Headland Chautauqua

“Chautauqua” was a cultural and social movement that started in upstate New York in the 1870s and flourished until the mid 1920s. During this time, hundreds of touring chautauquas presented lectures, dance, music, drama, and other forms of “cultural enrichment”. In rural America, big tents served as temporary theaters for these productions. Lectures by author Mark Twain, suffragette Susan B. Anthony, or a production of “The Tale of Two Cities” are the kinds of entertainment one could expect at a chautauqua show. The Chautauqua Institution still thrives in Chautauqua, New York.  - source

March 1918

March 1918

March 1918

March 1919

March 1921

Jan 1926

Jan 1926

Jan 1926

Jan 1926

Jan 1926

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April 1929

Some more history of Chautauqua

What is a Chautauqua?

Click here for a program for a week-long Chautauqua held in Eufaula, Alabama in 1908.

The Durham Morning Herald

Feb 1948

The Dothan Eagle

May 1953