Mill Town's Monet

The down-at-the-heels former textile town of Lawrence, Massachussetts, owns a Monet...and a Pissarro...and 15 other Impressionist paintings valued at 5 to 8 million dollars. The charitable trust to whom the works were left by a turn-of-the-century minister wants to sell them to benefit arts education programs in the public schools. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where the paintings have been held for safe keeping, has filed suit to prevent an auction - saying it would violate the minister's will. Pippin Ross reports.

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