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Seuss </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000"> |</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Miep</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Gies  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000">| </font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Robert Frost </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000"> |</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">Edith
Wharton  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000">|</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">  C. S. Lewis</span><br>

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</span></p><p style="text-align:left;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="6">July 15 - 19, 2014</font></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:left;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.ashlandchautauqua.org" target="_blank">www.ashlandchautauqua.org</a>  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000">|</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);vertical-align:baseline"> <a href="tel:877.581.2345" value="+18775812345" target="_blank">877.581.2345</a>  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000">|</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(0,112,192);vertical-align:baseline"> <a href="http://facebook.com/AshlandChautauqua" target="_blank">facebook.com/AshlandChautauqua</a></span></p>

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</span></p></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#cc0000">ASHLAND CHAUTAUQUA</font><font color="#333333"> proudly presents its 15th Annual event with </font><font color="#cc0000">Poetry & Prose</font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><font color="#333333">b</font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">eginning </span><font color="#cc0000" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tuesday, July 15</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> and continuing through </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Saturday, July 19</span></font><font color="#333333">, ASHLAND CHAUTAUQUA will present five evening performances on stage at the </font><font color="#cc0000">Guy C. Myers Memorial Band Shell</font><font color="#333333"> in the City of Ashland’s picturesque Brookside Park along with numerous daytime programs held throughout Ashland County for youth, adults and seniors. All events are</font><font color="#cc0000"> free and open to public</font><font color="#333333">.</font></div>

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At CHAUTAUQUA, youth and adults witness history in its most compelling form - first person historical portrayals. Five trained scholar/actors assume a historical figure from literature as they present exciting living history performances. Through a mixture of education and entertainment, ASHLAND CHAUTAUQUA 2014 hosts these nationally recruited scholar/actors to portray historic figures including American cartoonist and children’s author <strong style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#cc0000">Dr. Seuss</font></strong>, Irish novelist/theologian <strong style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#cc0000">C. S. Lewis</font></strong>, Dutch citizen <strong style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#cc0000">Miep Gies</font></strong><strong> </strong>who helped hide Anne Frank and preserved her diary, American poet <strong style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#cc0000">Robert Frost</font></strong>, and novelist/designer <strong style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#cc0000">Edith Wharton</font></strong>.</div>

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ASHLAND CHAUTAUQUA has developed a strong audience in and around Ashland County due to support from the Ohio Humanities Council and their production of the OHIO CHAUTAUQUA. Ashland continues the tradition in 2014 with major underwriting from the OHC, Ohio Arts Council and the City of Ashland’s Parks & Recreation Department.</div>

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