Fall foliage, summer theater, skiing, hiking, high school football, B & Bs, renowned restaurants, music festivals, providing refuge to world-weary New Yorkers, playing host to lucky campers in the summer, hiking, swimming in rivers, snow...
Everyone!!
Arlo Guthrie, The Bacon Brothers, David Grover, James Taylor, The Boston Pops, all the classical music from Tanglewood and the jam bands from BerkFest.
The Cider House Rules, Before and After, Alice's Restaurant, The Matrix (its special affects were done here!), I have a really nifty Back to the Future ride!
anything by Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, W.E.B. DuBois, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many, many more...