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The Maidstone Golf Course is East Hampton's Enduring Seaside Treasure

On the long lazy summer afternoons of more than a century ago, when eastern Long Island was beginning to see the potential benefits of a resort economy, amusements other than rocking on a boardinghouse porch were few and far between. But the ascendancy of gilded Newport to the forefront of American society promoted fashions that other resorts adopted. East Hampton society felt that garish expenditure and showy luxury was out of place in their seaside village, but was quick to learn the rules for a new game called lawn tennis, which became wildly popular after 1880.

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