Here’s how tough last week’s Photo Challenge was: Even Andrew Colabella was wrong.
The RTM member and native Westporter — who is almost always the first reader to respond to even the most obscure weekly image — was one of the 11 folks who very quickly and quite assuredly said that the flag flying high above a building with concrete molding was the site (until a couple of weeks ago) of Patagonia.
Many of those 11 also referred to it by its original business: Westport Bank & Trust.
Close — geographically — but nope.
Ed Simek’s photo showed the flag atop the original Westport Library, on the corner of the Post Road and Main Street (now part vacant, part Bond Vet, part Starbucks). Click here to see.
Those first readers were so sure of themselves, I had to call Ed to confirm that it really was the old Library, and not the (now old) Patagonia.
Eventually, Mary Ann Batsell and Seth Braunstein checked in with the right answer.
Phew!
Today, we’ll give you a break. This week’s Photo Challenge should be much easier. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
And if you don’t know, just ask Andrew Colabella.
(Photo/Seth Schachter)
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