Two Fairfield residents, Wayne Harrison and his son Scott, came for antique bottles.

Mr. Blake, a Fairfield resident, played for Harvard before turning professional.

Stuart Gerson, a Fairfield resident, is fairly typical.

The other moorings, plus a town boat launch, are restricted to Fairfield residents.

The show, Mr. Osterman, a Fairfield resident, said, is "enhanced at least 50 percent by Randy being in it."

Anyone with a valid Connecticut library card, whether a Fairfield resident or not, can take out materials.

"It's a place I can go where people I know will understand me," said an 18-year-old Fairfield resident who got sober when she was 15.

Fairfield residents, however, called the name bland.

In February 1914, the Board of Education asked Fairfield residents to make contributions towards the creation of a high school.

"It's like the last copter out of Saigon every night," said Robert Rooney, a Fairfield resident.