August 7, 2024: Rolling through the Quabbin's tunnels

The Fabulous 413

We’re learning skills to help the community through a near herculean amount of obstacles and circumstances

We chat with Cathy Stanton, author of Food Margins which looks at the impetus, trials and tribulations of the Quabbin Harvest Food Co-op. This Saturday will see a celebration of the 10 years of collaboration between the institution with the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, so we sit with the author and co-op board member, as well as executive director at Mount Grace Emma Ellsworth, to chat about the storied history not just of the store, but of the food pathways for that region that make the co-ops appearance and survival so vital

We're also joined by Kathleen Parks, one of the creative forces behind the band Twisted Pine and the duo Kat & Brad, but she’s got an incredible solo career as well, and a new album titled "Rolling Down the Line" coming out this week. So we bring the guitar, mandolin, 5 string fiddle player, and virtuostic singer into the studio to talk about the music she makes for herself before you can hear her in person in Lenox tonight.

Plus we might have missed Mr. Universe on Monday, but that won’t keep Hampshire College and Kainaat Studios Salman Hameed from looking at the sky, and teaching us about the lunar tunnels that might be a viable alternative possibility for building structures for astronauts to reside in on the moon.