The north lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum was filled with music & poetry, as the community gathered for a moving Juneteenth celebration honoring those who once lived enslaved in the historic town of Lyme.

On Friday, May 30, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library to mark the culmination of the Witness Stones Old Lyme project, now in its fifth and final year. Twelve new bronze plaques were installed at the Sill Lane Green and the Florence Griswold Museum, bringing the total to 60.

Witness Stones to be installed in Old Lyme in late May As it enters the final year of a five-year project, Witness Stones Old Lyme will...

Friday, May 30, 2025 10:00 - 11:00 AM Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, 2 Library Lane, Old Lyme, CT Join the community on the...

A recent CT Insider article highlights how archival research at the Florence Griswold Museum revealed information that challenged...

FEATURING THE NAT REEVES QUARTET & POETS MARILYN NELSON, KATE RUSHIN, RHONDA WARD, ANTOINETTE BRIM-BELL On Saturday, June 22, Witness...

Community Gathers for Commemorative Event On Friday, May 31, the community gathered at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library for a...

All are welcome to attend the 2024 Witness Stones installation ceremony on the lawn of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, 2 Library Lane,...

May 2, 2024 - Old Lyme, CT The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held a color guard ceremony at Duck River...

with Jesse Hameen II Jazz Quartet & poets Marilyn Nelston, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward & Antoinette Brim-Bell

On June 2, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the third installation of Witness Stones —historical...

In a History Blog article posted on the Florence Griswold Museum's website, Old Lyme Witness Stones chair Carolyn Wakeman reveals new...

Kyera Singleton, the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, examined how and why former...

Marilyn Nelson has received the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor given annually by the Academy of American Poets to...

On Friday, June 4, 2022, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the second installation of Witness...

Antoinette Brim-Bell has been named Connecticut's State Poet Laureate. Brim-Bell is one of the four poets who partnered with the Old Lyme...

Featuring Nat Reeves Jazz Quartet & Poets Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell Saturday, June 18, 2022, 2 pm,...

In much of New England, slavery has been forgotten, ignored, or assumed to be a practice confined to the South. Old Lyme now has thirty...

To celebrate the town’s newly installed Witness Stones, the Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership will hold a series of events in June. All...

A new Welcome mural was unveiled at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School. Jasmine Oyola-Blumenthal, who is an alumna of Lyme Academy College...