top of page
Newsletter.jpg
masthead_edited_edited.png

Newsletters Archive

TOP

2026

 Issue 53 WINTER 2026 

  • Colonial Post

​​
​

RS Issue 53_Page_1_Page_1.jpg

 - Click each issue number to download PDF -

2025-2024

 - Click each issue number to download PDF -

 Issue 52 SUMMER 2025 

  • Railroads in Old Lyme

 Issue 51 SPRING 2025 

  • Joseph Rogers: A Patriot's Sacrifice

 Issue 50 First Quarter 2025 

  • Old Lyme Visiting Nurses Association and Public Health in Old Lyme ​

​

 Issue 49 HOLIDAY ISSUE 2024 

  • Lyme and the Tories

 Issue 48 SUMMER 2024 

  • Letters to Papa: Summers in OL

​

 Issue 47 SPRING 2024 

  • Rogers Lake

  • Annual Meeting

 Issue 46 WINTER 2024 

  • Lyme Tea Party

  • The Old Lyme Grange hall

  • Lecture Series: Unlocking Your Family Tree

2023 - 2020

 - Click each issue number to download PDF -

​ Issue 45 AUTUMN 2023 

  • Science-Farm-Market

  • 12th "Then & Now" Calendar launch

  • Lecture Series: The Life & Times of Private William Webb

 Issue 44 SUMMER 2023 

  • Farm and Market in Early Connecticut

  • Change and Growth for OLHSI Archives

  • Theodore Silvanos (Van) Lampos wins Carol Noyes Scholarship

 Issue 43 SPRING 2023 

  • Federalists and the Constitution State

  • Tribute to Steven J. Joncus

  • Lecture Series: WW1 Memorials in CT

 Issue 42 WINTER 2022 

  • Canals of the New Republic

  • CT Cultural Grant awarded

  • Lecture Series: genealogy for beginners

​

 Issue 41 AUTUMN 2022 

  • Prelude to the Pequot War

  • John Noyes artifacts on display

  • Oral History Project

 Issue 40 SUMMER 2022 

  • The Ferry Tavern

  • Archive Crew Award

  • Oral History resumes

  • William Larson wins Carol Noyes Scholarship

 Issue 39 SPRING 2022 

  • Shipbuilding on the Lieutenant R.

  • Charles J. McCurdy (1797-1891)

  • CT Humanities Grant award​

 Issue 38 AUTUMN 2021 

  • Then & Now Calendar launch

  • Turnpikes in the 1790s

  • Painting 55 Lyme St.

Issue 37 SUMMER 2021

  • New Lights, New Lands

  • Skip Bebee J.B. Noyes Award Recipient

  • Witness Stones Project

​ Issue 36 SPRING 2021 

  • The Glorious Rehearsal

  • Merv Roberts 1922 - 2020

  • Spring Lecture Series

 Issue 35 WINTER 2020 

  • Calendar Launch

  • James Brewster Noyes Award

  • Local Leaders in Human Rights

 Issue 34 SUMMER 2020 

  • The Charter - 1662

  • Adela Wilmerding 1933 - 2020

  • Carol Noyes Winter Scholarship winners

  • Call for Pandemic Memorabilia

 Issue 33 SPRING 2020 

  • Oral History Project launch

  • Duck River garden Club; 50th Anniversary

  • The Whaleship Globe and it's connection to Old Lyme

​

2019 - 2014

 - Click each issue number to download PDF -

​ Issue 32 Autumn 2019 

​

  • 2020 Calendar Launch

  • Profile: Janet York Littlefield

  • Property Rights in Connecticut

  • Internet resources

 

 Issue 31 SUMMER 2019

  • Mapping the Duck River Cemetery

  • ​

 Issue 30 SPRING 2019 

  • Expanded walking tour of Lyme Street

  • New survey of historic buildings in Old Lyme

  • Women's History Month

​​

 Issue 29 NOVEMBER 2018 

  • Profile - Lucius Horatio Biglow, III

​​

 Issue 28 SUMMER 2018 

  • OLHS Antiques Appraisal Fair

​​

 Issue 27 SPRING 2018 

  • Crossing the Connecticut River to Old Lyme

​​​

 Issue 26 NOVEMBER 2017 

  • People, places & things from the OLHS Archives

​

 Issue 25 SUMMER 2017 

  • OLHS Brings renewed life to "The Grand Drape"

