The Town of Great Barrington

Great Barrington is a small town (pop. 7,500) in the middle of the Berkshires, stocked with culture and populated by independent-minded people who care about community and build their own lives with integrity and style. You can find a few chain stores on the outskirts, but mostly this is an indie town. The movie theater, the renovated theater that hosts nationally known performing artists, the natural foods grocery, the blocks of restaurants and cafés and galleries and shops—they’re all independent. It’s not a big city, but you can get excellent sushi and gourmet pizza, see live music in a packed café, buy good used books and reasonably priced clothing, meet working artists in their studios, and bump into the supervisor of your next internship while waiting in line at the vegetarian cafe that makes smoothies with organic fruit.