Play ball!
Last week’s Photo Challenge showed a foul pole — the thing with mesh that helps determine with a hit is fair or not. (Click here to see.)
There was really no way to determine which Westport field this was at. Pat Saviano, Matthew Panos, Andrew Colabella and Nathan Greenbaum all guessed, correctly, Compo Beach softball.
This week’s Photo Challenge is both difficult and odd. If you know where in Westport you’d see this half-hidden warning, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Leigh Gage)
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On trail at Newman Posse property, an old bridge in disrepair !!!
Off Coleytown Road. Newman Posse trail. By the broken wooden bridge. Used to be a a more picturesque scene.
On Newman Poses! Right by the Coleytown Road/Easton Road intersection.
Newmans preserve bridge.
Wherever it is, the town should clear the shrubbery, so the sign can be read.
You are all correct: It’s at the Newman Poses (not “posse,” though that sounds great) preserve, off Coleytown Road.
But Dick, the town shouldn’t clear the shrubbery. It’s not their property. It’s part of Aspetuck Land Trust.
The Poses offered me the position of caretaker for their property. I believe it was 20 or 25 acres next to the Newman property. 3 acres were landscaped the rest woods and such.
Actually, Dan, the Newman Poses Preseve DOES belong to the Town of Westport. The Aspetuck Land Trust manages the property (thank goodness because the Town isn’t known for good management of its open space properties). This was all arranged by agreement between the Town, the ALT, and the Newman family after Paul Newman’s death.
Wendy, thank you for further enlightening us on this wonderful preserve. And a big thanks to the Newman family for protecting this green space by creating a perpetual preserve.
The bridge was called a Bailey bridge installed by the military. Replacing the old stone and cement bridge that was washed away in the flooding around spring of 1953/54.