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The Northampton Jazz Festival returns for a two-day event following a pandemic hiatus, starting tomorrow and continuing through Saturday with a full music lineup. Above, attendees enjoy the music during a past jazz festival. At left, the jazz group Cocomama, led by pianist Nicki Denner, will play the Northampton Jazz Festival at Pulaski Park Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

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Northampton Jazz Festival returns 2-day event includes full music lineup

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By Keith O’Connor

Special to The Republican

he Art Blakey Centennial Celebration, an elite lineup of alumni members of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, will headline the Northampton Jazz Festival, which kicks off tomorrow with a Jazz Strut in downtown Northampton.

The two-day event returns after a pandemic-year hiatus.

Jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner will take part in the Northampton Jazz Festival. He will perform Saturday at CLICK Workspace from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

“It’s exciting to be back, our sponsorship levels have never been stronger, along with community support, and there is plenty of new energy around the festival,” said Ruth Griggs, president of the festival’s board of directors.

“We have secured all of the musicians from the 2020 canceled event, and it’s quite a good feeling that these artists of national and international scope wanted to come back,” she added.

Griggs noted that Art Blakey is “one of the most revered jazz drummers” of all time and “anyone who knows anything about jazz, especially bebop” knows of him and the Centennial Celebration.

Blakey, who died in 1990, was often called the father of hard bop. He was responsible for producing and

developing more jazz talent than any other band leader of his era. During his career, which spanned more than six decades, Blakey’s band, The Jazz Messengers, was considered the quintessential forum for musicians who wished to hone their talent and leave their own mark on the jazz scene. It was for this reason that The Jazz Messengers also became known as the Blakey School of Music.

Today, the Art Blakey Centennial Celebration is a multigenerational ensemble of musicians led by members of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

The five messengers and the eras they performed in the group are: alto saxophonist Bobby Watson (1977-1981), tenor saxophonist Bill Pierce (19801982), trumpeter Brian Lynch (19881990), trombonist Robin Eubanks

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Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas will play the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield on Oct. 6.

October lineup planned at Hawks & Reed

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IGNATURE SOUNDS Presents has announced a full slate of October shows at the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield.

The month kicks off Oct . 1 with Session Americana, followed by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas on Oct. 6. Sam Amidon will play the Pushkin Gallery at Hawks & Reed on Oct. 9, with Rachel Baiman taking the stage on Oct. 10.

Oct. 15 sees Mark Erelli at the venue, with Steve Forbert appearing Oct. 16.

Other shows later in the month include names such as Slaid Cleaves, Robbie Fulks and Mary Gauthier. Go to signaturesoundspresents. com for more information.

and “Thunder Road,” plus covers of Buddy Holly’s “Rave On” and a version of Maurice Williams’ “Stay” featuring special guests Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and Rosemary Butler.

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The band of eight deThe concert will be released scribes its sound as “rooted in multiple formats, includin classic rock, folk, and funk ing two CDs with a DVD; two and sprinkled with soul and CDs with Blu-Ray and vinyl jazz.” The band released an LPs. EP, “Let’s Throw A Party,” A composite of two perfor- earlier this year. Rae deLiner notes mances captured during the buted in 2018 with an EP, • “The Legendary 1979 No multiday “No Nukes” con“The Good Life.”

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MOVIES ONLINE STREAMING

DVD RELEASES

‘The Starling’ leads new films ‘Forever Purge’: Return of dystopian holiday

By Michael O’Sullivan

The Washington Post

Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd play Lilly and Jack, a couple struggling to regain their emotional footing after the death of a child in “The Starling” — a mildly mawkish melodrama whose title refer to the injured bird that somehow facilitates emotional healing. It’s a premise that is oddly similar to “Penguin Bloom” (also on Netflix), about a woman (Naomi Watts), paralyzed after an accident, who overcomes her own depression by caring for an abandoned magpie. Unlike that fact-based film, however, “The Starling” never really rises above the treacly, somewhat cliched handling of the couple’s difficulties.

Jack checks himself into a residential treatment facility, seemingly indefinitely, but he doesn’t act like he takes therapy very seriously (for reasons that come to light only later).

Lilly’s path out of her pain is less self-indulgent: She throws herself into work at a grocery store, redoing the house and chatting with a kindly psychiatrist-turned-veteri-

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Melissa McCarthy and Kevin Kline in “The Starling.”

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key role that doesn’t require mugging. But although the bird in the title gets better, this “Starling” never really takes off. PG-13. Available on Netflix.

Contains mature thematic elements, some strong language and suggestive material. 104 minutes.

The first original feature film from the documentary Also streaming streaming platform Curiosity Loosely based on a 1999 Stream, “Heval,” explores the novel by Bainbridge Island, true story — detailed in a 2019 Washington, writer David article in The Washington Guterson, “East of the Moun- Post by Manuel Roig-Franzia tains” stars Seattle native Tom (who appears in the film) — of Skerritt as a surgeon with ter- British-born actor Michael Enright, who abandoned his Hollywood career to volunteer for the fight against ISIS in Syria. Unrated. Available on Curiosity Stream. 106 minutes.

Logan Marshall-Green, left, and Freida Pinto in “Intrusion.”

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narian (!), played by a nicely nuanced Kevin Kline. There are moments of recognizable anguish — along with some modest insights on grief and healing — and it’s really nice to see McCarthy in a low-

quiet melancholy,” according to the Seattle Times. “Silver-haired and very soft-spoken, the Seattle-based actor brings great dignity to the part.” Unrated. Available on demand. 93 minutes.

minal cancer who decides to make his way to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, where he intends to kill himself. “Under the direction of S.J. Chiro, Skerritt invests his character with a profound,

“Intrusion” is a thriller about a married couple (Logan Marshall-Green and Freida Pinto) whose life is upended after their small-town home is broken into twice in two days, leading the wife to question what she really knows about her husband.

TV-14. Available on Netflix. 93 minutes.

Bella Thorne and Benjamin Mascolo (Thorne’s real-life fiance) star in “Time Is Up,” a romantic drama about a couple who are forced to re-examine their lives after an accident. Unrated. Available on demand. 80 minutes.

The fifth film about America’s preeminent fictional dystopian holiday tops the DVD releases for this week.

“The Forever Purge”: The lawlessness doesn’t end at sunup this time around, as racist hate groups seek to use the “blood holiday” to bring about class warfare and ethnic cleansing. For this most recent outing, “the filmmakers take on the timely topic of immigration at the southern border,” writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review.

“Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta star as Adela and Juan, a Mexican couple who flee across the border to Texas. Juan finds work for a wealthy white ranching family, the Tuckers, though tensions have erupted with son Dylan (Josh Lucas), who feels emasculated by Juan’s remarkable horse-handling skills.”

The families hunker down for the annual bloodletting, only to find the attacks still going in the morning, part of a loosely coordinated effort by hate groups to bring about “Purge Purification.”

