Hello, neighbors. This is the first post on PioneerValley.org, a neighbor-run guide to the Valley, built slowly and verified against primary sources rather than scraped from the usual aggregators.
What’s here today
The first wave of entries is live. In Outdoors:
In Things to See:
In Things to Do:
And the first guide, A Rainy Day in the Pioneer Valley.
Every place entry has a lastVerified date in its frontmatter and a
Sources section at the bottom, so you can see when we last checked the
facts and where they came from.
What’s coming
The next wave will deepen each section: more trails in Franklin County, more museums and historic sites, and town pages for Amherst, Northampton, Easthampton, and the rest of Hampshire County. After that: Franklin and Hampden.
How to help
If you live in the Valley and spot something out of date or wrong, or if you have a favorite place we should add, email corrections and suggestions to contact@pioneervalley.org. Small notes are welcome. “The hours changed” or “the auto road opened late this year” are exactly the kind of updates this site is built to absorb.
Thanks for reading. More soon.