I’ve not always had a penchant for being the most festive during the the holiday season — or even as grateful as I could be. For a number of years, life seemed to be passing me by one day at a time; drawing me onward in a state of perpetual wandering and wondering of what was in store for ...

The 2017 popular entertainment schedule at Chautauqua Institution is beginning to take shape. It was announced by the institution last week that soul superstar Aretha Franklin and American icons The Beach Boys will provide bookend performances to open and close the Saturday music series at ...

My parents Raymond and Barbara Johnson fell in love in the late 1930s, at Lake Erie State Park where they spent so many days of laughter and light. I still have the photographs of mother in her gingham checked shorts with her hair pulled back in a scarf. Dad looks movie-star-handsome. ...

Recently I attended a Land Trust Alliance conference in Minneapolis, Minn. The main focus of the conference was on land conservation. Since I do a lot of public outreach and environmental education for the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, I tried to seek out seminars on those subjects at the ...

With more and more retail businesses opening on Thanksgiving Day, it is refreshing to hear of a family that won’t let pre-Black Friday sales get in the way of a tradition that has taken place over 70 years. Between 40 and 90 Werner Family descendents gather every year on Thanksgiving Day ...

Aluminum Christmas trees, moon and star themed Christmas tree bulbs, odd shaped Christmas tree bulbs, bubble lights, all are from the space age. What do you remember from that time period? What excited you about the space race? This year’s 38th annual holiday exhibit, Space Age Christmas, ...