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Roundup: Easter, Westport PD, Lighthouse Church …

Posted on March 31, 2024 | Leave a comment

Happy Easter!

This was the sunrise scene, earlier this morning, at Compo Beach looking east …

(Photo/Stephanie Mastocciolo)

… and at South Beach:

(Photo/Celia Campbell-Mohn)

Oh, yeah: In addition to Easter, today is the last day for dogs on the beach. (Until October 1).

(Photo/Peter Cadoux)

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Sergeant Dan Paz, Corporal Craig Bergamo and Officer Dominique Carr represented the Westport Police Department yesterday, at the Long Island funeral of Jonathan Diller.

The New York Police Department officer was killed Monday, during a traffic stop in Queens.

The trio helped with the escort, in Massapequa Park.

More than 200 police motorcycles, and thousands of officers from around the country, attended the service.

“It really hits home for the officers working the road, and their families, any time an officer is killed,” says Westport Police Chief Foti Koskinas.

“But even more so when it’s so close to home. We are very fortunate to have the unwavering support of our community.”

Dan Paz, Dominique Carr and Craig Bergamo, at Jonathan Diller’s funeral yesterday.

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Westport’s Lighthouse Church children’s choir kicked off Easter weekend yesterday with a double dose of joy.

They sang for seniors and nursing home staff at Cambridge Health & Rehabilitation Center in Fairfield, and Northbridge Healthcare Center in Bridgeport.

Lighthouse Church Children’s Choir.

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Today is Easter.

But the egg hunt fun continues next Saturday (April 6). At 10:30 a.m., the Westport Book Shop hosts kids and families on Jesup Green, across the street from their popular store.

In addition to eggs, there’s a reading and signing by children’s author Diana Blau, face painting and snacks.

Reserve a spot by email (bookshop@westportbooksaleventures.org) or phone (203-349-5141).

Later in the month (April 25, 6 p.m.), the Book Shop’s Short Story Book Club discusses 2 short stories about parent-child relationships, and parents’ aspirations for their children.

They’re “Rules of The Game” by Amy Tan (originally part of her novel “The Joy Luck Club”) and “I Stand Here Ironing.” Copies of the stories are online, and included in many short story compilations.

Space is limited. Email bookshop@westportbooksaleventures.org, or call 203-349-5141.

The Westport Book Shop hosts events inside, and on Jesup Green.

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CPTV salutes Fred Cantor — and so does “06880.”

This fall, the state’s public television channel will air television premieres of two short films produced by the 1971 Staples High School graduate.

“The High School That Rocked!” explored the magical years when great bands — the Doors, Yardbirds, Cream, Rascals, Remains and more — played at Staples.

The award-winning film was the only documentary short selected to screen at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Film Series in 2018.

Cantor’s latest documentary, “It’s a Hollywood Life!,” focuses on longtime Westport resident Susan Granger’s 80-plus years connected to the movie business.

But you don’t have to wait until fall for that one. The Ridgefield Independent Film Festival screens the Hollywood film May 18. Immediately after, there’s a Q-and-A with Granger, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon, and the directors. Click here for tickets.

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Today’s “Westport … Naturally” star is a great blue heron.

Photographer Johanna Keyser Rossi says he (?) used to hang out at the Westport Library. The current spot: Gray’s Creek.

(Photo/Johanna Keyser Rossi)

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And finally … happy Easter, to all who celebrate!

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Friday Flashback #389

Posted on March 8, 2024 | 11 comments

Alert reader, avid sports fan — and 1971 Staples High School graduate Fred Cantor — contributes today’s Friday Flashback:

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the conclusion of one of the most successful seasons in Westport scholastic basketball history.

But that squad did not play at Staples. It was the Bedford Junior High School hoops team (at a time when junior highs fielded formal varsity squads).

The Bedford Junior High School basketball team.

