We are so pleased to announce that the Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives has been awarded a $5600 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities. This grant will enable us to continue providing many events free to the public, and to assist with maintaining the Public Hall and Archives. The LPHLHA…
Big thanks to everyone who came out for the 2022 Chowder Dinner, and to our wonderful volunteers whose helping hands and enthusiasm contributed in large part to a wonderful evening. It was a joy to see so many friends and neighbors gathering at the Hall; we are so appreciative and couldn’t have done this event…
The Bacdayan Local History Archives at the Lyme Public Library is now an Affiliate Library for FamilySearch. FamilySearch is an international nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records to help people research their ancestors and family history. As an affiliate library, the Archives can provide access to additional digital records not available to the general…
Inspired by the treasure trove of history in our Archives, we have a Facebook Page to share memories and photos of Lyme, called Historic Lyme. We invite you to upload images and memories for community members who may reminisce with you, or for new members to our town to enjoy. If you have an old…
Archive News Pleasant Valley Association papers now available Our new archivist Julie Hughes has been hard at work every Thursday at the Bacdayan Archive Room in the Lyme Public Library. In addition to the Beebe Collection, she has organized all of the papers we have received relating to the Pleasant Valley Association so that they…
You are cordially invited to the Lyme Public Hall’s Spring Open House on Saturday, April 2 from noon to 3 pm. Java Groove (“from swing to Sinatra to Sting – music with twice the caffeine”) will be performing in the Hall through 3 pm, and the Rolling Tomato pizza truck will be serving from noon…
Please use extra caution when driving in Lyme this April — watch for your neighbors and Town workers along the roadsides during the annual Lyme Roadside Cleanup! In honor of Earth Day – April 22, 2022 — residents are invited to (carefully and safely!) show a little love to our beautiful roadways, adopting areas near…
The Local History Archives has been awarded a Connecticut Humanities Cultural Fund grant of $6,700. These funds will be used to defray the cost of digitizing the valuable and much-requested two thousand or so pages of the George Caples diaries, using a non-profit company that specializes in the careful handling and preservation of archival materials….
Endings and beginnings meet at midnight on 31 December 2021 and 1 January 2022, but we thought that was a bit early for a reception. Our fun begins on 1 January at 3 pm and runs until 6 pm. Our very own house band will liven up the Public Hall this New Year’s Day at…
… those jammin’ jazzers. And, in a sense, accompanied by the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk (don’t we wish), and a few of the other greats because they played Blue Seven, Meditation, Beatrice, Night and Day, Recorda-me, Footprints, St Thomas, In Walked Bud, Autumn Leaves, ‘Whisper Not’, and Avalon, a 1920 song written by Al…