Florida Chautauqua Assembly, Inc.

Winter Assembly in the Land of Summer...

 

Meet the Trustees

The 2007-2008 Board of Trustees for Florida Chautauqua Assembly, Inc. consists of:

Ann Robinson

Ann Robinson is a native of DeFuniak Springs.  She graduated from Walton High School and from Florida State University with a  degree in theater.  She married Aubrey G. Robinson, D.D.S. and lived away for forty years.  Following her husband’s retirement in 1990, Ann Robinson returned to DeFuniak Springs and became involved in her beloved community.  She has been associated with the Walton County Heritage Association, the Florida Chautauqua Theater, St. Agatha’s Episcopal Church and Grit and Grace, the official folk life production of Walton County.  Ann Robinson has also been involved in the historic restoration of downtown DeFuniak Springs, serving as President of Heritage Properties of DeFuniak Springs, Inc., the group that restored Hotel DeFuniak.  As a dedicated supporter of the Chautauqua Idea and with a commitment to life-long learning, Ann Robinson looks forward to helping us find some answers to “Where Are We Now?”

email: ann.robinson@floridachautauqua.org

Carol Puckett

Carol Puckett

Carol Puckett is a writer whose current project is a biography of author William Bradford Huie. A native of Decatur, Alabama, she began her journalism career as a reporter for the Giles Free Press in middle Tennessee and wrote as a stringer for regional newspapers including The Nashville Banner. She has been an activist in the environmental movement for over thirty years, writing position papers and helping write toxins legislation in conjunction with the Tennessee Environmental Council. She is involved in theatrical production and directed over thirty shows in Alabama, Tennessee and Florida. She co-authored with her husband Chuck the play "Wallace Bruce and the Chautauqua Dream", which has been performed twice for the Florida Chautauqua. She has served on the board of Dreamweavers Children’s Theatre (Decatur) and Florida Chautauqua Theatre in DeFuniak Springs. Puckett currently divides her time between Decatur and DeFuniak Springs, Florida. She and Chuck are the parents of three daughters.

email: carol.puckett@floridachautauqua.org

Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson is a Certified Public Accountant, fourth generation DeFuniak Springs native, lifelong Episcopailian and a long time Chautauquan. His extracurricular activities include bluegrass guitar, community activism, historic preservation and journalistic writing for the interests of Chautauqua, meditation and spirituality. Personal comments: "I apprenticed myself at the knee of historian Alfreda Irwin, deep in the archives of the Chautauqua Institution, spending hours learning of this 'force' called Chautauqua. I entered into the mind and heart of Dr. John Heyl Vincent, original source and co-founder of the Movement. There I discovered an 'Idea' which perpetuates a pedagogical technique, unmatched in the world today. Chautauqua creates an 'atmosphere' where all people, side by side, study the forces which mould our past, present and future world, pillars called Religion, Education, the Arts and Recreation. Out of this "Divine Idea" comes a dimension which honors life-long learning, civil discourse and a comprehensive appreciation for the diversity in which we live as well as the unity of all life. To this, I pledge my efforts."

email: craig.robinson@floridachautauqua.org