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Just outside of Newark, New Jersey, Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz leads the Con-gregation B’nai Jeshurun as their senior rabbi. But he also takes part in a congregation of another sort.

Gewirtz is one of the leaders of the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace, an orga-nization that formed from Gewirtz’s connection with the local Episcopal Bishop and one of New Jersey’s leading imams.

Gewirtz will discuss the impact such interfaith work can have on religious vio-lence in a talk titled “Personal, Not Pri-vate: Making Religion Healthy” at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.

Although the coalition works to bring people together toward a common goal, it is not meant to erase their differences, Gewirtz said.

“When people think they have a mo-nopoly on what God’s truth is, that’s a danger sign,” Gewirtz said. “And I think if people are willing to understand [oth-er’s] truth as different than theirs and that it may not be what they subscribe to, but it leads to the same end, then that is a healthy sense of religion.”

From the beginning, the coalition strove to discourage such monopolization by agreeing not to prosthelytize to one another’s congregations and respect each other’s lifestyle restrictions. With this re-spect established, the coalition used their faiths’ shared ideas to help reduce gang violence and drug use and to encourage employment and education in Newark.

“Being with people who are in some cases very different than we are and to work through our universal messages [al-lowed us to] help make the world a better place,” Gewirtz said.

One of the coalition’s biggest challeng-es has been accomplishing its goals with-out removing the support networks gangs and other organizations often provide, Gewirtz said.

“I am vehemently against Hamas, but you look at Hamas closely, something like 10 percent represents military [operations] which do horrific things, and the other 90 percent of it provides food and social services and education for kids,” he said. “So when you get rid of one, how do you make sure the other is provided? You can say the same thing for the Bloods and the Crips. Once you get rid of that network, then where do all these people go that

KArA TAylorStaff Writer

Contrary to the common ex-pression, money actually can buy happiness.

Michael Norton, the co-author of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending and professor of business administration in the marketing unit of Harvard Business School, will explain how spending money in the right way can result in hap-piness at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater.

Norton’s book includes five

principles to lead people toward fi-nancial stability and assisting com-panies in creating happier employ-ees and customers. Norton’s field of research involves the psychology of

investment and the effects social factors and norms have on individ-uals’ attitudes and behaviors.

Dan Ariely, best-selling author and James B. Duke Professor of psy-chology and behavioral economics

at Duke University, said Norton will discuss why people think money buys happiness and why it doesn’t buy as much happiness as they think.

Ariely said findings show being poor is terrible and having some money is good, but for people earn-ing $70,000 to $80,000 a year, the re-turn on happiness is not that high.

“People think, ‘If I get more money, then I will be happier,’ ” Ariely said. “Turns out this is not really the case. I would say part of the issue is what kind of things in life we think bring us happiness,

and what kind of things actually end up bringing us happiness.”

Along with debunking the myth that money does not equal happi-ness, Norton will discuss giving money, but in the right way.

“Another big point of the lecture has to do with the realm of giv-ing,” Ariely said. “We all give some money away to charity, but there are different ways of giving money wisely.”

Norton led a lecture on TED Talks titled “How to Buy Happiness,” which aired in November 2011. He referred to a CNN article that dis-

cussed a study on people winning the lottery. He said people think life is going to be amazing once they win the lottery, but two things can happen. One, people spend all the money and go into debt. Two, every-one they know asks them for money.

This ruins relationships, so people end up with more debt and worse relationships than before they won, he said.

“People tend to spend money selfishly, but what would hap-pened if you were more prosocial with money?” Norton said. “Would they be happier?”

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john fordStaff Writer

The Amphitheater Ball is back in full swing.

The popular Institution tradition re-turns at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amp with music by the Ladies First Big Band and dancing by Chautauquans of all ages. Coordinators will remove the Amp’s lower bowl pews to create a dance floor.

But there’s more. In a new twist this year, Chautauquans Dianna Ploof, her husband Ben Harden and their son Adam will offer a free, 45-minute group swing dance lesson prior to the ball for everyone who wants to sharpen their skills. The lesson will start at 7:15 p.m. in Smith Wilkes Hall. In addition, the Hardens and Ploof will offer a 15-min-ute refresher during the concert’s inter-mission.

Chautauqua’s School of Dance stu-dents will also make an appearance at the event.

Chautauquans who attended the Amp Ball last year will recall that the concert was enlivened by the spontane-ous appearance of the young dancers. Tonight, dance students have been in-vited to join with their fellow Chautau-quan terpsichores, encouraging every-one to get involved in the merriment.

After the beginning of the season, Associate Director of Programming Deborah Sunya Moore made arrange-ments for linking the concert, the dance

instructors and the young dancers on the fly.

“It’s a good example of matching re-sources and programs to produce what should be a memorable night of fun,” Sunya Moore said. “We’re very pleased to be able to facilitate this, and look for-ward to greater similar collaborations in the future.”

The Ladies First Big Band is no stranger to the Amp stage: Tonight’s concert will mark the 16-piece, all-women ensemble’s third appearance at Chautauqua in the past four seasons. Band founder and bassist Jennifer May said she and three friends founded the Ladies Big Band in 2001 in Buffalo; their first concert was to honor Women’s His-tory Month the following year.

“We all love coming to Chautau-qua,” May said. “The Amphitheater stage might be our favorite venue.”

May has sent the band’s set list to Ploof and Harden so they can tailor their dance instruction to tonight’s mu-sic.

“We’re going to play some swing classics from the big bands of the 1940s and 1950s,” May said. “But there will be songs from many others, ranging from Sinatra to Bruno Mars. As they say, we aim to please all ages.”

Last year, charm and cuteness broke out all over the dance floor as grand-parents danced with grandchildren, couples moved gracefully, and the dance students wove among those in attendance.

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Abe KenmoreStaff Writer

Circles. Squares. The most basic figures in art, they rarely make solo appearances in galleries; however, a new exhibit, “The Circle/Square Game,” is opening today at the Strohl Art Center to celebrate these two basic shapes. The debut also features a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. today at Strohl.

“Sometimes I just see one thing that sparks a show,” said Judy Barie, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution galleries director.

In this case, it was the artwork of Rose-marie Fiore, who used firework smoke to color paper and then collage it in circles. While debating other artists to include, Barie thought the circles could be a com-mon link between artists. The squares would be a nice complement, she said.

This show also provides a counterpoint to last year’s exhibit, which was devoted to surfaces and textures. Barie described that show as quiet.

“I didn’t want to do that again,” she said. “I wanted something that was bold and flashy.”

One particularly bold series of sculp-tures is made from old metal measuring tapes. The sculptor, Tim Yankosky, is no stranger to using basic forms in his work.

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Chautauquans dance the night away at the 2014 Amp Ball with the Ladies First Big Band.

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‘Judaism and Dishonesty’ discussionDan Ariely and Yael Melamede lead a discussion about

“Judaism and Dishonesty” at 12:15 p.m. today at the Ever-ett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua. This program was listed incorrectly in Tuesday’s “Interfaith News” column. The program is further conversation about Melamede’s film “(Dis)honesty,” which was shown Tuesday and again at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Chautauqua Cinema.

School of Music eventsAt 4 p.m. today, Jon Nakamatsu hosts a piano master

class in the Sherwood-Marsh Studios. Suggested fee of $5.Performances of Ariodante by Handel are 7:30 p.m. to-

day, Thursday and Friday in Fletcher Music Hall. Benefits the Chautauqua Women’s Club Scholarship Fund.

CLSC Alumni Association newsThe CLSC Class of 2015 will hold a meeting today at

9:30 a.m. in the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall to make plans for graduation on Aug. 5.

The CLSC Class of 2009 will hold a social from 4 to 5 p.m. today on the porch of the St. Elmo.

The CLSC Eventide Travel Series — “Emails from Mex-ico,” by Norman Karp — is 6:45 p.m. tonight in the Hall of Christ.

Chautauqua Women’s Club newsCWC’s Artists at the Market is open from 1 to 4 p.m.

every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoon from at the Farmers Market.

CWC’s Girls’ Morning Out is held weekly from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesdays.

CWC offers the house porch for informal conversa-tion in Swedish, French and Spanish at 1:15 p.m. every Wednesday.

CWC Flea Boutique is now open from noon to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays behind the Colonnade.

CWC will hold its annual Life Member Luncheon and Fashion Show at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the CWC House. Life members can make reservations by calling 716-357-4961.

Writing contestsSubmit poetry or prose by Aug. 17 to the contests spon-

sored by the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends. Prizes are awarded in the adult, teen and younger writer categories. Entry forms are available at the Smith Memorial Library, the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, the CLSC Veran-da, and at ciweb.org/literary-arts/literary-arts-friends. Please direct any questions to [email protected] or 240-485-7233.

