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GREEN – Traces of local history and culture are in place in the floor at the Akron-Canton Airport.
Local artist Lenny Spangler designed a Tree of Life for the terrazzo floor in the atrium, which is in the boarding area between gates and the baggage claim. The tree has 46 leaves that contain a name, a site, a business or event that represents the Akron and Canton communities.
It s the final interior work that s part of a $34 million gate modernization project at the airport. Five new gates were added to replace five crowded gates that were demolished. The older gates dated to the 1960s.
COVID memorial portraits
By Kerry Clawson - Akron Beacon Journal
Florida artist Sylvia Shanahan, an Akron-area native, provides free portraits of those lost to COVID-19 through the organization Faces Not Numbers.
An oil painting of Harold Arnold by artist Sylvia Shanahan is shown as part of the Faces Not Numbers project. Artists provide paintings of those who have died from COVID-19 to their family members at no charge.
The oil painting of the late Harold Arnold that sits on his wife Shirley’s mantel at her North Canton home is a comfort to her after losing him in December to COVID-19.
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For liberals who regard the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency with residual suspicion, these are confusing times. While the FBI could once be dismissed as a haven for skull-crackers and fascists, today’s authorities largely limit themselves to monitoring Republican politicians and sniffing out white-bread y’all Qaeda types. Happily, the motion picture industry has hit upon a solution to liberals’ cognitive dissonance. If the Left can no longer heckle G-men in the present tense, it can do so via the magic of period filmmaking.
Set at the height of the Black Panther movement’s power and influence,
By Gary Brown, special to The Canton Repository
Ernest Brong of North Canton turned a hobby into his business in the 1930s and began repairing musical instruments. A little more than a decade later, he was well-known in Stark County for helping area band members hit the high notes.
Anne Guttman of Canton was the pretty girl behind the stocking mending machine at the J.C. Penney Co. in 1946, and she brightened lives by fixing the runs in the nylon stockings of countless women in Stark County.
J. Edward Bowman of Canton was a master of ornamental penmanship and his fancy writing found a home on diplomas. In his prime he produced 2,000 or 3,000 certificates of graduation a week, earning the reputation of being one of the few experts in the art in the state.