September 1, 2006

Chautauqua Summers: Changeless and Changing

By CARLIN ROMANO

Unique educational institutions? A dime a dozen in the Internet age. Just read university brochures or distance-learning hype. Then there's Chautauqua, 132 years young and utterly singular.

It's a storied resort on 750 acres along Chautauqua Lake in western New York — two golf courses, hundreds of berths for boats, three beaches, multiple tennis courts — but also a residential community with some 1,200 properties, its own police force, post office, and an