ADAMS
The phone call Jay Green took Monday was years in coming.
On the other end: Gov. Charlie Baker, calling to tell the Adams town administrator that money will be released to start work on a long-planned outdoor recreation and nature center on a slope below Mount Greylock.
For decades, one development project after another was floated for the Greylock Glen, including grand schemes for condos and golf courses.
Then, in a shift, a smaller vision emerged: a nature center conceived as a first step to exciting public interest in the areaâs natural beauty, a back-door approach to economic development.