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Abenaki Summer 2011, Summer 2016

Academy Hall (Lyme Center Academy) Winter 2016

Academy Hill memories Spring 2008

accounting books - D.C. Churchill Summer 2016

Ackerly, Frances Spring 2011

Ackerly, Bill - great-grandmother’s wedding dress

Fall 2007, Summer 2018

Acorn Hill, Edd Cutting’s memories 1884-85 Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall 2015

Acquisitions policy for LH Summer 2016

Adams, Melanie - grandmother’s wedding dress Summer 2018

Ad re runaway wife, Granite State Free Press 1886 Summer 2013

African-American graves in Beal Cemetery Feb. 2001

air raid wardens in Lyme, WW II Spring 2015

Alden, Ezra & Luella, photo November 1999

Alden, Steve -cellar hole project: currently “in use” -President of Lyme Historians 2017-

Winter 2012 Winter 2015 Summer 2017

American Foursquare house (Lyme Center) Fall 2014

American Legion Post 80 – see James H. Young Post

Alphabet zoo “Infant School cards” Fall 2010

“An Artifact Too Big” Fall 2012

Another Treasure Goes Home (hotel register) Spring 2015

Annual Meetings speakers

- Mulligan, Adair “Cellar Holes” Summer 2014

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- Nelson, Garrett “Lyme Landscapes: How People and Places Shape Each Other Over Time”

Spring 2018

- Sherburne, Michele A. “Underground RR in NH” Summer 2016

- Taylor, Steve“Poor Houses & Town Farms” May Summer 2015

-Titus, Martha Colburn Summer 2005

-Thorson, Robert Summer 2012

- Wainwright, Paul “New England Meetinghouses”

Spring 2017, Summer 2017

Appalachian Trail (Smarts Mtn.) Summer 2012

Appell, Jonathan (gravestone repair) Fall 2017

Arcadia book of Lyme photos Fall 2006

Archiving documents Fall 2014

Armstrong, Marcia - Pushee 1864 letter, transcribed Winter 2018

Auction, Sears collection Fall 2015

Auctions Summer 2014

“Aunt Sally,” Samuel Morey’s steamboat Summer 2016

B

Bacon, Carlton (quotes from We Had Each Other) Winter 2018

“Bailey Farm” (Irenus Hamilton house) - Dartmouth College Hwy. February 2002, Winter 2013

Bailey, - family & orig. farm on Citadel Lane -Morton Sr. 1911-2002 (includes photo)

- (quotes from We Had Each Other)

February 2002 February 2002 Winter 2018

Bailey, Morty (design & build of C-M parking lot) Fall 2016

Baird, Iris Summer 2012

Bake Ovens Winter 2009

Baker, Edward & Sarah house (Franklin Hill Rd.) - addendum re: front door

Winter 2010 Spring 2010

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Balch, Alfred (in Pony Hill Revisited)

March 2001 November 1999 Summer 2012, Winter 2016

Balch, Charles – school memories Fall 2012

Balch family & Dartmouth Skiway: Ellery, Raymond, John, Ron & Barbara, Kevin

Winter & Spring 2015

Balch, Frank, marries Harriet Pushee 1901 - wedding dress on exhibit

November 2001 Summer 2018

Balch, Margaret 1906-2001 (also photo: Margaret & Frank) December 2001

Balch, Mason April 2000, Winter 2017, Spring 2017

Balch, Mertie - (& Charles) - photos - seamstress of 2 wedding dresses in exhibit

Fall 2017 Summer 2018

Balch, Russell and Sandy’s home (“Cottonwood Farm”) Fall 2009

Balch, Samuel West , teamster -brings Spanish cannon to Lyme Common

June 2000 Summer 2018

Bandstands on the Common (& Earl Strout’s comments) April 2001

Baptist Church, Lyme Center - Cook memories

Fall 2004 Winter 2017

Barn at Churchill-Melvin House:

• exhibits: tools, two-holer

• grant to LH from NHPA

• “The Scoop:” report overview from R. Thompson

Fall 2017 Spring 2017, Summer 2017

Barns - Barn Inventory, 2000 - BARNS Now you See ‘Em, Now You Don’t - Barns of Lyme, built prior to 1910 - Preservation of

Winter 2017 Summer 2007 Fall 2003

Bartels, Carol Ann February 2002

Baseball Spring 2005

Beal Cemetery: Lyme School students’ work, & photos Oct. 2001

Beal, Col. Selah house, Lyme Center Summer 2010

“Bean Rock” Fall 2012

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Before There Was Lyme There was Odanaksiz Summer 2011

Bell tower at the Lyme Center Academy Winter 2016

Bell, William - house on River Rd. January 2002

Benjamin, Asher Winter 2013

Berger, Chris - grandmother’s wedding dress on exhibit Summer 2018

“Betty’s House” (Zadok Howard house, Lyme Center) Summer 2010

Bicentennial celebration of Lyme, 1961 July 2001, Spring 2015

Bicycling in Lyme 1900 (Hanover Gazette) June 2000

Bike path Jan. 2002

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn Summer 2011

Blacksmiths in Lyme (Dana Derby, Burton Elder) Winter 2018

Blanchard, Joseph & survey of 1761 March 2001

Blister Rust maps Spring 2017

Blood, - Elmer and Hattie C. Lincoln - Hattie

Jan. 2002 Fall 2014

Boating on the River — It’s come a long way Summer 2016

Bond, Hattie & Aurelia, and family Winter 2014

Border disputes (NY-NH, VT) April 2000

Boston Post Cane August 1999

Bowden, Mary (Olmstead) Summer 2007

Braasch, Bill Winter 2016

“Brains All Gone” 1896 advertisement Summer 2018

Braman, James 1917-2001 January 2002

Breeze Hill Farm (Brockway; Isaac Perkins Rd.) Fall 2012

Bridges -East Thetford -North Thetford

Fall 2014 June 2001, Summer 2015

Brockway – Day Family reunion Fall 2012

Brockway, Guy: medals, etc from WW I Fall 2012

Brown, Matt Winter 2014, Winter 2016

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Brundage Lodge at the Skiway Winter & Spring 2015

Bryant, George & Blanche (anniversary poem by Derbys, 1950) May 2001

bureau, Cook’s, returns to Lyme Center Summer 2014

Burying Grounds of Lyme Fall 2007

Bus tours – Randy Dickson October 1999

Butler, Rev. Edward, pastor LCC 1874-1889 June 2001

Buzzell, Glen February 2000

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Calling cards, of Hattie Blood Spring 2010

Camp Pinnacle corrections & more memories

Summer 2004 Fall 2004, Winter 2005

canals on the Connecticut River Summer 2016

candy counter, from Lyme Cash Market Winter 2017

canoe trips on the Connecticut River Summer 2016

Cannons -Cannon on the Common -cannon in Lyme Center (“Old Fifty-Six”)

July 1999 June 2001, Summer 2018 Summer 2018

capital campaign, Historians’ 2018-19 Fall 2018

Capturing the Connecticut Spring 2013

Cary, Jay Cemetery Trustee Fall 2017

Cash Market, Lyme Winter 2017

Cellar holes, drawing of stone foundations; project to examine cellars under standing houses

Winter 2015

Cellar Holes project & A. Mulligan presentation Fall 2006, Spring 2008 Winter 2012, Spring 2014, Summer 2014

Cellar Holes reports:

- Appalachian Trail site, with families Summer 2013

- Bailey homestead – Bailey Hill Road Summer 2011

- Converse - Lyme Town Forest Spring 2010

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- Gilbert - Goodell Lane Spring 2012

- Goodell Lane Spring 2012

- Rood, Z - Orfordville Rd, Z. (Skellys) Summer 2016

- Rotheus Mitchell Lane (Dimick, Hart) Winter 2013

- Town Forest (Converse sites: Joel; Francis family; Aaron Taylor)

Spring 2016

Cemeteries - Beale, Gilbert, Porter quick overviews - Beale: grave of black slave - Beale memory - Grave Matters (all burying grounds of Lyme) - on town website - Porter Cemetery photo in Nat’l Geographic - restoration work - “Tinkhamtown”

Fall 2017 February 2001 Winter 2018 Fall 2007 Fall 2011 Fall 2017, Winter 2018 Fall 2017 Summer 2012

