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Upcoming Programs 

Deep Dive Collections Talk: Enslavement in the Age of Revolution
Tuesday, April 29, 6:30-8:00pm
Grout-Heard House, Wayland Museum & Historical Society
Through hands-on history examine WM&HS collections and resources that shed light on the people who were enslaved in Sudbury/Wayland as well as their enslavers on the cusp of the American Revolution.

Light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. 

$20 per ticket, buy your ticket today online: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/8UZGF3HGMYCH6

Behind the Scenes at the Boston Athenæum
Saturday, May 3
10:00 AM
Limited to 12 Member spots | $20
Join WM&HS for a special small-group tour of the historic Boston Athenæum at 10½ Beacon Street. This institution was founded in 1807 and is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States.
 

May Day Family Games
Saturday, May 10
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Wayland Museum & Historical Society
Celebrate spring with family and friends at an outdoor May Day celebration. The event will kick-off with May Pole decorating, followed by a medley of outdoor activities and games. Events are geared towards elementary school kids and families, but all are invited to attend – you are never to old to play cup-and-ball! Wear sneakers, invite your neighbors, and RSVP here.

Annual Meeting
Wednesday, May 14
7:00 PM
Large Hearing Room, Town Building
Join us for our Wayland Museum & Historical Society Annual Meeting. The highlight of the evening, after a short business session, will be a presentation by town surveyor Tom Lashmit, who is responsible for surveying and mapping land, including property lines and topographic features.

If you enjoyed Tom’s talk about Wayland historic maps, you will be pleased by how much more there is to learn about early roads, byways, property markers, and locations in Wayland. Do you know where the Ashen swamp is? What about Hog Lane? How long is a rod ( used to measure your property)? Come and find out!

All are invited to attend at 7 pm. RSVP here.

Waterfest at Waterworks Museum
Saturday, June 14
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Waterworks Museum, Chestnut Hill
From 1845 to 1951, Lake Cochituate was a main source of water for the city of Boston. Learn all about this remarkable technological accomplishment, as well as other water related history at the Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill on June 14 at the museum’s Waterfest [https://waterworksmuseum.org/events/waterfest-4/]. The Wayland Museum will be tabling and sharing information about our own water sources.

 
 
 
PAST EVENTS:
 
Talk | Enslavement in the Puritan Village with Jane Sciacca
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
7:00 PM
Town Building – Large Hearing Room
41 Cochituate Road
Wayland, MA 01778
Co-hosted with the Wayland Free Public Library
 
Event | Musicians of the Old Post Road 
Saturday, March 8, 2025
4:00 PM
First Parish in Wayland
225 Boston Post Road
Wayland, MA 01778
 
Talk | Local History: The National Experience Right Next Door with Kevin Delaney 
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
7:00–8:30 PM
Town Building – Large Hearing Room
41 Cochituate Road
Wayland, MA 01778
Co-hosted with the Wayland Free Public Library
 

School Programs

  • WPS Third Grade Program – Wayland April 19, 1775
  • Wayland High School History Project
    Includes seven volumes of project-based learning completed from 2001-2015 in Kevin Delaney’s US History classes. Each edition took two years to complete and constitutes what we hope is a rich local history archive of oral history, original research, and fascinating storytelling that show how national trends and developments played out in our town and region. Learn more here.
  • Wayland High School Awards
  • North Cemetery
  • The Village Evolves
  • Wayland and the Civil War
    Written by the late Nancy Ashkar in conjunction with the Wayland Historical Society, this program was used for many years by Wayland fifth graders. It has been adapted by Bobby Robinson of the Massachusetts Study Project as a model for use by other schools planning a study of the Civil War from the perspective of their own community.
  • Civil War Bus Tour, with reference to Wayland Town Character

 

Historical Tours

HISTORICAL TOURS OF WAYLANDWAYLAND HISTORICAL TOURS BOOK
First issued in 1976 as part of the U.S. bi-centennial celebration, Bobby Robinson’s three historical “tours” (1600s, Revolutionary War period, 19th century development of the two separate town centers) was updated in 2013 with new maps and photographs. Available also from us online or view for free here.

