Over the past week, life at the Chautauqua Institution continued much as it had for 148 summers.
Adults wiled away days attending church, playing badminton, taking pottery classes and listening to music on the shores of a picturesque western New York lake. Children attended camp and roamed free even as the sun set.
Why would the thousands of families inside the 750-acre gated compound suspect that an attacker was among them?
Then on Friday…