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Stroll down Main Road and admire houses representing every era of Westport’s long colonial and maritime history, from Cape Cod cottages and colonial saltboxes to showy Greek Revival sea captains’ homes.—Anna Laird Barto, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026 Taylor has played Walt Whitman, Franklin, and George Washington, as well as Gideon Olmsted, a Connecticut sea captain whose ship was seized by British forces in 1778, since 1998.—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 May 2026 The salty sea captain beard and the piercing stare, perfect for magazine covers, did not hurt.—Matthew Herper, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026 The novel by Herman Melville about a great white whale and the sea captain consumed by the beast that had bitten off his leg sold only a few hundred copies upon its release in England and America in 1851.—Dan Kelly
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