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So, outside of my own blogs (which you are already reading, right? I have this one, my distressed homeowner one and one about musical theater for kids), I love exploring the posts of other Western Massachusetts residents.
Today I want to share my favorites with you and I hope you will peruse their posts and enjoy as much as I do.
#1- Exploring Western Massachusetts.
This blog is an everything Western MA site with wonderful posts about events, places and history of this great part of the world.
#2- The Jump, WriterJax
The musings of the eclectic and entertaining Jaclyn Stevenson. You just never know what you will find when you visit this blog, but it is always fun!
#3- Holyoke Home
from their about section: One couple. One dog. One garden. One achingly lovely historic brick row house in Holyoke, Massachusetts. One very cool city. One VERY LONG renovation ‘wish list.’ One project at a time? We’ll see. I love antique homes and can appreciate what they are sharing through their process. Also a very positive view of the city of Holyoke.
#4- Berkshire Country Homes
Even though my town of Westfield is just at the foothills of the Berkshires, every time I visit those lovely mountains I feel that I am a world away. Marlene’s posts take me there when I don’t have time to drive.
#5- Cooper Green Design
While I don’t know this designer personally, I enjoy learning about Green living architecture and find this blog to be a great resource and food for thought.
BONUS
#6- Wooing Your TQ
This one is really #1 for me, but since it is ABOUT me, I thought I should share it as a bonus. Morriss has created this lovely homage to our romance and I find it very sweet and inspirational!
I am always on the lookout for new local blogs to peruse…what do you recommend?
Western Massachusetts just got walloped with two big snow storms and most of us are snowed in. While working from home today I asked on Twitter if there was anything real estate related that my Western Massachusetts friends would like me to write about. I got this question from Karen Lynn @sipclipandgo on Twitter, who owns a 1953 brick home in the area:
I’d like to know why there are so many brick homes in South Hadley and Chicopee.
So, I embarked on some good old fashioned research on Google and discovered a few clues, but not as much information as I would have thought.
I suspected that there must have been a local brickyard and after quite a lot of digging around I found that South Hadley was home to Robinson’s Brickyard. Interestingly, there isn’t much information available on this business, at least that I could find.
What I did discover, though, was that the heyday of this brickyard was in the late 1800’s and the brick homes that are in question were built largely in the 1950’s.
So, I turn this question over to you…
Do you know why brick construction is so prevalent in South Hadley and Chicopee, MA? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Growing up in a small town is a funny thing. It isn’t until you are much older, and maybe being a parent is part of it, that you realize why your parents chose to live in “podunk” and raise you in that little bit of nowhere you couldn’t wait to get out of.
I was born in Springfield, MA, but spent my childhood in Southwick, MA. Known to some as “the jog” or “the notch”, much of the southern part of the town dips miles into Connecticut. I grew up right on a street that was only a mile from the CT border.
As a REALTOR at Park Square Realty in the Greater Westfield area, I get to work in Southwick quite a bit, but I don’t always slow down to really notice the town. 
A buyer client of mine wanted to see several properties in Southwick last week and driving around town started to bring back memories of my youth in town. Driving the side road that was a “short cut” to my street, I felt my instincts for where to hug the curves and slow down kick back in automatically. I passed the homes where my high school friends lived (and some of their parents still live) and loads of developments that were never there when I was young.
I showed a home for sale across from the Sofinowski Land Preserve, which is now protected land, but when I lived just down the road was still Mr. Sofinowski’s farm. My sister and I used to love to ride our bikes down the hill near his farm and I always liked his sheep.
On this drive I could see the time stamp for when neighborhoods moved further out in to the southern “country” of town. Peppered about the historic homes and farms, the multitude of raised ranch homes tell of the late 70’s and early 80’s. The mini mansions came in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, many of them on what used to be tobacco fields.
The tobacco farm where I worked (yes I picked tobacco) is still there, although others are gone and turned into neighborhoods. The Summer House is still there and thriving, although it is now a year round restaurant. The Moto-Cross still causes traffic when the BMX races come to town
I should have known that I couldn’t be in town without being recognized AND that only my maiden name would be used. As my client and I arrived at our last property for sale, I was greeted with “hey, you are Lesley WEBER!”.
I live in Westfield now, but only a half mile from the Southwick line and I spend a lot of time with friends and my daughters enjoying my childhood town. As a parent I now see what my parents were doing by raising a family in a small town like Southwick: it is pretty, it is safe, it is quiet and it is still a community.
If you are looking to move to Southwick, MA I not only recommend it, but it would be my special pleasure to help you with your move.
tobacco barn photo courtesy of hilltowngal
