In the protest age

“Smash Communism: Boston Common 1969),’’ by Southborough, Mass.-based multi-disciplinary artist Joe Landry, in the show “Capital Vice: Politics of the Seven Deadly Sins,’’ at the Fitchburg (Mass.) Art Museum, through Jan. 14.

Fitchburg in 1882, when it was a thriving diversified manufacturing center.

In the center of Southborough.

This illustration depicts the execution of Ann Hibbins on Boston Common for witchcraft in 1656.