Word: ridgefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeowners were going to leave but canceled when the rush of tourists kept property values from plummeting. Everyone hopes to cash in this summer when an army of tourists - officials say it may exceed 3 million - marches in. Welby Spainhower of Ridgefield has a trailer-housed store with a view of the mountain and a stock that includes ballpoint pens filled with ash, 48 types of T shirts, and a record titled Ashfall. Clara Ottosen of Silverlake has converted a barn into a museum filled with Helenic artifacts, including the burned-out Volvo in which National Geographic Photographer Reid Blackburn...
...first things I did upon arriving in Cambridge in 1926 was to go swimming in the nude in Boston Harbor. For a country boy (there were 24 in Ridgefield, Conn. high school graduating class), this was a novel experience. It was a big public beach, the name of which I do not remember, and it was crowded with males of all ages and descriptions. The more modest ones wore a tiny jock strap which they got with their tickets, but most were not modest...