“With America on fire and the heavily armed populace turning on each other, millions of U.S. citizens including the Tuckers, with Adela and Juan in tow,

A scene from “The Forever Purge.” (UNIVERSAL PICTURES / TNS)

make a break for the Mexican border,” Walsh writes. “Viewed with the lens of real life political and humanitarian issues at the Mexican border, the irony is palpable.”

Also new on DVD “Blithe Spirit”: Based on the 1941 comedy by playwright Noel Coward, Dan Stevens stars as an author suffering from writer’s block ever since the death of his first wife five years prior. In desperation he turns to a medium, played by Judi Dench, asking her to conduct a seance at his home. But there’s an unexpected hitch when the spirit of his deceased former spouse is summoned.

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(1987-1988) and bassist Essiet Okon Essiet (1989-1990).

Joining them are pianist Zaccai Curtis and drummer Jerome Gillespie.

Griggs said this year the event has a focus on woman-led ensembles and will feature more female musicians than ever before.

“I attended the Jazz Conference in New York City in January. There were many presentations and discussions about the importance of women in jazz history, and the fact that it is very difficult to be a woman in jazz in what is known as a man’s world.

“As women we need to give them an opportunity to perform and you couldn’t find a better community than women playing jazz in Northampton,” she said.

“As women we need to give them an opportunity to perform and you couldn’t find a better community than women playing jazz in Northampton.”

Ruth Griggs, president of the Northampton Jazz Festival board of directors

Munisteri, 5 p.m.; Wursthaus, Ryan Hollander Quartet, 6:30 p.m.; The Dirty Truth, Andrew Wilcox Trio, 7 p.m.; Spoleto Restaurant, Leala Cyr Quartet, 7:30 p.m., reservations recommended for 6 or more; Progression Brewing Co., Lucky 4, 8 p.m.; and The Deck Bar & Restaurant, Beth Logan Raffeld & Jazz Gents, 8:30 p.m., reservations recommended.

Each band plays for two hours, and the schedule is subject to change without notice.

The full lineup of festival performances on Saturday include: The Art Blakey Centennial Celebration, the only ticketed event, 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Music, with tickets available from $15 to $50 at AoMTheatre.com; The Alex Hamburger Quartet, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts; The ZT Amplifiers Artist Showcase, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts; Sullivan Fortner Solo Piano, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at CLICK Workspace; Lioness, 3 to 5 p.m., First Churches of Northampton; Northampton Expandable Brass Band, 1:30 to 1:55 p.m., marching from Bridge and Market Streets to Pulaski Park; Manduca Sexta, from 2 to 3 p.m. at Pulaski Park; and Cocomama, 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Pulaski Park.

Festival attendees will be required to wear masks, following pandemic protocols as per the city of Northampton.

For more information, visit northamptonjazzfest.org/ health-and-safety-proto cols.

In a collaboration between the Northampton Jazz Festival and the Downtown Northampton Association, patrons sporting a new Jazz Fest tote on Saturday, Jazz Fest Day, will receive a discount at participating downtown merchants. Totes will be available for purchase at all festival performance venues on Saturday.

Volunteers are needed to staff the events. For more information, visit northamp tonjazzfest.org or facebook. com/northamptonjazzfest, or email info@northampton jazzfest.org.

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Griggs also noted that on Saturday beginning at noon at City Hall in Northampton there will be a women’s march, part of a nationwide call to action to defend reproductive rights.

“I am letting our performers know so that they may raise their voice in support and march along, and I hope that some of the participants may want to attend our event as well,” she said.

The festival begins tomorrow with a Jazz Strut from 4 to 10:30 p.m., starting at Pulaski Park. Local and regional trios and quartets will perform at the following venues: Pulaski Park, Wofa — RVPA West African Drum and Dance Company, 4 p.m.; followed by Evan Arntzen Quartet featuring Matt

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MOVIES REVIEW

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ strikes a chord

By Thomas Floyd

‘DEAR EVAN HANSEN’

The Washington Post

Considering the stage musical “Dear Evan Hansen’s” titular wallflower at one point belts out the mantra, “All that it takes is a little reinvention,” it was perhaps inevitable that the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning show wouldn’t be satisfied with a by-the-numbers film version.

In adapting his own work, about an anxiety-riddled high schooler entangled in a well-meaning lie, playwright-turned-screenwriter Steven Levenson doesn’t just refine “Dear Evan Hansen.”

He reconsiders and restructures nearly every scene from the show, which premiered at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage in 2015, became a Broadway smash a year later and transformed star Ben Platt into an unlikely matinee idol. But amid Levenson’s overhaul and director Stephen Chbosky’s grounded aesthetic — both of which fluctuate between fascinating and flummoxing — “Dear Evan Hansen’s” foundation thankfully survives the stage-toscreen remodeling.

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Levenson’s plot machinations bring on the waterworks, as well.

Not much is going right for Evan when we meet him on the first day of his senior year at a nondescript Bethesda, Maryland, school. His caring single mother, Heidi (Julianne Moore), is too overworked as a night-shift nurse to fully perceive his pain. His closest friend, Jared (an amusingly sardonic Nik Dodani), barely tolerates his presence. Sporting a cast on his recently broken

he’ll help a grieving family heal, then shaping that fiction into a coping mechanism for his own trauma. When that purported bond spirals and goes viral, online communities reveal themselves as a beacon of compassion and a haven for vitriol.

Although the story beats are the same, their rhythm is not. Platt modulates his performance, swapping his manic stage presence for raw vulnerability; it’s a different Evan but no less poignant.

In adapting his own work about an anxiety-riddled high schooler entangled in a well-meaning lie, playwright-turned-screenwriter Steven Levenson doesn’t just refine “Dear Evan Hansen.” He reconsiders and restructures nearly every scene from the show.

Sure, the movie became an easy target for social media snark after its trailer prompted out-of-context jabs at the thorny plot and overblown critiques of Platt’s age. (At 27, a decade older than the high school student he plays, he’s reprising the role that won him a richly deserved acting Tony.)

Yet, the moment Platt’s soaring vocals are paired with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s pop rock-infused score and layered lyrics, “Dear Evan Hansen” works its medium-transcending magic. As an empathetic examination of loneliness in the age of hyperconnectivity,

arm, Evan is a bundle of tics and trembles as he pops prescription meds, wanders the school’s hallways alone and pens a therapist-assigned letter to himself.

When irritable outcast Connor Murphy (Colton Ryan) pockets the letter and later takes his own life, the boy’s mother (Amy Adams, doing a lot with a little) and stepfather (Danny Pino) mistake it for a suicide note addressed to Evan.

That grim misunderstanding sets off an unintended chain of events: Evan plays along with the notion that he was Connor’s friend, first figuring

As Zoe, Connor’s sister and Evan’s crush, Kaitlyn Dever brings her wounded eyes and soothing soprano to a more fully realized version of the character. Alana (Amandla Stenberg), Evan’s overachieving classmate, imbues the tale with newfound nuance about mental health through the standout power ballad “The Anonymous Ones,” which Stenberg co-wrote for the film with Oscar winners Pasek and Paul (also known for “La La Land” and “The Greatest Showman”).

