Five Things You Need to Know Today, Thursday, November 1

1. Weather: The National Weather Service is predicting a cloudy day with a high in the upper 50’s. The evening will cool off to the mid 40’s.

2. Joe Carson Live at the Warren Tavern: Come by the Warren Tavern to hear Joe Carson play at 7 p.m.

3. Second Annual Camp Champion Celebration Honoring Mayor Menino at Fenway: The American Camp Association, New England is ramping up for its 2nd Annual Camp Champions Celebration honoring Boston Mayor Menino on Thursday at the State Street Pavilion at Fenway Park. The mayor himself may still be recovering from an illness, but the charity event in his honor rolls on.

4. Shipwrecks of Massachusetts Bay: Author Thomas Hall talks about the history of eight shipwrecks in the Bay. 

5. Glimpse of Postwar Boston 1948 – 1949: Come see photographs from the Traffic Department from post-World War II Boston at the Mayor’s Gallery at 1 Cambridge St.