Seems like there are a lot of wrought iron fences in town.
One surrounds Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Another sits outside “Fort Apache” — the medical center on Kings Highway North,near Wilton Road.
Neither of those fences was last week’s Photo Challenge, though. Amy Schneider captured the one at Winslow Park. It was built for a previous use of the rolling land bordered by North Compo and the Post Road: originally handsome estate for Henry Richard and his wife Mary Fitch Winslow (click here for that amazing back story), then part of the mysterious and spooky Westport Sanitarium (click here).
The first person to correctly recognize that fence was Fred Cantor — though he qualified “Winslow Park?” with a question mark.
We see that fence all the time, stuck at that Post Road/Compo traffic light. Next time, look a bit more closely.
It’s beautiful.
Today’s Photo Challenge is a cornerstone. No one is alive today who remembers it being laid — but it was an important one. Click “Comments” below if you know where it is.
(Photo/Dan Woog)