Chbosky shoots that number, Platt’s earworm opener

“Waving Through a Window” and the irreverent rocker “Sincerely, Me” with appealing zeal, stretching “Dear Evan Hansen’s” world to locales that the stage production could never reach: a pep rally, a state park, a go-kart track.

The “Perks of Being a Wallflower” director also brings a tender touch to “Requiem,” a heart-rending rumination on shades of grief, and Moore’s moving rendition of “So Big/ So Small.”

The commitment to realism, however, comes with trade-offs. The stage show’s stylish design — a darkened set illuminated by towering social media feeds — is more inter-

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esting than anything Chbosky achieves visually, aside from a fleeting flourish in the uplifting anthem “You Will Be Found.”

By scaling back the script’s laughs and excising four songs (plus countless reprises), the film at times lands in an uncanny valley between the heightened musical at its core and the weightier young adult drama Chbosky seems to have envisioned.

As for its central moral dilemma, the movie ponders just how much good can justify Evan’s deception. Does “Dear Evan Hansen” let its hero off the hook too easily? Detractors — some thoughtful, some reductive — have argued that it does. Evan’s tortured soul loses plenty, though, all while enduring no shortage of self-punishment. An extended coda for the film, highlighted by a touching new song for Connor, further fleshes out Evan’s repentance.

As a postscript to Platt’s remarkable journey with Evan, from Arena Stage to Hollywood, “Dear Evan Hansen” still strikes a chord.

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DINE & WINE

Shortage of line cooks persists

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ONG BEFORE THE pandemic turned the labor market upside down, the restaurant industry was already dealing with a persistent staffing problem — a chronic shortage of line cooks.

T The HCC-MGM Culinary Arts Institute is offering a line cook certification short course to support the region’s hospitality industry. The next program begins Oct. 5. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN)

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The journeymen (and women) of the culinary profession, line cooks are those individuals who actually prepare and plate most items on a restaurant’s menu. Their job title reflects the fact that they “work the line,” that collection of cooking equipment and work stations that serve as a commercial kitchen’s assembly line. Line cook is a middle skills position in the kitchen; the job is a notch above prep cook, but doesn’t carry any of the status of chef.

In a large kitchen a line cook might be a bit of a specialist, working just the saute station or the broiler. In a smaller operation he or she most likely will do it all, striving to consistently translate a chef or owner’s menu vision into the dining experience intended.

Successful line cooks need good organizational skills, a knowledge of sanitation, and the ability to perform in an intense, high-energy work environment. They need to be able to learn quickly and work as a team with others.

Unfortunately, line cooks traditionally have not been paid very well; pre-pandemic the typical hourly rate might have been anywhere between $12 and $15. Factor in the evening and weekend hours,

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the on-your-feet nature of the work, and a generous measure of physical discomfort, and it’s not hard to understand how it has been a challenge to attract and retain good line cooks.

As part of its mission to support the region’s hospitality industry, the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute in downtown Holyoke is offering a line cook certification short course.

The program is designed for those already in the restaurant industry who want to upgrade their skills as well as unemployed/underemployed individuals interested in starting a new career in restaurant cookery. Taught in two parts — one online and the rest in-kitchen at the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute — the program focuses on the essential competencies a successful line cook needs.

These include culinary knife skills, the basics of measurements and culinary math, and certification in food safety practices. Program participants also get extensive hands-on training in a range of food preparation and production techniques.

Offered as part of Holyoke Community College’s Workforce Development effort, the line cook certification course is free to qualifying applicants.

The next certification pro-

gram begins Oct. 5.

Call 413-552-2500 or email workforce@hcc.edu for more information.

Side dishes • Celebrating two years in business, HighBrow Wood Fired Kitchen + Bar in Northampton will be holding a “2 Year Anniversary Party” tomorrow.

The restaurant will be serving $10 pizzas all evening (dine in only) and will be offering beer, wine, and cocktail specials to mark the occasion.

The celebration starts at 4:30 p.m., with the Beau Sasser Trio performing after 10 p.m.

For more information about HighBrow Wood Fired Kitchen + Bar, go online to facebook.com/highbrow restaurant.

• The Munich Haus German Restaurant in Chicopee will once again hold a series of Oktoberfest celebrations over two weekends in October.

Each Oktoberfest will feature an all-you-care-to-eat buffet of traditional specialties — pretzel-crusted chicken, sauerbraten, meatballs, sausages, and various schnitzels — accompanied by an assortment of side dishes that will include spatzle, sauerkraut, red cabbage and more.

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ODAY I HAVE A trio of shorter notable beer items — two from the eastern side of Massachusetts, and one from here in the western part.

Working east to west, we start with a great project from True North Ale Co. in Ipswich.

The brewery is collaborating with the Ipswich River Watershed Association to help the organization’s work to save the Ipswich River. The river was designated as one of the most endangered waterways in the country. A portion of the proceeds from True North’s Endangered Ale will go to these efforts.

Endangered Ale, a limited-edition American pale ale, is described as “aggressively hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo, Chinook, and Ekuanot to provide flavors and aromas of pine, bright citrus, and tropical fruit.” The Ipswich River is not only the source of brewing water for True North Ales, it also supplies nine other local craft breweries and 350,000 residents in the watershed’s 13 cities and towns.

The project just launched, but at least nine other breweries have committed to brew the ale and support the project: Gentile Brewing, Old Planters Brewing, Channel Marker Brewing, and Back Beat Brewing in Beverly, Bent Water Brewing in Lynn, Granite Coast Brewing and Essex County Brewing in Peabody, and East Regiment Beer Co. and Notch Brewing in Salem.

Without clean water, there is no beer — and let’s face it, no sustainable human life either.

Kudos to these breweries all stepping up.

Our second item today is about old pal Matt Steinberg’s Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing in Framingham. Got a note from the brewery about two new seasonal beers that readers

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may want to try: Focal Point and Cake!

Focal Point is a German-style Munich dunkel at 5% alcohol by volume. This is a limited run, so if you enjoy dry dunkels with a hint of smoke, this beer was made for you. Cake! is true to its name, featuring local coffee and pumpkin spice coffee cake.

The brew is described as a “pastry beer” designed for cool-weather drinking. The beer features pumpkin spice coffee cake from My Grandma’s of New England and — moving more westward — light roast Daily Driver coffee from Share Coffee Roasters of Hadley. The beer also has hints of cinnamon and vanilla in the mix, and comes in at 6% alcohol by volume.

I don’t think I’ve ever disliked a beer that was brewed

by Matt, so even I’m going to try to sample both of these.

Lastly, I wanted to announce yet another autumnal item to today’s column. Mike’s Maze at Warren Farm in Sunderland will hold five beer mazes, one on each Friday night in October. Visitors are invited to grab a flashlight and head into the maze to play games and track down local brews at tasting stations hidden inside the maze.

Each Friday will feature six different breweries. For more information or to buy tickets, go to mikesmaze.com/beer.

