Gold on Ice

It isn’t every day that an Olympic gold-medal winner comes to town.  But on Jan. 31, Tyler George (at left, above), a member of the U.S. men’s gold-medal winning curling team at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, stopped by the Norfolk Curling Club as part of his post-Olympics goodwill tour. In beating number one-ranked Sweden, […]

Community News, March 2019

Book Talk by Hans Carlson Hams Carlson, executive director of Blue Hill Heritage Trust in Main, and former director of Great Mountain Forest, will read from and discuss his new book, “Walking Toward Moosalamoo,” an inquiry into the relation between humans, the land and the historical and cultural terrain of New England. The talk will […]

Norfolk Then . . .

In her long skirt and high-button shoes, photographer Marie Kendall climbed the steeple of the Congregational Church carrying her view camera and glass plates to capture this view of Norfolk looking toward Haystack Mountain. Although the photograph is undated, it was likely taken in mid-March of 1888 after the historic blizzard dumped snow for 36 […]