Hamptons-serenade: Long Island and its associations going back to "The Great Gatsby"

A must-read piece from a decade-old article from The New York Times on the Hamptons and the lives of the rich on Long Island. At the time when the article was published the US and world's stock markets were at their highs!

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/opinion/hamptons-serenade.html