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Interviewing Joseph Carr, founder of Josh Cellars winery

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nlike some winemakers, Joseph Carr didn’t inherit a winery passed down from one generation to another.

The founder of Josh Cellars and Joseph Carr Wines doesn’t even come from a wine-drinking family.

“My father was a lumberjack in upstate New York,” Carr said during a recent interview. “I lived very much in a blue-collar lumber mill town, so there was no wine to be found.”

(Josh Cellars, by the way, was named after Joseph Carr’s father, who was also named Joe but who everyone in town called Josh.)

So how did Carr become the creator of one of the bestselling wine brands in the country?

(Sales of Josh Cellars’ wines skyrocketed in 2020, making it one of “the top-selling and fastest-growing wine brand(s)” last year, according to Wine & Spirits Daily.)

A lot of the sales growth has to do with how consistently great these affordable wines are, year in and year out. (Many of Josh Cellars’ wines cost less than $15 a bottle.)

But long before Carr created a winery in California, the key to his success started with a cross-country trip more than four decades ago to The Golden State, where he discovered his passion for wine.

“I hitchhiked to California when I was 18 years old in 1978,” Carr said. “I wanted to see America. I had never really been outside of my hometown.

I wound up in San Francisco in July. I left in June. Someone said why don’t you go up to Napa Valley. There’s a winery up there.”

“What’s a winery,” Carr recalled saying in response. “I had no clue what he was talking about.”

“So I hitchhiked up there. ...

Napa Valley in 1978 is not what it is today. Back then, it was a lot of hippies. A lot of people that today might be dismissed

as immigrants, families from Spain and France and Italy that brought their vines and their culture to America to follow the American dream. They brought this culture of winemaking and I met some of these families while I was up there.”

At one place, Carr recalled, “I sat on a porch and a guy poured me a glass of cabernet sauvignon. That was the first glass of wine I ever had.”

The place was Freemark Abbey, a winery famous for making some of the best wines in Napa Valley.

A decade later, Carr started working with wineries throughout the world, including Freemark Abbey. And when Carr first started making his own wines in 2002, he made his first wines at Freemark Abbey’s winery.

“When I came back from California (in 1978), I went to college in upstate New York near Rochester, where I studied art history and performance art and worked my way through college in a French restaurant,” Carr said.

The French restaurant was Big Tree Inn, which is only a few blocks away from the State University of New York College at Geneseo, where Carr went to college.

“I started out as a busboy,” Carr said. “I became the wine steward.”

After college, Carr turned his passion for wine into a career, becoming a professional sommelier.

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“I took my somm exam and worked for the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tampa, Florida,” Carr said.

He then worked as a sommelier at several other restaurants, including The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida and Rusty Staub in New York City. He then worked as the sommelier at the Sagamore Hotel in Lake George, New York, where he won a Wine Spectator award for his wine list design.

So how did Carr make the switch from sommelier to winemaker?

“I was working at the Sagamore Hotel and I was a little burned out because I was working a lot,” Carr said. “They had five restaurants and I worked holidays.”

But instead of making the leap directly from sommelier to winemaker, Carr took a slight detour.

“I quit my job and went back to college and studied dance history,” Carr said. “I was going to go back into the theater and do some stuff there. Then I got hired by a winery from Italy and then Freemark Abbey and I wound up working in the wine business for wineries for 10 years.”

Carr eventually became an executive in the wine business, a position he could have easily continued doing for the rest of his career. Then he decided he wanted to do something different, something more personal — create his own wine. That change happened soon after

Joseph Carr, founder of Josh Cellars winery.

(PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSH CELLARS)

Sept. 11, 2001.

“After 9/11, I had this real epiphany,” Carr said. “My wife and I, we just couldn’t believe what happened that day and I lost a good friend who was in a plane. I lost some friends that were in the tower. I always had this dream that I would start my own company.

“I always tell people I was missing two things, courage and conviction,” Carr added.

“The day after 9/11, I found it.”

Soon after, Carr quit his job as vice president of Beringer wines in California.

“Life is short, I think I can do this,” Carr said. “I’ve been around the wine business for so long. I think I can do it. I don’t really know how to do it.

Everybody thought I was nuts. I quit my job and refinanced our house.

“I literally started the company with no employees, no partners, no nothing,” Carr said. “I go out to Freemark Abbey and (head winemaker) Ted Edwards is there. I knock on the door and I say listen, ‘I want to start making wine.’

He’s laughing. He thinks Joe Carr is making a joke again and all of sudden he got really serious and he says, ‘You’re kidding. This is what you want to do?’ and I said yes, this is

what I want to do. And he said, ‘OK, well, I’ll show you how to do it.’

“I wound up sleeping on his sofa, traveling back and forth to Napa Valley from upstate New York for almost two years, and sleeping on another friend’s sofa, (winemaker) Tom Larson, and learned how to make wine,” Carr said.

“I didn’t have the science background,” Carr said. “I would go through all the beginning stuff, get the grape lots, vineyard selections and all of that stuff. Then those guys would do the initial fermentation and then I would do the blending with a winemaker and the bottling... We would get a mobile bottling line, come in and work and it was crazy.”

The amount of wine made

by Carr’s company nowadays is significantly more, but his approach remains the same.

“Because I was in the restaurant business as a sommelier, I always knew that wine was intended to go with food,” Carr said. “I never really thought of wine as cocktails or anything like that. Because I knew a lot about French wine, Bordeaux in particular, I liked the architecture of SEE WINE, PAGE E9

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2020 Josh Cellars Sauvignon Blanc ($14.99 SRP) This dry white wine made with sauvignon blanc grapes has a nice, slightly flinty finish featuring flavors ranging from sea salt to fresh-cut green grass as well as a dash of fresh lemon and ripe green apples. A very approachable white wine that goes great with seafood, shellfish and spicier foods.

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The Josh Cellars wines recommended this week. (KEN ROSS PHOTO)

family-owned company and we had a chance to make prosecco.”

Carr also believes strongly in giving back to worthwhile causes. That’s why he decided to donate $1 for every bottle sold of Josh Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Lodi to the National Volunteer Firefighter Council.

Supporting firefighters and the work they do has been a lifelong passion for Carr.

“I grew up across the street from a volunteer firehouse in upstate New York,” Carr said.

“My grandfather was a volunteer firefighter, my father, my uncles and my cousins.

“I’ve always been around the culture of first responders and EMTs and also the military,” Carr said. “Quite a few people in my family have gone on to be in the Marines and the Army. My father was in the Army. I realized a long time ago these are organizations that don’t support themselves. They have to be supported by others and I was very dedicated to be part of that in some way shape or form.”

In addition to financially supporting firefighters, Carr has also been involved with many events in recognition of firefighters and the work they do. One such event was a lunch served to firefighters at a firehouse in Boston prepared by the famous chef Barbara Lynch.

“They were like, ‘We don’t

get food like this here all the time,’” Carr said. “This is great.”

Another event for firefighters was in West Springfield.

