By Josh Bickford

Carl Keitner sat in the hospital lobby and watched the people stream past. Some walked. Some rolled. And some used a little help to get where they were going.

The “help” for many was some sort of aluminum cane, wrote Keitner in a message to the Barrington Times. He added the word “awful” when describing the canes.

“As a ‘creative,’ I decided to make canes that are, in fact, functional art,” Keitner wrote.

Keitner, a longtime Barrington resident, spends some of his time as a personal driver, transporting a number of elderly friends to the airport and other locations, including some Boston-area healthcare facilities. It was while waiting for his friends to finish their appointments that Keitner noticed just how many people use the industrial — read “ugly” — style walking

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