I’ve heard that Glen Echo Park opened in 1891 as the country’s 53rd Chautauqua. What exactly is a “Chautauqua”?
The Chautauqua Movement began in 1874 along the shores of Chautauqua Lake, in upstate NewYork. It was designed as an adult education and moral improvement movement that offered a wide variety of classes, speakers, concerts/performances, and even a correspondence school—the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. It hoped to bring “a college outlook” to working and middle-class people. President Theodore Roosevelt said that Chautauqua was “typically American, in that it is typical of America at its best.
The Chautauqua Movement began in 1874 along the shores of Chautauqua Lake, in upstate NewYork. It was designed as an adult education and moral improvement movement that offered a wide variety of classes, speakers, concerts/performances, and even a correspondence school—the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. It hoped to bring “a college outlook” to working and middle-class people.
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