July 14, 2025: Good aim

 We’re meeting new community through books, bows, bottles, and hurtling millions of light years from entirely different solar systems. Mill River Archery has gathered folx curious about the bow to make them better shots. We head out to their training grounds on the Hampshire College Campus to talk with their coaches, participants, and more about the impetus for forging their own collective, the key techniques of shooting, and perhaps take aim ourselves and see how we do with instructors Rory Palmer, Jesse Hasslinger, and more. And also we’re gathering bibilovores and authors alike to peruse pages in Hatfield at Black Birch Vineyard. Books and Bottles 2025 brings 8 authors together at the local winery for readings, signings, and more, and we speak with organizer Michael Parzymieso, and participating authors Mattea Kramer and Jacqueline Sheehan to talk about the density of authors in the valley, the gift of doing an event like this together and more. And Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed is talking about foreign bodies, which in this case refers to a comet from another solar system that’s headed to ours.