Going Completely Over the Edge But Doing It for a Good Cause
Event company helps organizations raise funds Text by Heath and Kelly Hughes Photo Courtesy of Daryl Byrne Imagine standing at the top of a building 485 feet tall. To help raise money for Connecticut Special Olympics, you agreed to rappel down the building. It sounded like a good idea at the time, but now you’re here […]
Norbrook Farm Brewery Hopes to Build on a Successful Start
Owners want to bring in food trucks Text and Photo by Doug McDevitt For many, sipping a fine ale with friends, revisiting past adventures or planning new ones and talking history or debating current events in a comfortable setting can be as good as it gets. What could make that even better? Perhaps a really […]
Neighbors in the News
Torpedoed Ship and Stolen Identity Are Basis of Author’s Second Novel Text by Colleen GundlachPhoto Courtesy of Frank Buyak It was spring, 1939, and the feeling of unrest in Europe was increasing. World War II was in the offing. Frank Buyak was less than two years old when he, his brother and his mother were […]
Great Mountain Forest Hires New Executive Director
Tamara Muruetagoiena first came to Norfolk as a Yale forestry student Text By Ruth MelvillePhoto by Bruce Frisch Great Mountain Forest’s new executive director, Tamara Muruetagoiena, has been a researcher, an international forestry consultant and a manager of research projects in the United States, the Basque Country and the Dominican Republic, but she is no […]
American Mural Project to Honor the American Worker
American Mural Project Will Be Five Stories Tall and 120 Feet Long Text and Photo by Jeremy Withnell The first impression one gets when stepping into the cavernous space occupied by the American Mural Project (AMP) in Winsted is one of enormity. This work of art, once completed, will stand five stories tall and 120 […]
Notes from a French Kitchen
Autumnal Musings By Marie-Christine Perry As I picked the last of the tomatoes and peppers before putting the raised beds to sleep for winter, the complex smell of a spicy South Indian tomato chutney bubbling on the stove reminds me that this is my favorite season. The dehydrator is working around the clock drying mushrooms […]
From Bar Harbor to Marine Corps Memorial in Washington
Ultra Marathoner runs to raise funds for veterans injured in line of duty Norfolk was the overnight stop of Justin Rowe, an ultra marathoner from Great Britain. Rowe, a British Army veteran and retired firefighter, is running from Bar Harbor, Maine to the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington, DC to raise funds for his fellow […]
Breathing New Life into an Historical Landmark
Crissey Place has a new owner By Doug McDevitt Sometimes a good thing just can’t be kept down, even in the form of a house. A very old house. It’s located just inside the village green as you travel north towards Maple Street. It’s the first house you see on your right and it is […]
A Weekend of Puppets, Marionettes and Stiltwalkers: The Greenwoods Puppet Festival
A busker walks out from behind the puppet stage, ukulele in hand, and sings a brief history of the art of puppetry. There was Punch and Judy, of course, but also Pulcinella, escaped from the commedia dell’arte; Guignol, of the sharp wit and heavy cudgel; Karagöz, the Turkish shadow puppet; and Kaspar and Gretel, originally […]
Convenience at Its Best
Berkshire Country Store to Launch “Norfolk Store 24” By Doug McDevitt We all enjoy convenience. While fishing the Housatonic River for many years, one of my convenient stops afterward was at a little corner store in Cornwall where I could enjoy a hot beverage or sandwich. It was warm and quaint inside and finished my […]
