Musical Bridges Series Continues in 2024 with Composer Vijay Iyer
By Andra Moss On Saturday, July 27, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival presents an evening focused on America’s current generation of renowned composers. It features Jessie Montgomery and Valerie Coleman and will include the world premiere of a new work composed by Vijay Iyer. This is the fourth piece presented by the Musical Bridges initiative, […]
A Look Into Norfolk’s Past
Exhibit Explores Pupin’s Haven of Happiness on Westside Road By Patricia Platt The Norfolk Historical Museum graces Norfolk’s village green with the reserve and understated elegance of a New Englander well worth getting to know. Visitors who step inside will find exhibits that tell the stories of the town’s past, often with intriguing ties to […]
Cook, for Goodness Sake!
This is so cool By Linda Garrettson It’s July, and it’s hot. The thermometer hit 90 degrees in the Icebox of Connecticut the day I wrote this article. What can we do but spend our days at Tobey Pond (my idea of heaven) or sit in an air-conditioned home? In my world food solves many […]
Why Such a big Firehouse?
Plans call for a near tripling of space By Joe Kelly As plans for a new Norfolk firehouse advance through the design and budgeting phases—and ultimately a town vote—one question comes up repeatedly: Why is the proposed firehouse, at 10,700 square feet, so much larger than the current one, which is just 3,800 square feet? […]
Chamber Music Gala to Feature Imani Winds
The Grammy Award-winning group Imani Winds will perform at the Yale Music Shed on Saturday, July 20, at 8 p.m., for the 2024 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Gala. The wind quintet’s imaginative programming, “Black and Brown II,” will include jazz, chamber music and contemporary pieces. According to NPR, “If it’s possible for a classically trained […]
Sculpture Trail Expands
Work by Norfolk Sculptor Unveiled in Temporary Spot on Village Green By Avice Meehan Imagine fencing wire that’s been tamed and woven into a flower with 18 petal-like leaves all held in place by a welded, steel structure the size of a small tree. Those industrial-strength materials combine to form the sculpture “Lotus,” unveiled June […]
Norfolk Past and Present
The Summer Chapel Eases Gracefully Into Its 130 Years By Elizabeth Bailey Ayreslea Rowland Denny began attending services at The Church of the Transfiguration in Norfolk in 1939 on the eve of World War II. A New Yorker, she was a student at the Chapin School in New York City, but her family had been […]
From the Bookshelf
A Very Local Sacrifice: Litchfield County and the Civil War By Joe Kelly In the middle of Norfolk’s village green stands the Soldiers’ Monument, a tall, tapered tribute in stone to 35 soldiers from Norfolk who lost their lives in the Civil War. It’s a monument to the sacrifices made to end slavery and preserve […]
Norfolk’s May 2024 Weather
A Look Back at the Sixth Warmest May By Russell Russ This May was a nice weather month. Nice, if you like warm temperatures with partly to mostly sunny skies. There were some wet days, but they were few and far between. May 2023 was also a very nice weather month. Two years in a […]
