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The Informer: a dance at the Wayside Inn, WWI history buffs at Devens
Kimberleigh A. Holman
By Debora Almeida
Globe Correspondent

Celebrating 300 years of Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Boston’s Luminarium Dance Company will put on a free outdoor performance on Sunday, July 10, at noon, 1:30 p.m., and 3 p.m. Luminarium’s Cultural Community Outreach Project, which celebrates historical community establishments, chose the oldest operating inn in the country, opened in 1716, and the location of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s collection of poems “Tales of a Wayside Inn,’’ as the focus of a set of three musical and dance performances. Each piece relates to the history of the inn and pays tribute to all who have lived and worked there. The event is funded in part by the Sudbury Cultural Council. The rain date for the event is Sunday, July 24, at the same times as the original date.

The Fort Devens Museum in Devens welcomes all history buffs to join a living history group on Saturday, July 16, focused on World War I. Participants in full costume will be portraying US, French, and German soldiers. Visitors can stroll around the museum and talk with living history participants between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. At 1 p.m., museum officials will put on a formal presentation discussing artifacts, including machine guns and uniforms, the 26th (Yankee) Division’s stay at Camp Devens in 1919, and the process of bringing World War I history to life. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact the museum at info@fortdevensmuseum.org or 978-772-1286.

The Wellesley Farmers Market is partnering with the Wellesley Food Pantry to provide its clients with free vouchers that are redeemable for fresh produce, grass-fed meats, local cheese, free-range eggs and poultry, and fresh seafood. The voucher program is three years old but has recently acquired more funding for it to expand. The farmers market runs every Saturday until mid-October from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the lawn of the Unitarian Universalist Church on Washington Street in Wellesley.

Follow Rachel Goclawski on a walk through Stearns Farm in Framingham to collect wild plants and learn how to identify, prepare, and preserve edible plants. On Tuesday, July 12, from 6 to 8 p.m., both Sudbury Valley Trustees and Stearns Farm members and nonmembers can join in learning about the nutritional and medicinal value of foraging. For more information and to register for the event, visit www.svtweb.org/calendar or call 978-443-5588 ext. 123.

Debora Almeida

Debora Almeida can be reached at debora.almeida@globe.com.