Cemetery map (Old Cemetery) scanned Fall 2018

Cemetery Tour (Aug. 2003) - including photos Fall 2003

“Chaffee house 1948-99” (Alanson Grant House) Dec. 2001, Summer 2003

Chaffee - Dorcas and Dr. Robert - Robert, and the Common’s cannon - Sanctuary north of Post Pond - Sarah (Valley News photo 1959)

June 1999, Summer 2003 Summer 2018 Summer 2003 Summer 2014

Chair and ladder factory on Dorchester Rd. Winter 2010

Chase Beach property purchased by Town 1962 March 2002

Chase-Manhattan Bank’s ad of “Lyme’s Town Meeting” March 2002

Chesley - Arthur - Carol (Perry)

Fall 2017 June 2001

Chesley Hill Fall 2009

Chesley School - Chesley School: Protected! - letter from Scott Derby, Chesley grandson - Summer Sundays open

Fall 2009 Fall 2017 Winter 2018 Summer 2018, Fall 2018

Child, Jonathan (first mayor of Rochester, NY) Spring 2005

Children’s toys and clothing Summer 2013

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Christmas -PHA Claflin diary - 1926

Fall 2014, Fall 2017 Dec. 2001

Christmas Pageant December 1999, Winter 2003

“Christmas Shop” December 1999, Winter 2011, Fall 2018

“Church on High” (Lyme Center Baptist Church) Fall 2004

Churchill, Judge David C. July 2001

Churchill - Melvin house, - Historians move

- 2016 layout

Summer, Fall 2015; Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall 2016 Fall 2016

Churchill Room (at 15 Main St.) Fall 2016

Churchill Store accounting book 1880s Summer 2016

Church Sails for Two Centuries Spring 2012

Circus posters from barn wall Winter 2011

Civil War - Encampment on Lyme Common

Summer, Fall 2013

- letters from Lyme soldiers May 2001, Spring 2012, Spring 2013

- NH 16th regiment (including photo) Summer 2013

- Orlando Dimick Summer, Fall 2013

- Pushee, Jesse C. ’s 1864 letter, transcribed Winter 2018

- substitute pay, letter Summer 2015

- “Tragic Homecoming” by Ruth Whittemore (Grant, Lovejoy, Turner)

May 2001

- veterans May 2001

Claflin - Hazen S. (1893- 1951) & brass nameplate - John & Lydia Tyler - Lane, & family - P.H.A., & family - P.H.A., postmaster & writer

June 2001 February 2002 April 2001 April 2001 Fall 2018

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Claflin, P.H.A. journals: Summer 1882 Fall 1882

Summer 2014; Fall 2016; Winter 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017

Clark - Ray - Tina Leach’s 1972 wedding dress

Winter 2016, Fall 2017 Summer 2018

Clark, Wilbur Fall 2018

Clay Brook (at Edgell Bridge) Winter 2012

Clean Water Act 1972 Summer 2016

clothing, making of in Lyme c. 1840s Summer 2014

Clough, David Marston November 2000

Colburn, - family at Edgell Tavern (their home) - Lucy & David portraits - quilt, patchwork: donated to LH - Titus, Martha Colburn (spoke at LH meeting)

Spring 2004 Summer 2017 Summer 2017 Summer 2005

Collection, Historians - packing & inventorying 2016 Spring 2016

Come On Down! Our Old & New Doors Open Nov. 13

Fall 2016

Comet the reindeer December 1999

Common, Lyme - “The Bandstand and other Curiosities...” - photo correction: McClure’s Band, Not Lyme Town Band

October 1999 , Winter 2012, Summer 2005 Fall 2005

Congregational Church:

- architecture, proprietors 1812 Spring 2012

- John Thompson’s Church by Lucy King, 1964 February 2001

- ministers 1773-2013 Spring 2013

- pulpit window Summer 2012

- 200th Anniversary Winter 2012, Fall 2012

connected buildings in NE New England Summer 2011

Connecticut River Winter 2010, Spring 2013, Summer & Fall 2016

- Bridges: (North Thetford, East Thetford) - dams

Fall 2007 Spring 2013

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Connecticut River Joint Commission’s River Byway News January 2001

Conservation Commission Spring 2016

Converse, - Ila

Fall 2014

Converse, Joel; site on Mud Turtle Pond Road Spring 2016

Converse Free Library Spring 2005

Cook, Gilbert & son Thomas; family’s bureau Summer 2014, Fall 2016

Cook, James M. & homesteads

Summer 2014; Winter 2017

Cook, John Adams August 1999

Cook, Thomas’ memoir, quoted by Lucy King Summer 2014, Winter 2017

Cook, Tim and Lynn - Kent House, River Road

- Lynn Jarvis’ 1984 wedding dress on exhibit

Spring 2010, Winter 2013, Fall 2013, Winter 2015 Summer 2018

Coon, roasted - Olive Fowler’s recipe Fall 2018

Cord Bed (“Rope bed”) - “Straining up” - Wrench donation

Winter 2004, Winter 2004

“Cottonwood Farm” (Balch house, 23 Pleasant St.) Fall 2009

“Countdown to the 250th” series - 1885 Reunion – the big tent - Jere Daniell talk: Middle Grants


Country Store, site of Post Office Fall 2018

Court documents: 1783, 1796 September 2000

covered bridges Winter 2012

Cowan, Mabel (photo with Lucy King) Spring 2015

Culver family; Culver Hall at Dartmouth Winter 2012

culverts, stone - Baker Hill Road

Winter 2009 Winter 2017

Curti, Mother Felicitas - Flint House - letter

Spring 2004 Winter 2014

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Cutting, Edd M. 1884-85 journal — 6 excerpts Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall 2015; Winter, Spring 2016

Cutting Family corrections & amplifications: Spring 2007

- Frank and Hollis (photo) - Frank, auctioneer - Frank Sr.

Fall 2006 Fall 2013; Summer 2014 Feb. & March 2001

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dams along Connecticut River Spring 2013

Dancing August 2000

Dandelion wine, recipe Spring 2009

Daniell, Jere (history Professor at Dartmouth) Fall 2017

Darion, Hellen - Joe

Spring 2017 July 2001

Dartmouth Outing Club (on Smarts Mountain) Summer 2012

Daubenspeck, Mary May 2001, Winter 2016

Davidson, William Summer 2016

Davis Lane (discontinued road) Jan. 2002

Davison, William — 1778 house (41 Davison Lane) Winter 2015

“Day of Infamy” (Dec. 7, 1941) December 2001

Day of Service, 2017 Summer 2017

Dayno, Steve (Gr. 4 teacher, Lyme School) Oct. 2001, Summer 2017

Day, - Mary Etta, postal clerk Lyme Center -Roy & Jasper


“Days Like These” by Lucy King - (reprints) - Eclipses and Earthquakes (Feb. 1958)

- Glorious Fourths? (July 1957)

- June is Frostin’ Out All Over (June 1957) - Leaves from the Past (Oct. 1956) - The Marches of Time (March 1957) - weather (April 1958)

February 2002 July 2000 June 2001 October 2000 March 2001 April 2000

Decoration Day May 2000

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DeGoosh, Laura (quotes from We Had Each Other) Winter 2018

Derby - Arthur E. - Elmer & Blanche Mosher - Nathaniel - Scott’s letter re Chesley School & relatives

May 2000, Oct. 2001 February 2002 January 2001 Winter 2018

Derby Lane —addendum by Frank Cutting, Sr. re Palmer Lane Feb. 2001

Dickson, Randy – bus tours October 1999

Dimick barn (Lyme Center) Winter 2017

Dimick (also see more Dimick entries below) - Abigail’s wedding petticoat (m. Erastus Grant) - Edwin Boyhood Memories: Acorn Hill 1948 - Gary’s letter re Porter Cemetery photo (1976 Nat’l Geo-

graphic magazine) - Greg (recollections of Lucy King)

death & gift to LH - Ken & Verla Perkins - Shubael, tombstone craftsman - William Harris

Summer 2018 September 2000 Winter 2018 Spring 2015, Spring 2017 February 2002 Winter 2017 March 2002

Dimick, Orlando (Civil War prisoner) - Dimick’s Escape - letter & photo - taken prisoner

Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Summer 2013

Dimick, Pearl’s house & barn (Dorchester Rd., Lyme Center) Spring 2008

Dimick/Pike Farm Fall 2010

Dinner Under the Big Top (250th & 1885 Reunion) Fall 2011

display cases at the Museum Winter 2012

Dorchester Road, Lower (old photo & description) Winter 2006

“Down the Aisle…Down the Years” (bridal gowns) Summer 2018

Drawers (Latham, D. Piper, K Perkins) July 2000

Dresses, vintage: - Blodgett, Parkhill, Sears - wedding dresses exhibit

Winter 2005 Summer 2018

Dube, Scarlett & Chesley School memories Winter 2015, Fall 2017

Dunbar, Freddie - George - Civil War veteran - Freddie & George

Feb. 2001, Spring 2016, Winter 2018 February 2001

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Dysentery October 2000

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East Thetford covered bridge (photo) Spring 2013

East Thetford Depot (photo) April 2000

East Thetford Rd (Grant property) Summer 2012

EBay, Cutting journal obtained from Winter 2015

Edgell Bridge, A Teenager’s Triumph Winter 2012

Edison phonograph Fall 2012

1885 Reunion (Hanover Gazette 1901) - Guest register found - Tent & dinner

May 2001 Summer 2008 Fall 2010

Encampment! Lyme Enlists in a Civil War

Re-enactment

Fall 2013

Elder, - Don - Kenneth’s barn, Acorn Hill - Don - photo - Julia Balch

- Kenneth

Winter 2017 Jan. 2002 Winter 2016; Winter 2017 September 2000, Oct. 2001, March 2002

Elections November 2000

“Elegant Foundations” exhibit Summer 2009

Elson Basic Readers (gift of Sandra Day Smith) Fall 2008

Emery, Ben - memory by Ruth Whittemore March 2001

Energy audit (Adair Mulligan’s house, Lyme Center) Spring 2010

Epidemic 1840s, possible October 2000

Estey Organ Company Fall 2016

Estey Organ in Churchill-Melvin House - concert to celebrate its restoration

Winter 2018, Spring 2018

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Fairfield Homestead (Town Poor Farm) Summer 2009

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Fast Day, 1876 April 2001

Fellows Family, Finding the (by M. Sherburne) Charles, George, John & WIlliam

Fall 2017

Fellows, John Winter 2017, Fall 2017

Female Firsts October 2000

ferry crossings over the Connecticut; includes old photograph

Summer 2015, Summer 2016

field to forest transformation (Eric Sloan illustration) Spring 2018

"52 Barns in 52 Weeks,” NHPA grants 2017 Winter 2017

fire Winter 2017

Firefighters’ records 1945-69, gift of Winter 2018

firetowers Summer 2012

First Cutting August 1999

First for Lyme, A (preservation easement by Cook’s) Fall 2013

First Baptist Church of Lyme Center Fall 2004

Fish Commissioners Feb. 2002

Fisher Bridge (River Road) Summer 2015

Flapper-style clothing (from 1920s) Summer 2010

flatboats on the Connecticut River Summer 2016

Flickinger, Tracy Spring 2018

Flint - Anna, postmaster Lyme Center - John Murray – letters home 1862 - Moses and Samuel & family - Samuel, & farm

Fall 2018 Spring & Summer 2012 Spring 2009 Nov 2001, Fall 2009

Flint house Spring 2004, Winter 2014

flooding (caused by bare slopes) Spring 2017

Flood of 1927 Summer 2017

Floods of 1986, 1936 Fall 2014

“Fluffing Our Nest” (paint, etc. at Churchill-Melvin) Fall 2017

Foliage October 1999

Fork – pickle fork Spring 2009

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Foursquare, American; style of house in Lyme Center Fall 2014

Fourth Grade visits Churchill-Melvin Summer 2017

Fourth of July -1851

July 1999 July 2001

Fowler - Olive - sisters’ memoir (The Poorwoods)

October 2001, Fall 2018 Summer 2018, Fall 2018

Franklin, - Becky, Citizen of the Year - Family Finds (donation, 2018) - Harry Foster photo - Jonathan

Sept. 2001 Fall 2018 Summer 2015 June 2001

Franklin Hill Road, & Dorchester June 2001, Summer 2012

Frawley house, Union St. (D. Pond house) Jan. 2002

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Gardeners, Lyme visit Lyme Historians Summer 2017

Gardner, Ebenezar house & barn (Orford Rd.) Summer 2017

Garipay, Joan Summer 2012

Garrity, ELise & Make Hanchett, & family March 2002

“Ghosts of Lyme Roads Past” (from 250th parade) Fall 2011

Gilbert Bridge (now E. Thetford Bridge) -books, etc procured at Smith Auction

Summer 2014; Fall 2014 Fall 2015

Gilbert cellar hole Spring 2012

Gilbert Cemetery Fall 2007, Fall 2017

Gilbert - Elam - Mary (Lyme’s first Boston Cane holder) - photo

Winter 2014 July 2001

Gilbert sites on River Road (tavern, bridge site, cemetery, school)

Summer 2014

Gilbert School - “Dept. of Corrections”

March 2002 Summer 2011

Girl Scouts - preservation activity with LH Summer 2016

Godfrey, William, auctioneer (drawing & text) Summer 2014

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Goldthwait, Professor James and maps of Lyme Summer 2006

Goodell - John’s diary entries - Titus

Winter 2008 July 1999

Goodell Lane cellar hole Spring 2012

Good Time Was Had By All Fall 2011

Gordon, Rev. Charles E. Feb. 2002

Gould, Frank Winter 2012

Graduations 1961 June 2000

Grafton County map 1860 Fall 2016

Grafton Turnpike (“Canaan Turnpike”) March 2002

Grand Opening of Churchill-Melvin House Fall 2016

Grange desk and chairs - donation to Lyme Historians - in the Lyme Room, in library

Jan. 2002 Fall 2013

Grange, Morningstar -addendum & corrections, July – Aug. 2000

June 2000 Fall 2005

Grant - Benjamin - Clyde - David & photo

July 1999 Fall 2016 March 2002

Grant Homestead, Home to Nine Generations (E. Thetford Rd.) & Grant family – Benjamin, Alanson, Clyde -Jack Schreiver 1950 painting returned to Lyme

Summer 2012 Spring 2015 Winter 2015

Grant’s Hotel – postcard 1886 Summer 2012

Grant, Alanson, house - #2 On The Common (Chaffee 1948-99)

Summer 2003

Grant Parlor Organ (Estey Organ) - new acquisition - restoration of


Grantees of Lyme, by Lucy King June 2001

Grave Matters (all burying grounds of Lyme) Fall 2007

gravestones, carving of Summer 2017

gravestone of Elisabeth Sloan Fall 2007, Spring 2016

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Green, Benjamin - house at 1 Pinnacle Summer 2017

Gregory farm; fire; road memories of the fire from Piper sisters & history of the Stetson/Gregory Farm

Spring 2013, Spring 2017

Gregory, Frank -photograph

Feb. 2001, Spring 2017 Dec. 2001

Grinnell, Robert Summer 2014

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Half Century of History, A (LH 50th Anniversary) Spring 2011

Hall -David C. - Rhodolph; also Thomas

February 2000 February 2000

Hamilton, -Dr. Cyrus -Irenus - Lavinia’s 1817 letter to her father, Cyrus

July 2000 Winter 2013 Summer 2018

Hamilton House (ex “Kilham house”) Fall 2008

Hanchett, Elizabeth (Lizzie) September 2001

Hano, George Winter 2016

Hart, Jim & family farm (R. Mitchell Lane) Winter 2013

Hart, Lawrence September 2001

Hart, William - photo w/ students

Summer 2014 October 2001

Hattie’s Voice (Hattie Bond Long) Winter 2014

hay fork Winter 2015

Hazen, Jack & Freedoms Foundation Medal July 2000

Helvis, Clara Cook - Cook bureau Fall 2016

Hengen, Elizabeth (& Heritage Commission) Winter 2012

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Heritage Commission, Lyme -established; first members - updates

Winter 2011 Summer 2011 Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Fall 2014 Summer 2015

“Hermit Hill” (Davison Lane) Winter 2015

Hewes (or Hews) family - Bert (trapper) - photo

- Kit - “History in the Making” - Margaret, w/ photo - Nathaniel; Addie, Myra, Bert, Ethel, Ralph

- Nathaniel - house - Samuel & Betsey Foote - Sarah Freeman (1750-1851) - Theoda: March 1851 memory of her mother Sarah

March 2001 Winter 2012 October & Dec. 2001 Summer 2008 March 2001, Summer 2008 March 2001 Feb. 2002, Summer 2008March 2001, Feb. 2002 March 2001

Hewes, Samuel, house (2 Shoestrap) Spring 2014

Hewitt, Alan, memorial bench on Pinnacle Winter 2016, Spring 2017

High River Meadow – Stark family memoir Winter 2013

Highways and Trails in the Town of Lyme Winter 2012

Highways for Hiking (Shoestrap, Mud Turtle Pond, Cline)

Spring 2012

Highways to the Past

- Acorn Hill Rd. September 2000

- Bailey Hill Lane Summer 2011

- Baker Hill Road - Baker Hill Road, north end

May 2001 Fall 2009

- Bear Hill Road February 2001

- Breck Hill Road Summer 2009

- Claflin Lane - correction re: photo, September 2001

April 2001

- Cline Road + correction: Summer 2012

Fall 2011

- Citadel Lane February 2002

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- Connecticut River bridges - No. Thetford, E. Thetford additional information Winter 2008

Fall 2007

- Culver Hill Lane Winter, Spring 2012

- Cutting Hill Lane Fall 2006

- Davis Lane January 2002

- Davison Lane Winter 2015

- Derby Lane addendum by Frank Cutting, Sr. re Palmer Lane

Jan 2001, Spring 2008 February 2001

- Dorchester Road August 2000

- Flint Hill Road Nov 2000, Spring 2009

- Franklin Hill Road June 2001

- Goodell Lane Winter 2008

- Goose Pond Road December 2000

- Grafton Turnpike (“Canaan Turnpike”) June 2000, Spring 2007

- Gregory Road Spring 2013

- Hamilton Lane July 2000

- Hews Lane Mar 2001, Summer 2008

- High Street March 2002

- Horsesheds Winter 2014

- Isaac Perkins Road Dec 1999, Summer 2007

- John Thomson Way July 2000

- Kemp Road Fall 2011

- Lamphire Hill Lane Winter 2009

- Latham Lane July 2000

- Lower Shoestrap Road Fall 2011

- Main Street March 2000

- Market Street April 2000

- NH Route 10 South (Dartmouth College Hwy) Spring 2014

- North Thetford Road January 2000

- Orfordville Road (NH Route 10 North) February 2000

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- Pleasant Street December 2001

- Pout Pond Lane - “Dept. of Corrections”

addendum re: Samuel Flint farm, Fall 2009

November 2001, Summer 2012 Fall 2012

- Preston Road Spring 2011

- Pushee Falls Lane Summer 2010

- River Road Nov 1999, Summer 2015

- Rotheus Mitchell Lane Winter 2013

- Shoestrap Road September 2001

- Sloan Lane (“Kemp Lane”) Spring 2016

- Ta Da Dump Road Fall 2011

- Tinkhamtown Road October 2000

- Toad Hollow Road Fall 2011

- Tyler Hill Road Fall 2010

- Union Street May 2000

- Whipple Hill Road Winter 2007

History in the Making, by Kit Hewes December 2001

Historians news: - move to 15 Main Street - 2017 visitors: 250+ - recap of accomplishments: house, barn, schoolhouse, ex-

hibits, outreaches, internal organization

Summer, Fall 2015, 2016 - all Winter 2018 Spring 2018

Historian? Who, Me? Yes, You! Spring 2018

Historic Lyme Center published 2013 Winter 2014

“History in the Making” by Kit Hewes Dec. 2001

Hitchcock, Lake Summer 2015

Hobbs, Chet – home at 24 Orford Road Spring 2013

Holt’s Ledge & Dartmouth Skiway Winter 2015

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“Home and Farm” column - A Graduating Class of One, by Carol Chesley Perry - A Tip for Mud Season, by Charles Balch - A Tragic Homecoming, by Ruth Whittemore - No Snow, Just Reins by Ruth Whittemore - Shopping Around for the Right School, by Jeanette Day

June 2001 April 2001 May 2001 March 2001 September 2001

Hood Museum transfer of Rufus Porter murals letter of appreciation

Spring 2015

hooking, rug — frame of Margaret Hewes Summer 2008

hooked rug, 250th commemoration Winter 2012

Horse Sheds - renovation of 1986; new roof 2014

Winter 2006 Winter 2014; Summer 2014; Fall 2014

Horribles parade July 2000

Horton, Bunny - donation of P.O. sign Fall 2018

“House on the Lake” (photo) Winter 2014

houses, changes over time (effects of modern heating, plumbing , etc. Winter 2015

Hovey, Daniel Spring 2005

“How Lyme Lived” (Bicentennial exhibit 1961, in Barnes School) July 2001

Hudson, Ben — Lyme forester Spring 2018

Hunt, Samuel - house on Sloan Lane Spring 2016

Hurricane of ’38 April 2001

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Ice - Ice cutting demonstration on Post Pond - Ice harvesting

Spring 2008 Feb. 2002, Winter 2008

Independence Day parade - photo with Churchill-Melvin house Summer 2016

Indians, by Dorf Sears - March 1961 April 2001

Industrial Buildings: Marble Shop Summer 2017

Invasive plants Fall 2007

inventory work by past & present Historians Winter 2016

Irenus Hamilton House (Dartmouth College Hwy.) Winter 2013

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Itinerant Post Office Fall 2018

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Jack Wright’s drawings of Lyme:

-Panorama from the Pinnacle

-postcards

Nov. 2001, Winter 2016 Feb. 2002

Jack Wright prize, winners 2011 Summer 2011

Jail (“Lock up”) July 1999

James H. Young Post December 2000

Jenks, Lillian Gregory -quotes from We Had Each Other

March 2000 Winter 2018

Jenks Sawmill, High Street Spring 2011

Johnson, Betty August & Sept. 1999

Johnson farm, Citadel Lane (Col. G. Lawton Johnson) Feb. 2002

Johnson, Jim Winter 2016

John Thompson’s Church by Lucy King, 1964 February 2001

Jones, Dick Winter 2012, Winter 2016

“Judge’s Bench Comes Home” (2-Holer privy to Churchill-Melvin) Winter 2016

Junior Historians: (discontinued April 2002) - Black History month

- Christmas - elections - Fast Day - Flags (“The Stars and Snake Forever?”) - foliage (“Eezy-Treezy Quiz”)

- Graduation Time - Holiday Traditions - Indian Names - Know Your Town Officers - Lest We Forget (Lyme & wars) - Lyme’s Record Holders (town officers) - Master of Woodcraft (Ross McKenney) - Mom facts - Old Home Day - Presidential Primer - Pumpkins

February 2002 December 1999 November 2000 April 2000 June 2000 Sept. 2000 June 2001 December 2001 April 2001 March 2001 May 2001 March 2002 September 2001 May 2000 August 2000 February 2000 February 2001

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- Shopping Around (Stores in Lyme) - School, Back to - 100 years ago - Seasonal Sports (winter) - Summer Questing - Talking Turkey - Things We Didn’t Have A Century Ago - Things You Can’t Be When You Grow Up - White Mountains - Voyage to 2000

October 1999 July 2001 September 2000 December 2000 November 2001 Nov. 1999, January 2001 March 2000 January 2002 January 2000

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Kent, Janet September 2000

Kent, Moses House River Road - Kent House, Caring for the - preservation easement 2013

Spring 2010 Winter 2013 Fall 2013

“Kemp Lane” aka Sloan Lane Spring 2016

Kilham, Lawrence and Jane – display at Dartmouth Spring 2006

Kilmarx, Elizabeth Summer 2012

King, Alice, Ida Fall 2014

King, John - chicken farm +photo of John King

Feb. 2001

King, Lucy - Award, to Dorf Sears - A Conversation Piece (Sept. 1957) - All Splosh (Dec. 1957) - “A Gift from the Storyteller” (by Vivian Piper, 1986)

- Oh, Miss Lucy! (cover article) - photo - “Lyme’s Historian” by Greg Dimick - memories from Vivian Piper - needlework map? - (see also “Days Like These” above)

Winter 2010 October 2001 September 2001 December 2001 February 2001 Spring 2015 October 2000 October 2001 Feb. 2001 Winter 2016

King School memories Spring, Summer 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014

Kitchen gadgets Winter 2009, Fall 2018

Kittredge, Jonathan January 2002

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Labor of Love (Lyme Center Academy) Winter 2016

LaCoss, Grace Fall 2012

Ladder Mill (Franklin Hill & Dorchester Rds) Summer 2012

Lambert, Dr. Roger Newton Fall 2004

LaMott - Charlotte (quotes from We Had Each Other) - Elwin - Pearl Wing & James LaMott wedding 1901

