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Al Southwick: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections Al Southwick The news stories about the Sacco and Vanzetti exhibit in the John Adams Courthouse in Boston brought me back to a day in October 1932. My father drove our old Essex slowly up Institute Road from Park Avenue and stopped at Beechmont Street. There we and others gazed at a wrecked house on the corner. It was the home of Judge Webster Thayer. It had been blasted by a bomb the night before. A policeman watched warily as we t...

1 of 3 (Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) A Gay family marker in Spring Grove Cemetery indicates the graves of Rosamond and Florence Gay (Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) Bessie Skeels Lundgren is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, not far from Florence Gay. (Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) Bessie Mae Skeels lived in a boarding house at 60 Chestnut St. when she was charged with poisoning Florence Gay, who lived at 35 School St. Andover Story: Andover Story: The 1919 murder...

" " The trial of Nicola Sacco (right) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was one of the most sensational and controversial in American history. The two were found guilty of murder and executed in August of 1927. Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) The world will probably never know whether Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were truly guilty of murdering two men in 1920. But the controversial trial of these immigrant anarchists is considered one of the 20th centurys most famous. Italians Sacco and Va...

Frank Mazzaglia Guest Columnist It’s been more than 60 years since Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed Yet, when Gov. Michael Dukakis pardoned them in 1977 — with the words, “ any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti” — most Italian Americans felt a sense of gratitude and relief. Indeed, the Sacco Vanzetti case is one of the most divisive in the history of the United States The murders for which Sacco a...