Past Events
Essex Savings Bank Community Investment Program
Date: Mon February 1, 2016 thru Mon February 29, 2016Time: local bank branches
Place: Essex Savings Bank Branches
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
If you are an Essex Savings Bank customer, please vote for the The Lyme Land Conservation Trust during the Essex Savings Bank Community Investment Program between February 1 to February 29. The funds allocated to us will enhance our ability to conserve the forests and streams of Lyme and provide public access to these beautiful places.
The Essex Savings Bank annually commits 10% of its after tax net income to qualifying organizations within the immediate market area consisting of Chester, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Madison, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook and Westbrook. This program provides financial support to over 200 non-profit organizations. The ballots are available to all Essex Savings Bank customers. The voters determine 30% of the fund allocations by voting directly for three of their favorite causes, charities or organizations who have submitted applications to participate. Ballots will be available at all Essex Savings Bank Offices. For more information.
10th Annual Land Trusts Amateur Photo Contest Deadline
Date: Sun January 31, 2016Time: 5:00 pm
Place:
Contact Email: photocontest@LymeLandTrust.org
Presenter: Land Trusts of Lyme, Old Lyme, Essex, Salem and East Haddam.
The deadline for submissions to the Photo Contest is January 31, 2016
To request an ENTRY FORM, email: photocontest@lymelandtrust.org
For more information go to Photo Contest NewsÂ
Amateur photographers of all ages are invited to share their love of the natural world. Participants, no matter their town of residence, may submit photos that focus on the celebrated and scenic countryside of Lyme, Old Lyme, Essex, Salem, and East Haddam. Itâs easy. Submit matted 8×10 prints of your favorite photos with the completed official Entry Form taped to the back. More details about submission can be found in the Contest Rules 2016. When you drop them off, protect your prints by wrapping them in paper or putting them in a large envelope.
Visit the Land Trust’s Photo Contest website to see last year’s winners at https://landtrustsphotos.shutterfly.com/
photo credit: Nicholas Avalos, winner Photo Contest Plants 2015
The deadline for submissions to the Photo Contest is January 31, 2016
To request an ENTRY FORM, email: photocontest@lymelandtrust.org
For more information go to Photo Contest NewsÂ
Amateur photographers of all ages are invited to share their love of the natural world. Participants, no matter their town of residence, may submit photos that focus on the celebrated and scenic countryside of Lyme, Old Lyme, Essex, Salem, and East Haddam. Itâs easy. Submit matted 8×10 prints of your favorite photos with the completed official Entry Form taped to the back. More details about submission can be found in the Contest Rules 2016. When you drop them off, protect your prints by wrapping them in paper or putting them in a large envelope.
Visit the Land Trust’s Photo Contest website to see last year’s winners at https://landtrustsphotos.shutterfly.com/
photo credit: Nicholas Avalos, winner Photo Contest Plants 2015
Maple Sap Collecting at Mt. Archer Woods – Talk and Walk
Date: Sat January 30, 2016Time: 1:30 pm
Place: Meet at Mt Archer Woods parking lot on Mt Archer Road
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us on a historical and modern-day tour of maple sap collection in Mt. Archer Woods. Bill & Liz Farrell of Fat Stone Farm, Lyme will lead us on a guided walk to see some of the oldest trees in Mt. Archer, the sugar maples lining the abandoned road, and discuss why and how they are using these and some of the younger offspring to make maple syrup.
Learn how Fat Stone Farm has applied modern sap collection technology to reduce both the energy intensity and environmental impact of harvesting sap from maple trees. Mt. Archer Woods is one of only a small number of properties world-wide where this new state-of-the-art yet extremely simple equipment has been installed.
Beyond discussing harvesting technology, tree physiology and ecology, the walk will touch on broader questions about agriculture in Lyme.
Registration is appreciated: openspace@townlyme.org
The walk is moderately easy, family friendly and will take about 2 hours.
Rain date: Sunday, January 31 at 1:30 pm
Directions: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left onto Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has âMt Archer Woods Town of Lymeâ written on it. It faces the road, so you canât read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
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Join us on a historical and modern-day tour of maple sap collection in Mt. Archer Woods. Bill & Liz Farrell of Fat Stone Farm, Lyme will lead us on a guided walk to see some of the oldest trees in Mt. Archer, the sugar maples lining the abandoned road, and discuss why and how they are using these and some of the younger offspring to make maple syrup.
Learn how Fat Stone Farm has applied modern sap collection technology to reduce both the energy intensity and environmental impact of harvesting sap from maple trees. Mt. Archer Woods is one of only a small number of properties world-wide where this new state-of-the-art yet extremely simple equipment has been installed.
Beyond discussing harvesting technology, tree physiology and ecology, the walk will touch on broader questions about agriculture in Lyme.
Registration is appreciated: openspace@townlyme.org
The walk is moderately easy, family friendly and will take about 2 hours.
