Amherst: Emily Dickinson's Town

Poems, a poet's homestead, and the college town that shaped her

Writers are made by places as much as by people. This is the Amherst that did the making. Six stops over 2.0 miles, about an hour of walking. The story for each stop plays as you arrive, so nothing has to be looked up and nobody has to be followed.

Amherst has five MassRoam tours and no two cover the same ground. It works as well at eight in the morning as it does at dusk. Stop for coffee, pick it back up.