WHS Exhibit Celebrates Saugatuck’s Proud Past
Nov 25, 2014
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Saugatuck, the once working class, mostly Italian-American section of Westport—the area state officials in the 1950s figured it would be easier to build the Connecticut Turnpike through rather than affluent Greens Farms—got its just deserts today.
At the opening of a Westport Historical Society's (WHS) exhibition titled "Saugatuck @ Work—Haven of Community, Commerce and Innovation," the neighborhood was revered not only as an important area of Westport, but as its matrix.
Source: http://www.westportnow.com
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