Five historic homes will be the setting for an Architectural Institute tour and will feature craftsmen as well as folk Victorian styles. Herald Most folks can't say it. Most folks have trouble spelling it.
Most folks have no idea what it means.
Chautauqua, a word of Native American origin, is an educational and recreational assembly. For more than a century, the Chautauqua Institution had been held in New York. Today, it continues for nine weeks in the summer. DeFuniak Springs, home to the Florida Chautauqua since the 1800s, remains a small, northwest Florida town nestled halfway between beaches and the state's piney woods that hug the Alabama border. The town first hosted the event in 1885 when wintering New Yorkers decided to bring the Chautauqua to the small town with them.