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How I learned to love New Haven even though it's about to freeze my butt off

Published Thursday, December 4, 2003

Over Thanksgiving, I was doing some thinking. In the midst of turkey, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes, hominy, cranberry sauce, football and pumpkin pie, I found myself preoccupied by Puritans. Puritans --those endearing folks who wandered over to the pleasant shores of New England to seek refuge from religious persecution -- founded one of the most rigidly theocratic societies the Western world had ever seen. Yes, that's right, the Puritans, founders of our country and the irony for which it stands.

This Thanksgiving I figured that I ought to do a bit of research on the...

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