“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.” – Theodore Roosevelt Not long ago, Larry Rines of Wiscasset telephoned suggesting I might help in finding the oldest Wiscasset.
Roland Seeley of Benton, 96, was presented Benton’s Boston Post Cane Feb. 23. Seeley was born in Fort Fairfield on Feb. 1, 1927. When he turned 17, he enlisted in the service, and a year later he started his tour of duty in the Navy on the Franklin Delano Roosevent aircraft carrier during World War […]
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On Aug. 2, 1909, Mr. Edwin A. Grozier, publisher of the Boston Post, forwarded a gold-headed ebony cane to the Board of Selectmen in 700 towns in New England.He asked that the cane be presented (with the compliments of the Boston Post) to the oldest.
Diane O’Brien prepared a piece for this week: The tradition of the gold-headed Boston Post Cane and its presentation to the oldest resident of a New England town was conceived by a publisher of the Boston Postdaily with an eye toward increasing.