North Adams, Massachusetts is a small town far away from major population, and who would think a contemporary art center would make it? But “by most measures, MASS MoCA’s inaugural year was a smashing success. More than 100,000 people visited its galleries. Another 25,000 turned out for performances, movies, or community dances and parties in the sprawling 27-building complex that once housed the Sprague Electric Factory. High-tech start-ups that set up shop on the site grew so quickly and spawned enough like-minded local enterprise that The Wall Street Journal last fall touted North Adams – a town that didn’t have touch-tone telephone service until 1990 – as a silicon village.” – Boston Globe