Crossword clues for chautauqua
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chautauqua \Chau*tau"qua\ a meeting, usually held in the summer outdoors or under a temporary tent, providing public lectures combined with entertainment such as concerts and plays. It originated in the village of Chautauqua, N. Y., in 1874, and was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, a meeting similar to this.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"assembly for popular education," 1873, from town in New York, U.S., where an annual Methodist summer colony featured lectures. The name is from ja'dahgweh, a Seneca (Iroquoian) name, possibly "one has taken out fish there," but an alternative suggested meaning is "raised body."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 72
Land area (2000): 0.425810 sq. miles (1.102843 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.425810 sq. miles (1.102843 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12675
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.026172 N, 96.178458 W
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Headwords:
Chautauqua
Housing Units (2000): 2169
Land area (2000): 641.686211 sq. miles (1661.959586 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.141574 sq. miles (8.136639 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 644.827785 sq. miles (1670.096225 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.120943 N, 96.254056 W
Headwords:
Chautauqua, KS
Chautauqua County
Chautauqua County, KS
Housing Units (2000): 64900
Land area (2000): 1062.047559 sq. miles (2750.690434 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 437.969147 sq. miles (1134.334835 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1500.016706 sq. miles (3885.025269 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.240700 N, 79.345719 W
Headwords:
Chautauqua, NY
Chautauqua County
Chautauqua County, NY
Wikipedia
Chautauqua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day. Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was quoted as saying that Chautauqua is "the most American thing in America." H.L. Mencken used the word "chautauqua" (lower case) to refer more generally to a herd of clumsy writers: "When they essay to be jocose, the result is usually an elephantine whimsicality, by the chautauqua out of the Atlantic Monthly." [Vintage Mencken, p. 96, ed. Alistair Cooke, 1955]
Chautauqua is a word from the Iroquois meaning "bag tied in the middle/two moccasins tied together".
"Where the fish was taken out" another meaning of Chautauqua by W.M. Beauchamp. See link to his 1891 musings on the originations, etymology, and possible differences in meanings & spellings of the word commonly known as Chautauqua. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1766994?seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
Usage examples of "chautauqua".
Ephraim in upstate New York, in the Chautauqua Valley approximately seventy miles south of Lake Ontario.
Editor in chief of the Chautauqua Falls Journal, a twice- weekly publication, circulation 25,600.
My mother was thrilled to discover documents in the Chautauqua County Historical Society archive pertaining to these activities, and wrote a series of pieces for the Mt.
Like high-tension wires, except of course there were none along the Ransomville Road, electricity had not yet come to this remote part of the Chautauqua Valley.
Breuer was a local attorney, a business associate and close friend of the Democratic state senator from the Chautauqua district, Harold Stoud, whom Michael Mulvaney Sr.
There were not many prominent families in Chautauqua County, still fewer in Mt.
Warm as toast in her flannel nightgown in her pretty white-rattan bed beneath the hand-knit quilt Corinne had found in a Chautauqua Falls secondhand shop.
I acted on my own, yesterday morning I went to the Chautauqua County district attorney and demanded the S.
She was nineteen years old, the daughter of a customer of Mulvaney Roofing, a farmer who owned hundreds of acres in southern Chautauqua County.
That generation of German immigrants, settlers in the Chautauqua Valley in the l88Os.
Ransoinville was in a remote corner of the Chautauqua Valley, far from the more populous Mt.
Yet he glanced repeatedly from side to side, blinking at the view-more severe than the Ransoniville countryside, the foothills of the Chautauqua Mountains were higher, more broken and discontinuous than that terrain.
The father was a cardiologist at the new Chautauqua Medical Center, he claimed never to have heard of Dr.
In Chautauqua Falls where I now live, and work as editor of the Chautauqua Falls Journal, I went shopping on the morning of July Fourth, buying a bushel of sweet corn at a farm stand, selecting the ears individually, carefully.
Ephraim Public Library, in a day-care center, at the Chautauqua County Bureau of Records where eventually she would be promotec to office manager.