Pioneer Valley 10 Mar 2007 06:47 pm
Groovy Greenfield
Photo by jimmywayne22
I never went to Greenfield much when I lived in Amherst. I did a little work for an organization there a long while back. But it never really drew me much, except I did always like the People’s Pint (which, I notice, has a website running Joomla).
Ruth and I spent the afternoon in Greenfield, which is now our closest metropolis (by only a hair - Amherst is almost as close - but Greenfield has the closest supermarket, and the closest Staples, etc.) We spent time at this very sweet little Thai take-out restaurant (they have one table) that had really good food.
Greenfield has always, in the time that I lived in the valley, had an interesting combination of dying mill town, rural poverty, agricultural influence, and sort of saavy cultural grooviness - although it seemed the grooviness was always lower key. Well, Greenfield appears to be groovying up. I suspect it’s the growing edge of gentrification (there’s some interesting new, and expensive looking stores on the main drag.)
Anyway, it will be fun to explore it more, and watch it change, if it does.
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on 10 Mar 2007 at 8:56 pm 1.Rachel said …
We’re big fans of Greenfield. The People’s Pint is, indeed, terrific. And Kris Delmhorst (fantastic folk musician — search iTunes for “Hurricane”) lives there, which is also a fine thing.