In the early 1970s when then-Colorado state Rep. Richard Lamm (D) began to form an opposition movement to Denver's bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympic Games, Lamm said he felt like he was "banging the last nails into my own political coffin."
On Tuesday, the former Colorado politician recalled in a phone interview with the NewBostonPost how he spearheaded the state's anti-Olympic movement after uncovering problems with the Denver bid.
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 Boston Post cane — an ebony cane adorned with an engraved golden knob that, by tradition, 700 New England towns once presented to their oldest living citizens on behalf of the Boston Post, the region's major newspaper in the early 1900s.
