Happy first day of fall, Lakesiders! What’s your favorite part about the season? Changing leaves? Cooler temps? Lakeside-Marblehead Lighthouse Festival? Tell us in the comments below!
Staff Blogger: Alexandrea Stelzer, Director of Marketing
Even though the summer has come and gone, Lakeside Chautauqua is still bustling. In the off-season, from early-September to late-May, Lakeside offers many events and activities, even though most of the shops, restaurants, services and bed & breakfasts/guest houses have closed until next summer.
Traveling to Lakeside? We asked our Facebook friends, “When packing for a Lakeside vacation, what is the #1 thing you shouldn’t forget?” We took your answers and created the ultimate list of important items you don’t want to leave at home. So don’t stress out over traveling, and make sure to pack:
Staff Blogger: Sarah Milheim, Advancement & Communications Coordinator
As fall settles in and Lakeside Chautauqua prepares for the events during the “off-season,” Lakeside recognizes the value in volunteers and how essential they are to the Chautauqua experience.
Pat Castanaras, Les Cunningham and Carolyn Beears are just three of the many volunteers that make this experience worthwhile for so many guests and Lakesiders.
When asked why the three siblings recognize the importance of volunteering, Castanaras said, “The Cunningham family is working on its fifth generation of young people who come to Lakeside to renew their spirit, their religion, to rejuvenate for their future and believe in it. I want to and need to make sure that it [Lakeside] is here for them to experience the same or similar way I did.”
All are invited to participate in a 5k run/walk in honor of Patricia King Munn, a Lakesider.
The race will begin at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 12 in front of the Lakeside Chautauqua Administration Office. The course will be the same as the 5k Raccoon Run.
Registration online. Pre-registration is $20 and same-day registration on Sunday, Oct. 12 will be $25. To be guaranteed a T-shirt, participants must register by Monday, Oct. 6. Same-day registration will be held from 8-9 a.m. in front of the Lakeside Chautauqua Administration Office.
Medals will be awarded to the top male and female runners and walkers and also to the fastest in each age group of runners.
Staff Blogger: Jessica Kidd, Advancement Manager
Mabelle Seitter Elsasser first came to Lakeside in the early 1920s with her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brother and sister.
Being raised in a Methodist family, Lakeside was an important part of their family vacations.
Elsasser shared her fondest memories of the Chautauqua community with her daughter, Elizabeth Brahler.
Elsasser would often reminisce about the educational lectures and the family connections.
Guest Blogger: Dianne Rozak, Marblehead Lighthouse State Park Naturalist
Just a few miles from Lakeside, an iconic structure greets mariners passing through the Western Basin of Lake Erie.
Built in 1821, the Marblehead Lighthouse stands as the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on all of the Great Lakes.
Set on the rocky limestone shore, this beacon, and its adjacent keeper’s house, became an Ohio State Park in 1998.
For 141 years, the shoreline has also been a place for reconnecting and conversation, which are core to the Chautauqua experience.
Thanks to a generous gift from the late C. Nelle and Richard E. Sultzbach family, a conversation terrace has been installed in front of the Beebe Memorial telescope viewing area, near Hotel Lakeside.
This terrace is the first phase of the project to enhance Ohio’s Most Beautiful Mile.
This summer, 189 students learned ceramic technique in order to donate artisan cups to the Cup of Kindness fundraising project.
The objective of the project has been three-fold:
Staff Blogger: Allison Moon, Advancement Events Intern
Kristen Jones has vivid memories of being pushed in a stroller through Lakeside’s downtown business district in the 1960s.
Her first trip to Lakeside was in 1965 at 5 months old.
“I remember always wanting to be in the center of the action downtown,” said Jones.
Jones’ parents, David and Joan, both came to Lakeside as children.
Her grandfather was a United Methodist minister and began coming to Lakeside 100 years ago. He then brought her father as a young child.