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Save the Amphitheater, Don't Demolish It

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Burr Anderson
11 years ago

We all know the difference between rehab and demolition.

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Hadley H. Jones
11 years ago

Dumb ideas are usually misrepresented in sneaky ways.

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David Karrfalt
11 years ago

Being led by Imagination and Being Aware of the Past are not opposites. They are the basis of Religion and the Arts – and, as we understand it, they have always been basic to the Mission of Chautauqua.

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Karol Linden
11 years ago

Please reconsider your plans and preserve the integrity of the amphitheater. Do not replicate...preserve!

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Nancy Fries
11 years ago

If it is destroyed, it will be just another modern building. There goes history.

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Natalie Abramson
11 years ago

Compromise, Compromise, COMPROMISE!!

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Anne Doebler
11 years ago

Don't make a mistake all future generations will regret. Get an architect with experience with historical buildings.

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Michael Salamone
11 years ago

A betrayal to all of the names on the bricks outside the structure.

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Ann Stahl
11 years ago

Thank you, thank you for shedding light on the non-transparency of the Chautauqua Institution leadership!

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Frances
11 years ago

Save it!

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Margaret Falk Lipscomb
11 years ago

The amp is great the way it is!

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Mary Lou Kalanja
11 years ago

Please save this wonderful symbol of Chautauqua!

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Brett Heintzman
11 years ago

I am not only against the demolition of the amp, but also the wasteful and unneccesary spending of 30 million dollars which could be desperately used elsewhere in our empoverished county.

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Kathleen and Stan Tenpas
11 years ago

I have fond memories of sitting on the old wooden steps to hear Marian Anderson sing, and of sitting on the edge of the stage years later to hear the New Christie Minstrals. It would be heartbreaking to watch the destruction of those and so many more memories.

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Miriam Dupler
11 years ago

Other avenues MUST be explored.

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Hope Felton-Miller
11 years ago

The longer this controversy goes on the more I feel like there was a bait and switch action. Ian disappointed in the lack of transparency. Moreover I am increasingly upset that we homeowners are prevented from making changes that would make our homes more live able in the 21stcentyry based on out-dated rules if the architectural Eview Board. Yet it seems the Institution itself is immune.

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Linda Schalberg
11 years ago

we've had asummer home there for 40 yrs. save the apphitheater

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Jane Forsythe
11 years ago

fix it up & leave it alone- as long as it is safe.

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Arthur Salz
11 years ago

Homeowner since 1971.