Open to members and their guests

Place: Green’s Farms Church, 71 Hillandale Road, Westport

10:45 am Coffee and Conversation

11:20 am Announcements

11:30 am Speaker

NOTE: Extra parking is available in front of the large lot on the grass and across the street in front of the Minister’s house.

NOTES: Special Interest Groups are for Y's Women Members only. All Y’s Women who participate in meetings held at the Westport Center for Senior Activities must

be registered with the Center and check in before each meeting.

Book Group 2 will meet at the Westport Center for Senior Activities on Thursday, October 1 from 1:15 to 2:45 pm to discuss The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. Please contact Nancy Bloom if you have questions.

Book Group 3 will meet at the Westport Center for Senior Activities on Friday, October 9 at 10:30 am to discuss Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Sarah Hock will lead the discussion. For more information, please contact Doris Levinson.

The Movie Club will meet on Wednesday, October 21, at the Westport Center for Senior Activities. We meet informally at 2:00 pm to give members a chance to socialize, and our discussion begins at 2:30. Our room often changes, so be sure to ask the front desk about our location. We are limited to 25 attendees, so please confirm your attendance with Margaret Mitchell by October 18.

We plan to discuss the movies Eye of the Needle and Steel Magnolias. Eye of the Needle is scheduled to be broadcast on PBS Reel 13 at 9:00 pm on October 17. Steel Magnolias is available on Netflix. A video of Steel Magnolias is listed in the catalogs of the Westport and Fairfield Libraries.

Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy drama starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts. The screenplay by Robert Harling is based on his 1987 play of the same name about the bond shared by a group of women in a small-town Southern community and the ways they cope with the death of one of their own. 

Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy film starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett. The film describes the experience of a German Nazi spy in the United Kingdom during World War II. The spy discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and tries to return to Germany while he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland.

If you wish to be added to the email list for future events, please contact Margaret Mitchell at 255-9094 or via email.

Lunch and Trivia will meet at noon on the third Thursday of the month at the VFW Hall. The cost is $25 (cash only). If you wish to attend, please contact Vicki Alli via email or Pat Winter at 303-324-5805. 

NewsTalk: Interested in national and world affairs? Join other Y’s Women for lively and informative discussions at NewsTalk. We meet the fourth Thursday of each month, from 10:00-11:30 am at the Westport Library, McCall Room. For information, contact Becky Ruthven.

Solos will be going to Gruel Britannia, 161 Cross Highway, Westport, on Thursday, October 22, for Afternoon Tea at 2:30 pm. The cost is $36 per person. For reservations, contact Terry Queirolo via phone (858-1470) or email and mail her a check made out to Y’s Women Solos at 305 Foxboro Drive, Norwalk, CT 06851 by Sunday, October 18 – or give to her at the Y’s Women meeting on October 12. If possible, please try to carpool with friends as there is limited parking. 

Solos will also be going to First Folk Sunday with Suzanne Sheridan on Sunday, October 4, November 1, and December 5 at the Boathouse Restaurant, Saugatuck Rowing Club, 521 Riverside Avenue, Westport. Tickets are $20. Let Terry know if you would like to attend any of the dates; she will get tickets and you can pay her that day.  

The Mah Jong group meets every Thursday at 1:00 pm at the Westport Center for Senior Activities. We would welcome new members who are experienced players. For information, contact Mona Unser.

The New Yorker Discussion Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month from 10:30 am to noon in the Westport Library, Room 216. Each group member selects one article from one of the previous month’s issues and emails her choice to all on the group distribution list. The group’s moderator, Ellen Cahill, sends a final reading list and hosts the meeting. Each participant leads the group discussion about her article for about 15 minutes. The group has met for several years and welcomes new participants. If interested, please contact Ellen via email or at 856-6561.

Scrabble meets every Tuesday at 10:30 am at 214 Lansdowne in Westport. Please contact Pennie More to reserve a seat at the table. 

Since the Y’s Women have not visited the Glass House in several years, we have booked a two-hour walking tour of all five Philip Johnson-designed buildings on Friday, October 30, from 10:30-12:30. For those needing a walker or a cane, be aware that we will be walking on uneven ground and gravel during our visit. In addition, as our tour will be limited to 13 attendees, consider registering right away.

Designed in 1949, the Glass House sits on 49 wooded and secluded acres in New Canaan and remains to this day an icon of mid-century modern architecture. The first artist to be awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture, Philip Johnson lived at the Glass House with his partner David Whitney until his death at 91.  

We’ll meet behind Wells Fargo Bank in Trader Joe’s parking lot at 9:15 am with a 9:30 departure.  

The cost of the tour is $50 per person. To register, contact Jill Meyer at 226-4310 or via email and then mail your $50 check payable to Jill to 137 Lansdowne, Westport, CT 06880. Please indicate if you can drive, as drivers are always needed and appreciated. The gas contribution for each passenger is $6.

Following our tour, we’ll lunch at Ching’s Table, 64 Main Street, New Canaan, 972-8550.

Directions: Drive to the Merritt Parkway South, either by way of Compo Road North or the Connector. Take Exit 15 off the Merritt onto CT Rte. 123 North, New Canaan Road. Turn left onto Rte. 106 S/East Avenue, left onto Main Street, and right onto Elm Street. Our destination is the Park Street municipal parking lot (77 Main Street), which we can also access by turning right immediately after passing the building at 72 Park Street. This lot allows free parking for up to 3 hours. 

Jill Meyer, 216-7666   

Lydia Menendez, 543-7484

Upcoming trips: 



-       November 19 or 20 - Yale Art Gallery and Center for British Art

-       December 18 - Mark Twain House, Hartford

If you have not yet done so, please renew your membership for the 2026-2027 year. You can do this by sending a check for $90 payable to "Y's Women" to:

Y's Women Membership

P.O. Box 53

Westport, CT 06881-0053

If there are no changes to your address or phone number, you only need to send the check. If you have new information, please fill out the Membership Form and send it along with your check.

Membership must be renewed before October 31 in order to be included in the 2026-27 Membership Roster.

As always, membership is free for those over age 90. Please just send an email to Molly Alger letting her know that you are renewing. Then you will be included in the Membership Roster. 

For questions, contact Molly Alger.

Join the League of Women Voters of Westport, Earthplace, and Sustainable Westport for a Candidate Debate on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at Westport Town Hall. The evening begins with a Meet & Mingle at 6:00 p.m., followed by debates at 7:00 p.m. featuring candidates for State Senate District 26 and State House Districts 136 and 143.

Registration is requested (here). Community members are also invited to submit questions for the candidates by October 7 to lwvwestportct@yahoo.com.