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Article: NEW ENGLAND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 28, 1998
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New England is hot.
Tourism is a booming industry, and President Clinton and his
family are returning to Martha's Vineyard for another summer
vacation. Several recent polls indicate residents of Massachusetts
and the other five states feel good about the region and about
themselves. (Well, maybe not Rhode Islanders, who were the most
pessimistic in a recent Roper poll.)
Yankee magazine, the publication that celebrates New England, has
a circulation that has risen through the years to 700,000, with 62
percent living outside the region. But for the tourists who come
here, as well as for those who live here, much of what we