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This 3 page paper looks briefly at the cuisine and traditions of New England. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of the area. Discussion There are several things we think of in connection with New England: farming, Puritans, Native Americans and clam chowder among them. New England was traditionally a
farming region, but a very tough one to make fruitful because of the rocky soil. Despite this, small farms and villages are one of New Englands traditions (Dana, 1916). Most
farms had a main house and several outbuildings, and it was here that "New Englandism" developed (Dana, 1916). Dana doesnt define the term, but it seems logical to take it
to mean the attitude of the people toward adversity, which was that they were going to succeed in building a life for themselves. The Puritan tradition is strong in New
England, and often misunderstood, because it was "a curious mix of freedom and repression" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 113). Local communities had a great deal of autonomy, but they
were also "tightly bound by the restrictions of the Puritan faith and the General Court" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 113). In all the colonies except Rhode Island, the communities
were government by Puritans; the colonies "allotted each congregation a tract of communal land" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 112). The land was divided by the church members among themselves
"on the basis of status and seniority, laying out central villages like Deerfield and building churches (called meetinghouses) that were maintained through taxation" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 112). The
freemen of the town were comprised of "adult male church members," and in reality there was little difference "between religious and secular authority" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 112).
The "town and church government" system was "well suited to population growth" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 113). As the population grew and became too large for the land to
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