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Juneteenth Celebration Brings Jazz, Poetry, and Reflection to Old Lyme
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.
Jun 212 min read
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Witness Stones Ceremony Marks Final Installation in Old 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.
Jun 53 min read
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Commemorating the Lives of the Enslaved: Witness Stones Old Lyme to Install 12 New Plaques in 2025
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...
May 162 min read
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Installation Ceremony 2025
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...
May 151 min read
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Re-examining Old Lyme's Abolitionist Past
A recent CT Insider article highlights how archival research at the Florence Griswold Museum revealed information that challenged...
Apr 71 min read
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Juneteenth Celebration of Jazz & Poetry at the FloGris Museum
FEATURING THE NAT REEVES QUARTET & POETS MARILYN NELSON, KATE RUSHIN, RHONDA WARD, ANTOINETTE BRIM-BELL On Saturday, June 22, Witness...
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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Plaques at Lyme Public Library Expand Old Lyme Witness Stones Project
Community Gathers for Commemorative Event On Friday, May 31, the community gathered at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library for a...
Jun 13, 20242 min read
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Community Invited to the 2024 Witness Stones Installation Ceremony
All are welcome to attend the 2024 Witness Stones installation ceremony on the lawn of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, 2 Library Lane,...
May 16, 20241 min read
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Prince Griswold Crosley Honored by the Sons of the American Revolution
May 2, 2024 - Old Lyme, CT The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held a color guard ceremony at Duck River...
May 14, 20244 min read
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Jazz & Poetry Featured on Juneteenth
with Jesse Hameen II Jazz Quartet & poets Marilyn Nelston, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward & Antoinette Brim-Bell
Jun 14, 20233 min read
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Celebrates Third Installation in Black Hall
On June 2, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the third installation of Witness Stones —historical...
May 31, 20231 min read
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Tracing Lyme's Runaway Slaves
In a History Blog article posted on the Florence Griswold Museum's website, Old Lyme Witness Stones chair Carolyn Wakeman reveals new...
Nov 14, 20221 min read
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Kyera Singleton speaks at Florence Griswold Museum's 2022 Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture
Kyera Singleton, the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, examined how and why former...
Oct 27, 20221 min read
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Marilyn Nelson Receives Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets
Marilyn Nelson has received the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor given annually by the Academy of American Poets to...
Oct 5, 20222 min read
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Celebrates Second Installation
On Friday, June 4, 2022, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the second installation of Witness...
Sep 28, 20223 min read
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Antoinette Brim-Bell is Connecticut's New Poet Laureate
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...
Jul 24, 20221 min read
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Juneteenth Jazz & Poetry Celebration at the Florence Griswold Museum on June 18.
Featuring Nat Reeves Jazz Quartet & Poets Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell Saturday, June 18, 2022, 2 pm,...
Jun 9, 20222 min read
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Old Lyme Witness Stones Celebrates Installation of Sixteen New Plaques Honoring Those Once Enslaved
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...
Jun 6, 20222 min read
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June 2022 Events
To celebrate the town’s newly installed Witness Stones, the Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership will hold a series of events in June. All...
May 25, 20222 min read
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PARJE Sister Mural Created at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School
A new Welcome mural was unveiled at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School. Jasmine Oyola-Blumenthal, who is an alumna of Lyme Academy College...
May 24, 20221 min read
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