Recreation newsTeam tennis is from 7:45 a.m. to noon Saturday. Sign up

to enter by the end of the day at the Tennis Center or call 357-6276. Entries limited to 32 players.

The Chautauqua Sailing Department, located at the John R. Turney Sailing Center, offers a curriculum of one-week sailing courses. Private lessons and sailboat rentals are also available. Call at 716-357-6392.

Chautauqua sweetsLemon tarts, chocolate surprises and summer pudding.

To order for delivery call 716-357-6404 or 716-357-3449. All the money raised goes to the Chautauqua Fund.

Chautauqua open housesPick up a list of properties for rent at the Visitors Center.

Finance seminarAlan Greenberg will offer a free seminar on “How to

Position Your Portfolio in a Rising Interest Rate Environ-ment” at 1:45 p.m. today in Smith Memorial Library.

AA/Al-Anon MeetingBegins at 12:30 p.m. today in the Hurlbut Church Parlor.

Bird, Tree & Garden ClubCaroline Bissell will hold a bat chat at 4:15 p.m. today in

Smith Wilkes Hall. All ages are welcome.Jack Gulvin will lead a nature walk on at 9 a.m. Thurs-

day. Meet at the back of Smith Wilkes Hall.

Tech Rehearsal “Sneak Peek” for Intimate ApparelFriends of Chautauqua Theater are invited to 45-minute

segments at 1, 1:45, or 2:30 p.m. today. Meet at the Brat-ton Theater entry door and be escorted to the back of the house. Memberships are $10 and are available at the door.

Science Circle newsThe CLSC Alumni Association Science Circle will host

“Failure IS an Option: Whatever Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong — And What to Do About It” by Bob Reiss at 9:15 a.m. today in the Hall of Christ.

The Science Circle will hold a Brown Bag on the Tues-day Science section of The New York Times at 12:15 p.m. Thursday upstairs in the Smith Memorial Library.

Intimate Apparel Brown BagAt 12:15 p.m. Thursday in Bratton Theater, get an inside

look at CTC’s upcoming production of Intimate Apparel. This week’s Brown Bag is titled, “Intimate Apparel: The Fin-ery of a Beautiful Play.”

Opera Young ArtistsJoin the Opera Young Artists at 4:15 p.m. Thursday for

a performance in the Hall of Christ. The singers and ac-companists will be focussing on music from World War I.

‘Chautauqua Love Stories’Did you meet your true love in Chautauqua? If so, two

Daily reporters want to hear your story. Contact Caitie Mc-Mekin or Colin Hanner at [email protected] or 716-357-6205 to share your Chautauqua love story.

GEORGIE SILVAROLEStaff Writer

Young readers who moon-light as young artists are en-couraged to come out of the woodwork today.

Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods and Neil Gaiman’s Hansel & Gretel, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti, are graph-ic novels that bring scary stories to life. Both books are Week Four’s Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Young Readers program se-lections, both of which tie

into the week’s theme, “Irra-tionality.”

The Young Readers pro-gram will take place at 4:15 p.m. today in the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Ballroom, where partici-pants can create their own graphic novel.

Matt Ewalt, associate di-rector of education and youth services, said both Gaiman’s Hansel & Gretel and Carroll’s Through the Woods illustrate how irrational it is to be at-tracted to things we’re scared of in the first place.

“We’re prompting a con-versation about why we’re so drawn to scary stories,” Ewalt said. “There’s a rela-tionship between images and words — at times, the words play a secondary role. Using the horror genre is a fun way to examine the choices that are made with very specific reactions in mind.”

Carroll achieves these specific reactions by us-ing her art to maintain a strained, restless narrative. She often cuts out finished artwork that she has made using ink, pencil or graphite, and Adobe Photoshop if they aren’t central to the “spine” of the story.

“I went to school for ani-mation, where they really drive home the idea that you can’t afford to become too precious with your drawings if they’re not working,” Car-roll said. “I think with this book, it was, in a large part, a learning experience — fig-uring out how to sustain the tension in a slightly longer work than usual, and even

just how to manage telling scary stories within the con-fines of a print comic.”

Ewalt said young read-ers participating in today’s program will have a chance to learn from digital com-munications manager Leslie Mathis, who is a gifted artist outside of her duties within Chautauqua Institution.

“Matt asked if I would help put on the program re-lating to design and illustra-tion,” Mathis said. “I’ve done illustration work before, and we’re going to talk about specific scary stories and what makes something look scary.”

Elements of design and illustration such as facial ex-pressions, large eyes, move-ment, sharp lines are tools artists use to convey an emotion, Mathis said. Hor-ror stories use these tools, in combination with words, to evoke a visceral response within a reader.

“You have to tell a story — eyes popping out of their head? It has an immediate impact. You know what your mood is supposed to be as a reader,” Mathis said. “You have to convey a point to someone that you want them to feel a certain way about something.”

Carroll’s work executes this idea in a frightening and incredible way, Ewalt said.

“What most impressed me were those moments where, clearly, Emily Carroll knew me so well. She knew what I would be expecting, where my eyes would be travel-ing in the page,” Ewalt said. “There is a kind of science to that as much as there is an art as well, and it takes an understanding of the kind of the kind of reaction you’ll have in a reader.”

Carroll said she uses color — red, most often — to make certain images stand out from the rest or to execute a dramatic moment.

“In [Through the Woods story] ‘His Face All Red,’ a panel suddenly expands and goes completely red to il-lustrate a gunshot,” Carroll said. “Often, I use a splash or change in color to illustrate noise, especially since I am

pretty sparing when it comes to writing out sound effects themselves.”

The layout of pages and the flow of a story can also change how a reader inter-acts with the novel, she said. She hand-lettered the entire book, which took some time but allowed her to adapt to the mood she was pursuing on each page.

“Finding that harmony within the page as a whole — and then perhaps exploiting it by breaking the rhythm of the art — can affect the read-er, and result in a visual ten-sion that I feel is important for creepy stories.”

Mathis said after the ini-tial book discussion, partici-pants will choose their own scary fairy tale to illustrate. Major plot points will be divvied up, and young read-ers will have the chance to illustrate them. For the final project, each person’s contri-butions will come together.

“Graphic novels let you bend the rules, walk on the edge, explore ideas and con-cepts that aren’t necessarily mainstream,” Mathis said. “They’re a channel into a world of ideas that aren’t necessarily the norm.”

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The Chautauqua Property Owners Association will host their annual area picnics from 5:30 to 7 p.m. tonight across the grounds. The com-munity is invited to share in this evening of food and friendship with their area representatives. The CPOA provides a food or drink item for each area, and residents are encouraged to bring an item to share depending on the street they live on or their last name.

“The goal is community outreach and fellowship — a chance to meet new neigh-bors and reconnect with one another,” said Barbara Brady, vice president of the CPOA.

Area 1 & 2 (Combined):

Location: Miller Park, near Miller Cottage end of park

CPOA provides: sub sandwiches

What to bring: Dish to share; salads, desserts, own beverage, utensils, blanket or chairs

Area 3:

Location: south Lake at south Avenue, near Heinz Beach

CPOA provides: Fried chicken

What to bring: A-J: main course, K-P: salad/side, Q-Z: dessert

Area 4:

Location: BTG Arboretum CPOA provides: Paper

goods, utensils, drinksWhat to bring: Dish to

share: main, salad, dessert and own chair

Area 5 & 6 (Combined):

Location: Lincoln Park, Judson to Janes at Palestine

CPOA provides: Live music, burgers, hot dogs, soft drinks, plates, napkins, flatware

What to bring: Dish to share: salad, side, dessert, chips, pasta, etc.

Area 7

Location: elizabeth s. Lenna Hall, south side lawn

CPOA provides: Fried chicken and plates, etc.

What to bring: A-H: salad or fruit, I-O: vegetable or chips, P-Z: dessert

Area 8:

Location: The orchard between Harper and stoes-sel

CPOA provides: Beef on Weck and bottled water

What to bring: Plates, utensils, beverages, glass-es, chairs and tables; a dish to share: appetizer, salad, casserole, vegetable, or dessert

Area 9 & 10 (Combined)

Location: University Park at Andrews and Harris

CPOA provides: subs, pizza, fried chicken, plates, napkins, flatware

What to bring: A dish to share (depending on which street you live on)

Area 9 street assignments:Prospect, Maple, ever-

green, Oak: saladHazlett, Gebbie, elm,

north: dessertnorth Lake, Pratt, Hed-

ding, Cook, Woolsey: ap-petizer

Area 10 street assignments:Irving, Harris, Mc-

Clintock: saladscott, Root, Hurst: dessertForest, Wiley, north Lake:

appetizer

Kara TaylorStaff Writer

Denial may be perpetu-ating the social injustic-es seen in contemporary America.

