Two weeks ago, our Photo Challenge bamboozled nearly every reader. Most thought it showed an American flag flying atop the former Patagonia (and even more former Westport Bank & Trust) building, where the Post Road and Church Lane converge.
Nope. It was the original Westport Library on the Post Road near Main Street, a few yards west.
But this past Sunday, those erroneous answers were correct. Our most recent Photo Challenge featured the alarm box from the old bank. It’s still there, on the back side, near what is now Pink Sumo restaurant. (Click here to see.)
Fred Cantor, Morley Boyd, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Andrew Colabella and Jack Backiel all answered correctly.
Here is this week’s Photo Challenge. Click “Comments” below if you know where in Westport you would see Fran Decker’s memorial plaque.
(Photo/Jay Dirnberger)
HINT: It’s not Patagonia/Westport Bank & Trust.
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Bench overlooking the Sound at lower Hillspoint Road.
Tidal gates, old mill.
Sherwood Mill pond gates.
The Mill Pond
Mill pond
I have no idea.I rarely get photo challenges! They’re a challenge to me.
on the Sherwood mill pond tide gates
The bridge on mill pond
All correct – Sherwood Mill Pond. Fran loved that spot!
Why is whatever he was a “protector and defender of” blanked out?
Fran is a “she.” And I blacked out “The Sherwood Mill Pond,” because that would have given it away.
Fran lived across the street (Hillspoint Rd) from The Old Mill
Pond and saw it every day she was at home. A truly
lovely woman who did so much.
So I need help to understand who Fran was. I grew up there and never heard of her. I did a google search and came up blank.
The plaque is on one of the wooden supports on the gates of the bridges at old mill beach