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Landmark honors for Chautauqua Historic Boulder park appears assured of national designation
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It's attracted evangelists and free-thinkers, runners and hikers,
philosophers and gonzo journalists.
And now the Colorado Chautauqua in Boulder is on the verge of
National Historic Landmark designation.
The National Park System Advisory Board recently voted unanimously
to recommend to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton that the park
in the foothills of southwest Boulder receive the honorary
designation.
Approval seems assured.
"This is a big deal for Colorado, a...
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Landmark honors for Chautauqua Historic Boulder park appears assured of national designation
Rocky Mountain News
; It's attracted evangelists and free-thinkers, runners and hikers, philosophers and gonzo journalists. And now the Colorado Chautauqua in Boulder is on the verge of National Historic Landmark designation. The National Park System Advisory Board recently voted unanimously to recommend to Secretary of
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Landmark honors for Chautauqua Historic Boulder park appears assured of national designation.(News)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News BOULDER -- It's attracted evangelists and free-thinkers, runners ... southwest Boulder, be named a National Historic Landmark. ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS / 2003 CAPTION: Locator map / Chautauqua ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
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Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920.(The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance)(Book review)
Theatre History Studies
; Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920. By Melanie Dawson. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. x + 257 pp. $39.75 cloth. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance. By Charlotte Canning. Iowa City:
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Chautauqua heightens the Boulder experience
The Boston Globe
; BOULDER, Colo. - A full moon rose over the jagged Flatiron Mountains on our last night at the Colorado Chautauqua. The air was warm and still, and we hiked up above Chautauqua's narrow streets and quiet cottages. Boulder glittered below us, spreading out to the plains. Set in the foothills above
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BOULDER PARK AIMS FOR CENTENNIAL MARK CHAUTAUQUA, ESTABLISHED JULY 4, 1898, KICKS OFF ITS YEAR-LONG BIRTHDAY PARTY.(Local)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Ricardo Baca Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer BOULDER -- It will take more than a year to celebrate the 100th birthday ... early with groundbreaking today for a new playhouse. By Hal Stoelzle / Rocky Mountain News. FILE:PARKS - CHAUTAUQUA
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Univ. of Iowa Libraries to Create Web Display of Rare Chautauqua Collection.
Information Today
; ... is a distributed collection of digitized primary resources consisting of photographs and prints, documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound recordings. More information on the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition is available ...
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Charlotte M. Canning. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Comparative Drama
; Charlotte M. Canning. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. Pp xv + 270. $34.95 casebound. Following the prefatory material including acknowledgments (xi-xii) and abbreviations (xiii), this volume is divided into seven
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SUMMER PLACE BOULDER PICNICKS WITH THE PAST IN CELEBRATION OF ITS `CHAUTAUQUA EXPERIENCE'.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ... Robertson on the restaurant's covered deck. By Glenn Asakawa / Rocky Mountain News. CAPTION: (Sepia tone) In 1899, with only a few cottages built, tents served ... the National Register of Historic Places. By Glenn Asakawa / Rocky Mountain News.
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Once Upon a Time in America.(Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century)(Brief Article)
Insight on the News
; Many long years ago, in the days before drive-by shootings, boom boxes and road rage, cultural activities were an integral part of American community life. Popular entertainers joined leading lights of politics, religion and the arts on the Chautauqua tent-show circuit. More than 4,500 lecturers,
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DURGIN TO LEAVE CHAUTAUQUA.(Local)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; BOULDER -- Former Mayor Leslie Durgin plans to leave her position as executive director of the Colorado Chautauqua Association by the end of the year. Durgin, who served as mayor from 1990 until last year, has overseen the 100th anniversary activities of Boulder's Chautauqua. She has served as the
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