Post Canes News Today

FOSTER – 95-year-old Walter “Ray” Hohler Jr. is the newest of 40 holders of Foster’s Boston Post Cane, given to the oldest citizen in Foster on April 14.

Robert “Bob” Perkins, 93, has lived his whole life in the same homestead on Kensington Road in Hampton Falls and now custodian of the Boston Post Cane.

Boston Cane goes to soon-to-be centenarian  LaVerne Redlon poses with her Boston Cane presented to her on Dec. 22. PHOTO COURTESY OF SWH HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOUTHWEST HARBOR— LaVerne Redlon is set to turn 100 this month and the town has presented her with the Boston Post Cane as an early present.  Board of Selectmen Chairman Kristin Hutchins presented Redlon with the cane on Dec. 22 at her home just off Main Street where she lives with her daughter, Jeanne Boyd.   In 1909, over ...