January 10, 2024: A home, a haven, a collapse
Music Director of the Haydenville Congregational Church Mare Berger joins us to talk about their event Songs for Peace, Alexis Breiteneicher of Valley CDC reveals their many completed and ongoing projects in fair housing across Hampshire County, and Word Nerd Emily Brewster helps us discover another Word of the Year.
The Fabulous 413 · Monte Belmonte & Kaliis Smith
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Show Notes
Today is everywhere, all at once.
Or at least it’s trying to be. We check in with executive director of the Valley Community Development Corporation Alexis Breiteneicher to hear about some of the projects that the CDC has been doing around Hampshire County. Amidst their ecologically forward affordable housing projects they’re both starting and completing, we also delve into some of the issues that arise in the efforts to make sure that everyone has access to housing, and our hopes and fears concerning the governor’s housing bond bill.
We bring Mare Berger, musical director of the Haydenville Congregational Church, to the studio to sings songs of peace. This is exactly what they’ll be doing at an event planned for this weekend, where on Jan. 13th the site will host an Interfaith Song Circle to mourn the continuing loss of life and ongoing devastation of Gaza. the gathering is also a free-will fundraiser for Middle East Children’s Alliance, and in addition to hearing a couple of the songs that will be a part of the meeting, we discuss the importance of coming together in grief during times like these.
Then we head across the pond as well with Word Nerd Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam Webster, because it looks like our dictionary here in Springfield is not the only one that designates a word of the year. We get into the word that topped the Oxford Dictionary’s WOTY list, and how the methodologies for the choosing are different between the two lexicography giants.