Celebrating 250 Years of

Norfolk, Connecticut

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
& OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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On October 12th of 1758, Norfolk was incorporated as an independent municipality,
with 44 voters at the first meeting. Two hundred and fifty years later
it is appropriate to commemorate this special time in history with a town-wide celebration.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1

4:00 PM OPEN HOUSE - Norfolk Library, Norfolk Historical Museum, White House and Battell Chapel.

4:30 PM THE COPPER STREET BRASS QUINTET on the Town Green

5:00 PM JUDY BUCH - VENTRILOQUIST SHOW on Station Place

5:3O PM - 9:30 PM A BLOCK PARTY on Station Place featuring

- Food booths ($$)

- Music provided by John Bazzano's band

- Square dancing called by Cliff Brodeur

- Bingo sponsored by the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department

- Karl Saliter, the street jester, sponsored by Norfolk Children's Foundation.

APPROX. 9:3OPM A GALA FIREWORKS DISPLAY will erupt from the center of town!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2

10:30 AM YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL (YAR) in the Music Shed on the grounds of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate featuring music from 1758.

1:00 - 3:00 PM A VICTORIAN TEA at the Mountain View Inn. Meet Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victorian ladies, soldiers of bygone years and your neighbors! Light refreshments provided.

4:00 PM A "NORFOLK THROUGH THE YEARS" PARADE

Beginning on Maple Avenue and ending at the intersection of Mountain Road & West Side Road. The Parade features a float contest with prizes created and donated by Norfolk's world-renowned weathervane Artist John Garrett Thew.

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
THE PARADE



- ACTIVITIES AT THE BALL FIELD including

- presentation of trophies to float contest winners
- old fashioned games including a pie eating contest
- stagecoach rides sponsored by the Norfolk Historical Society
- pony rides
- food booths ($$)
- special appearances by Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Civil War impressionists
- music by THE PLEASE AND THANK YOU STRING BAND

6:00 PM QUILT RAFFLE

7:30 PM UNITED STATES COAST GUARD BAND in the Music Shed on the grounds of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate