When people are in the Hamptons, they're up with the birds and barefoot all day.
– Barbara Costikyan
LONG ISLAND, NY – Quieter, farmier, and altogether more charming than the go-go Hamptons to the south, the North Fork is an idyllic and easy getaway.
"The Irish sailors," Peter tells them, "never learn to swim. Not even a stroke. The sea is too strong." An exerpt from Bridgehampton-based novelist James Salter.