Westport History Study Group May 4, 2006

Westport History Study Group May 4, 2006 - Convened by Norma Judson DVD531

Participants. Norma Judson, Carolyn Cody, Carol Coutinho, Bill Wyatt, Betty Slade, Bob Brayton, Cukie Macomber, Glenda Broadbent, Pril Lawrence, Charlie Costa

Topics: Cukie Macomber on Daniel Wilcox; Bob Brayton on the Amy House and Humphrey Almy; Charlie Costa on Charles H. Clifford (Clifford’s Store, Westport Point), tax collector and trial; Norma Judson: Frances Sheehan White’s story of her youth in South Westport, including discussion of telephone operators, the Store, Charles Bowen; Glenda Broadbent on changing roads and ways, the Point Hotel and associated history, proposed RR from Lincoln Park to Horseneck, electricity, phones, speed limits, schools, Bull Street (Cross Road), Sheldons, Halls, Southards, restaurants at Point; Norma Judson on Gosnold landing at Gooseberry and Paul Gay’s Gray’s Mill history.

May 4, 2006

Produced by Betty Slade

From DVD 531