Juliette Newshel, 3, of Westport was at the Westport Library book sale today with her mother, Jessica, as they both enjoyed looking through the books. The sale winds up Monday with all items half-priced. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com

Today’s Wall Street Journal Greater New York section spotlights Westport’s Michael Koskoff and his seven-year effort to write a screenplay about Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice.

Michael and Roz Koskoff and daughter Sarah (at a 2013 Westport screening of “Hello I Must Be Going,” for which Sarah wrote the screenplay.) (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

Koskoff, a civil rights and personal-injury attorney, took up screenwriting 13 years ago when his daughter Sarah, a screenwriter, gave him a book on the subject, the newspaper said.

“I read it and said all right ‘I’ll give it a try,” said Koskoff, 73, who studied acting before attending law school.

His story, set in the early 1940s, is about a racially charged Connecticut case involving Marshall. It is being made into a feature film called “Marshall” starring Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in “42.”

Westport Artists’ Collective co-founder Tammy Winser (l) and exhibiting artist Liz Leggett were among guests tonight at the Collective’s Pop Up Art Show at the Westport Arts Center. The works of art, created by 15 artists and two student artists, will be on display through Saturday. The exhibiting artists will also speak Friday at 10 a.m. at the Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Leslie LaSala for WestportNow.com

A huge selection of gardening books in time for spring planting will be just one of myriad offerings in the Westport Library’s annual March Book Sale scheduled for Saturday through Tuesday, March 8 in the McManus Room, event organizers say.

Workers prepared for last year’s spring book sale.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Other categories offered in hard and soft covers include: fiction and mystery, travel, biography, history, cooking, home, crafts and spring sports.

Also this year, event organizers say many comic books will be on sale, as well as a large assortment of children’s books, none more than $1, plus test prep guides.

In addition to books there will be DVDs, CDs and collectibles in the new category of ephemera: vintage magazines, travel materials, playbills, cooking booklets and assorted pamphlets.

The 22nd annual edition of the world-renowned Armory Show opens today in New York City. This year, there are 205 exhibitors spread across Piers 92 and 94 on the far west side of the city, perched on the Hudson River. Helen Klisser During, contributing WestportNow photographer and Westport Arts Center artistic director emeritus, was there Wednesday for a preview. Also there was Mark Lamos, artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse researching for two art-related plays he will direct in May. The show, which runs through Sunday, also includes one of the largest collection of contemporary African art ever assembled in the United States. Click here for more information. Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

The 2016 edition of New York’a Armory Show art fair opens to the public Thursday, but today’s preview at Piers 92 and 94 was crawling with collectors, curators, and critics. Among the VIP visitors was Mark Lamos, artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse, doing research for productions in the Playhouse’s 2016 season. He will direct “Art” and “Red,” two Tony Award-winning plays in conversation about art: making it, owning it, the anguish of creating it, and the ache of believing in it. They run May 3-29. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

By Susan Granger

Inspired by true events, “Eddie the Eagle” is the inspirational story of how Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton) becomes a world-record holding British ski jumper at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

Burdened as a child by a knee brace, enthusiastic Eddie displays an alarming lack of athletic prowess, yet he’s determined to compete in the Olympics. After he realizes he’s woefully incompetent at every track-and-field event he attempts, he learns to ski.

Brusquely dismissed from Great Britain’s downhill team, Eddie tries ski-jumping instead. A gullible novice, he journeys to Garmisch, Germany, where he’s ridiculed by Finnish and Norwegian jumpers who have been training since they were six years old.

But then Eddie meets Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman), a drunken, depressed, disillusioned one-time U.S. ski-jumping star, now working as a snow-plow driver. Peary astutely perceives Eddie’s innate bravery and tenacity so, albeit reluctantly, he decides to coach him, if only to prevent Eddie from recklessly killing himself.

Actors Matthew Christian (l) and Scott Bryce today appeared in Play With Your Food’s reading of “An Upset” by David Auburn at Westport’s Toquet Hall. Other readings included “A Second of Pleasure” by Neil LaBute and “Laughs” by Mary Louise Wilson. Lunch was provided by Westport caterer A Dash of Salt. The productions continue Wednesday and Thursday in Westport and Tuesday, March 8 in Fairfield, and Thursday, March 10 in Greenwich. For information, visit http://www.jibproductions.org. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Inge Maki for WestportNow.com

Westport artist Miggs Burroughs, a founder of the Westport Artists Collective, today helps install works of art for the sixth Collective Pop Up Exhibition at the Westport Arts Center. The opening reception is Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Leslie LaSala for WestportNow.com

Westport Country Playhouse’s first Pilot Residency Program with Norwalk’s Wolfpit Elementary School culminated today with a performance of a student-written play adapted from the book “Charlotte’s Web” in the Lucille Lortel White Barn Center on the Playhouse campus. After reading “Charlotte’s Web,” Wolfpit fifth graders spent six weeks in the classroom learning improvisation, cooperation, playwriting format, and acting skills, led by teaching artists Mina Hartong and Jennifer Katona. Their play reflects their original ideas inspired by the book, and the skills they gained learning to be actors. The Playhouse said it plans to continue to work with schools in the community to share the love of theater with young students. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Kat Gloor for WestportNow.com