Lighting designer and director Scott Clyve has worked with some of the biggest celebrities in the world, including A-listers such as Angelina Jolie and Harrison Ford. Last month, Clyve created the lighting for one of the best known but perhaps most humble personalities of them all, Pope Francis, during his visit to Philadelphia. ESM Productions […]
First come the chainsaws, growling and ripping through ancient trees. Within days the landscape is transformed into a blank canvas of sand, dirt, and ledge. Then come the heavy equipment ripping and scarring the earth, tossing all that is an obstacle aside. Surveyors move in to flag new roadways; cement castings arrive to become embedded […]
Editor’s note: The following is the fourth in a series of profiles on Canton’s golf courses. The series continues with a look at Ponkapoag Golf Course, a 36-hole municipal course located on Route 138 at the foot of the Blue Hills. From “world beater” status in the 1940s and 50s to the “worst golf course […]
On July 16, just six weeks after losing her older brother Marc to a heroin overdose, Elisa Alberts posted a letter on the Canton Alliance Against Substance Abuse Facebook group that she had written a few months earlier — one of many she had penned to Marc over the past year-plus in the hopes of […]
Most medical experts and nutritionists tell their patients that if they want to lose weight and keep it off as well as maintain a healthy lifestyle, they need to exercise on a regular basis and eat balanced meals. Many of their patients will respond that making a lifelong commitment to those goals has been a […]
The house you live in today is likely an unremarkable dwelling. Built by a general contractor, suited for 21st century living. Our houses today are not especially special and in 100 years many of them will have been replaced by whatever is the fashion of that day. This is not a happy or sad statement; […]
For several different reasons, August 18, 2015, is a day that Donnie Lewis of Canton will not soon forget. That evening, Lewis and his family, including his wife, Jean, and sons Donovan and Brendan, were invited to Fenway Park as special guests of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Boston Red Sox. Prior to the […]
Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of profiles on Canton’s golf courses. The series continues with a look at Wampatuck Country Club, a nine-hole regulation course located on Pleasant Garden Road. With its iconic Geoffrey Cornish design and picturesque views of Reservoir Pond, Canton’s Wampatuck Country Club certainly knows how to […]
Katrin is a dancer in New York City who moves into an apartment as she recovers from an injury that has put her career on hold. One night, as she listens to the noises from the radiator in her apartment, she hears people talking and kneels down on the floor to peer through a hole […]
The boys set out on an August day to swim at Houghton’s Pond. It was a bucolic summer day; a light breeze pushed big puffy clouds through the sky. Tossing their hats, jostling each other and generally roughhousing, they tumbled through the fields like lion cubs out on the savannah. For most youngsters, summertime in […]
