* Seven Sisters ( Massachusetts ), a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts

The Mount Holyoke Range State Park is also close to the campus.

Mount Holyoke, a traprock mountain, elevation, is the western-most peak of the Holyoke Range and part of the 100-mile ( 160 km ) Metacomet Ridge.

The city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the Holyoke Range, and the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ( now Mount Holyoke College ) were all named after the this mountain Mount Holyoke and not directly after Elizur Holyoke.

To the east is the Holyoke Range and the town of South Hadley.

The Mount Holyoke Range State Park is a sister park occupying the east side of the Holyoke Range.

In addition to the mall, Holyoke is home to the Mount Tom Range of mountains, the Holyoke Canal System, and the Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Other notable sites include Svartifoss in Skaftafell National Park in Iceland, Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, Fingal's Cave in Scotland, Titan's Piazza of the Mount Holyoke Range in Massachusetts, the Garni Gorge in Armenia, the Cyclopean Isles near Sicily, Sheepeater Cliff at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Prismas Basálticos in Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico, the " Organ Pipes " formation on Mount Cargill in New Zealand, Gilbert Hill in Mumbai, Organ Pipes National Park in Australia and the " Column Cape " ( Russian: Mis Stolbchaty ) on Kunashir Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands.

Since he had done geological research on the Holyoke Range, one of the mountains there, Mount Hitchcock, was named after him.

His daughter, Mary Pynchon, married Elizur Holyoke, after whom the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts and the nearby Holyoke Range are named.

And the automobiles that stream out of Hanover each weekend, toward Smith and Wellesley and Mount Holyoke, are no less rakish than those leaving Cambridge or West Philadelphia.

in theater arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1974 and her M. F. A.

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A graduate of Mount Holyoke College ( then called Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ), she worked on a radical feminist publication named Alpha while living in Washington, D. C.

For some women, the realization that they participated in behavior or relationships that could be categorized as lesbian caused them to deny or conceal it, such as professor Jeannette Augustus Marks at Mount Holyoke College, who lived with the college president, Mary Woolley, for 36 years.

* 1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.

* November 8 – Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College, is founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

She had been a French exchange student at Mount Holyoke College, whom he met in Cambridge.

International Chinese students are also widely found at many elite liberal arts colleges such as Barnard College and Mount Holyoke.

One of the great upsets in College Bowl history — or indeed, in the history of any intercollegiate competition — came on March 6, 1966, when a small women's college, Agnes Scott College, took on the defending champions from Princeton University, which had challenged and defeated a team from Mount Holyoke College the previous week.

Both of his other sisters, Charlotte Wilder, a poet, and Janet Wilder Dakin, a zoologist, attended Mount Holyoke College and were excellent students.

* Mount Holyoke College, 1985

To represent Miskatonic University their film adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness in 2009, the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society chose Mount Holyoke College.

During the Spanish Civil War, deeply moved by the assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca, Cernuda fled to England, where he began an exile that later took him to France, Scotland, Massachusetts ( Mount Holyoke College ), California and finally settling in Mexico ; he never returned to Spain.

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Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

Geologically interesting parts of the Valley are the basalt flows and dinosaur tracks in South Hadley and Holyoke, Massachusetts, a chain of basaltic traprock ridges known as Metacomet Ridge along the ancient tectonic rift including the Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom ranges, layers of rock deposit laid down by the river, and varves and deltas

It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 40 from a transmitter on Mount Tom in Holyoke.

Tom Wartenberg of Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts has also written a large number of discussion plans for philosophising with picture books.

Tom Power plant, Holyoke ( MA )

Weather permitting, Mount Tom, Mount Holyoke and Talcott Mountain may be seen by the naked eye.

WWLP operates a full-time Class A digital repeater, WFXQ-CD channel 28, that has a transmitter at the top of the old Mount Tom Ski Area in Holyoke.

Mount Holyoke was named by Elizur Holyoke, while Rowland Thomas named Mount Tom, originally called Mount Thomas, later shortened to Mt.

Tom in Holyoke, Massachusetts and provides programming to much of western Massachusetts, northern Connecticut, and southern Vermont.

Mount Tom,, is a steep, rugged traprock mountain peak on the west bank of the Connecticut River 4. 5 miles ( 7 km ) northwest of downtown Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Located in Easthampton and Holyoke, Mount Tom is traversed by the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and is the transmitter location for three Springfield – Holyoke television stations: WGBY, WGGB, and WSHM-LD, and for radio stations WHYN-FM and WVEI-FM.

Thomas supposedly named Mount Tom after himself while his fellow surveyor working on the opposite side of the Connecticut River, Elizur Holyoke, gave his name to Mount Holyoke.

The Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, encompasses the Mount Holyoke College campus, an arboretum, numerous gardens, and the Talcott Greenhouse.

Two feature films reference Mount Holyoke of the 1960s.

In 1895, William G. Morgan from the YMCA of Holyoke, Massachusetts, invented the sport of volleyball as a slower paced alternative sport, in which the older Y members could participate.

Some Andover graduates looked to marry students from the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before becoming missionaries because the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ( ABCFM ) required its missionaries to be married before starting their missions.

In the film, fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional Faber College ( based on Dartmouth College ) take a road trip to the fictional Emily Dickinson College ( Mount Holyoke College )-- in real life, Mount Holyoke and Dartmouth are unofficial brother-sister schools.

Mount Holyoke was mentioned in television series, House, in the second episode from Season 4, " The Right Stuff.

View from Mount Holyoke Summit House

View from Mount Holyoke south ledges along the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail.

Every year in early fall, since 1838, students from nearby Mount Holyoke College participate in Mountain Day.

On that day, at the sound of ringing bells from Abbey Chapel on a random Autumn morning, all classes are cancelled and students hike to the summit of Mount Holyoke.

The nearby Connecticut River Oxbow ( now a lake ), immortalized by the famous landscape painter Thomas Cole just four years before natural flooding and erosion separated it from the Connecticut River, was composed from sketches the artist made from the summit of Mount Holyoke in 1836.

The Connecticut River defines the town's western border and separates it from the city of Holyoke.

The Holyoke Knights Hockey team, composed of students from Holyoke and South Hadley High Schools, has won back to back ( 2010 – 2011 ) Massachusetts Division IIIA Ice Hockey State Championship.

* Mary Emma Woolley ( 1863 – 1947 ), President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 – 1937

in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979.

According to legend, Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented the legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings, various sort of substandard paper scraps from various factories, and stitch them together in order to sell them as pads at an affordable and fair price.

Swadesh was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bessarabia.

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Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Edward Holyoke, a former President of Harvard, Edward Augustus graduated from that college in 1746.