“We did a great event there with them and they were amazing,” Carr said. “They were doing 70 calls a day.

That’s amazing.”

The same could easily be said about Carr himself and what he’s accomplished in such a short time in the wine industry.

Josh Cellars wine tasting notes 2019 Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon ($16.99 Suggested Retail Price) The wine that started it all for Josh Cellars, its cabernet sauvignon remains an outstanding, affordable red wine from California. Consistently well-balanced and flavorful, this wine strikes just the right balance between fresh, bright fruit flavors and understated, dry notes, often with hints of hazelnut and vanilla.

Josh Cellars Prosecco ($14.99 SRP) A great new addition to the wines created by Josh Cellars, its prosecco from Italy (which is redundant since all proseccos must come from Italy) has a fantastic, fragrant, flinty finish. Hints of toasted butter and citrus flavors, it’s a perfect prosecco for any time of year and a wide range of foods.

2019 Josh Cellars Firefighter Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Lodi ($17.99 at Table & Vine in West Springfield) For a few dollars more — and for a great cause — you can enjoy this delicious red wine.

Powerful and intense straight out of the bottle with a dark, inky color, this wine has a luxurious finish that smooths 2020 Josh Cellars Rose out wonderfully after about ($14.99 SRP) half an hour. The next day, the Another relatively new Josh wine’s dense fruit flavors (parCellars wine, this rose wine has ticular plums and blackberries) a bright, crisp, refreshing finish become even more voluptuous, with the subtle fruit flavors more intense and absolutely (peach, strawberry, melon) delightful. Drink now or save that dry rose wine fans enjoy. for at least three to five years.

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French wines, the blending of the grapes — cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot and malbec. That was my mindset, the architecture of what a red wine should be. You don’t see that a lot in California.”

“Because of the appellation control laws in California, a certain percentage must be cabernet sauvignon to be called cabernet sauvignon,” Carr said. “But the rest can be augmented with these other grapes. I was trying to find balance. I was trying to make wines that are approachable.

“I’m really making old school Bordeaux-style wines that are actually approachable,” Carr added.

In recent years, Carr has made many other different types of wines, including a prosecco from Italy.

“Prosecco is this really kind of interesting dream,” Carr said. “Years ago, my wife and I — my wife was Italian American. She was my business partner. Unfortunately, she passed away three years ago of brain cancer. All along the way, she used to say, ‘Why don’t we make wines in Italy someday?’ because she always wanted to go there for work. … I remember at the time I said, ‘Honey, have you looked at our bank accounts?

We can’t even eat at an Italian restaurant let alone go to Italy.’ So I made her a promise. Maybe someday if I can, I will.

“A couple of years ago after my wife passed, I met a guy named Daniel Posey,” Carr said. “He was a fifth-generation winemaker from Italy in Sicily and the Veneto region. We just sat and had lunch. We started lunch at one o’clock and it was five o’clock when we were done.

We talked about our families and our kids and I mentioned the dream I had and the next thing we know, we have an opportunity to collaborate with an amazing family.

He understood that we’re a

colder months as well.

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Events THURSDAY The Big E: Thu.-Sun, Eastern States Exposition, 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield, 413-7372443, thebige.com.

Big Thief with special guest Alex G: Thu., 7 p.m. Look Park, gates open at 5 p.m. Tickets on sale now, visit dspshows.com, 300 North Main St., Northampton; 413-5845457, lookpark.org. ”A Crossing”: Thu.-Sun, Barrington Stage Company, 30 Union St., Pittsfield; 413-236-8888, barringtonstageco.org.

Feet to the Floor Festival 2021: Thu.-Sun, Northampton Center for the Arts, in person and online.

Featuring more than 20 artists across disciplines of dance, poetry, music, and visual art. All proceeds will support the Workroom/BuildA-Floor projects for the workroom and theater. Seating is limited.

Pre-register online for all events.

COVID vaccinations and masks required. Advance tickets available at eventbrite.com/e/feet-tothe-floor-festival-2021-tickets-159854143045. Admission for all events is on a sliding scale.

33 Hawley St., Northampton; 413584-7327, nohoarts.org.

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”Hang”: Thu.-Sun, Shakespeare and Company, 70 Kemble St., Lenox; 413-637-3353, shakespeare. org. ”The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On”: Thu.-Sat, 8 p.m.; Sun, 2 and 7 p.m. Majestic Theater through Oct. 17, Tickets start at $29. 131 Elm St., West Springfield. 413-747-7797, majestictheater.com.

Outdoor Circle Time: Thu., 10:30-11 a.m., Sixteen Acres Branch Library. “Circle Time” is a fun experience for your child and also a great way to be ready for preschool and kindergarten.

In event of rain, program will be canceled. Ages 0-5, older siblings welcome, free. 1187 Parker Street, Springfield; 413-263-6858.

Post Bedtime Parents Group: Thu., 8:30-9:30 p.m., online.

Sometimes just getting through the day deserves a reward. Grab a snack, put on your PJs, and join other tired parents. Find the Zoom link at hilltownvillage.org/ groups, free.

Six Flags New England Fright Fest 2021: Thu.-Sun., Six Flags New England, open weekends and select days. 1623 Main St., Agawam. 413-786-9300; sixflags. com/newengland.

Toddler & Preschool Storytime

on the Lawn: Thu., 10 a.m. Forbes Library. In the event of rain, storytime will be canceled, 20 West St., Northampton; 413-587-1011, forbeslibrary.org.

FRIDAY Applause Series concert: Fri., 7 p.m. Agawam Senior Center.

Handler & Levesque present “Acoustic Blend.” Doors open at 6:15 p.m. through the lower-level entrance only, 954 Main St., Agawam, 413-821-0604.

The Big E: See Thursday listing ”A Crossing”: See Thursday listing Feet to the Floor Festival 2021: See Thursday listing ”Hang”: See Thursday listing ”The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On”: See Thursday listing ”Pokemon Party”: Fri., 3-4:30 p.m. Chicopee Main Library. Time slots available from 3-4:30 p.m.

Contact the Children’s Room Desk, 413-594-1800, ext. 4, or email chicopee.kids@cwmars.org to sign up for a time slot. Open to kids and teens, 449 Front St., Chicopee. 413-594-1800.

Six Flags New England Fright Fest 2021: See Thursday listing

SATURDAY Northampton Jazz Festival: Music all day long at various locations across Northampton. For more information and a full schedule, visit northamptonjazzfest.org.

The Big E: See Thursday listing

SUNDAY The Big E: See Thursday listing

Blessing of the Pets/Animals: Sun, Feet to the Floor Festival 2021: See 2 p.m. Foster Memorial Church, held rain or shine. Everyone is Thursday listing welcome to bring pets on leashes ”Hang”: See Thursday listing or in crates. Photos of “shy” pets are also welcome. There is no cost for Ludlow’s Community Market: this event, but donations of pet food, Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Memorial toys and supplies for the Thomas Park, featuring more than 40 venJ. O’Connor animal Control and dors selling and promoting a range Adoption Center are appreciated, of arts products and handmade 1791 Wilbraham Road, Springfield; crafts. The market will also feature 413-782-2112. live performances and activities, as well as food trucks. Chestnut and ”A Crossing”: See Thursday listing East Streets, Ludlow.

