Thanks Harry. Nice story , and so true. Made me hungry for that 'chowdah'
my grandmother used to make back in the day. I'm originally from MA, but she
was born in ME.

--Mike

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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The New York Times

January 17, 2007
Sea Sends Distress Call in One-Note Chowders
By MOLLY O’NEILL

Stonington, Me.

DICK BRIDGES has big, calloused hands, hands that have been thickened by
half a century of fishing, hands that can build a life and shape a
community. They are not the sort of hands you expect to see mincing onions
in a church kitchen. But on a recent Saturday evening Mr. Bridges grasped
a flimsy knife, reached for a sack of yellow onions and launched into a
soliloquy about fishing in America and the dish that tells the story:
chowder.

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