The Bedford Bears went undefeated in 9 games against junior high competition from New Canaan, Darien, Wilton, Weston and Bridgeport. Their closest game: a 10-point win over Saxe JHS of New Canaan, whose best player, Wilky Gilmore, went on to become an area sports legend. He led New Canaan High to consecutive state titles, then starred at Colorado on a Big 8 championship squad.

Bedford’s leading scorer in that game against Saxe was Jack Mitchell, who scored as many points as Gilmore. Mitchell was Bedford’s leading scorer that season. He went on to star as Wesleyan University’s football quarterback, then worked at his parents’ clothing store, Ed Mitchell — and later become CEO and now chairman of Mitchells Stores.

His former Bedford teammate Bob Darnton went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, and an award-winning historian, professor, and director of the Harvard University Library.

He recalls: “When I played on the Bedford Elementary School basketball team against Greens Farms, we said to ourselves, ‘This guy Mitchell is unstoppable,’ or words to that effect. He had a formidable reputation.”

(Yes, Westport elementary schools participated in interscholastic basketball competition as well back then.)

Bedford Junior High athletes, off the court.

Darnton also remembers another teammate, underscoring a different time in Westport: “I always had a fondness for Red Izzo, a fast guard. Back then, I sometimes visited him in his home, where his mother spoke Italian. I learned the language as a grad student, remembering when I first heard the Calabrian variety around spaghetti dishes in my home town. We swore in Italian in elementary school.”

The 6 players who were the mainstays of the team (the “big 6,” according to a local newspaper account) were Mitchell, Darnton, Izzo, Bruce Cummings, John Aulenti and Kenny Linn.

Thanks to the margins of victory, the reserves saw plenty of action during the season.

Bedford’s superb play drew this quote in a local newspaper: “Nick Zeoli, well-known athlete, coach and official, rates the 1954 Bedford Bears as the finest junior high basketball team — the best he has ever seen in action.” Zeoli went on to serve many years as Wilton High School’s athletic director.

Perhaps the Bedford Bears’ greatest success was splitting 2 games against the Staples sophomore squad. They lost once in overtime and won the other, in front of a capacity crowd at a fundraising event for the Wachob Memorial Scholarship.

Cheering on the teams, at the Wachob Memorial Tournament.

The Bedford coach went on to make his mark at Staples, as a beloved history teacher. But in 1954 he taught math at Bedford. While undoubtedly having a terrific influence on the Bedford varsity players that season, his greatest impact might have been on a non-player connected to the team.

That impact was described in a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer John Darnton — Bob’s brother.

Their father had died as a war correspondent at the beginning of World War II. That tragic event left a gaping hole in their childhood.

John wrote: “It mitigated some of my wild behavior that I was getting good marks at school. I was moved up to a more advanced math class, and the teacher there took an interest in me.

“He was also the coach of varsity basketball….The teacher, Gordon Hall, appointed me as official scorer, presumably to give me a position to buck up my self-esteem. I enjoyed traveling around with the team….

“Before long, the school year ended. I did not want to leave and found it painful to say goodbye to my friends…

“On the next-to-last day, the math teacher offered me a ride home.  As we arrived at the house where I was staying, he pulled the car to the shoulder…

“He reached over and patted me on the back, then grasped my hand to shake it and held on to it for what seemed like a long while. Then, his voice breaking, he wished me good luck.

“Two days later, I left Westport.”

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Friday Flashback #365

Posted on September 15, 2023 | 5 comments

Another Staples High School football season has begun.

As is traditional, the Wreckers are gunning for their 5th state championship.

The first came in 1975. That’s around the time Fred Cantor took this photo:

(Photo/Fred Cantor)

Much has changed since then.

The stands have been enlarged. There’s a new press box. The track is no longer cinder. The area behind the gym (right side of photo, with parking lot) was “modernized” between 1978-81, when a fieldhouse and swimming pool were added.

Thanks to lights, Staples now plays football games on Friday nights, not Saturday afternoons.

The field itself finally has a name. It honors Paul Lane — coach of that 1975 state championship squad.

But much has not changed. A new fall season still brings excitement, fun — and the belief that anything is possible.

