Watched & Worried Men: King Philip’s War in Framingham

It is likely that if people have heard of the “Eames Massacre”, they think of it as an unprovoked act of violence. This perception is skewed, one-sided, and unfair. What has been cast as a random, brutal attack was in reality a wartime encounter between two groups of people who had known, lived with, and interacted with each other many times over the course of a decade. So how did King Philip’s War turn neighbors to violence? And how many victims did this event really claim?

Watched & Worried Men is a web exhibit that casts light on the pieces of the story that have remained in the dark. It is an examination of the circumstances that provoke violence, the ways in which violence begets more violence, and the consequences that reverberate into modern Framingham and beyond.

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