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Delaware's 24th Annual Chautauqua Tent Show
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 39.660231, -75.563289
The Green behind the Courthouse Museum
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A unique mixture of education and entertainment, the Chautauqua event will be held under a large tent and will feature theater, music, dance, film, visual arts, lectures and more.
Highlights of the event include actor-historians from the American Historical Theatre portraying Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Ichabod Crane.
Chautauqua takes its name from a series of adult education programs first held at Lake Chautauqua, N.Y. during the late 19th century. Chautauquas spread throughout America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries bringing speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day to a wide cross-section of the nation’s rural and small-town population. Circuit Chautauquas (also known as Tent Chautauquas) would be presented in tents pitched in a field near town. After several days, the Chautauqua would fold its tents and move on to the next community.
Reborn in the 1970s as a vehicle for humanities education, modern Chautauquas are organized around a core program in which re-enactors take on the persona of celebrated historical figures, speaking and interacting with audiences. The 2022 Delaware Chautauqua is co-sponsored by Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs and the New Castle Historical Society. Partial funding is provided by Delaware Humanities.
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