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Read Local! Red Hook Literary Festival

Joe Donahue — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:12:00 +0000

This year’s Read Local! Red Hook Literary Festival takes place this Friday through Sunday.

The fest will include “Stories on Stage” Hudson Valley Actors Read Hudson Valley Authors; I Want to Be in a Band! – a Music & Movement Program for kids featuring author and musician Suzzy Roche, and illustrator Giselle Potter; Telling Stories: Conversations with Fiction Writers featuring Owen King, Kelly Braffet, Frank Delaney, and Marshall Karp – and much much more! All events are free and open to the public.

Suzanna Hermans, Co-Owner of Oblong Books and Music; Helen Seslowsky, event coordinator, and author and broadcaster, Frank Delaney, join us.

The Thinking Beekeeper

Joe Donahue — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:35:00 +0000

Christy Hemenway is the owner and founder of Gold Star Honeybees and author of the recently published, The Thinking Beekeeper. She will be teaching a Weekend Intensive in Top Bar Beekeeping at Berkshire Community College this Saturday and Sunday.

Christy’s new book, The Thinking Beekeeper, is the definitive do-it-yourself guide to natural beekeeping in top bar hives. Based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems as opposed to trying to subvert them.

Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home by Susan Clark

Joe Donahue — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:50:00 +0000

Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home is a new book that chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems.

"Ballin'" at The Spectrum

Sarah LaDuke — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:35:58 +0000

Ballin' at the Graveyard - a documentary made by Albany filmmakers Paul Kentoffio and Basil Anastassiou and Co-Produced by Spectrum 8 owner Keith Pickard, Ballin' at the Graveyard is an intensely personal look into the society and community of pickup basketball as told by a group of hardcore ballers at Albany's Washington Park - aka, the Graveyard. It begins screening at The Spectrum this weekend.

Early Start and End to MA Asparagus Season?

Tristan O'Neill — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:55:10 +0000

The warm March brought an early asparagus crop to farms that are known for it in western Massachusetts. WAMC’s Tristan O’Neill reports…

Now farmers are wondering if the cool spring will bring an early end to the season.

Sunderland farmer Michael Wisserman tells The Republican of Springfield he wasn't fooled when the temperature hit the 80s in March. He knew cool weather was coming.

So even though he was harvesting in April, a full month earlier than normal, now he wonders if the season can last its usual length, into late June.

Jane's Ice Cream

Joe Donahue — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:00:21 +0000

We always our annual visit from Jane's Ice Cream.