Westport News

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. The event will be held on the first floor of the Legion Hall, which has wheelchair accessibility.

This presentation will tell the history of the Blossom Road-Old Bedford 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.  Her work is part of a historical preservation project supported by Community Preservation Act funds.
This program will be held at the American Legion Hall on Sanford Road. This building was originally the school for District # 15 and is being restored and rehabilitated using Community Preservation Act  funding.

Refreshments will be served.  For more information please contact the Westport Historical Society at 508-636-6011 or westporthistory@westporthistory.net