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June 17, 2024: A History of pride novas

This weekend is one of the area’s most treasured events, and as we get ready to broadcast live from the grounds on Friday, we take a trip through the Green River Festival’s past at the Memorial Hall Museum. We meet up with museum curator Ray Radigan and festival founder Jim Olsen to hear about tying all of the eras of the festival together.

We talk to some folx from Fame Lounge to tell us about their block party that fits right into Holyoke’s Pride celebration this weekend. They tell us about what they have planned for the event on June 22 and all the amazing things they get up to all-year-round.

Plus, Mr. Universe, Hampshire professor Salman Hameed, returns from Pakistan on Eid to tell us about the difference between novas and supernovas and what to look for when you gaze up at the night sky.

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.