When big things happen in a small town the news can rush like wildfire. Tongues wag fast and the allure of a big crime story can be fodder for the newspapers for weeks. In the summer of 1906, big news literally exploded in Ponkapoag in what can only be described as a brazen robbery that […]
There are old virtues that still ring true today. The value of integrity, economy and perseverance. Are these subjects that come up in the course of discussion in modern-day families? Many readers will look upon their lives and find that they are wealthy, and the question is whether they choose to use their wealth for […]
In a recently posted TEDx talk as part of a new series on “Surviving Pandemics,” Dr. Anatole Manzi of Canton speaks passionately about the health care challenges inherent across large swaths of Africa and the essential role that teachers can play there in the fight against COVID-19. Drawing on his own experiences growing up in […]
“Americans are not a narrow tribe,” wrote Herman Melville. “Our blood is as the flood of the Amazon, made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one.” We are a nation of immigrants and throughout Canton’s history there have been countless stories that share the tale of coming to America. There is a […]
Is it nostalgia or aging that brings us back to our childhood as we move through the later years of our life? There are these flashbacks to my youth that fire like an electrical synapse in my brain. I have these gauzy images of the large apple tree in our side yard and my great-grandmother […]
This story originally appeared in the October 8 print edition. Mike Sullivan has long been fascinated by storytelling and the horror genre. Growing up in Stoughton, he became a fan of Stephen King, whose varied ways of scaring readers (and movie goers) are well known. Primarily a film editor, Sullivan also writes and is now […]
The opening salvo was fired by a local attorney on a Monday morning in May 2008. With the filing of a handful of requests, the attorney, at the direction of his client, was seeking approval for the demolition of the Revere & Son Rolling Mill and the barn built by Joseph Warren Revere that sat […]
An undeclared conflict that began in 1950 and ended in a stalemate in 1953, the Korean War is sometimes known as the Forgotten War. Rich Carrara, who grew up in Canton, wants to make sure that the plane crash in Tachikawa, Japan, that took the life of his brother — Air Force Sergeant and radio […]
The USS Potomac embodied the spirit of a growing nation. The warship was built to establish a naval presence that would span the globe. And her first commander was a Canton-born man by the name of John Downes. As the commander over more than 500 men, a great weight was on the shoulders of this […]
This story originally appeared in the September 3 edition of the Citizen. “A really nice community,” is how Canton resident Sheldon Gentles describes his neighborhood of Blackman Road. Gentles said he often sees people outside with their kids and walking their dogs. “It’s definitely family friendly,” he said. Recently, Gentles took on a project to […]
