by webmaster | Sep 4, 2021 | News
DOG LICENSES Jacob Signorovitch For at least two hundred years, dog licensing has been used as a way to keep track of the dogs of New England. It is hard to date when the first dog licenses were issued, but they have appeared in the Wayland town records since the...
by webmaster | Jun 17, 2021 | News, People
Memorial Day Address at Lakeview Cemetery On Monday May 31, 2021 residents of Wayland gathered at Lakeview Cemetery to commemorate Memorial Day in a ceremony planned by Wayland’s Public Ceremonies Committee (PCC). The Ceremony, witnessed by hundreds of Wayland’s...
by webmaster | May 8, 2021 | News, People
WAYLAND HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER KEVIN DELANEY TO RETIRE By Kate Jenney Kevin Delaney, history teacher extraordinaire, will be retiring this June after teaching in Wayland for 29 years. I came to know Kevin as liaison for the Wayland Historical Society and the high...
by BEK | Jul 5, 2020 | News
Chris is one of three brothers who lived on Draper Road along with their cousins David and Steve Rowan Chris, Lorin and Peter all live in Marin County and Sonoma county north of San Francisco. Chris writes that “growing up in Wayland was so special! With our Rowan...
by BEK | Jun 13, 2020 | News, Snap from the past
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) Original Post Wicked Local This article was written in honor of Race Amity Day, which is held annually in Massachusetts on the second Sunday in June, this year on Sunday, June 14. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)...
by BEK | Jun 7, 2020 | News, Snap from the past
The Sudbury River and its associated wetlands provide a lush source of food that supported Native Americans, European settlers of the 1600’s through the farmers of the twentieth century. After the last ice age when the glaciers retreated, a river system with its...
