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Harryman House: Dining With History

March 29th, 2013 • Posted by Anna Holcomb • Permalink

If you have ever dined in the cabin, you may have wondered about the history behind the room. The rustic cabin walls are all that remain of the true four room log cabin from which Samuel Harryman and his wife Elizabeth ran a grocery store, saddlery and drug store. During the building’s first renovation in the 1980’s, the cabin walls were discovered by the builders and were restored to their original charm More...


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Local Farms: Feeding the Soul of a Community

February 22nd, 2013 • Posted by Jenny S. Gaintner • Permalink

I just finished reading Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm, by Erin Byers Murray. It is a wonderful read about a small town oyster farm and the cast of characters who work there More...


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Brunch Beginnings: From slang to service

December 14th, 2012 • Posted by The Grill at Harryman House • Permalink

In a perfect marriage of the terms breakfast + lunch: Brunch was created. Typically taking place on Sundays in the late morning up to early afternoon, brunch is a joining of sweet breakfast flavors with savory lunch tastes. The history books point to the origin in old Britain, where the term was first spoken by students as a form of fashionable slang meaning: a later morning meal after a long night More...


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