Dan Cummings enjoyed playing sports as he grew up in Hyde Park, especially football and baseball. He played defensive tackle and was on the kick return team at Xaverian Brothers High School, which won the MIAA Division 1 Super Bowl in 1998. On June 24, 2000, Cummings went to a lake with some friends. “It […]
In March 2011, Pete Sutton wrote the following about his chosen profession in a blog post entitled “Why I Take Pictures.” “Photographs are time capsules, portals to the past,” wrote the Canton father of four and owner of Pete Sutton Fine Art. “They document brief moments, but can speak volumes. “Want to know what is important […]
When it was built, it was the largest public structure in Canton. A grand memorial to the men of the Civil War, we named it Memorial Hall. All across America the soldiers who fought in the War Between the States were beginning to pass away, and for the great masses of men who fought, there […]
Anyone who lives in an old house can tell you that there are stories in every corner of that home. We are simply caretakers of old homes — owning them within a long line of homeowners both in the past and the future. For a family that really never had their own home, the Harrisons […]
When former Canton resident PJ Driscoll began to train for the New York City Marathon last spring, his goal was to run in the race in order to raise funds for the Pat Tillman Foundation. His plans changed when the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy led to the cancellation of the November 4 race, but it […]
Sometimes life’s biggest challenges — and its greatest rewards — arrive seemingly out of nowhere. Such was the case with the Rubino family of Canton, who, a little under four years ago, went from being a family of five to a family of seven virtually overnight. The two new additions, a boy named Brayden and […]
Chris Fisher lives on Indian Lane here in Canton. Fisher’s hobby is making scale models — not airplanes or cars, but buildings, which are his passion. Having spent months working on his masterpiece, a scale model of one of Canton’s most historic landmarks, all that remains now for Fisher is to find a place to […]
Robin Tobin credits her grandmother and mother for helping her to discover her passion for working with senior citizens and the disabled. The eldest of three sisters, Tobin grew up in Wrentham and was very close to her grandmother. Tobin’s mother was a health care professional who worked at nursing homes in the Wrentham and […]
This is the story of a patch of grass and pine trees that is being transformed into a place of learning and wonder. It’s a story of teamwork and volunteerism — a story that illustrates how a few
It was an extremely emotional time. I was holding the skull of these same Indians who were friends of Sassamon and Eliot. Each day revealed new information about their burial practices and the lives they lived in Ponkapoag.
