Lyme Public Hall’s Exhibition on Impact of World War II on Lyme Residents Runs July 4-6

LYME, CT—2025 marks 80 years since the end of the second World War.

Visit Lyme Public Hall after the Hamburg 4th of July Parade to see a new exhibit from the Bacdayan Local History Archives exploring the impact of those war years on life and the families living in Lyme.

The exhibit will feature areas of interest such as:

  • Lyme’s WWII Veterans and Those We Lost in Action
  • Local warplane crashes
  • Lyme Minutemen & Grassy Hill Observation Tower
  • The Home Front: Grange, Rationing, Schools & More

As Jim Harding noted in the “Sound Breeze” on June 5, 1945: “… I don’t believe ever in the history of our towns have the people been scattered so far and wide.”

The exhibit will run Friday, July 4, from 10 a.m. to noon; Saturday, July 5, from 2 to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, July 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Lyme Public Hall is located at 249 Hamburg Rd.

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Elizabeth started her journalism career in 2013 with the launch of The Salem Connect, a community news site inspired by digital trailblazers like Olwen Logan. Elizabeth’s earliest reporting included two major fires — one at a package store and another at a log cabin where she captured, on video, a state trooper fatally shooting the unarmed homeowner and suspected arsonist. The experiences gave her a crash course in public record searches, courthouse procedures and the Freedom of Information Act. She went on to report for The Bulletin, CT News Junkie, The Rivereast, and The Day, where she covered the Lymes and helped launch the Housing Solutions Lab on affordable housing. Her work has earned numerous awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Now, after more than a decade in digital, weekly, and daily journalism, she’s grateful to return to the place where it all started: an online news site dedicated to one small corner of Connecticut.