Last week’s Photo Challenge was as basic as it gets: a simple black rotary phone.
But the story behind it more than makes up for the plainness.
Bob Weingarten’s image shows a “wind phone.” Dedicated to Lynda Bluestein — and championed by her, before her death early last year — it’s disconnected.
People can use them to stay connected to loved ones who have died. (Click here for more details. Click here for the photo.)
Though the wind phone sits unobtrusively amid the “Library of Things,” near the first floor conference rooms and restrooms, more than a dozen readers knew what and where it was.
Ed Simek, Susan Nolte, Michael Szeto, Joelle Berger, Richard Hyman, Karen Kim, Amy Schneider, Fred Levine, Andrew Colabella, Jennifer Zorek-Pressman, Marla Kerwin, Robert Frank and John Lisée all answered correctly.
Fred Levine added, “I have used it. A very moving experience.”
The weather is cold, so we’ll stay indoors with this week’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Jay Dirnberger)
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Town Hall?
Could be in the main hall of the Women’s Club
It’s in the lobby of the Westport YMCA
YMCA lobby
It’s the YMCA lobby clock.
It is indeed the clock in the lobby of the Westport Weston Family YMCA. It chimes at noon.
YMCA
I hate to say it, but it looks exactly like the face of my grandfather clock. Only I don’t remember Jay Dirnberger coming into my living room to photograph it. I’ll have to drop into the Y to look at theirs.
YMCA lobby
Clock at the
Westport YMCA