Five Things for Today: March 1

1. FORECAST:

Friday: Slightly cooler than yesterday. Mostly cloudy. Highs in low 40s.

Saturday: What, no snow or rain this weekend? Some cloudy skies. Highs in the upper 30s.

Sunday: Ditto Saturday. Happy weekend!

 

2.

Free admission today/tonight to the Discovery Museums. See the link above for more detail.

 

3. The Acton Blues:

Harmonica player, vocalist & songwriter Tim Gartland tonight at the Church of the Good Shepherd.

 

4. Or, if Klezmer is More Your Thing:

The Acton Jazz Cafe is featuring Jim Guttmann's Bessarabian Breakdown part one; followed by part two, a Yiddish dance, tonight.

 

5. This Day in History:

1872: Yellowstone became the first national park.

1932: The baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped.

1961: Pres. John F. Kennedy signed a signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.