Artificial Intelligence Takes to the Ice
The Body Scientific By Richard Kessin My wife does not like clutter. When she sees 50 issues of Nature, the British science magazine piled on my desk, she gets a little peremptory. “Out!” she said. I decided on the dignity of an orderly retreat. I had been looking for subjects to write about in what […]
Haystack Author Nominated for Book Award
Photo by Dawn Whalen An audience of 75 people—in person and on Zoom—were on hand to listen to Robert Jones Jr. deliver the Brendan Gill lecture, the inaugural event of last month’s Haystack Book Festival. Jones read from his critically acclaimed first novel, The Prophets, and talked about his background and the life experiences that […]
Warm and Wet — Again
by Russell Russ September was yet another nontypical weather month for Norfolk. It did not feel that warm or wet all month, but the final monthly totals told a different story. In a period of just about three days, remnants of a hurricane that landed on the Gulf Coast and then three weeks later a […]
Barbour Woods
Letter to the Editor I was just reading the October issue of Norfolk Now (I am visiting in Norfolk), and there were some mistakes in the article (by Jane Peterson) about my mom’s donation of land to the Norfolk Land Trust. My mom, Alison Fox, is not the daughter of Frederick Shephard. She is the […]
Tour de Forest
Letter to the Editor On behalf of Great Mountain Forest and Norfolk Curling Club, the Norfolk Rails to Trails Committee would like to thank all our generous sponsors and volunteers who worked so hard at making this year’s 2021 Tour de Forest Bike Ride a huge success. We were fortunate to be blessed with great […]
Over Half a Century of Spaceflight
The Celestial Sphere by Matthew Johnson Sixty years ago, in 1961, the Russian Yuri Gagarin and the American Alan Shepard rocketed into space, beginning a competition between their two nations and an adventure in space that continues today. Gagarin was born in 1934 in the Russian village of Klushino, a peasant village that suffered severely […]