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If I had not been the one posting last week’s Photo Challenge, I would have guessed it incorrectly.

I would have been in good company. Even “06880”‘s Photo Challenge king, Andrew Colabella. got it wrong.

Johanna Keyser Rossi’s image showed a rock with a plaque in the small park just beyond Longshore’s E.R. Strait Marina. It honors Evan Harding, Westport’s noted landscape architect (and, unfortunately, one half of the duo for whom our downtown Parker Harding Plaza is named).

I cropped the shot to eliminate the water in the background. That’s what made it look like the better-known Machamux Park — the spot of land on Greens Farms Road between Morningside Drive South and I-95, where the indigenous inhabitants of the area lived until the Bankside “founders” arrived. (Click here to see.)

There’s a rock with a plaque there too. I haven’t been in a while, so I don’t know how historically accurate (or, probably, inaccurate) it is.

Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Rick Benson and Dave Eason were the 3 readers (and Longshore enthusiasts) who got the Photo Challenge right. Brian Taylor and Michael Simso just missed; they thought it was the rock marking the cemetery with the remains of British soldiers from the Battle of Compo Hill, not far away on the golf course near the Longshore exit road.

Here’s this week’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Dave Wilson)

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