Candidate Spotlight: Harvey Gemme
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What’s your favorite place in Old Lyme? Sound View beach, late summer/early fall. Favorite activity there—swimming at the sandbar. When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you pass the time? Research Old Lyme history. What would you most like to tell yourself at age 13? Don't worry. It gets better. |
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If you could meet anyone, living or dead, who would you meet?
Marquis de Lafayette for his courage and political philosophy. Emily Dickinson for her equanimity of mind. Orson Welles for his storytelling and insight into the American political character.
Marquis de Lafayette for his courage and political philosophy. Emily Dickinson for her equanimity of mind. Orson Welles for his storytelling and insight into the American political character.
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What is something you learned in the last week? David Ruggles, radical abolitionist who helped Frederick Douglass to freedom, was a native of Lyme. When his family moved to Norwich, the famed early 19th century poet Lydia Sigourney was his schoolteacher. |
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