Third Annual Earth Day Fair Scheduled April 26
LYME, CT — The Lyme Public Hall has announced upcoming programs focused on World War I battlefields as well as a local celebration of Earth Day.
On Sunday, March 30, from 2 to 4 p.m., Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel returns for a talk about forty years of visiting, walking, and teaching about the old trenches of the 1914-1918 Western Front. His talk is titled “A Personal Pilgrimage to Old Battlefields.”
Wolfswinkel’s presentation has its roots in a casual question from one of his children about why there were so many cemeteries in Flanders, Belgium. The query led him to battlefields in Belgium and France as he searched for the places where war poets like Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg had died.
The program is about war poetry, according to the announcement – “and a little bit about history.”
On Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to noon, Lyme Public Hall will hold its third annual Earth Day Fair in celebration of Lyme’s plants, animals, birds, pollinators and people.
Table stations at the fair will address topics including composting, plastic pollution, energy efficiency, backyard chicken raising, wildlife on the Connecticut River, beekeeping and local birds.
The Lyme Garden Club will offer free garden seeds, while volunteers with the Lyme-Old Lyme Food Share Garden will discuss their mission to help alleviate food insecurity and support healthy nutrition by growing and distributing fresh produce to families in Lyme and the surrounding communities.
The events are free and open to the public. The Lyme Public Hall is located at 249 Hamburg Road (Rte. 156) in Lyme, Conn.
For more information, visit www.lymepublichall.org.