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'Chautauqua Trees'

BFA - MFA. Mixed Media On Canvas.

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Red Rocks + Chautauqua Park

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S Binn Street, Chautauqua, Kansas.

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Updated.. 1/11/2025

I’m taking the time to learn more about where I live outside of the local flours and fauna. I’m starting with

The Eries . 🍒

Their were a lot of Confederacies in the Northeast US

Chautauqua County, was once home to a people called the Erie who were nearly wiped out by the Haudenosaunee in the Beaver war. (Kind of had to drag myself out of a rabbit hole writing this)

They’re the people that Lake Erie, Erie County, and Erie, Pennsylvania are named after.

🐱The Erie were also called the Eriez, Nation du Chat, (Nation of the Cat) Yenresh, Eriechronen, and Riquérohon among other names. A lot of their various names are said to reference long tail or cat. However it more likely means people of the Cherry. 🍒 🐈‍⬛🦝. The Black Cherry (I’ll probably profile it soon) is native to the area and it was most definitely used by the people living in Chautauqua county.

They were Iroquoian* like most of the people living in the Northeast US. The Erie appear to have lived in a similar way to their neighbors. They lived in long houses arranged in palisaded villages because like everyone else they often got into skirmishes with neighbors. They farmed using the 3 sisters method🌽🫛🎃 The Erie are said to have used poison arrows and some wore puma or raccoon tails, hence their French name. They traded with the Sesquehannok and others. The Haudenosaunee say they came from the St. Laurence river valley and took over from a mound building society.

This information was gleaned from second hand accounts told by other indigenous peoples, especially the Huron, to Jesuit priests and trappers. Despite not really interacting with Europeans as far as we know, The Eries demise was indirectly caused by them. This was through a combination of European disease (entire communities were wiped out)and the and the demand for beaver pelts which lead to the Beaver Wars.

🦫The disagreements escalated when the Erie overhunted the beavers they used to trade for European goods. They would give the pelts to other tribes who would pay them with European stuff, except guns, no one wanted them to have guns. Because of this they encroached on other peoples territory more than usual. During this time The Haudenosaunee League were also fighting with the Huron ( and pretty much everyone else) to gain a monopoly on beaver. (The Beaver war)The Huron were loosing, badly. The Erie took in some of the Huron refugees and refused to turn them over to the Haudenosaunee,specifically the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga. The Haudenosaunee were made up of 5 other tribes at the time, now it’s 6 and they’re a confederacy now. Erie also killed a Seneca sachem, Annencraos, during a raid into Seneca territory.

The Erie weren’t immediately attacked though. The Haudenosaunee and Erie had a peace conference to avoid a war. For some reason, possibly after losing multiple sporting events, the Erie leader started killing the delegates. They then went on to launch an assault on the Seneca. This is despite their biggest allies, the Sesquehannok, being unable to help them because they were actively being attacked by the Mohawk Oneida branch of the Haudenosaunee. This isolated the Erie. The Haudenosaunee also had guns and knew how to use them.

This started a war between the Haudenosaunee League and the Erie. The Erie held their own for the first year but In the end they were defeated, dispersed and absorbed. Some Eries went to Ohio and joined the Seneca and Cayuga there,( they ended up in Oklahoma) others may have went to Virginia and became the Rochahecrian, and South Carolina where they became the Westro.

Sources

Avon history OH

Eries

*Iroquoian refers to the ethnolingustic group the Eries, Huron Wyandot , Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Petun,Sesquehannok, and Cherokee among others belong to.

Probably going to write about the beavers wars and the Seneca later. May also post about the ill fated peace conference/sporting event too.

If anyone has anything to contribute feel free, I’d like to learn more.

[oldshowbiz]

Jewish Chautauqua Society '78

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My college girlfriend walked out of Chautauqua’s little church-shaped movie theater with tears in her eyes. We’d seen Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934). I had enjoyed the movie but wasn’t necessarily as moved as she was. She suddenly needed to tell me something. She came to visit me in Chautauqua on a Saturday. It was now Wednesday night. Wednesday was the Classic Cinema Night at the theater when they screened an old movie at 5 PM for people who couldn’t watch a movie after 7 PM without falling asleep. I was one of those people.

The sun was still bright when we walked out of the theater. We headed down a grass hill and stood on the brick walk in front of the arches of the opera house.

“Did the movie bother you?” I asked.

She was pinching her flushed face, tears rolling down her cheeks while she squeezed my hand. She would not look at me. 

“I did something.” she said.

I knew. I even knew who it was with. Not hard to guess. In a way, I was glad it was her ex-boyfriend and not some random guy she’d gotten drunk with. That I would have taken personally. This instance was mostly about them and not me. Except we’d been together for at least a year, so I felt somewhat involved.

She fucked her ex and told me about it. She wanted me to know she wasn’t rekindling anything and saw the act more as the death knell of their love for each other. She hated that it happened, though I didn’t feel like she hated herself enough for doing it. He hated that she didn’t want him back, I know that much. I know a lot I wish I didn’t. More details than I needed. He was outdoorsy and she had loved him half her life and he could do a one-handed push-up. I was some nerd she’d met at school who liked reading Updike novels, most of which were ironically about this very subject.

After our conversation, I walked the 3-mile loop of the Chautauqua Institution in the dark. I wasn’t ready to cry yet, and instead entered the manic phase of a young man in pain, making small talk with strangers in a voice I now know must have sounded too fast and high-pitched. Many of these people took the opportunity to turn down the first available side street and wave me off.

For better or worse, this was not the straw that broke the camel’s back for me and my girlfriend. That would come much later. Chautauqua, however, was ruined for an evening, perhaps a year. Why wasn’t I in New York City getting a leg up on my comedy career? Why was I wasting a summer in this pretty place made for young families and the nearly deceased? I should be using this current heartbreak to fuel my rampage of the city’s eligible dating pool. I made a plan to not come back the next year as I walked.

The flowers looked black against the moonlit surface of the lake. The cackling silhouettes of carefree teens getting drunk by the bell tower seemed like wraiths. I went home where she was waiting for me on the porch. I got some more details I didn’t want, and then we made up and dated for two more years.

Read the rest here.

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Women Professional Workers: A Study Made for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (1921) by Elizabeth Kemper Adams for the Chautauqua Home Reading Service

"A Guide-book to Professional Opportunities"

This book has been highly recommended especially by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and the Women's Education and Industrial Union of Massachusetts and is needed by every woman going into business or who has gone into business or wants to get somewhere in business or the professions. It covers a wide field of occupations, giving the special qualities required for each particular work, success and limitations even to amounts of salary received. The author is Elizabeth Kemper Adams, formerly Professor of Education at Smith College, and at the present time Educational Director of the Girls Scout movement. Experience proves that the man or woman who has a well trained mind has a tremendous advantage and any woman who will spend twenty minutes a day reading books such as this will enrich her mind, broaden her vision and receive big dividends in character development. This book points the way to success in business and society.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

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We gaze with perplexity at the highest part of the spiral of force that governs the Universe. And we call it God.

We could give it any other name: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Total Light, Matter, Spirit, Supreme Hope, Supreme Despair, Silence. But we call it God, because only this name – for some mysterious reason – is capable of making our heart tremble with vigor.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

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