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FAMILY EVENT: Growing Chocolate: The History of 18th-Century Historic Chocolate

October 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

with The Pewter Pot Fine Spiced Chocolates, Salem, CT

Included with Museum Admission, no advance reservations required

Come and meet the chocolate artisans dressed in historic attire. Learn about the cocoa plant was transformed into chocolate during the 18th century.

Tasting samples of their delicious drinking chocolate available. Chocolate in various forms available for sale. Delicious fun for the whole family.

Wee Faerie Village: Gardener’s Grove is on view September 27–November 2, 2025.

Wee Faerie Village is generously supported by the ForGood Fund, Suzanne Joffray, the Community Foundation of Middlesex County (made possible by the Sherry and Herb Clark Family Fund and the Edmund T. and Barbara S. Delaney Fund), Chelsea Groton Bank, and Charter Oak Federal Credit Union.

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Date: October 11, 2025
Time:
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Event Categories: Adult Programs, Childrens Programs, Current Exhibition Programming, Wee Faerie Village

Venue

Florence Griswold Museum
96 Lyme Street
Old Lyme, CT 06371 + Google Map
Phone 860.434.5542
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Organizer

Florence Griswold
Phone 860.434.5542
Email FrontDesk@FloGris.org
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Name: FAMILY EVENT: Growing Chocolate: The History of 18th-Century Historic Chocolate
Start: 2025-10-11T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Florence Griswold Museum

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In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

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860.434.5542

96 Lyme Street | Old Lyme, CT 06371

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video detail: Courtney Mattison, Malum Geminos, 2019. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 84 x 250 x 22 in.; Courtney Mattison, Afterglow (Our Changing Seas VI), 2018. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 90.5 x 102 x 19.5 in., Courtesy of the artist; Photograph by Paul Mutino

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Don’t miss our latest news, events and exhibits.

RECEIVE OUR NEWSLETTER

In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, FloGris welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Florence Griswold Museum

860.434.5542

96 Lyme Street | Old Lyme, CT 06371

AFFILIATES:

video detail: Courtney Mattison, Malum Geminos, 2019. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 84 x 250 x 22 in.; Courtney Mattison, Afterglow (Our Changing Seas VI), 2018. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 90.5 x 102 x 19.5 in., Courtesy of the artist; Jennifer Angus, Installation in the Griswold House Dining Room for Silver Wings and Golden Scales, 2019, Courtesy of the artist; Photographs by Paul Mutino

“The variety in the landscape would drive an artist to distraction. It is a singular mixture of the wild and the tame, of the austere and the cheerful . . .”

—Martha Lamb, 1876

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Enjoy FREE general admission and many other perks when you become a Member.

During the first summers of the Lyme Art Colony the artists began to paint scenes on the door panels of the boardinghouse.

MISSION STATEMENT
In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Please consider including the Museum in your estate plans and join a very special group of donors.

FAMILY EVENT: Growing Chocolate: The History of 18th-Century Historic Chocolate

October 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Wee Faerie Village is generously supported by the ForGood Fund, Suzanne Joffray, the Community Foundation of Middlesex County (made possible by the Sherry and Herb Clark Family Fund and the Edmund T. and Barbara S. Delaney Fund), Chelsea Groton Bank, and Charter Oak Federal Credit Union.

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Don’t miss our latest news, events and exhibits.

In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Florence Griswold Museum

860.434.5542

96 Lyme Street | Old Lyme, CT 06371

AFFILIATES:

video detail: Courtney Mattison, Malum Geminos, 2019. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 84 x 250 x 22 in.; Courtney Mattison, Afterglow (Our Changing Seas VI), 2018. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 90.5 x 102 x 19.5 in., Courtesy of the artist; Photograph by Paul Mutino

© 2025 Florence Griswold Museum. All Rights Reserved.

Don’t miss our latest news, events and exhibits.

In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, FloGris welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Florence Griswold Museum

860.434.5542

96 Lyme Street | Old Lyme, CT 06371

AFFILIATES:

© 2025 Florence Griswold Museum. All Rights Reserved.

“The variety in the landscape would drive an artist to distraction. It is a singular mixture of the wild and the tame, of the austere and the cheerful . . .”

—Martha Lamb, 1876

JOIN OUR ART COLONY

Enjoy FREE general admission and many other perks when you become a Member.

During the first summers of the Lyme Art Colony the artists began to paint scenes on the door panels of the boardinghouse.

MISSION STATEMENT In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Please consider including the Museum in your estate plans and join a very special group of donors.

FAMILY EVENT: Growing Chocolate: The History of 18th-Century Historic Chocolate

October 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Wee Faerie Village is generously supported by the ForGood Fund, Suzanne Joffray, the Community Foundation of Middlesex County (made possible by the Sherry and Herb Clark Family Fund and the Edmund T. and Barbara S. Delaney Fund), Chelsea Groton Bank, and Charter Oak Federal Credit Union.

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Don’t miss our latest news, events and exhibits.

In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Florence Griswold Museum

860.434.5542

96 Lyme Street | Old Lyme, CT 06371

AFFILIATES:

video detail: Courtney Mattison, Malum Geminos, 2019. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 84 x 250 x 22 in.; Courtney Mattison, Afterglow (Our Changing Seas VI), 2018. Glazed stoneware and porcelain, 90.5 x 102 x 19.5 in., Courtesy of the artist; Photograph by Paul Mutino

© 2025 Florence Griswold Museum. All Rights Reserved.

Don’t miss our latest news, events and exhibits.

In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, FloGris welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.

Florence Griswold Museum

860.434.5542

96 Lyme Street | Old Lyme, CT 06371

AFFILIATES:

© 2025 Florence Griswold Museum. All Rights Reserved.

MISSION STATEMENT
In the spirit of the Lyme Art Colony, the Florence Griswold Museum welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds to get up close and personal with the art of Connecticut.