Springs is known in art circles as the cradle of the abstract expressionist movement. Artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and John Ferren worked there. Writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, Nora Ephron, and John Steinbeck have lived in or near Springs. Artists and writers were attracted to the area due to its rural nature, despite being within 100 miles (160 km) of New York City, and because housing prices "north of the Montauk Highway" on the bay side of the East Hampton peninsula have traditionally been lower than those closer to the Atlantic Ocean. Traditionally, locals are referred to as "Bonackers" which comes from Accabonac Harbor in Springs. East Hampton High School has adopted the Bonacker name for its sports teams.
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The Virginia tourist. Sketches of the springs and mountains of Virginia1870 · page 182Read the page →
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The town of Lexington is, by the pike, forty-two miles from Coyner's Springs. It affords another convenient place of refreshment on a tour to the springs and through the mountains of Virginia, being distant twelve miles from the Natural Bridge, ten from the Rockbridge Baths (which the correspondent of the London Times, visiting during the late war, pronounced unequaled in virtue and brilliancy by anything of the sort in Europe), and seven-
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The Virginia tourist. Sketches of the springs and mountains of Virginia1870 · page 189Read the page →
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The Rockbridge Alum Springs are situated in the northern part of Rockbridge county, seventeen miles from Lexington, and are reached thence by the main turnpike which traverses the county, leading to the Warm Springs in Bath county. Access in another direction is from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, which runs five miles from the springs, but discharges its passengers bound for this watering-place at Goshen Depot, eight miles distant,
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The Geological Conditions 367 the Rockbridge Alum, famous for the cure of all blood, skin, and stomatic diseases; the Cold Sulphur; Wilson's Springs, and the Rockbridge Baths; the Salt Sulphur, the Green Sulphur and the Blue Sulphur, noted for their cure of intestinal and stomachic troubles, rheumatism, and dyspepsia; the Red Sulphur, almost a
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