Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, August 14, 2020.
Jon Schmitz continues the series with a 1923 film of a pageant at Chautauqua.
Week Seven’s Heritage Lecture Series focuses on a pageant performed by Chautauquans, which was created at the request of Anna Pennybaker, president of the Chautauqua Women’s Club. Schmitz is Chautauqua’s archivist and historian.
This series is made possible with a gift from Jeff Lutz and Cathy Nowosielski.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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The History of Toilette Paper
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, August 7, 2020.
Gary Moore, North Carolina State University, a long-time presenter in the Heritage Lecture Series will discuss the evolution of toilette paper, as well as the history of other options.
This series is made possible with a gift from Je...
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Women Who Do Things: Women at Chautauqua
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, July 31, 2020.
Emalee Krulish tells the stories of important women throughout history who came to Chautauqua.
Praised for being a loving friend of women's suffrage in the years leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Chautauqua hosted...
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Before Suffrage
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, 2020.
CHQ Heritage Lecture: Rick Swegan - Before Suffrage : The quiet revolution for women's rights (Seneca Falls).
Rick Swegan, a long-time Chautauquan with family ties to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, will present on the beginnings...
