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Compo Acres Paint Palette — Part 2

Posted on July 5, 2013 | 14 comments

If you’re holding your breath waiting for the return of the Compo Acres paint palette — first reported in Wednesday’s “06880” — you can exhale.

Unfortunately.

Alert “06880” reader Suzanne Sherman Propp tracked down the property owner (Equity One in New York City), and the man responsible for the Westport shopping center property (Glenn Wilson, Northeast Regional Manager).

She wrote:

Hi! My name is Suzanne Sherman Propp and I’ve lived in Westport since 1966. I’ve always been a huge fan of the light blue Compo Acres Sign in the shape of a paint palette that was leaning up against the tree at the corner of the Post Road and Compo Road North. Can you tell me what happened to it?

His one-sentence reply:

We had that replaced and I believe it was thrown out.

Equity One’s tagline is “improving retail real estate in urban communities.”

Suburban communities — not so much.

The Compo Acres paint palette is gone...

The Compo Acres paint palette is gone…

...but we do have this huge granite slab not far away.

…but we do have this huge granite slab not far away.

We had that replaced and I believe it was thrown out.

– Suzanne Sherman Propp

 
- Suzanne Sherman Propp

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Blake, Ryan, Suzanne, Martha, Paul And Oscar

Posted on May 21, 2012 | 10 comments

Suzanne Sherman Propp — no slouch in the talent department herself — was in Oscar’s yesterday afternoon.

Sitting a few feet away were Ryan Reynolds and his Gossip Girl, Blake Lively. Bedford, New York — where they just moved — may have Martha Stewart, but it lacks a good deli.

“Thank you, Paul Newman, for training us Westporters to be calm, cool and collected during celebrity sightings,” Suzanne says.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds (not at Oscar’s, and not at the Oscars).

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Running Home With Suzanne Sherman Propp

Posted on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Running Home With Suzanne Sherman Propp

Baseball and music fit together like a ball and glove.

There’s “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”  John Fogerty’s classic “Centerfield.”

Now, add Suzanne Sherman Propp’s “Running Home.”

Suzanne Sherman Propp

Suzanne Sherman Propp

The singer/songwriter/Green’s Farms Elementary School music teacher’s tune provides a fitting soundtrack to  Major League Baseball’s 2009 video — a montage including the opening of New York’s 2 new stadiums, Jacoby Ellsbury’s steal of home, Mark Buehrle’s perfect game, Eric Bruntlett’s unassisted triple play, Derek Jeter passing Lou Gehrig with hit number 2,722, the Yankees’ triumphant World Series win, a little girl throwing back a ball in Philadelphia, and many other highlights that I never heard of but am duly reporting thanks to a gushing press release that promises “more than a few goosebumps.”

Hyperbole aside, it’s quite an honor for Suzanne, described by MLB as a “mother of two including a 12-year-old baseball player.”

“When we sit in the stands as parents there’s such a mix of emotions, highs and lows, the thrill of watching your kid coming around third and tearing for home” she said, in a quote probably massaged by Major League Baseball’s press flacks.

“It’s so close to Matsui coming around third and heading home on that walk-off hit, with that anticipation of coming home and everyone watching and feeling that excitement.”

(“Running Home” was produced with help from Suzanne’s brother, Russell Sherman.)

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Honoring Our Artists

Posted on October 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Honoring Our Artists
Daryl Wein

Daryl Wein

Westport is an arts hotbed.  Not a weekend passes without exhibits, performances and shows.  We attract hgh-powered names; for a small town, we’re a big player.

But 1 of my favorite events is pretty simple.  Each year Westport’s Arts Advisory Committee honors our own.  There are low-key speeches, a slide show, live performances, and heartfelt applause from neighbors and friends.

This year’s 16th annual Arts Awards take place 2 p.m. Sunday (Town Hall).  All Westporters are invited.  You don’t have to be an artist to enjoy it.

Horizon Awards will be presented to 2 rising young artists — both Staples graduates.  Daryl Wein (SHS ’02) is an uber-talented actor/filmmaker.  His documentary “Sex Positive” has won prizes, and been released in 9 countries.  He is an NYU Tisch School and USC Film and Television grad.

Josh Frank (SHS ’00) is a trumpeter, composer and music producer.  He has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera and recorded with the  American Brass Quintet.  He is a Juilliard graduate.

Sally White

Sally White

Champion of the Arts recipients include Howard Aibel (longtime advocate of the arts, as a director, board member and concert sponsor); Suszanne Sherman Propp (singer/songwriter and music teacher extraordinaire), and — a truly inspired choice — Sally White (longtime owner of Sally’s Place, perhaps the last great music store on the planet).

Heritage Awards will be presented posthumously to 3 giants:  Dorothy Bryce (actress); Mel Casson (cartoonist), and Barbara Wilk (artist).

There are many ways to enjoy a Sunday afternoon in Westport.  Honoring our arts heritage — with our own supremely talented artists, musicians and filmmakers — might just be the best.

Dorothy Bryce

Dorothy Bryce

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Sing A Song Of Westport

Posted on May 26, 2009 | 4 comments

Westport has plenty:  Great schools.  Nice beaches.  Restaurants up the wazoo.

But we don’t have a song.

On Sunday, June 14 that will change.

Suzanne Sherman Propp

Suzanne Sherman Propp

“In Wonderful Westport” premieres that day, courtesy of Green’s Farms School music teacher Suzanne Propp and her gang of 2nd graders.  They’ll sing the tune as part of the Westport Historical Society’s 18th Annual Hidden Garden Tour and Garden Marketplace, across from Town Hall.

Propp and colleague Cheryl Buck were teaching their students songs like “Downtown” and “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”  When it came to the suburbs, all they found was teenage angst.

Propp and Buck asked the kids to brainstorm about Westport.  They shouted out icons like the Minuteman statue, Compo cannons and Westport Country Playhouse.

Teachers and students collaborated on a song that also included famous families, like Bedford, Burr, Coley and Sturges.  Rhyming them all was not easy, but then again those names have never been in a song before.  It’s the thought that counts.

The song begins:  “There are thousands of stories in Westport/ Here by the shores of the Long Island Sound/ Where the Saugatuck River is flowing/ Can’t imagine a much nicer town.”

Okay, it’s not “New York, New York,” “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” or even “Galveston.”

We don’t have Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett or Glen Campbell.

We’ve got something better:  Suzanne Sherman Propp.

(Suzanne Sherman Propp’s new children’s CD, “Play,” is available at www.suzanneshermanpropp.com, on iTunes, and at Westport’s Barnes & Noble.)

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