Simple Pleasures

Girls Scouts 100th Anniversary

  Pattie Hallberg (CEO, Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts), Elizabeth Gloss (Volunteer Co-Chair, GSCWM 100th Anniversary Big Event Committee), Neliana Ferraro, (Ambassador Girl Scout and a senior at Minnechaug Regional High School) & Emilee...

Fenway Turns 100

Jim Madigan interviews Tom Shea, Republican columnist and former sports writer about covering baseball at 100 year old Fenway Park, the oldest major league stadium still in...

Curling

We’ll visit the Petersham Curling Club and learn more about the sport that originated in Scotland in the 1500s....

Guy McClain, History of the Gee Bee Aircraft

Join us as Guy McClain talks about the Granville Brothers Aircraft, Inc. and their aircraft the Gee Bee. Springfield Museum has a ¾ size replica of the Gee Bee Model R-1. Jimmy Doolittle piloted this famous racing plane in 1932 and came out victorious in the Thompson...

Parade Preview

Russ McNiff, Senior Past Parade President & Past Grand Marshal and Barry Farrell, 2012 Parade Grand Marshal –Representatives of Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade Committee—will talk about the importance, impact and tradition of the second largest St....

St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl

This Friday March 16, 2012 the Mummer’s will continue their St. Patrick’s Day tour with a pub crawl. The crawl starts at 6 p.m. at The Fort and will include stops at Unos, Bourbon Street, and Theodores’ on Worthington Street. Megan Lynn Allen talks...

JFK award winner Kevin O’Hara

Kevin O’Hara, whose award-winning books recount life growing up in an Irish Catholic family and community in Western Massachusetts, is recipient of the 2012 John F. Kennedy Award given out annually by the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade Committee. He’ll...

Smith College Bulb Show

The Spring Bulb Show, in the Lyman Conservatory at Smith College, is a fragrant harbinger of the season to come! About 20,000-30,000 visitors view more than 5,000 bulbs blooming simultaneously in this annual event, a long standing Smith College tradition. WGBY’s...