Local Chautauqua Circle celebrating 125 years
Poet Meredith Cook holds a copy of her just published book.
If you get to be 125 years old, you should do a little celebrating.
That is exactly what the Mitchell Chautauqua Circle did last Tuesday in Blue Earth.
The Circle held their annual spring luncheon and expanded it to celebrate the 125th year of their existence. They were started in 1883 by Julia Mitchell, the wife of a new Presbyterian pastor in Blue Earth at the time.
The Circle was started as a way for women to study and read, and to get an education. They started out by meeting weekly, and in homes. Now they meet twice a month, first and third Tuesdays, at Trinity Lutheran Church.
On this past Tuesday the ladies donned old style hats and performed a skit that was a re-enactment of a typical meeting back in 1883. They even used the names of the original members of the Circle in the skit.
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