A Chautauqua Idyl
A Chautauqua Idyl

Author: Grace Livingston Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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The violets had put on their gossamers and drawn the hoods up over their heads, the ferns looked sadly drabbled, and the buttercups and daisies on the opposite bank, didn't even lean across to speak to their neighbors, but drew their yellow caps and white bonnets further over their faces, drooped their heads and wished for the rain to be over. The wild roses that grew on a bush near the bank hid under their leaves. The ferns went to sleep; even the trees leaned disconsolately over the brook and wished for the long rainy afternoon to be over, while little tired wet birds in their branches never stirred, nor even spoke to each other, but stood hour after hour on one foot, with their shoulders hunched up, and one eye shut.

A Chautauqua Idyl
A Chautauqua Idyl

Author: Grace Livingston Hill

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 56

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'Summer's Breeze at Chautauqua' is a work by Grace Livingston Hill that recounts her enchanting journey at a Chautauqua institution. From attending thought-provoking lectures and musical performances, to indulging in the scenic beauty and quaint charm of the town, Hill takes the reader on a delightful adventure. Through her encounters with kindred spirits and unexpected events, she discovers profound life lessons and a renewed sense of purpose.

A Chautauqua Idyl
A Chautauqua Idyl

Author: Grace Livingston

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781523887316

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Jon
Jon

Author: Rita M. Teasted

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-02-03

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781450274241

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John Oliver Nelson, born to wealth and privilege, spent much of his life giving that wealth away. In this biography, author Rita M. Yeasted narrates the details of Nelsons life as he fulfilled the Gospels mandate of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and sheltering the homeless. JON: John Oliver Nelson and the Movement for Power in the Church tells the life story of this man, known as a quick-witted, intelligent, and charming visionary and dreamer, from his birth in 1909 until his death in 1990. A lover of liturgy, music, and fine arts, Nelson is best known as a national leader for the subtle re-empowering of the Church in our culture and for the founding of the nations first Protestant retreat center, Kirkridge, in the Appalachian Mountains in Bangor, Pennsylvania, in 1942. Begun as a center for the renewal of clergy, Kirkridge soon attracted laity of all faiths. Jack Nelsons influence extended to thousands over his years as Yale Divinity professor, director of Kirkridge, retreat leader, and spiritual director. Scion of one of Pittsburghs most prominent Presbyterian families, Jack died in poverty, but rich in friends. With photographs included, JON and the story it tells presents his legacy to the world.

The Most American Thing in America
The Most American Thing in America

Author: Charlotte Canning

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 158729592X

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Winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens’ ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK), lectures (“Civic Revivalist” Charles Zueblin speaking on “Militancy and Morals”), elocutionary readers (Lucille Adams reading from Little Lord Fauntleroy), dramas (the Ben Greet Players’ cleaned-up version of She Stoops to Conquer), orations (William Jennings Bryan speaking about the dangers of greed), and special programs for children (parades and mock weddings). Theatre historians have largely ignored Circuit Chautauquas since they did not meet the conventional conditions of theatrical performance: they were not urban; they produced no innovative performance techniques, stage material, design effects, or dramatic literature. In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Charlotte Canning establishes an analytical framework to reveal the Circuit Chautauquas as unique performances that both created and unified small-town America. One of the last strongholds of the American traditions of rhetoric and oratory, the Circuits created complex intersections of community, American democracy, and performance. Canning does not celebrate the Circuit Chautauquas wholeheartedly, nor does she describe them with the same cynicism offered by Sinclair Lewis. She acknowledges their goals of community support, informed public thinking, and popular education but also focuses on the reactionary and regressive ideals they sometimes embraced. In the true interdisciplinary spirit of Circuit Chautauquas, she reveals the Circuit platforms as places where Americans performed what it meant to be American.