At the ripe age of 57, James Shaller looked out across his farm and gave pause. He was at a point in his life where he had attained considerable wealth, land holdings and a farm that was the envy of many of his neighbors in Canton. His house was comfortable and the woman’s touches that […]
The story below appears in the Citizen’s 31st annual Salute to the Fine Arts, an 8-page special section included with the June 3 print edition. Growing up, Grace-Mary Burega was very close to her older brother. When he started watching the animated comedy series The Simpsons, she did too. She found that she loved the music […]
By now the story has been well told. In August 2008, the Canton Historical Commission invoked the demolition delay process as a last-ditch effort to raise public awareness in the face of the loss of the Revere & Son Rolling Mill and Joseph Warren Revere Barn. That was the moment that preservation kicked in. The […]
Katie Wood starts each day with a morning routine during which she centers herself to get ready for the day ahead. “I read something positive, I practice gratitude, I do a little bit of meditation, prayer, exercise,” she said. Nearly every morning for the past six years, the Canton mother of four has gotten up […]
This story originally appeared in the March 24 edition of the Canton Citizen. As recently as two weeks ago, right up until the moment “Dr. Doom” walked into his room at Brigham & Women’s Hospital to deliver his startlingly blunt prognosis, everything still made sense in Joe DeFelice’s world. Other than his one mystery ailment […]
Along a path inside the gate of the Canton Corner Cemetery, quite near the First Parish Church, there is a tall slate headstone. The stone was set in 1852 and the inscription reads, “In memory of Mrs. Mary, wife of Seymour Burr, a Revolutionary pensioner. She died in Canton, November 1, 1852, aged 101 years, […]
This story originally appeared in the March 3 edition of the Canton Citizen. As someone who spent her formative years under Soviet rule, was later stripped of her citizenship and interrogated by the KGB, and then went on to witness the devastating effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its subsequent government mishandling, Tanya Finegold […]
A recent episode of The Drew Barrymore Show reunited two Canton High School graduates who were both students in Video and Media Production classes at CHS during their teens. Edy Massih, who is now a well-known chef in New York City, and Dan Sheehy, the script supervisor for The Drew Barrymore Show, connected with each other after Chef Edy, […]
The following is the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past by local historian George T. Comeau. Joseph Warren Revere walked across the dusty path that led from his house to the nearby bell foundry. A pair of drowsy-eyed oxen waited, hitched to a heavy oak cart. It was a delivery day and a […]
The Canton Citizen is pleased to partner with the Canton Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee to present “Community in Unity,” an ongoing series spotlighting Canton residents of diverse backgrounds. *** Growing up in Haiti, Rose Noel Joachim knew she enjoyed doing people’s hair starting when she was around 12 or 13 years old. Today, she […]
