Wayland Town Crier 6/22/14: Wayland Historical Society member honored. At the recent Annual Meeting of the Wayland Historical Society, Dick Hoyt received rave reviews for…

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 10/1/12: Grout-Heard House Museum in Wayland needs support. As the Wayland Historical Society begins its 58th season in the Grout-Heard House Museum, we remember those who decades ago recognized the need to collect and house historical treasures depicting Wayland’s long history.

Wayland Town Crier 6/5/11: New president of Wayland Historical Society ready to serve. Longtime Wayland resident Jan Dunn has been elected president of the Wayland Historical Society, following in the big footsteps of Jane Sciacca, who served in that position for the past eight years. After retiring five years ago from a career in human resources (she worked at both GE and Honeywell as well as a couple of smaller enterprises), Dunn began looking around for ways that she could contribute in Wayland.

Wayland Town Crier 9/15/10: Wayland Historical Society sponsors Cochituate walking tour. The Wayland Historical Society sponsors its first event of the season this Sunday, Sept. 19, with a walking tour of Cochituate. The outing (which will be a Power Point presentation in the event of rain) is to be led by preservation planner Gretchen Schuler and is an encore and update from several years ago.