“Dear sir. — I have never ceased to look back with interest, not to say satisfaction, upon the short six weeks which I passed with you. They were an era in my life — the morning of a new Lebenstag. They are to me as a dream that is dreamt, but which returns from time […]
As tour manager for Bruno Mars, Shaun Hoffman has a job he loves, coordinating travel arrangements and personal appearance details for a talented and popular singer. Hoffman’s success is a combination of strong friendships, being in the right place at the right time, the loyalty and generosity of a talented 19-year-old female keyboard player and […]
Amid the recent surge in fatal drug overdoses, the public pronouncement of a “full-blown heroin crisis” by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, and the media’s ongoing fascination with the death of Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, families that have already lost a loved one to addiction are left to quietly ponder how it all went wrong […]
If the musicians in the band at Carter’s Sports Grill on Neponset Street look familiar, it’s not surprising. Four of the members of the Juke City Band are graduates of Canton High School. Jeff Klayman, Jim Friel, and Friel’s wife, Monica Gibson Friel, are members of the Class of 1981. Friel’s cousin Joe Piro graduated […]
The following is an excerpt from “The Last Picture Show,” the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past by local historian George T. Comeau. Marion Nay sits in the kitchen of the house she grew up in on Tolman Street. Her eyes sparkle as she brings out several spiral notebooks that she has kept […]
To a generation of Canton residents, the story of Matthew G. Christian is a deeply familiar one — tragic in its ending yet inspirational and life-affirming in ways that many will never forget. Born without full limbs but with a big heart and a fighter’s spirit, “Matty” somehow managed to be as ordinary as he […]
A blog on the Internet called “Massachusetts Bass Fishing Spots” extols the virtues of hidden fishing locales around the state. One entry in particular cites the Silk Mill Pond as a covert spot in Canton that might be of interest to anglers. The source writes of the secluded pond, “It gets pretty deep in the […]
This story was reprinted in the February 28, 2019 edition of the Canton Citizen. Canton sounds different — historically speaking. For one thing, no longer can one hear the sound of factory whistles, or a neighbor’s cow, or even the clinking sound of the milkman’s bottles. So much of our daily lives have changed over […]
As a lifelong Canton resident, a former star athlete at Canton High School, and a longtime employee of the Canton Recreation Department, Billy Cravens has made himself quite a few friends in this town over the years. And now many of those same friends are stepping up to the plate when he needs them the […]
The editor of this paper once asked me if I ever thought I might run out of subjects to write about in this column. The question really never occurred to me, owing to the fact that our history dates back more than 350 years. Add to that the pre-contact period of our native culture, and […]