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Today, “06880” introduces a new addition to our “Friday Flashback.” Each week (hopefully!) we’ll include a “50 Years Ago This Week” tidbit at the end. (Okay, maybe it will be “25 Years Ago…” or some other number.)

Thanks to Carl Addison Swanson for the idea. And big props to Fred Cantor: Staples Class of 1971 graduate and amateur historian, who loves digging into newspaper archives.

So … 50 Years Ago This Week:

Tennessee Williams, Sandy Dennis, and Dave Brubeck were among the prominent names featured in an ad for the new Connecticut Center for Continuing Education at the Westport Country Playhouse.

The Center promised “over 100 courses” during the Playhouse’s “nine-month ‘intermission.’”

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Online Art Gallery #163

Posted on May 27, 2023 | 3 comments

It’s the usual Saturday mix: people, animals, flowers — and of course, a boat or two. Thanks to our regulars, and newcomer Bevi Bullwinkel.

This is your feature. Everyone is invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Pink and Purple” (Ken Runkel)

“Rhino” — graphite on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Paeonia” (Amy Schneider)

“The Dancer” — acrylic (Bevi Bullwinkel)

“General of the Spore Army” — Mike Hibbard

“FINALE, A Beneteau First 36” (Peter Barlow)

“Stonington or New Haven?” (Fred Cantor)

“The Last of the Scarlet Macaws” — Artist Steve Stein notes: “An endangered  South American parrot that loves to be touched, and can live 50 to 75 years. If it learns curse words I suspect the bird can become either more or less endangered, depending on its owner’s tolerance for profanity.”

“Face to Face” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Coffee Time” (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled (Charlie Taylor)

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Roundup: Mothers Day, Choral Concert, LGBTQ History …

Posted on May 14, 2023 | 11 comments

Today — Mothers Day — 1st Selectwoman Jen Tooker mourns the loss of her mother, who died last week. Jen writes:

“Today we celebrated the life of Kathleen (Grandmom) Salmon.

“She was fiercely independent, but never wanted to be without the love of her life, Bob, who passed away 16 months ago.

“She was a trailblazer, balancing family and a full-time career when few were doing so.

“She retired at 70, having spent the previous 2 1/2 years in Qatar doing ground-breaking work for women in education.

“Mom loved and supported her daughters beyond words, ensuring they knew the world was their oyster and there was nothing they couldn’t accomplish.

“Grandmom was in awe of her 5 beautiful grandchildren, and loved them unconditionally. At the drop of a hat, she would arrive to run the household and spoil her grandkids.

“Kathy was a woman of deep faith. We know we have a guardian angel, who is singing “You are My Sunshine” for us every day. We miss her terribly, but feel so lucky she spent her last years here in Westport.”

Happy Mothers Day to all! Huge hugs.

From left: Jen Tooker, her mother Kathleen Salmon and sister Shawna Saussus.

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Longtime “06880” reader Fred Cantor offers this tribute his mother — and all the others out there:

“My mom should perhaps be recognized as one of the first soccer moms. And I say that in a very positive way.

“About to turn 96, she is — and always has been — a big sports fan, despite growing up in an era when girls had far fewer opportunities to participate in sports.

“So when Marc started playing soccer at Staples, she and my dad (also a huge sports fan) came to watch virtually all of the games, and naturally brought me along. That sparked my interest in soccer and led me, as a 6th grader, to aspire to play Staples varsity soccer down the road.

“This happened at a time when very few parents watched those Staples soccer games on the Hill.

“My mom and dad were always very supportive of our athletic endeavors, but not in a way that pushed Marc and me in any particular direction. We both had the good fortune of playing soccer at the college level. My mom’s encouragement (and my dad’s) played a role in that.

“So as we celebrate Mothers Day (and also my mom’s 96th birthday), here’s a big thank you to her — and to all the soccer moms who have been supportive over the years.”

From left: Marc, Pearl and Fred Cantor. The “boys” are wearing their University of Massachusetts and Yale soccer hats, respectively.

