Inside the Music Factory
Visiting With the Fellows at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival By Wiley Wood The campus of the Yale Summer School of Music in Norfolk is almost deserted on a sunny day in July, but fragments of music float in the air from all sides. A brass ensemble is rehearsing in a stone structure near Mountain […]
Solar Generation On The Rise
Area Residents Find Solar Affordable By Bob Bumcrot Driving along Route 44 through East Canaan, it’s hard not to notice the large set of solar panels across the road from Freund’s farm: eight big arrays totaling 576 panels on the site of the old Couch farmhouse and barn. The 130-kilowatt installation by PurePoint Energy of […]
Commentary: Finding You Center in the Northwest Corner
By David Beers Are you using your full working circle? What I mean is, are you able to reach out in all directions from Norfolk? For work, I consider my geographic reach to be roughly a 50-mile straight-line radius from my home. Almost any location within this radius is a 1.5-hour drive or less. Anything […]
Arethusa Farm Serves Up Fresh From Barn to Bistro
Wholesome and natural are its bywords By Colleen Gundlach In Greek mythology, Arethusa was a nymph whom the goddess Artemis transformed into a spring to save her virginity when she was being pursued by the river god Alpheus. It is an apt name, then, for Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, because the land it is built […]
Question: What Makes Tuesdays at the Wood Creek Bar & Grill Consequential?
Local Event Gains Regional Following By Barbara Perkins What is a female rabbit called? St. Patrick is said to have cast what out of Ireland? What is the name of the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean? Krusty the Clown is featured on what TV show? Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag […]
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 […]
