Mapping the Future of Norfolk’s Public Trails
Project will consolidate data on every hiking path in one online site Text by Andra MossPhoto by Dawn Whalen Looking for a great public trail in Norfolk? Hikers are definitely spoiled for choice, with dozens of miles of wooded paths, former carriage roads, logging trails and railway beds silently beckoning. Whatever one’s perambulatory mood, be […]
Freund’s Farm Offers Stroll & Graze for Enjoyment and Education
by Colleen Gundlach Combining the beauty of 200 contiguous acres of cropland with an understanding of how this land can be part of the climate change solution, Freund’s Farm in East Canaan is an example of how local farmers work for farmland preservation while protecting the environment. To share both the beauty and the science, […]
New Gateways Welcome Visitors to Town
By Doreen Kelly “Village Improvement Together!” is the motto of the Norfolk Community Association (NCA), and there couldn’t be a more fitting description of its most recently completed undertaking—the Welcome to Norfolk beautification project, made possible by a grant from The Evan Hughes Charitable Trust and in partnership with the Norfolk Economic Development Commission (EDC). […]
Suffragists Hit the Road to Norfolk
by Andra Moss Something special was in the air in August 1911. It was the sound of women’s voices rising, once again, to demand their right to vote. Decades of unsuccessful advocacy for women’s suffrage in Connecticut had left many discouraged at the turn of the 20th century, but by 1911 fresh winds were blowing. […]
Norfolk Filmmaker Goes to Cannes
Writer and director Diego Ongaro’s new film, “Down With the King,” which stars rapper and musician Freddie Gibbs, was accepted at Cannes this summer. In the film, which was shot in and around Norfolk last year, Gibbs plays a famous rapper who decides to quit the music business and move to a small farming community. […]
Free Community Supper
Photo by Marie-Christine Perry The Free Community Supper at the Church Of Christ Congregational on Tuesday, June 29, was a real success, with more than 50 attendees. An evening of community, healthful food and education, it pleased young and old alike and provided a welcome get-together for the Norfolk community after months of isolation. It […]
Tom Hlas Has Signed, Sealed, and Delivered with Mail Art
Text by Kelly Kandra HughesPhoto by Tom Hlas Tom Hlas always knew he wanted to be an artist. Born and raised in Elberon, Iowa (population at the time about 100 people), Hlas remembers being four years old and playing with cars on his parents’ chenille bedspread. When his oldest sister, home from college, asked him […]
The Healing Nest Is a New Center for Wellness and Community
By Ruth Melville When Dianna Hofer was young, she was fascinated with the placebo effect and startled to learn that people normally use only 5 percent of their brains. In college, as she studied more about the mind, she began to think of it as “the greatest new frontier.” Four decades of continuing investigation into […]
Donations Pour in by the Cupful
Photo by Peter Chaffetz The moment rain clouds cleared on July 14, an enthusiastic consortium calling themselves the “Navigators” opened a summer classic, the sidewalk lemonade stand. Strategically positioned along the Town Hall driveway, the entrepreneurs/campers from the Norfolk Early Learning Center offered perfectly prepared lemonade (“It’s all about the stirring,” revealed one) in exchange […]
Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle
Photo by Clinton Sosna Norfolk Scout John David Moran of Troop 22 was presented with his Eagle Scout badge at a ceremony held on June 6 at the VFW in Canaan. For his Eagle Scout project, Moran worked with mentor Daryl Byrne to document the final resting place of veterans buried in Norfolk cemeteries and […]
