… 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…
Where did all those greens come from! Those were Lyme greens collected by members of the Lyme Garden Club from the Lyme woods for members of Lyme Public Hall who signed up for the Wreath-Making Workshop that was held in the Public Hall. From set-up to clean-up, the Club gets the credit for arranging a…
This Wednesday, 8 December, at 7 pm we will be hosting the third open-jazz jam. Bring your own refreshments or enjoy cookies and hot chocolate provided by us. Everyone’s welcome. No entrance fee. Masks required. Hope to see you.
The Wreath-Making Workshop is full! Registration is closed.
The Wreath-Making Workshop is a LPHLHA-Lyme Garden Club event, but the credit goes mostly to the Garden Club. Don’t miss this opportunity to do something creative and have some fun. The Workshop is free and almost full. If you plan on participating register ASAP. Call Bill Denow at (860) 574-4143.
… here’s the press release (below) and here’s an article in The Day (thank you Elizabeth and Sarah) because this is a big deal! Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives Inc honors Archives’ Founder The Board of the Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives Inc. is pleased to announce the renaming of the…
Flashback to 2008 when the the Local History Archives was ten years old. Our newsletter that year celebrated the occasion with the article below. We focused more specifically on the driving force behind the Archives, Carolyn Bacdayan, in our 2020 newsletter (Passionately Preserving Lyme’s History by Joan Motyka) and our 2021 newsletter (Carolyn Bacdayan, Archivist Emeritus by…
Ok, we weren’t, but here is the first salvo. Today, we celebrate Carolyn Bacdayan’s monumental contribution as Archivist, now Archivist Emerita, to the town of Lyme. Henceforth, our Local History Archives room at the Lyme Public Library will be named the Carolyn Bacdayan Local History Archives. There will be a public celebration for Carolyn in…
We’ve still got a few events on our 2021 calendar — Wreath-Making with the Lyme Garden Club, another of our monthly jazz jamming evenings, and our welcome to the New Year … or, to warrant it being on our 2021 calendar, our goodbye to the departed year. More about each coming soon.
For the second year in a row, our Annual Meeting will be a Zoom event. This year it will be on Wednesday, 10 November, at 7 pm. Members are, of course, invited to participate in the Annual Meeting. If you would like a Zoom invitation, email us.