Images Of America - Westport - Book audience Attractive enough to display indoors

Attractive enough to display indoors

A mechanically animated display of the waterline of Long Island Sound rises and falls as the tide goes from high to low

Robert said upon us all a little rain must fall

Stands both horizontally and vertically

This reproduction of a vintage Brooklyn

Images Of America - Westport - Book audience Attractive enough to display indoorsWestport, Connecticut, started as a 17th century colonial English settlement. Nestled on the shores of Long Island Sound and at the mouth of the Saugatuck River, the area was ideally placed for farming, fishing, and commerce. Westport was formally incorporated as a distinct municipality in 1835 and would evolve into a factory town, a bucolic retreat for both the wealthy and the common man, an enclave for artists and performers, and finally, a bedroom