Chautauqua Society in Milestones in Holocaust Education at Richard Stockton College of NJ in RSCNJ
• The Jewish Chautauqua Society in The Torah, Yom Kippur and Gefilte Fish: Rabbi guides students through 4,000 years of Judaism by Eric Cardinas in Albertson College of Idaho

• Arkansas, Siloam Springs - The Complete Chautauquan: Siloam Springs, AR
• Florida, DeFuniak Springs - The Complete Chautauquan: DeFuniak Springs, FL
• Kansas, Ottawa - The Complete Chautauquan: Ottawa, KS
• Kansas, Winfield - The Complete Chautauquan: Winfield, KS
• Texas, Waxahachie - 1900 Chautauqua Assembly in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - 1903 Program Images in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - 1904 Program Cover in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - 1912 Program Cover in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Chemistry Demonstrations Impressed Early Waxahachie Chautauqua Audiences in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - The Complete Chautauquan: Waxahachie, TX
• Texas, Waxahachie - History of the Waxahachie Chautauqua in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - History of the Waxahachie Chautauqua: Early Chautauqua Assemblies in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - History of the Waxahachie Chautauqua: Year-By-Year Highlights in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Old Waxahachie Chautauquas Celebrated Shakespeare in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Waxahachie Chautauqua Auditorium
• Texas, Waxahachie - Waxahachie Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Waxahachie Memoir Tells of Old Chautauqua in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Will Rogers Performed for Enthusiastic Waxahachie Audience in February 1927 in Chautauqua Preservation Society

     Circuit Chautauqua History    

• Circuit Chautauquas: Tent Circuits in Chautauqua Preservation Society

• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Talent Bureaus
• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Platform Talent
• The Complete Chautauquan: Who's Who in Chautauqua History

• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua in Kansas
• The Complete Chautauquan: Ottawa, KS,
• The Complete Chautauquan: Winfield, KS,
• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua in Oklahoma
• The Complete Chautauquan: Sapulpa, OK
• The Complete Chautauquan: Tulsa, OK

• The Des Plaines Methodist Camp Ground [1860] 125 Years of Methodist History by Daniel R. Sailor, June 1984

Chautauqua Today

      The Historic Model Chautauquas

          The Chautauqua Institution in its Second Century

• The Chautauqua Institution
• Chautauqua Opera 2002 in The Chautauqua Institution
• Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in The Chautauqua Institution
• The Complete Chautauquan: The Chautauqua Institution

• The Complete Chautauquan: Camp Meeting Associations

• Colorado, Boulder - Colorado Chautauqua Still Inspires These Texans in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Florida, DeFuniak Springs - The Complete Chautauquan: DeFuniak Springs, FL
• Florida, DeFuniak Springs - Florida Chautauqua: 2000 Florida Chautauqua Carries on its Tradition in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Chautauqua Preservation Society Home
• Texas, Waxahachie - Chautauqua Preservation Society Mission Statement
• Texas, Waxahachie - The Complete Chautauquan: Waxahachie, TX
• Texas, Waxahachie - Interesting Facts About Chautauqua in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Waxahachie Chautauqua Assembly, September 23, 2000 in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Waxahachie Chautauqua Assembly, September 29, 2001 in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Texas, Waxahachie - Waxahachie Chautauqua Assembly, September 28, 2002 in Chautauqua Preservation Society

          Humanities Chautauquas

• Circuit Chautauquas: Modern Circuits in Chautauqua Preservation Society
• Colorado, CEH - High Plains Chautauqua: August 2001 in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• The Complete Chautauquan: The Modern Model Chautauquas
• Great Plains Chautuaqua Society
• Great Plains Chautauqua Society - The Complete Chautauquan: Great Plains Chautauqua
• Oklahoma, AHC Tulsa  - Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa Chautauqua Program Highlights 2001
• Oklahoma, AHC Tulsa  - The Complete Chautauquan:Tulsa, OK, Chautauqua
• Oklahoma, AHC Tulsa  - The Complete Chautauquan: 1999 Tulsa Photos
• Oklahoma, AHC Tulsa  - The Complete Chautauquan: 2001 Articles and Photos
• Oklahoma, OHC  - Chautauqua in Oklahoma Humanities Council

• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Characters

• James M. Barrie / presented by David Skipper in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Dr. Rose Kidd Beere / presented by Rebecca Hunt in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Isabella Bird / presented by Lynne Swanson in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Aunt Clara Brown / presented by Opalanga Pugh in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• William Jennings Bryan / presented by Fred Krebs in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Robert Burns / presented by David Skipper in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Kit Carson / presented by Fred Krebs in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Rafael Chacón / presented by Enrique Lamadrid in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Geoffrey Chaucer / presented by Thomas Napierkowski in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Marie Curie / presented by Susan Marie Frontczak in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Emily Dickinson / presented by Denise Burson Freestone in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Jonathan Edwards / presented by Jack R. Van Ens in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Anne Ellis in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• F. Scott Fitzgerald / presented by Michael McCarthy in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Benjamin Franklin / presented by Fred Krebs in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Alexander Hamilton / presented by Hal Bidlack
• Calamity Jane / presented by Glenda Bell in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Thomas Jefferson / presented by Clay Jenkinson in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• James Joyce in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Meriwether Lewis / presented by Clay Jenkinson in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Diego Martín, el vaquero / presented by Angel Vigil in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Enos Mills vs John Smith / presented by John Monnett and

