There will be a community barn raising from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today (Saturday) at the corner of Burr Rd. and Bill Hill Rd. in Lyme, on the site where a previous older barn was demolished this past week.
The new barn’s foundations are taking shape.
Willing hands of all ages are welcome.
We do not have much information on the event at this time.If you do, please send it along to ediotr@lymeline.com asap!
Thanks!
The Lower Connecticut Valley branch of AAUW (American Association of University Women) will sponsor a luncheon at the Saybrook Point Inn on Saturday, April 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Randy Susan Meyers, author of the bestseller, The Widow of Wall Street, and Brunonia Barry, author of the novels The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal, will discuss their books and their writing process.
Tickets are $50 and help to provide scholarships for local women pursuing higher education. There will also be silent and chance auctions.
For more information, visit http://lowerctvalley-ct.aauw.n
If interested in attending, call Sara Keaney at 860-395-4298.
The Connecticut Audubon Society’s Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center is hosting a three-part Spring Lecture Series from April 19 through May 17.
The second lecture in the series will be held Thursday, May 3, at 5 p.m. at Essex Meadows and is titled The Remarkable Edward Lear.
Edward Lear (1812-1888) is best known and much loved for “The Owl and the Pussycat.” But he was also a fine painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous, world-wide traveler.
Lear’s paintings of parrots, macaws, toucans, owls, and other birds are among the finest ever published. Often compared to his friend and contemporary, John James Audubon, the two men are considered among the greatest natural history painters of the age. Using slides of Lear’s extraordinary work, Robert Peck will describe his career in natural history. He will show how he compares to and differs from Audubon, and discuss his lasting influence today. RSVP here
The third and final lecture in the series will be held Thursday, May 17, at 5 p.m. at Lyme Art Association and is titled Creation of a Genius: Roger Tory Peterson.
Roger Tory Peterson made his home and, as an adult, found inspiration for his monumental work on the banks of the Connecticut River Estuary. But the seeds of his passion for art and conservation were sown in his youth. Twan Leenders, President of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, N.Y., will focus on Peterson’s early years, his youthful explorations, and how the hidden treasures of his hometown, were to become a passion and eventually lead to inspiring amateur and professional naturalists through generations and throughout the world. RSVP here.
The world-renowned Stan Kenton Legacy Jazz Orchestra is on tour all across the country and will be making a stop at East Lyme High School on Tuesday, April 17, for a very special performance.
Stan Kenton was a highly influential American popular music and jazz artist. A pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative jazz orchestra from the 1940s through the 70s; in Kenton’s own words, it was “progressive jazz”. He was also on the cutting edge of jazz education with the Stan Kenton Band Clinics starting in the late 1950s.
Kenton conceived the idea out of concern that education of jazz and all its forms were not reaching teenagers who showed interest in it. He strongly felt that the survival of jazz depended heavily on the ability of leaders and artists in the jazz
community to educate a younger generation.
Today, alumni from the 1956-1978 Stan Kenton Jazz Orchestra play at festivals, clinics, concerts, cruises and dances. Performing some of the well-known music of the Stan Kenton Orchestra and in keeping with Stan’s insistence on not just performing nostalgia type music, they also perform fresh new material written in the Kenton style and original material written by members of the Band, carrying on Stan’s dedication to creative music and jazz education.
Leader Mike Vax has led a big band since his days at College of the Pacific over 45 years ago. The goals of the big band are to perform meaningful music, talk about the importance of the jazz heritage in America, bring jazz music to young people, and to offer audiences a wonderful evening of jazz.
The performance will be held on Tuesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. at the East Lyme High School Auditorium. Earlier in the day, students will be participating in a variety of jazz clinics.
Adult general admission tickets are $32; Seniors 60+ and Students are $25. For ticket sales and more information, visit https://tinyurl.com/elhsjazz
Prof. Alexis Dudden, PhD
On Thursday, April 12, the Southeast Connecticut World Affairs Council presents Professor of History at the University of Connecticut Alexis Dudden, PhD, and who will speak on Northeast Asia at the Crossroads?
A reception starts at 5:30 p.m.in Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School and the presentation begins at 6 p.m.
Dudden’s topic will consider today’s fluid and complex situation in Northeast Asia with a special emphasis on Korea.
Following the presentation, join the speaker, guests, and fellow members for a meal at Old Lyme Country Club. The cost is $35 per person.
Call 860-912-5718 or email info@secwac.org to make your reservation (vegetarian option available if reserved in advance). Checks payable to SECWAC or credit card payment are accepted before the meeting by Courtney Assad.
Alexis Dudden is a Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Columbia University, and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. She is the author of several books and academic articles on Japan and Korea. She is currently writing a book about Japan’s territorial disputes and the changing meaning of islands in international law.
In a WNPR interview in 2017, Dr. Dudden commented that part of the North Korean leadership’s strategy for survival goes back to the end of the Soviet Union, and, specifically to the execution of the Romanian leader Nicolau Ceaucescu, as well as to the Bush “Axis of Evil” speech in 2002, which prompted the Kim regime to accelerate the development of nuclear technology.
How this meshes with the rise of China and the status of Japan is captured in her interview in The Diplomat in 2015, when she commented, “Today we see the return of the more traditional world order in East Asia, one that is increasingly focused around China. The dominance of Japan that shaped the 20th century is fading and the impact of the ‘Western powers’ is less critical, at least in the popular imagination.”
The presentation is a part of the SECWAC Speaker Series. SECWAC meetings are free to members (half-year membership February-June is $37.50/year; $12.50/year for young professionals under 35). Walk-ins are $20 for the general public (non-members; the $20 cost can subsequently be applied towards a SECWAC membership). SECWAC membership is free for area college and high school students.
SECWAC is a regional, nonprofit, membership organization affiliated with the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA). The organization dates back to 1999, and has continued to arrange 8-10 Speaker Series meetings annually, between September and June. The meetings range in foreign affairs topics, and are hosted at venues along the I-95 corridor, welcoming members and guests from Stonington to Old Saybrook, and beyond. SECWAC’s mission is “to foster an understanding of issues of foreign policy and international affairs through study, debate, and educational programming.” It provides a forum for nonpartisan, nonadvocacy dialogue between members and speakers, who can be U.S. policy makers, educators, authors, and other experts on foreign relations. Learn more at http://secwac.org.
Learn more at secwac.org.