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Article: Berkshire culture clash Aggressive New Yorkers annoy, amuse locals
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 13, 1995
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STOCKBRIDGE -- Asked about the New Yorkers who summer here,
several year-rounders described a recent wedding that a Manhattan
family held in the backyard of their Berkshire vacation home.
Unfortunately, a hill stood on the best spot for a wedding tent.
So the family hired a bulldozer crew and just eliminated the
annoying hill. "The price tag was $60,000," said one neighbor, on
good authority. "And that's not counting the tent!"
It is the perennial stuff of seasonal fun, fancy and sometimes
friction -- as local Berkshire dwellers, typically gentle and laid
back, find themselves living cheek-by-jowl with the more aggressive
New Yorkers who all but annex southwestern Massachusetts in the
summer.