The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened FamiliesBy James Q. WilsonHarperCollins, New York, 274 pages You have to admire James Q. Wilson’s nerve. In his latest effort, The Marriage […]
Katharine Whittemore
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Ode to New Englands mills reborn
Reused factories provide haunts for the ghosts of our industrial past In western Massachusetts, where I live, many rivers bear resonant names. A few conjure up attributes (the Swift, the […]
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Seeing the Forests and the Trees
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New EnglandBy Tom Wessels The Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1999 (paperback), 199 pages.Stepping Back to Look Forward: A History of the Massachusetts […]
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Suburban Sprawl
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of SprawlBy Richard Moe and Carter WilkieHenry Holt, New York, 1998, 276 pages.Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st CenturyBy […]
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George Apley Lives
No equivocation, then. “The land where the gold grasshopper swings above Faneuil Hall to the bidding of a damp east wind,” in other words Boston, has never been decanted more […]