Weds, May 29th, 7:30pm – In 1870 Wayland voted overwhelmingly to invest in the new Central Massachusetts Railway Company if the company would connect Wayland to Boston, as well as to points west. The Mass Central would run through the center of Wayland and through the center of 100 years of industrialization and urban growth, a historic transformation that has made us unrecognizable to our great-great-grandparents. Did the residents of 1870 make a good decision? How would Wayland be different today if that vote had gone the other way? When did service on this line end (not a simple question), and why?
Speaker Joel Angiolillo is a Weston resident who has been actively interested in the new, second life of the Mass Central as a recreation trail.