An opinion piece in Daily Kos came up in my search for Wayland news this morning, and led me to these excellent pieces on a sad bit of Wayland history.

• Zinn Education Project: Teacher fired in Red Scare
• Boston Globe 2/4/2016: How the Red Scare destroyed a small-town teacher
• The Red Scare in Wayland by Robert Mainer

These articles were contemporaneous pieces from the Boston Globe:

• 14 May 1954:
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808526/ousted-teacher-to-seek-hearing-part-1/
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808622/
• 21 May 1954:
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808722/wayland-board-bares-charges-against-teac/
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808809/wayland-board-bares-charges-part-2/
• 8 June 1954:
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110809066/june-8-session/
• 8 July 1954:
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808950/july-7-hearing-pt-1/
  • https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808897/july-8-hearing/