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 […]
Jumping Worms, Part 2: What to do?
By Susannah Wood Last month Norfolk Now published a short piece (“Jumping Worms: Fast-Moving Agents of Destruction”) on the breaking story that Asian jumping worms had arrived on the grounds of the Norfolk Library, adjacent to the new native plant bed. Readers may be wondering what steps can be taken to, at the very least, […]
Know Your Neighbor
Hilary VanWright How did you come to Norfolk? I first visited Norfolk 23 years ago and was awed by the scenery and the local appreciation for the arts. I left Manhattan to become a full-time resident in 2017. The children’s librarian (who happens to be the grandmother of my children), the waterlilies, Barbour Woods and the […]
Real Estate Sales
On June 3, from Shirky Unlimited LLC to Dominick Pietrzak, 315 Ashpotag Road, for $99,000. On June 5, from Brett Austin Robbins to Anne M. and Ryan R. Johnson, tow acres on Parker Hill Road, for $25,000. On June 12, form Margaret E. Burnett to Barbara A., Brian J. and Chrisitine Hennessey, co-trustees of the […]
New Growth, New Services
A Norfolk Tradition Looks to the Future By Colleen Gundlach The company now known as A.B. Bazzano Fuels has been a part of Norfolk history since 1937, when John C. Bazzano, Sr. opened John C. Bazzano & Son, a business that sold ice and coal. As coal gave way to oil, the business evolved and […]
Tobey Receives a Gift Built to Last
Getting in and out of a bathing suit at Tobey Pond just got easier thanks to a new changing shed, compliments of the Norfolk Lions Club. The shed is the handiwork of the majestically-bearded master builder and craftsman, Philip Cyr, and well-known author, raconteur and community stalwart, John Funchion. Cyr, known for his painstaking restoration […]