Rain date: Sunday, January 31 at 1:30 pm
Directions: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left onto Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has âMt Archer Woods Town of Lymeâ written on it. It faces the road, so you canât read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
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POSTPONED-Maple Sap Collecting at Mt. Archer Woods – Talk and Walk
Date: Sat January 23, 2016Time: 1:30 pm
Place: Meet at Mt Archer Woods parking lot on Mt Archer Road
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Due to the weather forecast, this walk has been postponed to Saturday, January 30 at 1:30.
Join us on a historical and modern-day tour of maple sap collection in Mt. Archer Woods. Bill & Liz Farrell of Fat Stone Farm, Lyme will lead us on a guided walk to see some of the oldest trees in Mt. Archer, the sugar maples lining the abandoned road, and discuss why and how they are using these and some of the younger offspring to make maple syrup.
Learn how Fat Stone Farm has applied modern sap collection technology to reduce both the energy intensity and environmental impact of harvesting sap from maple trees. Mt. Archer Woods is one of only a small number of properties world-wide where this new state-of-the-art yet extremely simple equipment has been installed.
Beyond discussing harvesting technology, tree physiology and ecology, the walk will touch on broader questions about agriculture in Lyme.
Registration is appreciated: openspace@townlyme.org
The walk is moderately easy, family friendly and will take about 2 hours.
Rain date: Sunday, January 24 at 1:30 pm
Directions: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left onto Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has âMt Archer Woods Town of Lymeâ written on it. It faces the road, so you canât read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
Due to the weather forecast, this walk has been postponed to Saturday, January 30 at 1:30.
Join us on a historical and modern-day tour of maple sap collection in Mt. Archer Woods. Bill & Liz Farrell of Fat Stone Farm, Lyme will lead us on a guided walk to see some of the oldest trees in Mt. Archer, the sugar maples lining the abandoned road, and discuss why and how they are using these and some of the younger offspring to make maple syrup.
Learn how Fat Stone Farm has applied modern sap collection technology to reduce both the energy intensity and environmental impact of harvesting sap from maple trees. Mt. Archer Woods is one of only a small number of properties world-wide where this new state-of-the-art yet extremely simple equipment has been installed.
Beyond discussing harvesting technology, tree physiology and ecology, the walk will touch on broader questions about agriculture in Lyme.
Registration is appreciated: openspace@townlyme.org
The walk is moderately easy, family friendly and will take about 2 hours.
Rain date: Sunday, January 24 at 1:30 pm
Directions: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left onto Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has âMt Archer Woods Town of Lymeâ written on it. It faces the road, so you canât read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
Cancelled- Trailblazers walk- Overlook at Pleasant Valley Preserve
Date: Tue December 15, 2015Time: 10 am
Place: Meet at Pleasant Valley Parking Lot, MacIntosh Rd., Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Cancelled-Join us for this moderate walk in the woods. We will be walking up an incline to get to the overlook at Pleasant Valley. Everyone is welcome.
This weekâs hike will explore Pleasant Valley Preserve, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. The hike is a little more than 2.5 miles. This is the time of year to get a beautiful unobstructed view from the overlook at Pleasant Valley.
Rain or snow cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 north to left on Macintosh Rd. (across from Beaver Brook Road.) The parking area is about 1/4Â mile on the right.
Public Hearing on Draft of the Lyme Plan of Conservation and Development 2015
Date: Mon December 14, 2015Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Lyme Town Hall, 480 Hamburg Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email:
Presenter: Town of Lyme
At a meeting at the Town Hall, there will be an opportunity for public discussion and input concerning the Draft of the Lyme Plan of Conservation and Development 2015. The plan will be adopted pending public approval. The draft of the plan has been developed based upon the responses to a survey that was made available to residents of Lyme in 2014. To read the draft.
Warren Miller’s Chasing Shadows
Date: Wed December 9, 2015Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Old Lyme High School Auditorium, 69 Lyme ST, Old Lyme CT
Contact Email: briangreenho@gmail.com
Presenter: Old Lyme Education Association
Come celebrate winter and enjoy a screening the newest Warren Miller Movie, Chasing Shadows. This spectacular ski film features todays top ski athletes heli skiing the worlds tallest peaks, shredding the deepest powder and performing aerial tricks that will leave you dizzy.
Come early to visit with the Lyme Land Conservation Trust at their informational table in the lobby.
Tickets are $10 and everyone who attends gets a free lift ticket to Sugarbush and the chance to enter in a raffle for other lift tickets and some cool new ski gear. More details here – http://www.skinet.com/
Private Tour of the Samuel Smith House
Date: Tue December 1, 2015Time: 10:00am
Place: Samuel Smith House, 82 Plants Dam Road, East Lyme, CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Art Carlson, Friend of the Samuel Smith House
Join is for a private tour of the Samuel Smith House in East Lyme with Art Carlson of the Friends of the Samuel Smith House. The Town of East Lyme recently bought the house and 17 acres of property to preserve it as an historic property. The house was built in 1695. The inhabitants through-out the years maintained the antique quality of the house and many of the original features remain unchanged. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
This summer, the East Lyme Historic Properties Commission received a grant from the State Historic Preservation Commission. The grant enabled archaeological excavation to study the many years of âlivingâ that took place at the site. Art Carlson will talk about what was discovered.
