Education

Sam Falcetti

Sam Falcetti, founder of Falcetti Music, joins us. Sam is an  adjunct professor at both Holyoke Community College and Westfield State University, as well as the conductor and founder of the Springfield Accordion Orchestra. Falcetti performed at the World’s Fair...

Howes Brothers Photography

The Howes Brothers Alvah, Walter, and George, traveled the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts taking photographs of the residents, documenting pictorially the customs, fashions, architecture, industry, technology, and economic conditions of rural New England at the turn...

Dr. Anthony McCaffrey

There will always be a wild and unpredictable quality to creativity and invention, says Anthony McCaffrey, a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, because an “Aha moment” is rare and reaching it means overcoming formidable mental...

Author John Hamilton

John Hamilton is the former Director of the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, MA and former Director of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society in Springfield. He also co-authored a three volume set of books on the Wesson...

STCC Women’s Wrestling Team

Anibal Nieves, a two time Olympic wrestler, is the first to establish a women’s collegiate wrestling team in the Northeast at Springfield Technical Community College. Women’s Wrestling at STCC              ...

New England Adolescent Research Institute

Steven Bengis, Ed.D LICSW, Executive Director of the New England Adolescent Research Institute and NEARI School in Holyoke; Shannon Chabot M.A., Kinesiologist; and Leigh Mahoney, M.Ed., NEARI School Principal, discuss the work they do to help students with multiple...

Divided We Stand: A Street In Our School

The second segment in our special series, “Divided We Stand: A Street in Our School” features residents’ memories of “the tunnel” along with their hopes for this community space beneath I-91. Connecting Point contributor Carolee McGrath looks into the history of the...

Gerena School

In our first in a series of stories related to the environmental issues that have plagued the Gerena Community School in the North End of Springfield, Springfield School Superintendent Daniel J. Warwick and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno talk with Jim Madigan to...

Lying Online

Psychology Professor Robert Feldman, Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Amherst,  discusses his paper “Liar, Liar, Hard Drive on Fire: How Media Context Affects Lying Behavior” and his finding that people are more likely to lie in...