Like so many other tourists, I drove through New England all the way to Amherst, Massachusetts, to see the colors of autumn, from evergreens to the deciduous yellows, some darker gold, bronze, various reds, even purple, or tan, or sometimes a dull brown. What is it about the fall foliage that draws so many of us to New England in October? The wooded areas stretched before me with their full, flagrant displays of pigments, fluttering naked in the October winds
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