Several “06880” readers quickly nailed last week’s Photo Challenge.
Phil Kann’s image showed the soundproofing — aka “baffles” — on the Westport Library’s south wall, near the Trefz Forum stage and Verso Studios.
But they didn’t get the whole story.
As Phil notes, the acoustic foam actually includes certain letters. And the letters spell out a phrase.
His photo showed the letters “ET.” (Click here to see.) They’re part of the words “MAKE – MEET –WORK –REA D.”
“Brilliant crypto messaging,” Phil says.
And that’s just part of a number of hidden designs incorporated into the Westport Library’s Transformation Project. As is true with so much about one of our town’s favorite places: There’s far more there than meets the eye.
Seth Schachter, Martin Gitlin, Ken Kantor, Scott Brodie, Clark Thiemann, Will Gibson and Paul Cahill all identified the baffling. Next time they — and you — are there, “check out” the entire wall.
This week’s Photo Challenge takes us back outside. If you know where in Westport you would see this ineffective and abandoned-looking gate, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Johanna Keyser Rossi)
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Imperial Avenue Parking A lot where the Yankee Doodle Festival is
Imperial Ave parking lot. One can see the white Westport Woman’s Club building in the far left.
Yes! An obscure corner of the Imperial Avenue parking lot. Andrew and Amy, as your names indicate, you both get A’s.
I walk by this gate, sometime serving as a bicycle stand, every morning. It stands at the top of the driveway leading to the Imperial Ave. commuter parking lot. The view here is across the
adjacent Women’s Club parking lot to Imperial.
Appropriate I suppose as those decorations along the top look like Pennyfarthings.