Definition of "Chautauqua" (historical) A kind of travelling tent -show which used to move across America featuring popular talks . quotations
Quotations What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua that 's the only name I can think of for it—like the traveling tent -show Chautauquas that used to move across America , this America , the one that we are now in , an old -time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain , improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer .
1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 1, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, part I, page 15