It’s the perfect winter celebration: outdoor sports; a tour of stained glass windows, a brunch crawl, and a pancake breakfast; concerts and art shows; kids’ activities, tours, and open houses, ice carving, tea tasting, a look at the stars, and much more will be featured during Norfolk’s Second WINter Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, February 24 and 25. What’s even better, most of the events are free.
Event Highlights
Music and art will be strongly represented. The Doobie Others Band will perform at Infinity Hall Saturday night at 8 p.m. For classical music lovers, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is sponsoring a free performance called Music among Friends with composer Krists Auznieks and the Yale School of Music Piano Quartet in the library on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 3:30 pm. There is entertainment that is fun for the whole family planned at the Norfolk Library, who will host the Traveling Lantern Theater Puppet Show on Saturday from 10 am to 11 am. free of charge.
As for art, there is a show by painter Victor Leger at the Library on Sat. and Sun. from 12 noon to 4 pm. The Norfolk Artisans Guild is hosting a variety of artisan demonstrations from 10 am to 5 pm and an art show by Pamela Harnois. The Norfolk Historical Society will be open with a fabulous display of the work by 19th-century photographer Marie Kendall on Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 4 pm. New this year at the Norfolk Hub in the center of town there will be video showings of Haystack Book Talks on Saturday at 11 am 12:30 pm, and 2 pm.; the videos will run again on Sunday at 12 noon and 1:30 p.m. Another highlight offered at the Hub is a demonstration on how to make handmade art journals by Leslie Watkins on Saturday from 11am to 4 pm.
Revelers won’t go hungry. Don't miss out on all the goodies at the indoor Farmers Market, inside Town Hall from 10 am to 1 pm. The Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department will serve up coffee and donuts free of charge on Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm and Great Mountain Forest will open its sugar shack on Sat. and Sunday from 12 noon to 4 pm. The restaurants in Norfolk have organized a Sunday Brunch crawl, the Manor House Inn will host a Murder Mystery on Sunday evening from 5 pm to 7 pm, and Mountain View Inn will offer visitors a tea tasting and mini spa services on Sunday from 2 pm to 5 pm. The Immaculate Conception Church will host a free pancake breakfast on Sunday. And of course, sit-down meals will be readily available at almost any time of day.
A perennial favorite of WINter Weekend are the tours offered by the Norfolk Curling Club that will have an Open House on Saturday and Sunday from 8 am to 9 am. If you like stained glass, don't miss the Stained glass window tours of the Church of Christ on Saturday and Sunday. The tours of these beautiful stained glass windows by Tiffany begin on Saturday and run on the hour from 10 am to 3 pm and on Sunday from 12 noon to 3 pm.
Interested in sports? There will be plenty—skating on the town ice rink with lessons on Saturday from 10 am to 11 am, there is all day cross-country skiing, hiking and snowshoeing on one of Norfolk’s many trails including the beautiful North Brook Trail and sledding for all ages on the hill behind the Congregational Church on the green (bring your own sled). There will be an owl prowl from 4 am to 6 am. and a wildlife walk at Aton Forest on Saturday from 9 am to noon. New this year is the Astronomy Night on Saturday from 7 pm to 11 pm for a look at the winter constellations, there will be a bonfire and hot chocolate to take the chill out of the air. To round things out, the Norfolk Land Trust is hosting a discussion with Michael Gaige at the Norfolk Library from 4 pm to 5:30 pm on wolf trees.
To see a full schedule of events and times, go to weekendinnorfolk.org or call 860-542-5829. For updates, follow Weekend in Norfolk on Facebook. And save the date: the annual Weekend in Norfolk is coming up August 2, 3 and 4, 2019, for three days of summer fun.
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