“sometimes, denial is good,” said Christine Her-bes-sommers, executive pro-ducer of the film “American Denial.” “It helps you get through some things in life. In other areas — such as rac-ism, homophobia, sexism,

ageism and just in the real-ity of life — it is a very bad thing.”

The film “reveals that we are different people than we think we are,” she said.

“American Denial” will screen at 6 p.m. tonight in the Chautauqua Cinema as part of Chautauqua Institu-tion’s Meet the Filmmaker series.

The PBs documentary ex-plores the unconscious beliefs and feelings Americans have

about others and themselves.The idea of “American

Denial” was conceived five years ago, Herbes-sommers said.

The film follows a study conducted by swedish econ-omist and nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal.

Along with other team members and filmmakers, Herbes-sommers studied the denial, cognitive disso-nance and unconscious atti-tudes about how race affects

society.Herbes-sommers said

Myrdal’s question of how a society devoted to the Amer-ican creed of equality, justice and liberty tolerates a system in which a huge portion of its population is denied the privileges of that creed.

It was a key point that in-spired the film.

In his 1930s study of the Jim Crow south, Myrdal found many people believed that America afforded every-

one the same opportunity. so if a person does not

succeed, Herbes-sommers said, “something is wrong with you. And if you belong to a group that has not been able to succeed or gain access to the American Dream, then something is wrong with that group.”

Looking inward can cre-ate a greater degree of em-pathy for others and an understanding of the conse-quences of unconscious be-

liefs, she said. Americans talk a lot

about empathy and toler-ance, but Herbes-sommers said they have to do more than just tolerate and in-clude each other.

“One would hope that, by conquering our unconscious biases, we create both em-pathy for ourselves and our weakness and empathy for the victims of our bias,” she said.

Filmmaker Herbes-Sommers visits cinema to discuss denial in race issues

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JOSHUA BOUCHER | Staff PhotographerThe Rev. Frank M. Reid III shared his faith journey at the 5 p.m. Vespers Sunday in the Hall of Philosophy. “If I have one testimony, I know that the Lord will make a way somehow. There are three Scriptures that guide my life: Joshua 1:1-8, Romans 12:1-2 and Jeremiah 1:4-8. My mentor in preaching, Gardner Taylor, told me to, ‘Listen to your life.’ Wake up. The call comes when you listen to your life. Some of the books that have influenced me are the Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Escape from Freedom by Eric Frome and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse. And don’t hate me, but Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead. I have little use of intellectuals who talk back but put on a show and don’t change lives. A real teacher changes lives.” —Mary Lee Talbot


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may said the Ladies first Big Band is one of less than adozenall-femalegroupsofits size in theUnitedStates.Most of the members areteachers, so their availability is limited to summer vaca-tion and weekends during the school year.

“We usually can rehearse at least once a week,” may said. “It’s really a labor of loveforustoperform.”

Ploof and Harden are familiar to many Chautau-quans from the swing andcha-cha lessons they have

offered as Special Studiescourses for the past four years. The couple began visiting Chautauqua 23 years ago, have been prop-erty owners on the grounds since 2010 and often visit off-season from their homein Pittsburgh.

“Dianna and I have been comingtoChautauquasincejust before our son was born,” Harden said. “We started out staying with friends up here. We de-veloped a family traditionof coming here over NewYear’s. We would especially look forward to toboggan-ing down University Hilltoward the lake.” The couple

metintheConnecticutRivervalley in central massachu-setts.

“I actually grew up in that area,” Ploof said. “I was a pre-med major in collegebut was drawn to assisting adults with developmentaldisabilities. I worked in vari-ousjobsinsocialandhumanservices.”Ploof worked full time

(and danced when she could) while earning her ed.D. at theUniversityofMassachu-settsAmherst.“Allmy life, Ihave loved

to dance,” she said. “my mother taughtme to dance,and to this day, when I dance I think of her.”

It was in Amherst thatPloofmetherhusband—ata dance club.Hardenremembers.“There was a reggae band

playing that night,” he said.growing up in glens

falls, new York, Harden en-joyed summers working onand around Lake george. He majored in natural scienceat Johns Hopkins Univer-sity, and while earning his bachelor of science, started working with children with developmentaldisabilities.Since1986,thecouplehas

lived in Pittsburgh. Harden is now a full professor on the research faculty at West-ern Psychiatric Institute and

Clinic after an earlier posi-tion at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Ploof is also on staff at Western Psychiatricintheprimarycareforchil-dren unit.

Dancing is a natural col-laborative release from thestress inherent in the cou-ple’s jobs.

“We have always enjoyed dancing,” Harden said. “neighbors in Pittsburgh danced in competitions andsort of mentored us. Thereis an athletic challenge to competitivedancingthatap-pealed to us, and we contin-ued with it. We took lessons frompros.”The twohavenevercom-

peted, but they still take lessons nearly every week, Ploof said. not to get too clinical, but “dancing helps with synapses,” she said.

In Ploof and Harden’s ex-perience, “everyone dances” across all generations.“It’s not a romance, look-

ing-for-a-date scene,” Ploof said. “People are there be-cause they share this passion for dancing. It’s a commonthing. Almost everyone re-memberswhentheywerebe-ginners, so people shouldn’t be concerned about being new.”

Staff writer Deborah Trefts contributed to this story.

“A lot ofmywork is cre-ated in circle and square form,”Yankoskysaid.“[Barie’s] challenge tome

forthisshowwasto,insomeof the works, to incorporate both the circle and square shapes.”

Yankosky acquires the metal measuring tapesthrough auctions and old tool collectors, then glues them onto a three-dimen-sional form before carefullynailingthemdownandseal-ing the entire sculpture.

“The challenge [with this

formofsculpture]waselim-inating the painting and to somehow use just the mea-suring tapes to tell the nar-rative,” Yankosky said. “I do miss the painting, but Icertainly love the challenges andproblem-solvingthatisrequired to create the cur-rent series.”

In contrast to Yankosky’s narrative-inspired pieces, featured artist macyn Bolt works in abstract, colorful paintings of intersecting planes. Bolt describes these as sculptural forms thatare in tension with the flatsurface on which they are painted.

“my interest in abstrac-

tion — and particularlygeometric abstraction — isbecause I feel they have an energy and presence,” Bolt said.

While Yankosky’s pieces have titles that allude to the idea he is trying to portray, Bolt’s works are largely un-titled.

“You’re not assigning any kindofmeaningtothework[if they don’t have titles],” Boltsaid.“Idon’twantthemto be restrictive.”Boltmightnottrytocon-

vey narrative, but he does find poetry, literature andespecially music inspiringfor his work.“Jazz artists fill up the

sound space of my studio,”he said.

Thelonious monk, in par-ticular, inspired him whilehe painted the works in “The Circle/Square Game,” buthe also finds inspiration incontemporary rock ’n’ rollandDJmusic.Boltisalsooneof the artists attending the opening.In addition to the fire-

work collages, metal tapemeasures and colorful ab-stractions, the opening will include found metal boxes,light up sculptures, ceramicvasesandmore.

“[It would] not be as inter-esting if they were all paint-ings,” Barie said.

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Equally important tothis belonging is interfaith understanding and com-munication across culturalgroups,Gewirtzsaid.“Thinkabouthowmany

Christians or Jews spend ev-erydaytimewithMuslims,and eatwithMuslims,”hesaid. “Yet there’s probably noonemorethatwecastas-persions on in this country. It’s a real problembecause[Muslims]probablyfeellikeit’s going to be a generation before they’re ever accepted asAmericans.”

Though the coalition hasseenapositive impactfrom their work, Gewirtz

said he does not foresee a future without religious violence. even so, he is not without hope.

“I don’t think that there’s an end to this violence be-cause human beings havebeenmanipulatedtoactincertain ways,” he said. “But I do think that if people can eat together, understand each other, listen to one another and work together, and all those people also have food on their tables and schools to go to and re-lationships that aremean-ingful, that people are go-ing to be a lot less willing to give their own lives in a battle that is philosophi-cal or theological in nature, because life right here is too good.”

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Chautauqua Conversationscolumn by john ford

John Dilley welcomed a visitor to the surprisingly capacious wrap-around porch on the house near the brick walk, where he spent summers as a young man and that for several recent seasons has served as his summer residence. He reflected on a long career in American missile defense research and development. He also dis-cussed some of the shifts in national strategic policy, which affected his work. Chautauqua Institution has always been in his life, now perhaps more than ever.

