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title: "As I said below, we're still trying to understand what happened Saturday"
date: 2009-10-27T16:19:48Z
modified: 2009-10-27T16:19:48Z
permalink: "https://350.org/i-said-below-were-still-trying-understand-what-happened-saturday/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "Here's one more attempt to give folks some sense of the scale of the events."
wpid: 13670
author: Bill McKibben
---

Here’s one more attempt to give folks some sense of the scale of the events. These pictures are a small sampling of what went on in the hill towns of western Massachusetts, a sparsely populated rural area of the United States eastern seaboard. In one small place after another around the world, people came together in large numbers–in some of these towns, that’s a large percentage of the total population out there on display. People did remarkable work everywhere!


 
![](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/4047072562_17bcb5c665.jpg)

- [Montague, MA – Montague Neighbors](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4039404523/)
- [Lenox, MA – Evergreen Environmental Club](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4033730790/)
- [Monterey, MA](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4039466895/)
- [Greenfield, MA – Climate Carnival at Greenfield HS. (photo credit: Daniel A. Brown)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4040603220/)
- [Old Deerfield, MA – Sarah Pirtle Concert](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4041037292/)
- [Deerfield, MA – Eaglebrook School](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4037228189/)
- [Northfield, MA – (photo credit: Maribeth Dawkins)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4039262951/)
- [Ashfield, MA](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4040040669/)
- [South Hadley, MA – Mosier Science Buddies Program](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4037704321/)
- [Northampton, MA – Laural Park](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4044253924/)
- [Amherst, MA – Amherst College (photo credit: Jessica Mestre)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4041807031/)
- [Northampton, MA – N’hampton Climate Action (photo credit: David Solfiell)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4039634053/)
- [Sunderland, MA – Sunderland Kindergarten (photo credit: Susan Breines)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4038146595/)
- [Amherst, MA – Amherst 350 Committee](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4040361324/)
- [Williamstown, MA – Williamstown Elementary School (photo credit: Cheryl Sacks)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4041072140/)
- [Cummington, MA – 350 Neighbors (photo credit: Richard Shephard)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4039970725/)
- [Great Barrington, MA – (photo credit: Jamie Goldenberg)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4040456826/)
- [Cummington,](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4039970725/)