MERRIAM-WEBSTER

We celebrate continue to celebrate Pride Month with The Big Gay Speakeasy in Adams, this weekend's Queer Joy Fun Fair and explore baneful v.s. baleful with the Word Nerd.

We check back in with student authors of the Slavery North Initiative with their picture book exhibit, tour the sustainable and natural dye printmaking studio Zea Mays and learn about pronunciation with the Word Nerd.

We learn about the 5th annual Odenong Powwow in Amherst and talk eponyms with the Word Nerd.

We talk to Jazz à la Mode host and Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski about the 100th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and learn about little red dots with Mr. Universe.

We speak with author Heidi Stemple about her latest book, "The Poetry of Car Mechanics," agonize over better words to describe terrible things with Word Nerd Emily Brewster and check out the arborvitae at Amherst Nurseries.

We explore the Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, try our hand in candlepin bowling in Shelburne Falls and unlock a centuries-old mystery with the Word Nerd.

We look back on our fabulous 413 Day celebration!

We take a tour of the collaborative business efforts of Marketplace at Gasoline Alley in Springfield, hear music and words from David Wilcox and check in with the Word Nerd.

We check in with CISA's new executive direvtor, Jennifer Core, say it and don't spray it with the origin of "spit" with the Word Nerd and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

We hear about the first presidential over Seder at the White House in a new picture book with poet Richard Michelson and former State Senator Eric Lesser, check in with poet Martín Espada on some new work and get nerdy with the wordster.