A few years ago we were visiting Nova Scotia and went out to see some art studios. One older artist, upon finding out we were from Massachusetts, exclaimed "Oh! my family is from Haverhill!" The fact that he pronounced it correctly drove the point home. We asked him when his family moved to Nova Scotia, expecting him to say that his parents immigrated or that he had aunts and uncles still living there, or something.

No, his answer to "when did your family move" was "1783." They were Tories fleeing the Revolution. So when he and some friends visited Boston not long before our trip to NS, they gave a quiet "Three Cheers for King George!"

But he still considered himself "to be from Haverhill."