Wayland Town Crier 4/5/13: Historical Society acquires Lydia Maria Child’s signed book. The Wayland Historical Society has recently come into possession of a signed, first-edition copy of Lydia Maria Child’s “Autumnal Leaves: Tales and Sketches in Prose and Rhyme.” The book was published in 1857, when Child was 55, a year after her father died. She regarded it as a kind of swan song, according to Historical Society member Jane Sciacca. Child was to live another 23 years. The book was an anonymous donation to the last library book sale.

Wayland Town Crier 3/5/09: Honoring a great Wayland woman. Lydia Maria Child, a 19th century reformer, writer and abolitionist, spent most of the last 27…