Five years ago when Steve and I visited the western states we fell in love. Not with each other — we’d already done that over 35 years ago — but with Arizona and New Mexico. But though we reveled in the beauty of the natural landscape, it was a man-made structure that intrigued us the […]
DID YOU KNOW… This really is a strange world. Despite the fact that Canton residents have been using less water, the selectmen are going to raise our water bills at about $7 per month between January and June, and that’s on top of the 10 percent increase that went into effect on July 1, 2009. […]
Everyone thinks they can teach. They think, “What can be so hard about standing in front of a room full of kids and talking? Before I entered the ranks of teachers I thought the same thing. And then I stood in front of my first class of high school sophomores and I wanted to eat […]
DID YOU KNOW… Those of you who are curious about all those moths you noticed swarming in your headlights or around your outside lights at home last month — especially along the South Shore down to the Cape — you might be interested in a story recently published in the Boston Globe concerning the unexpected […]
Medically it has never been easy to be a woman. During the 5th and 4th centuries in Greece, female hysteria — which stems from the Greek word for uterus — was described extensively in gynecological treatises. Plato describes the uterus wandering throughout a woman’s body, strangling the victim as it reaches the chest. Hysteria continued […]
DID YOU KNOW… The Canton Choral Society performed its annual Sunday afternoon holiday concert on December 13 for 200 appreciative music lovers in the Canton High School auditorium. And as usual, it was worth more than the price of admission. As was the case last year, the first half of this year’s two-hour program was […]
Editor’s note: Shortly after midnight on January 1, Scott Herr, a 2009 graduate of Canton High School and a freshman at Northeastern University, was killed when the truck he was riding in, driven by his girlfriend, crashed along an icy stretch of road near Buffalo, New York. He is survived by his parents, Joseph and […]
