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Happy New Year to our families and loved ones, our friends and community! May 2021 bring happiness and peace to you all. Enjoy our New Year’s Day Virtual Celebration!
As if 2020 hasn’t been difficult enough, Carolyn Bacdayan, Archivist of our Local History Archives has become Archivist Emeritus. As of Thanksgiving day, she retired. We will have much more to say about this later in the year. The good news is that we have a new Archivist! Her name is Julie Hughes, PhD and…
As our members know, each spring we mail our annual newsletter to members and prospective members alike. We begin the publishing project in early January in order to meet our April 1st publication deadline. In 2020 our volunteer Editor was forced to withdraw due to pandemic family obligations. We’re looking for a new volunteer Editor…
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We’ve now published four stories in two issues of The Newsey (found on the Locally Written page). We’re only finished if you’re finished writing and sending in your stories. The theme is Life in Lyme during COVID: lockdown, social distancing, and connection with family and friends among our members. Funny or poignant, whatever works. Send…
On our 4 December entry (below), we announced that we would post a New Year’s Day Virtual Celebration video on 1 January 2021. We taped two music sessions in a barn with Bella (yup … horse) looking on. The first session, a few weeks ago, was with two members of the LPH House Band (you…
Parade April 25, 2020 It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in a week of mostly rainy, cold and damp weather. Lucky day for the “parade.” Parade? Yes. I don’t know who initiated it or when the idea took off, but by April 25th most of the town knew it would take place. I only knew…
On 1 January 2021 the Public Hall will air a New Year’s Day Virtual Celebration video on our website, our YouTube channel, our Facebook page, and our Instagram page. We are putting out a request for (homemade) video greetings from anyone who would like to be part of the completed video. Send your Happy New…
January 1, Music April 1-22, Roadside Cleanup April 19, Triumph of the Will: Talk by Rolf Wolfswinkel May 21, Joseph Caples Lecture: Talk by George Willauer June 1 & 8 & 15, Writer’s Workshop June 2 (6-8 pm), Eight Mile River Band June 11, Annual Meeting and Potluck with <program> August 2 or 9 (6-8 pm),…