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Article: New England mores tried and true
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 27, 1994
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CONCORD, N.H. -- Bill Morrissey, working boats on a distant coast
and homesick for New England, picked up a barroom telephone one night
and dialed an operator in New Hampshire. Later, he wrote a song
about that spasm of Louisiana loneliness, how he'd called "Just to
hear the operator . . . talk the way I used to."
The New England singer-songwriter's tale of longing for home
speaks to ties that bind Americans to this region -- Americans who,
in the words of Jud Hale, editor of Yankee magazine, "love New
England because most of them have a connection to it -- even some
folks who've never lived here."
It is a phenomenon that defies what's happening in other parts of
the country. While forces of ...