The adventure begins!

This summer, I am spending three months visiting fourteen different sites to research permanent chautauquas. On this blog, you'll be able to track my movements, learn about where I'm visiting, and get my thoughts as I go. (It will also force me to write as I'm traveling -- so it's as much for me as it is for anyone else reading it). I'm scheduled to visit the following chautauquas: Colorado Chautauqua (Boulder, CO), Bay View Association (MI), Epworth Assembly (Ludington, MI), Ocean Park (ME), Ocean Grove (NJ), Mount Gretna (PA), Monteagle Sunday School Assembly (TN), Fountain Park Chautauqua (Remington, IN), Winona Lake (formerly a chautauqua, in IN), New Piasa Chautauqua (IL), Lakeside (OH), and Chautauqua (NY). To end it, I'll visit Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association (MA). A whirlwind summer, but significantly easier than circuit chautauqua performers' schedules. I don't have to go by train (sometimes freight trains!) to a different place every night. Very excited for the research, to see these amazing communities in person, and to reconnect with friends I have met throughout the Chautauqua Network.