If you're looking for Berkeley California, you can find some of it in Northampton. With the street fair in full bloom; there's a pleasant - post apocalypse - cultural fair going on in the streets. It's got a communtarian flavor; with street people - hair styles reminscent of the 1960's and some slack that would drive the "nut-jobs" into a patriotic rage.
Since Harvard Square is all but sterilized; Northampton has picked up the slack.
But here's the real trophy that Northampton can claim: there's a good mix of national retail and local retail; occupying 98% of the the main street storefronts. By the numbers, friday was crowded with on-lookers and shoppers and people from all over the valley and Berkshires taking in the sites. This was on thriving Main Street; cash registers were singing and people displayed their goods, their arts, and crafts in friendly form.
In your face Berkeley, I mean Weymouth!
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