Monthly Archives: November 2013

Veteran’s Day to be Celebrated in all LOL Schools Today

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veteran's dayLyme-Old Lyme Public Schools are honoring Veteran’s Day with events at each school, as follows:

Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School

8:00-9:00 a.m. – Breakfast

9:00-10:00 a.m. – Assembly

Lyme-Old Lyme High School

10:30-11:15 a.m. – Assembly followed by refreshments

Center School

8:45 a.m. – Flag Raising Ceremony

11:30-12:15 p.m. – Veteran’s Reception (library)

12:15-1:15 p.m. – Assembly (gymnasium)

Lyme Consolidated School

1:15 p.m. – Tea

2:15 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. – Assembly

Mile Creek School

2:00 p.m. – Assembly and Tea

The public is welcome to attend any or all of these events at which local veterans will be honored.

The Lyme and Old Lyme Town Halls will be closed in honor of Veteran’s Day, along with both town’s post offices and libraries.

Old Lyme Boys Storm into State Semis, Defeat Top Seeded Saybrook 3-1, Face Cromwell Tomorrow

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The Wildcats celebrate their victory.

The Wildcats celebrate their victory.  Photo by M. O’Donnell.

In a major upset Saturday afternoon, the 9th-seeded Old Lyme boys stunned top-seeded Old Saybrook with three goals in the CIAC state quarter-final, while only allowing one goal past Wildcat keeper Spencer Saunders.

After a scoreless first half, Alex Klippinger scored first for the Wildcats when the Saybrook keeper caught his shot and then dropped the ball over his head allowing it to roll into the goal.  Nate Peduzzi followed up with two superb goals, crushing the Rams brief come-back attempt when they scored a lone goal with the score at 2-0.

The ‘Cats now meet Cromwell in the semi-final at Guilford tomorrow.

Chester Synagogue Remembers Night of Broken Glass, Tonight

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Major General Maurice Rose Post 51 Jewish War Veterans will mark the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht in a special program on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 5 p.m.   The event will be held at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, 55 E. Kingshighway, in Chester.

Kristallnacht means the “Night of Broken Glass.”  On Nov. 9, 1938, in Nazi Germany and in parts of Austria, synagogues, schools, cemeteries, hospitals, and businesses were destroyed and set on fire.  The next day, 35,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

In the coordinated attack, 1,000 synagogues were burned (95 in Vienna alone) and 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.    Historian Martin Gilbert writes that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and accounts from foreign journalists working in Germany sent shock waves around the world.  The New York Times wrote at the time: “No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenseless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.”

The program will highlight German history leading up to the beginning of the Holocaust, as well as life in the U.S. at the time.  Kristallnacht was followed by additional economic and political persecution of Jews.  It is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany’s broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.

A deli dinner will be served at the program.  Reservations may be made by sending a check for $18, payable to “JWV Post 51.”  Mail to: Kevin Fox, 304 Colt Highway, #30, Farmington CT 06032.

Introducing a Letter From Paris

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Nicole Prévost Logan

Nicole Prévost Logan

We are delighted to introduce a new columnist to LymeLine today.  Nicole Prévost Logan divides her time between Essex and Paris, spending summers in the former and winters in the latter.  She will write a regular column for us from her Paris home where her topics will include politics, economy, social unrest — mostly in France — but also in other European countries.  She also will cover a variety of art exhibits and the performing arts in Europe.

Logan is the author of Forever on the Road: A Franco-American Family’s thirty Years in the Foreign Service, an autobiography of her life as the wife of an overseas diplomat, who lived in 10 foreign countries on three continents.  Her experiences during her foreign service life included being in Lebanon when civil war erupted, excavating a medieval city in Moscow and spending a week under house arrest in Guinea.

The End of an Era

By Nicole Prévost Logan

The International Herald Tribune – so familiar to American expatriates in Europe – is no more.  After 125 years of existence,  the newspaper lost its name, to become the International New York Times , on October 15 of this year.  The change marks the end of an era.

Hemingway’s hero in The sun Also Rises read it  and Jean Seberg, the journalist student in Jean Luc Goddard’s 1960 film Breathless, sold it on the Avenue des Champs Elysées.

Sold in 160 countries, the newspaper stood out as the most international of any daily publications.  Being printed in Paris, it was anchored in its local culture.  But at the same time,  for we Americans visiting or living in the French capital, it represented a life line to the home country.  Over the years it became the property of the New York Times and later of the Washington Post,  allowing its op-ed page to offer a wide spectrum of opinions across partisan lines.

It was an entertaining paper to read.  Some of us would go straight to the last page, looking for the crossword puzzles and the cartoons.  The columns of humorist Art Buchwald were an institution.  Syndicated in hundreds of  newspapers, he had a special talent to make people laugh, particularly by poking fun at politicians.  Every year at this time, the readers would look forward to the repeat of his column entitled “Merci Donnant” (literal translation of  Thanksgiving).