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Jan. 17, 2025: Behold! Inaugural mocktails!

There is an interesting confluence of events happening this Monday. The federal holiday to honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. falls on the closest Monday on or after his birthday, and this year it happens to fall on Jan. 20, inauguration day. Lucky us.

For the latest Power of History segment, we bring in Clark University professor Ousmane Power-Greene to help us draw connections in the inaugurations of King’s time, the long activist history of his wife, Coretta Scott King, and the struggle to solidify the holiday both structurally and socially.

For Live Music Friday we bring in Aaron Borucki of Behold! True Believers and Abby Hanna to our studios before you can catch them at Luthier’s Co-Op in Easthampton on Jan. 17. We hear how the long-tenured band’s sound is continuing to evolve with the time.

And, “dry January” leads us to Jim Zaccara at Hope and Olive in Greenfield, where their non-alcoholic menu has been serving up delicious concoctions for years, and we taste a trio of beverages for the latest thunderdome.

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.