Chronicle - New England Monthly

DateOctober 3 1988

Can DescriptionsChronicle Monday October 3 1988 New England Monthly Aircheck

AbstractChronicle; New England Monthly: The Way We Were; includes commercials; black and white portrait photographs taken in the 1940s are the basis for investigations by the magazine New England Monthly; Daniel Okrent, editor of the magazine talks about the values and content of some of the images; interviews of those who remember the scenes captured in the photographs are the major portion of the report; fishermen around Gloucester, Massachusetts, talk about the changes during the span between when the photographs were taken and now; the Thomas General Store is described by those who knew it well; farmhands from Jamaica who came to work the tobacco fields remained after the work returned to those who had been away in the war; a few of them recall their lives then and now living in Hartford, Connecticut; Dartmouth College in the 1940s photographs is described; Robert Frost was on the faculty then; some of disappointments just out of the camera's view are described by the editor and others; several of the photographs were taken in Maine; the former Danbury Fair is now a shopping mall, as an example; lottery number; upcoming show on outer metropolitan Boston; upcoming stories on News Center 5 at 11; ABC News special on U.S. youth education; America's Kids: Why they flunk;