Beverly Scientist Talks Winter Waterfowl on Wednesday Night

Welcome to “5 Things,” your daily source for community events, happenings in the city and other little tidbits of information. Here are five things you need to know on Wednesday, Jan. 29.

1. Snow: There is a chance of light snow first thing on Wednesday, then the day will have cloudy skies to start and clearing later on with a high temperature in the mid-20s. The wind will blow from the west at 5-10 miles per hour.

2. History: The "voluminous, heartfelt journals of a diarist with deep Beverly connections" - Francis Ellingwood Abbot - will be the focus of a talk on Wednesday night by Brian A. Sullivan at the Beverly Historical Society. Sullivan, a former senior reference archivist at the Harvard University Archives and archivist of Mount Auburn Cemetery, has written a book about Abbot, who took his life in Beverly's Central Cemetery at the grave of his wife, Katie Loring Abbot, 10 years to the day after her death in October 1903. The program starts at 7 p.m. and is $ per person or free for historical society members.

3. Climate Change: Gov. Deval Patrick recently announced a plan to spend $50 million to “address the present and future impacts of climate change in Massachusetts.” On Wednesday, state Energy and Environmental Affairs Undersecretary for Environment Maeve Vallely Bartlett and Elizabeth Hanson, EEA Policy Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation, will offer more details about the spending plan on Wednesday at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

4. Carter-Williams: One of the most successful active professional athletes from the North Shore, Hamilton basketball star Michael Carter-Williams, will play at the Boston Garden (now TD Garden) for the first time as a professional on Wednesday night. Carter-Williams, a rookie point guard with the Philadelphia 76ers, will join his team at the Garden versus the Celtics for the 7:30 p.m. game.

5. Winter Waterfowl: Dr. Robert Buchsbaum, a conservation scientist with Mass Audubon and a Beverly resident, will speak on Wednesday evening at the Abbot Public Library as first presentation in the Underwater in Salem Sound Lecture Series sponsored by Salem Sound Coastwatch. Buchsbaum will talk about loons, eiders, surf scoters, buffleheads, Red-breasted Mergansers and other "fascinating waterfowl that can only be seen in the winter" in the presentation that starts at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

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