Busy day at the Flo Gris
September 25, 2024 7:58 pm
• Last Updated: September 25, 2024 8:43 pm
Mitzi Holbrook and her partner Phil Newland, of Mystic walk past Windy’s Wig Shop, created by Michele Mergy, at “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” at the Florence Griswold Museum Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Old Lyme. The event runs from Saturday through Nov. 3. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
From left, Kevin Wigginton, acting registrar of the Florence Griswold Museum, Cameron Muller, art handler with Level Fin Arts Services, blocked from view, and Alex Kratzert, assistant to artist Adrien Broom, set up the mushrooms for the “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” exhibit at the museum in Old Lyme on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2024. Visitors can wander through an oversized “faerie ring,” a circle of mushrooms which occurs naturally in the wild. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Samantha Barlow-Beamer of Essex places a small cottage that she made in a basket for the “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” exhibit at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. The other baskets will also be filled with plants and a cottage. The event runs from Saturday through Nov. 3. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Detail of a cottage made by Samantha Barlow-Beamer, of Essex, for “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” exhibit at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. The event runs from Saturday through Nov. 3. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Samantha Barlow-Beamer of Essex holds a small basket she made for the “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. The event runs from Saturday through Nov. 3. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Two baskets that Samantha Barlow-Beamer of Essex had finished so far for “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” exhibit at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. The event runs from Saturday through Nov. 3. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Old Lyme ― Florence Griswold Museum was very busy Wednesday preparing for Wee Faerie Village “Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town” that opens on Saturday and runs through Nov. 3.
People outside the museum were creating 30 handcrafted fairy miniatures along a walking trail. The miniatures are a playful take on living history museums such as Mystic Seaport Museum and Old Sturbridge Village.
In the museum’s center gallery a crew was setting up the oversized “faerie ring”, a circle of mushrooms, and photographs of an imaginative series exploring concepts of magic and mystery in the forest by artist Adrien Broom.
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