Back in April, one of our Board members was in a conversation with Dan Stevens.  It was looking like a long and quiet summer at the Lyme Public Hall with nothing scheduled until September.  Though public events couldn’t be hosted inside the Hall, they thought by late June or early July an outdoor concert might be possible, possibly held at the Lyme Grange.

The idea floated around Covid-19 developments for a month and began looking more and more realistic.  So the six members of the Board of Directors held an exploratory meeting at the Public Hall with Skip Beebe, President of the Lyme Grange.  Skip and the other Grange members responded enthusiastically.

Two weeks later, we held a second meeting and wandered around the Grange. As anyone knows who’s attended the Hamburg Fair, the grounds have folds and curls, crimps and puckers.  But few have been there without the Fair tucked into every furrow, gully, hollow, and ridge.

We walked in from Sterling Hill and down the steps into one of those hollows.  The grass hadn’t been cut since the last fair, so we were waist-high in fescue.  The large limbs of giant oaks drew us under them.  They sheltered benches on the side of a ridge that overlooked the riding arena.

This would be a lovely spot for a picnic and a Front Porch Style Concert.