When I was growing up, we had a beach house in that area, and I spent every summer there, from the day school let out until the day after Labor Day. We actually scattered my sister's ashes at the beach there a few years ago - it was her favorite place on earth. Westbrook (not too far away) had the only Rhode Island clam chowder I've ever had. (I've never spent any time in RI itself...) Rhode Island clam chowder doesn't have the tomatoes of the Manhattan style or the cream of the New England kind. It's darned good stuff!
That's my preferred chowder too. Manhattan clam chowder is clam SOUP and will never be chowder. Chowder has no tomatoes.
Actually I agree.. To me clam chowder is clear.. That's how I had it growing up on on the RI beaches! Not many people make like that anymore.
I looked and there are some receipts over $800. That was a lot of money back then.. They seem to be nice old advertising pieces from old NY city stores from tobacconists and druggist to crackers and bakeries that maybe are still in existence today.. Any value to these? Wonder if any of the signatures on the receipts could be of someone who later become famous politician etx
There is a rare book dealer in Philadelphia who is offering the following for $2500: Business Archive of Charles L. Clark, merchant of Westbrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut, including Correspondence, Ledgers, and Ephemera, as well as related material of William N. Kirtland, 1856-1952 The description says: Large archive consisting of: 138 letters (189 pp.), 28 volumes of business ledgers, accounts, and memorandum books (5,500 pp.), plus approximately 1,068 pieces of paper and manuscript ephemera, including checks, letterhead business receipts, newspaper clippings, brochures, circulars, used envelopes, post cards, etc., as well as essays and verse. Letters date from 1857 to 1939, with the bulk of the correspondence and ephemera dated between the years of 1870 and 1910. The letters tend to be mostly business and financial correspondence, with many written on company letterhead. There are also letters that discuss personal or family matters. If anything, perhaps your receipts belong with this collection. You might consider contacting that dealer. The website is: http://mbamericana.com/clark-archive There is a “contact us” link on that page.
Very interesting find! I do have to wonder, though, since this collection is designated as "archive" whether they even have it any more.
I don't know, Bakers. Since it had the price shown, I was seeing it more as Clark's archive - a collection of his records & papers - that's currently for sale.