Sandra Marton | Shifting Gears

Well, not gears, exactly. What I’m talking about is a shift in seasons.

I live in New England. That’s in the northeastern part of the United States,
for those of you who might not know. ‘New England’ is the name we gave the
states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, in
honor of the English who settled this area in the seventeenth century.

My state, Connecticut, is more ‘New England’ in feel than the others,
especially our part of it. Whenever I’m in England, especially heading north, I
see the strong resemblance. Our roads are narrow and twisting; we have lots of
beautiful stone walls; many towns, counties and rivers bear English place-names.