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A traditional roots ballad capturing the frost-bitten fields, copper ridges, and river fog of autumn across Hampshire County and the Pioneer Valley.
#PioneerValley #FolkSong #WesternMass
Buy & Download for only $1.50:
https://vervemusic.bandcamp.com/track/peak-foliage
An extremely funny, attractive, and humble gentleman on my #PioneerValley #Massachusetts discord server made this at someone else's request and I love it so much.
On the Horizon 251Q: Franklin County, Massachusetts
Introduction Franklin County is a nongovernmental entity in the Pioneer Valley within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts home to the City of Greenfield (traditional county seat) and the Towns of Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Colrain, Conway, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Hawley, Heath, Leverett, Leyden, Monroe, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Rowe, Shelburne, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell, and Whately. Major highways within the relatively rural county include […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/on-the-horizon-251q-franklin-county-massachusetts/
https://www.europesays.com/2940695/ Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne calls for federal government to step up veteran support #AfghanistanWar #AndrewWillcox #AnthonyAlbanese #AnzacDay #australia #KeithPayne #KenHiggins #KerrySummerscales #KinchantDam #lnp #MackayRSL #PioneerValley #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #VeteransHub #VeteransStrategy #VictoriaCross #VietnamWar
https://www.europesays.com/2940695/ Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne calls for federal government to step up veteran support #AfghanistanWar #AndrewWillcox #AnthonyAlbanese #AnzacDay #australia #KeithPayne #KenHiggins #KerrySummerscales #KinchantDam #lnp #MackayRSL #PioneerValley #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #VeteransHub #VeteransStrategy #VictoriaCross #VietnamWar
Hype for the Future 69B: People’s Republic of Amherst, Massachusetts
Introduction The Town of Amherst, Massachusetts, is perhaps most notable for the progressive and often socialist leanings associated with Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. However, just a few additional amenities may exist within the town outside campus limits, though the town-gown divide is far from balanced as in Northampton, home to Smith College, further west. Amenities Associated with the Hampshire College campus by the southwestern […]
Hype for the Future 64/284: The Springfield Museums
Introduction Within the downtown area of the City of Springfield in Hampden County, Massachusetts, the Springfield Museums contain the most significant elements of history within the “Western Gateway to New England.” The largest city in the Pioneer Valley, Springfield is also home or the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, albeit not on the campus of the Springfield Museums. The Museums Within the Springfield Museums, the specific museums include the Dr. Seuss Museum and […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/hype-for-the-future-64-284-the-springfield-museums/
Hype for the Future 56D: The Connecticut River Valley
Iconic Attractions The Connecticut River Valley is most notable as the dividing line between the States of Vermont (west) and New Hampshire (east). Further south, numerous cities and towns are split by the Connecticut River, with the most notable town lines occurring along the river, such as the line between the City of Northampton and the Town of Hadley for which Route 9 crosses the river. Notable Tributaries Perhaps the most notable tributaries of the Connecticut River, both of which are […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/hype-for-the-future-56d-the-connecticut-river-valley/
Hype for the Future 55I: Northampton, Massachusetts
Overview Northampton is the traditional county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, located along the Connecticut River, Massachusetts State Route 9, and United States Route 5 and bypassed by Interstate 91. The community is officially recognized as the “City of Northampton,” a stark contrast from the larger “Town of Amherst” further east which also has official city status (there are also “Cities” in Massachusetts with town status as such communities do not have wards). Home […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/hype-for-the-future-55i-northampton-massachusetts/
On the Horizon 23C: The State Forests of Western Mass
Western Massachusetts is very differently organized from the more dominant eastern side of the Commonwealth. Throughout much of Berkshire County in particular, the state forests share names with potentially namesake towns, a feature that also continues into select portions of Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and Worcester Counties. In Hampden County, Tolland and Granville are names of towns where state forests exist under such town names. In Berkshire County, Otis and Florida may be additional […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/on-the-horizon-23c-the-state-forests-of-western-mass/
Pioneer Valley: The Surprising Origin Stories of Volleyball and Basketball
Volleyball
The sport of volleyball was first invented, originally under the name “mintonette,” in the City of Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts. The sport can be accredited to William G. Morgan, whom was actually not born in Pioneer Valley but in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. In any case, however, the sport has evolved largely from the nineteenth-century origins into the modern form of the sport, and the sport had largely also evolved into becoming identified as a less […]
Anyone in the #PioneerValley of #massachusetts know an artist who would make me a wood sign with engraved words, paintings of flora and fauna, and a few other things for my front yard?
We attended the Pioneer Valley Show yesterday. The tiny rural town of Finch Hatton was packed! Hard to capture everything going on but there were rides, games, food, animals, heavy machinery, equestrian, wood chopping, and more! The day closed off with a fireworks display.
I was impressed by the prize winning pineapples—I will need to up my game (http://home.wezm.net/~wmoore/pineapples.html) to compete with these monsters.
Some dusk photos from around the farm.
Foggy in the valley this morning, but it has cleared now. Also just had some Sunbirds visit.
