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Eastern

Latitude/Longitude
42.41° /-72.53°

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Poets Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Eugene Field all lived in Amherst, the site of the University of Massachusetts and Amherst and Hampshire colleges. Visit the Dickinson homestead and Emily's grave in West Cemetery. Jones Library has a fine collection of the Amherst authors. At Amherst College you can take in Mead Art Museum. Also see the Amherst History Museum at Strong House (1744).

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