Jim Gardner, left, presents the Boston Post Cane Award to Jean A. Lamoreau as Easton’s oldest citizen. In 1909, the Boston Post distributed between 400 and 600 ebony, gold-capped canes among towns in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island that requested one. Although the Post limited distribution of the canes to men until the 1930s, nearly two-thirds of the holders since then have been women.
(Courtesy of Town of Easton)
Jim Gardner, left, presents the Boston Post Cane Award to Jean A. Lamoreau as Easton’s oldest citizen. In 1909, the Boston Post distributed between 400 and 600 ebony, gold-capped canes among towns in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island that requested one.
Although the Post limited distribution of the canes to men until the 1930s, nearly two-thirds of the holders since then have been women. (Courtesy of Town of Easton)
