HISTORY

We speak to author Jeff Chang about his biography of Bruce Lee, "Water, Mirror, Echo," and chat with Mr. Universe on federal funding to science.

Today on The Rundown, panelists discuss negative health impacts around the 413, the newly reopened Berkshire Museum and the upcoming congressional elections.

We talk to organizers of We the Land, a conference joining Black and Brown farmers across the region, visit newly opened cafe Violet in South Hadley, and talk with interim Word Nerd Peter Sokolowski about the origins of jazz.

We talk to author Josh Weil about his new book, "What Came West," talk with actress and star of "Free Willy" Jayne Atkinson before her talk back at The Triplex, and check in with Mr. Universe.

Author Eric Jay Dolin discusses a 19th-century New Bedford whaling voyage that ended in a shipwreck and a clash of cultures in Palau.

Vermont author Tim Weed grounds a fantastical story with smuggled Mesoamerican treasure and a mysterious missing father in the familiar hills of his home state in his new novel, "The Gatepost."

The Triplex Cinema's Trifest youth film festival returns to Great Barrington, audio-based work of theater, "Common," tells the story of Amherst, and the Word Nerd draws links from 'The Odyssey' to modern English.

Ahead of her MASS MoCA concert, pianist Lara Downes explains how western Massachusetts voices and local history shaped her music and traveling "Declaration Quilt."

We find out what Double Edge Theatre has in store for their annual summer spectacle, speak with Mount Holyoke professor Patricia Dawson about her great aunt's book, "A History of the Cherokee Nation," and visit The Triplex Cinema for their "FREE AIR CONDITIONING" series.

We visit Windrow Farm in Conway, interview Samuel Galen Ng about his research on lynching in America with book "Assemblies of Sorrow," and explore the cosmos with Mr. Universe.