The Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, May 15, 1986

Notes from the collector: I am grateful when places date their stuff. The menu is one sheet about 12 inches by 6 inches and has all the old favorites and I guess was expensive for its day. Salmon was $13.25, filet mignon was $15.75. Something unusual? COOW WOOW – “America’s First Mixed Drink” made with rum - $2.75. Has anyone ever heard of it? They said they made their rolls from flour and meal stone ground at the Wayside Grist Mill, Mass. Meal tax – 5%. Barnie and I and some of our kids stayed overnight in an upstairs room which was quite quiet. That was probably because Henry Ford, after a visit, had the highway moved some half mile away from the Inn. A nice thing to do. Longfellow would have probably done the same if traffic in his day was a problem.