Tell me about your education and early experiences.

i was born in columbus, ohio, and started coming to chautauqua when i was 3 years old. this house has been in my family since 1926. i would come up every summer for at least a week and later, it was for all summer. i went to chil-dren’s School here, through Boys’ club, was a counselor there for two summers. That was actually my first job. It didn’t pay much, but it was a job, and I paid Social Security taxes on my earnings.

My next job was also here, working on the boat dock for five summers. It may have been the best job I ever had, just because of the camaraderie and working with the customers. One of the things I learned there was to do the best job you can, and to be customer-focused. that was a lifelong lesson.

As i said, i grew up in columbus. i went to ohio State, but before that, i had thought about other possibilities. oSu was right down the street, and that’s where my parents sent me. When i was in seventh grade, after the Soviets launched Sputnik, a buddy of mine and i said, “Let’s become astro-nauts.” i guess i got a little closer than he did.

So i went into engineering, even though my high school aptitude test said i should be an administrator. i always liked math and science. the courses were not easy, but i studied hard and wound up in aero-astro engineering. i was fortu-nate to get into a combined program, which permitted you to get a B.A. and a master’s degree in six years.

I got a job after college with General Electric outside Phila-delphia, in Valley Forge, in the early 1970s. i worked in Valley Forge for nearly 22 years, starting out in the thermodynam-ics group. thermodynamics as it applied to us was basically calculating the heat transfer of a conical suborbital reentry vehicle traveling at mach-20 or mach-25 speeds. these were ballistic weapons the u.S. would put on top of minuteman missiles. Without an effective heat shield, the missile would simply burn up, as a meteorite would.

So thermodynamics was your early professional focus. What came next?

Aerodynamics was next, basically looking at the stability of the vehicle and where it goes. these were strategic, three-stage intercontinental missiles. this was at the height of the cold War, and the adversary was the Soviet union. these missiles were designed to deter the Soviets from starting a nuclear war, and their purpose was therefore basically de-fensive.

Your work sounds so significant.

We did feel that way. But there were sometimes job se-

curity issues. We were contractors, basically to the u.S. gov-ernment. if we were working in an area no longer deemed high priority, we could be laid off. Or if a division or even an individual wasn’t producing, they might be subject to a reduction in force. So I guess the work was significant, but it was not secure. in the aerospace industry, hardly anyone has an employment contract.

GE had a program whereby high performers would be taught different disciplines. As an aerospace engineer, I was exposed to principles of gas transfer and loading that deter-mine where the vehicle goes or where the airplane flies. If you did well, you could go on for a Ph.D., and that is what i did — at the nearby university of Pennsylvania. it was a great deal: the company would pay your way and pay your salary, too. i actually lived on campus for two semesters to meet residency requirements.

At that point, I had moved to GE’s ocean sciences lab, and a couple of guys i worked with got a contract with the national oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (noAA) to study heat going into and out of Lake ontario. i was studying ice formation in the lake. my dissertation de-veloped a heat transfer model that computed theoretically the ice formation on the lake; a colleague computed solar and wind influences and took photos of ice formation. I ran my model and it was pretty close to the actual conditions on the lake. this was 1978, and i was 34 when i got my Ph.D.

So you moved from thermodynamics to aerodynamics to ocean sci-ence. Was this the result of changing government priorities altering the contractor’s focus?

yes. it kept us on our toes. there was a premium on learn-ing new concepts and disciplines. there was not a feeling of doing the same thing repetitively.

In the late 1980s, Jack Welch, one of the best chief execu-tives GE ever had, began to sell off divisions with relatively low profit margins. Welch had warned everyone that this was coming. At that time, GE’s credit division was doing 25-percent profit and the aerospace division was doing af-ter tax profits of around 5 percent. So in 1993 Welch sold GE aerospace to martin marietta.

the only thing that changed was the name on the pay-check. my work stayed the same. in 1995, Lockheed bought martin marietta and formed Lockheed martin.

Talk about how thinking about national strategic missile defense policy changed after the fall of the Soviet Union.

President Reagan started what was called the national mis-sile defense policy in 1983, and it prevailed until President Clinton entered office in early 1993. While both presidents pursued essentially defensive missile strategies, clinton switched to what was called theater missile defense. Rea-gan’s focus was on icBm strength to deter a Soviet attack on the u.S. After the Soviet union collapsed, the focus switched to a less global scale. theater missile defense concentrated more on regional issues and a variety of international bad actors. that policy continues today, though national missile defense is also still around.

So national policy changed. How did your work change in response?

I worked in something called theater missile defense ex-erciser for eight years, until 2001. This was an effort to make testing and simulation more realistic and better predictors of missile performance. my employers changed a couple of more times, as my work moved from Lockheed to mcDon-nell Douglas and later to Boeing. i moved with my work, again often doing almost the same job for a new employer who either bought the old one or won a new contract.

Along the way i moved back to columbus and commuted to my job in D.C. for a number of years. I reconnected with my high school sweetheart in columbus, and we married. By 2001, i was working for another big government contractor, Battelle memorial institute, in columbus, doing marketing to missile defense agencies and later, project management. It was challenging and I was always getting exposed to new ideas and projects.

How was marketing? This was new for you, wasn’t it?it was. i had to put together information for prospective

clients on services i thought they might be interested in. it was a lot different than working on a project. You encoun-tered customers that had established relationships with oth-er vendors. it took a while to get to know the customer. And i had to broaden my knowledge base for everything going on at Battell. that challenge kept me going.

You retired a couple of years ago. How is that going?

this is my fourth full summer here at chautauqua, and it is becoming a true highlight of my year. These are my first full summers here since college. i have reconnected with some friends. others can come visit me here. i have observed what i call ‘chautauqua burnout’ with some of these visitors. They overdose on the volume and variety of cultural offer-ings here. They just hit a wall.

i am the vice president of the big cLSc class of 2000, and i am an area rep and the Lighting committee chair for the cPoA. So that keeps me busy, and we’re looking seriously at wiring everyone on the grounds with optical cable. Aren’t we all tired of getting ripped off by the cable company?

i also still have a boat here, and i use it frequently. in fact, i kept water skiing until four years ago. Way back in college days, three friends and i performed a four-man slalom start-ing on three skis and winding up on only one. i’ve never heard of anyone else doing that.

For one Chautauquan, it really is rocket science

deborah treftsStaff Writer

those who missed Week three’s lectures and dis-cussions on “immigration: origins and Destinations” and are keen to further ex-plore this topic — including its relevance to chautauqua county — will have an op-portunity to do so this week.

As part of the Women’s club’s “chautauqua Speaks” series, nancy Brown Diggs will give a talk with the same title as the sixth of her seven books, Hidden in the Heartland: The New Wave of Immigrants and the Challenge to America, at 9:15 a.m. thurs-day at the Women’s club House.

Diggs, who lives with her husband, matt, in Dayton, ohio, is a writer and lecturer who has been interested in people of diverse cultures throughout her life.

As she wrote in its pref-ace, Hidden in the Heartland began with an unwanted summons to jury duty for a case involving two undocu-mented Latino brothers who had accused an Appalachian

boy of assault and robbery. they spoke only Spanish and needed an interpreter in court. The jury found the youth guilty of assault, but not robbery.

The experience left Diggs with questions including, “Weren’t the brothers afraid to express their illegal status in a court of law?”

Diggs also wondered how many undocumented immigrants were living in her area; what living in hid-ing and being vulnerable to employment, housing and personal exploitation was like; what local governments

and communities were do-ing to meet the challenge of Hispanic immigration; and what Mexico, where most of this hidden population origi-nated, was doing about it.

She decided to find out.Several of the individuals

Digg’s interviewed for Hid-den in the Heartland were in ohio and chautauqua coun-ty.

“i have looked more at the human picture of immigra-tion,” she said. “Surprisingly, my biggest challenge wasn’t getting people to talk to me. i love doing the interviews and research Everyone has a story. it’s hard on the fami-lies left behind in villages; they’re just empty. Among the youth in Ecuador and Mexico, there’s a high rate of suicides, teen pregnancy and alcoholism.”

not only will Diggs share some of her stories from Hid-den in the Heartland, but she will also open the floor to a discussion about citizen-ship and legal issues, includ-ing the executive actions on immigration that President Barack obama announced

on nov. 20, 2014, and the temporary injunction issued by the federal court on Feb. 16.

