The Fabulous 413

Congressman McGovern was hoping for the week off but Monte bothered him on a junket to Kenya. We'll hear how U.S. tax dollars are being spent there. And Local Hero farmer spotlight with Phil Korman from CISA on Many Graces Farm & Design in Hadley . We talk with Rebecca Maillet and Kel KomendaYou can learn more about the National Young Farmers Coalition and the  One Million Acres Campaign , and...

Today we're joined by Ang Buxton and Mo Schweiger who are the producers of the ** Far Out Comedy Festival **where from August 24-26th over forty stand-up comics, split between 10 Forward in Greenfield and The Majestic Saloon in Northampton. What’s interesting about this particular comedy festival is that not a single one of the comedians is a straight, cisgender, white man! Far Out Comedy Festival...

Mr. Universe tells us about the farthest star, we workshop a new name for a well-loved musical celebration in Northampton with Steve Sanderson and the Word Nerd, get our Lego on when Andy Price chats with us about Brick Con, and find out more about indictments with Jen Taub.

We're seeking to close some distance today. We're doing it by chatting with Juan Falcon of the Hispanic American Library , nestled in the core of Union Station here in Springfield. They're hosting the first ever New England Latino Festiva l on August 25-26th at Riverside Park . We explore why it's important to keep Spanish literacy alive locally, and to make sure that all folx in the Hispanic and...

Today we get to break a good number of things down. Which is to say making things easier to understand or digestible. This is at the core of what docents do for museum visitors, take their knowledge of the museum's various collections, and help patrons understand them better. It just so happens that the museums right down the road from us here in Springfield are . To help us see what the Springfie...

We explore the collaboration between the Holyoke Housing Authority and Atlas Farm's Mobile Market, check out the Art of Brewing Festival happening at the Normal Rockwell Museum, and have our weekly talk with Rep. Jim McGovern about the latest farm bill.

We learn which words were most looked up this week with Ersatz Word Nerd Ammon Shea, talk with Sharron Frazier-McClain about the Third Annual Celebration of Black Voices at Barrington Stage, and speak with Megan Burke of the Community Foundation about their involvement with the Massachusetts Farm Resiliency Fund.

Today, the whole of Tanglewood 's campus is getting ready for a showcase, where every group that's been sequestered on that large parcel of conserved land nestled between Lenox and Stockbridge delving deeper into their music comes together, and invites the greater community to come and experience some of what they've been working on. It's the annual event Tanglewood on Parade . And we are talking...

Confrontation seems about right for a Monday. We're confronting the things that truly make us happy. Amherst College Professor Catherine Sanderson has taught classes, done studies, and more on the subject, all of which culminates in her latest book " The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset for Happiness, Health and Longevity. " The world could use more happiness so we invite her to our studios to fi...

We're about to go dancing in the parks. Fiesta Patronales de Holyoke is a festival imported from Puerto Rico and cut more in the size of Holyoke. Run by an organization that has been a pillar of South Holyoke for decades, Nueva Esperanza , what originally celebrated the patron saint of a town has grown to be interfaith, and a broad celebration of all the things that make Holyoke unique, especially...

It's a course correction sort of day. Is this once again about our ongoing struggles with the floodwaters? Perhaps. We're all looking for ways to alleviate the devastating repercussions of the June and July rains, and those efforts now include the USDA. Farm Service Agency State Exec Director for the USDA, Daniel Smiarowski takes a break from his own farm the to chat about some of the USDA's disas...

What today totally needed was another indictment. But first, why don't we pronounce the "c" in this word? We dig into this with ersatz word nerd Ammon Shea, as it's one of the more popular words being looked up this week, along with reboot and copyright. Which leads us into the ever drifting tides of word meanings. On the shores of those tides is Western New England Law professor, author , and pod...

It's all about collectives today. There's the group of women who came together to make community art about women's history in Northampton. The Hestia Collective formed in the late '70s out of other women's art collectives in the area, but through much efforts and a couple of grants made the "A History of Women in Northampton" mural that abuts the Masonic St. parking lot. The mural is currently bei...

