For those of us who have difficulty finding peace while sitting in one place, clamming can be an unexpected escape. By Kim Gooden On these dark winter evenings, when the end of the day has crept up ...

With a rake in one hand and a cooler bag in the other, I climbed out of a kayak ready to go clamming for the first time. I was with 18 others, all ready to rake and probe the sandbars off the warm ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about waves after a visit to Reid State Park, ...

They fan out in groups, mostly women, plodding in rain boots across the soggy wet sands of the inlet, making the most of the low tide. Hustling along with rakes and buckets, they chat and laugh gaily.

These are the clam diggers of Lourizan. They call themselves, "the peasant farmers of the sea." They work about three hours a day over 15 or 16 days a month, earning about $107 a shift. Clam ...