Over the weekend we attended The Seattle Moisture
Festival, a Vaudeville style Chautauqua that comes
to town for three weeks per year.
Briefly, a Chautauqua is a community-based, cultural and
social movement that started in the 1870's and flourished
in America until the mid 1920's. Think circus but without
animals. Jugglers, singers, performance artists, aerialists...
It was RAD to be entertained by people rather than computer
generated, advertising laced, poorly written garbage.
Learn more here and go out of your way to see something
similar: http://www.moisturefestival.com/
As Teddy Roosevelt put it, Chautaquas are "the most American
thing in America."
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