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New Generation of Historians Reveals Untold Stories in Old Lyme

WSP · Jun 4, 2021 ·

Marilyn Nelson prompts the audience to repeat each of 14 names after she reads each one during the installation ceremony for the Witness Stones placed along Lyme Street at the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

By Elizabeth Regan in The Day on June 4, 2021

Old Lyme — Though they are the town’s youngest historians, they are among the first to reveal centuries-old stories of the people enslaved on Lyme Street.

Seventh graders at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School this year pieced together the stories of Jenny Freeman and Lewis Lewia, two of the people held in bondage on the street once inhabited by wealthy sea captains, shipbuilders and merchants.

It’s all part of the Witness Stones Old Lyme community partnership to install small plaques commemorating individuals once enslaved. A ceremony was held Friday after the first 14 stones were placed earlier this week. Continue reading.

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