Gov. Andy Beshear and senior advisor Rocky Adkins traveled to the Mountain Arts Center on March 13th to announce the awarding of more than $8.5 million to Floyd and surrounding
PRESTONSBURG More than $8.5 million in state funds through the American Rescue Plan Act was distributed to several eastern Kentucky counties to be used for infrastructure, clean water, law enforcement,
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (March 13, 2023) - On Monday, March 13, 2023, at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg, Gov. Andy Beshear presented more than $8..
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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 the general thought is that it was confined to the South. Jane Sciacca will dispel this myth by examining slavery and enslaved people in colonial Sudbury (modern day Wayland and Sudbury). She will shed light on incidents and attitudes that typify slave experiences here as well as in the rest of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the wider area of New England. This is an opportunity to broaden our knowledge of an important subject that has had too little attention for too long, the event description reads.
Special to the Crier The Wayland Historical Society & Museum at the Grout-Heard House on Cochituate Road has a collection of interesting 18th- and 19th-century craft, farm and domestic tools that were used in the days before electric power. One tool that looks like a mallet or a very large hammer was essential in wood joinery when raising a barn, house or other structure. That tool, known as a “beetle, “commander” or “persuader, was used to help attach one piece of wood framing to another, shift posts or beams, and drive in pegs. These heavy wooden mallets have the mass to move large beams and tighten or loosen mortise and tenon joints. That is, they “command” or “persuade” one piece of wood to fit into the opening on another piece of wood framing.