OLD LYME–On Thursday, Aug. 7, from 1 to 6 p.m., the American Red Cross will hold a community blood drive at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme.
The American Red Cross reminds readers that blood supplies are critical because every two seconds in the U.S., someone needs blood. While all blood types are needed, donors with type O blood are most urgently needed.
Type O negative blood is often reached for in emergencies when there is insufficient time to match a patient’s blood type.
Type O positive is the most common blood type, so it is important to keep type O blood and all blood types on hand at hospitals for people facing both chronic illness and sudden, life-threatening conditions.
OLD LYME— On Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., award-winning sportswriter, baseball beat writer and author Marty Gitlin presents a program about one of the the most intense rivalries in American sports – maybe the world. This free event will be held at the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library at 2 Library Ln in Old Lyme,
This fun program hosted by award-winning sportswriter, baseball beat writer and author Gitlin features videos of the biggest moments of the rivalry from well over a century, as well as trivia questions.
From the sale of Babe Ruth in 1919 that launched the Yankees dynasty and Curse of the Bambino to Joe DiMaggio vs. Ted Williams to the Brawl of 1967 to Bucky Dent to Munson vs. Fisk to the Red Sox Revenge of 2004 all the way to today – this program covers it all … and more!
Gitlin will have his Ultimate New York Yankees Time Machine Book and Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book for sale after the event.
Gitlin is a freelance book writer and journalist based in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to Diana, Princess of Wales (Greenwood 2008), he has written several history books for students, including works on the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, Battle of The Little Bighorn, and Stock Market Crash of 1929.
He has also written biographies of NASCAR drivers Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon.
Gitlin worked for two decades as a sportswriter, during which time he won more than 45 awards, including first place for general excellence from Associated Press. That same organization also selected him as one of the top four feature writers in Ohio.
To the contrary, there is no dispute between us and the Town about “ownership” since Tim Griswold’s Town Attorney publicly stated at a BOS meeting in August 2022 that his year-long investigation had found no evidence of ownership on the part of the Town. The Town and its counsel have since confirmed publicly and privately that they cannot and do not dispute that we own the Landing parcel in fee simple.
While the Griswold administration continued to claim there might have been a “public highway” along that spit of land based on a 1701 right of way, we discovered and published more than two years ago official Town records establishing that this right of way never went down what is now our back driveway, wasn’t even being used and indeed couldn’t be found in 1712, was replaced by another right of way in 1713 (which traces the current Tantummaheag Road and never touched our property), and by contract with the then-landowner Richard Lord (who became First Selectman in 1720) the Town surrendered all rights to any and all Town rights-of-ways on his property in 1727.
Saint Ann’s Church stands serene on Shore Rd. Photo courtesy of Saint Ann’s Episcopal Church.
OLD LYME–Saint Ann’s Episcopal Church has announced enrichment programs to engage kids and adults throughout the summer.
Starting this Sunday, June 29, Saint Ann’s will offer three sessions of the Godly Play curriculum for children from 3- to 12-years-old. The Montessori-based educational program uses an interactive storytelling process to explore the mystery of God’s presence in their lives, according to the church.
Godly Play classes will take place at 9:30 a.m. on June 29, July 6 and August 3. Parents are welcome to attend Saint Ann’s worship service at 9:30 a.m. while their children are in Godly Play, with children to join their parents in the service following the lesson.
For adults, the Summer Bible Study will take place on Mondays from July 7 to Aug. 25, at 5 p.m. in the Griswold Room or via Zoom.
The focus this summer will be on the Book of Acts, which tells the stories of the faith, joys, accomplishments and struggles of the earliest followers of Jesus.
Ted Efremoff’s Floating Living Room, Iteration #4, is shown in this photo by Christina Goldberg.
EAST HADDAM—I-Park, a nonprofit artists’ colony set within a 450-acre nature preserve in East Haddam, will hold itsfirst Open Studios event of the season from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 29.
The organization in a press release said artists will be in their studios, or at their artworks, from 2 to 4 p.m. to share glimpses into their creative process and the work they’ve developed during their time at I-Park. Visitors should try to arrive at 2 p.m. to experience all of the art, including the inaugural public launch of Ted Efremoff’s Floating Living Room.
The artists’ colony adjoining Devil’s Hopyard State Park is generally closed to visitors to give the artists undisturbed time to work on their creative endeavors. I-Park opens its grounds at the conclusion of each four-week residency.
Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the following eight artists:
New York-based visual artist Stephanie Beck earned an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Most recently she presented a solo exhibition at the Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space.
David Crowell is a composer and instrumentalist (saxophones, guitar) based in New York City. His work crosses stylistic boundaries encompassing contemporary classical composition, improvisation, jazz and experimental rock and pop. David received a PhD in composition at Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Saxophone Performance from the Eastman School of Music. He has studied improvisation with Ralph Alessi, Don Byron, Peter Epstein, Steve Coleman and Ravi Coltrane.
Ian Dippo is a multidisciplinary artist, landscape designer and arborist born in Michigan and based in Austin, Texas. He received a BS in Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University. I-Park is his first residency.
CT-based interdisciplinary artist Ted Efremoff is a professor of Art and Design at CCSU. His work deals with issues of displacement, marginalization and integration. It extends beyond explorations of human societies to the influence humans have on nature. His suspicion is that human creativity is not attached solely to the handle of art, but to ordinary activities that intersect every aspect of our lives. He is interested in the kind of literal and metaphoric travel through space and time that storytelling allows us to experience. The stories he tells focus on the creative solutions people find in living their daily lives.
Margaret Gerhardt is a transdisciplinary designer and registered landscape architect whose work bridges the digital and analog, the permanent and the impermanent, the familiar and the unknown. She holds a BFA in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon and a dual M.Arch/M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Virginia-based visual artist Foon Sham holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a professor of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park and has had 50 solo exhibitions in the US and abroad, including the National Building Museum and the Smithsonian Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.
NYC-based composer Elise Morris is a professional stage/studio musician and vocalist. She has composed numerous underscores for Scholas=c Audio Books, for documentary film shorts, dance performances, sound design for plays as well as music and lyrics for musicals. In 2023, her musical “MADam LUCY, deceased” was performed at The College of William and Mary. Her 2020 album Dancin’ With The Boys, released the single “Mardi Gras” reaching #1 on US iTunes Jazz charts – and “Unto Light Unbroken” reached #37 on US singer/songwriter charts and #7 in Canada.
Sarah Wang teaches writing at Barnard College. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a NYSCA/NYFA Nonfiction Fellow, a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow, a Center for Fiction Fellow, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a Kenyon Review Workshop Scholar, a Tin House Scholar, and the winner of a Nelson Algren prize for fiction. Her writing appears in The New Yorker; The Atlantic; London Review of Books; The Nation; The New Republic; Harper’s Bazaar; n+1; BOMB; and McSweeney’s. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2026.
Due to the fragility of the artworks and the natural features at I-Park, pets are not permitted on the grounds. Only part of the campus is wheelchair accessible at this time.
