I don't know. I have been to Western Mass. once on a weekend trip when I lived in NYC and another to Boston and Plymoth (with kids in tow) for family outings. Another half a dozen times for biz purposes, I never asked anyone about the lotto.
In the late 90s I was at a Red Herring sponsored event at Harvard, at the event I mentored a Harvard finance student for a week. I was teamed up with a guy from Cisco who ran their VC department and a gal from Indianapolis who was the ran the VC department for RCA. Yah, the old days, RCA. Spent a week in Cambridge at the event. I was honored to have had the opportunity. I stayed in touch with my student and my team for a couple years. But after the 2000 dotcom bubble, we lost touch.
I hope he came out successful. I should have brought up lotto as an alternative to Harvard and finance. LOL.