Afternoon With the Author: Mel Allen presents "Here in New England"

Mel Allen's work as editor and author has captured New England’s unique sense of place and the people who call it home.Mel describes his book this way: “In Mystic Seaport in Connecticut there is an exquisite scale model of Mystic in the mid-19th century. One man, Arthur Payne, worked on that scale model for more than 50 years. If you lean down and see it at eye level, it seems as if the whole town he created comes to life—people working, playing, ships loading or unloading. I see the stories in these pages a little like that—miniature pictures of New England that reveal a larger life around them. To tell these stories, I have entered the lives of people for hours or days—and when they open their own lives, their hearts, the words they speak become intimate albums. They tell me details of their lives that they may not tell anyone else. And it is up to me to treat those words with deep respect."