OLD LYME, CT — Old Lyme does Halloween with style. The Florence Griswold Museum invites costumed families to its Gemstone Station, the Lyme Art Association hosts a talk on colonial gravestones and the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library sends trick-or-treaters down a haunted elevator on Halloween night. On Sunday, Niantic Community Church's Faith Forum welcomes a Wampanoag artist.
This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment
Family Event: Rock a Costume — Saturday, Oct. 31, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dress as a miner, a jewel-clad movie star or a sparkling wee faerie and march through the museum's Gemstone Station, then visit the Education Center for treats and a holiday craft. Included with museum admission. Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme
Art Talk: Colonial Gravestones & the Stories They Tell — Saturday, Oct. 31, 3 p.m. Historian David Oat presents; $10 per person. The association's "New England Landscape" show is on view through Nov. 6. Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St., Old Lyme
Unhappily Ever After: Dark and Dangerous Fairy Tales — Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 to 8 p.m. Trick-or-treat at the library on Halloween night and ride the haunted elevator down to the BOO-k Cellar for frights hosted by the library's teen volunteers. It's free; children 12 and under must be with an adult. Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, 2 Library Lane, Old Lyme
Wee Faerie Crafternoons — Sunday, Nov. 1, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Drop into the museum's Education Center for a Gemstone Station craft and the hands-on rock study collection on the final Sunday of the series. Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme
Faith Forum Welcomes Deborah Spears Moorehead — Sunday, Nov. 1. The Faith Forum hosts the Pokanoket Wampanoag artist for a conversation about her work, according to the church's Patch listing. Niantic Community Church, 170 Pennsylvania Ave., East Lyme
Rock a costume at the Flo Gris, hear the stories behind colonial gravestones and ride the haunted elevator at the library on Halloween night.