Having grown up in Lou-isville, Kentucky, Diggs is currently writing a book she is calling Leaving Appalachia: The Other Great Migration. Diggs said she has been im-pressed with the closeness of the families, their non-con-frontational attitudes and their strong sense of place. She is also concerned about discrimination against this invisible minority.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in French at case Western Reserve univer-sity and translating French, Spanish and German for many years, Diggs earned a master of Humanities from Wright State university and a doctorate in East Asian Studies from the union in-stitute & university in cin-cinnati.

A special interest in Japa-nese culture led to a num-ber of homestays and some travel within Japan, and yielded three books: Looking

Behind the Mask: When Ameri-can Women Marry Japanese Men, Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Ex-perience, and Meet the Japa-nese.

“the best part of writing books is getting all the infor-mation in there and molding it into something and get-ting my message out,” Diggs said. “i do it because i want to know and i’m curious. As a friend of mine said, ‘you’ll never grow old if you have that bump of curiosity.’ i’ve got that bump.”

Diggs to focus on immigrants hidden in the heartland

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Miranda WillsonStaff Writer

on a typical summer day at Hickory Hurst Farm, Adrienne Ploss wakes up at 3:30 a.m., loads her truck with produce, flowers and supplies and arrives at the chautauqua Farmers market at 5 a.m.

it takes Ploss an hour and a half to set up her stand before the market opens at 7 a.m. When closing time comes four hours later, she returns home to the farm in mayville, just 2.5 miles south of the institution.

in the afternoon, she works at another farm stand right outside her home, picking and arranging flower bouquets to sell the next day. By 6 p.m., she wraps up for the night and goes to sleep at 8:30 p.m.

She repeats this cycle through-out chautauqua institution’s nine-week season.

Hickory Hurst Farm started in 1908 when Ploss’ great-grand-mother inherited the farm from an older couple she had cared for. Growing up, Ploss’ parents

raised dairy livestock and grew vegetables and fruit.

Ploss took over the farm from her brother in 2009. Since then, Hickory Hurst only grows plants, specifically organic cut flowers, herbs, vegetables and berries and non-organic sweet corn, pump-kins and squash.

“Having livestock keeps you tethered to your property quite a bit,” Ploss said.

though Ploss’ husband, tim Gleason, did not grow up on a farm, he has lived in chautauqua county all his life and entered the agricultural field at age 12. Gleason, who now works as a dispatcher at a concrete facility and helps out at Hickory Hurst on evenings and weekends, said farming requires perseverance.

“it’s like taking care of a child,” he said. “it takes nour-ishment to grow plants. they need care, weeding, fertilizer, pruning and evaluation. it’s not something you can just put in the ground and hope to have in the fall.”

He said being able to market

what one grows is crucial to run-ning a successful farm — espe-cially now.

Since the 1940s, the number of farms in the united States has decreased because mid-sized, family-owned farms have been unable to compete with large farms of 300 or 400 acres, accord-ing to a 2014 u.S. Department of Agriculture report.

though chautauqua county still has the most farms out of all the counties in the state, the county Agricultural and Farm-land Protection Board reported agricultural activity has declined over the last 40 years.

“it seems that bigger farms concentrate and grow just cer-tain items, and it’s harder for the smaller agriculture to sustain itself, to have a return and do it year after year,” Gleason said.

nonetheless, Hickory Hurst, which spans between 10 and 11 acres, has been holding its own. Ploss credited the farm’s century-long success to the wide variety among its crops.

crop diversity provides envi-

ronmental benefits, as planting different species of crops natu-rally controls pests and weeds and increases soil fertility, which in turn diminishes the need for fertilizers and pesticides. it also reduces the likelihood a storm or pest will destroy one’s entire farm.

Ploss estimated the farm re-ceives 80 percent of its business while chautauqua institution is in season. During the fall and winter months, Ploss works as a substitute teacher, leads garden-ing classes and runs a landscape business.

this year, Hickory Hurst started a community Supported Agriculture program, in which buyers can sign up to receive organic produce, herbs, edible flowers and other products from nearby farms every week.

During the last off-season, the cSA provided Ploss’ family with a steadier income during the last off-season, she said.

Ploss said the cSA allows cus-tomers to know exactly where their food is coming from, how

it is grown and who is growing it. Hickory Hurst also offers cus-tomers the chance to volunteer on the farm in order to receive their weekly cSA share for half the price.

For Ploss, the most difficult part of her job as a farmer is mak-ing time for herself and her fam-ily, especially during the nine weeks of the institution’s season. But having helped out on Hick-ory Hurst Farm all her life and studied agricultural education, there is nothing else she would rather be doing.

“i enjoy working with people. i always have,” she said. “i enjoy introducing them to new ideas and educating them about or-ganic food. i have a lot of passion for what i do.”

Gleason said he appreciates providing quality products to customers despite the obstacles farmers face producing crops.

“it’s rewarding to know that you can do it,” he said. “if tough times ever come along, you can focus on something greater: the people’s need for your product.”

Local farm provides organic produce to Chautauquans, county at largeseason of plenty

Ruby Wallau | Staff Photographer

Adrienne Ploss, owner of Hickory Hurst farms, packs up her stand at the Chautauqua Farmers Market Thursday.

Ruby Wallau | Staff Photographer

At left, Ploss stands outside of Hickory Hurst’s roadside stand where they sell organic cut flowers, herbs, vegetables and berries, south of the Institution grounds on Route 394. At top right, Ploss picks flowers in the high-tunnel greenhouse on farm to sell at the Farmers Market. At bottom right, flowers sold at the road side stand at Hickory Hurst. Customers can make their own bouquets.

sam flynnStaff Writer

Psychologist David Pizar-ro has spent 10 years study-ing disgust. But that doesn’t mean he’s acclimated to it.

“I’ll admit, I’m high on disgust sensitivity,” he said. “So much so that I can’t look at the stimuli we use in our studies.”

The balancing act of emo-tions was at the heart of Pizarro’s morning lecture delivered Tuesday in the Amphitheater.

In one example, he spoke of his sister, a corporate law-yer who lives in California. During a normal phone call, their conversation was in-terrupted by her road rage, resulting in her shouting a curse so profane, we dare not print it (it rhymes with “ducking castle”).

One of Pizarro’s col-leagues used the anecdote in an article, which was then forwarded to Pizarro’s sister by their 80-year-old father via Facebook. Suffice it to say, Pizarro said, his sister was not pleased.

But it is a good case study of how emotion can over-whelm even the most intel-ligent person, he said.

In the Western world, Pizarro said it seems intui-tive to think emotions are inherently at odds with ra-tionality, reason and logic. Emotions are viewed as in-terfering with self-interest and consistency, both words associated with rationality.

But emotion trumping reason is not always the best.

According to Pizarro, there was a noticeable drop in airline travel in the months after 9/11. The sum-mer of 2002 saw an increase in traffic fatalities as a result. Despite the fact that people are at much higher risk for car accidents than airplane incidents, the trauma of wit-nessing the terror attacks influenced people to act in a way that was against their self-interest.

On a more basic level, an emotion such as disgust might irrationally prevent some from trying foods they might like.

“For all I know, tapi-oca pudding is wonderful,” Pizarro said. “But I’m not go-ing to eat it.”

Plato related emotions to horses of passion led by the reins of a charioteer who represents reason and intel-lect. The horses provide the power to move forward, but without a guide, they can run wild.

Pizarro said it is a Western tradition to look at the mind this way. Sigmund Freud defined the mind as three

distinct parts: the id, baser uncontrollable emotions; the superego, representing con-science and ethics; and the ego as the balance of these two.

He also cited philosopher Immanuel Kant, who said as moral creatures, humans ought to let reason dominate and be reflective, not reac-tive.

“Emotions make us more like animals, it was be-lieved,” Pizarro said.

Some of this was reflected in the psychological research into emotion. It was primar-ily conducted on animals with which humans share the mammalian brain. Spe-cifically, rats are commonly used as test subjects. Emo-tions such as fear that trigger a fight-or-flight response are fast and immediate, made of the evolutionary imperative to survive. They require no deliberation, he said. By na-ture, they bypass reason.

“If you saw a lion and had to deliberate, ‘I wonder if this is one of those friendly lions. Let me pull out my calculator and figure out the base rate of who gets eaten by lions,’ ” he said. “By that time, you’re eaten. In evolu-tionary terms, it’s amazing that economists exist.”

Humans are obviously more complex than animals, Pizarro said, and sometimes, we “overfire” our emotional cylinders. It can be powerful enough to change percep-tion.

“If the result is living, emotions can be rational in the sense of self-preserva-tion,” he said.

It is the emotional re-

sponse that stops one from repeatedly burning his or her hand on a stove by learn-ing not to do it. Not having such an instinct can be the result of brain damage.

