The Revolution Was Here, Too: Husband-and-Wife Historians Trace the Lymes’ Role in America’s Founding

OLD LYME, CT – Local historians Jim Lampos and Michaelle Pearson will present Revolution in the Lymes: From the New Lights to the Sons of Liberty on June 29 at 7 p.m.

The presentation will take place at the Old Lyme Historical Society, 55 Lyme St.

Lampos and Pearson will explore how the Revolutionary War took root in the communities that now comprise Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme and Salem.

The presentation, based on the premise that the war began as “a rebellion of ideas,” traces the region’s history from its origins in the Cromwellian Saybrook Colony, through the growing resistance, to British rule in the years leading up to the American Revolution.

Topics will include the tradition of local self-governance that flourished in Lyme, the opposition of Rev. Stephen Johnson to the Stamp Act in 1765 and a local protest in which residents burned 100 pounds of British tea near the town green. The program will also examine the community’s response to the outbreak of war in 1775, when Lyme residents were among the first to answer the alarm from Lexington.

The program is open to the public.