DR vixmom, after spend parts of four summers at East Haddam I know the area quite well. Businesses never seemed to last in East Haddam. It was as though once the Goodspeed season finished, the bakery/restaurant.ice cream parlor /souvenir shop went out of business/
I have lived in haunted houses, but East Haddam and Cohoes, NY, are two haunted areas where there seem to be ghosts on every corner. It's a bit creepy after dark. When I did the Jones-Schmidt show Mirette at Goodspeed, Harvey, Tom and his family and I stayed in a house that was really thriving with paranormal activity.