What has thrown human-ity’s hardwired emotional responses for a loop is the rapidly changing environ-ment and stimuli, Pizarro said.

“That’s why we need economists [to not be eaten by lions] so they can tell us the facts,” he said.

The goal is to use psycho-logical tools to improve de-cision-making and identify good and bad emotions.

Over the last several de-cades, Pizarro said the ques-tion of rationality becomes more complicated. The re-search is no longer specula-tive. After what he termed the “affective revolution” of the mid-20th century, the 1980s and ’90s brought change. The studies were no longer concerned with simply understanding emo-tional impulse, but under-standing individual emotive impulses, like Pizarro’s area of expertise: disgust.

Disgust, he said, is about more than sensory revul-sion. The reactions usually reserved for bad-tasting food are the same elicited by pic-tures, odors and people.

For example, wrinkling the nose prevents pathogens to enter the nose but can happen regardless of smell. Sticking out the tongue, even when the subject of disgust isn’t a taste, is another reac-tion coming from an attempt to expel an unwanted flavor.

In rhetoric, Pizarro said

people use the terminology to tag “undesirables.” In the past, these included women, Jews and homosexuals. It’s a common role in dehuman-ization he said.

Conservatives are, in ag-gregate, more easily disgust-ed, Pizarro said, especially over social issues like gay marriage and abortion. He theorized this may be the origin of the term “dirty hip-pie” as a derogatory term for the bare-footed pacifists.

Disgust is felt via corre-lation. For example, Pizarro and his team experimented whether a room with the odor of a fart spray would result in judgment or value changes. They measured this through feeling ther-mometers that asked ques-tions about immigrants or homosexuals. The foul smell reduced warm feelings, re-sulted in more conservative decisions, and made moral judgments more severe and punitive.

“Liberals can be just as irrational, but in different ways,” Pizarro said.

For example, they are more likely to feel disgusted at genetically modified or-ganisms, or GMOs, as “un-natural.”

What are we to make of these effects? Pizarro said it can help determine when it is and isn’t appropriate to let emotions influence decision-making. If it’s simply disgust dictating behavior, then a hard look at the attitudes be-hind it is in order.

“Through having Dan [Ariely, yesterday’s speaker] as my mentor, I’ve learned to use the brute force of my rea-

soning to come to different views,” he said. “That said, don’t walk around barefoot, get dirty and come to my house.”


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David Pizarro speaks about the psychology of disgust and how emotions influence our reasoning on Tuesday in the Amphitheater.

Editor’s note: This Q&A has been edited for clarity and length.

Q: If disgust is a ques-tion of psychological

immunity, and if people who are conservative are more disgusted, it means they have a better psychological im-mune system. Does it mean that, evolutionarily, we’re go-ing to have more conservative people over time?

A: The answer becomes complicated when you

realize that the obsessive concern with germs that might occur as a result of disgust has a paradoxical effect in that your immune system never builds up in the right way. So you actually need to expose

your kids to some dirt and grime. You need to be comfort-able with it if they are ever to build up immunity. My parents were easily disgusted, so much so that I blame them for how often I get the cold and the flu. As Dan [Ariely] well knows, I’m sick half of the time that I’m around him. So I blame my conservative parents.

Q: are there some profes-sions that are more or

less high-to-low sensitiv-ity? I’m thinking nurses and accountants as maybe two ends.

A: So this is a question that, until recently, I had no

good answer to. But here’s one empirical answer. The psychologist Paul Rozin at Uni-versity of Pennsylvania looked at incoming medical students. Because one of the questions is, obviously, MDs are not that disgusted anymore by bodily things and by wounds and stuff like that. Is it that they select into that profession because they’re low in disgust? Do they come in that way? Or do they just change? What he found tracking first-year med stu-dents, right before they got to medical school, he gave them this disgust sensitivity ques-tionnaire. And he found that they were no different than the rest of the population. What happens is that after a year of having to open up cadav-ers and work with body parts, was that their disgust for that domain went down. As we all know, you get used to things. And they get used to all of the bodily stuff. But it didn’t go up or down in other things. So the other areas in which you might feel disgust, like walking outside and stepping in dog poop or sipping a soda from a stranger — that might actually remain untouched. But sticking your hand into a dead body to pull out the liver — eh, they’re fine with it.

—Transcribed by Ryan Pait

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COLUMN BY MARY LEE TALBOT

Morning Worship

“Wake up, whether you are attending the morning lecture, the afternoon lecture, or the various denominational houses, because God has you here on assign-

ment. You have to wake up so you can tell others at home to wake up,” said the Rev. Frank M. Reid III at the 9:15 a.m. Tuesday morning worship service in the Amphitheater. His sermon title was “Trust God and Do Good” based on Psalm 37:3.

“When you wake up — not if you wake up — when you wake up, stop worrying,” he said. “Charles Spurgeon said that faith stops fretting. I want to expand that to say that the purpose of early morning worship at Chautauqua is worship will stop worrying. Worship puts the focus on the presence and power of God in each one of us. When worry turns to worship, something great happens.”

It is the tragedy of the church, he said, that it thinks one can only worship in a building.

“Worship is when you remember the greatness of God, when you remember that ‘God is bigger than my problems, than irrationality, than the world,’ ” Reid said. “God will take the mess and make a miracle. When you stop worry-ing, your assignment is to trust in the Lord and do good.”

In order to do that, he told the congregation to think, trust, take action and transform.

When facing a challenge, think about it, he said. There is a way out.

“Think about what God has brought you out of,” Reid said. “When you trust God, God will surely take you through.”

Reid again recommended David Brooks’ book The Road to Character. Behind every battle is a blessing, he said, and you can use your struggles as an opportunity to strengthen your character.

“The choice is yours,” he said.Brooks writes about Dorothy Day in his work. When Day

realized true faith means being actively obedient — to not just trust God while in the pew, but to take that trust and put it into action — is when Day knew she was saved, Reid said. Brooks writes that people who suffer are not masters of their pain. They ask “What am I supposed to do?” When confronted with suffering, they go to a deeper level than personal happiness, and their response is not happiness but holiness. They are put in touch with a wider community and the eternal.

“This is a calling on your life,” Reid said.“Rev. Franklin asked me to talk about the history of the

African Methodist Episcopal Church. It knows the power of God — even in pain,” he said.

The denomination was founded in 1787 in Philadelphia by Richard Allen, a slave who had paid for his freedom. As more black people came to the Methodist church, they were told by white brothers and sisters to go up to the balcony and pray after the white people were gone. They went to a blacksmith shop to worship and became a denomination in 1816.

“What you saw in Charleston is the historic response of the [AME] Church to suffering,” Reid said. “Think about all Jesus has done. Think about the men lynched and castrated and the women raped. Think about God and forgive; love our oppressors. That is why all nine families could say, ‘We forgive you’ because they trusted in the Lord and did good.’ ”

He continued, “When you trust and do good you can sing the old song ‘I will trust in the Lord till I die. I will treat everybody right till I die.’ Trust in the Lord and do good, and God will make a way for you somehow.”

The Rev. Carmen Perry presided. Melissa Tawk, the 2015 intern with the International Order of King’s Daughters and Sons and a student at Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon read Proverbs 3:3-10. The Rev. Christian Savage, summer intern at Bethel AME Church, accompanied the preacher to the platform. Jared Jacobsen conducted the Motet Choir. The choir sang ”How Can I Keep from Singing,” text by Anna Bartlett Warner, music by Robert Lowry and arranged by Z. Randall Stroope. The Mr. and Mrs. William Uhler Follansbee Memorial Chaplaincy pro-vides support for this week’s services.

Worship will stop worrying

God will take the mess and make a miracle. When you stop worrying, your assignment is to trust in the Lord and do good.”

—THE REV. FRANK M. REID III

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R e l i g i o n

jake zuckermanStaff Writer

American society has determined a causal rela-tionship between terrorism and the Quran, but accord-ing to Philip Jenkins, the Quran isn’t the only holy text stained with blood.

Jenkins, co-director of the Program on Historical Stud-ies of Religion at Baylor Uni-versity, spoke Monday from the Hall of Philosophy, kick-ing off Week Four’s interfaith theme of “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion and Violence.” He spoke about another book that has led to thousands of years of blood-shed and violence — the Bible.

“if you compare the two texts, the Bible and the Quran, it is much easier to find more extreme, bloody and actively genocidal text in the Bible than in the Quran,” Jenkins said.

instead of following the consensus that extremists perform violent actions be-cause of their religion’s te-nets, he said all religions have a bloody history, and certain passages are used af-ter the fact of violence.

