Five Things, June 19: Brookline: Olmsted's Vision of the Model Suburb

1. Weather: The National Weather Service predicts a sunny day with a high of 73. The evening will be clear with a low of 57.

2. Waterworks Wednesday: Brookline: Olmsted's Vision of the Model Suburb: Keith Morgan, Director of Architectural Studies at Boston University, will speak about "Brookline: Olmsted's Vision of the Model Suburb."

3. Lionel Shriver - Big Brother: Fletcher gives Pandora a painfully life-changing ultimatum: kick out Edison or he will leave her. In this novel about fat, family, and control, Shriver uses her deft storytelling abilities to create a compelling work with no easy answers.

4. Brookline Community Band: The Community Band meets in the auditorium at 7 p.m. at the Devotion School. Instruments of all types are welcome.

5. Making Sense of the Middle East -- A Reporter Examines Reality and Becomes an Activist: Alan Elsner, J Street's Vice President for Communications, has had a long career at the top ranks of American and international journalism, much of it focused on issues of peace in the Middle East. As State Department and later White House correspondent for Reuters News Agency, Elsner traveled the world with Secretaries of State and was the agency’s chief writer on 9/11/2001 and through the subsequent period.