Wayland HRDEI Committee approves two summer co-sponsorships with town museum

WAYLAND -- February 17, 2026, Wayland HRDEI Committee unanimously co-sponsors two summer programs with town museum. Chair Karen Blumenfeld moved both votes early at the Feb. 17 remote meeting, citing a thin vacation-week quorum and pending museum grant work. The committee backed a June 30 community reading of Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" with the Wayland Library and a display and lecture on Robert H. Hawkins, who founded the Mapledale golf course in Stow after managing Wayland's Sandy Burr in the early 1920s. Co-Clerk Yauwu Tang said the Wayland Chinese American Association wants to join as a co-sponsor, and members agreed to invite METCO. Members also reported roughly 40 attendees at the Feb. 10 "Conversations, Not Confrontations" session led by jamele adams. The committee will mark its fifth anniversary March 17.