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What are you doing at 11 a.m. today? (Or 4 p.m., if you’re in the UK?)
Sarah Ferguson — aka “Fergie” — will read The Sly Fox of the Mind — on her YouTube channel, “Story Time with Fergie and Friends.”
The children’s book is by Westporters Brooke Olstein and Lee Scharfstein. Click here to join the fun.
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“06880” missed this a week ago. But — as Tommy Greenwald points out — a recent New York Times Magazine story on Nicholas Britell (“The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music”) notes that he’s a former Westporter.
Despite winning a Westport Arts Horizon Award in 2012, Britell — who scored “Succession,” “Moonlight,” “12 Years a Slave” and “The Underground Railroad,” among others — is often overlooked here.
He graduated from Hopkins School in New Haven in 1998, then headed to Juilliard and Harvard. Click here for the full Times story.
Nicholas Britell.
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This was posted on the corner of Clinton and Fillow Streets.
Because few drivers pay attention to stop signs, residents have taken matters into their own hands.
(Photo/Susan Iseman)
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Because we can never (unfortunately) get too much of our Canada geese, here is today’s “Westport … Naturally” photo:
(Photo/Paula Schooler)
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And finally … in 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was formed. The world would never be the same.
I feel like every stop sign in town could use a sub-sign with a reminder that stopping is not actually optional. Or maybe a more robust traffic enforcement. Either way, the amount of rolled and outright ignored stop signs I see on a daily basis in this town is wild.