Attica Chautauqua Opens Seventh Annual Run
The Attica Merchants association extends a warm welcome as Attica prepares for the seventh annual chautauqua. The piece celebrates past growth from a tent to a pavilion, praises educational and cultural aims, notes free car and auto services, and emphasizes community benefit over profit. Mayor Will E. Reed and Supt. A. S. Peacock are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Miller
Attica Merchants Association
Attica
Ravine Park
A. P. Green
Attica Chautauqua
A. S. Peacock
A Glimpse Into the Possible Future Of The Attica Chautauqua
The Attica chautauqua should be guided by education and cultural uplift not entertainment for now. Proponents argue lasting benefits depend on broad access to lectures music and art and on community support through a steady expansion of programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attica
Fletcher
Simms
Hopkins
Kern
Pickett
Read
Fisher
Vardaman
the Gales
Lockwood
Lamkin
Indiana
Attica Chautauqua Story Highlights Enduring Local Tune
A retrospective on Attica Indiana’s Chautauqua origins from 1906. Promoter W. A Miller led fundraising, staging a 10 day tent program with Richard P. Hobson as star. By 1909 A. S. Peacock took over and the annual event grew into a permanent pavilion amid strong local support and financial stability. Theodore Roosevelt praised Chautauqua as distinctly American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Attica
Richard P. Hobson
Mr. Miller
Chautauqua Week Program Opens With Lectures and Concerts
The 1913 Assembly week runs August 15 to 24 with daily lectures by professors and authors, concerts by Chicago Ladies Orchestra, Innes Orch. Band, Schildkret Orchestra, and Hruby Family Orchestra, plus sermons by Dr. Simms and Dr. Lockwood. Notable speakers include Prof. Lockwood Cyril Hopkins and Mrs. LaSalle Corbell Pickett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Ladies Orchestra
Innes Orchestral Band of
New York
Innes Orchestral Band
P. Marion Simms
Frank C. Lockwood
Cyril G. Hopkins
University of Illinois
Nina B. Lamkin
0. J. Kern
Prof. Lockwood
Schildkrei Orchestra
Schildkret Orchestra
Prof
Lockwood
Frank. C. Lockwood
Hruby Orchestra
Hruby Family Orchestra
United States
James G. Vardaman
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Ole
Eed
The
Attica Chautauqua Assembly
John Gass
Attley
Innes Band
Opie
Will EB. Reed
Lyceum
Merchants Association
Peacock
Ledger Press
Ross Brothers
Ledger-Press
Theodore Roosevelt
L. Miller
Bloomington
America
Thomas Brooks Fletcher
Jesse Pugh Company
Chautauqua
Byron
Lim Jacklin
Opie Read
International Operatic Company
Tennyson
Emerson
Das Garten Spiel
Albert Gale
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