Underwater artifact hunter Patrick Whitton, has been scouring the bottom of Chautauqua Lake and has retrieved a number of items from earlier years. Can you identify what they are? Come to the Oliver Archives Center (corner of South and Massey Avenues) between 10 AM and 3 PM, Monday through Friday, to view these treasures and...
Conrad Tucker is an Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering, and CyLab security and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on employing machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to predictively improve the design and output of engineered systems. He...
Play CHQ invites families to explore together through games, crafts, STEM activities and more throughout the 2024 season. You can join the fun at pop-up locations across the grounds! In case of inclement weather, all Play CHQ events will be held at Sheldon Hall of Education, Room 202
Heather Holm is a pollinator conservationist and award-winning author of four books: Pollinators of Native Plants (2014), Bees (2017), Wasps (2021), and Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States (2022)
Garden Room Time Conflict
Theraveda Buddhism-Mindfulness Meditation
Miller Cottage Tours: Join Clara Miller for a 30-minute tour of the first floor of the historic Miller-Edison Cottage. The cottage was built in 1875 for the co-founder and first president of the Institution, Lewis Miller, an inventor and businessman from Akron, Ohio. President Ulysses S. Grant visited the property that year. Miller’s daughter, Mina,...
Margarita Simon Guillory is an Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Boston University. She is the inaugural Associate Director of digital humanities housed in the Boston University Center for the Humanities. Her publications include Social and Spiritual Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches (Routledge 2018) and co-editor of Esotericism in African American...
Social hour at the Baptist House, Catholic House, Christian Church, Everett Jewish Life Center, Episcopal Cottage, Lutheran House, Unitarian House and United Methodist House
Family Life and Women
As part of the Oliver Archives Center’s 2024 Heritage Lecture Series celebrating Chautauqua’s history and its 150th anniversary, Patrick Whitton will present "Sunken Treasures of Chautauqua Lake." Since 2019, metal detecting hobbyist Patrick Whitton has been making and posting videos to his YouTube channel “Amphibious Detecting.” The channel, which now boasts more than 200 videos;...