Not a Fluke at All

Not a Fluke at All

On a recent shoot for a Making It Here segment for Connecting Point, I found myself in Sheffield, Massachusetts, at the headquarters of the Magic Fluke Company. While the name implies that there might be some kind of luck, chance or happenstance involved with the...
Messages and Memories in Stone

Messages and Memories in Stone

While working on a story about the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont, for our special Veterans Day episode of Connecting Point, I was reminded that the sacrifices of our best and bravest on behalf of our nation began right here in New England....
Not a Fluke at All

Fresh and Local

As Connecting Point begins its sixth season, you’ll undoubtedly notice some changes: we have a new executive producer (me), a fresh look and sound, and a fantastic new video-centric website, where you can find updated content anytime, anywhere. What remains the...
Change of Season

Change of Season

As we segue from spring to summer and wind down yet another season of Connecting Point, I inevitably take a look back on the people and places whose stories I’ve told over the past 9 months, and it makes me think about why we do what we do with our lives; the careers...
Change of Season

On the Road Again Yet Again…

We are on the road again this month, visiting one of my favorite places in Western New England: the Northern Berkshires. All month long we’ll be bringing you stories from this little corner of Massachusetts, nestled up near the Vermont and New York borders. Like...
Change of Season

A Rusty Nail and some Rose Colored Glasses

The power of nostalgia always amazes me… it seems as though we’re always yearning to revisit our past. Why is that? There are numerous reasons, I’m sure. Personally, I’ve always been drawn to local history because it informs us as to the kind of people we are, and...
Having the Tables Turned

Having the Tables Turned

Turnabout is fair play, as the saying goes, so when John Krol – host of the Good Morning Pittsfield radio and TV show – asked me to be a guest on his show, I could hardly say no, now could I? After all, I’d just asked him to let me interview him! Let’s be...
Potential

Potential

Growing up in Central and Eastern Massachusetts, Western Mass seemed like another world to me, almost a different state. When I first came to the region over 15 years ago, it was for school and work. Over 15 years have passed I’m still here… and I have no intentions...
We’ve Been Here Before

We’ve Been Here Before

With a barrage of blizzard after blizzard this winter, the snowfall in 2015 has been excessive to say the least, and I’ve heard more than one person say “I can’t remember a winter like this!” This winter has indeed been a bit crazy, perhaps. But unprecedented? Not...
Changing Faces

Changing Faces

Change can be difficult for many people. Letting go of things that we’ve held dear for so long, things that are comforting, familiar… that can be a very scary thing. But change is inevitable, whether we like it or not. I was reminded of this while working on an...
Not a Fluke at All

Family, Tradition and Community

I’d like to tell you about one of my favorite stories that I’ve profiled for our Making It Here series on Connecting Point this season. A.L. Avery & Son looks like any other small town shop as you pass through Charlemont on Route 2 in Franklin County. But as we...
Return to October Mountain

Return to October Mountain

Stories are wonderful things; they can teach, they can inspire, and they can simply entertain. And sometimes, just sometimes… a story can connect the past to the present and reunite families as well! In 2013, my show New England Legends aired a story about the legends...