Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are considerations here that blot out all the hesitations. The Vixen has come to town, and it's time to swallow journalistic honor and say the things that have to be said...
Western Massachusetts where the town is located (it is almost on the Massachusetts New York border) is very much different from the eastern part of the state. There is less congestion: fewer and smaller cities and towns. The Berkshire hills, winding northwestward across the section, are sharply-peaked and heavily forested-more majestic than their eastern counterparts. Farms dot the landscape, and, though it is Massachusetts, one firmly believes that cows outnumber humans...
...temptation to extend the differences between the two sections to the people is strong. One immediately thinks to himself: Small town America, pastoral and puritan. Such a conclusion, however, would ultimately be misleading. All the trappings-and attitudes-of modern civilization can be found in Great Barrington. It is no Shangri...
...town was undoubtedly somewhat of a paradise for young Will DuBois, growing up there in the late 1800's. Sweeping changes were taking place in the country. A civil war had been fought and won, and then lost by the North: the American Industrial Revolution was just shifting into high gear-and with it the beginnings of American imperialism: and the country was caught in a period of public venality unequalled in its history before or since. But DuBois noticed none of this. He was even unaware of his race and did not connect certain slights he suffered with...
...comes from Dedham, Mass., a town Sacco and Vanzetti and not the Gray's put on the maps. At Noble and Greenough he played hockey and baseball besides captaining what he recalls was "a very lousy soccer team...