The tour guide training includes reviewing an official tour guide manual, which outlines the route and provides statistics about the College that a tour guide needs to know. The Record shadowed one of these tours in order to learn more about the stories that tour guides present to prospective students — which current students might not remember from their tours.

For the majority of the year, a herd of roughly 20 cows grazes the fields behind the Clark Art Institute at Stone Hill. These cows, who spend the warmer months roaming the meadow, are well known throughout the Williamstown community.