TRAVELING IN THE PLACES OF EMILY DICKINSON – Amherst / Massachusetts

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When you describe experiences concerning itineraries related to New England, always returns the same feeling to find yourself in a magical land full of culture and traditions, but also in art, where nature is your tender friend. The interaction with those places, over the centuries, has dialogued with famous stories. If you do not know New England, you can go to Amherst (Massachusetts), because they are not only incredibly beautiful places, but you sense the presence of Emily Dickinson, the greatest American poet of all time. https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tours

Perhaps you, too, to get to Amherst, you travel in a couple of hours’ drive the road that comes from Boston. This small town is famous for being the home to some prestigious college, but even more for being the city where Emily Dickinson was born and died, writing poems. You can park your car behind the Main Street on Boltwood Walk, moving on foot to reach the West Cemetery (on Pleasant Street) https://www.amherstma.gov/829/Cemeteries where you can admire the most beautiful artistic work of the city: the Ghosts of Amherst (a colorful murals characters and events in the city’s history).

Continue along the main path, on the left you find a walled garden with a few tombstones, you’ve come to the grave of Emily Dickinson. You can do what many people do, that is, let a pencil or pen (if you also want a message). Maybe Emily will read you, you sending new inspirations. When you exit the West Cemetery continue until the intersection with Main Street, where you can choose between two things to do: eat (choosing from a range of restaurants and snack bars), or join one of the many libraries where – among rare books – but patiently, you will find your prize, a book printed when Emily was walking in the gardens of Amherst. http://www.joneslibrary.org/