POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Former Natick selectman says post office mural must come down
Daily News Staff and News Services
Former Natick Selectman John Moran has nothing against art. But he sure does frown when it comes to a certain mural inside the Natick Center Post office.
Created as part of the Works Progress Administration, an employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it depicts Puritan missionary John Eliot standing beside three Native Americans, scantily dressed, each in chains.
“It’s upsetting me even more,” he said of the 1937 mural on display in the customer area.
The image hits home in Natick because local “Praying Indians” were rounded up by state order during King Philip s War in the 1670s and shipped off to internment camps on Deer Island. Many died there.
Government officials join the pros in live burn exercise
Wicked Local
MILFORD When Franklin Town Councilor Robert Dellorco showed up for a fire on Monday in Milford, he didn t expect to be handed a set of bunker gear, told to suit up and be sent into a burning building. I thought I was going to be more of a spectator, he confided after emerging from the smoke.
Dellorco wasn t the only nonprofessional to plunge into the blaze, which quickly transformed into a storm of hot, clinging black smoke. U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss and state Rep. Jeff Roy, D-Franklin, also climbed into turnout gear and joined the company taking on the fire.