Stacey Charles of Acton is reflected in the transparent acrylic silhouette of Ellen Garrison, a Black 19th century Concord educator, abolitionist, and early Civil Rights activist, as she holds her daughter Namarie Charles, 1, on a bench in Monument Square on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Charles was in the square to see a concert by Boston hip hop rock band Terry Borderline and the Suns, a concert held in celebration of the new public art installation. The town’s new middle school will be named the Garrison Middle School in honor of Ellen Garrison.
On his 100th birthday, Earl Haley of Framingham smokes a cigar as he waits for a birthday parade of antique cars, Brewster ambulances, the Framingham Fire Department and Framingham residents to arrive at his Pincusion Road home June, 2020.
Lifeguard Heidi Sardina, 65, sits on a lifeguard chair on the last day of the season at Framingham's Learned Pond Beach, August 12, 2021. The retired Waltham middle school teacher has been lifeguarding since 1972.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Francis Larkin, 89, stands at attention as an echo taps is played during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Hopedale Community House, Nov. 10, 2021. Larkin is a Vietnam War veteran, former Milford District Court judge and former dean of the Southern New England School of Law. He is wearing his 40-year-old Army uniform.
Documentary filmmaker Kori Keener spreads out in her loft bedroom in her new "tiny house" on the grounds of the Natick Community Organic Farm on July 22, 2016. Keener became intrigued with the tiny house movement and living with less after thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail and filming a documentary on her experience.
Dr. Brian Lisse holds his well-worn black bag outside his Hudson, Massachusetts home on July 8, 2022. Dr. Lisse and the bag will be traveling later in the month to Przemysl, Poland, to render medical aid to Ukranian refugees.
A parasol and fan keep Katie Burke of Melrose cool as she watches the Race of the Century, an annual period affair featuring competition between vehicles of different technologies and eras at the Collings Foundation in Stow Saturday, July 30, 2016.
Dylan Abbott, 28, a former drugs and alcohol addict who had a few brushes with the law in his youth, shows tattoos on his back on Friday, July 26, before competing in a triathlon to raise money for improved health care, including addiction treatment. The lines are a combination of song lyrics that end with "And I'm not gonna waste one minute of this life. I got a second chance to do what is right."
Portraying the Grady Twins from 1980 horror classic "The Shining" are Samantha, 9, and Presley, 6, Wasserman of Bellingham during the New England Megafest Comic-Con at the Sheraton Framingham Saturday, November 16, 2019.
Elizabeth Ouimet, 6, of Sherborn, and Tootsie prepare to leave the Saddle Rowe equestrian center barn for a horseback riding lesson during the first annual Horse 'N Harvest Saturday, October 22, 2016.
Cannabis cultivating technician Jake Coutinho removes excess fan leaves from different strains of cannabis in a flowering room at Local Roots Organic Cannabis  in Framingham, Oct. 8, 2021. Employees wear sunglasses for protection against the bright lights used for photosynthesis.
Sheila Courchaine of Marborough, who lost her husband Armand Courchaine to the coronavirus, gazes at sign where her husband, a lifelong fly fisherman, calls her the "catch of his life" on Wednesday, April 22. Courchaine, 76, a U.S. Navy veteran, died on April 14 after a two-week battle with the coronavirus. Sheila also tested positive for the virus and has since recovered.
David Howland, 67, a resident of a group home in Marlborough, finds a quiet corner to strum on his ukulele during the Thrive Support and Advocacy's Fun Fest Saturday, July 15, 2017 at the Hudson Elks.
Circus worker Christian Mitchell relaxes with Cindy, a Columbian red-tailed boa, during a break at the Zerbini Family Circus show in Mendon Thursday night, July 28, 2016. Mitchell is the circus' animal specialist and takes Cindy into the ring during intermission to pose for pictures
Natick High School Class of 2018 president Dishod Kirby sheds tears of pride after his commencement address Friday, June 1, 2018 at Memorial Field. Natick High was his fourth high school when he arrived as a junior. "As soon as I stepped through the double doors, I felt welcomed," Kirby said during his speech.
Francis Iacovelli, 91, patriarch of the family-owned Francis Flowers on Prospect Street in Milford, creates a Valentine's Day rose arrangement for a customer in his shop Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 13. Iacovelli founded the business in 1949 in Milford when he was 19.
Keriann Kilcoyne, a recovering addict who now works at a detox center in Boston, displays a tattoo on her arm which reads "Give me strength when I stand and faith when I fall" inside her Woburn apartment on March 16, 2016.
Hopedale field hockey and softball player Alyssa MacNeil, left, and her mother Suzanne, have more in common than their matching buns. Alyssa wears the same uniform number her mother wore when her mom played softball for the Blue Raiders. (7/14/21)
Framingham High School senior Jacqueline De La Rosa, 18, wears her prom dress at Cushing Memorial Park Saturday, May 2 2020. Prom was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic but De La Rosa had already bought the dress.
Rick Alberini, owner of Alberini Inpsection Services, poses outside his Ashland garage Sept. 20, 2022. Alberini specializes in inspections and said that some customers come in expecting a new inspection sticker even while driving without a muffler or on bald tires.
Norma Shulman, one of eleven Massachusetts electors who will cast votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, poses amidst Biden/Harris and Black Lives Matters signs in her Framingham garage, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.
Andrew Colbert hugs his wife Kimberly Gunner, August 12, 2021, almost exactly a year after the August 18, 2020 hit-and-run crash that injured the Natick couple, leaving Gunner with severe injuries that she is still recovering from. The couple have received an outpouring of support from Natick and beyond in the last year.
Wes Delano of Framingham sits by his 1965 Ford Mustang during the 9th annual Kidde Fenwal Car Show at the Kidde Fenwal Company in Ashland, Sept. 10, 2022. Several hundred classic and antique cars participated in the annual show.
Agnes DeCenzo, 104, the last living participant in the first generation of the Framingham Heart Study, raises her arms in her signature "everything is wonderful" gesture with her daughter Joanna Ramey among the rose bushes at the Waterview Lodge Nursing Home in Ashland, June 8, 2022. The decades-long landmark study found high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol to be major risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Kathleen "Keenie" Finethy is reflected in a mirror in her apartment at Orchard Hill Assisted Living in Sudbury on her 100th birthday, Friday, May 13, 2016. Keenie still keeps busy pursuing her hobby of making dresses for her collection of antique dolls. She and her husband Carlton, who also lived to be over 100 years-old, raised their family in Rumford, Maine.
Cyclist Paul Meng of Chantilly, Virginia, stands out in his helmet headdress at a water stop in Franklin, Massachusetts, during the Pan-Mass Challenge, an annual bike-a-thon fundraiser for cancer research, on Saturday, August 4 2018.