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‘Tis the Season

Staff members at Main Street’s Pottery Barn prepare the storefront for the holiday season as a Christmas tree glimmers from the window to the sidewalk outside. WestportLocal.com photo

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Stony Point Cottage Camouflage

A small cottage along Stony Point found itself blending in to the amber colored leaves as its wooden clapboards were nearly reclaimed by the forest that surrounds it. WestportLocal.com photo

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Autumntime for Assumption Church, Historic Riverside Avenue

Assumption Church (background) and the colonial-era Joshua Couch/Kathleen & James Coley Jr. home (foreground, behind American flag) look very much the same this fall as they have for hundreds of seasons prior. The current Assumption Church was built in 1899 after the original wooden structure became too small for the new parish as “It served a growing number of immigrants, first from Ireland and later from Italy, who settled in Saugatuck and in Green’s Farm.” The Joshua Couch/Coley House was built over 100 years prior to that in 1756, possibly being used as a commercial property that served the bustling shipping-centered Saugatuck River. WestportLocal.com photo

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