Collecting My Thoughts

I suspect the pleas that we return to a more civil society without so much polarization with more bi-partisanship is mainly suggested by De...

Nice article in the WSJ about Lakeside and the other Chautauqua communities. When my parents were young children, there were traveling Chaut...

A revival of chautauqua When my parents were children, the traveling chautauquas were winding down in popularity (were popular from the 187...

4053 Lakeside 80 years ago On my bookshelves at our summer cottage is the Lakeside on-Lake-Erie Season 1927 program . I think I bought it...

3589 America 100 years ago Although I’ve browsed some of the pricey, recent, multi-volume histories of the United States and the World at th...

3368 The public library as lyceum In the 19th century, before the era of a tax supported, public library there were lyceums--public lectu...

Stories from Lakeside At the end of the week we’ll be heading for our summer home at Lakeside on Lake Erie, a Chautauqua community. We’ll ...