Need assistance with home heating costs this winter?
Connecticut’s federally funded Energy Assistance Program — administered through Westport’s Department of Human Services — offers help to low-income households.
Individuals and families qualify based on gross annual income and household size. Click here for qualification criteria. Applications are taken through Westport’s Department of Human Services.
Another option — for households that do not meet CEAP standards — is Westport’s Warm-Up Fund. Applicants are reviewed on a case-by-case basis,
Click here for more information. Call Human Services at 203-341-1050, or email humansrv@westportct.gov with questions, or to request an application.
I’m not sure what this local tie-in is, but the Westport Museum for History & Culture’s next virtual program is titled “The History and Future of the New York Subway.”
The event — co-sponsored with the Westport Library — is Monday, October 26 (7 p.m.).
Clifton Hood– author of 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York — will discuss the New York City’s subway system,
what that says about its future, and what the pandemic may mean for it and for New York City.
To register, click here.
And finally … in honor of that strange upcoming Westport Museum program:
Take a look at the book One-Track Mind which chronicles an artist’s drawings of the tile work of the New York City Subway. Meticulous detailed illustrations of the tile mosaics which are often unnoticed.