Northampton Jazz Fest Pres Ruth Griggs w/ alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan

WHMP Radio · Sep 10, 2026 · 18m

9/10/26, Co-Host Andy Bukowski The Hull/Hawley Plays at Historic Northampton’s Shepherd Barn. We interview playwrights Betel Arnold, author of “The Widow’s Land,” the story of Bathsheba Hull, a Black woman in 1765 living in Northampton with her children, who the City is evicting from their home; and Harley Erdman, author of “Hold These Truths”— about Joseph Hawley, prominent Northampton lawyer & delegate to the Continental Congress, battling melancholia; and the Producer of Western Massachusetts Plays in Place Tayla Kingston. The Protect Act is now the law of the Commonwealth! We speak with…