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Article: Antiques.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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In character Maine always was and still is a province by itself, distinctive from its neighboring States. The coastwise steamers ... between its river ports and Boston, bring with the salt fish, lobsters, lumber, hay, and potatoes a special breed of rugged, ungainly, stalwart New Englander. ... Indeed, whatever may be left of that famous old New England, some time puritan and always protestant, will be found today more purely and abundantly here in Maine than elsewhere. The types of faces, the habits, and the ideas are much like those I remember in the Massachusetts of thirty years ago. It is the last stronghold of the Puritan.
Robert Herrick, "The State of ...