Copies of this year’s WestportREADS selection — “In the Distance,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz — are available for borrowing now, at the Westport Library.
Community-wide events are planned around the book over the next few eeks. The highlight is a keynote conversation with Diaz, on February 13.
“In the Distance” is a compelling story about a young Swedish immigrant who travels east from California in search of his brother.
It’s available at the Library as a physical copy, e-book and audiobook.
For more information about WestportREADS — including a calendar of discussions, films and more — click here.
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Popup Bagels — the Westport-based pickup business that spread first throughout Fairfield County, then to the Big Bagel Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn — has just opened at the Boston Seaport.
That makes 10 permanent locations in 3 states. The Westport site is 971 Post Road East (behind Cycle Dynamics).
More stores will be build in the Southeast over the next few months, founder Adam Goldberg says.
Time to change their motto? “Not famous but known” may no longer cut it.
Adam Goldberg, with his Brooklyn BagelFest award.
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Dredging continues on the Saugatuck River. VFW Post 399 is working on its docks, providing greater access to boats.
Werner Liepolt captured a view of equipment making its way past the Saugatuck Rowing Club:
(Photo/Werner Liepolt)
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Today’s “Westport … Naturally” image is a serence Compo Beach shot — with the obligatory gull.
(Photo/Ed Simek)
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And finally … in honor of Popup Bagels’ new location (but not related at all to the water they use in boiling):
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Only Red Sox and Yankee fans?? What about Mets fans ? Shame on you, Dan!! 🙂
“Dirty Water” is a Red Sox standard. Yankee fans hate it. Mets fans (both of them) couldn’t care less.
Red Sox fans like to believe that Major League Baseball started in 2003. Good times never looked so good, so good, so good.
I thought it was the day the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
Oh, no Dan, that’s “the curse”. Don’t ever mention that to a Sox fan as it makes them very grumpy. I wonder if this year they’re planing to finish, first, last or just settle in at .500 on the surface like a fishing bobber, neither going up or down.
The Standell’s song brings back memories of the dreaded curfew at the college dorms in colleges in Boston. Northeastern, where I went undergrad, had a double standard–only the women’s dorms had curfews. When my sister came up to visit and stayed with a friend living in a women’s dorm, I forgot all about the curfew and had to explain to the dorm attendant when we returned at 1 AM that it was inadvertent–fortunately she was understanding. Boston University had curfews for both sexes.