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A state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP employee uses a gas powered string trimmer to mow the tall grass atop the ramparts at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London Thursday, May 23, 2019. Two other DEEP employees, not visible, tend the mower's safety line. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Mowing on high

Collegiate sailors from Connecticut College and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a number of other schools jockey for position Thursday, May 23, 2019, for a scrimmage race in the Thames River just off Fort Trumbull State Park in New London. Conn College and Coast Guard teams have qualified for the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association national championship regatta that opens this weekend in Newport, R.I., and invited other teams competing to a series of practice races in the Thames. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Scrimmaging in the Thames

From left, brothers Carl Roy, 5, and Luke, 3, run out of the cold water after washing their feet off Thursday, May 23, 2019, at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme.

Birthday at the beach in East Lyme

Friends Diane Murphy, left, and Joanne Sheehan, both of Norwich, talk as they wave to cars Tuesday, May 21, 2019, during a rally at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument in New London in response to John Bolton's upcoming visit. Bolton, national security adviser to President Donald Trump, is delivering the keynote address at the Coast Guard Academy Class of 2019's graduation Wednesday. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Rally against Bolton in New London

A trio in a canoe on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, paddle up the Yantic River between Hollyhock Island and the east bank. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Paddling the Yantic

Amistad Educator Jason Hine teaches students from the Ledyard, Fitch, and New London high schools'

Education on the water

Professor Jennifer Mattei, left, of Sacred Heart University, demonstrates how to measure a horseshoe crab as Jim Arrigoni, conservational biologist with the Connecticut Audubon Society, looks on Monday, May 20, 2019, at White Sands Beach in Old Lyme. Project Limulus is a program at the school that is working to examine the ecology of the Long Island Sound horseshoe crab population through community based research programming. For information on how to join, visit projectlimus.org. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Researching horseshoe crabs

Chuck Ciccarello, right, with the Thames Base Ball Club, tags out Claribel Connor, with the Woodstock Hilltoppers, during a game Saturday, May 18, 2019, at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London. The round-robin series, which also included the Wethersfield Red Onion, was played in the attire and rules of 1864 baseball. The Thames, New London County's vintage baseball team, is always looking for more players. See their website at http://thamesbbc.org/ for more information and upcoming events. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Vintage ball in New London

Students from Griswold Middle School gather around a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarine on display on the grounds of the Submarine Force Library and Museum and Historic Ship Nautilus in Groton on Friday, May 17, 2019, as they wrap up a field trip. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Learning about subs in Groton

Jody Barthel, center, education coordinator at the Custom House Maritime Museum, gathers third-graders from Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School around one of the gun emplacement positions atop the ramparts of Fort Trumbull on Friday, May 17, 2019, in New London. The local history tours, which include visits to the museum, the Shaw Mansion, the Hempsted Houses and the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse in downtown, are funded through a grant for the third- and fourth-graders in the city. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Seeing history in New London

Nora Powers, 8, of New London climbs a blooming tree Thursday, May 16, 2019, while visiting Williams Park in New London with friends. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Climbing up in New London

Custodian Angelo Urena works to align folding chairs Thursday, May 16, 2019, on Connecticut College's Tempel Green in preparation for Sunday's commencement exercises. The school rents 4,500 chairs for the event, and the custodians must take them down, fold them and have them on pallets to be picked up two hours after the ceremony concludes. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Sea of seating

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