Boston and the rest

Boston from the west

— Photo by Rebecca Kennison

“Reduced to simplest terms, New England consists of two regions: Boston and not Boston.

— Travel writer Wayne Curtis in Frommer’s 2001 New England

“{In} New York, the women walk as though in the rain; in Boston, many women stroll.’’

— Andre Dubus (1936-99), in Broken Vessels: Essays. The Louisiana-born writer ended up living in Haverhill, Mass., where he taught at Bradford College, a small private institution that closed in 2000, after a 197-year run, mostly as a women’s school. It’s now now the site of Northpoint Bible College.