WHS Community on Camera Photo Contest

By Jon Alden

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The Westport Historical Society conducted its first Photo Contest and Exhibition, with the entries and winning photographs being displayed at the Helen E. Ellis Exhibit Space at Lees Market from November 30th to December 2nd, 2006. Winners were announced and prizes awarded at the opening reception, which was from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Light refreshments were served. The two contest judges were: Robert Barboza, Editor of the Dartmouth Chronicle, and David Dionne, Westport Selectman.

 

Hundreds of visitors viewed the 109 photographic perspectives of Westport submitted by 50 entrants. View the photo album of winning photographs and the exhibition on previous page.

There were six suggested categories for the submissions: people at play and at home, village and rural life, scenes of 'working Westport', celebrations and traditions, growing up in Westport, and that which is unique or endangered.  The Westport Historical Society is endeavoring “to document the material culture of Westport”, partly through this medium as well as preserving historical artifacts and documents. In fact, the purpose of this photo exhibition is to collect Westport residents’ images of their daily life and the town around them. One only has to view pictures from the late 1800s and early 1900s to discern their ordinary composition; however, from a historical perspective they reveal abundant detail about the people and time in which they were created.  www.westporthistory.com

 

                                                                                           2006 PHOTO CONTEST ENTRANTS

YOUTH DIVISION

 

 

 
Kayla Borges
 
Melissa Cieto

Grace Labossiere

 

Joseph Labossiere

Heather May Leach

Meg Levesque

Mica Low

Robert Porawski III

Wes Thurston

* Division Winner

* Second Place

* Third Place

ADULT DIVISION

 

 

Valerie Bain

Pete Baker

Stephen C. Bigelow

Mary Burns

Marc Chardon

Pam Clarkson

Charlene Connolly

Nancy Z. Cook

Alyce Crapo

Bette DeVeuve

Jack DeVeuve

Denise Duhamel

Joan Fradley

Roger Griswold

Russell Hart

Jeanne Kendall

Lyn Keith

James Kelly

Sarah Labossiere

Vicky LeValley

Rachaelle Leary

Claude Ledoux

Dori Legge

Carol Long

Donna Lubell

Cukie Macomber

Judith McLean

Laura Mercer

Mary Miska

Melissa Pereira

Heather Reed

Lee Rudolph

Jill P. Santoro

 

Thorton Simmons

 

 
Betty Slade
 
David H. Sprogis

Jerry Sundheimer

Diane Taber

Daniel Turpin

Joe Van Sloun 

Terry Yousif

* Honorable Mention

 

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