Western Mass

Western Mass (Western Mass - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia) is a geopolitical region including all of Massachusetts to the west of Worcester. As a cultural demarcation, this appellation is generally accepted to exclude the area of the Five Colleges, whose culture is substantively disparate from that of the surrounding lands.

Most Hampshire students never leave the area of the Five Colleges. As such, they leave an entire world unexplored. You should not allow yourself to be one of these people. Take advantage of Western Mass.

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Things to do in Western Mass
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 * 1) Go to the Montague Book Mill
 * 2) Swim in all 3 Hampshire reservoirs
 * 3) Go to one of the big antiques fair in Brimfield
 * 4) Take gnarly steampunk black-and-white photographs of ruined buildings amongst the canals of Holyoke
 * 5) Free beer at the Paper City Brewing Company
 * 6) Go to one of the Cannon Shoots at the Chicopee Sportsman's Club
 * 7) Borrow a walking stick from the Renaissance Center and go wanderjahr
 * 8) Go to the Horse Caves (can this be done?)
 * 9) Hike Mt. Tom
 * 10) Hike Mt. Norwottuck
 * 11) Visit the sunken towns of Enfield and Prescott. Possibly go fishing. For Quabbin-shoggoths.
 * 12) Have a renfair flash-mob on the Belchertown Town Common
 * 13) Run into Jeph Jacques at the Horrible Revelation in NoHo; make squealing noises
 * 14) Hike across that-bridge-next-to-the-Coolidge
 * 15) GotoPoet's Seat Tower in Greenfield. Write disappointingly bad poetry.
 * 16) Goto the Peace Pagoda in Leverett.
 * 17) Wander amongst the glacial potholes at Shelburne Falls
 * 18) Goto The Mount in Lenox.
 * 19) Goto The Lupa Game Farm and Zoo
 * 20) Visit Dana, Massachusetts - the only town destroyed by the Quabbin which you can visit... and the only such town which doesn't have a mod named after it.