The Lake in Fiction
Chautauqua Lake is mentioned in at least one episode of I Love Lucy, in which Lucille Ball (a native of nearby Jamestown, New York), playing the role of Lucy Ricardo, finds a small fish, stuffed and mounted, in a trunk in her attic and recalls that Ricky caught it at Chautauqua Lake, and was so thrilled that he mounted it.
Chautauqua Lake is of major significance in the novel Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan (Grove Press, 2002). The German translation of the title was Abschied von Chautauqua, which means "A Farewell from Chautauqua".
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Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or fiction:
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)