Posted on September 17, 2020 at 12:03 PM by Patty Ryburn
Referred to in the history books as a “true patriot”--the inscription on his gravestone--Samuel Blackman Jr.’s life followed in his father’s footsteps in many ways.
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Posted on August 19, 2020 at 6:33 PM by Patty Ryburn
Considered “the last of the Punkapoag Indians”, Mary (Wills) Wilbor Burr’s life and times--as well as her two marriages--are a glimpse not only into Canton’s local history but also into our young nation’s early beginnings as a whole.
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Posted on July 10, 2020 at 4:53 PM by Patty Ryburn
The textile mill city of Lowell, MA was the birthplace of artist Charles Peter Demetropoulos and the Whistler House Museum of Art located there--named for well-known American painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler of an earlier era--houses several pieces of Demetropoulos’ work.
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