On Saturday, June 4th at 2:00 pm, will unveil a new Storybook Trail at The Wayside Inn on part of our Innkeeper's Loop system. Sudbury Girl Scout Ambassador Elizabeth Huettig has written an original story based on the history of The Wayside Inn and, working in conjunction with The Wayside Inn Foundation, has created the […]
Join us as The Wayside Inn Foundation hosts Reading Frederick Douglass Together on Saturday, June 25th at 10:00 am. The program is funded, in part, by a grant from Mass Humanities as part of an initiative to bring communities together to read Douglass’s 1852 address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” On […]
Beginning on Sunday, September 4th, The Wayside Inn Foundation (TWIF) will oversee, in conjunction with Ockway Bay Wampum (OBW) and No Loose Braids (NLB), the building of a mishoon on the east side of the property, across from Josephine’s Pond. We anticipate that this will take approximately ten (10) days to make, from start to […]
In 1923, Henry Ford purchased the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The move was striking for the famous industrialist who just seven years earlier declared that “history is bunk.” Over the next twenty-four years, Ford not only preserved the Inn, but also moved additional buildings to the site and constructed new ones. Later, he opened […]