  • General Lafayette visits Old Lyme

​​

 Issue 24 SPRING 2017 

  • A History of Old Grange Hall #162

  • The Lyme Tea Party

​​

 Issue 23 DECEMBER 2016 

  • OLHS Antiques Appraisal Fair

​​

 Issue 22 SUMMER 2016 

  • Museum Quality Doll House donated to OLHS

​​

 Issue 21 SPRING 2016 

  • Proposed High Speed Rail cuts through Old Lyme Historic District

  • Sears catalogue homes in Old Lyme

  • Old Lyme profile - Platt Hubbard

​

​

 Issue 20 DECEMBER 2015 

  • The Peckham Family letters

​​

 Issue 19  SUMMER 2015 

  • OLHS 10th Anniversary 2005 - 2015

  • Middle School students chair art project

  • Old Lyme profile - Charles H. Chadwick 1874 - 1953

​

 Issue 18 SPRING 2015 

  • Letters to Papa: Charlie Chadwick's Summers in Old Lyme

  • Old Lyme Profile - Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury

​​

 Issue 17 DECEMBER 2014 

  • The Loving Parting - Lyme separates from Old Saybrook

​​

 Issue 16 AUTUMN 2014 

  • Help us to go over the top - Capital Campaign Letter 

  • Capital Campaign Gift from noted artist Catherine Christiano

2014 - 2006

 - Click each issue number to download PDF -

 Issue 15 SUMMER 2014 

  • Welcome to our new home - OLHS purchases the Grange as their new home.

​​

 Issue 14 SPRING 2014 

  • The Grange – The Beginning of the Journey to Purchase the Grange

​

 Issue 13 AUTUMN 2013 

  • Noteworthy  Houses of Old Lyme includes a poster and booklet describing each house.

  • Railroad comes to the CT Shoreline

 ​

 Issue 12 WINTER 2012 

  • OLHSI archives a new home – moved to the Town Hall temporarily.

  • Charles Griswold Bartlett: Mapping Old Lyme’s waterways.

​​

 Issue 11 SPRING 2012 

  • ​The trolley along the shoreline

  • The Nehantics – town historian John Pfeiffer did a lecture and slide presentation on the Nehantics

  • Old Lyme Profile – James B Noyes

​

​

​

​

 Issue 10 SUMMER-FALL 2011 

  • The Charm of the Place: Book, reception explore Old Lyme in the 1920’s

  • Old Lyme Profile – Mary Jean Vasiloff

​

 Issue 9 WINTER 2011 

  • New walking tour to hit the streets soon

  • The life and times of the Old Lyme A&P

  • Old Lyme Profile – Sylvia Marsh
     

 Issue 8 SUMMER 2010 

  • Sound View and more: history of Old Lyme’s beaches explored in new book

  • Exhibit Caroline Zinsser discuss book about pioneering local physician – Vine Utley

  • Old Lyme profile – Mervin Roberts

​​

 Issue 7 WINTER 2010 

  • Telling stories out of school: Society launches oral history project. Did you know?

  • Harold and Hilma Berggren

​​

 Issue 6 SPRING 2009 

  • New Land Savers book opening at Florence Griswold Museum.

  • New OLHSI program offers local history scholarship.

  • Historian Jon Pfeiffer story on Stanley Davis and slavery in our region’s past.

  • Museum‐like McCurdy Road house held “yesterday’s treasures”

 

 Issue 5 - WINTER 2009 

​

  • Old Lyme’s unique history comes alive in 2008 Recalling the 1938 hurricane

  • Did you know – an article about the Black Hall Store. Historian John Pfeiffer explores Old Lyme’s maritime tradition

​

 Issue 4 - SUMMER 2008 

​

  • Society gets its own office – Rental agreement with PGN Library provides a Room with a view.

  • Historian John Pfeiffer tells captivating tales of “legalized piracy”

  • Did you know – featuring the building on the corner of Lyme Street and Ferry Road.

​

 Issue 3 - WINTER 2008 

​

  • Historical Society plans for 2008: Tours, publications and community outreach

​

 ISSUE 2 - WINTER 2007  

​

  • Duck River Cemetery Visit

  • Tales of Local Steamboats

  • “Poverty Island” a memoir about local life in Old Lyme. New publication has been released.

​​

 ISSUE 1 - WINTER 2006  

  • New Society focuses on bringing to life to town’s past“

  • First Settlers” project traces Old Lyme’s creating and growth

OLHSI281_LOGO_transparent_out_rgb.png

Old Lyme Historical Society, Inc.

Address: PO Box 352,  55 Lyme St., Old Lyme, CT 06371

Phone: 860-434-0684  |  Email: info@oldlymehistorical.org

Archives Hours: Mondays 9-1 & Tuesdays, 12-3

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
Questions? Contact us! 
 

Thanks for submitting!

bottom of page