Winter Weekend on the East End, East Hampton, New York

I learned a new word recently: smultronst盲lle. It鈥檚 Swedish, literally meaning 鈥減lace of wild strawberries,鈥� however more familiarly means聽a place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation, a personal idyll free from stress or sadness. Immediately, I聽understood this sentiment in my relationship with my own hometown of Amagansett.聽Amagansett was founded by the Dutch in 1648 and remains a small village nestled between the bay and the ocean north-to-south and Montauk and East Hampton聽east-to-west.

I wasn鈥檛 born here. I was born in Manhattan, and it鈥檚 true that even though I鈥檝e grown up here since the age of 7, I may forever be distinguished聽from a true local. Of course, on the opposite end, most native New Yorkers鈥� first question to other New Yorkers is: where did you go to school? And thus, even though I began my childhood in Manhattan and continued to visit one half of my parental unit on the island of Manhattan through to the age of adulthood 鈥� I鈥檓 distinguished again from full native New Yorker status. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: Winter Weekend on the East End
Guide Location: USA » East Hampton
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Dakota Arkin
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