Can a house have a gender? Are there feminine lines to some houses and in others masculine elements that give the observer the sense that a house has the grace of a lady or the demeanor of a gentleman? There is a term for beautiful old Victorian Style homes that describes them perfectly: painted ladies. […]
There are very few architecturally significant houses from the early 1800s that have survived almost intact with respect to their adornment and features. One such example is the splendid house built for Dr. Ezra Abbot at 470 Washington Street. Even today, 182 years after it was built, this Italianate home exemplifies a style that is […]
Children don’t disappear. Somebody always knows. Jeanne Quinn’s words cut like a razor in the opening moments of the teaser trailer for Dead of Winter, a new documentary-style television series that is set to premiere globally next Wednesday evening on Investigation Discovery (ID). The series, produced by Red Marble Media, will focus each episode on […]
That old silk flag must have been glorious. The boys that carried her would have looked resplendent in their uniforms. They were dressed in gray coats, white pantaloons, smart belts, and caps. In the fashion of the early uniforms of West Point, they were magnificent on that day. Atop their heads a leather shako cap […]
Sister Catherine Marie Gilmore, CSJ, (Sister Margaret Edward), who served as the principal of Saint John the Evangelist School in Canton from 1985 to 2001, passed away Sunday, December 9, at the Bethany Health Care Center in Framingham. Sister Catherine was in her 68th year as a member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of […]
As she drove down the quarter-mile entrance to Paramount Ranch Park in the Santa Monica Mountains last Friday, Michele Fitzwilliam looked on with a mix of amazement and horror at the sheer devastation that nature had wrought. On a stretch of roadway where hundreds of trees once stood, there was “nothing but black and silver […]
Within hours of the announcement of his passing late last month, the remembrances began pouring in online. Dozens of former students and colleagues, spanning multiple generations and time zones, flocked to Facebook to pay tribute to the late, great Martin “Marty” Badoian — the legendary CHS math teacher, coach and force of nature who defined […]
It is perhaps our most ancient roadway and most traveled. Washington Street, the main thoroughfare that begins at the foot of the Great Blue Hill and departs at Cobb Tavern in Stoughton. It is a spine that almost perfectly bisects Canton. If there were an East and West Canton, the dividing line is surely Washington […]
Linda Little has fond memories of her grandfather Leland’s home in Washington state. Looking back upon her time with him, she now knows what rooted her curiosity in archeology. “He had a room in the back of his house; it was a little museum,” Linda recalled. The room, filled with shelves and glass cases, held […]
Canton smells different today. We take advantage of clean air and fresh water and expect it as a given. As you can well imagine the Canton of the mid 1800s was a far different place than the world we know today. It is likely that you can count on one hand the number of pigs […]
