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At least in part, Chautauqua was a gathering place for the rich social elites from Pittsburgh. Jamestown is on the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, making it a place that became easier to reach when the railroads were built (40 years before the first automobiles and paved roads). The Erie Lackawanna connected Chicago and New York City as well as Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Knowing the place as I do, there is a significant omission – as you disembark at the dock (which was how people arrived in the early days), there is a scale model of the Holy Land showing the communities and geography of the places where Jesus lived. The place is called “Palestine Park” – a name it has had since 1874 when it was built to teach Sunday School teachers. The name isn’t a political statement – just an inconvenient truth the Institute wishes to ignore.<\/p>\n
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