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December 4, 2025: The landscape shifts

December 4, 2025: The landscape shifts

The Fabulous 413 · Monte Belmonte & Kaliis Smith

December 5, 202550m 3s

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Show Notes

We’re seeing our landscapes change through art. 

In Northampton a new work looks at the way the railroad has changed the city over the past century through music, historical archives, and theater. Rhythm and Rails will be performed at the Forbes Library this Saturday and is indicative of the multimedia, multi-disciplinary work that Red Skies Music Ensemble puts together. Creative director Trudy Williams and members of the cast help us explore the ties of the Railroad to our time.

We’ll also head out to Easthampton where a building full of artists are opening their doors to show the public what arts they are doing behind them this Dec 6, 7, and 13th. The Cottage St. Studios Open Studios only happens twice a year, so we join artist-art therapist Arielle Jessop-Humpage and bookbinder Lisa Hersey, two artists who’ll be participating, for a tour of the 5 floored facility and a sample of what beautiful works you might see this and next weekend. 

Plus our weekly chat with congressman Jim McGovern recaps the 43 miles walked last week for the food bank, the possible weaponization of SNAP against blue leaning states, war crimes in Venezuela and listener questions as well.