Braintree

In exile from Elsewhere, reading a new edition of an old American history textbook, I came upon this fascinating fact that has special meaning for the 2004 Summer Season of Elsewhere Elsewhere Journeygoers: Braintree, Mass., object of the Sad Traveler's quest on evening in August, and point of departure to destinations north, is the sight/site of the murder that was blamed on famed anarchist scapegoats Sacco and Vanzetti.

When we were there, we could tell there was something special about Braintree, but staying in a Motel 6 right off the Interstate we were at a loss to find out what it is. There are no signs for Sacco and Vanzetti in Braintree. Funny (?) to think that a contingent of anarchist (not really, Elsewhere suffers actually from the political malady of hyperarchism, not anarchism) bohemians staying at the site/sight of our nation's first great wrong against the philosophically different. (Bold-faced lie/exaggeration: c.in.point: alien and sedition acts). Katherine Ann Porter, writer, described the case as the "Never-Ending Wrong." S & V were executed on August 23, 1927 (an eerie date as well, my droogs, for wasn't our repose sometime around August 23? Was it August 23 exactly? Let's pretend that it was) still proclaiming their innocence.

"They went searching for the American Dream, and couldn't find it anywhere."