On Wednesday, June 15 the Lyme Public Hall hosted a very special evening with invited guests Rowland Ballek, Les Cone, Bill Hawthorne, Lee Rhodes and Audrey Wayland, who discussed memories of growing up in Lyme during the years of World War II. What was it like to be a young person, on the home front,…
If you drive frequently along Route 156 through Hamburg Cove, you may have noticed some unusual equipment in the driveway of the Public Hall recently: a large dumpster and a temporary storage unit parked in front of our Undercroft garage doors. What has been going on? Long-time member and valued volunteer Bill Denow had noticed…
The Lyme Local History Archive now has Lyme-Old Lyme High School yearbooks from 1958 through 1998! Gloria M. Maddocks, the Principal’s secretary for 42 years, originally collected these yearbooks, which were generously donated by her nephew, Peter Evankow. Gloria clearly had a close connection with the students, writing each graduating class a congratulatory letter (some…
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…
February 13, 2015 was the 350th anniversary of the signing of the Articles of Agreement in 1665 between representatives of the plantation area called East Saybrook on the east side of the Connecticut River from the parent Colony of Saybrook on the west side to amicably separate from each other. Two years later in 1667,…
The recent news of Ebola and measles epidemics raises the question of whether a quarantine has ever been implemented in Lyme to prevent the spread of contagious disease through isolation or confinement of contagious individuals. The answer is “Yes”. There has been no shortage of contagious disease in the history of Lyme during the colonial…