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The Chautauquan Daily Winners of Carnegie Mellon’s MLK Awards visit Chautauqua with Daniels, Page 3 The Chautauquan Daily www.chqdaily.com Seventy-Five Cents The Offi cial Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Thursday, June 26, 2014 Design Editors Chautauqua, New York Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 5 Rosenblatt, Feiffer to talk creativity, learning with age KELSEY HUSNICK Staff Writer At the age of 85, Jules Feiff er is busy. He’s writing children’s books, a Broadway produc- tion adapted from his fi rst novel, The Man in the Ceiling, a re- vival of one of his old FEIFFER plays, and a sequel for a graphic novel that hasn’t even been released yet. He’s baffl ed by ‘True Detective’ the idea of retire- ment, he said. What else would he do Rosenblatt returns with his time? He doesn’t like golf. Feiff er will speak to discuss memoir at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater ROSENBLATT RYAN PAIT with Roger Rosen- Staff Writer blatt as part of Week One’s morning lecture series, “Roger Rosen- blatt and Friends.” The two have known one In the HBO series “True Detective,” Mat- another for more than 25 years, and even thew McConaughey’s character Rust Cohle though this was Feiff er’s second invitation muses that “this is a world where nothing to Chautauqua from Rosenblatt, it will be his is solved.” fi rst time on the grounds. Last-minute plane “Someone once told me, ‘Time is a fl at issues canceled his planned morning lecture circle,’” Cohle said. “Everything we’ve ever with Rosenblatt two years ago. done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.” The Chautauquan Daily What the Pulitzer Prize-winning car- Thinking toonist and writer said he’s discovered Roger Rosenblatt is not Rust Cohle, but is that he’s gotten better with age. Feiff er the two share a trait in common: they’re wanted to be a realist or adventure strip fi ctional detectives with unconventional no- cartoonist when he fi rst started in his early tions of time. And for not being Rust Cohle, 20s. Unfortunately, he couldn’t grasp the Rosenblatt can sound an awful lot like him. “This idea of the three tenses in which www.chqdaily.com | Chautauqua, New York style and, after various attempts and fail- ures, dubbed it a lost cause. green we live [past, present, future] acting simul- More than 60 years later, Feiff er got the taneously goes along with the idea that time idea to write Kill My Mother, the graphic novel really has no meaning,” Rosenblatt said. that will be released in August. Chautauqua Dance Salon debuts “Time was just invented to prevent things from happening all at once.” See FEIFFER, Page 4 interpretive, environmental In addition to being a detective, Rosen- blatt is also a well-known author. He uses the “time is a fl at circle” approach in his memoir conservation-themed pieces The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood, in SPONG CONTINUES which he recounts and revisits the days of his WEEKLONG SERIES CORTNEY LINNECKE youth in the city. Rosenblatt will discuss his Staff Writer memoir, the Chautauqua Literary and Sci- entifi c Circle selection for Week One, at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy. Rosenblatt has become a favorite in Chau- nce upon a time, tauqua. First speaking here in 1985, he has there was a woman appeared on various platforms more than 20 times. Owho lived in a tree. “Chautauqua’s pretty much sick of me, She made her home high and I don’t blame them,” he said, laughing. “But I really love doing this.” “The internship at Chautauqua was valuable because of the opportunity and openness that was in the leafy canopy for two Rosenblatt’s book is devoid of chapters years, refusing to leave its and headings. The only separations are the branches out of fear that the small segments that he uses to tell his story. “I let each of these segments function as tree would be cut down. a poem on its own, and hope that the ag- This story is no fairytale. It gregation of them will give the eff ect of the book,” Rosenblatt said. He fl its between the is the true story of Julia “But- past, present and future, letting his writing terfl y” Hill, an environmental do the work for him. encouraged and expected in sharing one’s work. Sharing ideas with other designers, photographers, activist who lived in a Califor- As he said, time does not matter. The Boy nia Redwood tree to save it from Detective not only shows the readers the boy that Rosenblatt once was — it also shows being cut down for lumber. readers the man he is now and the man he It is also the story which might become. served as creative inspiration Rosenblatt