Blogs

Take a look at what goes on behind the scenes at Connecting Point straight from the people who bring you the show!

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...
Discovering more about W.E.B. Du Bois

Discovering more about W.E.B. Du Bois

As I produce stories for Connecting Point, it often fascinates me how one nugget of a story can send you down a path you never imagined. This happened to me back in January while producing our “On the Road in South County” series. I was conducting an interview with a...
No More Mitt Romney to Kick Around…

No More Mitt Romney to Kick Around…

Well, despite all the speculation of recent weeks (fed largely by comments from the potential candidate himself) it is now official. Mitt Romney will not be running for a President again in 2016. The former Massachusetts Governor made the announcement today in a...
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...
On the Road in South County

On the Road in South County

Because my job has me out on the road a lot, I think I take for granted what a wonderful region we live in. I am reminded of this when I take friends to different parts of western mass that seem so “every day” for me yet when they see it they are amazed at the...
Boston Olympics 2024?

Boston Olympics 2024?

The word came last night that the U.S. Olympic Committee has picked Boston to be our nations’ nominee to the International Olympic Committee as the potential host for the 2024 Sumer Games. The IOC will make the final decision on the 2024 Games’ location in...
Time to Make the Donuts

Time to Make the Donuts

MAKING IT HERE is a series within Connecting Point that celebrates an aspect of life that almost all people share: most of us go to work each day. And many people are passionate about that work and what they do. Below is a blog written by WGBY’s programming intern TJ...
Family, Tradition and Community

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...
The Best of Connecting Point

The Best of Connecting Point

As we near the end of the year and we start to think about being with family during the Holidays, I enjoy sharing with our Connecting Point audience some of the stories that we as producers find particularly memorable. Typically we create two special programs near the...
A Conversation with the Governor-Elect

A Conversation with the Governor-Elect

When he came to town this week to participate in the Grand Re-Opening of the Student Prince Restaurant (where he and Mayor Dom Sarno cut a “Ribbon of Sausage” to formally mark the re-birth of the downtown landmark)– Governor-Elect Charlie Baker and...
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...
Stroll for Strength

Stroll for Strength

For this weeks blog I asked our programming intern TJ  to write about a story he and I worked on called “Stroll for Strength”. I think giving our interns the ability to work on projects and see their hard work end up on the air and online is not only...