STATE HOUSE — It sits tucked away in a restricted area closed to visitors, snugged close against the original Bulfinch portion of the State House at the top of the front steps.
The full-size bronze replica of the Liberty Bell — one of 53 bells distributed to states and territories as part of a national savings bond campaign, according to Massachusetts Art Commission curator Susan Greendyke Lachevre — has been a fixture at the State House since this date in 1950, though its presence is little known.
STATE HOUSE — Friends and family of a young woman run over and killed by a Duck Boat tour vehicle at the bottom of Beacon Hill this spring urged lawmakers on Thursday to advance legislation banning drivers of the amphibious vehicles from also serving as tour guides.
"We shouldn't have been in any danger," said Kevan Moniri, who was on Allison Warmuth's motor scooter and survived the accident.
