Hilltown Families 
THEATER MARATHON vs. CANNONBALLS We’re RICH in theater this week. With an abundance of theater-going opportunities, I could potentially take my daugher to see seven classic stories performed on stage, including...
Call for Photographers (Ages 5 to 12) On our route between Northampton and the Hilltowns, we often zoom by the Northampton Community Gardens. Yesterday Persephone and I were passing by and...
Fireworks, Music & More Summer Fun! We’re off this weekend to New York for a 07/07/07 Wedding, sorry to miss all of the fun stuff happening this weekend in Western Mass....
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY If you have a family-friendly event or educational program happening in Western Massachusetts that you’d like to let us know about, or would like to submit your...
Summer Reading 2007 Starting up this week is our state-wide reading program, “Catch the Beat at your Library,” a Massachusetts Regional Library systems 2007 summer reading program. Each library customizes a...
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY Last Friday one of my good friends and I took our kids to the New England Aquarium in Boston. Big day! Our first trip to Beantown. We drove...
SUMMER FESTIVALS ARE HERE! One thing I LOVE about summer is all the outdoor fairs & festivals. Music festivals, community festivals, wool fairs, rivers festivals, ecology fairs … you name it,...
It’s Officially Summer! We spent the weekend huffing and puffing until we finally got my daughters kiddie pool blown up – which officially makes it summer for us (even though it’s...
Memorial Day Weekend Memorial Day weekend is here. Growing up in the hills of East Texas, Memorial Day weekend marked the opening of our neighborhood swimming pool. With great hopes that...
Spring Festivals It’s that time of year for plant sales and spring festivals. There are a couple spring festivals happening this weekend. One in the Hilltowns and the other in the...
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND There are two types of folks that live in the Hilltowns, people that get little tiny red spots when bitten by a black fly, and folks that...
May Flowers We are very excited to announce the launch of the Hilltown Family Variety Show podcast this week. There are four shows available for download, and well worth a listen....
Happy May Day! If you have a family friendly event or educational program you’d like to let us know about, or would like to submit your event to the Hilltown Families...
Happy Earth Day! The week in review … there were a lot of posts this week, announcing many fun events and celebrations in the days to come, and many interesting things...
Spring Break Suggested Events It’s Thursday (already!) and I’m home with my daughter. Her school was canceled today due to the fact that it’s SNOWING outside! That’s wacky. That’s New England...
“Wow! I am so excited to have discovered this beautiful website. What a great resource for our community. Thank you so much.” – Katryna Nields No matter how you celebrate the...
Brooklyn Hootenanny Pictured here is Bill Childs and Ella from Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child, a local children’s radio show aired every Saturday morning. This past weekend HF headed to...
Happy Vernal Equinox! There are plenty of community events this weekend on which to blow your New Year’s resolutions, including an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast in Ashfield, and a chili cook off...
Passion & Fire Last month Art Bridge in Shelburne, MA, held a Passion Party and invited people to come celebrate passion and creative community for Valentine’s Day. As part of their...
MAPLE & MUSIC The sap is flowing and the sugar shacks are all fired up. Get your maple experience while the sap lasts. There will be a Hilltown Families Social at...
Elmer’s Mardi Gras Party in Ashfield Photo Credit: Victoria Worth “I LOVE this site! I’m so glad I found it. Thank you for the links to Jesse James’s article and for...
After a week off from school I’m sure many parents children are itching to get back into their daily routine. This past week was a lot of fun for those little...
“What a great service provided for us here. I find myself checking back regularly to find out what is going on in this culturally rich community of ours. Isn’t it great?Don’t...
Never a shortage of activities for our hilltown families. This week’s suggested events include dances, music, crafts, chocolate and more! While a chock-full weekend of activities sure makes it hard to choose, the...
Happy February! Friday marks the halfway point between Winter & Spring. In the States we acknowledge this point with Groundhog Day. No matter if you see your shadow or not, we’re...
Families feeling adventurous to take a day trip up to North Adams can enjoy a free family day at MASS MoCA, or journey over to Amherst to the Eric Carle Museum...
“What a wonderful resource this website is for local families as well as for visitors like myself. This site expresses the warmth and sense of community that I had experienced while...
Finally … it snowed! Not enough for all those fun outdoor sports, but just enough to give us hope for a possible New England winter performance. Speaking of performance, Elizabeth...
Another holiday season has passed and many of us can now take a breather from the hustle and bustle of all that merriment. Now that our New Year’s resolutions have been...
New Year’s Eve is Sunday night and Northampton will be having their 22nd annual First Night Celebration. The city will be filled with events and activities, with many events for families...