May 22, 2026: Regional Festivity

We're psyched about the long weekend, so we’re leaning into the celebration aspect of our extra day off.And on this show it means engaging with one of our favorite agricultural products wine! Kate Norris is one of the winemakers at Division Wines, carefully crafting the grapes of the Pacific Northwest into reflections of both the Willamette Valley and surrounding areas, as well as her early years in the Loire Valley, so we bring three teams of folx together for a supersized, hyperlocal thunderdome at Provisions in Northampton. We can’t celebrate without music, so Live Music Friday brings in a transatlantic duo creating bittersweet snapshots in time. Sophia St. Helen and Michael Lesko have just begun their journey of writing songs together, and we’ll hear a bit of that new creativity before you can see them perform at the Parlor Room on May 23rd. Plus word nerd Emily Brewster, resident wordster and senior editor at Merriam-Webster, gets us to look at words as an atlas and marker for location as we delve into the sound and context of American regionalisms.