Pickleball Is a Serious Sport, Really

Norfolk Curling Club Offers a Chance to Learn or Spectate   By David Beers In 1965, Congressman Joel Pritchard and a friend went outside to play badminton on the badminton court in his Bainbridge, Wash. Backyard. They could not find the badminton equipment and improvised with ping pong rackets and a wiffle ball, and pickleball […]

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Starts an Event-Filled Six-Week Run

  By Wiley Wood They start arriving on July 1, young musicians, most of them in graduate programs in the United States, but originally from four continents, coming to Norfolk to learn, rehearse and perform (or compose) chamber music with members of the faculty of the Yale School of Music and a distinguished cast of […]

Community News—July 2018

Yale Student Concert on Village Green Please come to a free concert given by the Yale music students on the village green on Sunday, July 15 at 2 p.m. Bring your own blanket or chairs and a picnic to enjoy while listening to these talented young artists. Rain location: Battell House.   Jay Ungar and […]

Dennis Hill, Photographed by Marie Kendall

Norfolk photographer Marie Kendall took pictures of the beautiful estate on Litchfield Road belonging to Dr. Frederic Dennis and now known as Dennis Hill. In 1907 Dr. Dennis hired architect Alfredo Taylor to design a bungalow at the top of the site with a commanding view. A place to entertain guests, the bungalow was fully […]