The Winsted Diner, Where the Food Is Finer
By Colleen Gundlach Tucked sideways next to the Odd Fellows Building, two doors up from the YMCA in Winsted, is a piece of local history that is often overlooked. The hand-carved wooden hot dog man in front is the only reason that a driver traveling through town would have reason to give it a […]
Letters—October 2015
Thank you I’m proud to have been employed by the Town of Norfolk for over 12 years as Transfer Station Attendant/Highway Maintainer. I made so many good friends. My job was more social than work. Being able to answer your questions about recycling, and doing our part to do it properly—thank you for all you […]
Through The Garden Gate
October By Leslie Watkins ”How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” –John Burroughs Shorter days, colder nights and here is autumn. By day, glorious warm colors blanket the trees and fields. Russets, burgundies and gold mixed with spots of bright scarlet thrill us, but the night comes […]
New Innkeepers at the Manor House
The Power of Intention By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Three years ago, the new Manor House Innkeeper Sheila Blanchette was spending her days in a cubicle crunching numbers for EBSCO Publishing in Ipswich, Mass., and writing a novel at night about an accountant who daydreamed of becoming an innkeeper. Her protagonist’s lifelong dream soon became […]
Norfolk Then…
John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1789-1795), dined at this house in Norfolk. The John Jay Papers are housed at Columbia University, and in Jay’s diary for October 12, 1790, he wrote “went to Norfolk – dined at the widow Wilcox’s […]
Community News—October 2015
Edible Plant Workshop at GMF Join environmental educator Barbara Austin at the Childs Center from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, October 3 for an edible wild plants workshop. The workshop includes food preparation and sampling the edibles. Susan Rand Exhibition Salisbury resident Susan Rand returns to the library in October with a new […]
It’s Only Natural—October 2015
Lichen Communities on Bald-Topped Mountains By Hans M. Carlson Until roughly 13,000 years ago, glaciers scoured and sculpted New England’s hills into the ridges, domes and cliffs we find so familiar today. The melting ice deposited soils in some places, but much of the post-glacial landscape was scraped, barren and rocky. Even in the thinnest […]
Norfolk Firefighters Receive State Recognition
By Ruth Melville In honor of Firefighters Day, held every year on September 6, the State of Connecticut chose this year to recognize the fine work of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD). On the quiet, sunny late afternoon of September 4, the members of the NVFD, resplendent in their dress uniforms, gathered behind the […]
Norfolk’s August 2015 Weather
Hard to Complain about the Weather By Russell Russ To define great summer weather most people would say warm and sunny. Since July, we have seen much more than our fair share of warm and sunny. Admittedly, the lack of rainfall has been a problem for some, but there have been no huge wildfires in […]
Rare Visitor Summers in Norfolk
A pair of sandhill cranes spent the summer in Norfolk, according to reports that have filtered in over the past months. On September 22, photographer Savage Frieze captured this one on film on private land in Norfolk’s northwest quadrant. It is an adult Lesser sandhill crane in summer plumage. The birds are famous for the elaborate dancing […]
