Fantastic community art center! Love that it is for children and adults. They are very friendly and…read more excellent teachers.

From the owner: We offer music lessons and art lessons for all ages and experience levels, as well as an art…read moregallery and recital space. Our music teachers specialize in piano, violin, viola, cello, fiddle, trombone, drums, voice, bass, guitar, and saxophone. Our art classes include ongoing classes as well as one-time workshops in watercolor painting, poetry, collage, felting, paper crafts, and more. In our gallery, we showcase work by local artists.

My child took the swimming lessons a few time. She really enjoys it. The instructors are great and…read morecaring and really great with kids. Regarding the swimming facilities, they are generally great. Some downsides are: (1) middle school pool temperature is slightly lower than normal at least for the time we went (2) there is no private shower room at men's locker room. This is pretty awkward when my husband takes my daughter to swim lessons.

We love the small group sizes, it's less intimidating for our child and they get more one on one…read morewith the instructors. There are year round lessons so our child can keep practicing the skills they've acquired during the class and learn new ones. We've signed for more lessons and have recommended the class to friends and neighbors.

The wild edibles class was great! I wish I had stayed for the whole weekend. I'll definitely be…read moredoing that the next time it comes around. Frank was great and extremely knowledgeable and friendly. I became more familiar with the vegetation around me and ate some wild berries. Great day and going back for more.

My son absolutely loved the Feb vacation program, and was very excited to head into the woods each…read moremorning. We'll definately sign up again!

This store has various vintage oddities that are so artistically appealing. And at the price you…read morecan buy them at, you can start about whatever collection or project you wish. Definitely support it!

What an awesome little shop! Lots to browse from vintage doodads to original art prints. A very…read moreeccentric collection with jewelry and crystals as well. Right off the bridge in Turner's Falls off Route 2. Worth a quick detour if you're heading out to Western Mass

Picture this: Nestled in the corner of a destination outdoor shopping plaza, you find The General…read moreStore. Inside you can find penny candy by the pound, a bit past the entrance with local papers and events. This might be where you expect a local General Store to offer you, if you mistook them for Provisions around the corner. At Provisions, you'd find more drinks, some foods, and other house staples. At The General Store, you can find, generally, everything else, including Art you didn't know you needed. I suppose the candy is a reliable reason for my visit, so let's suppose you don't have a sweet tooth. Behind, surrounding you, and on both sides, is a wide variety of foods, oils, snacks, tools, fashion, entertainment, toys, some of these for your pets, and then some. It's for this reason that The General Store is also home to local events, and makes space for art showings in the section opposite gifts, foods, and diversions, and the art is diverse and marvelous. This cozy spot in the corner of the shopping plaza places you near other necessities, such as activities, classes, ice cream (Herrel's), restaurants, and more. Largely, I can imagine The General Store being a monthly or even biweekly as a destination, since events come often and candy runs out. It befits the Massachusetts regional culture, letting you get access to local farmer's cropshares, ice cream even in winter, and clean bathrooms. I think I even saw an authentic barrel™ in here! Do they know a cooper?

I spent a couple hours in here over a few different days to check out all of their products and I…read moream really impressed! The General Store is also connected to the Local Art Gallery, where they have displays of many different artists and types of artwork. The Mill District General Store has nearly everything in it. They have gardening tools, clothes, bedding, picnic baskets, cleaning supplies, shaving supplies, handmade candles, cat + dog food and toys, kids toys and books, maple syrup products, mugs, candles, pots + pans, and an assortment of just about everything. They also have art supplies for sketching, drawing, painting, etc. The first day I visited, I was helped by Anthony. The second time Shannon was super helpful, along with Manny, the sweet pup! The third time, Lewis helped me. Every staff member was genuinely happy to be working here and it made it a very pleasant shopping experience. They have a lot of great inventory, just make sure you have some time to check it out! They also have a pretty good coffee station with mugs.

This refers to the Graduate Program only. I had a child in that program. The tests were changed,…read moreabout 3 years ago, so that passing, or not passing, was extremely subjective. The instructors refuse to provide any documentation on how grading is done, which says it all. I never saw that, when I was in college. People who do not plan a career in the field fail. It's that simple. 100% correlation, at that time, and apparently since. I have experience with the field. There is a much more detailed report on rippoffreport.com, that I saw. The instructors are ok, it's just that, if you don't convince them you expect to go into the field, you won't get the degree. There is no appeal, nothing can be done. I could also say that there isn't much of a field, in Art History as such. There is a fantastic interest in people with liberal arts degrees, however, in business- to the point that the MBA is nowhere near what it used to be- because LA degrees mean people see the big picture, and don't screw up like the MBA types. Daniel Pink's book about Right Brained people talks about this some. I work in a bank. My analyses of apartment buildings- financial picture, physical picture, etc., are far better than what the MBAs can write. They don't see the big picture, and can't. They were never trained that way. They know their numbers, but can't see the big picture. I'm ok on numbers, because I see them in context. The MBA's take my writeups and alter them for their own analyses. My foreign language ability also helps. I've had to write manuals, for people in my industry, and I've taught proposal writing. So I'm not trying to discourage you from pursing a LA degree. Follow your passion, as Joseph Campbell said, follow your bliss. You'll do far better in life. However, unless you have a job lined up in the field, after you graduate, [this is not easy to do] may I suggest that you find some other department to go to. Degrees cost a fortune; you need to go somewhere that you get the sheepskin out of your five figures of debt. My child, by way, graduated with a 3.8 undergrad, speaks 2 foreign languages well, still gets books on Art History, and works in the public affairs department of a county. She was hired out of a field of 71 candidates. I looked at her writing, it was above the level of what I saw, of graduate students, when I was taking art history classes, at a University that was at the time no. 10 in the country for Art History. I have a B.A. and an M.A. in different fields, though.