August 12, 2026: Big art lineages

We resume our efforts to explore local legislation with our Mayor of the Month for August, William C. Reichelt of West Springfield. With the Big E looming, we get to ask about the fair’s involvement with the greater city, the plethora of current, ongoing and upcoming construction projects the city is taking on, his take on the congressional primaries, and more. Plus we’ll hear how this recent election process shifted his perspective on some of the municipalities needs and plans. We’ll then head to Northampton where a batch of budding creators will open their new show this Friday as part of Arts Night Out. The Emerging Artist series is an ongoing endeavor of 33 Hawley to encourage and highlight newcomers to the local art scene, and we’ll meet the curator and a few of the participating artists to hear how their perspective is shifting on their own personal relationships with the work they make. And summertime funtime word nerd, Jazz a la mode host and Merriam-Webster editor at large Peter Sokolowski shows us a fun way to explore the dictionary through time by shifting to chronological order.