Shivas, had you made it up that shlep of a hill at Holy Cross -- as I did for the 1988-89 academic year that I taught there -- you would have found, among other things, an on-campus cemetery for emeriti faculty. During that year I found that my entire department (Government) shared one long-distance phone bill, so all calls had to be marked off by a process in which they passed around the bill. The senior-most political theorist was a Straussian conservative who would accumulate pipe ash in his desk and one night, as I recall, his desk spontaneously combusted.
As for golf, I would amuse myself with field trips to Ross courses: Worcester CC in town, plus Whitinsville, only a half-hour southeast and far more accessible to the serious Ross student than Doak's comments above would suggest. Vesper CC, up in Lowell, about 40 minutes to the northeast, is another Ross gem that has gone through a wonderful restoration of late. And of course if you're out in that part of the state, it's only about another 40 minutes west to two more Ross beauties, The Orchards in South Hadley and Longmeadow CC just south of Springfield.