Sunday, April 10, 2011

Massachusetts Backwater

The town of tenacious roots

Being “from here’’ was once a well-worn truism in New England, where people and families famously stayed in one place. But in an age of surging mobility, where bouncing from job to job and place to place is the new norm, this town and its neighbors stand out as an island of the old way, with outsiders few and far between....