The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is the inspiration for this unique Historic House Dinner.  Discover the connections to the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and Norfolk, CT.  Guests will be treated to an international feast in the grand dining room of Coolwater. Seating will be limited.  This is a ticketed event at $250 per person.

An Historic House Dinner

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Fundraising dinner, November 6, 2021, $250 per person

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Annual Fundraising Dinner   

Join us as we explore the Great Blizzard, which crippled the Eastern Seaboard on March 12, 1888.  The village of Norfolk was shut-off from the world for three days until the first train was able to make it’s way into the station after 70+ men hand shoveled the tracks from Winstead.  The Museum will host a program at 4:00 P.M. with a slide presentation of historic photographs and first hand accounts from letters and journals, by Norfolk residents, who recored this historic weather event of the century.   A special exhibition is in place highlighting other winter activities such as the Norfolk Ski Jump and the Great “Ripper” a 14-foot bobsled which is set up with a winter backdrop for a unique photo op.   The Museum will open at 1:00 P.M

The Norfolk Historical Society will be hosting a weekend exhibition, February 24 & 25th 2018, of historic winter photographs from our collection along with a dozen or more contemporary Norfolk photographers who will exhibit their works of the winter landscape.   The historic photos will showcase the Great Blizzard of 1888 and the historic Ice Storm of 1898 taken by Marie H. Kendall, a local photographer whose other works and her story will be the feature of 2018 summer exhibition.

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Please join us for the Annual Meeting and the opening of the exhibit Original Posters from World War I.  A slide presentation by Barry Webber will follow the meeting: “Farm to Table – A Look Back 100 Years: A Brief History of Food in Norfolk during World War I.”

Please join us for this annual fun and festive event! Fifteen beautiful home baked confections will be auctioned off to the highest bidder by auctioneer Tom Strumolo.  Don’t miss the most talked about event in town.  Tickets are $25 at the door. Enjoy our signature cocktail and delicious nibbles while you view the stunning array of cakes made by Norfolk’s best bakers!

The experience of World War I prisoners of war in Germany is an aspect of the conflict little covered by historical research. A first-hand account was discovered by Dr. Francis Baudry, when he found the diary his father kept during his three years in captivity in German camps. In July 1914, when he was 18 years old, Baudry’s father was planning to return to Paris to enlist in the French army after visiting his family in Alsace Lorraine. As he was about to board the train in Strasbourg, he was arrested and accused of spying. He spent the next two years in a German camp. This ironically saved his life, as he would most probably have died in the trenches.
After his father passed away in 1999 at the age of 103, Dr. Baudry found an extraordinary  manuscript among his father’s belongings. The size of a cigarette pack, it was a memoir written during his time in captivity and dedicated to a cousin whom he loved. Dr. Baudry will speak about his father’s vivid description of his years in captivity and his several attempts at escape.
A Norfolk and New York resident, Dr. Baudry is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with his own practice, and affiliated with Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is a member of the Soldier’s Project, an organization dedicated to giving free mental health care to veterans and their families.