Winter 2018 Winter 2017 June 2001

Lamphere, Ralph & procuring land for D. Skiway Winter 2015

Lamphire Hill Lane & River Road junction Summer 2015

Latham, Arthur Jr. diaries Summer 2011

Latham, Arthur: - first postmaster - Pew deed

July 2000, May 2001, Fall 2018 Fall 2004

Latham Tavern Winter 2009

lead soldiers, Civil War Winter 2012

Letters from the Front (J. Flint, 1862) Spring 2012

Letter Home to Lyme, A (J. Pushee, 1864) Winter 2018

Libraries - at Lyme Plain School - Converse Free

Fall 2012 Spring 2005

Lincoln, Gardner – tinsmith Winter 2009

Little, Chelsea Spring 2004

Loch Lyme Lodge (as part of Camp Pinnacle) Summer 2004

log drives on the Connecticut River Summer 2016

Long, Madame (Mrs. J.H.; Hattie Bond Long) Summer 2011, Winter 2014

Looking Out for Lyme Summer 2012

Lougee, Martha Spring 2016

Lower Grant Brook Trail Summer 2012

Lumber Queen, The October 2001

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Lunch counter at Nichol’s Spring 2006

Lyme, by Fant, Ramsden & Russell Fall 2006

Lyme’s Bicentennial, by Dorf Sears March 1961 July 2001

Lyme Boys, The letters home from Civil War 1862-3 May 2001

Lyme Cash Market -Vivian Piper’s memories, Sept. 1977

Feb. 2000, Winter 2017 April 2000

Lyme Center Academy -coverlet - layout & teachers 1951-59 (Carol Chesley Perry) -restoration 1989 - 2002 - Silent auction to benefit -time capsule

June 1999 November 1999 June 2001 Winter 2016 Nov. 2001 August 1999

Lyme Center - General Store (Win Palmer) - building history - photo c. 1900 - post office - Betty Pike’s house - - trees - village, LH 2013 booklet & tour

January 2001 Summer 2008 Fall 2004 May 2000, Fall 2018 Summer 2010, Win 2006, Spring 2015, Fall 2018 Winter 2014, Spring 2014; Summer 2014

Lyme Collects (exhibit): Murph’s campaign buttons & postcards; Power’s china tea cups; Mulligan’s rug beaters; M. Balch buttons

Fall 2018

Lyme Congregational Church (by L. King) February 2001

Lyme Farm Fresh Summer 2009

Lyme Country Store (by Vivian Piper, 1981) -fire 1980 -photo after the fire

January & June 2001 July 2000 June 2001

Lyme Foundation grants: 2013, 2015 Winter 2014 Fall 2016

Lyme Historians - 50th anniversary founding

Spring 2011, Spring 2015

Lyme House - as home of Historians 1960s

October 2001

Lyme Inn (Grant Tavern, Alden Inn) addenda Summer 2008

- to display Rufus Porter mural

Nov 1999, Spring 2008 Spring 2015

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Lyme Inventory of Historic Resources, A Summary Report Summer 2015

Lyme Musters Civil War Touches a Tiny Town Summer 2013

Lyme’s One-Room Schools Spring 2011

Lyme Plain School - C. Balch memories

Fall 2006 Fall 2012

Lyme Room at Converse Free Library Fall 2009

Lyme School, Historians involved Winter 2015

Lyme Skiway, Home of Olympic Athletes & Happy Kids Winter 2015

Lyme, Town of - sign Winter 2015

Lyme Town Ministry March 2002

"Lyme windows” Winter 2015

“Lyme You Will Never See” presentation Spring 2011

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Maple Grove Farm February 2000, January 2002, Summer 2005

Maps, Maps & MORE MAPS! (2017 LH exhibit: “Map Mania”)

Spring 2017

mail -carrier, rural — (photo H.F. Franklin)


map, 1855, for the Lyme School Fall 2014

map of Lyme, embroidered Winter 2016

Marble Shop (corner Rt 10 & Pinnacle Rd.) Summer 2017

Marsh, Lisa October 2001

Marshall, Dr. — death in Lake Fairlee Sept. 1882 Summer 2017

Marshall, G. Clark’s ledger Spring 2010

Marshall House Spring 2013

Mason Family Vault Restored Fall 2011

Mason, Jim Winter 2012

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Mayo - Bart and May - - Bart’s wooden boxes - family tree - family photo - Julia, postmaster - May and Bartlett’s house - May’s wedding slippers on exhibit

Nov. 1999, February 2002, Fall 2003 Fall 2003 Fall 2014 November 1999 Fall 2018 Winter 2017 Summer 2018

Mayo, Bart & Indian artifacts April 2001

McCutcheon, Rob Fall 2016

McCutcheon, Tristan Summer 2014

McIntyre, Liz & Dartmouth Skiway Winter 2015

McKenney, Ross (d. Oct 1971 in Lyme) Sept. 2001

medical exhibit Spring 2011

Medlicot, Joe - history of Estey Organs Spring 2018

Meeting house - Arthur Latham moving it -Main Street

Fall 2018 March 2000

Melvin yo-yo quilt Summer 2017

Melvin Room (at 15 Main St.) Fall 2016

membership list: 2016 - 2017-18

Spring 2016 Spring 2018

Memorial Day (“Decoration Day”) May 2000

Menge, Jack March 2002

Merino sheep Spring 2017

Metz, Don (architect for new Country Store) Jan. 2001

Miller, Marinda - teacher at Thetford Academy c. 1820s Winter 2015

Millinery shop (In Grant’s Hotel) April 2000

Monahan, Robert Summer 2012

Monroe, NH - Parker House register transferred to Spring 2015

monument stones (at Marble Shop) Summer 2017

money orders, charred but saved Fall 2018

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Morey, Samuel of Orford Summer 2016

Morningstar Grange Fall 2005

Morrison, Zadok H. and Addie L. Winter 2012, Summer 2013

Morrison’s Hall social dance Feb. 2002

More on Morrison Fall 2013

mound and pit evidence in the woods Spring 2018

Move over, Judge! Historians move into 15 Main Street Summer 2015

Mudge family riverbank property Spring 2013

Mud Turtle Pond Road - Jackson Hazen memory of 1936 walk

Spring 2016, Winter 2018

Murals – Rufus Porter - Kent Farm - Simmons Perkins house; transfer from Hood - River scene stabilized; to Lyme School

Fall 2013 Summer 2014 Winter 2015

Murphy, Bill Winter 2016

Museum, Lyme Historians – “itinerant museum” Spring 2011

Mystery Photos (with the issue where it’s identified)

- Academy Hill & Day’s house Spring 2008

- anchor on Town of Lyme sign Winter 2015

- “Bailey Farm” ( Dartmouth Coll. Hwy.) - Bailey farmhouse, Union St.


- Balch homestead, Pleasant Street Summer 2005

- Balch/Vogt home, ( Gilbert) Dorchester Road Winter 2006

- Breck Hill Road, 125 (Colburn, Ramsden) Winter 2012

- cape with “Beverly jog” – unsolved Winter 2008

- Cape with Lyme windows - unidentified Fall 2017

- Chesley/Palmer house, Baker Hill Rd. Summer 2006

- Chicken coop being moved to Market St. Fall 2004

- Christmas Shop (on the Common) Winter 2011, Fall 2018

- Connecticut River flooding on River Road 1936 Spring 2006

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- Cook/Andrews/Waterbury House, Acorn Hill - Corrections/additional info Winter& Spring 2004

