The Chautauqua Institute in New York likes to brag about how an opera, ballet, play or some other creative activity was first developed and showcased at Chautauqua before it premiered on Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, etc. I reversed that process this past week. I presented “Circuit Rider Preachers: True Stories” to an attentive audience at the Cardinal in Raleigh last week. So now I am ready to present it at Chautauqua in New York this coming Friday.
As a speaker, you always feel good when the audience has to be “shoo-ed” from the room. That is what happened at the Cardinal. The program host finally had to cut off the discussion to remind the audience it was time to go to dinner.