Michael McCarthy in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Marianne Moore / presented by Sandra Maresh Doe in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• William Mulholland / presented by Fred Krebs in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Edgar Allan Poe / presented by David Skipper in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• John Wesley Powell / presented by Clay Jenkinson in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Josephine Roche / presented by Elinor McGinn in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Anne Sexton in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Lucy Stone / presented by Lyda Mary Hardy in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Winfield Scott Stratton / presented by Richard Marold in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Mark Twain / presented by Martin Wagner in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Laura Ingalls Wilder / presented by Lanette

Hunter-Reginelli in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities

• Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Chautauqua in Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
• Kentucky Humanities Council Chautauqua in Kentucky Humanities Council
• Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau 2001-2002 in Kentucky Humanities Council
• Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Roster 2001-2002 in Kentucky Humanities Council

• Chautauqua by Betty Jean Steinshouer: Cather, Rawlings, O'Connor, Wilder, Stein, Jewett, Stowe
• Chautauqua Presentation: 2000 News Release: Free Program on "Thaddeus Dunkley, Black Cowboy" in the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs
• Chautauqa Presentation: 2001 News Release: Exhibit Opening, Historical Presentation, Book Signing June 26 featuring Governor John Sparks portrayal in the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs
• Chautauqa Presentation: 2001 News Release: Students Gather Next Week and Present History featuring John Sparks: Western Cattle King portrayal by Dr. Michael Fisher on the Nevada Department f Cultural Affairs
• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Scholars HOT!
• Hal Bidlack as Alexander Hamilton: A Chautauqua Performance

• The Complete Chautauquan: History Alive!
• History Alive! in Oklahoma Humanities Council
• Humanities on the Road List of Speakers in Nevada Humanities Committee
• Humanities on the Road Program Topics in Nevada Humanities Committee
• Humanities on the Road Speakers Bureau in Nevada Humanities Committee
• Teacher's Institutes at Chautauqua in Nevada Humanities Committee

• Young Chautauqua at Sparks High in Nevada Humanities Committee
• Young Chautauqua Program in Nevada Humanities Committee
• Young Chautauquans win Coming Up Taller National Award in Nevada Humanities Committee

• Indiana, Columbus - Chautauqua of the Arts
• Indiana, Madison - Madison Chautauqua Festival of Art

• The Complete Chautauquan: Cyber Chautauquas

     Pages about The Complete Chautauquan Collection and Web site

• The Complete Chautauquan
• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Bibliography
• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Collection
• The Complete Chautauquan: Chautauqua Postcards
• The Complete Chautauquan: Items Wanted
• The Complete Chautauquan: The Complete Story

Chautauqua Institution Scholarship -- An outline of the application process -- for graduate school fine arts students.

Reading Comprehension Questions: The Chautauqua Story from Cobblestone Publishing.
Article on Festival including Chautauqua from Split Tree Press
Keil Ranch Historic Site Chautauqua 1999
Passages Concerning Chautauqua in Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence
"The Chautauqua" by Laura Dunford
National Women's Hall of Fame
Chautauqua South 2000
"Marjorie Main: 'Good for a Lot of Laughs'" by Sylvia Henricks
Rome City, Indiana's Chautauqua Days
The Western Chautuaqua Island Park Assembly in Rome City, Indiana
"Chautuaqua Lite" - an October 21, 1996 Forbes article by Dyan Machan that is critical of the offerings of the Disney Institute
"Chautauqua announces summer series" - an April 23, 2000, The Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado) article by Greg Glasgow
"From Rooms to Ruins: The Boston University HiPArt Project -- Boston University Chautauqua" September 16, 1999
"Chalkin' it Up with Chautauqua" -- a June 4, 1998, Slugwire (University of California, Santa Cruz) article by Jana Klass
"New Chautauqua features nationally known writers" - a September 22, 1999, Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon) article by Bill Varble
 
 

Chautauqua Photographs

Chautauqua Tent, Popular Bluff, Missouri, 1993 on Missouri Humanities Council Web Site.
CCHM Chautauqua (Winfield Chautauqua Assembly) from the Cowley County [Kansas] Historical Museum.

Student Chautauqua Programs

History Comes Alive for Young Chautauqua Scholars Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, NH, 1998 Press Release.
The Young Chautauqua Program: A Personal View by Heidi Estrem, 1996.
Young Chautauqua program seeks participants Staff reports, Tahoe Record-Courier, 11/06/99.

Who's Who -- The People from Chautauqua History

Pond, James Burton (1838-1903) - New York representative of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau.

• James Burton Pond Collection

• Ida Tarbell And "The Business of Being a Woman" article by Paula Treckel, Professor of History Allegheny College.
• People & Events: Ida Tarbell, 1857-1944 article from PBS The American Experience.