This April 23, 2011 photo shows the house in Amherst, Mass., where the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson lived and died. Tours of the home and the house next door where her brother lived provide an intimate look at her life in the 19th century and the complicated posthumous efforts to publish her work.
This April 24, 2011 photo shows a biker riding past the Goodnough Dike around the Quabbin Reservoir in Ware, Massachusetts, which is sometimes described as an "accidental wilderness."
EmilyThis April 23, 2011 photo shows the tombstone in West Cemetery in Amherst, Mass., marking the grave of the reclusive 19th century poet Emily Dickinson, who lived and died in a house nearby that is now a museum. The gravestone reads, "Called back," a phrase the poet used in a letter when she was near death.
This April 23, 2011 photo shows the stone foundation for the 19th century Powers House near Hank's Meadow in the park surrounding the Quabbin Reservoir in Ware, Mass. Hundreds of homes were torn down when four towns were moved in the 1930s to make way for the Quabbin, and today the watershed area offers a unique landscape of manmade and natural elements
This photo April 23, 2011 photo shows a stone marker for the Goodnough Dike, built during the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir in Ware, Mass. Four towns were moved to make way for the reservoir, which supplies water to more than 2 million people in 51 communities, and its watershed area is now a park
This April 24, 2011 photo shoes a diner relaxing at an outdoor table at the Night Kitchen, in Montague, Mass., located next door to a used bookstore called the Bookmill. The bookstore store is housed in an 1842 gristmill on the banks of the Sawmill River.
This April 24, 2011 photo shows a sign which reads,"Books you don't need in a place you can't find," the friendly motto of the Bookmill, in Montague, Mass., located in an 1842 gristmill on the banks of the Sawmill River. The Bookmill is one of a number of unusual places amid the small towns of Western Massachusetts.
This undated photo courtesy of Emily Dickinson Museum shows the bedroom Emily Dickinson occupied as an adult and where she wrote almost all her poetry, at the museum in Amherst, Mass. Tours of the home and the house next door where her brother lived provide an intimate look at her life in the 19th century and the complicated posthumous efforts to publish her work
Emily Dickinson Museum Field Trip
