MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: quintessential

Next to the police station on Center Street. Only in Northampton!

Smith College commencement exercises have always been declared open and closed by the sheriff of Hampshire County. Sheriff John Boyle, who died in 1984, did the honors when we were students. The current sheriff, Robert J. Garvey, is retiring after 30 years of service, so this is his last commencement.

This hat has been impaled on a hydrant next to the Smith College athletics complex for at least three months. It's a nice hat. In any other town, it would have been nicked.

I'm at a loss to describe this vintage pink item. Was its first life in a boudoir, or a theatre foyer, or a Victorian sitting room?