For more than a century, when selectmen here honored the town’s oldest resident, the title came with a distinctive trophy: a gold-topped, ebony walking cane, engraved with the town’s name, that was theirs to keep for as long as they might live.
For over a century, towns in New England have presented their oldest residents with ceremonial canes. In some places, the honor endures — for those willing to accept it, that is.
Hundreds of towns across New England award the Boston Post Cane to their oldest resident, but in Rye, the cane has been awarded to two women who were born on the same day in 1921.
The Back Mountain Memorial Library will hold a Designer Purse Bingo on Sunday, Oct. 8, at Dallas High School. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. We will play 24 games and…
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