On 2007-05-24 14:56:34 -0400, Brian K said:
> On 5/24/2007 8:46 AM sechumlib exclaimed:
>> On 2007-05-24 03:24:01 -0400, Patty Winter (patty1@wintertime.com) said:
>>
>>> In article <7Ea5i.18527$3P3.12411@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
>>> Brian K wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> What is the Chautauqua Institute? Is it one of those fancy drug rehabs
>>>> for rich folk? Just wondering...
>>>
>>> Heavens, no! Perhaps you've already taken a moment to look it up
>>> yourself, but in case not, It's a 100-year-plus-old center for
>>> the education of body and mind. Around the turn of the century
>>> (the previous one), chautauquas were a *huge* pheonomenon
>>> across the country, with thousands and thousands of people
>>> attending lectures, concerts, etc. Read up on it sometime;
>>> it's interesting. Besides the original center in NY, there's
>>> also still a chautauqua organization in Boulder, Colorado.
>>
>> Known for classical music and other fine arts, accompanied by the
>> Christian religion in LARGE doses.
>>
> So then it is a rehab, just not a drug rehab. ;-)
Well, if you're a secular humanist as I am you don't think of it as
rehab. More like recidivism.
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