Category: Podcasts

The Great Mavis Staples Shows Monte The Meaning of Life

There is hardly a person you could want to have an audience with more than Mavis Staples. Her music and…

Soap Locks and Rat Tails and Quiffs: Word Nerd

Yet more words to make Monte feel bad about his lack of hair, with Emily Brewster resident wordster from Merriam-Webster.…

The Whetstone, The Island & The Homeless: Source To Sea Cleanup 2019

Monte heads to Brattleboro’s Whetstone Station to watch the river flow with a birds eye view from a rooftop bar.…

India Lands on The Moon, But How Softly?

Mr Universe, Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed, on India’s mission to the South Pole of The Moon. It didn’t…

Liquor & Liquer from New Hampshire: Wine Snobs

Taste some of the wears of Flag Hill, where they live free or die, with the Wine Snobs from State…

Ken Burns’ Country comes to The Academy

And who better to lead a conversation about the new PBS documentary than our very own Jim Olsen. Hear what…

To Fund A Wall or To Defund ICE: McGoverning with McGovern

Who controls the federal purse strings-The White House or the Congress? Congressman Jim McGovern on visiting the district, protecting the…

Cornstock: Peace, Love, Music and Corn

It’s the most amazing maize maze in America and this year these eight acres of peace, love, music and corn…

More words to make Monte Baldmonte feel bad

Emily Brewster, resident wordster from Merriam-Webster-our Word Nerd-with more words about hair and baldness. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/more-words-to-make-monte-baldmonte-feel-bad-word-nerd

What’s Up, Dock? The Source To Sea Cleanup

Andrea Donlon and Angela Chaffee take Monte to look at a drifting dock which is shedding styrofam into the river.…

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