Drop in 11am- 4pm at the Hartman Education Center to enjoy several hands-on craft projects. Plein-air painting is available, weather permitting. From 12-4 pm, members of the dedicated Garden Gang will be on hand to answer questions and give impromptu garden tours. At 2 pm, enjoy a Celebration of JUNETEENTH with Jazz and Poetry. Between 1670 and 1826 upwards of 300 enslaved African-descended and indentured Indigenous people labored in the historic town of Lyme. Today, Witness Stones mark 60 former sites of enslavement and indentured servitude. Join us on the Museum’s north grounds featuring music by the Avery Sharpe Quartet and readings by the Witness Stones Poets Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward, and Antoinette Brim-Bell, who will present their moving tributes in verse to those remembered with Witness Stones plaques. Seating will be provided under a tent and additional lawn chairs are welcome and encouraged.

Cost:
Museum admission is waived 3-5pm (otherwise, fees are $18 adults, $17 seniors (62+), $16 students (13+), $7.50 children ages 5-12, free to children age 4 or younger). This is the last day to view the special exhibition Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams.