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Cape Ann: Cape America By Herbert Kenny

Lippincott, 294 pp., $6.95 This is what the Germans would call a Heimat book; in the old English sense of the word a “homely” book. For Herbert Kenny who lives in Manchester on Cape Ann, Massachusetts loves his adopted earth and considers it for his purposes and inclinations the most interesting and important place in the world. And indeed this is in the good Thoreau tradition of traveling extensively in Concord.

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Cape Ann: Cape America By Herbert Kenny

Lippincott, 294 pp., $6.95 This is what the Germans would call a Heimat book; in the old English sense of the word a “homely” book. For Herbert Kenny who lives in Manchester on Cape Ann, Massachusetts loves his adopted earth and considers it for his purposes and inclinations the most interesting and important place in the world. And indeed this is in the good Thoreau tradition of traveling extensively in Concord.