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A place in the state of New York where people go over in the summer for vacation to enjoy artistic events.
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A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.
Examples of chautauqua in a Sentence
Streator has a public library and a Chautauqua auditorium.
There is excellent boating and bathing here, and there are mineral springs in the Park, where in the summer there are a Chautauqua course lasting for six weeks, a normal school, a Bible school, a Bible conference, a school of missions, an International Training School for Sunday School Workers, a conference of temperance workers and nature study and other regular summer school courses; and in other months of the year courses are given here by the Winona Normal School and Agricultural Institute, Winona Academy (for boys) and Winona Conservatory of Music, and the Winona Park School for Young Women.
There is a Carnegie library, and Forest Park, within the city limits, is a popular meeting place of conventions and summer gatherings, including the annual Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly.
In the extreme western part of the state is Chautauqua Lake, beautifully situated in the plateau of western New York.
The village of Fredonia, in Chautauqua county, was illuminated by natural gas as early as 1825, and gas has since been discovered in several of the western counties.
A Chautauqua assembly and a county fair are held annually.
Near Ardmore is a summer school on the Chautauqua system.
Jamestown is situated among the hills of Chautauqua county, and is a popular summer resort.
In addition he was lecturer on history in Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1878-1881, and for many years took an active part in Chautauqua work.
On the banks of Lake Monona are the beautiful grounds of the Monona Lake assembly, a summer assembly on the Chautauqua model.
It is a summer and winter resort and is the home of the Georgia Chautauqua.
The Florida Winter Bible Conference and Chautauqua is held here.
The state fish-hatchery is on springs at South Bend; at Long Pine springs of large flow supply the town and railway shops with water, and led to the establishment here of Chautauqua grounds.
Miss Sullivan's account in her address at Chautauqua, in July, 1894, at the meeting of The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, is substantially like Miss Keller's in points of fact.
Outside of New York City, you'll find peaceful mountain aeries, fascinating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls, cultural meccas like Chautauqua, and wonderful wineries along the Great Lakes and in the Finger Lakes region.