Massachusetts
About this walk
Nail a couple of peach baskets to a gymnasium balcony, and you invent basketball — which is exactly what happened here in December 1891.
Every campus tells one story to visitors and another to itself. This walk covers both. Four stops over 2.7 miles, about an hour of walking. Every stop narrates itself when you get there, at whatever pace you feel like walking.
It is one of five tours in Springfield, 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.
