Yesterday morning at 6:45 a.m., a bus pulled out of The Bowerbird parking lot with 65 members and friends of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme on board. Among them were five students from Lyme-Old Lyme Public Schools, including Hugh and Abigail Cipparone, who are seniors, Isaac Todd, and Isabella and Leland Hine.
Once in New York City, the bus party from Old Lyme joined what the Associated Press estimated was well over 100,000 marchers, who convened in downtown Manhattan. Other estimates put the figure as high as 300,000.
At 12:58 p.m., all marchers were silent until 1 p.m. when they made as much noise as possible, sounding an alarm to raise awareness about the growing environmental issues our world faces.
Marchers, who came from as far away as Canada, Alaska, El Salvador, and Texas, carried a variety of posters with messages about fracking, global warming, and other environmental issues.
