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| | Valley Advocate: Northampton--Like You Read About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Northampton is one of the republic's artsiest small towns, thick with studios, galleries, arts councils, craftsfolk (a paint-your-own pottery shop occupies a prime slot on Main Street), and chamber-music mavens. |
 | | In a sense, they've remade the town in their image: a capitalist commune where painters, poets, and plenty of therapists keep recirculating their two-professional salaries among themselves. |
 | | Northampton, whose wealth came originally from its textile industry, is the civic and cultural centre of a region of rolling farmland, rivers, lakes, and densely-wooded hills which flame in the New England fall. |
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