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Southampton
College is located on the eastern tip of Long Island, NY in
the heart of The Hamptons, one of the most beautiful ocean
resorts in the world. Visitors come from far and wide to enjoy
the area's rural charm and jet-set sophistication, only 70
miles from New York City.
The
Hamptons International Film Festival, a Shakespeare Festival,
Pianofest, The Steinbeck Book Fair, The Hampton Classic Horse
Show, and the World Affairs Council lectures are some of the
annual events. Art openings, book signings, museums, theater,
great restaurants and shopping add to the panache. The old
Halsey Homestead built in 1648 by one of the areaís original
settlers and the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum are two of the
many historical sites and museums.
Artists,
writers, celebrities and business leaders have long made the
Hamptons their home. Billy Joel, Steven Spielberg, Julie Andrews,
Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin and Christie Brinkley, E.L. Doctorow,
Peter Matthiessen, Dava Sobel, and Larry Rivers all spend
time in the Hamptons. The late artists Willem DeKooning and
Jackson Pollock lived and worked here as did the writers Irwin
Shaw and Willie Morris.
Broadway
shows, Wall Street, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Yankees
and Mets baseball games are an easy bus or train ride away
in New York City. Beautiful Atlantic ocean beaches, quiet
inlets, tidal creeks, bays and farm fields add to the inspirational
beauty of this string of seaside villages and towns and make
the Hamptons an ideal place in which to learn. A strong tradition
of environmental preservation is buoyed by such advocacy organizations
as Group For The South Fork and The Peconic Land Trust.
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