For a few summers, the stretch of Main Street between the Causeway Bridge and the Town Landing felt like a place the river had partly abandoned. Ripple on the Water sat dark. The shipyard was busy with students and volunteers, but most weekend traffic still drifted toward the antique blocks and the clam-shack line.
That has changed. The structural shift in Essex's summer this year is small on a map and large in practice: the river end of Main Street is the gravitational center again, and most of what is worth planning around radiates out from it.
What Actually Opened at 74 Main
The headline is the simplest part.
