The Norfolk
Ct. Economic
Development Commission
announced the Norfolk ArtsWave!
in Litchfield County. The August
13-15,weekend in Norfolk is a
further commitment to its long
cultural heritage filled with
cultural events in an unspoiled
natural environment.
ArtsWave
will feature James Laughlin and
New Directions Publishing.
A library-centered event will
honor Norfolkian James Laughlin,
considered
the greatest publisher of the 20th
century. This uniquely
forward-thinking, poet/literary
man founded New Directions
Publishing in 1936. While a
Harvard undergrad, he introduced
to American readers, the first
anthology
of Jean Cocteau. A myriad of
others followed: Wm. Carlos
Williams, Tennessee Williams,
Ezra Pound, Charles Pierre
Baudelaire, Henry Miller, Thomas
Merton, Dylan Thomas, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, e.e.Cummings, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Patchen,
Hermann Hesse
and Wallace Stevens, Oh, the
list goes
on!.
Featured Guest Artists:
EDMUND MORRIS:
Beethoven scholar and Pulitzer
Prize- winning author of The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (book
one of a trilogy) and
Dutch, the bio of
Ronald Reagan, will deliver the
Battell Memorial Lecture
IAN MAC NIVEN:
Speaks: The Shaping of Modern
Literature
The Biographer of
Lawrence Durrell; The edit of
the Henry Miller/ Lawrence
Durrell letters
1930-1980; founder: Lawrence
Durrell Society; currently
penning the life of James
Laughlin,
PEGGY FOX:
President and Publisher of New
Directions will tell the current
direction the publishing house
is taking.
SIMON WINCHESTER:
Reading The Brendon Gill Lecture
Author of Krakatoa: The Man
Who Loved China. (Book one
of a trilogy)
and one of eighteen books he's
written.
THE TOKYO STRING QUARTET: for
classical music lovers
Weekend performances by pianist/
composer JOAN PANETTI and
FRIENDS, and Norfolk Fellows.
Pop music lovers: SUZY BOGGUSS and
a second blockbuster musician
perform.
Prefer bluegrass music? It
swings at Norfolk’s arty Farmers
Market.
ART
LOVERS: Don’t miss the opening
art show and reception for Sam
Messer, artist, Guggenheim
Fellow and director of the Yale
Summer School of Music and Art
in Norfolk.
Follow the Norfolk Artists and
Friends Annual Exhibition and
sale (over 20 accomplished
resident artists) in one place,
then visit the 72-accre
Battell-Stoeckel Estate, home of
the Yale Summer School of Music
and Art; Dennis Hill State Park;
see Tiffany windows in the
Christ Congregation Church; many
architectural jewels; hike its
trails etc.
The event is developed by
Francesca Turchiano, a
businesswoman and arts patron,
aided by many others, including
Elizabeth Borden, Town of
Norfolk, EDC Chair and Norfolk
Volunteer of the Year and the
townspeople generously sharing
Norfolk’s extraordinary pearls.