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Next research tool: an atlas! We’re in New England, in the western part of the state of Massachusetts. From Rochester to us is 316 miles to the east south-east. If that helps!
In a fertile valley that is famous for asparagus, and for big leaves of tobacco to make wrappers for cigars.
And for five, count them, five colleges! Smith College and Mount Holyoke College (elite women’s colleges), Amherst College (once an elite men’s school now co-ed), Hampshire College (an experimental kind of curriculum based on Oxbridge tutorial models), and the University of Massachusetts (giant flagship of the state’s university system, with some 28,000 graduate and undergraduate students in all).
Probably in the realm of TMI (too much information).