There are rocky coastlines along the Atlantic, harbors, coastal lowlands, and uplands. The many capes, bays, lakes, wetlands, and rivers support the fishing industry. New England also boasts the Appalachian Mountains and Connecticut River Valley!
Grow a lot of food and import alot of food
A cultural historian would get, by interviewing unemployed people during the Great Depression, B. The names of specific people who were unemployed and D. Stories about the experience of being unemployed.
This is because such historian would be doing microhistory, gathering information and stories about people directly from the source, while the economic historian would be doing macro-history, not paying attention to individuals.