Yom Kippur

Rabbi Max Davis of Congregation B’nai Torah in Longmeadow will discuss the traditions and meaning of the upcoming Yom Kippur observance as well Rosh Hashanah....

Paradise City Arts Festival

Contributor Meghan Lynn Allen meets with Linda Post, one of The Founding Directors of Paradise City, Ranked #3 among all art and craft fairs nationwide, it’s an experience like no other – beautiful, unique, festive and fun! The festival goes into full...

Memorializing Grief & Tragedy

Prof. Karen Remmler, Mount Holyoke College and Director of the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Center discusses the 9/11 terror attacks – as well as other genocides and atrocities – and how we choose to memorialize such tragedies....

Regional Leaders

Guests: David Woods, Steering Committee Chair, Leadership Pioneer Valley and Lora Wondolowski, Program Director, Leadership Pioneer Valley. Leadership Pioneer Valley was formed in 2010 to fill a critical need for a leadership program that builds a network of emerging...
Season Two, Day Two

Season Two, Day Two

Ponderings from Carrie’s Desk … Well, here we are. Connecting Point’s second season is officially underway. Although we have been capturing stories from the field all summer and back in the studio taping segments the past few weeks, Monday was our first...

Holyoke Blue Sox Baseball

Guests: Barry Wadsworth, Holyoke Blue Sox CEO, Trey Mancini, 1st baseman (Notre Dame University), Ben Mount, pitcher (University of Southern California). The 2011 season will represent the Holyoke Blue Sox’s 4th season in the Pioneer Valley, playing at MacKenzie...

Wired West

Guests: Monica Webb, Wired West Executive Committee Chair, and  Steve Nelson, Wired West Executive Board member. In Western Massachusetts, close to 50 towns have residences and businesses with partial or no access to high-speed internet, while access has become a...

About Prohibition

Guests: Prof. Dan Czitrom,  Mount Holyoke College,  Guy McClain, Museum of Springfield History, and Kathleen Banks Nutter, Archivist, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. When we paint the picture of prohibition in Western Massachusetts in the 19th century, what do...

Sky Diving

Guests: Cam King, Jumptown instructor, Nate Olsen, skydiver, Thomas Hughes, Professional skydiver. Connecting Point host Carrie Saldo experiences first hand the thrill of sky diving as she visits Jump Town in Orange, MA.  First a little training and lesson on how to...

Umass Football Program

UMass/Amherst Athletic Director John McCutcheon discusses decision to upgrade UMass football program. The University of Massachusetts football program will be moving up from the Football Championship Subdivision (the FCS – formerly Division 1-AA) to the Football Bowl...

Prohibition on PBS

Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Ken and Lynn sat...