‘It’s finished’: Sacred Heart went up in flames 50 years ago

A crowd of school children join the Rev. Benoit C. Dostie, pastor, gathering around the solid brass bell of the fire-ruined church’s steeple.The bell weighs 700 pounds and was cast in 1910. Watertown Daily Times file
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