Talk:Chautauqua/Archives/2022

The Most American Thing in America
The quote does sound nice coming from a famous U.S. president, but the book source from 1999 is at least a hundred years older than another source I found that says the quote was from someone else.

The Illustrated American Volume 20 can be found for free on Google Books. Issue No. 1, dated June 27, 1896 on page 10, there is an article about this group and the quote is attributed to the late Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. MiamiHeat87 (talk) 05:10, 4 February 2022 (UTC)


 * newer MiamiHeat87 (talk) 05:10, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Odd-seeming claim needs explication
The article's history section begins like this: "In 1873, the first Chautauqua, Lakeside Chautauqua on Ohio's Lake Erie, was formed by the Methodists." I am not an expert on the history of chautauquas, but that sentence clearly needs explaining (if it is to be retained in this article at all). Why would a community formed in Ohio, supposedly the year before the establishment of the "Chautauqua Assembly" in western New York, take the name of the lake in western New York? That's pretty odd, on the face of it. 24.59.52.184 (talk) 06:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)