Fall 2003

- cord bed wrench Winter 2004

- "Crandall hammer” (stonemason’s) Summer 2018

- Dayton home, Goose Pond Road Summer 2004

- Dimick/Pike Farm Fall 2010

- Dorchester Rd, 168, Lyme Center Fall 2013

- Dorchester Rd, Lyme Center Winter 2014

- Dowd’s Inn (1790 Latham House) Spring 2005

- Fairfield House (100 River Road) Summer 2015

- Franklin Hill, 14 (“Pike” house) Winter 2016

- East Thetford Road, near the Common, c. 1920 Summer 2010

- Edgell Tavern, River Road 1771-c. 1940s Spring 2004

- English family cape Spring 2010

- Graf/Olsen property on Route 10 Fall 2003

- Gregory Farm c. 1790-1944 Spring 2017

- Grant homestead (E. Thetford Rd) Summer 2012

- Greek Revival cape, c. 1850 – Flint Hill Rd? Summer 2013

- Hart, Bill w/ children (identified) at Lyme House Summer 2007

- Hewes, Nathaniel house, (Hews Lane) Summer 2008

- “House by the Lake” (84 Orford Road) Summer 2011

- Irenus Hamilton House ( Dart. Coll. Hwy) Winter 2013

- Jenks Sawmill, High Street Spring 2011

- Latham Tavern (torn down) corrections re: Pushee family Spring 2009

Winter 2009

- Leonard House, High St. & Rt. 10 Summer 2003, Spring 2009

- Marshall house (24 Orford Road) Spring 2013

- metal comb-like items – unidentified Spring 2012

- old gentleman and child - unidentified Summer 2016

- “One” On the Common (18 The Common) Summer 2014

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- Osborne, Elizabeth - with pigs Fall 2007

- “Overlook Lodge” (28 Storrs Hill) Fall 2016

- ox shoe Fall 2012

-Perkins, Pat Fall 2018

- Post Pond – 2 boys in boat, 1 with gun Summer 2008

- Pout Pond – 2 people on long rock Fall 2006

- redware “Lyme” plate - made by Bunny Horton Winter 2018

- Sanborn, Charles & barn, Dorchester Rd., L. Ctr Fall 2014

- schoolchildren c. 1909-10 – unidentified Spring 2009

- Sears, Dorf home (No. Thetford Rd.) Summer 2017

-shoe manufactury, tinshop, Christmas Shop Fall 2018

-silo on Orford Road (site of Whitehall Farm) Fall 2018

- six boys in cowboy get-up — unidentified Spring 2015

- sleigh rally on the Common 1994 Spring 2018

- stencil patterns & Lyme Cong. Church Summer 2005

- tin tools, combed, w/ case - unidentified Spring 2012 (unsolved)

- Town of Lyme sign - anchor Winter 2015

- Turner Lane view Spring 2007

- two gentlemen – unidentified Fall 2011

- unidentified, with sit-upon mowing machine Winter 2010

- Washburn grandfather with Albert Whittemore Fall 2014

- Washburn Place on Route 10 Winter 2007

- Whitney, Huldah Ann (Sharon Balch Greatorex family)

Winter 2017

- wood & metal piercing tool - 2 possible uses Spring 2016

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NH Preservation Alliance - award - tour in Lyme Center

Winters: 2013, 16, 17 Fall 2003

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NH 16th Regiment, Co. A on Lyme Common 1862 (photo) Summer 2013

needlework map of Lyme Winter 2016

Nelson, Charles July 1999

Nichols Esther family & Dartmouth Skiway - Guy & Esther, Bill & Srimilai

March 2001 Winter 2015

Nichols Hardware February 2002, Spring 2006, Summer 2006

Nichols, Scott’s story of kids on the cannon Summer 2018

Nineteen Hundred (Lyme in 1900) January 2000

1927 Flood Summer 2017

North Thetford Bridge memories by Vivian Piper -Elanie Hallett

June 2001 Summer 2015

Norris, Grace & Rosweld (1911 postcard) Summer 2012

Noyes, Mary (“Aunt Mary”) Winter 2013

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oldest Lyme photo (Lower Dorchester Road) Winter 2006

Open Road? Winter 2011

Oh, Miss Lucy! Lucy King, the Original Lyme Historian Spring 2015

Old Home Days

- 1901, 1951 - 2001

June-Sept. 1999 Aug-Sept 2000 September 2001 Sept. 2001, Summer 2007

Orford Road Winter 2004

Ottinger, David - conservationist (R. Porter murals) Winter 2015

Our Church Work, by Rev. E.P. Butler 1882 July 1999, June 2001

“Overlook Lodge” (28 Storrs Hill) Fall 2016

oxen exhibit at the Lyme School 2014 Fall 2014

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Palmer house - moved from “Derby Lane”, aka “Palmer Lane” -photo

Feb. 2001 Fall 2013

Palmer, Edwin Balch - “Palmer in Florida” series “From Granite to Gators” 1925 meets John D. Rockefeller Return to NH realty offices in Florida 1926 “The Fountain of Youth” The Man Who Captured Jefferson Davis

Jan-May 2001 January 2001 February 2001 June 2001 March 2001 April 2001 May 2001

Palmer, Jane & George (donation of Chesley Schoolhouse) Fall 2017

Parades - 1961 - 2001

September 1999 July 2001 September 2001

“Pardon My Garden” group visits 15 Main St. Summer 2017

Park, Ruth October 2001

parlor redecoration in Churchill Melvin Spring 2018

parsonage, former, Lyme Center Fall 2014

Part-Timers, The July 2001

“Past, Present, Future” LH capital campaign 2018 Summer 2018

Patriot’s Day windstorm 2007 Winter 2017

Perkins - Bud and Charlotte (photo in Nat’l Geographic magazine

1976) - Gary Dimick’s letter - Charlotte - Christie - 102nd birthday

obit with photos Corrections for photos: March 2002

- family - Isaac & Olive

Winter 2018 Fall 2012 May 2001 February 2002 Feb. 2002, Summer 2007 December 1999

Perkins, Pat (finding the cannon; photo) Summer 2018, Fall 2018

Perkins-Simmons house, Orford Road Summer 2014

Perkins, Will Cady Winter 2013

Pew, deed from Arthur Latham Fall 2004

photo book – Lyme families in 2011 Winter 2012

photographs in Lyme Center Academy Winter 2007

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Piper, -Arthur & sister Dolly Campbell -Vivian (& fire at her father’s farm) -Walter (& Edgell Bridge) and John -auction of their home 1913

Spring 2017 Spring 2017 January 2000, Winter 2012 Summer 2014

Pike - Betty - Betty & Charles - barn - Lela - house, High St. & Route 10 - Lon 1921-2002 - Wayne – grandfather’s farm (Dimick/Pike)

October 2001 Winter 2017 Spring 2009 February 2002 Fall 2010

“Pinnacle panoramas” by Jack Wright 1966 Nov. 2001, Fall 2014, Winter 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018

Pinnacle, by Vivian Piper -view of 1958, by Jack Wright

July 2001 Fall 2018

Pippin, Liz’s 2009 wedding dress on exhibit Summer 2018

Pixley, Margaret Brockway (parents: Guy & Mary) Fall 2012

Pond, Dorsie (house on Union Street) Jan. 2002

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“Pony Hill Revisited” (Vivian Piper) “A Gift from the Storyteller” (Lucy King 1986) “Back in the Saddle Again” (OHD 2001) “Being Thankful” Christmas preparations (1979) “Colors of the Quilt, Bright and Dark” (March 1997) Deer hunting (1994) Devil Wind (1987) “Elves in the Christmas Tree” (Dec. 1981) “Esther and Guy” (Nichols) Farewell to the No. Thetford Bridge (1976) Getting Your Goat Home for Christmas Kenneth Elder Farm , 1976 Lyme Center Store, GG Skinner Lyme Country Store burns Lyme History in the Making 1976 (P & Pieces) “Mail Call” (1988) Mother Nature’s Paint Job My Sister Lillian New Lyme Country Store New Year Greetings (Jan 1992) Old Home Day 1999 Pinnacle Pony Hill Bread - recipe Roger Rich & Lyme Center Post Office Visit to Maple Grove Farm Who Made the Snowballs? (Feb. 1964)

February 2001 September 2001 November 2000 December 1999 March 2002 November 1999 October 1999 December 2001 March 2001 June 2001 April 2001 December 2000 September 2000 June 2000 July 2000 May 2001 October 2001 October 2000 March 2000 Jan. 2001, Summer 2009 January 2002 August 2000 July & Nov. 2001 Fall 2008 May 2000 February 2000 February 2002

