Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
norwichhistory2025-02-17T13:59:26-07:00Eat Drink and Be Merry! Have you ever wondered who Jasper Murdock was? Did you know there were stills in the Norwich hills? Sarah Rooker shares stories about the [...]
Rising Waters: Flooding in Norwich
norwichhistory2025-02-17T14:02:13-07:00Rising Waters: Flooding in Norwich with Michael Simpson, Director, Leadership and Management of Sustainable Systems Program, Antioch University and Sarah Rooker, Director, Norwich Historical Society. Sarah Rooker shares Norwich’s history [...]
Conservation in Norwich & The Big Tree
norwichhistory2025-02-17T14:04:50-07:00Norwich’s Big Trees with the Norwich Public Library, AJ Follensbee, Windsor/Orange County Forester and the Norwich Conservation Commission. Last fall Norwich Public Library led a “Big Tree” project, identifying [...]
Nordic Trails in Norwich
norwichhistory2025-02-17T14:06:50-07:00Nordic skiing trails in Norwich and beyond with John Morton, founder of Morton Trails, and the designer of over 100 trail projects across the United States and abroad. Learn [...]
Discover Norwich 2024
norwichhistory2025-02-17T14:07:23-07:00February 1: Tales from the Schoolhouses with Wendy Thompson and Cam Cross, former teachers at Marion Cross. Did you know that at one time Norwich [...]
The Weather Diaries: November
norwichhistory2023-12-01T10:04:19-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart… For Ebenezer, November brought the return of cold weather, sleighs (and sleigh accidents), and family visits. Winter preparations included butchering, cutting wood, and [...]
The Weather Diaries: October
norwichhistory2023-11-03T11:55:31-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart... For Ebenezer, October brought cooler weather and the final harvest of corn, potatoes, beets, parsnips, turnips, carrots, and pumpkins. It was a very full cellar. [...]
The Weather Diaries: August
norwichhistory2023-10-05T08:08:51-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart… Ebenezer Brown, 1873 2 Hot sunny day…Charles worked for G.M. Slack. I hoed the sweet corn & worked in [...]
The Weather Diaries: September
norwichhistory2023-11-03T11:56:32-07:00Two diaries, 150 years apart... September 2023 brought the first frost, rains, and warm days. The Brown family finished their haying and got in their wheat and oats. Family arrived [...]
The Weather Diaries: July
norwichhistory2023-08-01T11:05:06-07:00Two Diaries, 150 years apart... Vermont Journal, July 5, 1873 July was all about haying. Ebenezer's son, Charles, had nine lots filled with hay to mow, rake, load into [...]