When American filmmakers remade The Scarlet Letter in 1995, they chose the waterfront in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, to depict the colonial simplicity of tiny Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1600s. To mask any evidence of anachronistic development three centuries later, just a few cosmetic touches were needed. This was heavily ironic, because once upon a…
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil, raised in Nova Scotia, spent 40 years in journalism, lastly with the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. Among other books, he has written three novels and three memoirs, the most recent being Looking for My Country, Finding Myself in America (Harcourt, 2003). He lives in New York and has a summer home near Shelburne.