The Tesla charging station in Auburn is located in a parking lot directly across from the site where American rocketry pioneer and Worcester native Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket 99 years ago. Goddard, a brilliant scientist and inventor, was a true visionary, a modest man dedicated to science for the benefit of mankind.
On March 29, protesters gathered in front of the Tesla chargers to display their strong displeasure with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. (There had also been a protest on March 22.) The decidedly immodest and unelected Musk has roused a snoozing behemoth by threatening to gut every institution near and dear to voters and particularly raised the ire of senior citizens worried about Social Security.
The irony of holding a protest where Goddard launched his first rocket — a protest against a billionaire who aims to someday reside on Mars — was not lost on a sign holder named Jean. She said that the rocket that stands in the center of what was Goddard’s Aunt Effie’s farm stood with the protesters in solidarity…