Chickens on roller skates? Photographer Marie Kendall must have had some pretty cooperative chickens, merry or not as they “roll along” in this Christmas greeting. Many of Kendall’s surprising and delightful images of 19th-century Norfolk can be found in A Remarkable Legacy: The Photographs of Marie Hartig Kendall, published by the Norfolk Historical Society this year and available for purchase at the Norfolk Library.

Ann Havemeyer