Looking Back: 2020 in Photos | April
In celebration of the new year, The Westport Local Press is looking back at the past 12 months in Westport. Throughout the day, viewers can follow the year through published photographs representing the community.
In a year filled with so much sadness, not all things were bad as the community grew together during what will forever be known as the year of the pandemic.
Happy New Year.
Shoes forgotten by a local child as the Compo Beach Playground closed.
With families home and children wishing to be outside, many used the playground at Compo Beach as a way to enjoy the outdoors and regain a sense of normalcy. When the Compo Beach Playground was suddenly shut down in March, these shoes were found sitting on the boardwalk. Each week they could be seen sitting there on the wood, waiting to be retrieved by the two little feet who belonged to them, who most likely forgot them as they rushed off to the car; their playground surrounded by plastic fences and warning signs.
Each week passersby would straighten them out, or move them onto a nearby bench, or balance them on the wall of the lifeguard shack, or dust off the dirt from the winds or rain - in hope that they little feet would come back for their shoes one day. This went on for several weeks, the random strangers seemingly taking care of these shoes left behind in the rush of a child’s moment. This was the last photo I was able to take of them.
Photos by Jaime Bairaktaris