Lyme Local

The characters Claude and Doris Upson and their daughter Gloria summered in an Adirondacks home named “Upson Pines.” For our Louisville apartment, we jokingly adopted the same name the Upsons gave their suburban Connecticut home: “Upson Downs.”

(Jim may have created this image with an online form at Cedar Signs Co.; in May 2026, they weren’t accepting new orders because of a staffing shortage.)

Here’s a video montage of Gloria’s outrageous behavior that includes her infamous account of playing ping-pong with her friend Bunny Bixler.