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Clark Art Institute boasts great CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
19th-century European and The Heartland
American painting, especially the Between Boston and the Berkshires
French Impressionists. Thoroughly are gentle hills and broad valleys.
modern is MASS MoCA, in North One of the country’s best ‘living
Adams, one of the USA’s largest history’ attractions is Old Sturbridge
centres for visual and performing Village, where costumed ‘history
arts, with the must-see Sol LeWitt interpreters’ welcome you to rural
Wall Drawing Retrospective. Totally life in the 1830s. On the 200 acres
different is Hancock Shaker Village are historic buildings, including a
that tells the story of this religious working water-powered mill and a
sect; see the museum and enjoy blacksmith’s forge. Families still live
the 750 peaceful acres. in Historic Deerfi eld, a ready-made
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century private homes and also
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