NEW OLD-TIME CHAUTAUQUA

From: Humanities | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Scanlan, Laura Wolff | Copyright information

IN JULY OF 1891. MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED pioneers traveled by horse and buggy to Madison, South Dakota, to the newly built Chautauqua site. The grounds contained a hotel, auditonum, boat and bathhouse, dining hall, several bams, and room for three hundred tents. For the next three weeks, culture-hungry settlers listened to lectures, took classes, and engaged in debates on political and social issues of the day.

More than one hundred years later, Madison will once again be home to a Chau...

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