Club 203 — the new Westport organization providing social and fun activities for adults with disabilities — launched with a bang Wednesday night.
Over 100 people gathered at MoCA for the kickoff event. DJ Joe’s great playlist got everyone on the dance floor from the moment they arrived.
The dance floor was filled.
Participants came from as far as Middlebury, Connecticut. DJ Joe rocked the night! Everyone was in on the dance floor. MoCA, The Porch at Christie’s, CVS for providing the venue and snacks. We would also like to thank all the volunteers from our community who helped us last night. We could not have done it with out them!
Hanging with the DJ …
Club 203 organizers Stacie Curran, Kathryn Sonne, Joe Anastasi and Sharuna Mahesh thank MoCA, The Porch @ Christie’s and CVS for providing the venue and snacks — as well as the many volunteers who made the night special.
Next up: a Halloween celebration (October 23, Remarkable Theater). For more information, click here.
,,, and hanging out.
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One of the most well-known houses in Westport (the Kowalsky home) sat for years on one of the last large open residential spaces in Westport.
Now the home — officially, 117 Morningside Drive South — has joined the list of notable town teardowns.
A recent photo …
… and an even more recent one. (Photo/Alan Phillips)
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Though all eyes were on the UK yesterday, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, viewers watching Yahoo! Finance got a double dose of Westport.
Dave Briggs — one of the platform’s anchors — interviewed internationally best-selling author Jane Green, a British native. Both now live here.
Click here for the full interview.
Screenshot of yesterday’s interview.
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Speaking of Her Majesty … on Monday (September 12), the Remarkable Theater honors her life and legacy with a special showing of “The Queen.”
Helen Mirren stars in the 2006 film, which examines Queen Elizabeth II n the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana.
The lot opens at 6:15 p.m. for tailgating. The movie starts at 7;15 p.m. Click here for tickets, and more information.
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Who was Sigrid Schultz, for whom part of the newly designed Elm Street parking lot is named?
She was a pioneering female reporter, social justice activist — and longtime Westporer — who played an important role in exposing the growing Nazi threat during the lead-up to World War II, and beyond.
Last night, the Westport Museum for Culture & History hosted Professor Dr. David Milne of the University of East Anglia. He is writing her biography, and shared fascinating details of her life. The “Dragon Lady” exhibit is open to the public at the museum through the end of the year. (Hat tip: Dave Matlow)
Dr. James Milne, at the Westport Museum for History & Culture. (Photo/Dave Matlow)
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Wondering about all those yellow ribbons downtown?
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The ribbons create awareness too: for Circle of Care, a Wilton-based organization that helps families deal with the diagnosis of a child with cancer.
Click here to learn more about Circle of Care. Then click below, for a local video:
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With autumn around the corner, it’s time for Aspetuck Land Trust’s fall native plant sale.
Hard-to-find plants, trees, shrubs and perennials can be ordered online, and picked up September 30 to October 2 at the Caryl & Edna Haskins Preserve off Green Acre Lane. Click here for details.
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Aarti Khosla believes that teachers are the backbone of our society. In these unprecedented times, she says, they need our love more than ever.
Aarti owns Le Rouge Chocolates, on Main Street. So she’s in a position to make it happen. Sweeeeet!
Her “Give a Little Love” chocolate heart campaign works like this: For $8 each, customers can sponsor a heart for one Westport teacher. Aarti hand-delivers the treats to each school.
This is the third year in a row for “Give a Little Love.” Teachers have been very touched by this small gesture, she says.
To donate one or more chocolate hearts online, click here.
“Give a Little Love” with chocolate hearts.
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MoCA’s next show — the premiere of the From The Pen To The Knife exhibition, featuring close to 300 watercolor paintings by Marian Christy, who creates watercolors using only palette knives and puddles of paint — is on view from October 15 to November 27.
An opening reception is set for October 15 (5 to 7 p.m.).
Christy was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe journalist, covering fashion and celebrities, for the first chapter of her life.
In the second chapter, she pivoted from “the pen to the knife.” Christy, now 90, had no formal training. She has worked for the last 15 years in her basement at an easel, held firm by used bricks to sustain her forceful palette knife strokes. For more information, click here.
One of Marian Christy’s nearly 300 works, exhibited soon at MoCA Westport.
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Cohl Katz’s clients have included Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barbara Bush, Bob Dylan, Cal Ripken, Cindy Crawford, Ellen DeGeneres, Hillary Clinton, Hilary Swank, Jerry Seinfeld, John McEnroe, Johnny Depp, Katie Couric, Keith Richards, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martha Stewart, Mary Tyler Moore, Mel Gibson, Mick Jagger, Muhammad Ali, Nicole Kidman, Phil Donohue, Ray Charles, Robert Redford, Robin Williams, Rod Stewart, Rosie O’Donnell, Sting and Tom Cruise,
The hair stylist and makeup artist recently moved back to Westport. She’s offering a back-to-school special for new clients (of all ages): a 50% first-appointment discount. Call 917-848-9596 — and mention “06880”!
Three of Cohl Katz’s clients.
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Several Westport chefs will prepare 4-course tableside meals at Greenwich Wine + Food. The fundraiser for the Jacques Pépin Foundation and Wholesome Wae is set for October 7 (at Abigail Kirsch The Loading Dock, Stamford).
The local contingent includes Jes Bengtson (Terrain Garden Café. Amis Trattoria); Debra Ponzek (Aux Delices), Matt Storch (Match Burger Lobster) and Bill Taibe (The Whelk, Kawa Ni, Don Memo).
The evening includes honors for the Serendipity’s 2022 Most Innovative Chefs. Among them: Will Friedman of Kawa Ni.
Click here for the full schedule, and ticket information.
Bill Taibe and Jes Bengtson will cook at Greenwich Wine + Food.
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The girls are gone from Compo. Now — as seen in today’s “Westport … Naturally” photo — the gulls take over.
(Photo/Tracy Porosoff)
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And finally … as we remember the remarkable life of Queen Elizabeth II, the United States mourns with our British friends.
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Thank you so much for the volunteers who created “Club 203”. What a gift to the community.
And speaking of people who are a gift to our community, please support Aarti’s campaign to recognize Westport’s very creative, talented and loving teachers!!!!!
Re: “Who was Sigrid Schultz, for whom part of the newly designed Elm Street parking lot is named?”
A fine point, but the official name unanimously adopted by the RTM in 2019 is Sigrid Schultz Plaza. Schultz is memorialized by a bronze plaque at 35 Elm Street, the Kemper-Gunn house. The only thing missing is a town sign identifying the Plaza itself.