Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Lyme Land Trust Barn, 12-1 Town Street, Lyme CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Patrick J. Lynch
Please join us for our annual meeting which will include nomination and voting for two new board members, annual financial report, and presentation of volunteer of the year. Everyone is welcome.
Following the meeting, we will have a illustrative presentation by renowned naturalist, author, and artist, Patrick J. Lynch.
Registration required: kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Directions: The LLT Barn is at 12-1 Town Street. Park across the street in Banningwood Preserve first field. Handicapped parking on site.
Patrick J. Lynch will talk about the environmental history of the Connecticut River Watershed. This region presents us with a uniquely humanized American landscape after 11,000 years of Indigenous Peoples history and more than 400 years of inhabitants from Europe and the rest of the globe, where nature is neither a determining force nor a passive victim. Connecticut is blessed with two of the nation’s largest and most biologically significant estuaries — places where salty ocean water mixes with freshwater. The Connecticut River and Long Island Sound estuaries are two of the planet’s most productive ecosystems. This talk will look at some of the glories of our local shore and river wildlife, as well as the impact of human activity and climate change on the Sound and the River.
Patrick has just launched his eleventh book, a Field Guide to the Connecticut River. Patrick J. Lynch is an author, illustrator, photographer, and artist. Lynch retired from Yale University after 45 years as an interactive media designer, medical illustrator, biomedical and scientific photographer, video producer, and for the past 30 years a director of media and communications departments, and a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites.
Patrick will sign pre-purchased books.
