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Summer at The Chatauqua Institution

In 1995, Disney’s then-CEO Michael Eisner created the Disney Institute, his commercial homage to the Chautauqua Institution, a 135-year-old center of learning and recreation in western New York that comes alive for nine weeks every year.  Disney Institute, which is located on the periphery of Disney World, never became as successful as Eisner had hoped,…Continue Reading