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5 Things All About Westport: June 27

Best-selling thriller author Joseph Finder at Westport Library and more

  • The Westport Library will hold a “Teen Drop-In Book Discussion” for middle school students from 3 to 4 p.m. today. Students can read whatever books they want and then just drop in and discuss them in this informal group, which will meet the last Monday of every month until Sept. 11 in the Sheffer Reading Room. Come talk about your summer reading and get suggestions for new books!
  • Joseph Finder, author of the New York Times bestselling novel “Vanished,” will be discussing his latest book, “Buried Secrets,” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at The Westport Library. Finder is winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel for “Killer Instinct” and winner of the Barry and Gumshoe Awards for Best Thriller for “Company Man.” His novel “High Crimes” was made into a movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman.
  • The exhibit “Westport Farming: Then & Now” continues to be on display at the Westport Historical Society, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The exhibit, which opened in May and runs through September, is being presented as part of the Society’s “Back to Our Roots” festival. It features local farming artifacts, including a special section focused on Wakeman Town Farm, and chronicles “evolving local farming practices, from the Pre-Contact era/indigenous tribes, through the Colonial Puritans and Connecticut Yankees, to today’s return to local produce,” according to the Society.
  • To help kids appreciate exercise and make it a regular part of their lifestyle, the Family Y of Westport and Weston is offering free one-year memberships to all seventh grade students in the Westport and Weston school districts. All a student has to do to get the free one-year membership is bring a school ID or report card to the YMCA and get a parent to sign them up. To learn more, .
  • The Westport Country Playhouse will be celebrating its 80th birthday next Wednesday, June 29, with a special party featuring cake, champagne and balloons. The theater officially opened its doors June 29, 1931 and welcomed audiences to its first production, “The Streets of New York,” starring Dorothy Gish. Patch has a of the event, which will include theater staff and local and state officials.


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