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Every year on July 3 and 4, James Taylor does two concerts at Tanglewood, a beautiful music venue in western Massachusetts hidden away in the Berkshires.

Going to one of those concerts has always been on my list, but I could never get tickets. It seemed that there were a lot of James Taylor fans in Boston and New York.

This year, though, I received an email in January that there were tickets available and I could purchase them before they went on sale to the general public. I knew from previous years that those tickets never went on sale to the general public, so we bought two for the concert on July 4 and planned a few days in Massachusetts in July. We had a picnic on the lawn at Tanglewood, watched James Taylor perform for 2 ½ hours in the Koussevitzky Shed, and saw fireworks after the concert.

It was fantastic.

On our way, a rest stop in New York, festive for the 4th of July.

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, made famous by Norman Rockwell. This was a pretty house on Main Street, known as the “Old Corner House."

The nostalgic Country Store on Main Street. Last year, they had NECCO chocolate wafers, a candy I loved when I was a kid. This year, they were out.

We at dinner here at the Red Lion Inn, in existence since 1773.

The official Red Lion lobby cat.

The Clark Art Institute, a Berkshires treasure, was founded by Robert Sterling Clark and his wife Francine. He was the grandson of one of the founders of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He and his wife became important collectors of French art, especially Renoir. After looking at other locations in New York, they established this museum in the Berkshires.

After seeing an exhibit at the Petit Palais in France of artists from Holland who went to Paris to work, it was fun seeing this exhibit of women artists who also went to Paris to work.

This installation by Jennifer Steinkamp called Blind Eye was mesmerizing. The videos were the size of the walls and never stopped changing.

Along with many others, we arrived at Tanglewood before the gates opened.

We had seats in the Koussevitzky Shed, so we really weren’t concerned with where we ended up for our picnic, but for those with lawn seats, location was quite important and the line was already out to beyond those first cars.

From our picnic spot, the Koussevitzky Shed in the distance.

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