Our New Life in Great Barrington, MA


After some six long years at Chicago, and not gettting tenure at the University of Chicago, we left Hyde Park. After some exhaustive (and exhausting) soul-searching that resulted in ruling out another mid-west offer, we chose to move to the place we like best in this country, where we spent all of the previous seven summers; we moved to Great Barrington, MA.


It is a phenomenal place, everything Hyde park is not. Beautiful, user-friendly, clean, no crime to speak of, world-class grocery shopping in the local coop (not to be confused with the bleak Hyde Park coop) and full of interesting people who are, get this, not professors!!! It also lacks the hard-nosed, intense, intelectualism that is the hallmark of Hyde Park, and sometimes prone to demonstrably ridiculous pseudo-intelectual ideas. It is definitely a place that emphasizes the life of the body over that of the mind. Call me a roughneck (I'll be honored); I rather like it. Our house is 500 ft from Lake Mansfield which I swim across every single night after dinner and before bedttime. It doesn't suck!

My most favorite activity in GB, which I do every single morning and evening, is a bikeride. There is no end, quite litteraly, to bikerides that take me through unbelievable beauty. It being summer, I also swim at least once a day in a pond, lake, or the like other than Lake Mansfield.

Below are some scenes from the new life.


Adam's Camp, YMCA's Hi-Rock, Mt. Washington, MA






































A Favorite Ride, Long Pond/Round Pond