Melville, the Mountain and Moby Dick
By Michael Kelly Only a writer with Herman Melville’s phantasmagorical imagination could look out his window in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts at Mount Greylock, 16 miles due north, and envision a great white whale surfacing for air in the remote seas of the South Pacific. Yet this is precisely what Melville did […]
Tobey Bog: The Centrality of Marginal Places
By Hans M. Carlson Many of the articles I’ve written for Norfolk Now have concerned the interconnectedness of the natural world and human communities. By highlighting stone walls, collier’s hearths and the remnants of early conservation work, I’ve tried to show that even the deepest woods here in the northwest corner of Conn. are […]
Blackberry River Baking Co. Serves New Food in a Familiar Setting
By Ruth Melville Four years ago, Audrey and Sam Leary were living in Brooklyn and looking for a place to start a new life—they found it in Canaan, Conn. The couple met in New York, where Audrey attended culinary school. After leaving school, she worked briefly at a Michelin-rated restaurant in the city before […]
From Riverbed to Lasting Art
Jim Kochiss leaves no stone unturned By Colleen Gundlach Most people step over rocks, whether in the river or on the roadside, without a second thought, but not Jim Kochiss. This lifetime Norfolk resident sees the potential for beauty in each stone, and has the ability to bring out the true personality of every […]
A Stint in the Middle East
MacGregor Robinson takes a position at King’s Academy By Christina Vanderlip When he headed admissions for Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling N.Y., Norfolk native MacGregor (Greg) Robinson traveled the globe recruiting and interviewing potential students and meeting their families. Clearly, he had not seen enough of the world in his estimation, as he recently accepted […]
Norfolk Photographers at Pinacoteca Gallery
Mia Weiner, owner of the Pinacoteca Gallery in Bantam, Conn., confers with guests at an opening reception on April 16 for “Norfolk Through a Lens,” an exhibition of 10 Norfolk photographers: Jennifer Almquist, Peter Coffeen, Mahlon Craft, Bruce Frisch, Katherine Griswold, Anita Holmes, Jim Jasper, Christopher Little, Babs Perkins and Rick Schatzberg. A large-format book […]
The Ultimate Farm-to-Table Experience
Babs Perkins’s new photography on view at the library By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Babs Perkins describes a Zen-like element to life in the Balkans, which is certainly reflected in her photographs from the region. Her upcoming show at the Norfolk Library, “Bosnia & Serbia through the Lens” includes a collection of 30 photographs from […]
View From the Green
One Man’s Trash . . . By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Last week, we gutted the final section of our 255-year-old home that we have been in the process of renovating on and off for the last 11 years. In 2005, I was thrilled to be living in a house with that much history and […]
It’s Only Natural
The Legacy of Glacial Lake Norfolk By Hans M. Carlson A couple of months ago I wrote about the low water in Tobey Pond, and how it revealed interesting aspects of the pond’s human history. Today I’m thinking about high water at the pond, and that’s an entirely different story, one which unfolded even before […]
How many long-ago students of Norfolk’s Center School recognize this image of Snoopy? In the 1960’s, our wonderful school janitor, Mr. Ted Bourque, would make Snoopy characters out of particle board on his band saw for any child who asked for one. How many have survived the test of time or, rather, the test of […]
