Coffin is an old New England name, as in William Sloane Coffin the 60's minister at Yale. New England clam chowder (or Mystic) is truly the best. Also, I'll take Guilford over New Bedford any day. My family, the Parmelees, settled it in the 1600s.DWill wrote:Maybe the clam chowder would be for you like Proust's madeleine cake, if you were to have it again. My family lived on Long Island Sound, in Guilford, where my father was a veterinarian. I went to Hopkins Grammar School in New haven for a year in eighth grade, before we moved inland to Storrs, where Dad got a job teaching at UConn. I took several school field trips to Mystic Seaport and can still recall especially the smells of the place.Robert Tulip wrote:ouchiwawa. Thank you. Well at least Connecticut would be a connecting path, he pleads aimlessly? If I can share some personal history, in 1977 my father taught English at Yale University for a year, and we lived as a family in Hamden for 8 months. It is a beautiful part of the world. We drove to Mystic, and I confess in the weakness of my memory I had mixed up Mystic with New Bedford, so I gratefully stand corrected. The cup of clam chowder I had for lunch in Mystic has grown in the recollection into one of the most fantabulous pieces of sustenance a human being could dream of.DWill wrote:New Bedford isn't in my native state of Connecticut
Thanks to both of you for your input. I'm thoroughly enjoying this reading.
