Wayland historian meets the daughter of one of her subjects
For Wayland historian Jane Sciacca, a chance meeting brought her research to life and gave a Walpole woman a deeper look into her own mother.
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Walpole woman, historian discover something in common about one of the first female soldiers
A Walpole woman whose mother was one of the first women to serve in the military discovers she had something more in common with an author than she thought.
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Slavery in Wayland, Sudbury Will Be Focus Of Library Talk
Reply The Wayland Historical Society and the Wayland Free Public Library will host an event covering slavery in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Shutterstock/SevenMaps) WAYLAND, MA — When Wayland was settled as part of the Sudbury plantation in the late 1630s, slavery was still legal and widely used in Massachusetts — and would be until it was outlawed in 1783. To shed light on the use of slavery in the early days of the region, the Wayland Historical Society and the Wayland Free Public Library are teaming up for a lecture on the topic. "Slavery in New England is often overlooked because t...
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