Book Review and Genealogical Research: The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America by James L. Swanson.
While I have never been there myself, and my father spent most of his childhood until joining the Air Force in Bloomfield, New Jersey, he was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and his estranged older brother, Clarke was born in Pittsfield. The one time he called, probably when I was around 5 or 6, I noticed what I wouls later understand to be similar to a Boston accent. It was a singular event…