George Grow was a natural-born salesman. In the Roaring Twenties, Grow had become very wealthy selling used cars. Through his connections, he would network with wealthy men selling their cars, and men on the way up the ladder purchasing the cars. Grow never spoke of his family background, and all outward appearances led his customers […]
Erin Connor and her older daughters, Addison, Brynn and Brooke, were walking down Washington Street in January on their way to pick up the youngest Connor daughter, Charleigh, at Canton Community Kindergarten (CCK) when the garbage they saw on the sidewalk and in the street led to a conversation about who was doing the littering […]
A few weeks ago I was invited to the Canton Senior Center to speak with the Canton Women’s Club. The invitation came at the behest of a dear friend over a year ago. As has always been my practice, I had been thinking about the subject matter for several months. My mind ran through so […]
Canton resident Maureen O’Brien has an important milestone coming up. In April, she will be celebrating 10 years of living cancer-free. She has been diagnosed with colon cancer not just once but twice, so the coming anniversary is an important personal event. Yet the focus of her planning is very much on others. The children […]
On Friday, February 15, just before the start of school vacation and on the final day of “PAWSitivity Week,” the entire Galvin Middle School community gave English teacher Brian Hickox a rousing send off as he prepared to begin his journey across the country to participate in a month-long adventure as the 2019 Iditarod Teacher […]
In 2008, after a failed rezoning effort left his clients short on hope and looking to cut its losses, a prominent Canton zoning attorney signed off on a request to demolish the buildings at Plymouth Rubber. The gauntlet was thrown down, and the situation looked bleak. Local preservationists on the Canton Historical Commission raised the […]
Can a house have a gender? Are there feminine lines to some houses and in others masculine elements that give the observer the sense that a house has the grace of a lady or the demeanor of a gentleman? There is a term for beautiful old Victorian Style homes that describes them perfectly: painted ladies. […]
There are very few architecturally significant houses from the early 1800s that have survived almost intact with respect to their adornment and features. One such example is the splendid house built for Dr. Ezra Abbot at 470 Washington Street. Even today, 182 years after it was built, this Italianate home exemplifies a style that is […]
Children don’t disappear. Somebody always knows. Jeanne Quinn’s words cut like a razor in the opening moments of the teaser trailer for Dead of Winter, a new documentary-style television series that is set to premiere globally next Wednesday evening on Investigation Discovery (ID). The series, produced by Red Marble Media, will focus each episode on […]
That old silk flag must have been glorious. The boys that carried her would have looked resplendent in their uniforms. They were dressed in gray coats, white pantaloons, smart belts, and caps. In the fashion of the early uniforms of West Point, they were magnificent on that day. Atop their heads a leather shako cap […]
