My name is Denny Swenson. I live on the Canton/Milton line. I mean that literally — our house is half in Canton and half in Milton. I live in a beautiful house, in a beautiful neighborhood with my husband, Win, my 10-year-old daughter, Reilly, our dog and two cats. Three years ago, I was bit […]
When a routine blood test was performed on Jennifer Tower’s newborn daughter, Sonya, the words “cystic fibrosis” had never even entered into the new mother’s mind. Neither Jennifer, a music teacher at the Luce Elementary School in Canton, nor her husband, Steve, was aware that they were carriers of the recessive genetic disease. Sonya’s blood, […]
By now you have no doubt created a short list of sites to visit in Canton that demonstrate some of the local curiosities of history and geology. Many people have followed my recent columns and report trips to the Stone Bridge or the Indian Cave. This week we plan another “trespass” to our neighbors up […]
The sinewy strings tighten as places are called and participants grow quiet. Muscles contract, held in tension, as eyes focus on the backs of the competition. Everything is still when the gun goes off, unleashing an explosion of energy that launches a thick pack of tangled up runners onto the course and into the race. […]
There is an ancient map from 1794 inscribed with the names of the selectmen of Stoughton — Elijah Crane, Jabez Talbot and Nathan Crane — and on this map there are more than six bridges that cross the Neponset River in what is now Canton. Today, we mostly cross the Neponset River along Neponset Street, […]
TALES OF THE WILD: Local children enjoyed a fun-filled week of storytelling, exploration, and activities at the Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center in Canton during the recent February vacation. Inspired by two classics of children’s literature, The Mitten by Jan Brett and Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, the younger group (ages 6-8) searched for treasures along […]
The simple inscription on the inside of a small gold ring tells an amazing story that reaches back over 300 years to the birth of Samuel Dunbar. The inside of the ring in a colonial script reads: “Rev’d Saml. Dunbar June 15, 1783 AE 78” and a makers mark “PR.” For all purposes, know that […]
Violence, poverty, terrorism, and political upheaval are not the average issues confronting a recent college graduate; however, Casey McDermott, a member of Canton High’s graduating class of 2004 and Quinnipiac University’s class of 2008, hasn’t quite chosen an average job. After spending two years in the AmeriCorps program and also earning a business degree, McDermott […]
Click here for Part 1 of this story My grandmother, my Nana, turns 100 today. As you read this story, it is my joy to reflect upon what her place in my life and in Canton means. Leonilda (Verzone) Salemme was born in New York, but was raised by her paternal grandmother in the small […]
Looking back on her childhood, Kim Marcus says she can’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing. “I remember writing poems from the time I was little,” said Marcus (née Weiner), a 1984 graduate of Canton High. “I was interested in the sounds, rhythm, rhyme. I used to write poetry in my bedroom late at […]
