"Chautauqua - a gathering that is typically American
in that it is typical of America at its best."
~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"What shall you do with your leisure?
I understand that Chautauqua is trying to answer that question,
and to open out fields of thought, to open out energies,
a largeness of mind and a culture in the better sense."
~ President James Garfield, August 1880