Celebrity Priest Visited Norfolk on Thanksgiving in 1869
A Look Into Norfolk’s Past By Andra Moss In the Spring 1895 issue of Connecticut Quarterly (“Devoted to the Literature, History and Picturesque Features of Connecticut”), there appears a beautifully written essay on Norfolk by Adele Greene. She notes its natural beauties and praises its residents, including the Rev. Dr. Joseph Eldridge, who “was for […]
Green Spring Trio
Notes From a French Kitchen by Marie-Christine Perry After a long winter, made longer by confinement, to see nature greening around me turns my thoughts to asparagus, peas and artichokes. I already see the first shoots in my asparagus bed, portent of delightful meals, and I regret that the climate here is not propitious to the […]
Community News
Norfolk Artists & Friends The spring exhibit of works by Norfolk Artists & Friends is on display at the Norfolk Library through the month of May. Face masks are required in the library. A video of the exhibit can be found on the library website. Central Park: Past & Present Often called “the lungs of […]
Norfolk Then…
The sundial pictured in the foreground of this photograph was installed behind Battell Fountain on the village green in 1904. An antique bronze plate acquired in London reads, “Our days are as a shadow and there is none abiding.” The sundial was purchased by Mary Eldridge, who had given the Stanford White-designed fountain in 1889 […]