Poor Farm - Fairfield House, 100 River Road Summer 2009, Winter 2015

Poor, Overseer of the (D. Sears) September 2000

Poorwoods, The: Tales of the Not-So-Distant Past Summer 2018

population graphs Spring 2011

Porter Cemetery photo in Nat’l Geographic magazine - Gary Dimick’s role in that

Winter 2018

Porter, Col. Francis d. 1901 (m. Julia Kent) Oct. 2001

Porter, Rufus murals in Lyme - 2010 Tour

Fall 2010, Summer 2011, Winter 2013, Fall 2013, Summer 2014, Winter 2015

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postcards Summer 2012

Post Office -clerk - P.H.A. Claflin -Lyme Center

Fall 2018 Summer 2017 May 2000, Fall 2018 Summer 2010, Winter 2006

pout (fish) in Pout Pond Fall 2012

Power, Priscilla Balch Fall 2017, Summer 2018

Preservation easement (Moses Kent house, 2013) Fall 2013

Preston, Isaac; Nancy Spring 2011

Pride, Mike Our War; excerpts re O. Dimick of Lyme Summer & Fall 2013

privy, two-holer (from Churchill-Melvin House) Fall 2016

Proom, Zach Summer 2013

Pulpit at the Plain - Ministers of Lyme’s Congregational Church

Spring 2013

Pumpkin pie recipe, Clyde Grant’s Fall 2009

Pushee, Jesse C. ’s 1864 letter, transcribed; & suicide Winter 2018

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Quilts: Colburn patchwork & Melvin Yo-yo Summer 2017

Quilt Documentation Day Winter 2005

Quilt top by Ruth Whittemore (1970s) Fall 2004

“Quiztorian” June 2000

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Ragan, Wallace - haying at the Whittemore’s Winter 2015

Ramsden Family Sustainability Fund Summer 2018

Ramsden, Sallie Jan. 2001, Winter 2016

Randlett, George & Fred, tinsmiths Winter 2009

Rare Survivor, A : The Marble Shop Summer 2017

Record, Walter & coyotes (Valley News 1975) Summer 2005

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Record farm fire 1977 March 2002, Summer 2009

Red Book, The June 2000

Reininger, Stephanie - sketch of Churchill-Melvin Spring 2018

Reservoir Pond (Smarts Pond) Spring 2004

Restorer’s Notebook

- American Elm - Bricks

Summer 2006 Winter 2005

- Chesley Schoolhouse ( Baker Hill Rd.) Winter 2014

- Door latches - Energy efficiency - Entrances (doorways)

Spring 2006 Spring 2008 Fall 2006

- Flickinger barn (14 The Common) - “Green” energy efficiency - Ice Dams - I-Houses - Lilacs, care of - Mortar - Photo preservation

Winter 2014 Spring 2009 Winter 2009 Spring 2007 Spring 2004 Winter 2005 Winter 2004

- Weatherizing for Winter - Webber Farm milk house (to 175 Dorchester Rd.) - websites - “When Houses Talk Back” (Clark, Jeff & Stephanie – res-

toration of 1880 Marshall house, 176 Dorchester Rd.) - Windows

Fall 2010 Winter 2014 Summer 2003 Fall 2008 Summer 2005

Reunion of 1885 July 1999

Revolutionary War -graves, Old Cemetery -Heroes, Union Leader, 1951: LucyKing

July 1999 May 2001

Rich - Everett - (quotes from We Had Each Other) -family, & Lyme Center store -Roger, postmaster -Verna

December 2000 Winter 2018 May 2000, Summer 2008, Fall 2018 October 2001

Rich, John S. Summer 2014

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River Ramble Schedule, Sept. 11-12 2015 photos

Summer 2015 Fall 2015, Summer 2016

River Road The Original Highway to the Past Summer 2015

Roads, Class VI and discontinued Winter 2011

roads, naming of Fall 2012, Winter 2013

Roby, Barbara and David Winter 2013, Winter 2016, Fall 2017

Roger’s Rangers Summer 2016

Rood, Zachariah household & homestead Summer 2016

Rufus Porter murals, transfer from Hood Museum at Lyme School to go to Lyme Inn

Summer 2014 Spring 2015

Rug hooking frame, donated by Margaret Hewes (w/ photo) Summer 2008

Russell, Dan Winter 2016

Ryan, Sue Winter 2012

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1790 Census of Lyme (cited as work of Lucy King) Spring 2015

Sanborn, Charles & house, Lyme Center Fall 2014

Sanborn, Harry - and Dartmouth Skiway Winter 2015

Sawmills: on Post Pond Sevigny, on Market St. (correction of map, May 2000: switch Sevigny’s and John Stark’s

February 2000 April 2000

scenic road (River Rd. north) Summer 2015

“Scenic Views” - road name changes March 2002

Schonenberger, Christina (1930-2015) May 2000, Spring 2015

Schonenberger-King collection Summer 2015

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Schools - Back to School (Perkins School) by Dorf Sears

- Chesley School - Christmas at Stetson School 1924

- Historians involved in Lyme School - Lyme Center School memories by J. Day

- Lyme Plain School – C. Balch memories - memories by Carol Chesley Perry (LCA) - one-room - Whipple School

September 2001 Fall 2009 December 1999 Winter 2015 September 2001 Fall 2006; Fall 2012 June 2001 Spring 2011 Winter 2007

Schoolhouse Tour, Lyme Historians’ Fall 2012

Schriever, Jack - painting returned to Lyme -exhibit of 7 paintings


School visits: June 2017 grade 4 Summer 2017

Scoop on Our Barn, The Summer 2017

Scooters (winter fun) - photo of Don Elder’s


Sears, Charles -This is Lyme, NH (Feb. 1966)

Fall 2014 January 2001

Sears, “Dorf” (Dorothy J., Jr.) , d. 2015 -auction of her belongings

October 2000, Spring 2015 Fall 2015

Sears, Post-Wise-Holmes farm Winter 2010

Selectmen’s Chest (Spotlight on Collection) Spring 2017

Sevigny Company Spring 2016

Sheep Craze! Summer 2007, Spring 2017

Shoestrap Road, #2 Spring 2014

Sherburne, Michelle Arnosky Spring & Summer 2016

Silver Lining guesthouse Spring 2007

Simpson, Marty (& Eleanor) March 2002

Skiing in Lyme (quotes from We Had Each Other) Winter 2018

Skiway - 1953 - present (main article) -early history, Alfred Balch memories -first lodge

Winter 2015 Spring 2015, Summer 2015

Skelly’s land & cellar hole on Orfordville Road Summer 2016

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Skinner, Cyrus & Calista; Abbie S. Wilcox (14 On the Common) August 2001

Ski Scooters (quotes from We Had Each Other) photo of Don Elder’s


“Skunk Hollow” (Whipple Hill) Summer 2018

slab pile (cull lumber) Fall 2018

Sledding (quotes from We Had Each Other) Winter 2018

Sloan family - Elizabeth’s gravestone - first settlers of Lyme - John and David - William - William & Elizabeth Hamilton 1764, by Lucy King

Fall 2007 Spring 2016 November 1999 July 1999 Feb. 2002

Smarts Mountain fire tower Summer 2012

Smith, Benjamin & family Summer 2016

snow roller, incl. photo Winter 2016

SOLD! September Auction to Benefit Lyme’s Historic Horse Sheds Summer 2014

soprano soloist, Hattie Bond Long Winter 2014

Spotlight on the Collection

- Another Treasure Goes Home (hotel register) Spring 2015

- Barn Exhibits Fall 2017

- Bride, A Lyme (Priscilla Balch Power) Fall 2017

- Brockway family: Guy Brockway military Fall 2012

- Children’s toys and clothing Summer 2013

- China on display Summer 2005

- Civil War lead soldiers Winter 2012

- Curating our Collection Fall 2017

- Farewell to a Beloved Teacher (1828 handwritten notes)

Winter 2015

- Hi-Tech in 1900 Fall 2012

- Granite Free Press clippings Winter 2012

- Grant Parlor Organ (Estey organ) Winter 2018

- hay fork Winter 2015

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- Historians Go To School Fall 2014

- hooked rug from 250th celebration Winter 2012

- Lady’s Accoutrements (Ackerly fan & perfume ) Summer 2011

- Latham Diaries Summer 2011

- Letters from the Front (J. Flint, 1862) Spring, Summer 2012

- Lyme & the Civil War (O. Dimick letter 1862) Spring 2013

- Lyme Cash Market Winter 2017

- Mayo Collection Spring 2011

- “new” inventions, including Edison phonograph Fall 2011

- packing up & inventorying at Lyme Center Academy Spring 2016

- photographs of Lyme, framed Winter 2012

- Porter Murals: at Lyme Inn at Lyme School

Spring 2015 Winter 2015

- Quilts: Melvin yo-yo & Colburn patchwork Summer 2017

- Schonenberger-King collection, 2 letters Summer 2015

- Schoolhouse Program Winter 2013

- Selectmen’s Chest Spring 2017

- Tech, pre-electric, demonstration Winter 2013

- War to End All Wars World War I exhibit Spring 2018

- wedding dress (Ackerly: Clark)

