Monthly Archives: October 2020

This Morning, Join the Great Pumpkin Hunt of 2020!

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OLD LYME — The Lyme-Old Lyme Junior Women’s Club (LOLJWC) hosts the Great Pumpkin Hunt of 2020!

This morning, the Club will post a map of local landmarks and businesses where you can find their pumpkins. Head out with costumes and masks to find as many as you can.

The QR code will link you to the LOLJWC Facebook page (be sure to like and follow!), snap a picture with each pumpkin and post it to the LOLJWC Facebook page. Each post to our page will enter you for a chance to win two tickets to the Connecticut Science Center.

Participants are asked to follow all COVID guidelines set by local authorities or businesses. Stay safe and have fun!
If you own or work at a business in Old Lyme, Lyme, Old Saybrook, Westbrook, Essex, or Deep River and would like to participate, message the organizers and they will get you a pumpkin and put you on the map.

This Afternoon, Lyme Academy Offers ‘Trunk or Treat’ as a Fun, Safe Option to Enjoy Halloween

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OLD LYME — In light of the Coronavirus pandemic situation, the Old Lyme Board of Selectmen is urging families not to trick-or-treat on Lyme Street this year, but rather to remain in their own neighborhoods. The reason for this is that the size of the crowds, which usually gather on the street for the evening and generally number close to 1,000, will not permit social distancing to be followed safely on Lyme Street.

Lymes’ Youth Service Bureau is not hosting its traditional Halloween parade along Lyme Street for the same reason.

The board of selectmen also asked that Trick-or-Treaters anywhere in town, “… be mindful of not approaching homes with their lights out.”

There is now an alternative Halloween celebration on offer at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts on Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p.m., rain or shine, when a “Trunk or Treat” stroll will be held.

Region 18 families are invited to join Academy staff and volunteers for a COVID protocol-compliant event outdoors on the grounds of the Academy to collect candy and celebrate a little Halloween.

Masks and social distancing are mandatory.

Suggested stroll times by age group are as follows (families that cross age groups should chose the most convenient  time):

  • Little, tiny ones: between 2 and 2:30 p.m.
  • K- 5: between 2:45 and 3:45 p.m.
  • 6th grade and up to stroll between 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

If you have any questions or would like to help, contact the Queen of Halloween, Kimberly Monson, at kimberly@lymeacademy.edu or 860.434.5232.

Have a SAFE and Happy Halloween!

Tonight, Join a ‘Blood Moon Masquerade’ at I-Park

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Perception of the Ideal II by Allison A. Roberts will be on display during the Blood Moon Masquerade at I-Park, Oct. 31.

EAST HADDAM, CT — Calling all Ghouls and Ghosts!

I-Park cordially invites you to gather on Oct. 31, for the Blood Moon Masquerade.

In the shadow of the Devil’s own Hopyard, this event will be a roving celebration featuring Halloween-inspired “stations” (both indoor and out), projections, illuminations, and more. You and your guests will have a memorable evening traversing  trails, fields and studio spaces on the spookiest night of the year.

The party will be in the format of a crawl, with small groups exploring a variety of haunted spaces, forested trails and moon-lit landscapes. Costumes Encouraged. Drinks and snacks provided. Tickets are $65 per person with proceeds going to support I-Park’s non-profit artists-in-residence program.

Experience the dark side of I-Park in a COVID-safe environment. The event will have staggered start times to discourage large groups (each indoor space will host a maximum of 16 people at a time, and masks will be required where physical distancing is not possible. The total number of tickets will be capped at 80. We recommend sturdy footwear and flashlights for all attendees.

Blood Moon Masquerade is a limited capacity event and advanced tickets are required due to State guidelines.

For additional information, or if you have any questions, write to events@i-park.org or call 860-873-2468.

Set within a 450-acre nature preserve, I-Park is an international artists-in-residence program offering fully funded residencies in visual arts, creative writing, music composition/sound art, new media and architecture/landscape design. For more information including learning more about I-Park’s free public programs, or artists’ residency, visit i-park.org.

Letter to the Editor: Rubino Has Been Fighting for Women’s Rights for Years; If Elected, He Will Continue the Fight in Hartford

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To the Editor:

As a woman voter, I am concerned about the threat to women’s rights. It seems ironic, that we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, a women’s right to vote, and at the same time are at risk of losing ground in so many other ways. Despite the success of the early suffragists, and gains made in recent decades, women are now facing the deleterious impact of a possible shift in national policy. There is a clear threat to reproductive rights, achieved with the Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade in 1973. Additionally, legislation in many states has strategically eroded those rights.

Women need legislators who will provide strong state leadership and fight for their rights. I believe Dave Rubino is that leader. As a human right’s lawyer, he has worked diligently to protect women’s rights. He advocates for women’s equality, but also understands that progressive legislation must support that goal. He will work to ensure a living wage, pay equity, affordable housing, and childcare which is so essential to the quality of life for women. He will also support legislation that protects women from sexual harassment in the workplace, job discrimination, and domestic violence. He will make certain that Connecticut has legislation that serves as a firewall to national policy that threatens women’s rights.

Women need to know which candidates they can trust. Before they cast their vote, they need to know who will vote to protect their rights.

I have done my homework. I know that Dave Rubino will be there for me.

Sincerely,

Lorianne Panzara,
Old Lyme.

Death of Guy Wiggins Announced; Grandfather John Carleton Wiggins Helped Found Art Colony in Old Lyme, Father Guy C. Wiggins was Famous American Impressionist

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Guy Wiggins, a third-generation painter, scholar and diplomat has died Oct. 28, 2020, at age 100.

By Michael Astor

Guy Wiggins, a third-generation painter who traveled the world as a soldier, scholar and diplomat before devoting himself to an art career that lasted nearly half a century, has died at 100. The cause was cancer.

He was the son of a famous American Impressionist, Guy C. Wiggins and grandson of a celebrated Hudson River School painter, John Carleton Wiggins …

… When he was 10 the Great Depression hit and the family retreated to Old Lyme, where his grandfather, John Carleton Wiggins had helped establish an art colony decades earlier. His father and mother shrewdly bet that they could sell art lessons even if they couldn’t sell art and opened the Guy Wiggins Art School there in order to make ends meet. The school was successful and became a beacon for aspiring artists …

Visit this link to read the full obituary published Oct. 30 in The Day.