Westport News

As part of Westport’s Bicentennial celebration, oral histories were obtained from numerous residents, mainly the “old-timers.”  Their stories give us a clear glimpse of earlier days and make these three volumes of oral histories an important record of our past.  Most interviews were recorded by Mary Giles, 1554 Main Road.  They are available on audio tape and as a transcript at the Library.

Volume I      A – E      

Roger and Dorothy Acheson

Willliam Almy, Jr.

Ann “Pete” Baker

Benjamin Baker

William H. Barker

Alice Blossom

Alton and Isabel Boan

Milton Borden, Mary Hix Brown and Durant Brown

Everett Coggeshall

Charles Costa

Mabel Ball Crosby

Mabel Crosby (and Etta Palmer)

Alford Dyson

Richard Earle

Helen E. Ellis and Rosamond Pierce (sculpture)

Helen E. Ellis and Rosamond Pierce (house)

Eugene Feio

Janice Lawton Field

Arlene Gifford

Dorothy R. Gifford

Herbert G. Hadfield

Reverend Basil Hall

Emma Hart

John Hart

Mae Magee Holmes

Hartley Howe

Albert E. Lees, Jr.

Elizabeth Lees and Carlton Lees

Theodore P. Mead

Daniel Meader

George Medeiros

Gerald E. Miller

Etta Allen Palmer (also see Volume I with Mabel Crosby)

Richard Paull

Rosamond Pierce (with Helen E. Ellis - sculpture)

Rosamond Pierce (with Helen E. Ellis - house)     

William Pierce

Volume III        R – Y

George Raposa

Marion Reed

Rita and David Rozinha

Henry Sampson

Jones Shannon

Normand H. Sasseville

Eleanor Simmons (about Oscar Palmer)

Julius T. Smith

Mary A. W. Sowle

Archer and Della Tripp

John Swartz

Allen G. “Bill” Tripp

Audrey Tripp

Borden R. Tripp

Lincoln Tripp

Eleanor Tripp

Harold Wood

Edward Yeomans