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.
Documents: Griswold Home School, Part I–Beginnings
Although Florence Griswold’s unique role in the history of American art has been well documented, we have known surprisingly little about her life as head of the Griswold Home School, an educational institution which preceded the arrival of her artist boarders and occupied the four women of the Griswold family for fourteen years from 1878 to 1892. But by tracking newly uncovered historical sources, we now know much more about the workings of the school and about Florence Griswold in her position of school administrator.
Profiles: Robert Harper Griswold (1806–1882)
Captain Robert Griswold is remembered as a respected sea captain who owned one of the grandest homes in Old Lyme and whose daughter Florence was the inspiration for the thriving museum that today bears her name. Family letters and the journal of a famous American novelist shed light on his character and his years at sea.
