Five Things for Wednesday: Edible Scarecrow, Historic District Commission Meeting & More

East Providence Weather:

• Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 49. North wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
• Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. North wind around 9 mph.

Edible Scarecrow: Come by the Riverside Branch of the East Providence Public Library, 475 Bullocks Point Avenue from 3:00pm-5:00pm to make a scarecrow out of cookies and candy. All ages welcome. Contact Sharon Branch at 401-433-4877

Historic District Commission: The HDC meets tonight at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 145 Taunton Avenue, East Providence.

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This Day in History: On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael." Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.