Today is all about the unexpected things we encounter. Like a day dedicated to a performing arts pioneer. "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" was started by a small theater troupe in London in an effort to get themselves into the Guiness Book of World Records for the most people dressed as Kate Bush . But what started as a half-joking tribute has turned into a global phenomenon, including Greenf...

Finding new things in the places we know and love is really what we're all about. So we're psyched that a Northfield singer songwriter is getting her time to shine. Sandy Bailey has spent a number of years making music, but her debut album "Daughter Of Abraham" comes out on August 18th, and she'll be performing in Northampton at Bands on Brewster on August 3rd. We invite her into the studio to tal...

The strength of a community should have intention supporting it. We see that in a farm in Hatfield that survived the floods mostly unscathed when several of its neighbors did not. We head to Bardwell Farm to chat with Harrison Bardwell, a 9th generation farmer now in charge of the acreage, about changes the farm has made over the years, how they are helping out the farms that didn't fare so well,...

Progress is a marathon. It's noticable in the words people look up at our local dictionary. Keeping track of those words and trends is one of the many things our substitute word nerd Ammon Shea does at Merriam Webster. We ask him about what people are looking up these days, as well as ask him about t hat one time he read the entire Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. And it's especially noti...

For the past 21 years, Bang On A Can has been performing their innovative and interesting take on concert music in North Adams at Mass MoCA . But what started as an elongated performance series has stretched into a 3 week long festival workshop for budding virtuosos seeking broader horizons in which to stretch their musical wings. It concludes with a three day extravaganza in the spirit of the ori...

Today we're making time to come together and improve things. A lot of this has to do with recent announcements about funds and systems being developed to help the many farmers who have lost some or all of their crops over the course of this year. Since FEMA funds are restricted to infrastructure, the Bay State is finding the funds to help its farmers through other means. One of them is the Massach...

A Friday edition of McGoverning with Congressman McGovern. Is FEMA involved in helping our flooded farms? And where does he stand on Barbenheimer? We’ll forgo the Wine Thunderdome for the Cider Gauntlet and taste with cidermaker Suzy Fortgang from Muse Cider Bar and Valley View Farm in Williamsburg. Filmmaker Jason Berry who’s screening his film, City of A Million Dreams , about New Orleans Jazz f...

The Fabulous 413 is live in the streets of the Fabulous 413. We’re broadcasting live from the kick off to the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival . The free 10th Annual Festival begins this evening on Fort St. in front of The Student Prince, The festival has become the city's premier annual cultural event, showcasing a diverse lineup of national stars and local talent spanning jazz, blues, funk,...

Today is a sandwich, which is great because we are hungry for bookends. Perhaps ironically, this is an important part of a... whoops, that was about to be a spoiler for Double Edge Theater's Summer spectacular, "The Hidden Territories of the Bacchae" , currently showing at their Ashfield facilities. This work is a re-imagining of the work that started the company and takes the audience on a journe...

We are making a way for the things we need today. It happens with newly made government offices. One of Gov. Healey's actions in her first 100 days in office was to create the Office of Rural Affairs, and former State senator Anne Gobi has recently been appointed to the post. We talk to her about the challenges her office is facing in light of the area's recent environmental disasters, about the o...

This episode is a phoenix. Which is to say, we get to look at successes found in failures. This is one of the main tenets of Dr. Andrew Lam's latest book "The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity’s Deadliest Diseases". He joins us in studio to talk about the medical successes that emerged from our defeats, and how those may direct future breakthroughs. Mr. Univer...

It's our 100th episode! Can you believe it? Neither can we! So we head to Franklin County to share our celebrations with a whole building as we broadcast live from the brand new library in Greenfield . We speak with outgoing director Ellen Boyer, head of children's services Ellen Lavoie, teen libarian Francesca Passiglia, Jeremiah Rood of borrower services, and incoming director Anna Bognolo. To h...