Category:	Historic Events
		Subject:	Boston Post Cane Awards
		Code:	1990
		Item Type	Description
		Book	Book "The Granite State's Boston Post Canes - a New England Tradition" by Barbara Staples - 1999. A history of tradition started by Edwin Atkins Grozier - owner, editor and publisher of the Boston Post newspaper in 1909. A gold mounted walking cane was given to every town in New Hampshire to be awarded, from time to time, to the then oldest citizen.
		Article - 1	Excerpt from book "The Granite State's Boston Post Canes" on the first Jackson recipient - George N. Merrill on September 5, 1909.
		Document - 1	Hand written notation of cane awarded to Marian H. Wentworth on June 11, 1987
		Article - 1	Article in "The Reporter" - no date - on presentation to Bertha Magoon
		Article - 1	Same article about Bertha Magoon mentions Eva Fernald was previous holder
		Document - 1	Letter from Town of Jackson dated November 4, 1982 on presentation to Louise Proctor
		Document - 1	Letter from Warren Schomaker - March 31, 1999 - to Board of Selectmen suggesting preservation of cane, and reply from Selectmen rejecting proposal.
		Document - 1	Citation from New Hampshire's Governor, Jeanne Shaheen, commemorating to award of Jackson's Boston Post Cane to Betty Whitney, age 96. The Cane was presented by Selectmen Frank Difruscio and Dee McClave at the Annual Meeting of the Jackson Historical Society on May 12, 1999. Newspaper photograph included
		Article - 1	Article on presentation to William C. Proctor, Sr. on May 2, 1985. Same article states that his wife Louise was the previous holder of the Cane.
		Article - 1	Louise Proctor was presented with Cane in November 1982.
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