OVERCOME. ED: THE WOMAN WHOSE SLOGAN WAS "WE DIDN’T INVENT FRIED CLAMS, BUT WE PERFECTED" THEM HAS DIED. THAT IS MARINA CHICKIE AGGELAKIS, OWNER OF THE ICONIC CLAM BOX IN IPSWICH, DIED AT HER HOME ...

The owner of one of New England’s most famous pint of clams has died after a brief illness, her family confirmed Thursday. Marina “Chickie” Aggelakis, who owned the Clam Box in Ipswich, renowned for ...

IPSWICH — Marina "Chickie" Aggelakis, the longtime owner of the iconic Clam Box restaurant on Route 133, has died. Aggelakis' daughter-in-law, Johanna Pechilis Aggelakis, told the Boston Globe she ...

Devoted customers of the Clam Box in Ipswich often waited in line an hour or more on weekends for what they considered New England’s premier fried clams. And since the mid-1980s, when she first called ...

Share with us where you go to get your seafood fix. A guest carries her fried clam dinner outside of the Clam Box in Ipswich. Photographed by Laurie Swope for the Roads of Summer Series.

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