Pointing to biblical pas-sages — in both the old and new Testament — Jenkins said there is a long-standing history of Christian violence in the name of religion that began long before today’s trend of islamic terrorism.

“There is a direct, lineal descent for some of those biblical passages to some of the worst crimes of hu-man history,” Jenkins said. “So when people say there are bloody passages in the Quran, i say that there are also bloody passages in the Bible. Have both driven violence? Absolutely. Can i point to a major religion that has not been implicated in some way in major killings, wars or acts of genocide? no, i cannot.”

To the dismay of some in the crowd, Jenkins went as far as to call Muslims “late-comers” to terrorism after the likes of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Benito Mussolini and Mao Zedong.

“if islam directs terror-ism, then why on earth were Muslims such latecomers after anarchists, socialists, fascists, nationalists, Chris-tians?” he said. “Why was it when Muslims decided to take up suicide bombings, they used a tactic invented by Hindus?”

Furthering his point, Jen-kins quoted the prominent French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who said, “Men nev-er do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

However, Jenkins said, there is a saving grace to the violent history of religions. Although most religious texts contain passages that some interpret as encourag-ing violence, those passages come from a different time and place and history. like-wise, they need to be judged from within their historical contexts.

As an example, Jenkins pointed to Judaism. He said there are passages in Jewish scripture that refer to what might be known today as genocide. if a Jew were to ask his or her rabbi about said text, the rabbi would say, although one excerpt of the Torah may urge violence, it’s antithetical to the rest of the religion.

“if you’re a learned, or-thodox Jew, there is a flat-out contradiction between the text of the law, and the spirit of the law,” Jenkins said. “And obviously the spirit is going to win.”

Understanding the his-torical nuances of one’s own scripture, Jenkins said, must be a prerequisite before scolding anyone else’s scrip-ture.

“When we fail to look at history, we don’t understand our own Bible,” Jenkins said. “And if we don’t understand our own Bible, how dare we criticize other people for failing to understand their scriptures?”

Closing his lecture, Jen-kins bluntly called for more fairness in critiques of any scripture.

“let’s keep the issue of religion separate from scrip-ture,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins: Quran is not the only violent scripture

SAALIK KHAN | Staff Photographer

Philip Jenkins, co-director of the Program on Historical Studies of Religion at Baylor University, speaks at the Hall of Philosophy Monday. His lecture was titled “Show Them No Mercy: Religion, Violence, and Religious Scripture.”

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The carnahan-Jackson lectureship, an endowment fund held by the chautau-qua foundation, provides funding for both today’s and Thursday’s 10:45 a.m. lecture with Michael Norton and dan ariely, respectively.

Mrs. alvin c. Jackson was the first member of her family to come to chautau-qua. she initially came to the institution at the age of 18 to study sunday school teaching methods. she later returned with her husband and daughter Katharine on a regular basis. When Katha-

rine married clyde l. carna-han of Jamestown, the Jack-sons purchased a home at 41 Palestine, and continued to spend summers here each year. The carnahans lived in Jamestown but also became devoted chautauquans.

Katharine served as an in-stitution trustee and served on board committees for the library and the department of Religion. she and clyde participated actively in the chautauqua Presbyterian association.

in 1969, Katharine created the Japanese Garden located

beside the United Presbyte-rian headquarters in mem-ory of her parents and her husband. When making the gift, Katharine remarked that chautauqua was very important to her parents, and that she believed chau-tauqua’s christian faith and program were its great inner strength and distinguishing factor.

david carnahan is the son of Katharine and clyde. chairman of the Board of the carnahan-Jackson foun-dation inc. of Jamestown, david continued his parents’

long record of commitment and service to the institu-tion. a former director of the chautauqua foundation inc. and a former trustee of the institution, david has been active in many civic and edu-cational organizations.

david met his wife, the former Martha Popp, at chautauqua. for many years, they resided on the grounds of the institution before moving to their home outside Mayville.

RUBY WALLAU | Staff Photographer

Roz Dahlia reads to her 9-month-old daughter, Charlotte, during an informal story hour on July 15 in Miller Park. The story hours, held Weeks One through Three, were hosted by NOW Generation Advisory Council member Katie Prechtl Cooke for families with young children. Additional gatherings hosted by the NOW Generation will be held throughout the summer, and will be announced at facebook.com/NOWGenCHQ.

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WWEDNESDAY

JUly 22

••• The Circle/Square Game opens.ThroughAug.25.StrohlArtCenterMainGallery

7:00 (7–11)Farmers Market

7:15 (7:15–8)Mystic Heart Meditation: Spiritual Practices of World Religions.Leader:Subagh Singh Khalsa.(SikhDharma).Donation.Bringgatepass.MainGateWelcomeCenterConferenceRoom

7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. ChapeloftheGoodShepherd

8:00 Daily Word Meditation.(SponsoredbyUnityofChautauqua.)HallofMissions

8:00 Amphitheater Renewal Project Public Session: Structural History and Performance Experience.HallofChrist

8:45 Catholic Mass.ChapeloftheGoodShepherd

8:55 (8:55–9)Chautauqua Prays For Peace Through Compassion.HallofMissionsGrove

9:15 ClSC Alumni Association Science Circle Presentation. “FailureISanOption:WhateverCanGoWrongWillGoWrong—AndWhattoDoAboutIt.”Bob Reiss.HallofChrist

9:15 MORNING WORSHIP. The Rev. Frank Madison Reid III,seniorpastor,BethelA.M.E.Church,Baltimore.Amphitheater

9:15 (9:15–10:45)Girls’ Morning Out: Coffee on the Porch.CWCHouse.

9:15 Jewish Discussions. (ProgrammedbyChabadLubavitchofChautauqua).“TheArtofPrayer.”Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin. LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallLibrary

9:30 ClSC Class of 2015 Meeting.LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHall

9:30 Special lecture: Ethics and the Arts. (SponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion;producedbytheUnitarianUniversalistFellowship.)“Black,White,orGray:EthicalConsiderationsforVisualArtists.”Audrey Kay Dowling.HallofPhilosophy

9:30 Chautauqua Institution Trustees Porch Discussion.“Fine&PerformingArts&Inter-artsCollaborations.”Marty Merkley and Deborah Sunya Moore.HultquistCenterporch

10:00 (10–12)Voice Master Class. (SchoolofMusic.)John MacMurray.Suggestedfee.McKnightHall

10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing.UCCChapel

10:45 lECTURE. “HappyMoney:TheScienceofHappierSpending.”Michael I. Norton, author,Happy Money. Amphitheater

12:00 (12–2)Flea Boutique.(SponsoredbyChautauquaWomen’sClub.)BehindColonnade

12:00 Women in Ministry.HallofMissions


12:15 Brown Bag Book Review.(ProgrammedbytheCLSCAlumniAssociation.)Anne Winkelstein,Kristin Lavransdatter bySigridUndset.LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallporch

12:15 Film Conversation. “JudaismandDishonesty:AConversationAbouttheFilm(Dis)Honesty.”Dan Ariely and yael Melamede.EverettJewishLifeCenter

12:30 AA / Al-Anon Meeting. HurlbutChurchParlor

12:30 Brown Bag.“BurningQuestions.”(ProgrammedbyAbrahamicProgramforYoungAdults.)Allarewelcome.SmithWilkesHall

1:00 Theater Tour.Intimate Apparel. ChautauquaTheaterCompany.BrattonTheater

1:00 Docent Tours.MeetatFowler-KelloggArtCenter

1:00 (1–4)CWC Artists at the Market.FarmersMarket

1:15 language Hour. French,Spanish,Swedish,etc.(ProgrammedbytheChautauquaWomen’sClub.)CWCHouse

1:15 ClSC Alumni Association Docent Tours. LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallandPioneerHall

1:45 library Presentation. “HowtoPositionYourPortfolioinaRisingInvestmentRateEnvironment.”Alan Greenberg. SmithMemorialLibrary

2:00 INTERFAITH lECTURE SERIES. “Personal,NotPrivate:MakingReligionHealthy.” Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz, seniorrabbi,B’naiJeshurun,ShortHills,NewJersey.HallofPhilosophy(simulcastinHallofChrist)

2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds.Fee.(PurchaseticketsatMainGateWelcomeCenter.)LeavefromMainGateWelcomeCenter


3:00 (3–5)Opening Reception. The Circle / Square Game.StrohlArtCenter/MainGalleryandBelloweFamilyGallery

3:30 Special Session. Expandeddiscussionon“Irrationality.”Dan Arielyandresearchteam. HallofPhilosophy

3:30 Contemporary Issues Dialogues.(ProgrammedbytheChautauquaWomen’sClub.)David A. Pizarro, associateprofessorofpsychology,CornellUniversity.CWCHouse

