NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A late 1800s painting from the Florence Griswold Museum's collection might seem an unlikely means of illustrating a point about coastal change. But a slide of the painting, superimposed over a current photograph of Griswold Point in Old Lyme, provides a striking example just how dynamic the shoreline has been. The image, part of a presentation at the recent Thames River Basin Partnership annual Floating Workshop, juxtaposed the impressionist painting of people gathered for a picnic around a large rock at the tip of the point, atop the picture of the point today. That rock now sits surrounded by the waters of the lower Connecticut River, about 300 feet from what is...
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