Two valleys

The latest CommonWealth magazine includes an article, "A tale of two Valleys," by Amherst-based writer Melissa DaPonte Katz. From the article:Not surprisingly, many of the area’s cultural and recreational offerings are concentrated in the Upper Valley....

Visitors

One recent evening, around dinner time, I was putting away warm-weather clothes for storage, taking note of how dark it had gotten outside at an early hour. I head a jiggling of the doorknob at the front door, and assumed it was my husband coming home from his job. I...