September 10, 2024: The Curious Walls

Today, we’re exploring possibilities, because everything is possible, even if we don’t know it yet. 

It’s the central idea at the core of New York Times bestselling author and Amherst resident Angela DiTerlizzi’s book that has launched a whole series: "The Magical Yet." Along with discovering the breadth of her catalog, and hearing how one of her books ended up in cereal boxes, we learn more about encouraging practice and patience in people of all ages, the recurrence of rhyme, and what those inquisitive minds might encounter after her latest book, "The Curious Why."

The community theater in Monte's backyard has just gotten massively zhuzhed up with a mural by Darion Fleming, but it was a whole process to get from Idea to the paint on a wall that will get finalized this week. We check out the work in progress alongside Britt Ruhe of Commonwealth Murals, Linda Tardif, director of the Shea Theater, Suzanne Lomanto of River Culture,  Town Planner of Turners Falls Maureen Pollack, along with the artist himself and explore the process of bringing the public’s consensus about what a mural in their town should look like, to the final product that will be unveiled this weekend.  

And we’d be remiss if we as two giant nerds of differing varieties didn’t talk about the legacy lost with the passing of actor James Earl Jones yesterday at 93, so we’ll recount our favorites, and how much of an impact beyond his voice the man has had on us and more.