It’s All About the Journey

It’s All About the Journey

New England is full of winding back roads: passageways to adventure, nature, and history. But few, perhaps, are as historic and full of wonder as the famed Mohawk Trail. Its official title is Route 2, and it runs from Cambridge to the New York border, but for a...
The Passion of the Region

The Passion of the Region

As the fourth season of Connecting Point winds down and I look back at some of the stories I’ve covered for CP over the past year, I’m amazed at the breadth and scope of the different people, places and ideas which abound in our neck of the woods. The subjects covered...
The Passion of the Region

A Look Behind The Curtain

Television is a funny thing that I think most people take for granted. You sit on your couch, grab your remote, press “power” and start flipping through the hundreds of channels available to you via your satellite or cable provider. Same thing with the internet; you...
The Passion of the Region

Chasing Ghosts and History in the Berkshires

If you’re a movie fan, you might know this façade – it was featured in the Hollywood film The Cider House Rules. Residents of the bucolic Berkshires town of Lenox know it as Ventfort Hall. And as you’re going to learn in the segment I just shot for an upcoming series...
The Passion of the Region

Mt. Greylock’s Thunderbolt

Everybody’s heard of Mt. Greylock, right? It’s the highest point in Massachusetts, nestled in the beautiful, bucolic Berkshires. But as I found on a recent shoot for Connecting Point’s Winter Sports Series, there’s a big slice of skiing history that’s buried under the...
The Passion of the Region

Everything Old Is New Again…

I recently taped a segment for Connecting Point at an amazing store called Loot Found + Made in Turners Falls the other day, and it got me thinking about how something old is always becoming something new again. Loot is a store that takes industrial items, old items,...
Food for Thought

Food for Thought

WGBY’s show Making It Here was very popular; so popular in fact that this season it’s returned as a part of Connecting Point! Making It Here focuses on people in the region who are passionate about what they do, and I can’t think of a better description for that then...
New England Legends

New England Legends

I’m Tony Dunne, and I’m part of the Connecting Point team here at WGBY. Producing field segments for Connecting Point allows me to tell many different kinds of stories, and I love that. From the very serious (like the pieces I’ve done on flooding inVermont...
New England Legends

“Don’t Let This Story Go Away…”

While covering a fundraiser this summer in Brimfield for victims of the devastating tornadoes that ripped through the region on June 1st, I was struck by several things: first, the repeated entreaties by everyone I talked to for continued assistance, and perhaps more...