LIVABLE COMMUNITIES.........OF COURSE, CHAUTAUQUA!

When we talk about livable habitats we always think of one of the best small towns in America, Chautauqua (facts are facts).  Of course our UM House is situated in that utopian plot and thus, the tranquility and beauty therein.

Our chaplain this past and final week of the '15 Season was Sue Hutchins:

And her sister Cindy Long

Other guests at the House:

Regulars

Active

Sincere

Mother and Daughter

Pastor and Spouse

 Activities for the week:

Wynton at work

Tea?

Ladies of Clarence 

Zonta and Dick on piano

Retiring after 29 years at Missionary House

Another great year at the UM House and we are left wondering about this:

See you on the porch in 2016!

CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.........BUT NOT AT 14 PRATT AVE.

Much has been said at Chautauqua about the turmoil in the Middle East but never have we heard a disparaging word about the peace and tranquility on the UM House porch.  The theme of love and helping humanity, as presented by our chaplain Dave Harris, was a welcoming addition to the gloom of the Middle East.

Dave and Penny

Guests at our house this past week:

Shuffling off to ...........

A good man

Newly weds 

Good friends

Our house is in Kansas Dorothy!

Activities during the week:

Anna and Celia perform

Pittsburgh stringers

We wish them well

La Grand Isle ladies

Porch friends

Porch buddies

We end this week of Middle East dialogue with an appropriate place, the Dead Sea:

AND THEY CAME TO SEE ......... ANTHONY DOERR!

All the Light We Can Not See is one of the most talked about books of this past year and talk they did.  And talk they did on our porch about this and many other interesting topics.  Our visitors this past week were informed and entertaining as personified by our chaplain Alan Benson and his wife Kit.

Music, music, music

Other 'interesting guests' in our House:

Sister and husband

Sister and husband

Parents .......

And child and spouse

Texas friends

More Texas friends

 Activities during the week:

Youth Ice Cream Social

The Ladies from NORTH Tonowanda

Yarn and more ..........Knitting for Peace

Copy of Zion's Harp 

Return of Susan

And this is why we do what we do:

VANISHING, VANISHING, vanishing, vanishing ................

Vanishing ideas, languages, people, and things; such was the theme for the week at the Amp. at Chautauqua.  However, the tradition of Old First Night and the CLSC Recognition Day continued as it has for over a 100 years and the return of the Beach Boys concluded a great week.

Our chaplain for the week was Rev. Angela Gay Kinkead.  Angela Gay led us through a week of porch and parlor talks that generated an attitude of peace.

Angela Gay and Dolores

Our guests for the week:

O-hi-O

Picksburg

Mother-daughter

Annville neighbors

Friend of a flutist

Activities for the week:

Bookies

Tim the singer

Ladies from ice box Kane

Susan serenades

Tea and such

Only at Chautauqua would this scene exist: