December 15, 2014 - Westport Historical Society

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Jenny ONeill

Eleanor Tripp’s newspaper clippings

Enjoy these humorous newspaper reports about Westport from the 1860s. Westport Point reporter Thomas W. Mayhew laced his stories with a particularly dry sense of humor: “Any person passing by would think the advent day was high at hand.” May 14, 1860 A worthy member of the Society of Friends at Westport thinks that the […]

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Jenny ONeill

The Great Depression

Westport in the Great Depression Most of us know about the Great Depression of the 1930s either because we lived through it, listened to stories from parents or older relatives, or heard all the references to it when we went through the recent “Great Recession” of 2008, which had some of the same causes and […]