[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Taylor at the Twentieth by Ann Havemeyer The architect Alfredo Taylor has become somewhat of a legend in Norfolk. If you are not familiar with his name, you must certainly be familiar with his work, whether dining at the Norfolk...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Norfolk Library Tenth Anniversary by Ann Havemeyer “May the library be more and more a true home for rest, refreshment, and quickening,” wrote Sarah Porter to Norfolk Library founder Isabella Eldridge in 1899. The sister of Noah Porter, President...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Never to dim this light, young friends …” by Ann Havemeyer Were it not for the five small windows in the attic of the Library overlooking the Green, you might never know that there is a room on the third...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Peary Got Near Pole. Couldn’t Reach Norfolk. Snowbound. by Ann Havemeyer These were the headlines in the Hartford Courant on February 18, 1907, following Robert E. Peary’s aborted attempt to arrive in Norfolk in time for his scheduled talk at...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Survival in the Arctic by Ann Havemeyer Although we do not anticipate needing a guide for surviving arctic conditions here in the Icebox of Connecticut, there is a Norfolk connection to the man who penned The Airman's Arctic Survival Guide:...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] (Who) Eats Shoots and Leaves? by Leslie Battis In a foray through the Library’s non-fiction collection, I made some interesting finds. The 400s (language) includes books about English grammar and style, which I appreciate as an editor. A particular favorite...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Norfolk: Town with a Strange Personality by Ann Havemeyer [caption id="attachment_12798" align="alignright" width="300"] Philip Curtiss (1885-1964)[/caption] A century ago, Norfolk was emerging from the heyday of its summer resort years. Many of the hotels would soon close their doors. The...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Feeling Blue? by Leslie Battis Merriam-Webster lists no fewer than nine definitions of the word “blue.” In the context of the question above, it clearly means “melancholy.” In the 19th century, it sometimes meant “intellectual.” William Thackeray wrote: “the ladies...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] From Immigrant to Inventor by Ann Havemeyer “In 1897 I bought a farm at Norfolk. This blessed spot where I regained my health and happiness became my real American home and I have never had the desire to...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Two Women and a Sporting Book Collection by Ann Havemeyer Most people have heard of Orvis, the fly-fishing and wingshooting international retailer headquartered in southwestern Vermont. But are you familiar with Mary Orvis Marbury, author of the 1892 fly-fishing...
