Community News

Volunteers Needed—Free Concert Tickets! The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is looking for community ushers for Friday and Saturday evenings, July 5 to Aug. 10 at the Music Shed. Ushers will take tickets, hand out programs and guide people to seats. In return, ushers receive free admission to concerts. Ushers must have proof of vaccination. Contact Tom […]

GMF Receives Grant for Oral History Project

Will include videos and podcasts By Marie G. O’Neill  Housatonic Heritage recently awarded a 2024 Heritage Partnership grant to Great Mountain Forest Corporation (GMF) to document oral histories of five individuals who have worked in the forest, including foresters Matt Gallagher, Russell Russ, Jody Bronson and Wayne Jenkins. The project,
entitled “Work in the Working Forest,” […]

GMF Partnering with Yale School of Architecture

New research program explores sustainable forestry and building design By John Perkins What does forestry have to do with architecture? A lot, says Alan Organschi, senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, and director of Innovation Labs at Bauhaus Earth in Berlin, Germany. Organschi is also a design principal and partner […]

Victoria Nelson Joins Staff at Great Mountain Forest

By Patricia Platt After 36 years as a teacher and IT director at Cornwall School in Cornwall, Conn., Vicki Nelson serendipitously found a position this August as office manager at Great Mountain Forest (GMF). It has turned out to be a perfect fit. “I’m very excited that I can bring my expertise in technology and […]