After lunch at the Criterion Hotel in Finch Hatton we visited Araluen Cascades today. The last time I was here was in Dec 2016.
FROM: the Activator Team of the Franklin County Rapid Response Network:
Come if you can to a protest at the Amherst Town Common, corner of South Pleasant and Main, from noon to 1 pm, tomorrow, Sunday, June 1st.
The protest is being called in response to recent ICE detentions in the Valley, including the well-reported arrest of two immigrants in Amherst on Wednesday morning, May 28th.
#westernmass #amherst #ice #nokings #pioneervalley #immigration
UMass Amherst Art Department is looking for someone to teach ART+Code in Fall 25. They use #p5js .
in-person classroom instruction Mondays and Wednesdays 9:05-11:50AM
Reach out to me for a referral or submit your info here:
https://www.umass.edu/art/about/directory/adjunct-positions
#UMass #creativecoding #AmherstMA #HigherEd #fineart #teaching #GenerativeArt #job #PioneerValley #FiveColleges
New post.
Versions of both the Jan. 7 City Council agenda, and Jan. 16 Rules Committee agenda were image-only until sometime around 3:30 PM on Jan. 9, with an updated version being published during the drafting of this article.
https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-begins-optical-character.html
#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #chicopee #pioneervalley #hampdencounty
The understated, unselfconscious boosterism of this map's caption:
"Map showing location of interesting places"
(From The Flow of Time in the Connecticut Valley, by two geologists, George Bain and Howard Meyerhoff, originally published in 1942, republished in 1976)
These include an asbestos mine, several lead mines, and Mt. Sugarloaf, among other items.
#PioneerValley #ConnecticutRiver #OldBooks #Books #geology #WesternMassachusetts #maps #OldMaps
View of the #pioneervalley today before the snow falls. Classic browns of a snowless winter. #photography
If you live in the #PioneerValleyMA (or #PioneerValley, or the #berkshires, or #WesternMass), and you're not reading the shoestring, you should be
https://theshoestring.org/2023/12/28/2023-the-shoestrings-biggest-year-yet/
Also, wtf, no hits on the hashtags. :-(
Pioneer Valley showing her colors nicely, even in the rain. #foliage #Massachusetts #PioneerValley
https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/northeast-seed-network/
#NativePlants #NativeGardens #NewEngland #PioneerValley #PioneerValleyMA #MaCoRVa
Join up, they said. It's the ecosystem's life, they said.
Anyone in the #PioneerValley want a young American Elm? We have like a dozen in our yard, and since they're pretty rare, we'd rather find them a home than just pull them.
UPDATE: it's a slipoery elm. Still native, but much more common.
Does anyone know of a drinking establishment that would let me set up with a TV or projector or whatever with a group of people who would maybe have a few beers, but just as a community space not as a "you need to rent this" space?
https://archive.org/details/connecticut-valley
Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts by Robert H. Romer
Topics
#blackchattelslavery, #massachusetts, #slavery, #connecticutvalley, #newengland, #unitedstatesofamerika, #britishcolonialism, #colonialism, #pioneervalley, #deerfield, #Africandiaspora, #antiblackness
In this first history of slavery in western Massachusetts in colonial times, Robert H. Romer demonstrates that slavery was pervasive in the Pioneer Valley in the 1700s, where many of the ministers and other “important people” owned black slaves. To show the role of slavery in the valley, Professor Romer presents a “snapshot” of slavery, choosing a moment (1752) and a place (the main street of Deerfield) to present detailed information about the slaves who lived in that place at that time — and their owners.
Please read my latest article about lead poisoning in western Massachusetts.
//“The bottom line really is that this is a moral problem. We need to solve it,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.//
#journalism #massachusetts #westernma #westernmassachusetts #pioneervalley
Americans seem to think you need a big city to do human centered urban planning, but you don't.
American style car suburbs are a virulent cancer, and we should stop building them immediately.
In the #pioneervalley , we have tons of great urban centers... we just need to get rid of parking minimums and single family zoning, re-invest in non car local transportation options, and we could have cities and towns like this.
And heeeerrre we go! The #pioneervalley just waited a little longer than most for our holiday covid sharing.
https://www.easthamptonma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4830/121522
Something that is also constantly on my mind. We see cities starting to grok the social, fiscal, and environmental benefits of deprioritizing cars and re-prioritizing humans, but I live in a small city in a moderately dense region (#macorva, the Massachusetts #pioneervalley ), and folks here haven't really even started the journey. How do we kickstart #urbanism in smaller urban areas? #bikes #pedestrians #micromobility #notjustbikes #waroncars
I wanna start an activity pub server for #macorva ( the #PioneerValleyMA #pioneervalley ), but I don't wanna do all the admin myself.
Boosting my own silly toot from a brand new and very, very quiet Massachusetts regional server. Would be nice to get some folks joining over there. #bicoastal https://mastodon.boston/explore
Please boost so folks can see.
#Boston #Massachusetts #theBerkshires #PioneerValley #Amherst #Northampton #Worcester #Springfield #Cambridge #GreatBarrington #Lenox