Westport resident helps grow Weston, Wilton preserve with donation
WESTPORT — Back in the 1700s colonists would travel the now wooded area known as the Bill Kutik Honey Hill Preserve along the Weston, Wilton line.
The open fields and livestock that filled the landscape there, possibly as late as the 1870s, are long gone but some signs of the agrarian past remain with stone walls peppered throughout the now 119-acre preserve overseen by the Aspetuck Land Trust.
It's a site Westport resident Bill Kutik is very familiar with and one he will forever be connected with by name and legacy after he helped the trust get the 10 acres to connect it with the 705-acre Weston Wilton Forest Reserve.