Lake Tahoe's eccentric George and Elia Whittell featured in chautauqua performance
On Sept. 20 at 7:30pm, Valhalla Tahoe at the Tallac Historic Site, offers a Chautauqua presentation of Lake Tahoe’s eccentric, George Whittell and his wife Elia in, The Inadvertent Conservationist.
The Whittells were one of the wealthiest families in the United States in the 1930s through ‘50s. They kept an African Lion for a pet, plied the waters of Lake Tahoe in one of the most elegant pleasure crafts ever built, constructed a beautiful estate just south of Sand Harbor, played high stakes poker with the likes of Howard Hughes and Ty Cobb, and inadvertently conserved a huge portion of Lake Tahoe lands for the public to enjoy today.
The 60-minute program is free and open to the public and presented inside the Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, 4-miles west of the “Y” in South Lake Tahoe on Hwy 89.
For more information go here or call David at 760 920-8061.