It’s a medium-size playground for little kids, with a big name.
Last week’s photo challenge showed wooden climbing structures, in a wooded clearing. (Click here for the image.)
Ten alert readers knew this hidden gem is on Weston Road, just north of Ford Road (next to Bridgewater Associates’ headquarters).
Called the Leonard Schine Preserve and Children’s Natural Playground, it’s part of the Aspetuck Land Trust’s vast, wonderful holdings. To find out more, click here. (But sssshhhh! It’s our little secret!)
Congratulations to Joan Tricarico, Evan Stein, Fran White, Julie Fatherley, Stan Skowronski, Bob Fatherley, Rachel Polin, Grady Flinn (just 9 years old!), Alexandra Wiberg and David Brant.
This week’s photo challenge has 2 parts:
- What is this, and
- Where in Westport can you find it?
If you know, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Lynn U. Miller)
It’s a tile from The River of Tiles on the lower level of the Library.
I think it may depict the first Staples High School.
Isn’t that the old Staples/old town Hall and it’s part of the mural thing on lower floor of the library?
Yes — the original Staples, depicted on a tile in the “River of Names” mural on the lower level of the Westport Library. (NOT the old Town Hall though, Ana — sorry!).
The library mural on the ground level.
Rendering Old Staples High School was on Riverside Avenue
Looks like the original greens farms school before renovation and expansion
Definitely the old Staples High School located in Saugatuck (just can’t see the neat cupola that rises to the building’s highest point) . I think this is from the ‘The River of Tiles’ in the Library.
Original Y…a tile on the Library wall…Jesup Green level.
This is the original Staples building that was referred to as Old Staples Hall when I was a student at Bedford Junior High in the sixties. It is on Riverside Avenue. I believe Saugatuck School is now located there.
Phil Millstein
Princeton, Nj
Old Staples
Library tile wall
The “history of Westport” tiles on floor of the Library.
First floor of the library, that is!
The old Staples (destroyed) to the left of the former-Staples-now-Saugatuck-Elementary on Riverside Avenue. And it’s remembered in a tile on the delightful wall on the first floor of the Library, the River of Names/Tiles. Betty Lou Cummings headed up this fundraiser for the renovation of the Library around 1995. I’m so proud that my dad’s Little Toot children’s book is in another tile. The artist who designed the tiles was incredibly creative! Name, Dan?
The artist was Marian Grebow. It was unveiled in 1998, thanks to more than 1,000 donors. It will be reassembled in another spot when the library transformation is complete (see today’s “06880”: https://06880danwoog.com/2017/06/19/groundbreaking-near-for-exciting-library-project/). It’s a great tribute to Westport history — and generosity!
Holy cow! They are reassembling the tile wall? Perhaps it will provide a second fund-raising opportunity: to create a much smaller complementary tile wall that will document some post-1998 history such as the new Staples.
The tile wall on the lower floor of the Westport Library?
Is it the original library building, now a retail shop? And this tile is part of the “riverwalk” at the Westport Public Library.
Staples High school (original) on Riverside Avenue
tile on lower level of Westport Library?
This was the old Staples building….part of Bedford Junior high later in the 60’s and 70’s. Some of the music classes were held there.