Noel Perrin, a professor of English at Dartmouth, is the author of several books, including Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 . This essay is excerpted horn Mills and Factories of New England , with photographs by Serge Hambourg, to be published this spring by Harry N. Abrams in association with the Hood Museum of Art. ©1988 Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Articles by this Contributor Winter 1988A Landscape Made By Hand The New England countryside is a product of past technology as well as nature Read >>