Juneteenth Celebration of Jazz & Poetry at the FloGris Museum
FEATURING THE NAT REEVES QUARTET & POETS MARILYN NELSON, KATE RUSHIN, RHONDA WARD, ANTOINETTE BRIM-BELL On Saturday, June 22, Witness...
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Jun 132 min read
Plaques at Lyme Public Library Expand Old Lyme Witness Stones Project
Community Gathers for Commemorative Event On Friday, May 31, the community gathered at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library for a...
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May 161 min read
Community Invited to the 2024 Witness Stones Installation Ceremony
All are welcome to attend the 2024 Witness Stones installation ceremony on the lawn of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, 2 Library Lane,...
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May 144 min read
Prince Griswold Crosley Honored by the Sons of the American Revolution
May 2, 2024 - Old Lyme, CT The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held a color guard ceremony at Duck River...
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Jun 14, 20233 min read
Jazz & Poetry Featured on Juneteenth
with Jesse Hameen II Jazz Quartet & poets Marilyn Nelston, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward & Antoinette Brim-Bell
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May 30, 20231 min read
Witness Stones Old Lyme Celebrates Third Installation in Black Hall
On June 2, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the third installation of Witness Stones —historical...
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Nov 14, 20221 min read
Tracing Lyme's Runaway Slaves
In a History Blog article posted on the Florence Griswold Museum's website, Old Lyme Witness Stones chair Carolyn Wakeman reveals new...
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Oct 27, 20221 min read
Kyera Singleton speaks at Florence Griswold Museum's 2022 Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture
Kyera Singleton, the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, examined how and why former...
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Oct 5, 20222 min read
Marilyn Nelson Receives Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets
Marilyn Nelson has received the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor given annually by the Academy of American Poets to...
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Sep 28, 20223 min read
Witness Stones Old Lyme Celebrates Second Installation
On Friday, June 4, 2022, the community gathered on the lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the second installation of Witness...
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Jul 24, 20221 min read
Antoinette Brim-Bell is Connecticut's New Poet Laureate
Antoinette Brim-Bell has been named Connecticut's State Poet Laureate. Brim-Bell is one of the four poets who partnered with the Old Lyme...
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Jun 9, 20222 min read
Juneteenth Jazz & Poetry Celebration at the Florence Griswold Museum on June 18.
Featuring Nat Reeves Jazz Quartet & Poets Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell Saturday, June 18, 2022, 2 pm,...
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Jun 6, 20222 min read
Old Lyme Witness Stones Celebrates Installation of Sixteen New Plaques Honoring Those Once Enslaved
In much of New England, slavery has been forgotten, ignored, or assumed to be a practice confined to the South. Old Lyme now has thirty...
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May 25, 20222 min read
June 2022 Events
To celebrate the town’s newly installed Witness Stones, the Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership will hold a series of events in June. All...
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May 24, 20221 min read
PARJE Sister Mural Created at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School
A new Welcome mural was unveiled at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School. Jasmine Oyola-Blumenthal, who is an alumna of Lyme Academy College...
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Apr 15, 20221 min read
Witness Stones Old Lyme Featured on Podcast with Isabelle Barber
Witness Stones Old Lyme was featured in the third in a series of podcasts that highlight the work of organizations forwarding equity in...
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Mar 8, 20221 min read
Old Lyme Witness Stones Poets at Old Lyme First Congregational Church
On February 20, 2022, Antoinette Brim-Bell, Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin & Rhonda Ward, the poets that gave voice to some of the enslaved...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
Poems by Witness Stones Poets featured in November 2021 Poetry Magazine
The cycle of poems written by Witness Stones Old Lyme poets Antoinette Brim-Bell, Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, and Rhonda Ward, is...
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Jun 29, 20211 min read
PARJE Brings Communities Together to Achieve Rachial Justice Through Art
This first work commissioned by PARJE is a two-paneled painting (a diptych) meant to be seen together. The work reflects on the Edmund...
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Jun 29, 20211 min read
Witness Stones Poet Ronda Ward featured in The Day
New London Poet Laureate and Witness Stones Poet Rhonda Ward was featured in The Day on June 4, 2021. Click on the photo below to watch...
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