Restoration Work Begins on Norfolk’s Music Shed
Historic Building 108 Years Old by Kurt Steele Some time during the 1930s or 1940s—decades when the Music Shed saw very little use—the building lost its cupola. “No one really knows how, ” says Samuel A. (Pete) Anderson, a trustee of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate. “The story is that it blew off during a […]
Yale Summer School of Art Celebrates Its 65th Anniversary
Director Sam Messer is making plans for the future By Ruth Melville This summer marked the 65th year of the Yale Summer School of Art and Music. The art program, though less visible to the public than the music school with its popular and well-regarded Norfolk Chamber Music series, has an equally impressive track record […]
Launching Norfolk Now
By Rosanna Trestman One day in late summer 2000 I got a house call from a perfect stranger wanting to know if I would like to start a newspaper. Like myself he was a recent arrival from the big city and missed the ready flow of news available from multiple sources. Lloyd Garrison, who also […]
It’s Only Natural
Birding by Ear By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo There’s a certain lonesomeness that accompanies time in nature, which birding eliminates. It also affords a rare opportunity to glimpse into a secret natural world and observe a multitude of species. It is no surprise that birders are everywhere, especially this time of year. On a recent birding […]
Out and About
Artist Karen Rossi to Join the Torrington Arts Scene By Ruth Melville Karen Rossi’s magical creations will soon be flying off to a new home. Although Rossi will keep her Norfolk studio, which is currently overflowing with an abundance of artwork, supplies and equipment, she is about to move most of her business into a […]
A “Treasured” Walk in the Forest
Geocaching Gains Popularity By Christina Vanderlip Fourteen years ago, in May of 2000, a new outdoor recreational activity called geocaching germinated when the government announced that it would discontinue scrambling Global Positioning System (GPS) signals. GPS, a satellite navigation system, was initially developed by the United States Department of Defense for military use and thus […]
“A Visual Exploration of Vast” at Aija
Babs Perkins Exhibits Photos Texture and color are the dominant themes of Perkins’ latest photography exhibit, “A Visual Exploration of Vast: The Open Landscape.” The show will hang at Bella Erder’s store at 6 Station Place throughout the month of June. Perkins describes the photos as “a collection of images that explores the fundamental intersection […]
Chamber Music Festival Commemorates Ellen Battell Stoeckel
The upcoming Norfolk Chamber Music Festival season celebrates the memory of their patroness, Ellen Battell Stoeckel, who passed away 75 years ago. Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) has recognized the significance of her contribution to the arts by including the Music Shed on its list of “Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures”. David Bibbey produced a video for the […]
Out and About
Not your Average Run Of the Mill By Rosanna Trestman Every piece of lumber begins as a log. Typically, the log goes from forest to sawmill, and comes out a plank cut to a uniform width, length and height. But at Berkshire Products, a sawmill tucked on Ashley Falls Road in Sheffield, Mass., the log’s […]
It’s Only Natural
Spring amphibians: they slither, they hop, they are small and slimy, and they are important to Norfolk’s ecosystem By Susannah Wood We’d been watching the weather, and Monday night, April 7, looked like it might be good—about 40 degrees and wet. Wiley and I set off at 10 p.m. with flashlights and rain gear. The […]
