John Sinton, Florence neighbor and author of “Devil’s Den to Licking Water: The Mill River Through Landscape and History” (c 2018) joins me in the studio for the first 20min.

Then I have a story about a Christmas eve bike trip in Texas, woven into tips on staying warm when it’s cold, both outside and inside.

And I replay one of my first segments from Out There from November of 2014:  The Darkest Place,   Alex, Nao, and Ben R share their ideas of the darkest place in Northampton, and then Nao -and later myself, alone in the dark – go to the long, large, dark, dripping culvert that goes from the CT river under the RR tracks/innerstate/Rte 5&10/BigY Parking lot.