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Many Forks Farm, 'North Adams Panopticon' book, Mr. Universe

Many Forks Farm in the northern Berkshires changed hands a few years ago, but that’s provided them with the opportunity to get more involved in the local community and other surrounding organizations. We head to Clarksburg where there are no trains, but farmer Molly Comstock tells us of her journey through photography to get to agriculture and the innovative way the land is being preserved for farmers to come.

Just next door is a young city that's spawned legends in its own right, not the least of which is the Coca Cola Monster. Cryptids aside, the bookNorth Adams Panopticon” refocuses the infamous ledge and leads the reader through many incidents and occurrences that have happened on its precipice. We speak with author John Seven about his interest in the local urban legends and more.

And Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Kainaat Studios, shows us the many places where the building blocks of life have been found terrestrially and celestially, and how looking further into those origins might be more difficult with changes to grant review in the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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.