By travelguylife.com
Just east of Amherst Center on Main Street is where the poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1866) was born and lived all of her life.
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The third-oldest college in the state mixes in perfectly with Amherst's central business district.
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Hampshire College, which was founded in 1970 as an experiment in higher education, has a campus in a lovely location south of Amherst.
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Eric Carle (1929-2021), a prominent children's novelist and illustrator, established this special museum on the Hampshire College campus in 2002 with his wife Barbara (1938-2015).
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Less than a mile north of Amherst Center lies the largest campus in the University of Massachusetts system and the biggest campus of any university in the state with over 1,450 acres.
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Since it is filled with unique shops, restaurants, and cultural attractions, downtown Amherst can stand alone as a vacation spot.
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On the Hampshire College campus, there is a cultural centre devoted to preserving publications in the Yiddish language.
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On three levels, the contemporary Beneski Earth Sciences Building at Amherst College displays more than 1,700 specimens.
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The college's impressive art collection is housed in the third must-see Amherst College museum, which bears the name of the 1867 classmate and architect William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928).
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The Holyoke Range, a 9.5-mile traprock ridge spanning east to west, is responsible for the impressive mountain landscape south of Amherst.
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