This week’s Joy Beat is recognizing the important role the community plays in fostering joy. We begin with the Reverend. Dr. Terrlyn Curry-Avery, who embodies this spirit, even in circumstances that are decidedly not joyful. Then, we’ll go to the Cape, where a group of self-proclaimed “Old Ladies” banded together to spend their retirement years cleaning freshwater ponds of decades-old trash. And finally, to Mattapan, where a coalition of change-makers is solving community-specific problems with community-specific solutions.

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Credits:

Host: Arun Rath

Producers: Jacklyn Martin and Kana Ruhalter

Editors: Jacklyn Martin and Kana Ruhalter 

Project Manager: Meiqian He

Editorial Advisor and Head of GBH Podcasts: Devin Maverick Robins