Posted on November 17, 2020 at 4:05 PM by Patty Ryburn
Much has been written about Canton native U.S. Army Sergeant Edward J. Beatty in the slightly more than one hundred years since his death at the Battle of Seicheprey, France, the location of the first significant infantry battle of World War I.
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Posted on October 17, 2020 at 3:35 PM by Patty Ryburn
Sixty years of Bob Lesieur’s prolific artistic life of nine decades were spent in Canton and many of the hundreds of paintings that he left as a legacy memorialize both the surroundings and the individuals that make up this community as well as the neighboring natural refuges that he so enjoyed.
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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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