VFYW Contest: Pilgrims And Progress

For contest #260, we head back to the very beginnings of the American experiment.

A reader has regrets:

I kicked myself for not entering last week. I looked at the view and immediately went “East Anglia” — I grew up 20 miles up the road from Cambridge. But then I distracted myself with round church towers in Norfolk until I had to get on with my day.

By the way, I’m nearly 40 (in Feb). In 20 years of subscribing to analysis, news, per…