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...SHACK is small and smells strongly of fish. Its white exterior stands starkly against the horizon. Inside, the room is bare except for a wooden chair and an ancient refrigerator left over from an era when it was still called an "icebox...
Sometimes a crusty old mariner sits in the wooden chair, awaiting his customers. As often as not, however, the room is empty except for the icebox and the chair. A note, torn and faded from too many days in the summer air, is stuck permanently on the shack door...
...outside world is not cut off from Steve and his clams. Every customer exits from the shack with Steve's business card in hand. The card gives Steve's telephone number, a formula for steamed clams is printed on the back...
...people of Ipswich, however, hardly storm Steve's door each morning. For the most part, this New England town of 18,000 has forgotten Steve. Outsiders discover his shack by chance or from newcomers to the town. Steve is not a well-kept town secret--he is an anachronism...
...coal stove once used on a sailing ship. But no matter. Jenefer is a sylvan spirit who lives on simple fare such as grapes, sardines and raw string beans. In fact, her isolation is so great that she worked in the nude while building her two-room redwood shack. Her only complaint is an occasional pang of loneliness: "At times I wish I lived in a rented house in town. People don't come up here much...