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WORCESTER, Mass. — Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
John Rousseau and Michael Dreslinski are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in connection with the Aug. 12 fire that destroyed a vacant house in Sterling where town officials say Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born in 1806.
Sarah Josepha Hale reportedly published a poem in 1830 about Sawyer, as a child, bringing her lamb to school. Other accounts claim the original writer was a young man.
