Westporters driving along Riverside Avenue often whiz past the Sylvan Lane corner.
But if you ever stop — perhaps for a row of ducks crossing the street — there, by the gas station, you’ll see a garden.
Nestled among the plants and planters sits a ceramic frog. (Or toad? I’m not sure of the difference.)
It probably comes from Gilbertie’s Herbs & Garden Center, around the corner. It would fit in well there.
That was the subject of last week’s Photo Challenge. (Click here to see.)
Matt Dombrow and (of course) Andrew Colabella were the only 2 readers to answer correctly.
Now, of course, everyone will slow down to check the garden out, when they’re in the area. Well, maybe one or two will.
Hopefully, this is a more recognizable sight. If you know where in Westport you’d see this click “Comments” below.
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Kings Highway Elementary School
KHS
Kings Highway Elementary School
Bank of America building – Post Road – downtown Westport
Kings Highway
KHS
OOPS, my mistake! – definitely NOT The Bank of America Building downtown – I don’t think that building says “Westport “ on it
Kings Highway School
Kings Highway Elementary–originally Bedford Junior High, built in 1926, a year after Greens Farms School was built. (I think I have that right)
Well, that certainly is easy. When I went there for 7th, 8th and 9th grades it was Bedford Junior High. I rode to school every day one my bicycle from Sylvan Road. I did not like school much but 9th grade got better.
Old bedford Jr. High which I attended.
Definitely Kings Highway Elementary School. (And before that, as two commenters noted, Bedford Junior High.)
KHS elementary school now. Bedford Junior HS before.
I looked on the web and the concept of junior high school (usually grades 7-9) was conceived of in the 1920s, so Westport was probably an early adopter. The thinking now is that 9th grade should go back to being in a high school to reinforce the idea that things are really different–that the grades will count towards your graduating GPA.
I remembered they tried to transition us into Junior High. At Burr Farms (my class uniquely only had 2 sections) we switched teachers for math. In 6th grade we switched teachers for math and science. Then in 7th grade at Long Lots, we had the same teacher for homeroom, English and Social Studies but different teachers for math and science. In 8th grade we transitioned to completely separate teachers for each subject.
Of course at the newly opened campus of Staples High School in the 1960s (which I unfortunately didn’t get to attend as we moved from Westport) they decided to help people to transition to college by having separate buildings for each subject area; I guess that part didn’t work out.
Looks like NY elementary school King’s Highway.