Chautauqua World War II unfolds ..........

The Chautauqua actors/scholars attend the orientation party hosted by Doug and Katy Farber and discuss the upcoming show. Pictured from left: Karen Vuranch, who portrays Pearl S. Buck and will also do a one-woman, four act show called Homefront; Frank Dunkle of the Ohio Humanities Council; James Armstead who portrays Benjamin Davis, the Tuskegee Airman; Eric Zint, who is charge of the music for Chautauqua; Peter Small (FDR) and Doris Dwyer, Margaret Bourke-White.

Katy Farber, at right, president of the Hi-Co Chamber of Commerce, and host of the orientation party along with her husband, Doug, is pictured with Chautauqua actor/scholar Karen Vuranch, who is originally from Ohio but now resides in W. Virginia.

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FDR (Peter Small)

Emcee Mayor John Baal with vocalist Audrey White and pianist Isaac Leaverton

Times Gazette reporter Katie Wright interviewing Pearl S. Buck (Karen Vuranch) and Tuskegee Airman Benjamin Davis (James Armstead)

Vuranch, opening night act, under the big top

Pearl S. Buck

(Photo courtesy of Larry Chapman)

Chautauqua actors James Armstead, second from left, and Peter Small, chat up the USO 'cigarette girls',  Alisha Lee, at left, and Liza Dietrich.

Margaret Bourke-White under the big top

Hi-Co Senior Citizens Choir under the direction of Jane Curren

The Streitenberger Sisters

Russ Jones' World War II military ambulance

Rosie the Riveter, Karen Vuranch, who rocked the house Saturday night with her four-act, one-woman play,  Homefront

Eric Zint, musical director for Chautauqua, and Michelle Dodds

General Steve Hamilton and wife Serebrena

The SSCC Chorus

Taps courtesy nightly of Vietnam Vet Gary Cropper

Tuskegee Airman Benjamin O. Davis

Photo/Ron Coffey

Homefront

Photo/Ron Coffey

Scholar/actor Vuranch with Fran Tiburzio, marketing director of the OHC

Margaret Bourke-White

Zint and Dodds

Sue Zint, Representative David Daniels,

Michelle Dodds, Eric Zint and Mike Zint

Dietrich and Lee