Tip: Gatsby lecture at Nassau Museum of Art

Great Neck and Sands Point don't make an appearance in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," but West Egg and East Egg do. The two fictional villages are stand-ins for the real places, which were hopping back in the 1920s. The book's narrator, Nick Carraway, says they are part of "one of the strangest communities in North America."

If you want to take a trip back to when Long Island's Gold Coast was in its glittering heyday, head to the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor on June 27. The museum is presenting the lecture "Gatsby's West Egg and the 'Slender Riotous Island' in the 1920s" at 3 p.m.

The lecture is included in the museum admission of $10 for adults, $8 for those 62 and older. Reservations are required for the lecture. For more information or to reserve a spot, call 516-484-9338 or visit nassaumuseum.org/events.