Rebecca Richmond, a Chautauqua writer and one of the founders of the Sandwich Poets at Chautauqua — a precursor to the Chautauqua Literary Arts program of today — in her 1944 poem “To Chautauqua - Moment of Farewell,” wrote: “Sometimes I wish that I would love you less, For when the summer ends and I must go, Almost it is a rending of the soul - You are part of me and I of you.”
