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Northshore October 2025
People travel from all over the country to taste the North Shore’s clams, and perhaps no one knows this better than Maureen Woodman. Woodman’s husband, Douglas, is a third-generation co-owner (along with his brother and sisters) of Woodman’s of Essex, the clam shack that put fried clams on the map. Lawrence “Chubby” Woodman, alongside his wife, Bessie, started frying clams from the flats of Essex over 100 years ago. “July 3, 1916. Chubb and I fried the first fried clam,” Maureen Woodman says over the phone. The inscription, she notes, marked on Bessie and Chubby’s marriage certificate, sets in stone a date that has been har
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