Days 9 and 10 - 6 miles on Sunday and another 4 miles today takes me from Chesterfield through the town of Williamsburg (not to be confused with Williamstown!) as well as Haydenville, before ending up right at Look Park in Northampton.
A few notable things:
The Chesterfield Scout Reservation was on the way -- this reservation, owned by the Boy Scouts for 50 years, was sold in 2018 to the Tolgy Wood organization, who runs an annual Renaissance Faire there, and who were planning to run all sorts of events and Live Action Role Playing events. Covid seems to have hit them hard, though, cancelling all of their events. I hope they make it through.
Williamsburg is the next town to go through -- seems to be famous for it's great flood of 1874, when the town was nearly wiped out, and it's 'quaint' downtown. Tracy Kidder, the famous author, lives here. I do wonder who Williamsburg was named after - I don't think it was Ephraim Williams, who left his estate and money to found Williamstown and Williams College. It appears, however, that there were a lot of Williamses in Western Mass during that time, so maybe it was one of his cousins...
The landscape changes from the wooded hills of the west to more and more retail and restaurants -- the Williamsburg Snack Bar, Bread Euphoria, Scotti's, and, yes, a Dunkin Donuts. We've arrived in Northampton.
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