Five Things You Need to Know Today: Feb. 10

1)   The Intimate Correspondence of John and Abigail Adams, opens tonight at PCIS at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 per person or $20 for a couple. Hint, hint.

2)   Learn to write love letters of your own at from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

3)   opens tonight at Plymouth North High School at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.

4)   On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa. He spend 27 years in prison confined to a cell without a bed or plumbing. A year later, the leader of the anti-apartheid movement became the first black South African president.

5)   Loosen up those rusty hinges at Joints in Motion at the Senior Center at 10:15 a.m.