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THE CLAM SHACK DOES NOT live down to its name; it is actually a pleasing structure on Orleans Bay, immediately across, and with an excellent view of, the Orleans marina. Many years ago Elmo’s Bait occupied the site where the Clam Shack now sits. Elmo’s Bait was a shack from which Elmo sold bait during the day and plastic buckets of fresh clams in the late afternoon. For this reason many people called the place “Elmo’s Clam Shack.” That’s why the new owners, after they bought the land from Elmo and tore down his shack, called their new structure the Clam Shack. Elmo didn’t care that they dropped his name. With the money he made from the sale, he bought a new house up on the bluffs at Truro, and one rarely sees him in town anymore.
We were late arriving in Orleans on account of my mishap
