The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas

Author: James R. Schultz
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0826214401

The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas

AIn The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas, James Schultz offers a unique pictorial study of a cultural movement that started in 1904 and spread across the country. Download The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. For almost thirty years, tent shows known as "chautauquas" brought popular education and entertainment to small towns in America from coast to coast. With more than one hundred photographs and other illustrations from the era, the book presents a captivating overview of the tent chautauqua movement from its inception to its demise in 1932.These traveling chautauquas-which were an outgrowth of the lyceum movement-evolved in the early part of the twentieth century. Keith Vawter, owner of the Chicago branch of the Redpath Lyceum, came up with an idea that would bring to Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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