From historic villages to cutting-edge galleries, verdant mountains to granite shores, clam shacks to covered bridges, New England’s scenic and cultural treasures are unparalleled. History The history of New England is the history of America. It’s the Pilgrims who came ashore at Plymouth Rock, the minutemen who fought for independence from Britain, and the abolitionists who challenged America’s legacy of slavery. It’s the ponderings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the protests of Harriet Beecher Stowe. It’s hundreds of years of poets and philosophers: progressive thinkers who dared to dream and dared to do. It’s liberty-loving citizens not afraid to challenge the status quo, as well as generations of immigrants, who…