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 […]
Norfolk’s Multi-Generational Business
MI Integrated Media By Christina Vanderlip MI Integrated Media (MI) specializes in direct response advertising, meaning ads with a ‘call to action’. While they are known for creative small space sections in the back of national magazines, they also run full-page advertising campaigns for clients. MI partners advertisers with publications that best fit their […]
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 […]
Rare Visitor Summers in Norfolk
A pair of sandhill cranes spent the summer in Norfolk, according to reports that have filtered in over the past months. On September 22, photographer Savage Frieze captured this one on film on private land in Norfolk’s northwest quadrant. It is an adult Lesser sandhill crane in summer plumage. The birds are famous for the elaborate dancing […]
Sign of Summer’s End, Town Beach Closes
Swimming at the town beach at Tobey Pond is over for the year, after a final weekend of activity. At 8 a.m. on Monday, September 14, a crew from the Norfolk Public Works department arrived to ready the beach for winter. They hauled the float onshore, carted off the lifeguard chairs and picnic tables to the […]
Norfolk Artists and Friends Show
The second weekend of August saw the Norfolk Artists and Friends seventh annual August Arts Weekend, featuring an art show held at the Battell Stoeckel Art Gallery. Over 20 artists, working in a variety of mediums, exhibited in the show. The Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival sponsored the weekend, and a portion […]
Used Book Sale Supports Norfolk Library
The book buying was fast and furious at this year’s book sale, sponsored by the Library Associates. Blessed with fine weather, the sale was very successful, with totals expected to be close to last year’s. The Library Associates are grateful to all the volunteers who helped out with the sale, and especially to Hatsy Taylor, […]
Americorps Puts Boots on the Ground
Team of Volunteers Helps Land Trust Clear a New Trail By Susannah Wood The weather forecast was for hot and sticky all week, but the six lean and fit members of the Buffalo 5 Team came into town ready to do all the tasks the Norfolk Land Trust put in front of them: drainage […]
How Did Dolphin Pond Get Its Name?
A Look into Norfolk’s Past By Ryan Bachman In December 1803 Norfolk resident Peter Freedom received a crushing verdict from the Litchfield County Court. Because of debts incurred by his recently deceased father, Dolphin, the son was ordered to sell the family farm in southwestern Norfolk. The 40-acre property had only been in the […]
