Yankee Columnist on New England Myths

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Tuesday, November 19, at 5:30pm, Pontine Theatre continues its Humanities Series with "New England: Myth or Reality"  an hour-long presentation by Yankee Magazine's Edie Clark.    The presentation is open to the public free of charge, thanks to funding from the New Hampshire Humanities Council. (Click title for more details) 

 

Light refreshment will be available and no reservation is required to attend.  Pontine's West End Studio Theatre is located at 959 Islington Street in Portsmouth.  The building is not visible from the street; look for the big 959 at the head of the drive.

 

The six states known as New England have been romanticized in art and literature for more than 200 years, creating a reality that is touched by myth.  How has this myth-making affected the region?  Edie Clark, a longtime writer for Yankee Magazine, focuses on the work of Robert Frost, Norman Rockwell, Wallace Nutting, and more recently, Yankee magazine.  These and others have created such a distinct picture of New England that even the current inhabitants of the region have a hard time knowing whether what they see all around them is real or imagined.