Author: Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives

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.  

Rinse.  Wash.  Repeat.  But different each time.  That’s a jam.  That’s jazz. The core rhythm section from September of Adam Anderson (bass), Hillyn Schmelzer (drums), and Tim Lewis (guitar) returned again in October.  They were joined by a number of other musicians who lit up the Public Hall on the last Wednesday of the month playing…

Rolf Wolfswinkel gave the third and final talk in his series on Germany (1919-1946) at the Hall this past Sunday (24 October.)  Most of the 60 people in attendance were also present for the first two talks.  This one stood out because Rolf included personal observations from his experience in Holland during and after the…

This Wednesday at 7:00 pm, another opportunity for musicians to sit-in, another opportunity for the rest of us to listen-in. We did this a month ago and had a few surprises.  We expect more of the same this month. Please join in, one way or the other, for things unexpected because it’s all about jazz.