As part of the Indigenous Peoples program Friday, Oct. 18, at Hildreth Elementary School, Annawon Weeden of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal community visits with third graders Wesley Reichenbach, Uma Ramakrishnan, and Owen Mead. (Photo by Jen Manell)

Journalist Charlie Sennott and author Tina Cassidy discuss Cassidy’s book on women’s suffrage at the Harvard Press
Speaker Series event Sunday, Oct. 20, at Fivesparks. (Photo by Tim Clark)

Cookbook Club members Michelle Lauria, Barbara Kemp, and Betsy Starr sample the fruits of their labors at a tasting
at Volunteers Hall Thursday, Oct. 17. (Photo by Jen Manell)

Miki Fitzgibbons of The Rafters entertains a gathering at the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden, Sunday, Oct. 20.
(Photo by Tim Clark)

Nick Thornton (86), Roy Van Cleef (121), Phil Paro (43), and David Lee run into the orchards at the Harvard Conservation Trust’s Run For the Hills 5K race Oct. 20 at the Community Harvest Project. Van Cleef would go on to a first-place finish. (Photo by Jay Clark)

A worker evaluates a fallen tree on Oak Hill Road adjacent to the Carlson Orchards driveway. (Photo by Jen Manell)

Ironworkers from Zichelle Steel install the upper beams of the new elementary school.
(Photo by Tim Clark)

“Don’t I know you from somewhere?” Alpacas Lia and Tess get acquainted at the Harvard Alpaca Ranch on Old Mill Road. 

Julien Legrain is all suited up to put out the “fire” during the Community Services open house last Saturday. 
(Photo by Richard Jenson)

Facilitator AJ Kohn of Mobile Ed Productions guides sixth-graders through the elements of the STEAM Museum, a program funded by the Harvard Schools Trust. 

Willard farmstand’s featured pumpkin is a giant.