Lyme Local

Brian and Jim in the New Hampshire village of Lyme

  • A dairy farmer’s generosity underpins the library

    I believe this is the original library building from 1936.

    Lyme was established by a charter in 1761; the first library was formed on Jan. 20, 1798, and called “the Social Library in Lime.” In 1908, the town voted to support a public library called the Lyme Town Library.

    By the 1930s, the library had outgrown its space in the Lyme School and the town accepted a bequest to build a separate library building in memory of Sidney Converse, to be called the Converse Free Library. It was completed in 1936. An addition was added to the building in the early 1980s.

    (Converse, a successful dairy farmer, was also moderator, selectman and master of the Grange for many years.)

    The collection today includes over 30,000 physical items to lend, in the form of books, periodicals, DVDs, and books on CD. The library houses and maintains the school ‘s collection also, sharing its resources with the Lyme Elementary School across the street through the efforts of the librarians in each building.

  • A street view showing our completed balcony

  • The kitchen counters are black quartz

    It’s from LX Hausys, a South Korean company that calls it Carbo, “a beautiful tinted black with long diagonal light grey veins running across, taking inspiration from Soapstone. Carbo was perfectly paired with Viatera’s new brushed finish, imparting a soft texture to the slab.” Here are the instructions for keeping it clean.

  • It’s starting to look like a real home

    The last time we visited, in late August, the kitchen didn’t have any appliances and the cabinets hadn’t been painted.
    The cabinets and hardware are somewhat similar to what we have in our Louisville condo.
    Looking in the direction of the kitchen from the living-room area.
    A view of the dining and living-room areas; the kitchen is out of the frame on the lower right.
    A wide-angle view of the primary bedroom, with the bathroom in the far background. That’s a walk-in closet on the left.
    Our bedroom, as seen from the dressing area.
    The primary bathroom is hard to photograph because of its size.
    A wide-angle view of the primary bathroom shower.
    Another wide-angle view of the primary bath, with our bedroom in the distant background.
    A wide-angle view of the guest room; we plan to have storage cabinets added to that alcove area.
    The guest bathroom.
    Adding the finishing touches.

  • Here’s Lyme Congregational church at night

    This was a Wednesday, when there was a special concert underway inside.

  • The annual Lyme Health & Wellness Fair will be Saturday, Sept. 30

    Sponsored again by CommunityCare of Lyme on The Common, organizers say you can:

    Visit and learn about food as love, life planning, parish and community nursing, emergency preparedness, mental health support and resources, Reiki and yoga practices, healthy farms, end of life services, library resources and information, volunteer opportunities and safe gathering.

    Join in a class (a wide range of yoga, healthy movement, and more), preparedness education, peer support, drawing and other fun things.

  • With Dartmouth College nearby, education ranks high vs. N.H. and Jefferson County, Ky.

  • Demographics show there’s not a lot of diversity compared with Louisville

    Lyme’s population of 1,745 residents is the most since 1840, when the population was 1,785. (The peak was 1,824 in 1820.)