Winter 2006

Ye Olde Yankee Encyclopedia

by Alex Beam

Alex Beam on the character of New England

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
NEW ENGLAND.
Edited by Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters.
Yale Univ. Press.
1,564 pp. $65


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