I too have relatives in MA and work in MA. Fortunately, I was able to get away. MA is a great place for education, medical care, and to work, but the bad aspects of Puritanism still rears its ugly head from time to time. William Barker from my home town plead guilty to a capitol offence and promised to never do it again, but others stubbornly claimed innocence and refused to admit their guilt. Barker was imprisoned and the stubborn ones executed. Barker later died at home of old age. The charge was witchcraft. MA also drove the Quakers from my neighborhood to Nantucket where the Quakers founded the whaling industry and became leaders of the abolitionist movement. There were upright Puritans. John Eliott printed the 1st book in New England, the bible in Wampanoag for the "praying Indians" of Natick. The Puritans of Boston later incarcerated the Natick Wampanoags on Deer Island in Boston Harbor where most of them perished from exposure and starvation.