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Mothers Day, Part 2. Hunter Jones Hampton posted a 1948 Saturday Evening Post cover on Facebook:

He explained that the illustrator, noted Westporter Stevan Dohanos, sketched it using a US Camera magazine cover shot of Hunter’s mother, for his model.

The 2 sign painter models were also Westporters: Joshua Sidebottom and his son.

The Saturday Evening Post noted: “Dohanos is spending the winter in Connecticut, while luckier wights vacation in the palm-tree and bathing-beauty latitudes.”

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Friday night’s choral concert — filled with contemporary music selected by Staples High School students — ended on an emotional note.

The 22 graduating seniors honored director and mentor Luke Rosenberg with a special song: “Underneath the Stars.” Sophia Betit organized her classmates, and conducted the piece. She and James Dobin-Smith soloed — and also received the National Choral School Award for their contributions to the Staples music program.

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Westport salutes Pride Month in June with a celebration on Jesup Green rally, a drag show at MoCA, the presentation of a scholarship, and the newest initiative: an oral history project.

Westport Pride — the town-wide LGBTQ+ and allies group — has partnered with the Westport Museum for History & Culture. The museum’s mission is to “make history whole,” including a focus on marginalized groups.

Area residents can book a time slot for a video interview at the Westport Museum. Officials hope for a diverse range of ages and experiences.

Interviews will be housed in the museum’s digital archive. Each one will be accompanied by a transcript.

For more information or to sign up, email cmenard@westporthistory.org.

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At last! Westport’s long wait for another nail salon will soon be over.

The oddly named Nail Factory is set to move into the vacant space next to CVS.

Whew!

(Photo/Molly Alger)

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“Lux Freer” — Triple Threat Academy’s indie film shot last summer in Westport, directed by Staples High School graduate Cynthia Gibb, and featuring 20 Westporters in main roles and more as extras — will screen at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival on Saturday (May 20). The “Provocative Shorts” program begins at 2:30 p.m. Click here for more information, and tickets.

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There’s a new addition to the Westport Community Gardens.

Lou Weinberg sends this photo of a killdeer nesting in a raised bed.

“The largest of the ringed plovers, it performs the broken-wing display to distract intruders away from nests and chicks,” he explains. “So far, so good!”

Gardeners wait excitedly for the eggs to hatch.

(Photo/Lou Weinberg)

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And finally … Fred Cantor wrote a great tribute to his mother (story above). BJ Thomas did it musically — and included, as Fred did, a mention of her support from the sports sidelines.

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Fred Cantor: The View From Not Far

Posted on May 13, 2023 | 14 comments

Alert — and avid — “06880” reader Fred Cantor enjoyed a recent post by Mike Joseph.

Cantor’s 1971 Staples High School classmate compared and contrasted his life now in Kansas City, with his hometown.

Cantor did not move as far. But he has his own tale to tell.

I enjoyed the piece written by my Staples ‘71 classmate, Mike Joseph, about the affordability of Kansas City and the option it presents in flyover country to living in Westport, where the cost of housing in particular has gone through the roof.

But I wanted to note that you can stay in the area in what were, for my wife and me, drive-through towns (on the Merritt, I-95 or Route 8), and find much more affordable home options as well.

This was exemplified by our recent move to a senior community in Stratford, where you can find nice condos at much lower prices than in Westport. The real estate taxes are higher, but the price differential more than compensates for that.

Fred Cantor and Debbie Silberstein’s Stratford condo.

There are some Westport-like amenities, such as a nice main town beach that even has a par-3 golf course. But what have been among the most pleasant discoveries are the types of area features we never would have seen simply traveling through on the highway.

For example, a traditional New England town green — Paradise Green — has a classic gazebo. It has been the site of summer concerts and a farmer’s market. Adjacent to the Green is a shopping district whose eclectic group of smaller shops includes an old-fashioned mom-and-pop bakery, Icing on the Cake.

Paradise Green gazebo.

