The Garden Lady started off with a postcard from trees, and C.L. Fornari's guest today was Scott Lajoie Communications Director of the Buzzards Bay Coalition. They spoke about significant trees. Callers were wondering about planting garlic, shrub recommendations, beefing up a lawn, and ground covers for "socks and shoes" around shrubs.

We round up the week's local news with our region's leading journalists.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI's John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On the Water magazine about the latest unusual visitor to local waters. A cubera snapper, estimated at 40 pounds, found its way to Nantucket where it was caught by a 14-year-old angler and released.

We talk with Martha’s Vineyard historian and author Tom Dresser about two of his most recent books.

This week on the Local Food Report: it’s a duel of appetites in a new documentary about delicious but destructive green crabs.

Activist and author Angela Davis remembers her friend Gloria Steinem, and discusses intersectional feminism today.

On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.

The Republican midterm convention in Dallas takes place in the same city that helped give rise to the Bush political dynasty. Still, many policies championed by the conservative presidents are noticeably absent from today's Republican Party.