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With the holiday season here and 2011 almost at its end, WGBY is reflecting on the resilience, ingenuity and generosity of people that make up our viewing communities. This year we endured a destructive tornado, faced damaging floods brought upon by Hurricane Irene...

Plimoth Plantation

Interview via Skype with Richard Pickering, Deputy Executive Director of Plimoth Plantation. We discuss what the first Thanksgiving was like as well as what happen’s at the Plantation on Thanksgiving....

Spirit of Springfield

Storm clean-up in Forest Park caused some delays, but Springfield’s Bright Nights opens Wednesday as scheduled! Judy Matt joins Carrie Saldo in studio to discuss the details of the annual lights display as well as the downtown Balloon parade, featuring The Cat in The...

Apples

Join Chef Simon Stevenson as he talks apples with Shawn McIntire of UMass Amherst’s Cold Spring Orchard in Belchertown. Cold Spring has a variety of hard-to-find and rare varieties for sale, and Shawn & Simon offer up some ideas as to what you can do with those...

Franklin County Cider Days

Monte Belmonte and organizer Charlie Olchowski visit Pine Hill Orchards in Colrain to talk about Cider Days. Happening November 5 & 6, CiderDays is a community event celebrating all things apples in Franklin County, Massachusetts. 2011 marks the 17th year of this...

Scary Spots

We’ll take you to some of New England’s scariest places for a different kind of night out this Halloween...

Psychic Helene Olsen

We’ll mark Halloween in a visit with psychic Helene Olsen of Salem, MA. Who knows what interesting or supernatural things may be discussed during her...

Springfield Republican Sportswriter Ron Chimelis

Republican sportswriter and columnist Ron Chimelis will talk about the Red Sox end-of-the-season collapse and the decisions made by manager terry Francona and general manager Theo Epstein as well as the NBA labor troubles that could cancel the 2011-12 season....

Rail Trails, part 3

Guests: Craig Della Pena, Rail Trail Advocate, John Losito, Manhan Rail Trail Committee Member, Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning and Development, Northampton. Third in a three part series about the regional bike path system. Tonight’s show describes the timeframe...

Rail Trail Series, part 2

RAIL TRAIL SERIES PART 2 Guest: Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning and Development, City of Northampton, Liz Stevens, Committee Member, McKnight Neighborhood, Scott Hanson, Principal Planner, City of Springfield and Sheila McElwaine, Advocate, Connecticut River Walk...

First Collegiate Baseball Game

Guest: Derek Gentile, writer Pittsfield, MA Pittsfield was the home of the first recorded collegiate baseball game between Amherst and Williams College.  Local writer Derek Gentile will talk about what that first game was like back in...