Our Historical Videos

The Ciscoes of Chaumont Bay, by Dr. Ellen George, July 21, 2019

​Lyme Heritage Center (For Kids!) by Madelyn Letendre, age 13

Glenn Dodge

Veterans Day 2014

Kent Horton describes life in Chaumont in the 1930s-1970s:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3​

Phyllis Putnam describes local farming in the 1930s and 1940s:

• The lug-wheeled tractor
• The fly wheel on the tractor
• The rubber-wheeled tractor
• The hay wagon and hay loader
• The seeder
• The threshing machine
• The wood-burning kitchen stove
• The clothing irons and washing machine
• The cistern pump
• The hay press
• The bean planter
• The old clothes irons