By Michele Smith
The Times
Michele Smith: Life in Dayton
Chautauqua, an Experience to Remember
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Visitors from the New Old Time Chautauqua, along with many local community members, marched in the Chautauqua Parade on July 19 along 2nd and 3rd streets in Dayton.
There was something for all when more than 60 volunteers from the New Old Time Chautauqua came to Columbia County last week.
From the community potluck at the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park on Monday night, to the parade and the workshops in the Dayton city park on Tuesday, and to the vaudeville-style program in the Dayton High School auditorium on Tuesday night, the community was engaged in a way it has not been since the last Chautauqua came to Dayton in 1929.
On Tuesday, during the day, I attended a lecture on one Japanese-American family's experience during World War II, when the fam...
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