WHY DO WE LIVE IN NEW ENGLAND? Mary Jane asked me today, as we faced more days of cold weather: “Why do we live in New England, anyway?”
Paul Fussell wrote in ABROAD:BRITISH LITERARY TRAVELING BETWEEN THE WARS: “The weather of Boston, New York and Washington is so bad that if the United States had been colonized from west to east instead of the reverse, the northeastern United States today would be populated as sparsely as North Dakota.”
I guess, the cold winters reveal how much we must like Connecticut.
People from other states travel there just to see the fall foliage.
And in the summer to visit the beaches.
They could visit in spring for blossoming orchards and wildflowers.
And the skiers skip the coastline for Vermont.
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