{"id":4859,"date":"2012-04-14T06:45:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2015-04-27T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T21:38:26","slug":"great-barrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/great-barrington\/","title":{"rendered":"great barrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>For years, I&#8217;ve been going up to the Berkshires, and one of my favorite towns is Great Barrington.  It&#8217;s a combination of quirky-cute and quite practical (unlike, say, Stockbridge, which has quirky cute down pat but after 20 minutes of wandering around, you realize that you can only buy country kitsch, or Pittsfield, which, in its development as an industrial company town has plenty of practicality but just looks ragged).  And then I realized that I had never taken my camera over to Railroad Street to take pictures.  So here you go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3594.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: old school dry goods\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3594.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3599.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: town\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3599.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3600.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: town\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3600.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3602.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: The Mahaiwe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3602.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3604.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: the long view\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3604.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3606.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: town hall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3606.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3607.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: The Mahaiwe, again.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3607.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3609.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: I cant ever get enough of how cute everything is.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3609.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3611.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: the BEST ice cream in the world\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3611.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3614.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: Gatsbys.  It's closed, but the sign is eternal.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3614.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3615.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: and no hippie, liberal arts college hosting town would be complete without one of these stores\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3615.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3616.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: view from the top of the street\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3616.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3617.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: WEB Du Bois memorial. He was born in Great Barrington, and now he's honored by a mural in a parking lot.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3617.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3618.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: polite graffiti. in chalk.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3618.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3619.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: 20 Railroad Street\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3619.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_3623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2012.04.07]\" title=\"Great Barrington 2012: 20 Railroad Street\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tDSC_3623.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve been going up to the Berkshires, and one of my favorite towns is Great Barrington. 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