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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