Ya gotta live there

Spring view of the Sherman, Conn., end of Candlewood Lake with Candlewood Mountain

“The country towns here in New England all bear a family resemblance to one another, but they also have individual characters that can be learned only by living in them.”

— Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989), in “Town Report 1942,’’ in The New Republic. He was an American editor, historian, poet and literary critic. He was a resident of the western Connecticut town of Sherman for the latter part of his life. The town was rural then but now is more exurban.