A collection of articles and biographies about an Armenian Diasporan community, this book explores the people and places that give New England Armenians their unique cultural accent. From the formidable role of Hairenik Armenian newspaper to businessman Moses Gulesian's bid to save the American warship, the U.S.S. Constitution, the Armenians of the Northeast have maintained an identity that continues to thrive.

The Armenians of New England: Celebrating a Culture and Preserving a Heritage, and edited by Marc A. Mamigonian, presents the proceedings of the 1999 conference of the same name held at Bentley College in Waltham, MA. The Armenians of New England conference was the first to undertake the study of an Armenian community of North America and was the result of the cooperation of a number of Boston-area Armenian organizations. Handsomely designed with dozens of photographs, the book covers a wide range of topics relevant to the Armenians of New England specifically, and many of wider relevance. Religion, immigration, literature, architecture, music, civic, political, and cultural institutions, inter-ethnic relations - these subjects and others are illuminated by the articles contained in the book.