Glimpse: Green Shadows, A Rustic Gathering Place in Lyme
Glimpse: Green Shadows, A Rustic Gathering Place in Lyme [...]
Exhibition Note: Viewing the River
Exhibition Note: Viewing the River by Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Landmarks: Old Lyme’s Meetinghouse, Part III—The Controversy
The Independence Day holiday in 1907 passed without celebration in Old Lyme. Ashes still smoldered from the fire that demolished the Meetinghouse on July 3, and the community united in a sense of shared loss. But when the newly arrived minister proposed replacing the elegant white clapboard structure that had graced the village for almost a century with an “up-to-date” red brick church, controversy flared.
Landmarks: Painted Gardens, Part 1- Boxwood Manor
The dazzling displays of Old Lyme’s gardens have captured the eye of painters and photographers for more than a century. Beside village lanes and riverbanks, in formal designs and in cultivated wildness, blossoming gardens brought swaths of color to hotel grounds, country estates, and artists’ dooryards. Postcard views of the flowerbeds, hedgerows, rock walls, and fruit trees at Boxwood Manor became almost a signature image of the town’s scenic beauty in the 1930s.
