The Week in Photos, Sunday, July 5th
July 04, 2020 12:00 am
• Last Updated: July 07, 2020 4:53 pm
Minna Murphy, of Middletown, looks up wearing rainbow eyeliner as she listens to a speaker during a vigil to honor Black Trans Lives on Sunday, June 28 2020 at New London City Hall. The inaugural event, organized by OutCT, honored Queer Black Trans People and Queer Trans People of Color both past and present. Murphy is a makeup artist and founder of cosmetics company Zeni Beauty. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
A look back at the week in photos from The Day, Sunday, July 5, 2020.
Derek Tavares, form left, of New London, friend Mara Gutt, and mother Robin Harris listen to a speaker during a vigil to honor Black Trans Lives on Sunday, June 28 2020 at New London City Hall. The inaugural event, organized by OutCT, honored Queer Black Trans People and Queer Trans People of Color both past and present. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Workers with Atlas Industrial Services, LLC of Branford, replace median guiderails and grade the median, along I-395 in the area of exit 11 in Norwich Monday, June 29, 2020. Atlas is completing the $3.2 million project, that also includes incidental drainage adjustments, scheduled to be completed by October 30th. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Luke Hindle, an employee of the New London City Center District, waters the hanging baskets of petunias along Bank St. in New London Monday, June 29, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Nikki Glick, center, helps Meghan Smith, owner of yoga studio Hot on Bank, back, sweep clean the Hygienic Art Park´s Edward and Mary Lord Arts Plaza in preparation for staging outdoor yoga classes Monday, June 29, 2020. Hot on Bank, like most gyms and exercise venues, has been closed due to coronavirus health restrictions since March. With the art park still restricted from holding performances Smith arranged to hold outdoor yoga classes there starting Monday evening. Smith expects two evening classes Monday through Thursday and morning classes on Saturday and Sunday. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Bill Stanley, Vice President, Development & Community Relations, in his office and L&M Hospital in New London on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Stanley recently announced his retirement from the position he has held from over 20 years. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
A boat with Project Oceanology and a sailboat move past New London Ledge Light, as seen from UCONN Avery Point, on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Tears form in her eyes as Crystal Caldwell sits on the sofa with her nephew Wayne Rawls at her home in Groton and talks about a recent assault that occurred while she was working at the Quality Inn in Mystic over the weekend. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Dena Avery, right, hugs Marchell Alston as she cries during a rally for Crystal Caldwell at the Stonington Police Department on Monday, June 29, 2020. Organized by members of We Won´t Stand Down, BLM 860 and other activist groups the event called for answers and arrests on the assault while Caldwell was working at the Quality Inn in Mystic over the weekend. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Gwen Carr hugs Ivelisse Correa-Ojeda during an event hosted by the New London NAACP at Ocean Beach Park on Monday, June 29, 2020. The conversation with the community featured Gwen Carr, mother of NYC Police chokehold homicide victim Eric Garner. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Joshua Johnson, 8, of Norwich, sits on his mother Charity´s lap during an event hosted by the New London NAACP at Ocean Beach Park on Monday, June 29, 2020. The conversation with the community featured Gwen Carr, mother of NYC Police chokehold homicide victim Eric Garner. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Connecticut State Police trooper James Matlock takes photos of the aftermath from a five-car motor vehicle accident on I-95 northbound at the base of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Two people were transported to L+M hospital from the scene. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Dr. Sten H. Vermund of the Yale School of Public Health, left, speaks with Derron Wood of Flock Theater, right, as they gather in the parking lot of the Thames Club to film a discussion on creating safe outdoor venues for performing arts in New London Monday, June 29, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Sam Nemergut, left, 16, and her brother Jack, 14, visiting family from New Jersey, check the size on a crab they caught as it rains along Crescent Beach in Niantic on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