acknowledged that we live in for choreographer Sasha Janes’ a constant stream of consciousness. “Things do happen all at once,” he said. AMANDA MAINGUY | Staff Photographer dance, “Tree Hugger,” one of John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal bishop of “You and I are talking now, but you’re re- six ballet pieces that will be membering something that happened years Newark, gives the fourth of ve lectures during writers and editors is something that has proven invaluable at my job.” his weeklong residency at 2 p.m. today in the Hall performed tonight at the annual ago, and you’re anticipating something of Philosophy. His topic is “The Mother of Jesus: Chautauqua Dance Salon at 8:15 you’re going to do later today. And we all do this. So the idea of time, in a memoir particu- A Symbol of Judaism.” In case of rain, the lecture PETER ZAY | Provided Photo p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater. will be simulcast inside the Hall of Christ. Above, larly, is unimportant, which is why I’ve kind Spong delivers his Wednesday talk. Coverage of of invented this form of writing a memoir See DANCE, Page 5 his Tuesday program, titled “The Fourth Gospel’s where I just go from section to section and I Way of Warning Us Against a Literal Reading,” pick my spots.” appears on Page 9 of this issue. See CLSC, Page 4 —Sam Twarek OPERA PHILANTHROPY COMMUNITY THEATER Kick-Off A lasting breakfast mark Setting the No one stage goes alone Chautauqua Helen Temple Fund hosts Logan featured ‘Raisin’ Young Artists celebration rst in new continues debut with of beginning Daily series on conversation Associate art director, Cleveland Magazine songs about to fundraising Chautauqua on race at adventure season women Chautauqua Page 2 Page 3 Page 6 Page 11 HIGH 74° LOW 56° HIGH 77° LOW 58° HIGH 83° LOW 64° TODAY’S WEATHER Rain: 20% FRIDAY Rain: 0% SATURDAY Rain: 10% Sunset: 8:59 p.m. Sunrise: 5:44 a.m. Sunset: 8:59 p.m. Sunrise: 5:44 a.m. Sunset: 8:59 p.m. The Daily’s website has been completely updated with a responsive design for enhanced viewing on all screen sizes, plus bigger photos and videos — check it out! www.chqdaily.com 2010 Chautauquan Daily design editor Final Edition, August 23 & 24, 2014 The Chautauquan Daily · www.chqdaily.com Page C1 The Chautauquan Daily, official newspaper of the Chautauqua Institution, seeks news design interns for the 2015 summer season. The internship runs from June 16 to SUBAGH SINGH KHALSA RACHAEL LE GOUBIN | Staff Photographer A Photo & Video Project by MATT BURKHARTT & RACHAEL LE GOUBIN | Staff Photographers Words by MATT BURKHARTT | Staff Photographer Aug. 28. to an outsider is a daunting, if not futile, undertaking — but it means something deeply WARREN HICKMAN MATT BURKHARTT | Staff Photographer personal to the Chautauquans who have been returning for decades. “THERE’S THIS INTENSITY Some Chautauquans will remember the ambiance of Bestor Plaza; every summer for 86 years, is en- OF THE PLACE THAT IS others will remember the sound of the rhythmic tide, or the music amored with the peaceful environ- of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra that carries down the brick ment of Chautauqua Institution. WONDERFUL, BUT IS GREAT walk. When Warren Hickman, 93, leaves Chautauqua, he remembers “What you really want is that his wife, Jane, who passed away in 1989 from melanoma. They met on feeling of peace inside yourself, TO GET AWAY FROM. ONE the second fl oor of what is now the Pier Club the summer after Hick- and you get it here,” he said. OF MY MEMORIES IS THAT Four design interns will be hired. Working together, they will be responsible for man returned from World War II. Ted Goldsborough, 75, has been “On the second fl oor there was coming to Chautauqua every sum- ANNUAL ‘AH! PHEW!’ IT’S A GOOD, SPECIAL only one person; we were eventu- mer since he was a child and is a ally married, and I had the most third-generation Chautauquan, WE MADE IT. TIME OF YEAR THAT wonderful wife,” Hickman said preceded by his mother, who was as a wide, boyish grin stretched born in 1910, and his grandmother, WE ARE REALLY TOGETHER across his face turning his baby who was born in the 1870s. —Subagh Singh Khalsa blue eyes into dark crescents. You may have seen him riding his WHEN WE’RE HERE.” Hickman, an usher at the Am- bicycle sporting his bike gloves, suspenders and laboratory goggles —Len Katz phitheater who has been coming strapped over his glasses, but chances are you’ll fi nd him seated by designing a 12–32 page broadsheet newspaper six days per week for nine the shoreline at Miller Bell Tower, staring pensively into the horizon.
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