Michael Glick certainly stands out, due to his buoyant, can-do attitude, altruism, high-caliber professional abilities, and exceedingly lofty goals for the future — goals that he is very likely to attain. At the age of 17, this
Last week we celebrated Thanksgiving, and while the roots of the traditional story are well told, there are elements of the contact between the native population and the Puritans that heralded the end of a civilization. In Canton, there are abundant reminders of what once was, but could never survive. The facts are startling: Put […]
Editor’s note: Below is the third in an ongoing series of articles highlighting innovative education programs that have been made possible by a grant from the Canton Alliance for Public Education (CAPE), a non-profit, community-based foundation whose mission is to “promote innovative and productive programs that challenge students and teachers to achieve their true potential.” […]
It often seems to the general public that the main function of local historical societies is to be a trusted repository or museum of information, records, documents, artifacts, and objects that must be preserved for posterity, both specific
Quincy Shaw Lowry loved bugs. In particular, it was worms and larvae that captured his attention. Early in his career, Lowry studied the Phorbia brassicae Bouche — the cabbage maggot. Becoming an expert in worms and insects would be a lifelong passion for this Canton boy. Lowry was born in June 1890 to Martin and […]
Dr. Nelson D. Batchelder of Canton has always loved history. As a corporal in the U.S. Army during World War II, he created his own history by witnessing the initial Nuremberg Trials. In September of this year, he was honored at a Veterans Coffee Hour at the Canton Town Club for his service to the […]
Since I began writing these stories over two years ago, what strikes me is how much of what I write about is simply gone and vanished from our town. Really, in over 300 years of recorded history and almost 12,000 years of inhabitation, we have lost so much of our heritage over time. Many people […]
Take a walk with me. As the autumn leaves swirl around us, we will take the path that enters the Canton Corner Cemetery quite near the side of the Unitarian Church. The faint scent of pine greets us as we duck around the chain-link fence. Walk down past the stone receiving tomb, the crunch of […]
Nearly 26 years after her only son was bludgeoned to death by a fellow Canton High School classmate for no apparent reason, Jeanne Quinn still can’t escape the nightmares that haunt her in her sleep. Lately, Quinn has been tormented by this one particular dream where she is present while Rod Matthews, who was 14 […]
Last month, on a pilgrimage with three lifelong friends to the Marian apparition site at Medjugorje, Jean Kelleher, a veteran teacher at St. John the Evangelist School, finally received the sign from God that she had been hoping and praying for ever since her cancer diagnosis in April 2011. There, under a red-orange sunset surrounded […]
