*MEDIA ADVISORY* In Rare Tie, Town of Rye to Present Boston Post Cane Honor to Two Residents

RYE — Town Administrator Matthew Scruton and the Rye Select Board are pleased to announce that two residents will be receiving the Boston Post Cane for being the oldest living residents of the Town.

WHEN: 

Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 10:30 a.m. 

WHERE:  

Webster at Rye, 795 Washington Road  

WHAT: 

The Rye Select Board will be presenting Rye residents Barbara Long and Marion Cronin, with a Boston Post Cane and certificates for being the Town’s oldest living residents, at Tuesday’s special Select Board meeting.  

Long and Cronin are both 102, and were born on Feb. 7, 1921. They are not related, and no one has been able to determine which was born first.

This distinction is a celebration for both Long and Cronin and of their long lives as members of the Rye community.  

The Boston Post Cane originated in 1909. The Boston Post newspaper distributed about 700 canes throughout New England so that towns could recognize their oldest resident in a ceremony. 

The cane is topped with a 14-karat gold head with the inscription, “Presented by the Boston Post to the oldest citizen of (name of town) — To Be Transmitted.”