Weekend from Springfield, MA with 18 and 20-year old nieces
Sep 14th, 2002, 06:35 AM
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Yankee Candle! It's up in Deerfield, 30 minutes' drive north of Springfield. It's a whole lot more than candles; there is a Christmas Village, candlemaking museum, etc. There is a good restaurant on site (Chandler's) with good food and veggie options.
Oct 20th, 2002, 11:32 AM
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Thanks for all the help.
I spent Friday afternoon in Boston--my niece took me to BU, Harvard (natural history museums with the glass specimins), and a Tibetian restaurant. Then we drove in rain all the way to Northampton.
The Knoll B&B in Northampton was an unpretentious farmhouse with 4 rooms/2 shared baths, basic food and good local advice.
We walked around downtown Northampton on Saturday morning and the girls did some shopping. Then we went to Amherst, toured the Mead Museum at Amherst College, visited a small apple festival, and walked to Emily Dickenson's home. We split up for the evening--one niece to a concert, one to a play, and I got a ticket to see Lily Tomlin. (Traffic between Amherst and Northampton was terrible.)
Sunday one niece wanted to share what she had seen on a field trip, so we found the dinosaur tracks south of town, then drove north through Old Deerfield (one wanted to tour and the other just wanted to look from the car window), on to the Mohawk Trail, Bridge of Flowers and glacial potholes. We took a side road north to Vermont, found a flea market, then into Wilmington for lunch. Heading east, we stopped at a maple syrup stand and turned up into some hills to find an apple orchard.
Because of the late color and our limited time to drive north, we only saw occasional bright leaves in Vermont.
It's so hard fitting vacationing in around their busy social schedules.
I spent Friday afternoon in Boston--my niece took me to BU, Harvard (natural history museums with the glass specimins), and a Tibetian restaurant. Then we drove in rain all the way to Northampton.
The Knoll B&B in Northampton was an unpretentious farmhouse with 4 rooms/2 shared baths, basic food and good local advice.
We walked around downtown Northampton on Saturday morning and the girls did some shopping. Then we went to Amherst, toured the Mead Museum at Amherst College, visited a small apple festival, and walked to Emily Dickenson's home. We split up for the evening--one niece to a concert, one to a play, and I got a ticket to see Lily Tomlin. (Traffic between Amherst and Northampton was terrible.)
Sunday one niece wanted to share what she had seen on a field trip, so we found the dinosaur tracks south of town, then drove north through Old Deerfield (one wanted to tour and the other just wanted to look from the car window), on to the Mohawk Trail, Bridge of Flowers and glacial potholes. We took a side road north to Vermont, found a flea market, then into Wilmington for lunch. Heading east, we stopped at a maple syrup stand and turned up into some hills to find an apple orchard.
Because of the late color and our limited time to drive north, we only saw occasional bright leaves in Vermont.
It's so hard fitting vacationing in around their busy social schedules.
