Old Lyme

Bee & Thistle Inn built 1756 as residence for Judge William Noyes.

Florence Griswold Museum traces back to 1899 when Henry Ward Ranger arrives at Florence Griswold to draw landscape. Joined by other artists, Lyme Art Colony founded.

Summer exhibitions: "A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr."

and "The Freedom Business: Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith" featuring poems of Marilyn Nelson

Candy and Keith Green's Old Lyme Inn offers rooms and dining.

Hammonassett State Park 20 minutes south on I-95 in Madison.