- wheelwright Winter 2012

- Wilbur Clark donations Fall 2013

spotting station (WW II)- moved from Lyme to Hanover Center Jan. 2002

Stark family memoir (High River Meadow) Winter 2013

Stage curtain, LCAB Summer 2003

steamboats on the Connecticut River Summer 2016

Stetson Farm (photo) Spring 2013

Stevenson, Bayne Spring 2015, Fall 2016

Steyn, Mark March 2002, Spring 2011

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stone boat (illus. by Eric Sloane) Spring 2017

Stone culverts Winter 2009

Stone House Farm, 70 Lamphire Hill Lane Winter 2009

Stone houses on Lamphere Hill Rd, River Rd Winter 2007

stone walls - Kevin Gardner

Spring 2017 Spring 2009

Stories Told Out of School - Charles Balch Fall 2012

Storms - Patriot’s Day windstorm 2007

Winter 2017

street lighting for the Plain & Center, 1926 ; costs $100 March 2001

sugaring - implements - in 1884, Lyme Center (Edd Cutting journal)

April 2001 Spring 2007 Spring 2015

Summer Suppers at the Lyme Congregational CHurch July 2001

Sunday law (1910 letter about) Summer 2015

survey of the (future) town of Lyme 1761 March 2001

switchel recipe Summer 2016

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Tambora, Mount (volcano 1815) Summer 2016

Tannery November 2001

Tarbell, Miss Ida’s advice Spring 2009

Taverns and Turnpikes, NH gift of book Summer 2011

Taverns - Latham - Warren (2 Shoestrap)

Spring 2007 Winter 2009 Spring 2014

Taylor, Molly Stark -her school memories

Winter 2013 Spring 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014

Teamsters -Boston - Lyme (Our Church News 1881) w/illustrations

June 2000 Winter 2003

Tefft, Esther Fall 2012

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Telephone Co., Lyme — L. King, “chief operator” Spring 2015

Temperance - speech in Lyme Jan 1827 January 2002

Tenney, Erdix (photo) Spring 2013

Tensen - Paula Balch – recollections of childhood - Paula & Arend


Thetford RR depot burned 1882 (PHA Claflin diary) Summer 2017

This is Lyme, NH by Charles Sears (Feb. 1966) January 2001

Thompson, Della November 2001

Thompson, John - built church “on Lyme Plain” Feb. 2001

Thorson, Robert Summer 2012

time capsule at Lyme Center Academy 1999 Winter 2016

Time Lines - 20th c. in Lyme: 1900-1924 1925-1949 1950-1974 1975-1999

September 1999 October 1999 November 1999 December 1999

Tinkham -Cyrus & Betsy; cemetery -Ebenezer

Summer 2012 July 1999

Tinkhamtown October 2000, Summer 2012

Tinsmiths: - Lincoln, Gardner


Titus, Martha Colburn (spoke at LH meeting) Summer 2005

Thompson, Richard - assessment of our barn Summer 2017

Tomson, John (senior & junior) July 2000

Town Clerks March 2002

Town Forest, Lyme “Where History & Conservation Converge”

Spring 2016

Town Full of Taverns, A Spring 2007

Town, Ithiel Winter 2012

Town Meeting - 1958 staged “photo” (Chase Manhattan Bank ad)

March 2000 March 2002

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Town That Has Gone Downhill, A Goldthwait Summer 2006

Town Tomb Fall 2010

transcription guidelines Summer 2014

Treasure Trove, A (Schonenberger-King collection) Summer 2015

trees, champion, in Lyme (basswood, white poplar) Spring 2015

trees as historical clues Spring 2018

Trottier, Richard - memories of the Cash Market Spring 2017

Trottier, Rudy & Dot 1931 wedding memory by Luane T. Cole -Rudy (quotes from We Had Each Other)

July 2001 Winter 2018

tuberculosis outbreak in cows 1901 March 2001

Tullar, - fire at Tullar farm 1977 -Fran (photo) with 2nd graders

March 2002, October 2001

Twenty Questions about Lyme Winter 2011

250th Anniversary Celebration Fall 2011

two-holer privy Winter 2016

tying joints (in our barn - illustration from NHPA) Summer 2017

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Uline, Ken - role in cement carriage for cannon on Common - Uline Construction Co.

Summer 2018 Summer 2015

Uline, Margaret’s wedding dress 1958 to Sonny Menard Summer 2018

Underground Railroad stops in Lyme February 2001, Spring 2014 Spring & Summer 2016

Union Street, #28, site of Post Office Fall 2018

Upper Valley Land Trust Summer 2012

Utility Club’s 100th anniversary Fall 2014

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Valentine’s Day – “Tales of Love & Courtship in Lyme” (1770s: Sloan-Hamilton; Hewes-Foote)

February 2000 February 2002

Very Big Tree, A (basswood or linden at 37 Union St.) Spring 2015

View of the Past (old postcards) Summer 2012

Visiting Nurse program Fall 2014

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Wadsworth, Eric; Laurie Fall 2017

Wagner, Judith d. 2003 Summer 2003

“Walk Back in Time” cellar holes presentation Spring, Summer 2014

Wanted: Preacher Man Winter 2011

Warren - Cyrus, Tavern (2 Shoestrap) - Hattie Pushee Balch, teacher - Leander, postmaster & storekeeper (Lyme Ctr.)

Spring 2014 October 2001 Fall 2018

Warren School (became Chesley School 1890) Fall 2017

War to End All Wars (World War I exhibit) Summer 2018

Washburn, -Allen and Paulina (Dimick) by V. Piper - Libeus

January 2002 Jan. 2002

Wassail (Historians’ holiday party) Fall 2018

Weather April 2000, Winter 2007

website launched Fall 2011

Webster, Moses -house (photo) -postmaster & storekeeper

Winter 2014 Fall 2018

Webber Farm – see Mystery Photos: Graf/Olsen farm Fall 2003

We Had Each Other -winter quotes from

December 2000 Winter 2018

West, - Frank, postmaster - Jennie

Fall 2018 Fall 2014

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Wetherell - Celeste - W.D. quote from Morning 2001

Summer 2012 June 2001

What We Get, We Give Away (Utility Club’s 100th) Fall 2014

Wheelock, Eleazar, letter to, 1768 Winter 2011

wheelwright Winter 2012

“West Wind Farm” (Masa Morey Lane, 1970s) Summer 2014

“whipping the cat” (shoemaking) Summer 2014 Fall 2016

Whipple Brook Spring 2016

Whipple family Winter 2007

Whipple Hill, growing up on 1930s-50s (Fowler family) Summer 2018

“White Horse Sheds” Winter 2004

Whitney, Huldah Ann (portrait) Winter 2017

Whittemore, Pauline & Ruth - Polly (photo) - Ruth - Ruth’s role in procuring land for Skyway - Sisters of Maple Grove Farm

Summer 2005, Spring 2011 October 2001 February 2000 Winter 2015 Summer 2005

Whittemore glass slides Winter 2014

Widest Board Contest - announced - first reports: Cook, - Sailor, Grant, Farrar, MacKenzie - Grant, Gamble

Winter 2018 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018

Wilder Dam Spring 2013, Summers: 2015, 2016, 2017

wildlife in Town Forest Spring 2016

Wilmot, Irvin & Lillian farm Summer 2009

Wing, Henry - memories of growing up in Lyme Center - Harold: “Bearded Man mystery” (1950 Grange photo) - Henry, memories, summer 1989

Sept. 2001 April 2001 Sept. 2001

Wing, Pearl’s 1901 wedding slippers (m. James LaMott) Summer 2018

Winter Fun: Best Sledding Ever Winter 2018

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Winter, preparations for (Fowler memories) Fall 2018

Woodward, Mel August 1999

World War I exhibit (Fall 2018) Spring & Summer 2018

World War II - air raid wardens in Lyme (spotting station) -“News from the Home Front”

Jan. 2002, Spring 2015 Feb. 2002

Wright, Jack & Prize in Lyme History Winter 2013

Wright, Jack - exhibit of drawings - Jack and Kath - Pinnacle Panoramas

October 1999 Fall 2014 Winter 2005 Nov. 2001, Spring 2017

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“Year without a Summer” (1816) Summer 2016

Yucca plant in the Old Cemetery Summer 2010

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