Originally broadcast at 9:00 a.m. ET Tuesday, June 29, 2021.

Rev. Dr. Mary Lee Talbot, a Presbyterian minister, is a lifelong Chautauquan; an alum of Chautauqua’s Children’s School and Girls Club; the CLSC historian; author of the history of the Bird, Tree, and Garden Club's 100 Years of Beauty and the first complete history of the CLSC, called Chautauqua's Heart; and she has written the Morning Worship column for the Chautauquan Daily for years. A year-round resident of Chautauqua and member of a seven generation Chautauqua family, Mary Lee’s great-grandfather, Samuel M. Hazlett, headed the committee that saved Chautauqua from bankruptcy during the Depression and served as its president from 1947-56.

This program is made possible by the Gladys R. Brasted and Adair Brasted Gould Memorial Chaplaincy.

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.