Feet to the Floor Festival 2021: ”The Marvelous Wonderettes: See Thursday listing Dream On”: See Thursday listing ”Hang”: See Thursday listing Six Flags New England Fright Fest Ludlow’s Community Market: See 2021: See Thursday listing Saturday listing Sturbridge Herbfest: Sat., 9:30 “The Marvelous Wonderettes: a.m.-4:30 p.m. Enjoy a day of Dream On”: See Thursday listing learning and fun with classes such Six Flags New England Fright Fest as “Cannabis for Health,” “Food 2021: See Thursday listing as Medicine,” “Making Beeswax Food Wraps” and more. Outdoor Village Closet Cleanout - Hallowvendors and demonstrations all een Costumes and Coats: Sun., 11 day. Admission gets you unlimited a.m. The Village Closet. Everything classes. Pre-register to save. On the SEE CALENDAR, PAGE E11 lawn, building and in tents at the ”A Crossing”: See Thursday listing

Tickets for the Oct. 8 “kick- com/f/help-the-coco-staff. off ” event are $20 ($25 after tomorrow). For more informa• Having had to cancel its CONTINUES FROM PAGE E7 tion, go to studentprince.com hallmark national trade show The food finale is to be a or call 413-734-7475. in both 2020 and 2021, the Vienna-style dessert station.

National Restaurant AssociLive music will be a part of • With the late summer clos- ation (NRA) has the planning each Oktoberfest evening. On ing of Coco and The Cellar for its 2022 show already well Oct. 15, the Bavarian Brothers Bar in Easthampton, Western underway. The 2022 edition will entertain from 6 to 9 p.m., Massachusetts lost one of its of the show, the association while on Saturday, guests will most noteworthy restaurant claims, “will be the comeback enjoy the traditional oom-pah experiences. The closure also event the industry deserves.” sounds of the Vagabonds.

• The Student Prince meant a loss of employment Scheduled for May 21 Doors open both evenings at Cafe and Fort Restaurant and community for a small but through May 24, 2022, in its 6 p.m.; tickets are $35, tax and in Springfield also will be dedicated staff. traditional venue, the McCorgratuity not included. maintaining its Oktoberfest As a way of bridging the mick Place Exhibition Center Reservations can be made traditions by celebrating the financial gap the establishment’s in Chicago, the NRA Show by calling the Munich Haus at return of the “Mighty Oktober- shutdown created, friends of 2022 is already accepting 413-594-8788. Tickets can also fest” on Oct. 8.

Coco have put together a attendee registrations, with be ordered online at The festivities will begin at 5 GoFundMe appeal, the proceeds an early bird signup fee of $75 munichhaus.com. p.m. with the Berkshire Moun- of which are being distributed available through Nov. 21. tain Wanderers providing the equitably to former employees.

Information about the NRA • The Shortstop Bar & event’s in-person soundtrack.

Originally set to have a fundrais- Show 2022, including links Grill in Westfield has been The ceremonial tapping of ing goal of $7,500, the appeal for online registration, can be celebrating this year’s return the keg will take place shortly has considerably exceeded found at nationalrestaurant of The Big E with a “Fair Food” thereafter. that amount, a testimony to the show.com. menu of specials.

During October, the restauloyalty of former customers and Entrees being offered as part rant will be augmenting its a tribute to the regard in which • Champney’s Restauof this “Little E” tribute menu regular menu with seasonal the now-defunct restaurant was rant at the Deerfield Inn in include a glazed donut burger, German specialties, and live held.

Deerfield, in conjunction a sausage sub with peppers and entertainment will be provided The link to the Coco Go with West County Cider in onions, a foot-long chili cheese each weekend.

FundMe appeal is gofundme. Colrain, will be hosting an hotdog, and Big Baked Stuffed Potatoes finished with a variety of topping combinations.

The dessert keyword is “deep fried” with choices like fried Oreos, fried cookie dough and fried dough on offer.

The Shortstop Bar & Grill answers at 413-642-6370 and can be found online at short stopbarandgrill.com.

Sturbridge Senior Center. Parking available, pre-ordered lunches available for purchase as well, $15. 426 Main St., Sturbridge.

adult cider and food pairing with live music tomorrow. The evening runs from 6 to 9 p.m. and will include a four-course menu with each segment thereof accompanied by “tastes” of two adult ciders.

Components of the food lineup are cider butternut bisque, scallops with apple slaw, merquez sausage with warm greens, and cider-braised pork shank. Apple bread pudding will be served as dessert.

The cost to attend is $75 per person, tax and gratuity additional. Local favorite John Corbett will be responsible for the musical portion of the evening.

Reservations can be made by calling the Deerfield Inn at 413- 774-5587.

Hugh Robert is a faculty member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and culinary arts program and has nearly 45 years of restaurant and educational experience.

Robert can be reached online at OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com.

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Calendar CONTINUES FROM PAGE E10 at the Village Closet is 100% free, no matter your income or where you live. 2 East Main St., Huntington.

Quadrangle Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden: Dr. Seuss National Memorial features outdoor sculpture garden of larger-than-life bronze statues of Springfield native Dr. Seuss at his drawing board surrounded by some of his most beloved characters including Horton the Elephant, the Grinch, the Lorax and others, free on the green.

George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum: Permanent exhibit: “Ancient Treasures,” a display of artifacts from ancient China, Greece, Rome and Egypt. Handson making activities in the Hasbro Games Art Discovery Center. Free family activities. Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

from his sitting room and studio, including his drawing board and armchair. Timed tickets required, for reservations visit springfieldmuseums.org.

Quadrangle admission: $25 for adults, $16.50 for seniors (60+) and college students with ID, $13 for children ages 3-17; free to children under age 3 and members, Springfield residents are free with proof of residency. Welcome Center and Museum store. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Museums Amelia Park Children’s Museum: Permanent exhibit: hands-on activities and creative exhibits.

Sign up online for a play session at ameliaparkmuseum.org. Hours: Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sun. 10 a.m.noon and 1-3 p.m. Open for groups on Tues. and Wed. $8 adults, $8 children (12 months and older); $4 grandparents/seniors (60+); museum members and infants free, 29 South Broad St., Westfield, ameliaparkmuseum.org.

Children’s Museum at Holyoke: Permanent exhibit includes The Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum Wiggle and Wash/Vet Clinic, a of Springfield History: “Horn toddler merry-go-round and a Man: The Life and Musical Legacy STEM-based cash register for kids. of Charles Neville,” through Nov. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 9 a.m.-noon and 28. Permanent exhibit: more than 1-4 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and two dozen Indian motorcycles and 1-4 p.m.; Sun., noon-4 p.m. Closed related memorabilia.

