5 Things You Need to Know Today: Sept. 6

Our weekday morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.

1. The Board of Selectmen meets at 7 p.m. at , 30 Providence Road.

2. The Conservation Commission meets at 7 p.m. at Grafton Municipal Center, 30 Providence Road.

3. Maybe he couldn’t find a parking spot? On this day in 1847, Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Mass.

4. Two world-changing journeys began this day in history. In 1492, Christopher Columbus left the Canary Islands, his last stop before crossing the Atlantic. And in 1620, the Pilgrims left Plymouth, England for their journey that brought them to Plymouth, Mass.

5. Today’s forecast: Rain, high 64, low 56.