Recorded Programs

RESEARCHING ENSLAVEMENT
2023 Jane Sciacca

LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAL LIFE
2023 Lydia Moland

LETHAL TIDES: MARY SEARS
2022 Catherine Musemeshe

FLOODING OF THE SUDBURY RIVER
2022 Brian Donahue, Alison Field-Juma and Tom Sciacca

SLAVERY IN COLONIAL SUDBURY
2021 Jane Sciacca

​THREE WAYLAND WOMEN
2021 Jane Sciacca

EARLY FARM AND CRAFT TOOLS
2021 Jack Russell

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN WAYLAND
2020 Jane Sciacca

WAYLAND CELEBRATES:
100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

WAYLAND THEN AND NOW
2020 Gretchen Schuler

HISTORY OF FLOODING IN WAYLAND  
2011 Tom Sciacca and Sally Newbury

MRS. JESSICA HENDERSON, IF YOU PLEASE  
2015 Wayland High School History Project

MASS.MEMORIES ROADSHOW WAYLAND

OVER HERE AND OVER THERE: WWI in Wayland 
2016 Wayland High School History Project

WAYLAND HIGH SCHOOL: THEN AND NOW 
2012 Ann Knight and Dick Hoyt

MISSILES ON OXBOW: THE NIKE MISSILE SITE IN WAYLAND (RR)
2018 Bob Farrington

THE GHOST OF LYDIA MARIA CHILD (ICB)  
2018 Laura Duggan

THE WAYS OF OUR LAND: DUDLEY POND
2018 Sheila Carel

THE VALUE OF THE BOOK  
2017 Ray Rickman

IF YOU ATE TODAY…THANK A FARMER Wayland’s Truck Farms and Roadside Stands
2017 Bob Dorey

AQUEDUCTS RUN THROUGH IT  
2017 Tom Sciacca

TOYS IN THE ATTIC
2016 Council on Aging

PHYSICK AND CHIRUGERY; PRACTICING MEDICINE 1750-1850 
2019 Tony Howes, MD

Wayland METCO Time Tunnel 

WAYLAND RAILROAD INTERPRETIVE SITE PT. 1 
Rick Conard

WAYLAND RAILROAD INTERPRETIVE SITE PT. 2 
Rick Conard

LYDIA MARIA CHILD
2018 Jane Sciacca

Wayland Dump 1969TALKING TRASH! GETTING RID OF WAYLAND’S REFUSE A History of Burning, Burying, Recycling, Pig Farms, Composting, Single Stream Recycling, 1-800-JUNK –
2016 Molly Faulkner
For a copy of Faulkner’s presentation:
Word-based copy of presentation
PowerPoint copy of presentation

WAYLAND HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY PROJECT
The Wayland High School History Project includes eleven volumes of project-based learning completed from 2001-2019 in Kevin Delaney’s US History classes. Each edition took two years to complete and constitutes what we hope is a rich local history archive of oral history, original research, and fascinating storytelling that show how national trends and developments played out in our town and region.

  • Volume XI:  Second World War Stories
  • Volume X:  METCO at 50
  • Volume IX: The Great War Story of Herman Allen
  • Volume VIII: Doughboys of Wayland: Stories of the Great War
  • Volume VII: Over Here and Over There: Wayland During the WWI Era
  • Volume VI: Lt. Col. Martin W. Joyce Papers
  • Volume V: 20th Century American Stories
  • Volume IV: Growing Up During Hard Times
  • Volume III: An Age of Disillusion: Wayland During the Vietnam Era
  • Volume II: Post-War Life in a Small Northern Town: Wayland, MA 1946-1960
  • Volume I: War on Their Minds: Memories of the WWII Years

FIVE MILES ASTRIDE THE RIVER: A History of Wayland, MA Actual video: 27:00 through 45:00.

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