by BEK | Dec 15, 2017 | Program
Girl Scouts 4th grade Wayland Girl Scouts, “Played the Past” at the Wayland Museum and Historical Society’s Grout Heard House November 17 where they learned about two 19th century Wayland women — Jerusha Grout Heard and Lydia Maria Child. After being taught...
by BEK | Nov 18, 2017 | Snap from the past
Lydia Maria Child Wayland’s own Lydia Maria Child wrote the most famous poem in America about Thanksgiving- “Over the River and Through the Wood’ (originally titled “The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day”). Mrs. Child was a prominent 19th century author,...
by BEK | Oct 8, 2017 | Snap from the past
Cochituate and North Natick 1887 Click on image for a closer view From the Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center...
by BEK | Sep 19, 2017 | Program
Professor Robert Thorson, author of “The Boatman”, entertained and educated a full house at the Grout Heard House Museum. Dams, lawyers, farmers, saw mills, Thoreau, and the civil war all share the stage in the drama of the meandering Sudbury River and its...
by BEK | Sep 15, 2017 | Program
WHAT DO CERAMICS TELL US ABOUT WAYLAND’S ANCIENT INHABITANTS? Saturday, October 21 ~ 2:00 – 4:00 PM Wayland Town Building Large Hearing Room Massachusetts Archaeology Month Event, co-sponsored with the Wayland Historical Commission and presented by Dr. John Pretola....
