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A covered bridge in Cornwall, Connecticut, which has enjoyed a population boost and with it, more civic engagement during the pandemic.Credit.Jane Beiles for The New York Times
July 30, 2021Updated 9:33 a.m. ET
In contrast to the $2,200 caviar at Le Bilboquet in Sag Harbor, the Cornwall Country Market in Cornwall, Conn., offers a chicken Cordon Bleu sandwich for $8.99. If you wanted to take things up several notches, you would need to drive 24 minutes to the White Hart Inn in Salisbury, but even there you would have a hard time competing with the profligacy of Long Island’s East End: The most expensive item on the menu is a strip steak for $42 that comes with fries.
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The bays are numbered from one to 18 at Heron Street car park, but most are empty. At one end there is a funeral director’s and at the other, across the road, Bellissimo Hair & Beauty, Zak’s News & Convenience, the Kingrill takeaway. By the entrance, there is a pair of bollards, painted black and white.
For a little while, these were Phil Foden’s goalposts and this was his Wembley, where he weaved and dodged and dreamt.
Mary, Foden’s grandmother, lives a short walk in one direction. In the other, on the corner of Castle Street and Grenville Street, the Royal Oak has flags up, red crosses on white. Fifty yards further on and you can see the floodlights of Edgeley Park, the home of Stockport County; football, always football, Foden with his head down, kicking and dribbling, while Claire and Phil Snr, his mum and dad, did the big shop.