I spent the night in Old Saybrook in the James Pharmacy, which, once upon a time, was a pharmacy, but is today a French bakery and B&B. A century ago, it was owned and run by “Miss James,” the first African-American woman to be licensed as a pharmacist in Connecticut. (I stayed in the Miss James Room.) Her brother ran the pharmacy on Lyme Street in Old Lyme, and both he and that pharmacy make an appearance in my historical novel, The Cottage Industry. And since, Miss James’ niece, Ann Petry, was born upstairs in the Saybrook pharmacy, I guess this visit is part of my on-again off-again literary tour of New England writers.