Thursday, October 15th- Webinar: New To Medicare ~ Know Your Medicare Options
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
This FREE virtual presentation is provided by a Certified CHOICES Counselor from Senior Resources Agency on Aging. No insurance will be sold. Registration Required.
Visit www.seniorresourcesec.org or email Laura Crews at ljcrews@seniorresourcesec.org
Once registered, you’ll receive an email with information on joining the webinar.
Virtual Art Presentations
ONLINE GALLERY TALK ~ Florence Griswold Museum
Reckoning with History: Reframing the Impressionist Landscape
Wed., Oct 7th 2:00p.m.
How we understand the past shapes the way we view the scenic places celebrated by Lyme Colony artists after 1900. New research and shifting perspectives shed fresh light on the lived history the painted settings evoke. The untold stories of Native Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants suggest alternative ways of seeing and framing the Impressionist landscape. The lecture will take place virtually via GoTo Webinar.
Pre-registration required. https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/calendar/
ONLINE GALLERY TALK ~ Florence Griswold Museum
Gender and the Impressionist Landscape
Wed., Oct 14th 11:00a.m.
Join Curator of Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes exhibition for a discussion of new perspectives on gender and the landscape in American Impressionism. Professional women artists such as Matilda Browne and Mary Bradish Titcomb will be considered. Women will also be discussed as a subject depicted in impressionist paintings by men artists such as Willard Metcalf, Will Howe Foote, and George B. Burr as they turned their eyes to family life as inspiration for their work. The lecture will take place virtually via GoTo Webinar.
Pre-registration required. https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/calendar/
ART CHAT with Artist Christine Goldbach
Tue., Oct 27th 12:00p.m.
Join Mastering the Masters instructor and artist Christine Goldbach for a ZOOM art class dealing with everything from how to hold a pencil to art history. Chris Goldbach will talk about art in all its forms. This one hour entertaining look into the wild wide world of art will answer your questions and solve your art problems from a-z, abstraction to zinc white! Enjoy this special approach to art. Play along with Chris, have your art supplies (any medium) handy and be ready to explore. All levels welcome. Offered by Fairfield Bigelow Senior Center.
Email Hilary for the ZOOM link. hsandberg@cityofnorwich.org
Walktober- The Last Green Valley is Celebrating 30 years of Walktober!
The Last Green Valley is Celebrating 30 years of Walktober!
This year Walktober, along with socially distanced in-person walks, will also be offering a large selection of Virtual Walks and Presentations. This is a great way to enjoy local history without leaving the comfort of your own home and a great opportunity for individuals who were not able to enjoy Walktober in the past due to walking or health reasons to do so now.
Some of the Virtual Presentations being offered include:
Antient Ghosts of Norwich – This virtual experience will bring you through one of Norwich’s oldest burying grounds where you’ll hear local ghostly legends.
Off-Kilter Tales of Norwichtown – Zack Lamothe, author of Connecticut Lore: Strange Off-Kilter, & Full of Surprises, will host a virtual experience through his home neighborhood of Norwichtown discussing off-kilter stories of its history, hauntings and hidden surprises.
Spaulding Pond Dam Flood – March 6, 1963 marked a major event in Norwich when the Spaulding Pond Dam at Mohegan Park breached. Freezing water and blocks of ice rushed for miles on a course through neighborhoods ending at Norwich Harbor. This virtual experience will relive the event which took six lives.
Ye Antient Burial Grounds of Norwich – Join local expert, Dave Oat, on a virtual look at the old Colonial burial grounds in Norwichtown. Here you will see a variety of hand cut colonial tombstones and discover what they can tell us about early life in Colonial Norwich.
The Norwich Freedom Trail – During the nineteenth century, the City of Norwich was home to a vibrant abolitionist movement. During this virtual experience, you’ll hear incredible stories about colonial era blacksmith, Guy Drock, who earned his freedom and fugitive slave, shoemaker, minister and author, James L. Smith. This virtual experience will explore a largely untold piece of Norwich’s history in the Jail Hill Historic District.
For links to these and other virtual Walktober programs, visit:
www.TheLastGreenValley.org/Walktober/Virtual or www.TheLastGreenValley.org/Walktober/
Absentee Ballot
This year, due to COVID-19, all voters are eligible to vote for the general election by absentee ballot if they choose to do so. Polling places will also be open for those who choose to vote in-person.
If you choose to vote by Absentee Ballot you must submit an application. You should have received an application for an Absentee Ballot in the mail mid-September, if not, contact your town’s City Clerk.
To receive your Absentee Ballot, check that your information is correct on the application, check off your reason to vote by Absentee Ballot, sign the application, seal the application in the envelope that was sent with it and either mail it back or drop it in the Election Drop Box located outside your Town or City Hall in the town you live in. Absentee Ballots will be mailed out starting October 2nd.
For Norwich, there is an Election Drop Box located outside of Norwich City Hall, 100 Broadway and one located outside of Wequonnoc School, 155 Providence Street, Taftville.
If you have any questions, please contact your town’s City Clerk’s Office.
Norwich City Clerk (860) 823-3732
Senior Center Re-Opening and Programs Survey
If you have not already done so, please consider taking our online survey.
Please complete our online survey by going to https://tinyurl.com/RoseCityReopen
At this time, we do not have a date as to when the Rose City Senior Center will be re-opening. We currently have no plans to open before CT lifts the “Stay Home and Stay Safe” for individuals 65 and older, which should take place for Phase 3 of Connecticut’s re-opening plan. When CT Phase 3 does happens, the re-opening date for the Senior Center is still to be determined, but we anticipate that it should follow soon after.
When we do re-open, we will be following all of the social distancing guidelines, safety measures and protocol issued by the State of CT that Senior Centers need to follow.
We will be re-opening in phases, initially offering a limited number of classes and limiting the amount of people in each class to accommodate for social distancing. Classes will be based on our ability to safely offer them, control who is in the building, for how long and for what specific purpose. Everyone will be required to register for classes in advance and no one will be allowed in the building otherwise.
Other programs will be slowly reintroduced and more people will be allowed in the building over time and by appointment only. Slowly but surely, we should once again get back to how we operated pre-pandemic. Hang in there!
As we continue to work on our re-opening plan, we want to hear from you.
If you have not already done so, please help us out by taking our online survey.
We want to know what your concerns are and what would hinder you from coming back once we re-open. We would like to know if you participate in any Virtual Programs and if you use Social Media. Your answers will help us better gauge what to offer and what to implement when we do re-open.
The survey should only take approximately 5 -10 minutes to answer. Your answers are anonymous and it is optional to leave your contact information if you have question related to the survey. Your answers are for our planning purposes only. https://tinyurl.com/RoseCityReopen
If you have any questions or would like the survey link emailed to you, please contact Hilary (860) 889-5960 or hsandberg@cityofnorwich.org
Thank you for taking the survey! Stay Safe!