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Feisty-Weakness4695 t1_j82fxp4 wrote

I wanted to check out the Ice Glen in Stockbridge but I was with my mom who can’t climb over rocks and stuff anymore. https://housatonicheritage.org/places/lauras-tower-trail-ice-glen-trail-stockbridge-mass/#:~:text=600'%20vertical%20ascent-,ICE%20GLEN%20TRAIL,the%20tallest%20pine%20in%20Massachusetts.

For local history, you can go to Stockbridge and imagine you’re living in Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”.

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Feisty-Weakness4695 t1_j82fiq9 wrote

Go to the Lee/Lenox area. Visit the Norman Rockwell Museum. Check out Herman Melville’s Arrowhead house. Hit up Barrington Brewery. Canoe Meadows and Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuaries are wonderful. The Berkshire Botanical Garden is great. Really enjoyed the Berkshire museum, it has a mummy!!! Ozzie’s Glass Gallery on Rt 102 in Lee is a super cool place to visit but the hours vary. Shire Breu-Hous is another brewery to visit.

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SharpCookie232 t1_j82b9uq wrote

The Whaling Museum is amazing and they are having the most incredible show of American landscape painters now. I'm heading down over Feb break myself. OP, if you go, be sure to hike Fort Taber park or do Allen's Pond in Dartmouth - both spectacular. Also, the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford, which is right near the museum, and is mentioned extensively in Melville's Moby Dick.

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ShadowGLI t1_j828l8t wrote

I’m not religious, agnostic, but I very actively correct my daughter not to use god/Jesus/etc in vain.

The same way when I was young it was just considered not “pc” to call something gay or someone retarded, as I grew older I made it a point to remove those terms from my vocabulary and did the same with Jesus, Christ, god etc. I’m not religious but it’s a clumsy, lazy way to express emotions.

I try to treat others with the same consideration and respect I’d strive to receive, and I feel like religion, even if I don’t find any connection to it, helps steer others and if that’s what they need to find fulfillment, more power to them.

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NewspaperEconomy5473 t1_j826d61 wrote

This attitude is exactly why we are so deep in a housing shortage. Because people want to nitpick every development and hold them to unreasonable standards.

We need all kinds of new housing, not just affordable housing. Setting unrealistic quotas for affordable units only makes new housing more expensive to build. We need to remove barriers for new construction, not create new ones.

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