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15 Best Things to Do in Westfield (MA)

In the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, the city of Westfield is where the Berkshires meet the Connecticut River Valley In recent times Westfield has emerged as a craft beverage hotspot, with a whole roster of breweries for beer connoisseurs to hit up. A long-standing tradition of philanthropy has left the city with some top-notch …

After a flurry of annexation and construction in the last few decades, the population of this suburban city stands at 45,000, ten times what it was in 1990. And yet the story of Westfield goes back some 200 years, to the 1830s when Quakers relocated here from the Carolinas. Opposed to slavery, these settlers are …