I honestly had no idea how nationally big the Chautauqua movement was until I went to a concert at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado. It's not only one of the oldest music venues in the state (1898), but it sits on an entire campus of historic buildings set in a beautiful park atmosphere at the foot of the Boulder Flatirons (red rock formations). Sprinkled throughout this picturesque (and public) area are interpretive signs that tell the history of the movement and of course it's roots in Western NY.