Across New England, 700 towns once handed out canes just like the one in Rye's museum, a practice that began in 1909 when a Boston newspaper publisher, Edwin Grozier, started a brilliant regional marketing scheme.
Dozens of the now-antique canes have been lost or stolen. Some have been recovered after yearslong searches. And those that remain are much more closely guarded.
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