Boston Post cane tradition continues today

In 2001, Brian O' Grady, the Director of the Council on Aging in Williamstown, Mass., was cleaning out a closet in the Senior Center when Hazel Burchick, one of the seniors in town, wondered out loud: 'Whatever happened to the old cane we used to give people?' O'Grady, many years Burchick's junior, had no idea what Burchick meant when she asked about the "old cane." Curious, he began his own research and discovered that the cane to which Burchick referred wasn&

In 2001, Brian O' Grady, the Director of the Council on Aging in Williamstown, Mass., was cleaning out a closet in the Senior Center when Hazel Burchick, one of the seniors in town, wondered out loud: 'Whatever happened to the old cane we used to give people?' O'Grady, many years Burchick's junior, had no idea what Burchick meant when she asked about the "old cane." Curious, he began his own research and discovered that the cane to which Burchick referred wasn't just any old cane. It was a Bost…