Amherst Coffee, 1.32 p.m.
I’m spending my day off tooling through some old stomping grounds, including South Deerfield, Northampton, and Amherst, where I lived around and about during my time in grad school at UMass from 1986-89. Twenty years ago does NOT seem possible, let alone plausible. I’m hanging and waiting for my old friend Doug to arrive at a very cozy coffee shop in a building that was a cinema when I was here in the 80’s. Excellent Americano.
The drive in was uneventful, mostly overcast but still quite beautiful. I stopped in S. Deerfield for a couple of views:
The last place I lived while in the area, above Lou’s TV. Still there, incredibly. My place was second floor on the right. I don’t remember it looking this seedy, somehow.
The view looking south from Mt. Sugarloaf - just a few blocks away from the apartment above the TV store - towards Amherst, and the Connecticut River; the UMass campus buildings are barely visible in the distance.
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