While they are now easily found in restaurants of all shapes and sizes along the East Coast, fried clams were first imagined and created by Lawrence "Chubby" Woodman and his wife Bessie in 1916 at ...

Robert Greene said he was impressed with Bessie Blount Griffin, a pioneering Black nurse and inventor, when he met her at her modest home in Newfield 16 years ago, months before her death.