Photographs: Setting the Holiday Table
Photographs: Setting the Holiday Table by Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Documents: Holiday Greetings from Afar
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image: Harry Hoffman holiday card, White [...]
Cooking in Old Lyme: A Woman’s Highest Mission
by Carolyn Wakeman Feature Image: Lyme Receipt Book, printed by G. [...]
Landmarks: A Piece of the Porch
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image: Volute detached from the porch [...]
Exhibition Note: A Summer Task: Transporting Old Lyme’s Flowers
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image (above): Cecilia Beaux, Ethel Saltus Ludington, [...]
Exhibition Notes: Missing Pieces
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image (above): James Martin (English, active [...]
Exhibition Note: Lyme Artists and the Changing Landscape at Ferry Point
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image (above): Ellen Noyes Chadwick, View of [...]
Exhibition Note: Enduring Scenes from The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape
by Courtney Skipton Long, Curatorial Intern Featured image (above): Robert Eshoo [...]
Documents: Holiday Greetings
Old Lyme’s artists often chose nocturnal scenes for the original drawings and etchings they sent as holiday cards. See a selection of these greetings sending holiday cheer.
Documents: Sketches in an Autograph Book
Midway through Rev. William B. Cary’s leather-bound autograph book, Florence Griswold (1850–1937) and her sisters inscribed their names. They also contributed finely detailed sketches displaying their varied musical and artistic talents.
Documents: Griswold Family Letters, Part 1
An extensive collection of letters at the Florence Griswold Museum chronicles the relationship between a successful packet ship captain who spent months at sea and his often disconsolate wife. Written from 1840 to 1858, the correspondence between Captain Robert Harper Griswold (1806–1882) and Helen Powers Griswold (1820–1899) provides fascinating glimpses of community life in Lyme while tracing the journey of a captivating young “belle” from courtship and marriage through the joys and trials of motherhood. The earliest of Helen’s collected letters, written soon after their engagement, pours out her devotion but also hints at lingering uncertainty.
Exhibition Note: A Home Upon the Seas
What did the inside of a packet ship look like? Follow a reporter inside Captain Robert H. Griswold's ship, Toronto, of the Black X Line.
