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["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 24 Dec 2001 at 16:00, anastasi@javanet.com wrote:

> Dan, you must be from metro Boston, where everything beyond Route 495,
> even Worcester, is "western Massachusetts."  LOL  (Just kidding, but did
> you ever notice how the Boston TV weather maps end at Worcester?) Anyway,
> the term "western Mass.," to those of us who live out here, refers to the
> three western counties of Hampshire (Northampton and Amherst), Hampden
> (Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, Westfield), and Franklin (Greenfield). 

Well, having once lived out there, I've never heard "Western Mass." used 
to mean that.  Those counties are the "Pioneer Valley" or the 
"Connecticut Valley."  Western Mass. includes the Berkshires.  

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