- nme

kristen anderson lopez went to williams where they have mountain day where they hike up mt greylock (or graylock - it is spelled both ways)

no one has yet definitively explained where the name of the mountain comes from

it may have to do with the holy grayle

it is a triple monadnock there are only 2 in the world that our geology teacher knew of and the other is in the pyrenees, where the holy grail was allegedly once kept by the templars

the monks on mt equinox 10 miles north in vermont are part of the same order as the monks in the chartruese mountains just north of the pyrenees who also distill chartruese and the near by order of weston vt monastary monks operate dormition abbey in jerusalem where mother mary (the madonna) fell asleep and went to heaven

kaiser wilhelm bought and built dormition abbey with an architect who was a templer - e, r, not a, r

robin williams lived in the town on the south side of mt greylock and once played a schizophrenic searching for the holy grail in 'the fisher king'

in the grail legends, the fisher king is a paralyzed knight who lives in castle corbinec where the holy grail is kept

christopher reeve's house in williamstown has a stunning view of mt greylock you can see from the cover of his autobio

it overlooks the old carmelite monastary that was created after they bought sinclair lewis's estate called 'thorvale'

reeves was greiveously injured after he built it

the corbin family ran the british maid restaurant in town