What happens when time and architectural tastes shift and a historic building becomes so transformed as to actually lose all integrity and fall out of its historical importance? For several weeks I have been watching the work at the small
To a generation of Canton kids who attended the Luce Elementary School, Israel “Izzie” Geller was their neighborhood crossing guard, a kind, old man with a European accent who helped guide them safely across the street at the intersection of Sawyer Avenue and Pleasant Street. To the Nazis who imprisoned him, however, Geller was nothing […]
This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on November 3, 2011 and was reprinted in this week’s edition. ~ Just about every day since 1834, for more than 177 years, trains have been part of Canton’s landscape. The sounds of bells gave way to horns, and smells of coal have given way to diesel. […]
Under a blue October sky, members of the Green Team Auxiliary, along with several volunteers of varying ages, painted the Little Red House on Pequitside Farm for all of Canton to see. The Green Team Auxiliary is made up of Canton High School students
Ed Bolster was a good man. The question always remains: how do you measure the life of a good man? Recently, while going through a box of papers, I came across five neatly typed pages with the heading “What I did for love.” Edward Bolster, one of Canton’s favorite lifelong residents, wrote the short essay […]
In the fall of 2004, during her third deployment to Iraq as a combat photojournalist, U.S. Army Specialist Blanka K. Stratford signed a sworn statement admitting to being in a sexual relationship with another woman. A few weeks later, on November 19, she was sent home with an honorable discharge in accordance with the military’s official policy at the time on homosexuality, known colloquially as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
In the fall of 2006, Pam Abrams-Warnick walked around Marshalls in a daze, her arms full of clothes that she had no desire to buy. A year earlier, her son Jeremy had tragically passed away at the age of 20. He was a bright, energetic, fun-loving young man, full of life and vitality. His sudden […]
John Forger thought he was ready. He wanted to lose weight. He had started to exercise. The travel arrangements were complete. And then, on the day before he was scheduled to fly to California to appear as a contestant on Season 12 of the NBC program The Biggest Loser, he changed his mind. He was […]
It’s the stuff most people only read about, but for 40-plus years during the tumultuous 20th century, Canton resident Bernard C. Redmont enjoyed a front-row seat to some of the most significant events in modern world history. He was in Russia, traveling on a Pulitzer fellowship as a freelance journalist, when the Second World War […]
Canton Police Lieutenant Patty Sherrill spent part of her summer teaching life choices, ethics, and the importance of making good decisions to youths from all over the United States and beyond at the National Youth Leadership Program held at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. A graduate of the FBI Police Officer Command program, Lt. […]
