Accomplishments Are What Set Saybrook's Black Residents Apart

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They number only 1 percent of residents in this small, Shoreline town of 10,000, but it's not skin color that makes the black residents stand out in a sea of white friends and neighbors. Since Leeta Fontes' great-grandparents moved to Quarry Road in the mid- 1800s, the first black family to settle in town, Old Saybrook's black children have grown up to excel.

Among them are a professional basketball star, a selectwoman, a recently published lawyer-turned-writer and Fontes herself, the town's first black telephone operator and known to all during her 42- year tenure as secretary in the elementary school.

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Accomplishments Are What Set Saybrook's Black Residents Apart

It's hard to know why Old Saybrook is an incubator for such success, said Old Saybrook-reared Elisabeth Petry, the lawyer- turned-writer, a college instructor. Her recently released b...

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