obsessive compulsive discovery

In western Massachusetts, three hours inland from Boston and New York, lies Berkshire County, the most beloved intersection of idyllic countryside and high culture in the US. The Berkshires – plural in reference to the region’s famously good-looking hills – have never been a secret to upper-crust urbanites…In a region of farms and villages forming the exception to an almost unbroken carpet of forested hills, there is one small town: Pittsfield (population 45,000)…a new generation of industrial jobs…an arts-driven renaissance.

See also: Herman Melville, birth of baseball, Gregory Crewdson, plastics, hiking, skiing, home.