Directions: Take Rte 156 to Bill Hill Road to Town Woods Road. At the end of Town Woods Road in Old Lyme, take a left onto Rte 1. Travel 2.4 miles to a right onto Plants Dam Road in East Lyme (just past the Rustic Cafe). The Samuel Smith House is about one mile down the road on the left.
Join is for a private tour of the Samuel Smith House in East Lyme with Art Carlson of the Friends of the Samuel Smith House. The Town of East Lyme recently bought the house and 17 acres of property to preserve it as an historic property. The house was built in 1695. The inhabitants through-out the years maintained the antique quality of the house and many of the original features remain unchanged. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
This summer, the East Lyme Historic Properties Commission received a grant from the State Historic Preservation Commission. The grant enabled archaeological excavation to study the many years of âlivingâ that took place at the site. Art Carlson will talk about what was discovered.
Directions: Take Rte 156 to Bill Hill Road to Town Woods Road. At the end of Town Woods Road in Old Lyme, take a left onto Rte 1. Travel 2.4 miles to a right onto Plants Dam Road in East Lyme (just past the Rustic Cafe). The Samuel Smith House is about one mile down the road on the left.
Post-Thanksgiving Sunday Hike – Hartman Park
Date: Sun November 29, 2015Time: 1:00 - 3:30ish pm
Place: Meet at Hartman Park Parking Lot
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
For those who want to work off turkey dinner and hike at a steady pace, Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust Board member, and Lyme open Space Coordinator, will lead a walk on the Red Trail in Hartman Park. This is a beautiful moderate trail that traverses diverse habitats and winds along craggy ridges strewn with boulders.
The entire walk is about 4 miles. It will take about 2.5 to 3 hours. We will take a short break halfway through. Bring a snack and something to drink.
Meet at the Parking Lot of Hartman Park on Gungy Road in Lyme.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Hartman Park is on Gungy Road about 1 mile north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection of Beaverbrook Road, Grassy Hill Road, and Gungy Road.
Registration is appreciated: openspace@townlyme.org
For those who want to work off turkey dinner and hike at a steady pace, Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust Board member, and Lyme open Space Coordinator, will lead a walk on the Red Trail in Hartman Park. This is a beautiful moderate trail that traverses diverse habitats and winds along craggy ridges strewn with boulders.
The entire walk is about 4 miles. It will take about 2.5 to 3 hours. We will take a short break halfway through. Bring a snack and something to drink.
Meet at the Parking Lot of Hartman Park on Gungy Road in Lyme.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Hartman Park is on Gungy Road about 1 mile north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection of Beaverbrook Road, Grassy Hill Road, and Gungy Road.
Registration is appreciated: openspace@townlyme.org
Preview of Documentary about Lyme and the Lyme Land Trust
Date: Fri November 20, 2015Time: 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Hall, 249 Hamburg Road, Lyme
Contact Email: rsvp@lymelandtrust.org
The 
Lyme Land Trust was recently selected as the subject for a PBS documentary on land conservation in a special town, our town of Lyme. It is part of a series entitled The Visionaries, hosted by actor Sam Waterson, which will be broadcast on over 100 PBS stations nationwide. Filming started last February, continued in April with a special visit with the students of Lyme Consolidated celebrating Earth Day and finished up in May at Tour de Lyme.
We want to show you, the members of the Lyme Land Conservation Trust, the pre-broadcast Directorsâs Cut. There will be two showings, at 6:00 and 7:00 pm. Please email rsvp@lymelandtrust.org to reserve a spot.
Many residents of Lyme appear, including Carolyn Bacdayan, Emily Bjornberg , Carol Dahlke, Ralph Eno, Fritz Gahagan, Lyndon Haviland, Tony Irving, Ralph Lewis, Parker Lord, John Pritchard, Penny Smyth, Jack Tiffany and the children and teachers of Lyme Consolidated School.
Please reserve your place at 6:00 or 7:00pm.
For additional information and reservations: rsvp@lymelandtrust.org
The 
Lyme Land Trust was recently selected as the subject for a PBS documentary on land conservation in a special town, our town of Lyme. It is part of a series entitled The Visionaries, hosted by actor Sam Waterson, which will be broadcast on over 100 PBS stations nationwide. Filming started last February, continued in April with a special visit with the students of Lyme Consolidated celebrating Earth Day and finished up in May at Tour de Lyme.
We want to show you, the members of the Lyme Land Conservation Trust, the pre-broadcast Directorsâs Cut. There will be two showings, at 6:00 and 7:00 pm. Please email rsvp@lymelandtrust.org to reserve a spot.
Many residents of Lyme appear, including Carolyn Bacdayan, Emily Bjornberg , Carol Dahlke, Ralph Eno, Fritz Gahagan, Lyndon Haviland, Tony Irving, Ralph Lewis, Parker Lord, John Pritchard, Penny Smyth, Jack Tiffany and the children and teachers of Lyme Consolidated School.
Please reserve your place at 6:00 or 7:00pm.
For additional information and reservations: rsvp@lymelandtrust.org
