Nellie Crowd is 90 years old, and on a visit to her husband’s hometown of Canton last August she found herself at the door of the Canton Historical Society. The locked door gave her pause, and the mission to Canton remained unfulfilled. Nellie lives in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and these days she depends on her daughter […]
Each week one of the most read sections of the Canton Citizen is the Police Log. The small weekly entries detail the petty crimes, break-ins, and traffic accidents across what is generally deemed a very safe community. There is a certain interest in checking in on the crime logs even to become more aware that […]
Monday is one of those “half holidays,” meaning that half of us get the day off and half of us work. Hardly anyone can fully explain the holiday today — Marathon Monday, Patriot’s Day, or the day when one is absolutely certain that the Red Sox will be playing at home. Patriot’s Day commemorates the […]
The Revere Barn is one of Canton’s most historic buildings and one of America’s most endangered historic sites. In this week’s installment of True Tales, town historian George Comeau makes his case for the Community Preservation Act.
Through the trees and across the Canton Corner Cemetery, the bell peals each Sunday. The sweet sound calls parishioners to the services at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church — the quintessential white steeple church alongside the burying ground where generations of Canton’s citizens have been laid to rest. And from this steeple, history sounds […]
Click here to go back to Part 1. The two gun-crossed lovers were married the next spring, and from then on they were inseparable. Mrs. Jones, “Gussie” as she was called in the camp, vowed she would shoot as well as the boys, and in fact she would become an expert huntress at Birch Point. […]
Click here to go back to part 1 of “Take a Hike.” As you walk under the ancient maple trees that lead to Ponkapoag Pond, you are on a 160-year journey back in time. This half-mile path leads directly to the pond, and as you near the Ponkapoag Dam Project (watch for signs), you will […]
You can live in a place your whole life and still find surprise in your own backyard. Over the past year I have been exploring the Blue Hills Reservation. Trekking from Quincy to Canton and sometimes back again, the 7,000 acres of woodland and marsh is majestic and exhilarating. Some of the greatest views in […]
Click here for Part 1 of George Comeau’s profile on Frederic Endicott. Perhaps water was in the Endicott family’s blood. There was a fairly antiquated water system in Canton developed in the late 1700s by William Crane. As it turns out, Crane was the great-grandfather of Endicott. The primitive system was constructed of wooden pipes […]
As you stand at the kitchen sink and turn on the water, reflect upon how that water makes its way through a complex system of pipes from deep wells and through a well-established network, ending at the glass of water in your hands. The person most responsible for our modern system of wells and clean […]
