Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Steve's shack on the side of a two-lane road outside Ipswich, clams rule the world. The icebox is a clambox--as the day progresses, fewer and fewer clams are left on its single shelf and by late afternoon, the icebox looks strangely unfulfilled when four or so quarts remain alone on the shelf...
...when the last quart changes hands, Steve closes (but does not lock) the door to the clam shack and trudges...