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Book SynopsisLike the American South, New England is one of those few regions that have long-enjoyed a popular and enduring hold on the larger nation. Culturally, politically, geographically, it is a place apart. Some of this uniqueness owes no doubt to New England's place in American history: the first colonies, the founding, the first forays into battle and true independence. It's old. It's age shows everywhere, from those battle roads, to three-hundred year-old barns and buildings, to equally old, low stone walls that thread through the woods and meadows of ancient pastures like a nation's rocky varicose veins.
In politics, in literature, in popular culture, the six-state region of America's northeast helped define much of where the nation is today. Sure, the history is pervasive. The lure of Concord and Lexington is real and that shot heard round the world' still reverberates. (Ironically, between Concord and Lexington, who've never stopped the shots across each other's historical bows
