"Lake Tahoe’s Unique and Unconventional George Whittell" Chautauqua during Artown
Submitted by paula on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 5:15pm
Event Date:
July 8, 2023 - 2:00pm
A free Chautauqua presentation, “Lake Tahoe’s Unique and Unconventional George Whittell” will take place in Reno on Saturday, July 8 at 2 p.m.
Local authors and historians David and Gayle Woodruff, assume the characters of George Whittell and his Parisian socialite wife Elia, one of the wealthiest couples on the West Coast during the 1920s-1960s.
The Whittells kept an African lion for a pet, owned over 20 miles of Lake Tahoe waterfront, enjoyed high-stakes poker games with the likes of Howard Hughes and Ty Cobb, and inadvertently helped keep a good portion of Nevada-Lake Tahoe undeveloped.
The free 55-minute Artown history performance will be at the Sierra Arts Riverside Gallery at the Riverside Hotel, 17 South Virginia St., Reno, on Saturday July 8 at 2 p.m. Please call 760 920-8061 for more information.