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Hottest Ticket in Town – All Sold Out

What’s the hottest ticket in town? Thought is was Pedro going up against his former teammates in Fenway Park? Not according to the knowledgeable citizens of the south-coast, who gobbled up every one of the 750 tickets to the area’s famous CLAMBAKE XXI, set for Friday evening, July 14, in record time.

These savvy folks clearly know how to make sure the outstanding work of the staff and volunteers at Dartmouth’s Lloyd Center for the Environment continues to protect the area’s fragile coastal nature. With two full weeks to go and a wait-list building to gain admittance to the famous fund-raising extravaganza, locally known as “Simply, the best!”, rumors are circulating that a number the coveted ducats may go up for auction on E-bay.

For many, the Lloyd Center’s twenty-first “Simply, the best!” CLAMBAKE traditionally marks the start of the summer social season. Despite the air of frivolity that always seems to characterize the event’s ambiance, the folks at the Center take its success very seriously. Mary Ellen Hawes Lees, current president of the Center’s Board of Director’s is passionate about the Lloyd Center’s work and says that the Clambake is a tradition upon which so very much depends. “Funds raised at it”, she points out, “support the Center’s critically important environmental research, education and outreach efforts”.

The Clambake requires the skills and hours of over 100 Lloyd Center volunteers, who join forces with Jimmy Buffet’s local crew of Parrot-Heads to make sure everything goes smoothly under the big white tent by the side of the sea in Demarest Lloyd State Park in Dartmouth. D’Arcy MacMahon, Executive Director of the Lloyd Center, was emphatic in saying that he was “truly grateful to everyone that has chosen to be a part of this very important effort to help protect the nature of this special coastal environment. Together, we are making a very real difference.”