We recently got curbside pickup of 2 brownies, 1 cannoli, a corn muffin, scone and Vermont hazelnut coffee — all for $10.40.

Holy cow! I felt as if I had been transported to Westport’s Main Street of decades ago.

Stratford also has a distinctive town park, Boothe Memorial, which sits on a bluff high above the Housatonic River.

In addition to offering nice grounds for a picnic and lovely views, it has an unusual array of historical attractions, like a section of the former Merritt toll plaza, plus a replica railway station/museum with indoor and outdoor model railway tracks that feature old New Haven Railroad trains.

Fred Cantor, at the Boothe Memorial Park Merritt Parkway toll plaza exhibit.

Being in the very north end of Stratford, taking advantage of amenities and attractions in neighboring Shelton is a breeze — exemplified by the fact that, in contrast to Westport, we have never encountered traffic problems doing curbside pickup at the nearby supermarket and other shopping venues.

The absence of significant traffic backups has been about the most dramatic change we have experienced.

For those who might miss old Westport restaurant standbys, there is a Spotted Horse very close by.

While living in Westport, we loved doing scenic drives to the Saugatuck Reservoir in Weston or Aspetuck Orchard in Easton. Here, the scenic Trap Falls Reservoir in Shelton is a short drive from our new condo. Amazingly, so are massive working farms such as the Jones Family Farms with 400 acres. And yes, they have farm stands.

Roosevelt Forest in the northern part of Stratford, visible to us on our drive to nearby shopping, is also roughly 400 acres.

The amount of open and undeveloped land has been a real eye-opener. Quite frankly, it far surpasses anything that existed even in the Westport of my youth when my family moved to town in 1963.

Now, if only Stratford had Southern California-like winter weather…

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[OPINION] History Museum Must Acknowledge Its Own Past, Too

Posted on December 14, 2022 | 46 comments

People who live in glass houses — or those built by slave owners — should not throw stones.

Fred Cantor is a longtime Westporter. and a Staples High School Class of 1971 graduate. Passionate about local history, he co-curated a 2017 exhibit — “The High School That Rocked!” at the then-Westport Historical Society.

Fred writes:

Having read the complete letter submitted by the Westport Museum for History and Culture, I think its critique of the River of Names mural has gone too far.

Quite frankly, it seems that the Museum has failed in a material way to practice what it preaches.

The inconsistency seems to be blatant with the way the WMHC criticizes the omission of information about Ebenezer Coley on the tile wall — which clearly was never meant to be a comprehensive history of Westport — and then the way the Museum omits or otherwise buries the same information on its own website.

The section of the WMHC letter to the Westport Library re Ebenezer Coley states:

With respect to the tile #7 (Curran) 1705 — Tidal mill for emerging West Indies trade; 1775 — Coley Store; Tile #13 (Curran) 1790 E. (Ebenezer) Jesup Builds Wharf on Saugatuck’s east Bank; Tile # 10 (Curran) 1775 E. (Ebenezer) Coley builds saltbox home, shop and wharf. The West Indies trade specifically refers to the Transatlantic Slave Trade in which local farmers and millers produced goods to sell to West Indian slave plantations. These plantations provided the greatest source of income for men like Coley and Jesup — who were among those who owned the greatest number of enslaved people in the town.

The WMHC’s headquarters — the Bradley-Wheeler house — happens to have been built by Ebenezer Coley. But visitors to the Museum’s website would have no clue of that unless they clicked through a number of links.

The primary “About WM link” on the WMHC site offers only the following background information on the Bradley-Wheeler House

The FAQ link on the site states simply: “Our headquarters building was originally a 5-bay Colonial House built around 1795.”  Two more sentences follow re the structure (with no mention of Ebenezer Coley).

Visitors to the WMHC site will only become aware of the Coley family connection to the Museum headquarters and the Coley family’s involvement in slavery if they manage to reach the “Westport Driving Tour” portion of the site, and then click on the icons for the Bradley-Wheeler House and Coley’s Saugatuck Store.

