BOULDER PARK AIMS FOR CENTENNIAL MARK CHAUTAUQUA, ESTABLISHED JULY 4, 1898, KICKS OFF ITS YEAR-LONG BIRTHDAY PARTY.(Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: June 14, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Ricardo Baca Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer

BOULDER -- It will take more than a year to celebrate the 100th birthday of Boulder's Chautauqua Park, which has offered a blend of discussion, recreation and cultural performances.

At the foot of the Flatirons, Chautauqua was established July 4, 1898, and flourished through the 1920s, when the Chautauqua movement - an educational and recreational program of lectures and concerts - numbered 12,000 sites. Today, there are only three.

The birthday celebration starts today at 2 p.m. with the groundbreaking for a new ...

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