3:30 Jewish Film Series. (ProgrammedbytheEverettJewishLifeCenter.)“TheSturgeonQueens.”EverettJewishLifeCenter

4:00 (4–5:30)Piano Master Class. (SchoolofMusic.)Jon Nakamatsu. Suggestedfee.Sherwood-MarshStudios


4:15 ClSC young Readers Program. Hansel & Gretel byNeilGaimanandLorenzoMattottiandThrough the Woods byEmilyCarroll.LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallBallroom

4:15 Bat Chat.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)Caroline Van Kirk Bissell, natureguide.SmithWilkesHall

5:30 (5:30–7)Chautauqua Property Owners Association Neighborhood Picnics.AllChautauquanswelcome.VariouslocationspublishedinThe Chautauquan Daily

6:00 Meet the Filmmaker Series.“AmericanDenial.”Christine Herbes-Sommers,executiveproducer.Fee.ChautauquaCinema

6:00 (6–8)Brick Walk Cafe Concerts. Bill Ward and Amanda Barton.BrickWalkCafe

6:30 Positive Path for Spiritual living.(ProgrammedbyUnityofChautauqua.)Bringgatepass.MainGateWelcomeCenterConferenceRoom

6:45 Eventide Travel Series.(ProgrammedbytheCLSCAlumniAssociation.)“EmailsfromMexico.”Norman and Nancy Karp.Donation.HallofChrist

7:00 APyA Chat.“SacredIrrationalities:MeditationintheAbrahamicFaiths.”(ProgrammedbytheAbrahamicProgramforYoungAdults.)Allyoungadultsarewelcome.MarionLawranceRoom,HurlbutChurch

7:00 Christian Science Service.ChristianScienceChapel

7:00 (7–7:45)Metropolitan Community Church Vespers Service.UCCChapel

7:15 Swing Dance lesson.Dianna Ploof,Ben HandenandAdam Handen.SmithWilkesHall

7:30 (7:30–10)Voice Opera Performance.(SchoolofMusic.)Handel’sAriodante.John Giampietro, director.(BenefitstheChautauquaWomen’sClubScholarshipFund.)FletcherMusicHall

8:15 SPECIAl.Amphitheater Ball with the ladies First Big Band. (CommunityAppreciationNight.)Amphitheater

ThTHURSDAY

JUly 23

••• Gatherings: Contemporary Drawings closes.Fowler-KelloggArtCenterAngelaFowlerMemorialGallery

••• From Clay to Table closes.Fowler-KelloggArtCenter

7:00 (7–11)Farmers Market

7:15 (7:15–8)Mystic Heart Meditation: Spiritual Practices of World Religions.Leader:Subagh Singh Khalsa(SikhDharma).Donation.Bringgatepass.MainGateWelcomeCenterConferenceRoom

7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. ChapeloftheGoodShepherd

8:00 Daily Word Meditation.(SponsoredbyUnityofChautauqua.)HallofMissions


8:55 (8:55–9)Chautauqua Prays For Peace Through Compassion.HallofMissionsGrove

9:00 Nature Walk.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)Jack Gulvin,BTGnaturalist.Meetatthelakeside(back)ofSmithWilkesHall

9:15 MORNING WORSHIP. The Rev. Frank Madison Reid III,seniorpastor,BethelA.M.E.Church,Baltimore.Amphitheater

9:15 Chautauqua Speaks.(ProgrammedbytheChautauquaWomen’sClub.)“HiddenintheHeartland:TheNewWaveofImmigrantsandtheChallengetoAmerica.”Nancy Brown Diggs,authorandChautauquan.CWCHouse

9:15 Jewish Discussions. (ProgrammedbyChabadLubavitchofChautauqua).“TalmudicEthics.”Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin. LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallLibrary

9:30 Special lecture: Ethics and the Arts. (SponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion;producedbytheUnitarianUniversalistFellowship.)“EthicalIssuesinMusic.”David levy.HallofPhilosophy

10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing.UCCChapel

10:45 lECTURE.Dan Ariely, JamesB.Dukeprofessorofpsychologyandbehavioraleconomics,DukeUniversity.Amphitheater


12:15 Knitting.“Women4Women–Knitting4Peace.”UCCReformedHouseporch

12:15 (12:15–1:30)Brown Bag. (ProgrammedbytheEverettJewishLifeCenter.)Yiddishlanguageconversation.Bernice Thaler. EverettJewishLifeCenter

12:15 Brown Bag. “NewsintheTuesdayNew York Times’ScienceSection.”CLSCAlumniAssociationScienceCircle.UpstairsintheSmithMemorialLibrary

12:15 Brown Bag. “Intimate Apparel:TheFineryofaBeautifulPlay.”ChautauquaTheaterCompany. BrattonTheater

12:15 Brown Bag. (SponsoredbytheEcumenicalCommunityofChautauqua.)“HowDoWeRespondtoEnvironmentalDisasters?”Gerald Nehman.RandellChapel

12:30 (12:30–1:55)Mystic Heart Meditation: Meditation Seminar.“PeaceWithin,PeaceintheWorld.”Subagh Singh Khalsa(SikhDharma).Donation.HallofMissions

12:45 Catholic Community Seminar Series.“TheComplexityofPoverty.”The Rev. Justin Reis,retiredinresidence,St.AgathaParish,Columbus,Ohio.MethodistHouseChapel

1:00 (1–4)CWC Artists at the Market.FarmersMarket

1:15 Duplicate Bridge. Fee.SportsClub

2:00 INTERFAITH lECTURE SERIES. “EnlightenmentProgress?Religion,theNation-State,andViolence.” Hussein Rashid,founder,islamicate,L3C.HallofPhilosophy(simulcastinHallofChrist)

2:00 (2–3:30)Student Chamber Music Recital.(SchoolofMusic.)(BenefitstheChautauquaWomen’sClubScholarshipFund.)McKnightHall



3:30 ClSC AUTHOR PRESENTATION.Anne Fadiman,The Opposite of Loneliness byMarinaKeegan.HallofPhilosophy

4:00 (4–5:30)Piano Performance Class. (SchoolofMusic.)Suggestedfee.Sherwood-MarshStudios


4:15 Mystic Heart.SocialGatheringandTea.37RootAve.(behindNortonHall)

4:15 Artsongs. Chautauqua Opera youngArtists Recital #4.HallofChrist

4:15 Ravine Program:Tree Talk.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)Bruce Robinson.(Childrenunder12accompaniedbyadult)BurgesonNatureClassroom(ravineoffFletchernearBoys’andGirls’Club;ifrain,SmithWilkesHall)

4:45 (4:45–6:45)Music at Heirloom. Sam Hyman.HeirloomRestaurantattheAthenaeumHotel

5:00 Special Session. Expandeddiscussionon“Irrationality.”Dan Arielyandresearchteam. HallofPhilosophy

5:30 Meet the Filmmaker Series.“(Dis)honesty.”yael Melamede,produceranddirector.Fee.ChautauquaCinema

6:00 (6–7:45)Chautauqua Choir Rehearsal.Allsingerswelcome.(TworehearsalsrequiredtosingatSundayworshipservices.)SmithWilkesHall

6:45 Pre-Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Concert lecture. David levy.HurlbutChurchsanctuary

6:45 PFlAG Chapter Meeting. Allwelcome.(SponsoredbytheUnitarianUniversalistCongregation.)UnitarianUniversalistDenominationalHousepatio

7:00 Devotional Services and Programs.DenominationalHouses

7:00 APyA Porch Chat.(ProgrammedbytheAbrahamicProgramforYoungAdults.)“MilkandcookieswithHusseinRashid.”Allyoungadultsarewelcometoattend.LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallporch

7:15 (7:15–7:45)Mystic Heart Meditation: Spiritual Practices of World Religions.Leader:Carol McKiernan.Donation.Bringgatepass.MainGateWelcomeCenterConferenceRoom

7:30 (7:30–10)Voice Opera Performance.(SchoolofMusic.)Handel’sAriodante.John Giampietro, director.(BenefitstheChautauquaWomen’sClubScholarshipFund.)FletcherMusicHall

8:15 CHAUTAUQUA SyMPHONy ORCHESTRA. Rossen Milanov, conductor;Roberto Plano,piano.Amphitheater

•ConcertoinE-flat(DumbartonOaks)IgorStravinsky

•PianoConcerto,Op.54,AminorRobertSchumann

•SymphonyNo.7,Op.92,Amajor LudwigvanBeethoven

10:00 Meet the CSO Sections. (SponsoredbySymphonyPartners.) AmphiteaterbackporchfollowingtheCSOconcert

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