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Article: Antiques.(New England)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch, Twelve Seasons, 1949
New England is to this country what old England is to the English-speaking world: the fountainhead of language, literature, law, and learning. New England has long been recognized as having an individuality granted to few other regions. Already in 1789 the American geographer Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) noted that the states east of New York with "the general name of New England" had "several things" in common, including "their religion, manners, customs, and character; their climate, soil, productions, natural ...