>>Yeah, it was a great place to grow up. Coventry itself hasn't changed much since I was a kid. We lived right on the Lake, so we were like fish when we were kids (never got out of the water all summer <g>). My Mom had to sell the place the year before last, which was kind of sad (Dad had Alzheimer's, he died last year). But, one of my sisters still lives in Coventry (just not on the Lake) and there are a few family friends who still live on the Lake, so we can still have the lake experience when we go back to visit. <g>
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>I always think of Coventry as rural New England, real CT yankee territory.
Connecticut is straddled between two worlds IMO. On one side New England, on the other side New York.
I don't know that you like literary biographies so take this for what it's worth. If you do, you could do a lot worse that the new book about John Cheever. He and John Updike practically defined the genre of upper middle class malaise. There is a nice picture in the book of Updike speaking at Cheever's funeral.
John Cheever was a seriously screwed up guy. But he wrote like an angel.
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