Wander down a lane in Vermont or stroll through one of Maine’s coastal villages and you could easily find yourself swept back a century in time. The history that seemed staid and boring in your highschool textbooks suddenly springs to life, complete with daring heroes, traitorous villains, rebellions, and revolutions. A visitor to Plymouth, for example, might find pilgrims firing their muskets. A traveler in Providence might see the church of Roger Williams, who founded the Baptist denomination here after the Puritans banished him for his “dangerous” ideas.
    And if it feels like you’re walking in the footsteps of Mark Twain as you explore Connecticut’s streets, you could be. Both Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, were once residents of Hartford. Literature and art lovers can peek into Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond, view Archibald M. Willard’s famous painting The Spirit of ’76 in Marblehead, or stop at the House of Seven Gables, which inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne.

LLOYD, Tanya. New England. Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 2000. [Adapted].

 

The text is an invitation to: