There is an article today (4/13/18) in the The New York Times about the Berkshires which mentions North Adams, Williamstown, and other places of local interest.
Here is a link to it:
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Great stuff GreyKing! I have long felt and continue to feel that Williamstown and North Adams are underappreciated by folks with a casual knowledge of Williamstown / who just drive through once. While Williams is a small town and neighborhing North Adams, while gentrifying, is still a rougher industrial town, from a student perspective, they have a lot to offer … loads of restaurants (with more coming in seemingly all the time), plus pubs, movie theaters, several world-class art museums, golf/skiing/hiking opportunities, a brewery, and a slew of great music events / festivals throughout the year at MassMOCA. It’s like no other small town environment I’ve ever seen. And within another 3-6 years, once the railroad museum is constructed and some of the other big plans for North Adams (other museums, distillery, hotels, restaarants, new town green) start to get off the ground, North Adams will have a heck of a lot more to offer.
Here is another link from a Boston Globe article last August about “life in Williamstown”:
Here is another article, featuring Williamstown.