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Aug. 21, 2024: Aflame with well-fed spirits

Today, we're traversing Franklin county to nourish the body and spirit.

Started as a summer retreat for like minded and curious spiritualists, Lake Pleasant has grown into a quiet but resilient community while retaining some truly unique locations. We’ll visit their sites with residents Mary Bordeaux and David James to hear their town history as they get ready for their 150th anniversary festivities this Saturday.

And we head across the bridge to Stone Soup Cafe in Greenfield who’ll host their Harvest Supper, an annual event that has become a tradition for Franklin County. We talk with the cafe’s board president, Whitney Robbins, and executive director and chef, Kirsten Levitt, about how the idea to just feed the people with no strings right in the downtown commons came about and what’s on the menu Aug. 24.

Plus, Word Nerd Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam-Webster, is igniting a pursuit for clarity between the words flammable and inflammable that may just be flammatory…?

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.