Connecticut western news., 1873-07-25
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| Norfolk.
 A correspondent in the Hartford Courant
 of June 2lst, writes Norfolk, up in the
 Litcbfield hills, remains the same sweet
 peaceful village that found it last year.
 its beautiful little park, the "Green the
 same neglected but lovely tangle of noble
 elms and of untrimmed bushes-the city
 and the country all in one-only waiting
 for those genial Norfolk people to extend
 it's southern end few rods, put new
 fence about it, thin it out, trim it, and ap.
 preciate it as what it really is, one of the
 falrest little bits of nature in the state. Close by towers as of yore the village
 church, hungering for paint, but not an ig-
 noble building, with its picturesque and
 well proportioned spire. In it's pulpit still
 stands that noble and simple-hearted and
 learned man who bears the palm away from
 all the other pastors of the state for the
 years of his ministry, but whose brown
 hair and heslthful, unpinched face give no
 tokens of the patriarch he is. Down
 under the edge of the hill turks the village
 tavern, or hotel, as they call it now, since the railway made Norfolk neighbor to us, and of this hotel it is enough to say tha, N. 5. Stevens owns it: it ought to be good; certainly it ought to be popular. Away in the distance you can see the dense shade of the trees which encompass Mir. Egbert Buffers pleasant home, where Hartford people "much do congregate" while yonder, but one minute from tele- graph, store, church, railway and postoffice is the "Hotel Gaylord" whose home com forts, kindly greetings, perfect table, will long be recorded Ion the tablet of my memory" as we used to write in the soph- omore year.
 Nature which always is kind provider. | has graciously given Hartford its Fenwick and it's Norfolk, sea and land, the ocean and the country, and thus made our lot per feet Each forty-four miles away each reached by delightful road; each ''good after its kind" Each of them is fine summer bedroom for Hartford, and as the excellences of both become better known, our hard working business men will put their families there during the hot months, alternating year by year between Fenwick and Norfolk, and at nightfall shaking off the dust of their feet, leave the hot and crowded city for an evening by the sea or on the hills, and night of coolness and peace.
 Norfolk. like nearly all our summerinp places, is not full this season, but August will see change, and these farm-houses will fill up. The chickens are having nice respite and are putting themselves in prime condition; the cows are going 10 take advantage of the fresh grass which these rains will bring to give even super auous cream, the huckleberry bushes are beginning to put on color and to promise great things, the blackberry bushes are and the outlook is good.
 There is one fine thing about coming up here on these hills, fourteen hundred feet above Hartford, that by the time when the early summer vegetables have gone by with us, they just begin to appear in Norfolk. You think, for example, that green peas and strawberries are things of the past, but two hours and the Connecticut Western bring you here, where the circle is begin ming and these delicious edibles appear in- digenous, autochthonous and epichorean. People at the Gaylord House will under stand these !adjectives if nobody else does. Thus you renew your youth, as it were, and if you spend your days in Hartford and your nights in Norfolk you enjoy two seasons in one.
 The word heat is not known in the sreech )f the people here. When they want to understand what the word means they come down to the city and spend day, md so make it inteligible. They don't 'eem to have the ordinary discomforts up lere, but to live in peace and plenty all the 7ear around. They go to church Sundays, 'well quietly and neighborly, and give you he sense of that dear, good thing, New England village as it was, and we wish it y night remain. l