Mondays. In the event of severe weather conditions please check Michele and Donald D’Amour Facebook or Instagram, or local TV Museum of Fine Arts: “Ai Weiwei: Tradition and Dissent,” through Jan. Station 22 for closures. Admission: Children & Adults $8; Seniors (62+) 2. in the Wheeler and Barn Galleries. “Capturing Our Worlds” Works $5; Children under 1 year of age and members are free. 444 Dwight by the Springfield Photographic St., Holyoke, SocietyThrough June 26, 2022. childrensmuseumholyoke.org.

Quadrangle Welcome Center: Eric Carle Museum of Picture Dog Day at the Springfield MuBook Art: “Color \ Joy \ Eric seums: Oct. 2, 9-10 a.m. Leashed, Carle” through March 6, included congenial dogs (and their owners) with general admission. “Speechare invited to enjoy activities on the North Lawn. Pre-registration is less: The Art of Wordless Picture required, visit springfieldmuseum. Books” through Dec. 5, in the East Gallery. Tickets must be purchased org; cost is $5 per dog for nonmembers, $2 per dog for members. in advance online. “Ashley Bryan in Song” through Nov. 7 in the Springfield Science MuseCentral Gallery. Permanent exhibit: um: “Cut ‘N’ Rough Collection.”

Gabrielle Healy Carroll Storytime Through June 2022; A collection Programs, Tues. and Fri. 10:30 a.m.; of cut stone displayed side-by-side Sat. 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Sun. with the same stone in its original 2 p.m., free with admission. $6, rough state, ready for all to see in $9, $22.50 for a family of four, 125 Earth Hall, on the second floor of West Bay Road, Amherst, the Springfield Science Museum. carlemuseum.org.

The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: Open Museum: Permanent exhibit: First for rides Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. floor exhibition provides opportu$3.50 ride or 4/$10, 221 Appleton nities to explore new sounds and St., Holyoke, vocabulary, play rhyming games, holyokemerrygoround.org. invent stories, and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Permanent exhibit: creative thinking, with interactive three-dimensional exhibits. Second three floors with dozens of handson exhibits, a regulation sized floor contains Geisel’s personal memorabilia, including the original basketball court and more than 900 artifacts on display. Hours: Geisel Grove sign which used to Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. hang in Forest Park, and furniture

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10 a.m.-4 p.m. $28 adults (16-24); $23 seniors (63+); $19 youth (5-15); $23 students with valid high school or college ID. Free for ages under 5, 1000 West Columbus Ave., Springfield, hoophall.com.

times is required at Wistariahurst. org. The exhibit will be open to the public Sun., noon-3 p.m.; Mon., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and Tues., 5:30-7 p.m.

238 Cabot St., Holyoke, wistariahurst.org.

Norman Rockwell Museum: “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration,” through Oct. 31.

“Real and Imagined: Fantastical Rockwell,” through Oct. 31. “Land of Enchantment: Fantastical Sculptures,” through Oct. 31. Hours: Thurs.-Mon. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Tues. and Weds. Advance ticket purchase required. $20 adults; $18 seniors, AAA, retire military; $10 college students, free children ages 18 and under, members and active military, 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, nrm.org.

Yiddish Book Center: Permanent exhibit: “A Velt mit veltelekh: The Worlds of Jewish Culture.” The center will be open to the public on Thurs., Fri., Sun. and Mon. from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Shabbos (Saturday) and Jewish and legal holidays. $8 adults, $6 seniors, free for members, students and children, 1021 West St., Amherst, yiddishbookcenter.org.

Old Sturbridge Village: Permanent exhibit. Hours: Wed.-Sun. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $24, $22 seniors, $8 children 3-17, free for children under 3. “New England on Parade” exhibit through July 2023 examines parades and parade traditions in New England from 1776 to 1940.

Included with general admission, Route 20, Sturbridge, osv.org.

A.P.E. Gallery: “New Paradigm Tool Company” through Saturday.

Gallery hours: Wed.-Sun. noon-5 p.m.; Fri. noon-8 p.m. 126 Main St., Northampton, apearts.org.

Springfield Armory National Historic Site: Ranger-led interpretive programs offered in the museum in the afternoon. Junior Ranger programs conducted frequently each day. Hours are Wed.-Sun, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 1 Armory Square, Springfield, nps.gov/spar.

Titanic Museum: Permanent exhibit: exhibits from the collection of the International Titanic Historical Society. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $4, $2 children and students, 208 Main St., Indian Orchard, titanic1.org.

University Museum of Contemporary Art - Fine Arts Center: Nicole Eisenman: “Prince,” through Dec. 5; and Feb. 3-May 1; virtual live chat with the artist, Nov. 10, 6-7 p.m. “Sideshow: Nicole Eisenman’s Modernist Inspirations,” through Dec. 5; Feb. 3 - May 1. “We Are for Freedoms.” Through Dec. 5.

“Artifacts at the End of a Decade.”

Through Dec. 5; first Eva Fierst Student Curatorial Exhibition. Exhibits are available online, visit fac. umass.edu/UMCA/Online/; 151 Presidents Drive, Amherst Volleyball Hall of Fame: Permanent exhibit. Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Visitors are required to wear masks. $2.50-$3.50, 444 Dwight St., Holyoke, volleyhall.org.

Wistariahurst Museum: Permanent exhibit: “Wisteria Vines in Full Bloom.” Carriage House and gift shop open Sat.-Mon., noon-4 p.m.;.

Historic house tours $7, $5 students and seniors. “Melange d’Art”

by Emikan Sudan, Oct. 3-Oct. 26.

Admission to this exhibit is by suggested donation, accepted at the door. Pre-registration for viewing

Galleries

Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery: Permanent exhibit. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. First floor of building 28. 1 Armory Square, Springfield, 413-755-5258.

Arno Maris Gallery: “Ephemeral Marks” by Charles Suggs through Oct. 23. Artist talk Oct. 6, 3:15 p.m.

Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 577 Western Ave., Westfield, 413-572-5236.

Augusta Savage Gallery: “Rising Waters/Blazing Earth” by Zea Mays Printmaking through Oct. 20; in the gallery and online; opening reception for students of UMass’ HFA, Oct. 4, 5-7 p.m. Gallery hours: Mon.-Tues., 1-7 p.m.; Wed.-Fri., 1-5 p.m. 101 New Africa House, Amherst, umass.edu.

featuring the artists at Indian Orchard Mills. Hours: Sat., noon-4 p.m. or by appointment. 34 Front St., Indian Orchard, 413-543-3321.

J. H. Miller Custom Framing and Gallery: Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs., 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 86 Elm St., West Springfield, 413-7329128.

Old Town Hall: “Our Times” by Ken Gagne, Matt Gagne, Anthony Pacinella and Mariah Pacinella. Saturday-Oct. 31; Reception Saturday, 6-8 p.m. Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sat., 9 a.m.-noon.

43 Main St., Easthampton Oxbow Gallery: Exhibition by Lorna Ritz through Oct. 24; reception, Oct. 8, 5-8 p.m., in the backroom.

