OLD CHARACTERS: YANKEES, PRESIDENTS, ETC

New England and the Eastern part of the US, the northern part mostly, is notorious for its assorted characters: political, religious,philosophical, poetic, and other categories that fit most of the possible human types and descriptions, ancient and modern......there are LINCOLN IMPERSONATORS, one of whom I am fairly acquainted with in the area, and varous historical programs often use actors to tell life stories of the deceased personages in various towns, all done,of course, in the grave yards on their grave sites, if known. One great New England Institution is THE TOWN MEETING that some want to demolish and allow little space or time for actual discussions and meetings,etc. another institution of rural American going down the tubes, as the moderns say....