There are many reasons to go to the Westport Library’s Trefz Forum.
Concerts, lectures, book talks, VersoFest, StoryFest, the State of the Town meeting, Fashionably Westport, the Parker Harding charrette — whatever the reason, the wide-open, flexible space with the 19-foot state-of-the-art video screen and killer sound system is well- and often-used.
Which is why 16 “06880” readers quickly recognized that last week’s Photo Challenge showed a view of the library’s heart, taken from above on the 2nd floor. The red chairs were framed by one of the distinctive white globe lights (which itself mirrors the Library’s three-dot logo). (Click here to see.)
There were — for once — no wrong guesses.
Congratulations to Jo Kirsch, Dick Lowenstein, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Ivy Gosseen, Lee Bollert, Janice Strizever, Clark Thiemann, Beth Berkowitz, Suzanne Ford, Debbie Zucker, Andrew Colabella, Roz Siegel, Robert Mitchell, Martin W. Gitlin, Amy Schneider, Shirlee Gordon and Nancy Everson.
See you at the Library!
Today’s Photo Challenge takes us outdoors. If you know where in Westport you would see this, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Allan Siegert)
(For 10 years every Sunday, we’ve challenged readers with photos. It’s just one of our many “06880” features. If you enjoy this blog, please click here to support our work. Thank you!)
A very quick guess: is the photo a part of the base of the Doughboy Statue that’s on Veteran’s Green (Myrtle Ave)?
Post road west, Norwalk/ Westport , town and city line.
Well done, Brian. You are correct! But do you know what it is?
No idea.
Town border marker.
Post Road West, over by A&S. It’s a municipal border marker. Since New England is not built or respected as a “grid” for civil purposes, “Metes & Bounds,” is the correct surveying application and marble/granite heads are installed in the ground to mark such locations after it is shot through surveying equipment.
Very cool.
When we lived in Westport back in the 60s and 70s, we lived North of Newtown turnpike and East of Wilton road. We often hiked up Into the woods as kids and we lived close to the Weston town line. There are markers in the woods. Little square concrete markers that are about maybe 30 feet apart that form the line between Weston and Westport.
I believe it is on Windfield street on the Norwalk, Westport border
Westport library is great.
Has its own parking.
Is left alone to exist on its own. With its 80% donation from the town. It is doing fine and dandy… also a not for profit…