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Birth, Ghosts, Safety & Swing

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Birth, Ghosts, Safety & Swing

9/14/26, Co-Host Megan Zinn

Tom Reney, 42-year host of Jazz a la Mode: his presentation Thursday at GCC Symposium on the Swing Era, race, gender & jazz, and some history we didn’t know.

Meghana Mysore, author of “Let All Our Ghosts Depart” on our own ghosts and speculative fiction. Her book launch is tomorrow at the Odyssey.

Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: the lock-down at the high school last week, a swatting incident, and the community debate that has ensued—what about phones in schools? How about metal detectors?

Avital Norman Nathman, author of “The Perfect Birth Myth: Pushing Back Against a Broken Industry.”
The title says it all. Panel discussion with the author and birth workers on Sunday, Sept 27.

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