Exhibition Note: Recalling Lyme’s Runaways
Exhibition Note: Recalling Lyme’s Runaways By Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Profile: Walter C. Noyes: Renowned Federal Judge and First President of the Lyme Art Association
Profile: Walter C. Noyes: Renowned Federal Judge and First [...]
Letters: Freedom on the Ballot in the 1856 Election
Letters: Freedom on the Ballot in the 1856 Election [...]
Exhibition Note: Fresh Fields–New Light on Familiar Settings
Exhibition Note: Fresh Fields–New Light on Familiar Settings [...]
Documents: “At this time”: Remembering Samuel’s Emancipation
Documents: At this time”: Remembering Samuel’s Emancipation On [...]
Profiles: This Great Work: Remembering Clara Dutton Noyes, R. N.
Profiles: This Great Work: Remembering Clara Dutton Noyes, R. [...]
Documents: Women Reading on Lyme Street
A simple hand-stitched notebook, its marbled paper cover faded over the centuries, records the religious, educational, and charitable purposes of Lyme’s earliest women’s organization. Mid-way through the construction of a new Meetinghouse at the foot of what is now Lyme Street, ten ladies from the town’s prominent families gathered in 1816 to establish a reading group.
Documents: Lyme Family Slaves, Part 2—Jenny’s Legacy
Amid the recipes, medicinal cures, and obituary clippings pasted into a simple string-bound scrapbook appears a hand-written list of Judge William Noyes’ (1728–1807) slaves. Kept initially by his great-granddaughter Mary Ann Noyes Learned (1818–1875) and later maintained by her cousin Martha Noyes (1833–1874), the scrapbook documents the family’s Negro servants over four generations.
Documents: Lyme Family Slaves, Part 1- Arabella’s Dwelling Place
A Negro slave named Arabella, of unknown origin, served in Lyme’s first parsonage. There she attended Rev. Moses Noyes (1643–1729) and his family until she passed by will to his daughter Sarah. The original Noyes homestead has been demolished, but Arabella’s dwelling place can still be imagined from a sketch drawn by artist Ellen Noyes Chadwick (1824–1900), based on her father’s descriptions.
Photographs: Sleighing in Lyme
In winters past when rivers froze and heavy snowfalls made roads impassable for carriages and wagons, sleighs provided transportation for Lyme’s wealthier residents. Local families used sleighs for travel to church on Sundays, for business and farm work, and for winter outings and journeys. But not everyone had access to sleigh rides. Less affluent townfolk had to walk through the bitter cold when they ventured outside.
Exhibition Notes: Needlework and the Education of Girls
by Caroline Fraser Zinsser, Ph.D. Introduction This paper will address [...]
