If you are still wondering how did we get here, we’re about to speak with a group of students that have been covering it for NEPM.

We speak with the group that made up The Latino Election Project. High School students Evanni Santos, Halima Mohamed, and Ian Burger have been examining the national political landscape through a local lens this Autumn, guided by Julio Varelas of The Latino Newsletter. We get their take on the fallout from the fifth and what they’ve learned about themselves and the country by taking a micro view. 

We’ll also head back to Ashfield where their winter market is about to bounce into action. We chat with champion lettering artist Nan Parati, whose work you have definitely seen all over the 4 counties of Western Mass, about the beginnings of the market, her fraught journey to Ashfield and it's New Orleans connections, and about dancing your blues away at an event this Friday with the band Timeless. 

(And about how you can tell your food or foodways connected story onstage for CISA's upcoming Field Notes Event at the Academy of Music)

And Word Nerd Emily Brewster moons us with beavers and strawberries as the senior editor from Merriam Webster talks to us about the names of moons, and a couple of bonus astronomical terms!