Chautauqua: Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua Institution, an educational center and summer resort located on Chautauqua Lake in the Southern Tier of Western New York. Chautauqua Institution, tonight at 10PM will be featured in a one-hour documentary entitled Chautauqua: An American Narrative. Chautauqua Institution has operated each summer since then, gradually expanding its season length and program offerings organized around the four pillars: arts, education, religion and recreation. The Institution also includes school of Special Studies, and a residential music program of intensive study is offered to students on the verge of professional careers who audition for admittance into Chautauqua's schools of fine and performing arts. The physical setting of the Institution defined its development as an assembly. The grounds are situated on the west shoreline of upper Chautauqua Lake. The early tent camp assembly gave way to cottages and rooming houses, and then hotels and eventually condominiums. But much of the past...