275 Pleasant St., Northampton, oxbowgallery.org.

William Baczek Fine Arts: “Hollywood Nights”: A solo exhibition of artwork by Ryan Landry. Through Oct. 30. Opening reception Saturday, 4-6 p.m. 36 Main St., Northampton, wbfinearts.com.

Workshop 13 Cultural Arts Center: Third annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition of Traditional Realism. The People’s Choice Award will be announced on closing day, Oct. 10. The exhibition will be on view weekends through Oct. 10 Fri. 4-7 p.m. and Sat.-Sun, 1-4 p.m.

Masks are required for entry. Free, workshop13.org. 13 Church St., Ware

Outdoors

Great Falls Discovery Center: Story Walk Series: “Honk Honk: a Story on Migration” by Mick manning and Brita Granstrom Gallery A3 Amherst Art Alliance: through Oct. 20. For young readers “Pay Attention” photographs from ages 4-8 and all fans of geese and Provence and Paris by Larry Rankin. migration; Visitor Center hours: Through Saturday. 28 Amity St., Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., through Amherst 413-256-4250.

Oct. 23. “Kidleidoscope Story Hour.” Fridays in Oct., 10:30 a.m.

Hampden Gallery: “The Think Itself” by Christopher Janke through Oct. 1, “Geese”; Oct. 8, “Squirrels”; Oct. 15, “Moose”; Oct. 22, “Bear.”

Dec. 1; Artist reception today, 5-7 For children ages 3-6, program p.m.; artist talk today, 6-6:30 p.m. includes a story, activities, and a 131 Southwest Circle, Amherst, craft. Program is mostly outdoors. umass.edu.

Siblings and friends welcome. AcHolyoke Community College: tivities are socially distanced. “Art The 2021 HCC Visual Art Faculty Naturally Series: Discover Nature Exhibition can be viewed online Through Story and Art” Oct. 2, through the end of the 2021. Visit 10:30 a.m.-noon. Meet in the Great the exhibit at hcc.edu/taberHall. For adults, teens and children faculty21. 303 Homestead Avenue, ages 6 and up (accompanied by an Holyoke. adult). Workshop begins at 10:30 Hope and Feathers Framing and a.m. Materials are provided free.

Gallery: “Survivor Tree” a book ilMake a paper patchwork quilt with lustrated by Aaron Becker, through watercolor sky and Flying Geese.

Oct. 8; Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 Registration recommended, call the a.m.-6 p.m.; Thurs. 10 a.m.- 8 p.m.; center at 413-863-3221. 2 Avenue Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 319 Main St., A, Turners Falls, greatfallsma.org.

Amherst, Lupa Zoo: Weather permitting, the hopeandfeathersframing.com. zoo is open through Oct. 31, 10 a.m.

Indian Orchard Mills Dane GalSEE CALENDAR, PAGE E12 lery: All new exhibits every month

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Frights await at the Monster Mash Scream Park at McCray’s Farm, open Fridays through Sundays through Oct. 31.

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Calendar CONTINUES FROM PAGE E11 –4 p.m. Tues.–Sun. Open Columbus Day. Buy tickets online at lupazoo.org. Open weekends only in Nov., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Adults (13+ yrs): $15; Seniors (62+ yrs): $12; Children (2-12+ yrs): $10; Infants (< 2 yrs): free, 62 Nash Hill Road, Ludlow, lupazoo.org.

a.m. to 5 p.m., year round; explore the park’s story through displays, artifacts and scavenger hunts. $2 parking fee, programs are free, 107 McAuley Road, North Adams.

The Zoo in Forest Park and Education Center: Timed tickets are required to visit. Zoo is open Mon.-Sun, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through Oct. 31. The City of Springfield charges a daily parking fee of $3 per in-state and $5 per out-ofstate passenger car cash only.

Mass Audubon-Connecticut River All buses and larger vehicles are Valley Wildlife Sanctuaries: “Trees charged $15 per vehicle. AdmisThrough the Seasons Nature sion prices: Adult: $10; military & Walk.” Saturday, 10 a.m. Learn to senior: $7; children (ages 1 - 12): identify native trees by their leaves, $5; children (under age 1): Free. buds, bark, and flowers. This trail Admission prices vary depending walk is about 1.5 miles through on the season, Sumner Avenue, forest and field over rocks, roots, Springfield, forestparkzoo.org. and some small hills. Registration is required. Members $15, nonmembers $18. “Fall Ecology Series: Hawley Bog Nature Walk” Sunday, 10 a.m. Hawley Bog resembles Farmers Market at Forest the cold bogs farther north. This Park: Tuesdays through Oct. 26, unique habitat is home to three 12:30-6 p.m. Enter at Trafton insectivorous plants, as well as Road entrance. Sumner Avenue, plants left behind by the glaciers, Springfield such as cottongrass. Program will take place entirely outdoors. Mem- Greenfield Farmers Market: Outbers $15, nonmembers $20. 127 door farmers market runs SaturCombs Road, Easthampton, 413days through Oct 31, 8 a.m.-12:30 584-3009, massaudubon.org/ p.m. Court Square, Greenfield. get-outdoors/program-catalog Holyoke Farmers Market: Sat., McCray’s Farm: Monster Mash 11 a.m.-3 p.m. At the intersection Scream Park at McCray’s Farm. of Dwight and Appleton Streets, Fri.-Sun. through Oct. 31, 7 p.m.

Holyoke. $25 per person, 55 Alvord St., Northampton Farmers Market: South Hadley, fearonthefarm.com Saturdays, 8 a.m.- 1 p.m., through Mount Tom State Reservation: Nov. 13. 8 Gothic St., Northampton “Life Around the Lake.” Saturday, Farmers Market at The Long10:30 a.m., mammals that live in meadow Shops: Thursdays and around the lake is the focus through Oct. 28, from noon-6 p.m. for this week’s topic. Meet at Bray 690 Bliss Road, Longmeadow, Lake. “Hike the McCool trail” thelongmeadowshops.com Saturday, 1 p.m. This one and a Westfield Farmers Market: half hour hike on the McCool trail Thursdays through Oct. 14, travels on mostly easy terrain at a noon-5 p.m., at Episcopal Church moderate pace. Bring water and of the Atonement, 36 Court St., bug spray. “Birding for Beginners” Westfield Sunday, 10:30 a.m. This one hour program helps beginners to learn the basics of birding. “Sunday The Republican is not responsible Afternoon Family Program” Sun., for unannounced schedule changes.

1 p.m. The title for this week’s Listings must be received two weeks program is “making a bird feeder.” before the date of the event. Items Seeds will be provided along with should be mailed to Entertainment milk cartons for the feeder conGuide, The Republican, P.O. Box struction. 125 Reservation Road, 1329, Springfield, MA 01102-1329; Holyoke, 413-534-1186. emailed to pmastriano@repub.com; or submitted to masslive.com/ Natural Bridge State Park: myevent Visitors Center exhibits. Daily 9

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