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 | | In 1646, the townspeople of New Haven, Connecticut, feeling squeezed by the neighboring settlements of Boston, to the north, and New Amsterdam, to the south, sent a ship full of their finest wares and personages to England, to assert their primacy as a New World trading center. |
 | | In the intervening years, as the locals rarely hesitate to tell you, New Haven gave us such invaluable commodities as the cotton gin, the Frisbee, and clam pizza, but its commercial and cultural standing never recovered; to many, it is little more than a university town. |
 | | Fred, who is forty-six, was born in New Haven, which he regards as a “minor major” among American cities. |
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