“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.’’
— Paul Newman (1925-2008), movie star and philanthropist. He eschewed living in Southern California, instead living most of his adult life in Westport, Conn., an affluent New York suburb on Long Island Sound.
With writer A. E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982. All proceeds after taxes are donated to charity.
Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, a $25,000 reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment.
Another beneficiary of his philanthropy is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp for seriously ill children in Ashford, Conn., which Newman co-founded in 1988. It is named after the gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and the real-life, historic Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw hangout in Wyoming. The original camp has grown to include Hole in the Wall Gang Camps in the U.S., Ireland, France and Israel.
The Westport Country Playhouse, which was heavily supported by Mr. Newman and his widow, movie star Joanne Woodward, for many years.
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford in the off-season
Ashford in 1838
