Fun Facts About Chautauqua Lake: 📍 One of the highest navigable waters in North America — 1,308 ft above sea level 📏 Length — 17.5 miles 🌐 Surface area — 13,156 acres 📉 Max depth — 75 feet This month’s CCI blog reflects on Chautauqua Lake and the challenges it faces—from overfishing to watershed pollution—as we prepare for our 5th Annual Chautauqua Lake Conference at the Chautauqua Golf Club. Join us June 21 & dive in to learn more with the 🔗 below: https://www.chq.org/blog/climate-change-initiative/chautauqua-climate-change-initiative-may-2025/ (fb)

🎉Congratulations 🎉 to the seven incredible finalists for the 2025 Chautauqua Prize! The winning book will be announced in early June, selected from this remarkable list of works: 📖 We’re Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat (Graywolf Press) 📖 No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust by Chris Heath (Schocken Books) 📖 By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle (HarperCollins) 📖 Whale Fall: A Novel by Elizabeth O’Connor (Pantheon Books) 📖 The Fertile Earth: A Novel by Ruthvika Rao (Flatiron Books) 📖 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial) 📖 Load in Nine Times: Poems by Frank X Walker (W. W. Norton & Company) Grab your copy online or in person at the Chautauqua Bookstore & read more below! 🔗 https://www.chq.org/announcements/seven-finalists-named-for-2025-chautauqua-prize/ (fb)