Anthropologist Virginia McLaurin talks to us about iShape MA, a (free!) educational campaign sponsored by the Belchertown Justice Collaborative that is focused on celebrating and promoting Indigenous history and rights. This resource is accessible, flexible, and perfect for students and families. 

Virginia also talk to us about her experiences as an indigenous person, and her research as an anthropologist, some of which you can find here:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/do/search/?q=author_lname%3A%22McLaurin%22%20author_fname%3A%22Virginia%22&start=0&context=179873&facet=

Chris Bordenca is a painter from Belchertown, MA. His work focuses on a personal connection to objects and places from his youth in the seventies and eighties including paintings of action figures, toys, and arcade games from the era.

After a ten year hiatus he returned to painting mid 2018. Since then Chris has shown his work around the valley in group shows, as well as a show in Australia to benefit victims of the wildfires.  

His painting "Starless Sea With Keys" recently won first place for acrylic painting at the 2020 Northeast Fine Arts Exposition.

Chris is the Amherst Public Art Commission featured exhibiting artist for the months of November & December, 2020.

Chris is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst who lives with his family in Belchertown, MA.

https://bordenca.com/

https://www.instagram.com/chris_bordenca_art/

https://www.facebook.com/bordencaart/

https://www.facebook.com/amherstpublicartcommission

Brian Giggey, Chris Grazioso, and Nick O’Connor join us to talk how Belchertown, MA, is creating the town's first disc golf course, Quabbin Valley Disc Golf (QVDC). 

Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the country. This is due in large part to the minimal costs associated with playing the sport and developing courses. Disc golf is also a lifetime sport enjoyed by people of all ages and provides a full body form of exercise.

• Quabbin Valley Disc Golf (QVDG):
  

Brian Giggey; Course designer, Explore Disc Golf:

• https://www.facebook.com/explorediscgolf/

We are joined by guests Shiverin’ Jim, Lily Stowe-Alekman and Legs to talk about the 2020 National Election.

Our friend Jason Montgomery from Attack Bear Press joins us to talk about the 2020 Community Ofrenda project in Holyoke, Massachusetts from October 31 -November 2, 2020.

Attack Bear Press. https://www.attackbearpress.com/community-ofrenda-2020

On Twitter: @attackbearpress. https://twitter.com/attackbearpress?s=20

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/attackbearpress

Melina Bourdeau Editor of The Belchertown, Granby, and Amherst Sentinel, a hometown newspaper focusing on the Western MA towns of Belchertown, Granby, and Amherst.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/melinabourdeau

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TurleyPublications

Web: http://sentinel.turley.com

Email: [email protected]

Kelvin Molina-Brantley is Executive Director of Foundation for TJO Animals, which funds medical care, and treatment to benefit the homeless animals at the Thomas J. O'Connor Animal Control & Adoption Center to improve their chances for adoption.

• https://www.facebook.com/FoundationforTJOanimals

Kelvin also helped host the city of Springfield, MA annual Puerto Rican Day Parade online for 2020.

• https://www.facebook.com/SpringfieldPuertoRicanParade

• Sawtooth updates.

Lindsey and Matt Baird, owners of Belchertown’s Oak & Ash Forest Farm

• • https://oakandashfarm.com

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel  Rodney Furr, of the the 439th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, talks to us about MA's Westover Air Force Base, life in the military, and all sorts of other stuff.