On Memorial Day I headed up the woodland way.
Eventually I came upon buildings and a clearing.
Soon I arrived at my destination.
Look Park has a small antique train you can ride around the park on for $4.50.
I had no interest in traveling on such a contraption, but several other Devines could be seen riding in the old caboose.
Memorial Day weekend also featured the UMass graduation festivities.
The party's over.
Amherst College had their graduation ceremony the same weekend and was overseen by a giant purple mammoth; which is the new school mascot ever since the college dumped their longtime mascot Lord Jeffrey Amherst the Indian killer.
Amherst College has the best student newspaper in the Five College system.
A certain detail caught my attention in their most recent issue featuring an article on the passage of a referendum favoring the building of a new elementary school (that Amherst probably can't afford). That intriguing detail was in a photograph taken by Julia Gentin in a classroom at Wildwood Elementary School, which is one of the older schools the new school is supposed to replace.
A gay/trans flag hanging in an elementary school classroom?
What good is a new school if there is a terrible curriculum?
Will you be going to the Asparagus Festival in Hadley this weekend?
I'll bet you won't see a stalk of asparagus as big as the one in front of Amherst's Simple Gifts Farm.
A few of my sunflowers have died, but the survivors are doing great.
The Arch in downtown Springfield in 1905.
It's still standing.
Boston on Memorial Day in 2023.
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Amherst College was woke before woke was a thing.
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