It took 30 years of active campaigning, including a long-running, self-financed website and an untold number of phone calls, emails, and social media posts, but on one magical night at Fenway Park last week, Gary Titus’s wish finally came true as he witnessed the enshrinement of his longtime friend, the late Sherm Feller, into the […]
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) became a part of the Canton community in the fall of 1966 when Canton residents Truly Boufides, Pat Malloy, Peggy Hehir, Lee Malone, and Sheila Galligan founded the association’s Canton branch. The five women were busy raising their children but felt the need for intellectual stimulation and adult […]
By Brad Cole “I had what you might call a happy childhood, up until March 1938 when Hitler marched into Austria,” Orchard Cove resident Edith Bard said. “I was 14 years old at the time, and two months later, I was no longer allowed to attend public schools with Christian children.” Bard described the months […]
Nancy Connery and Judith Stone, 11-year residents of the Orchard Cove senior living community in Canton, enjoy people. For many years, they have used music as a way to connect to others. While it’s a well-known truism that music is the “universal language,” Connery and Stone’s approach is different. Lacking strong musical performance abilities themselves […]
By Darcie Fisher Tami Olsen was not one of those students who knew that she wanted to spend her career in a classroom. It wasn’t until she was in college at Salve Regina University that she realized she wanted to teach. “I knew I always wanted to work with the public,” said Olsen. “I took […]
The Canton Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee held its annual Black History Month celebration last week in the CHS library. The reflection below is by CDEI Chair Naomi Akan. In 1926, historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week to address a glaring omission: Black Americans were largely absent from the nation’s history books. […]
Vince Jornales has been interested in martial arts since his childhood, but didn’t pursue his passion until after he was an adult. He is now a martial arts instructor and teaches tai chi at different locations in Canton as well as in other communities. Jornales grew up in New Bedford and has a Bachelor of […]
Local residents who tune in to watch next month’s Winter Olympics Games will have an added rooting interest with the selection of three Boston area skaters to represent Team USA in Milan. One of those three, Spencer Akira Howe, is a current Canton resident, and he’ll be making his Olympic debut in the pairs competition alongside his skating partner, Emily Chan of Dedham.
By Michael Chmura Canton resident Anneke Tabachnikoff shared memories of her childhood in Nazi-occupied Netherlands — and the quiet courage of her non-Jewish parents who helped Jews survive the Holocaust — during a recent program at Orchard Cove, a Hebrew SeniorLife community. Speaking to more than 100 residents, Tabachnikoff recounted a childhood marked by war, […]
This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on August 21, 2014. At 38 years old, the author had amassed a small fortune and was in a position to purchase the country estate in Ponkapoag. After laboring for 20 years in the editorial mill and publishing seven volumes of poetry and four bestselling books, he […]
