Glimpse: Christmas with the Yankee Division, 1918
Glimpse: Christmas with the Yankee Division, 1918 by [...]
Glimpse: Christmas with the Yankee Division, 1918 by [...]
Glimpse: Old Lyme’s Wishing Well Tea Room by [...]
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured photo, above: Florence Griswold, "Moonlight." Postcard [...]
A letter from Woodrow Wilson to Robert Vonnoh reveals the Wilson family’s close ties to the Lyme Art Colony.
In the first decade of the 20th century when Ellen Axson Wilson summered in Old Lyme, eight white churches dotted the landscape. Together they expressed the beliefs and responded to the needs of a rapidly changing community.
Election day in 1900 fell on Tuesday, November 6, and Old Lyme’s eligible voters cast their ballots at the town hall starting “at 9 o’clock in the forenoon.” Above the polling place a Republican campaign banner declared: “Our Candidates McKinley & Roosevelt.”