Beloved Peak

Bascom Lodge (in honor of John Bascom) and Saddle Ball Mountain looking southwest from the War Memorial Tower on Mt. Greylock, which, at 3,489 feet, is the highest mountain in Massachusetts.

“Greylock, our daily pleasure, our constant symbol, our ever renewed inspiration, for all who have fellowship with Nature.’’

— John Bascom (1827-1911), a professor of rhetoric at Williams College, in Williamstown,Mass., in 1855-1874 and president of the University of Wisconsin in 1874-1887. He died in Williamstown, close to Greylock, in his beloved Berkshires.