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Article: THEIR QUEST: CAPTURING NEW ENGLAND'S CHARACTER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2001
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DURHAM, N.H. - In one sense, defining New England culture should
have been an easy task: six states, 13.9 million people, 13,200
commercial lobstermen, Johnny Most, Plymouth Rock, the rock band
Phish, and "tonic" instead of "soda."
But for David Watters and Bert Feintuch, who are looking past the
obvious, the quest to grasp the essence of New England's regional
identity has proved to be a marathon project.
Indeed, the two University of New Hampshire professors, who are co-
editing The Encyclopedia of New England Culture, are asking people to
think about a notion of New England beyond geographical fate,
consumer markets, and federal definitions.
Is there something indelible, they ask, that ...