SUMMERS IN SANDS POINT

WENDY GOODMAN RECALLS THE LONG ISLAND HOME THAT SPARKED HER LIFELONG LOVE OF DESIGN. BECAUSE NO PHOTOS REMAIN, SHE TURNED TO HER FRIEND, ARTIST MAIRA KALMAN, TO CONJURE THE SPLENDORS OF THE LEGENDARY HARRIMAN HOUSE.

IT WAS CAMELOT BEFORE CAMELOT. SANDS POINT, just a 40-minute drive from New York City on a good day, so close and yet a world away on the Cow Neck Peninsula in Nassau County, surrounded by water and bordered by sandy beaches. It’s where Guggenheims, Vanderbilts, and Goulds bought land and built castles—and, some say, it was the model for East Egg in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. But there was also a more down-to-earth aspect to life in Sands Point—one in which politicians, writers, artists, and theater professionals took retreat in the private oases provided by their hosts. That’s the Sands Point I remember from my childhood summers there, spent in a bathing suit at our two-story shingled house next door to Marie and W. Averell Harriman’s compound overlooking…

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