Documents: “At this time”: Remembering Samuel’s Emancipation
Documents: At this time”: Remembering Samuel’s Emancipation On [...]
Landmarks: A Piece of the Porch
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image: Volute detached from the porch [...]
Exhibition Notes: Missing Pieces
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image (above): James Martin (English, active [...]
Photographs: Shad Nets
Shad nets stored on wooden reels were once a familiar sight along the Connecticut River. This photograph, taken ca. 1885 near the Reuben Champion house at Ferry Point, recalls the days when “shadding” was an important source of local income.
Landmarks: The Brick Store
Today a tangle of scrub trees and the Florence Griswold Museum’s paved driveway occupy the site of the historic Brick Store, a distinctive two-story building that stood for more than a century in the village.
Exhibition Notes: Albany and Lyme
From the Archives offers a local history perspective on Lyme’s Albany connections to accompany the Florence Griswold Museum’s summer 2012 exhibition On Hudson: Highlights from the Albany Institute of History & Art.
Profiles: Abigail Noyes Sill
The pastel portrait of Abigail Leverett Noyes drawn by itinerant British artist James Martin ca. 1798 lets us picture a young woman from Lyme who moved as a bride to the Hudson River Valley. The marriage contributed one strand to an expanding web of connections linking Albany and Lyme.