A group of friends, from left, Ryan Novick, C.J. Rufsnider, Liza Derry, Summer Antonino, and Ava Lombardo, head home from McCook Park in Niantic after giving up on a day at the beach Tuesday, June 30, 2020. The friends are all rising ninth-graders at East Lyme High School. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Golf Course Superintendent Vin Sylvester counts the purple martin babies and eggs in one of the nesting gourds for his wife, Hermione, not shown, to record in a notebook Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at the Pequot Golf Club in Stonington. After most of the eggs have been laid Sylvester counts the babies and eggs once a week for to keep track of how many are hatching and to make sure the young birds are healthy. The club has 2 poles with nesting gourds that currently has twenty-three nesting pairs, ninety-five babies and 13 eggs. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Joe Boeckel, holds hands with his daughter AvaLynn, 12, as she learns to skateboard at the Gorton Skatepark in Sutton Park on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. AvaLynn said she started learning to skateboard three days ago and has been practicing almost every day this week, even in the rain. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Participants in the summer sailing camp at Mystic Seaport Museum take to the Mystic River in Dyer Dhow dinghy sailboats Thursday, July 2, 2020. The Museum is running summer day camp programs with a set of COVID-19 policies. Individual campers are assigned one boat for the duration of camp among other protocols. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A common tern emerges with a meal after a dive into.the waters just off Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford Thursday, July 2, 2020. Great Gull Island, about six-miles distant, is home to one of the largest colonies of common and roseate terns in North America. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Groton Public Schools Superintendent Michael Graner stands for a portrait in front of the new Groton Middle School on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Graner will retire in mid-October, marking the end of his 50-year career in education and completing seven years in Groton. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Lifeguard Lindsay Clement looks out over the crowd Thursday, July 2, 2020, at Ocean Beach Park in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Aquinnah Kyne, 8, steps onto the beach while Kacie Piragis, 10, and Avery Piragis, 9, bring a one of their Optimist sailboats to shore after they all participated in a beginner sailing lesson Thursday, July 2, 2020, during the Thames Yacht Club Youth Sailing program at the club located in New London. Svea Robarge, 6, takes a moment to play in the water, partially blocked from view behind the boat, before helping with the boat. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Mystic Seaport Museum shipwright Richard Froh demonstrates different chisels to visitors to the new exhibit “A Way With Wood: Celebrating a CraftÓ in the Collins Gallery of the Thompson Exhibit Building Friday, July 3, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Daisy Rios, right, and her cousin, Shawn Diaz, 11, both of Norwich, relax along the shore Friday, July 3, 2020, at UConn Avery Point in Groton. Rios is a student at UConn Avery Point and decided that today was a good day to spend time by the water and knew the campus would be a good place to relax. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Carolyn Yost at her Water St. antique shop Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in Stonington Borough. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Pedro Lopez, left, of Groton, and Jeff Doiron, right, of Niantic, look at what they have selected so far while shopping for fireworks Friday, July 3, 2020, at the Phantom Fireworks tent located in the Crystal Mall parking lot in Waterford. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Coby Jones, 11, of Norwich, dressed as a colonial soldier, signs a book to enlist in the local Norwich Revolutionary War militia during the Be Revolutionary event Saturday, July 4, 2020, at the Leffingwell House Museum in Norwich. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Sgt. Chris Pratt, left, Sgt. Matt Vallier, second from right, explain to Declan Messier, right, all of His Majesty's 54th Regiment of Foot, how to drill during the Be Revolutionary event Saturday, July 4, 2020, at the Leffingwell House Museum in Norwich. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Jimmy Eugene, left, and Moriya Phillips, of Norwich, and others listen to one of the speakers Saturday, July 4, 2020, during the Black Lives Matter event on the Ledyard green. Later the group marched to the Ledyard Police Department. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
People listen to one of the speakers Saturday, July 4, 2020, during the Black Lives Matter event on the Ledyard green. Later the group marched to the Ledyard Police Department. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
People from the crowd dance to the music of a West African hand drum performed by Steven Hurley, of Salem not shown, during the 4th of July March for Abolition event Saturday, July, 4, 2020, at the Parade Plaza in New London. Hurley was performing with his daughter, Felicia, far right, when she briefly joined in on the dancing. The event was hosted by Hearing Youth Voices and later the crowd marched around New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
People participating in the 4th of July March for Abolition event Saturday, July, 4, 2020, walk up Broad Street Saturday, July 4, 2020, while marching around New London. The event hosted by Hearing Youth Voices started with speeches at the Parade Plaza. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
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