Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What does Harvard look like?” What do you see? Brick buildings, perhaps? Iron gates, Corinthian columns, sweeping façades? You’d be right if you conjured any of the ...

James A. Carpenter, 92, of Canton, died Sept. 21. Happiness, for Jim Carpenter, was finding that special rock, that hunk of brownstone or old paving stone. He loved to build stone walls and was ...