September 3, 2011
North Westport:The families and homes of the Blossom Road area
North Westport:
The families and homes of the Blossom Road area
with Kathleen Fair
7:00 PM Thursday September 15 2011
at the American Legion Hall
489 Sanford Road, Westport MA
All too often when people think about the history of Westport, they focus on the southern part of town; however, the northern region, especially the Blossom Road-Old Bedford Road area also tells an important part of the story of Westport. This presentation will tell the history of the Blossom Road area by looking at the families who built their homes and created the institutions that made this section of town a vibrant and fascinating part of Westport. Learn some of the stories about the Wordells, the Youngs, the Shermans and the Blossoms.
Kathleen Fair has always had a passion for history. For more than forty years, she attempted to inspire that same passion in her students both at the Wheeler School in Providence and Friends Academy in Dartmouth MA. Before she retired from Friends, she produced a book documenting that school’s two hundred year history. Now that she has left the classroom, she is spending some of her time examining historic homes in Westport and researching the lives of the people who lived in those homes.
This program will be held at the American Legion Hall on Sanford Road. This building was originally the school for District # 15.
Suggested donation $5.00. Refreshments will be served. For more information please contact Westport Historical Society
508 636 6011, westporthistory@westporthistory.net