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The Fabulous 413

Monte Belmonte & Kaliis Smith

Monte Belmonte and Kaliis Smith bring you The Fabulous 413, a new live, daily radio show and podcast celebrating life in western Massachusetts — and a kind of "Mister Rogers" Neighborhood" for grown-ups. Monte and Kaliis will introduce you to the neighbors who make our western Massachusetts the incredible place it is, with a focus on arts and agriculture, cuisine and colleges, history, happenings and whatever the people of The 413 are talking about today.

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October 16, 2025: Cricket Creek Farm Picnic

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2025/10/16

In Williamstown, four local businesses will come together to celebrate the season and how their respective avenues dovetail snugly with each other. The Cricket Creek Farm Fall Picnic happens this weekend, and we’ll speak with Kat Hand of Berkshire Cider Project, Justin Adkins of Wild Soul River, Chef Swifty of Door Prize and Anna Halpin Healy representing Cricket Creek Farm itself about the fun festivities ahead, and getting the public to see how they are all connected.

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October 15, 2025: Pig Angles

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2025/10/15

Today has writing, reading, AND arithmetic. The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics has been ongoing since the College’s founding, established and fostered by the late professor emeritus David Kelly and encouraging innovative thinking for high school students. We speak with part of the filmmaking team that’s created a documentary about the program before you can watch a free screening of “Hunting Yellow Pigs” on Saturday, October 18th. We’ll also encourage you to write more and

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October 14, 2025: Mini Episode- SWAMPED

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2025/10/14

Today we're heading to one of the most eastern points in Franklin County and a new work of theater that is seeking to bridge divides among us. Swamped is a new work exploring family and connection in an incredibly intimate and nuanced ways and we speak with playwright and director Court Dorsey as well as actors Izzy Miller, Joe Laur, and Heather Willey about the work, about theater's place in their corner of the 978, and the many improvements made to the place the play will be performed

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October 10, 2025: More intriguing sounds

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2025/10/10

Today we've got some music to serenade the end of the week. We’ll head to Northampton where a theater company has narrowed their focus performing only musicals. And this weekend they open with one of the more difficult offerings from Steven Sondheim. K&E Theatre Group takes on Sunday in the Park with George and we speak with members of the company explore challenges of putting on a show that is about more than just a painting, and the appeal of musicals overall.We’ll also chat with

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October 9, 2025: Festival playspaces

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2025/10/09

We're creating the spaces for community to come together. In the Berkshires, it's found in one of the country's oldest public gardens. The Berkshire Botanical Garden is getting ready for the autumn with its yearly celebration of the season, and will host its annual Harvest Festival this weekend. We speak with executive director Mike Beck about the festivities that people can experience on their grounds this weekend, as well as the ways they can help you with getting your own garden winter

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October 8, 2025: Muses in company

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2025/10/08

We're diving full on into the arts today, and bringing them from afar. Thursday night, October 9th, the Fine Arts Center, they'll be launching their 50th anniversary season with an intrepid look at the very nature of our disposable inclinations. Poems of Consumption explores consumer culture post-Covid through electronic music with lyrics rooted in Amazon product reviews. The performance is the beginning of a project by Lebanese American musician Hamed Sinno, newly on a solo creation

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October 7, 2025: Into the Future

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2025/10/08

Today we're speaking with two folx making big plans for the future. In Northampton, Smith College has just announce it's The Next 150 Pledge, wherein undergraduate students from families making less than $150K per year will have free tuition to the institution. We speak with current 12th president of the College Sarah Willie-LeBreton about this initiative through the lens of the alumnae and current students, as well as the greater scope of higher education as federal pressure on such

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October 6, 2025: In Keeping

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2025/10/06

We’re looking at the many ways we care for each other.Including the connections between that care and the land. The novel "Harvesting Legacy: A Farm’s Journey" explores the fate of one farm as its steward ages and is no longer able to care for the parcel in his age as he once was. The book looks at the choices and paths afforded to him and we’ll speak with its author Michael Hutton-Woodland about the inspirations and lessons learned in its pages. We’ll also talk with world renowned bassist

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October 3, 2025: Connections housed

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2025/10/03

This weekend sees two days of community storytelling that is focused on the experiences of women told in their own time and words. The Tell Her This podcast comes to Bombyx in Florence for two days of very different live storytelling experiences. We speak with its creator Rochelle Rice about the importance of these stories to the ways we learn about ourselves, and teach those coming after us about the worldWe’ll continue to check out the report released by Way Finders and Umass’ Donahue

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49:59

October 2, 2025: Together we build

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2025/10/02

We’re taking a hard look at our communities to see where we might grow and grow better. In Springfield for the past 50 years, that’s meant MLK Family Services, who’ll bring back their Social Justice Awards this October 18th. But celebrating the change-makers in our area is far from all they do at the center, so we’ll be joined by President & CEO Shannon M. Rudder, and Chief of Public Health Strategy & Innovation Ariana Williams, to talk about the awards, their Be Love Campaign,

