Tag: #OldLymeCT
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Juneteenth Celebration
Live jazz by the Avery Sharpe Quartet and readings by acclaimed poets Kate Rushin, Marilyn Nelson, Rhonda Ward, and Antoinette Brim-Bell.
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Installation Ceremony
Featuring Kate Rushin, Poet in Residence and Professor of English, Connecticut College, along with poetry from Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School students, music and reflections from community leaders.
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Installs 12 More Plaques Honoring Enslaved People as Five-Year Project Sunsets, Brings Total to 60
By Elizabeth Regan on LymeLine.com on May 30, 2025 OLD LYME–Ten small brass plaques installed Friday morning on the Sill Lane Green are there to fill holes left by untold […]
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Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams
OLD LYME, CONN.- The FloGris Museum in Old Lyme, CT, presents its first solo exhibition by a contemporary Black artist, Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams, February 22 through […]
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Juneteenth Joyfully Celebrated at FloGris Museum with Jazz & Poetry
In LymeLine.com on June 16, 2024 OLD LYME—On Saturday, June 22, Witness Stones Old Lyme presented a celebratory event filled with jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold […]
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Witness Stones Installation Ceremony
By Dana Jensen in The Day on May 31, 2024 Old Lyme ― A ceremony was held at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Friday to recognize 10 more Witness Stones being placed […]
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‘Witness Stones’ Installation Ceremony Held in Old Lyme for 10 Plaques Honoring Enslaved Persons in Lyme
In LymeLine.com on May 30, 2024 OLD LYME – ‘Witness Stones Old Lyme’ will expand its project in 2024 to honor 10 enslaved persons, who labored in the Town of […]
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‘Witness Stones Old Lyme’ Hosts ‘Juneteenth’ Celebration of Jazz, Poetry at ‘The Side Door’, Saturday
In LymeLine.com on June 14, 2023 OLD LYME – On Saturday, June 17, in honor of Juneteenth—a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans—Witness Stones Old Lyme will present […]
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A Tangled Story: Witness Stones Project Celebrates Placement of New Plaques Honoring Enslaved
In LymeLine.com on June 7, 2023 OLD LYME — On June 2, a large audience, along with musicians, singers, genealogists, poets, and descendants, gathered on the lawn of the Phoebe Griffin […]
