This week the virtual web surfing is all about Braintree (where I actually lived for 6 years on Hollis Avenue). And I guess now that I’ve Googled the heck out of the town…I can sum it up with 3 names:  Silk, Sacco & Thayer. Read on and you’ll get the gist.

Of course, the first thing that popped into my head was the Sacco and Vanzetti case.  Remember these guys? They were two Italian-born laborers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in Braintree, Massachusetts.  In April 2010, Braintree will host a 3-day event for the 90th anniversary of the murder of the 2 payroll clerks Federick Parmenter and Alessadandro Berardell. The day will include a mock trial form the day. (thank you Jim Regan! from BELD).

Worth noting that robberied in Braintree are way down according to CityRating, a great place to catch the city stats for crime, school,etc.

Speaking of the law, whether you are in Braintree and any other city and town in Massachusetts, there are a few dumb laws still on the books that could technically land you in jail. Here is a great list that made us roll on the floor. Check out the dumblaws website.

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Sure we could list all the fruit and veggies you can pick in Carver, but what fun would that be? The real fun is the stuff we found underground in Carver – for the eager and the doomed — the stuff you might not know about this cranberry & iron town unless you’ve unearthed it “virtually.”

#1 Like, did you know…. Carver has its own Marylin Monroe celebrity impersonator. She goes by the name Memory Monroe and she really looks the part. We found her on GigSalad. What’s GigSalad? nearly 50,000 unique visitors stop by every month to find an entertainer for their next event. Check it out. And don’t forget to see the picture of Memory Monroe and tell us what you think. Does she look the part?

#2 And you know we had to look for Carver ghosts sightings online.  And you know we found some. On Ghosts in America, a site that got nearly 60,000 unique visitors last week. How do we know that. We looked it up on Compete.com. A great site to check our the strength of a site including your competitor’s sites. My favorites ghosts are the fishing ghosts and for your Twi fans, the vampire near the river and the lady in the canoe.  See the list of ghosts sightings or report your own Carver spirit.

#3 And if you’re not brave enough to fly solo on your paranormal adventure, you can hire a paranormal team out of Carver to go on a real ghost hunt. The Dead of Night Ghost Tour in Carver promises you an overnight in the haunted john Alden House where you’ll learn the tools of the trade on a professional ghost hunt.

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Well, one things is for sure, folks in Cohasset love their town. I stopped counting the word “love” at number eighteen. On every twitter page, youtube comment and facebook. Folks here are passionate about the town’s beauty, charm and location.

So here’s our picks from last week on the Virtual View in Cohasset:

1. Wikipedia of course. Our fun fact was that 25% of Cohasset is land and 75% is water. The town was incorporated in 1775 and….

2. YouTube pick – a boy, a girl and their dog Lucky present a “Day in Cohasset“. It’s amazing what a camcorder and a sense of humor can bring. They stopped at all the locations for filming of the Witches of Eastwick.

3. NEW pick – For anyone who loves to bike, find all the best bike routes in Cohasset on a site called MapMyRide. I found 16 in Cohasset….

See ya next week in Plymouth!