Dancers Take Flight

As stone mason Karl Munson dug down to create the foundation for “Dancers,” a sculpture created by Norfolk native Ann Curtiss Scoville, he found artifacts from the town’s past that would surely have delighted Scoville: the remains of chestnut railroad ties and the rusted spikes that connected them to the rails. So would the wall, built of reclaimed granite from a 19th-century Norwich mill. The sculpture, restored by Norfolk artist Jon Reideman, was unveiled on a chilly Oct. 4 at a brief ceremony that brought together Scoville’s daughter, Molly Scoville Fitzmaurice, and her daughter-in-law Helen Scoville. For many years, the sculpture presided over Tony and Helen Scoville’s Washington, D.C., garden. Following his death, she donated the piece to the Norfolk Community Association in 2024 so that it could become part of the slowly evolving sculpture trail. Pictured at the unveiling, near a new garden planted at a crossroads that leads from the Norfolk Library to Station Place in one direction and Town Hall in the other, are Scoville and Riedeman at left and Fitzmaurice and Munson at right.