The house you live in today is likely an unremarkable dwelling. Built by a general contractor, suited for 21st century living. Our houses today are not especially special and in 100 years many of them will have been replaced by whatever is the fashion of that day. This is not a happy or sad statement; […]
For several different reasons, August 18, 2015, is a day that Donnie Lewis of Canton will not soon forget. That evening, Lewis and his family, including his wife, Jean, and sons Donovan and Brendan, were invited to Fenway Park as special guests of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Boston Red Sox. Prior to the […]
Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of profiles on Canton’s golf courses. The series continues with a look at Wampatuck Country Club, a nine-hole regulation course located on Pleasant Garden Road. With its iconic Geoffrey Cornish design and picturesque views of Reservoir Pond, Canton’s Wampatuck Country Club certainly knows how to […]
Katrin is a dancer in New York City who moves into an apartment as she recovers from an injury that has put her career on hold. One night, as she listens to the noises from the radiator in her apartment, she hears people talking and kneels down on the floor to peer through a hole […]
The boys set out on an August day to swim at Houghton’s Pond. It was a bucolic summer day; a light breeze pushed big puffy clouds through the sky. Tossing their hats, jostling each other and generally roughhousing, they tumbled through the fields like lion cubs out on the savannah. For most youngsters, summertime in […]
Editor’s note: The following is the first in a series of profiles on Canton’s golf courses. The series kicks off with a look at the Milton-Hoosic Club, a historic nine-hole course located on Greenlodge Street. With its roots in the golfing boom of the late 19th century and a design pedigree tracing back to renowned […]
You have driven by the small cemetery in Ponkapoag countless times. The weed-choked berm leaves no place to even pull over to take a quick walk through. It sits on a hill sandwiched between two modern subdivisions, and yet it is one of our oldest historic sites and one that tells a story of […]
There were more than 124 passengers on board the Washington Irving when she set sail from Liverpool, England, in the summer of 1850. The passengers all had mostly one thing in common: They were the Irish that could escape the famine that raged through their native land.
When Anna Huggins Porter was 5 years old, her mother signed her up for weekly riding lessons at a farm not far from the family’s home. She continued riding and competing through high school and college, and today she is a professional rider and the proud owner of Eight Fences Farm in Mansfield, where she […]
The following is an excerpt from “End of the Line,” the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past by local historian George T. Comeau. Henry Crane Jr. was the first Crane to live in what is now Canton. He received his property on what is now Green Street in the best way possible — […]
