Alek Perez, 4, of Harpswell flies his kite on the beach where the wind was strongest at George J. Mitchell Field April 23, 2025.

Worcester Technical High School student Hannah Kayall works during a welding class January 3, 2017.

A child goes down the slide at a carnival on Memorial Beach Drive in Webster, MA June 22, 2017.

Architectural designer Adam Maltese, of A. Maltese Design, sits in his home in Damariscotta in April 2018.

Bruce Soule cuts Darrold Williams' hair at his barbershop in downtown Damariscotta March 15. Williams has been getting his hair cut at Bruce's Barbershop for the past 18 years.

98-year-old Carrol Voss holds Bristol's Boston Post Cane, signifying that he is the oldest resident of Bristol, Maine. 

The publisher of the now-defunct Boston Post, Edwin Grozier, gifted the canes to hundreds of New England towns with instructions to present the cane, with the newspaper’s compliments, to the eldest male resident of the town.

The man could use the cane as long as he lived, or until he moved to another town, when the cane would be passed down to the next eldest male resident. Women became eligible for the cane in 1930.

While the Boston Post no longer publishes, the tradition of the cane still lives on in many New England towns.

Lawrence Records, co-owner of Records and Burpee Traveling Children's Zoo, checks in with the camels at his home in Dudley, MA May 18, 2017.

Flo Rida performs at the Mullins Center at UMass Amherst March 4, 2017.

Cassandra Kula, 7, jumps on her father John Kula's back on the Worcester Common after he was presented with a Quilt of Valor by the Charlton Sewing Center during Habitat for Humanity's Operation Playhouse event July 27, 2017.

A member of the UMass Amherst Dance Team receives applause on senior night at the Mullins Center March 1, 2017.

Nora Lubecki, 3, enjoys a ride at a carnival on Memorial Beach Drive in Webster, MA June 22, 2017.

Saxophonist Jacob Scesney performs during Mike Posner's set at UMass's spring concert at the Mullins Center March 4, 2017.

Jeff Miller, a tour guide and costumed interpreter at the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site in Bristol, Maine, works on building a stool May 2018.

Jason Pierce works on the roof of an RV at Timbucktu RV in Worcester ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend June 29, 2017. 

UMass goalie Emily Hazard tearfully hugs a family member after the A10 championship loss to Saint Joseph's November 4, 2017. 

Judy Dumont, the new owner of ABOCA Beads in downtown Damariscotta, Maine, stands in her shop February 26, 2018.

Belinda Morrone, adjutant of American Legion East Side Post 201 in Worcester, counts flags in St. John's Cemetery May 18, 2017. 

Chris Awdycki stands in Complete Fitness gym before teaching her Rock Steady Boxing fitness class in Northborough August 14, 2017. 

Ross Comis celebrates his touchdown during UMass's game against Ohio September 30, 2017. 

Annabella Deveney, 6, covers her ears as cars in the Auburn Memorial Day Parade honk their horns. May 29, 2017. 

Ysander Figueroa flies a drone outside the QCC Center for Workforce Development and Continuing Education, beside a mural of a bird in flight August 24, 2017. 

95-year-old Bob Howell, one of the founders of the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, sits in front of Fort William Henry in May 2018.

Rohen Sundaram and Rachel Bates, members of the Residence Hall Association, meet UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy at the UFest welcome event on Goodell Lawn September 3, 2017.

John Miczek, co-owner of the Breezy Gardens farmstand in Leicester, MA, stands in one of his pumpkin patches August 14, 2017. 

Dan Lapensee, left, and Torbin Harding play music on Highland Street in Worcester January 2, 2017.

Dr. Thomas Rice sits in the Damariscotta location of his practice, Midcoast Orthodontics May 2018.

Jeff Osborne stands in his school bus turned luxury mobile home and bohemian wedding dress showroom in South Bristol, Maine, May 2018.