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50:27

October 1, 2025: A more fun adulting

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2025/10/01

We’re doing the stuff of big kids, because it’s good to remember that keeping a little youth in your perspective is a very good thing. In Easthampton, we visit everyone’s houses to experience a city wide music celebration. The 3rd annual Porchfest takes place this October 4th, now with three centralized neighborhoods to explore western Massachusetts sounds in, and we’ll speak with organizers Felicia Jadczak and Steve Collicelli about the talent and community this iteration brings to

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September 30, 2025: Storied connections

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2025/09/30

Science and the arts combine voltron-like, which is a reference that dates us, but bear with. We’re off to Westfield to see the farm stand made when two science teachers make an enemies to lovers story real, and use their day jobs to make the growing better for the planet. Kosinski's Farm Stand may have started with a rivalry between a blueberry and a strawberry farm, but today it’s fruit, produce, fruit wines, baked goods and so much more, and we speak with Sue Kosinski about the place of

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September 29, 2025: Run for the hills

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2025/09/29

We’re headed for the hills, which are full of community!Including a health center that’s been keeping the folx in the many-hidden hilltowns healthy. Hilltown Community Health Center got its start 75 years ago tangentially through a campaign of a former Red Cross nurse, but over the years has outgrown its Worthington origins, into much more. We speak with doctors Michael Purdy and Debbie DiStefano about how you can join in their anniversary celebrations this Saturday, Oct. 4. For almost as

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September 26, 2025: Long lineage

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2025/09/27

Today is full of intrigue.Pulitzer prize winning author Alex Storozynski joins us to talk about his academic exploration of free speech in the eastern bloc, which in turn leads him to incredible discoveries about his own family and their impact on both WWII and the modern day. all of which can be found in Spies in my Blood: Secrets of a Polish Family’s Fight against Nazis and Communists, his latest book about which he’ll speak at Elms College in Chicopee this weekend. For Live Music Friday,

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September 25, 2025: The long reach of history

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2025/09/25

We’re uncovering histories, and doing some explorationIn Ashfield this weekend, you’ve got the chance to preview a new work about the long lasting effects of slavery on the American Landscape. Seeing Violet is a new play about the repercussions of one couple discovering their own connection to the triangle trade through a series of revelations at their home, and how that influences their interactions with a yong local grad student. We’ll speak with playwright Peter Snoad, and production

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September 24, 2025: A more democratic connection

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2025/09/24

This is what democracy looks like. How so? Well it’s in mutual aid and there’s a local organization that’s been helping the folx of the community through too many programs to list here. And that organization is about to experience a change in leadership. Community Action Pioneer Valley has thrived under the for the past 14 years under the guidance of Clare Higgins who’ll step down this month. We’ll talk with the outgoing leader, as well as the person who’ll soon be at the helm, Lev Ben

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September 23, 2025: Words, whales and music

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2025/09/23

Today there's books, and ideas, and great music to accompany both. In Lenox, 16 authors will gather to have live real conversations on a wide range of topics in order to encourage more healthy discourse. The Writers, Ideas, and Thinkers Festival, or WIT as we colloquially call it, starts this Thursday, and we’ll speak with The Author Guild’s director of programming Bernard Schwartz about the folx that will speak truth to possibility in the Berkshires. We’ll also hang out with one of our

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September 22, 2025: Shipping images to soundgarden

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2025/09/22

We’re covering the full breadth of the bay state and a pinch of the sky. Mass Humanities has begun to honor those with particularly interesting and important stories to tell about and to Massachusetts, and their second honoree might be best known for Shipping up to Boston. Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys will receive the honor and we talk with the man himself as well as Brian Boyles of Mass Humanities about the award and the event you can attend where he'll receive it, and the legacy of

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September 19, 2025: Fresh Grass 2025

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2025/09/19

We are in the North County of the Berkshires as we say goodbye to summer, and hello to Fresh Grass.This Friday, Saturday and Sunday The Fresh Grass Music Festival at Mass MoCA in North Adams will feature grassroots music from a swath of diverse genres. And today on the show we’ll hear music from Juno Award, Americana Music Award, and Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner Alison DeGroot, whose new FreshGrass music commission pairs her extraordinary picking with the percussive dance of Nic

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September 18, 2025: Parables of the 1st amendment

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2025/09/18

Today is jam packed, with theater, books, and government. One of those things is not like the others, but accidentally ties them together, as Congressman Jim McGovern explores the fallout of free speech in this country as censors come for Jimmy Kimmel, the UN’s recent declaration of Israeli actions as Genocide, and much more. There’s a book fair this weekend in Northampton that’ll encourage you to engage more with the first amendment. The 2nd Read & Resist Book Fair happens Sept 20th,

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