Chautauqua Movement

Professor portraying Franklin Roosevelt in Chautauqua tells how farm programs met needs (Grand Island Independent)

6 Jul 2008

Patrick E. McGinnis presented a workshop during Chautauqua in Hastings Saturday on the farm programs of the New Deal that dealt with the economic problems of the Great Depression.

Clifford hosts Chautauqua July 12 and 13 (The Scranton Times-Tribune)

4 Jul 2008

Theodore Roosevelt once referred to Chautauqua as the “the most American thing in America,� and Woodrow Wilson called it an “integral part of our national defense� during World War I.

Where they are now: Soviet Jewry series (Cleveland Jewish News)

4 Jul 2008

When Anya Leybovich arrived in America from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1979, her toughest adjustment was the language, even as a 3-year-old. “I refused to speak Russian or English, so I just made up my own language that was a combination of the two,� she recalls.