the granddad of new england, as you might say. >> i always feel welcome here. i never consider that this is mine. it's theirs and they've allowed me to live here in a very nice way. and i feel recognition. they know who i am. they know who i am. >> there is a side-by-side aspect to life here that's very unusual. >> very unusual. mostly, you can do whatever you want. if you do it with good manners. >> but it sort of a station of the cross where, you know, bad boys of culture. burrows came here to be a writer. as so many of us were. if you wanted to think of yourself as a writer, you would come here and somehow you were working with a romantic tradition. burrows right up front, me, a