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Northshore October 2025
Nestled among the rolling Berkshires, the town of Stockbridge has a quaint familiarity about it, with its tree-lined Main Street, small shops, church, and the Red Lion Inn’s grand, rocking chair–lined front porch. If this idyllic New England scene feels like it’s been plucked from a Norman Rockwell painting or an American folk song, that’s because it has inspired both. It’s the town with “three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car” that Arlo Guthrie sang about in “Alice’s Restaurant,” and also the downtown village was rendered into magical immortality in Rockwell’s painting “Stockbridge Main Street
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