Treading Clams is a young man's memoir of growing up in a small seaside town at the end of the Second World War. Like the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John "The Crabber" White takes us on eight different life changing adventures across an all American landscape from clamming in the Great South Bay to betting the horses at Yonkers Raceway to a kill or be killed adventure on a hunting trip deep in the Adirondack mountains. The Crabber reminds us of a more romantic time in American history when "boys will be boys" and children grew up unsupervised on the streets and back lots of small town America.
Born and raised in Bay Shore, Francis Bennett transports you back to the heart and soul of small town Long Island in the 1950's.
(From an interview with The Bookbag.co.uk)
"You've said that the location of the stories is fictional but it does seem very real. Is it loosely-based on any particular place? Does it relate back to your childhood?"
“The location of the stories is Bay Shore, L.I., New York, the town where I grew up. The fictional disclaimer at the beginning of the book is there as a matter of form since I fictionalized a very real place. All of the characters are based on actual people who populated my boyhood but I portrayed them with some literary license. I loved them all. I remain grateful to them for all they did for me simply because of who they were.”
Born and raised in Bay Shore, Francis Bennett transports you back to the heart and soul of small town Long Island in the 1950's.
(From an interview with The Bookbag.co.uk)
"You've said that the location of the stories is fictional but it does seem very real. Is it loosely-based on any particular place? Does it relate back to your childhood?"
“The location of the stories is Bay Shore, L.I., New York, the town where I grew up. The fictional disclaimer at the beginning of the book is there as a matter of form since I fictionalized a very real place. All of the characters are based on actual people who populated my boyhood but I portrayed them with some literary license. I loved them all. I remain grateful to them for all they did for me simply because of who they were.”
