Claire Constance (nee LaPlante) Tritt was born in Lawrence, MA. on August 8, 1924. She lived and worked in Lawrence until 1946 when she took a leap of faith and married Myron V. Tritt, a returning, midwestern World War II soldier whom she met at a USO dance and corresponded with throughout the War. Myron planned to build a family and a business in the town where he had grown up, so Claire left behind family and friends, but not her Boston accent, to make a life in a town which, at the time, had no traffic lights. One of her first experiences was an introduction to a shivaree, a boisterous even...