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We All Need to Remember…

We All Need to Remember…

I know to some people it may sound corny and a little bit like bumper-sticker shorthand – but as we mark this Memorial Day – please take a moment to remember “Freedom Isn’t Free”. As a journalist, I try every day to remember — if only for a few seconds – that I...
We All Need to Remember…

On The Road

I have often said that one of the great things about my job is that it allows me to visit places and meet people that I might not normally ever have the chance to do. It also allows me the opportunity to share those stories with people like you. A great example of...
Connectivity and Shared Experience

Connectivity and Shared Experience

I love telling the stories of my community, and a friend once remarked to me that she noticed a common thread in much of my work: that many of the stories I tell are about “connectivity and shared experience.” If that’s so, perhaps that’s one...
We All Need to Remember…

Moonlighting in Holyoke

The production crew at Connecting Point works hard to bring you stories of the people, places and ideas that matter most to western New England all season long, but we do moonlight from time to time and work on other endeavors. This weekend was just such an occasion:...
We All Need to Remember…

Can Anyone “Trump” Trump?

As we head toward the Massachusetts Presidential Primary and Super Tuesday –the question everyone with even a cursory interest in American politics is asking is “Can anything –or anyone-stop Donald Trump?” Increasingly the answer seems to be...
We All Need to Remember…

Not Your Everyday Museum

I imagine just about every one of us remembers taking a trip to a Museum at some point in our lives, maybe it was school field trip or just a good family outing on a rainy weekend. Did you ever consider how many museums there are in this region? Well at Connecting...
We All Need to Remember…

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....
We All Need to Remember…

The President and the Pipeline…

I can’t think of another issue in recent years that has concerned the residents of Berkshire and Franklin Counties the way the Kinder-Morgan/Tennessee Gas Pipeline has…and is it any wonder? There are very legitimate concerns about the possible seizure of...
We All Need to Remember…

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...