Summer Cottage Communities - Seibert, Peter Swift
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As people began spending their summers away from the city, "cottage communities" appeared in vacation spots to provide leisure activities to the American middle class. Inspired by tent revivals, many such communities centered their activities in religious worship, but secular, education-focused retreats featuring intellectual speakers also gained popularity, including the Chautauqua movement in western New York. Author Peter Swift Seibert traces the history and legacy of several mid-Atlantic cottage communities.

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As people began spending their summers away from the city, "cottage communities" appeared in vacation spots to provide leisure activities to the American middle class. Inspired by tent revivals, many such communities centered their activities in religious worship, but secular, education-focused retreats featuring intellectual speakers also gained popularity, including the Chautauqua movement in western New York. Author Peter Swift Seibert traces the history and legacy of several mid-Atlantic cottage communities.
Autorenporträt
Peter Swift Seibert is the CEO and president of the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he began his career in museums as executive director for the Historical Society of Dauphin County and later CEO of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County. Over the next fifteen years, he also was an adjunct faculty member at Penn State University and the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and wrote two books.