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ASHLAND CHAUTAUQUA 2009
June 23-27, 2009


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The theme of the tenth annual ASHLAND CHAUTAUQUA is American Dreams: Progress in Business and Industry, and will take place June 23 - 27 at the Myers Memorial Band Shell.  This year's program will feature four actor-scholars, portraying "First Lady of Food" Julia Child, entertainment entrepreneur Walt Disney, rancher/businesswoman Juana Briones, and inventor/journalist/statesman Ben Franklin.  The program's fifth component will be a local history presentation written and directed by our own Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.  This presentation will feature local actors portraying individuals such as inventor and researcher Charles F. Kettering, Flxible founder Hugo Young, the Myers Family of the F.E. Myers Company, and T. W. Miller of the Faultless Rubber Company.
Karen Vuranch as Julia Child
Christopher Lowell as Benjamin Franklin
Olga Loya as Juana Briones
Bill Worley as Walt Disney
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