Northampton author Joshua Shanley says he gets a scary feeling when entering some of the defunct Cold War buildings still standing across Massachusetts.
“You’re going down these long concrete [hallways], through these vault doors and see all this stuff,” Shanley says, “and I started to think about the history.”
Shanley, a retired Northampton and Amherst firefighter-paramedic, said he became curious and went looking for a comprehensive resource about the vast history of Massachusetts Cold War infrastructure, only to find that one did not exist…