Wayland Town Crier 5/6/12: Town Crier editor to speak at Historical Society meeting. Town Crier editor Michael Wyner will be the guest speaker at the Wayland Historical Society’s annual meeting on Wednesday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Grout-Heard House Museum. His presentation will follow the Historical Society’s annual reports and election of officers. President Jan Dunn will preside.
Wyner, who has been editor of The Wayland Town Crier for the past eight years, will be reading humorous columns written by the Town Crier’s first editor, Don Willard.
In the early days, Willard wrote a column for each issue. His columns were gentle spoofs on life in Wayland in the 1950s. He told about building a new Town Building (“Chester A. Arthur never had it so good”), about town meetings (“The only fight crowd that doesn’t eat peanuts”), about the town’s many organizations (“Oh, pioneers!”) and much more.
Refreshments will be served. Lynne Cribben will be hostess. The public is welcome at all Historical Society meetings.