He shaped Boston for half a century

Among Cranston ``Chan" Rogers's many awards, medals, and accolades is a plaque presented to him on his retirement in 2002. Embedded in the wood is a sketch of the old elevated Central Artery near Dewey Square next to a photograph of the same stretch of downtown Boston nearly 50 years later, now utterly transformed by the Big Dig. (Full article: 772 words)

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