
Breen, a prof. of American History at Northwestern Univ., was hired by the East Hampton (EH), NY, historical society to write a history of Mulford Farmstead, a weathered saltbox dating from 1680 and located on Main St. in the town. Breen, an outsider, historian, and amateur detective,...

How we make history--and what we then make of it--is engagingly dramatized in T. H. Breen's portrait of a 350-year-old American community faced with the costs of its "progress." In the particulars of one town's struggle to check development and save its natural environment,...
