Born and raised in Eastern Massachusetts. Summers on the coast of Maine.
Grew up in a House built in the late 1600's in a town called Marshfield (Very close to where the Mayflower landed in 1620). We lived directly on a river with a history of shipbuilding, including I think the first or one of the first vessels to round cape horn in the 1800's.
The christmas carols "Jingle Bells" and "Over the River and Through The Wood" are both written about the current town I live in - Medford, MA.
And, I laugh every time someone from Wisconsin or Michigan refers to themself as an "Easterner"