Below is part two of the series detailing the history of the Canton Airport. *** Today, Neponset Street is crowded with large trucks moving fill in and out of the worksite heralding the beginning of the hazardous waste cleanup of the old Canton Airport. What was a dream of national aviation will soon become public […]
Below is part one in a two-part series on the history of the now-defunct Canton Airport. There are long-lost plans of men and women that, if implemented, would have changed Canton forever. The most notable of these plans was the development of the Massachusetts Air Terminal and Arena. The ambition of the men who devised […]
On a recent historical tour of Canton for residents at Orchard Cove, I was extolling all of the amazing oddities that made Canton, well, uniquely Canton. And after rattling off a list of firsts in America that are connected to Canton, one of the passengers gave me a look that suggested she did not quite […]
If it weren’t for 95-year-old George Vujnovich receiving his long-overdue Bronze Star last month — a full 66 years after he helped launch the incredible, yet thoroughly overlooked Halyard rescue mission in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in the late summer of 1944 — then perhaps Paul Seery’s thoughts would be elsewhere this Veterans Day. Instead, they are […]
Editor’s note: Continuing a long tradition of local history columns written by the likes of Dan Keleher and Ed Lynch, the Canton Citizen is pleased to announce the debut of “True Tales from Canton’s Past,” a semi-regular column written by Canton native and local historian George Comeau. *** Just as you are about to leave […]
Don’t tell Eleanor Durham Bowes that “you can’t go home again.” Last Tuesday the 97-year-old Canton native returned to her childhood home at 238 Sherman Street for the first time since moving away in 1935. Richard Bowes, 61, picked up his mother at her home in Plympton — she lives there with her daughter, Christine […]
My brother, Ernest Carrara, was killed in a plane crash while serving with the United Nations forces in Korea on September 27, 1951. He survived World War II and received two Bronze Stars for landing behind enemy lines at night in Yugoslavia to deliver guns and ammunition to Yugoslavian and Albanian Partisans. I discovered this when, under […]
By Dan DeBlasio With the help of the newly formed Viaduct at 175 Committee, plans are currently in the works to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the completion of the Canton Viaduct. The committee’s chief goal is to celebrate this great achievement and erect a monument in memory of the Freemasons who helped build the […]
Editor’s note: The following is the final installment of a three-part series that looks into what life was like for Canton residents during World War II. The first part ran in the 12/3 issue and dealt with the home front. Part two ran last week and dealt with Canton’s contributions on the frontlines in both […]
Editor’s note: The following is the second installment of a three-part series that looks into what life was like for Canton residents during World War II. The first part ran last week and dealt with the home front. Part two deals with Canton’s contributions on the frontlines in both the European and the Pacific Theaters […]
