Know Your Neighbor
Christopher Keyes With this piece, Norfolk Now is launching a new series to get to know our neighbors better and to find common ground by talking about our relationship to our exceptional town. How did you come to Norfolk? I came to know Norfolk through friends in the late ’90s. I recall a walk up Dennis […]
Norfolk Remembers: Elizabeth Ann (Poll) Leifert
Elizabeth A Leifert, 80, passed away March 28, 2024. She was the wife of 60 years of Lawrence A. Leifert. Born in Torrington on Feb. 3, 1944, she was the daughter of Armand and Katherine Killiany Poll and a graduate of the Hart School of Music. She worked for the State of Connecticut Department of […]
Norfolk Remembers: Eleanor Curtiss Ellert
Eleanor Curtiss Ellert passed away on February 23, 2024, at the young age of 96. She was born in Norfolk, in 1927 to Albert H. and Elizabeth (Manville) Curtiss. Although she moved away from Norfolk during her marriage to her first husband of 14 years, she returned with her son, Clifford Bell, after her divorce. […]
Congregational Church Seeks Community Input
By Avice Meehan More than 260 years after its founding, members of Norfolk’s iconic “Church on the Green” decided to take a radical step: survey its members and residents of the town about their perceptions of the church and how it might better serve the community. “It’s fairly straightforward, but not necessarily ‘normal’ for a […]
GMF Receives Grant for Oral History Project
Will include videos and podcasts By Marie G. O’Neill Housatonic Heritage recently awarded a 2024 Heritage Partnership grant to Great Mountain Forest Corporation (GMF) to document oral histories of five individuals who have worked in the forest, including foresters Matt Gallagher, Russell Russ, Jody Bronson and Wayne Jenkins. The project, entitled “Work in the Working Forest,” […]
Norfolk’s March 2024 Weather
Who’ll Stop the Rain? By Russell Russ For Norfolk and much of southern New England, March was another wet month and another winter month with very little snow. As many recent months have been, it was also fairly high ranking for warmth. March’s warmth brought an early end to this year’s maple syrup season and […]
The Shorter Nights of Summer
The Celestial Sphere By Matthew Johnson As we leave move into May we have a lengthening of daylight. April began with 12 hours and 45 minutes of daylight, and May will end with 15 hours and 4 minutes of daylight. This is a gain of 2 hours and 19 minutes as the Earth in its […]
Watercolors Brightened a Rainy Day
Watercolors by Deborah Hanson Greene were on display in the Norfolk Library during the month of April. Inspired by the pastoral beauty of her native Berkshires, the works included farm scenes, large florals and still lifes. Greene is both a writer and a painter, and her paintings have been accepted into juried exhibitions at the […]
A Play to Celebrate Earth Day
“A Sense of Wonder,” a one-person play written and performed by stage, film and television actor Kaiulani Lee, was presented at the Botelle School on Sunday, April 21, in honor of Earth Day. The play is based on the writings of Rachel Carson, a biologist and conservationist whose book “Silent Spring” and other writings are credited […]
Zone 6: Want a Better Garden? Compost is the Answer
By Jill Chase If you garden at all, you probably know the power of compost. If your soil is too sandy and free draining—compost is the answer. If your soil is heavy clay—compost is the answer. Basically every garden can be improved by compost, but not enough people use it, much less make it. Most […]
