When I was a little girl, my family summered in the valley.

"It was a closed community," said Nancy Richmond, whose family has summered in Watch Hill for five generations.

"I think you call them billionaires," said one Northeast Harborite, whose family has summered at the resort since the 1890's.

Twain and his family summered there for over twenty years.

Cornell's family often summered there among other wealthy Americans.

This place is in my blood; our family has summered here for three centuries.

That's where his family came from and always summered.

Fenwick, a tiny borough by Long Island Sound, is the place where her family summered for almost a century.

Her family summered there when she was 5 years old, and she has always had fond memories of the place.

Many members' families have summered there for generations.