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Five Things You Need to Know Today: September 22

Meet Mary Baker Eddy, find the mystery of Queen Lake, catch a short play, or greet a Brookline artist.

  1. A 50 percent chance of showers during the day, 40 percent during the night. Highs of 75ºF, with lows of 64ºF. So says the National Weather Service forecast for Brookline.
  2. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science had her own varied perspective on New England, . Starting today, at 8 a.m., and leaving from the , and will stop at all eight of her former homes.
  3. A visually-impaired princess and her friend, Sammy the Snail, go on a funny and frantic adventure in the medieval quest for the . The show runs tomorrow, at 10:30 a.m., and on the weekend if you miss it today. Stop by the . You can get tickets for $8.
  4. A piece of kindling may not seem exciting, but local artist Sandy Smith- Garcés took the simple concept in Darfur, Sudan. The result is , which is having an opening reception at 5 p.m. tonight. Meet the artist, and see the work drawn entirely from the bundles of wood collected by refugees in the area.
  5. Based on the story of Dwight H. Johnson, the first black recipient of the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, "is a short play by Tom Cole. Following DJ, a Vietnam veteran, and his new psychiatrist, a WWII vet coming to terms with their differences in order to heal. This play opens tonight at 7 p.m. at , tickets will cost $6.


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