Fire Department Practices on Wheeler Road Garage
Local family makes structure available to NVFD for live burn On a recent Saturday morning, most of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department’s fleet of vehicles converged on Wheeler Road, not to put out a fire but to set one. The property owners, David and Cindy Leffell, had decided to clear their land of the existing […]
Legendary Sound Man at Infinity Steps Down
Concert venue celebrates its seventh year By Michael Kelly Shortly before Infinity Hall opened in October 2008, newly-hired sound engineer Fred Schane climbed the stairs to the long dormant hall for the first time. Entranced by the look and feel of the vintage theater, he was more interested in how the mellowed wood and […]
Bevan Ramsay’s Sculptures on the Move
After giving plenty of people pause at the Norfolk Artists & Friends exhibit this summer, Bevan Ramsay’s haunting sculptures of homeless people in New York City moved on to Canada in September. Dramatically presented in a gallery at Art Mur in Montreal, the exhibition, entitled “Lesser Gods,” was on view from September 10 to October […]
Through The Garden Gate—November 2015
November is Elemental By Leslie Watkins Earth, wind, fire and water—without any one of these elements, there is no life and no garden. While each plays its part in supporting life on earth, soil is most closely associated with gardening. The living soil, so easily taken for granted, is a seething eight-inches of bacteria, […]
Documentary Film Describes Norfolk
Local photographer premiers film at Norfolk Library By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The prolific photographer and writer Christopher Little delighted hundreds of Norfolkians last month with his 40-minute documentary chronicling a year in the life of our town. Showings at the Norfolk Country Club and the Norfolk Library packed the respective houses. Over 400 people […]
New Resident Brings Age-Old Craft to Town
Carving Stone: Adam Paul Heller By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo “I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade…” begins “Down in the Valley”, a song by the indie folk band The Head & the Heart. The song expresses a deep yearning to get back to your roots, and lead a more primitive existence. In […]
Photographs by Bruce Frisch Going on Display in Venice
Photos of Renowned Indian Artist to Accompany Retrospective By Ruth Melville Bruce Frisch’s photographs are well known to readers of Norfolk Now. He is the paper’s staff photographer, and his pictures enliven every issue. He also exhibits his work at the annual Norfolk Artists and Friends show, always including some spectacular nature shots taken […]
The Winsted Diner, Where the Food Is Finer
By Colleen Gundlach Tucked sideways next to the Odd Fellows Building, two doors up from the YMCA in Winsted, is a piece of local history that is often overlooked. The hand-carved wooden hot dog man in front is the only reason that a driver traveling through town would have reason to give it a […]
New Innkeepers at the Manor House
The Power of Intention By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Three years ago, the new Manor House Innkeeper Sheila Blanchette was spending her days in a cubicle crunching numbers for EBSCO Publishing in Ipswich, Mass., and writing a novel at night about an accountant who daydreamed of becoming an innkeeper. Her protagonist’s lifelong dream soon became […]
Norfolk Then…
John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1789-1795), dined at this house in Norfolk. The John Jay Papers are housed at Columbia University, and in Jay’s diary for October 12, 1790, he wrote “went to Norfolk – dined at the widow Wilcox’s […]