Even then, there is still not all of the information the WMHC criticized the River of Names mural for omitting — most notably that “These plantations provided the greatest source of income for men like Coley and Jesup — who were among those who owned the greatest number of enslaved people in the town.”

It strikes me as very harsh to criticize the River of Names mural — which again, was never meant to be a comprehensive history of Westport — for failing to include all of the Coley family background when a) the WMHC website seemingly fails to do so as well and b) the family background that is included is almost treated like disclosures that are buried in small print in certain ads we are all familiar with.

I wrote 2 emails in the past 2 days to Museum executive cirector Ramin Ganeshram. One stated in part: “Why not disclose up front in the ‘About WM’ section — where you have a write-up about the Bradley-Wheeler House — the fact that the WMHC’s headquarters have such a close connection to the history of slavery in America? Wouldn’t such a disclosure be precisely in sync with the mission statement the WMHC emphasizes on its home page?”

I have so far failed to receive an answer.

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Online Art Gallery #134

Posted on October 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #134

Great minds think alike.

Great artists do too.

Four submissions to this week’s online art gallery feature leaves. Two are of sunflowers; another two are apples.

But every artist and photographer offers a different take on what are definitely not tired subjects. That’s what makes art so wonderful — and our online art gallery so interesting.

Remember: This is your feature. All readers are invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!

Untitled. Photographer Jerry Kuyper explains, :A leaf with a spherical growth falls onto a pumpkin,”

“The Fall Classic” (Fred Cantor)

“Apple Picking Time” (Roseann Spengler)

“Deconstructed Acrylic Abstract Sunflower” (Patricia McMahon)

“Give Me More SUGAR!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Sunflowers” (Amy Schneider)

“Hope” (Tom Doran)

Untitled (Werner Liepolt)

“Cedar Waxwing” — Artist Steve Stein explains, “This is a kind of finch. They eat berries, spread the berry’s seeds, and are noted to be serially monogamous,”

“Gettin’ Around” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Splendid Autumn in the Berkshires” — Housatonic River, Stockbridge, MA October 22, 2022 (Laurie Sorensen)

“View From a Connecticut Prison” — Suffield correctional facility (Wendy Levy)

“Hanging On” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled — Photographer Bonnie Connolly says, “This a dall scene on my front walkway.
After a cold rain, the fallen pine needles and leaves seemed to dance together.”

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Online Art Gallery #130

Posted on October 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #130

September is (almost) over. But some “06880” readers remain on the water. Others are in the midst of the High Holy Days. Plenty are pursuing art.

A few of you are submitting it to “06880.”

Remember: This is your feature. All readers are invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!

“Rooftops” (Lucy Antek Johnson)

“Storm Swell” (Eric Bosch)

“Tugboat for Two” — at Fishers Island Sound (Peter Barlow)

“A Shtetl Rabbi Awaiting Yom Kippur” (Steve Stein)

“I Sense a Crack in my Resolve” –outdoor sculpture, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Massachusetts (Mike Hibbard)

“Compo Grove” (Fred Cantor)

“Concentration” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Pretty in Pink in Portugal” (Wendy Levy)

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Online Art Gallery #127

Posted on September 10, 2022 | 1 comment

From Guatemala to Connecticut — with some abstract stops along the way — our online gallery continues.

As we say every week: This is your feature. All readers are invited to contribute to it. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!

Untitled — abstract digital art (Tom Doran)

Untitled — abstract acrylic painting on canvas (Beth Berkowitz)

Untitled — Photographer Fred Cantor says, “Taken a short while ago in the backyard of the Saugatuck.This tree’s advanced foliage makes it seem like mid-autumn. I wonder: is this related to the drought?”

 

“This is My Happy Face!” (Steve Stein)

“One for the Road” — Photographer Peter Barlow notes that the only thing missing is “the powerful smell of steaming hot tar.”

“The Chef on His Break” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Eyeball to Eyeball” — Photographer Mike Hibbard explains, “a tourist in Galapagos reaches for a fish at an outdoor market.”

“Rocks” (Amy Schneider)

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