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Book Review
| The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas. By James R. Schultz. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xiv, 185 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1440-1.)
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| In the early twentieth century, traveling chautauqua assemblies brought a mix of education and entertainment to as many as ten thousand communities annually throughout the United States. This phenomenon, which played an important part in the lives of so many people, has received strangely little attention from historians. In The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas, James R. Schultz seeks to recapture something of what chautauqua meant to its participantsentertainers, staff, and audiences. |
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