Massachusetts
About this walk
It was the very first community college in Massachusetts, and its Homestead Avenue campus rose from the ashes of a 1968 fire that burned its predecessor to the ground.
A campus is an argument in brick about what education is for. Holyoke has a long-running one. Five stops over 3.8 miles, about an hour and a half of walking. Every stop narrates itself when you get there, at whatever pace you feel like walking.
It is one of two tours in Holyoke, each taking a different line through the city. Nothing is booked and nothing expires, so you can start it on a whim and finish it whenever you like.
