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Literary Liaisons: A Season of Celebration and Literary Encounters, 2012

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March Art Exhibition

Thirteens: Mahlon F. Craft

Over the past several summers, I have created a series of color photographs of wild flowers, flowering shrubs and weedy landscapes. This is something new for me as my earlier work, done mostly in black and white during the years we lived in Chicago through 1982, was inspired by the works of Ralph Gibson, Dianne Arbus and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

This started three years ago after I tried some experiments using a 35mm architectural lens, which was designed for perspective correction before the age of Photoshop. By manipulating the lens and making a series of 13 separate overlaping exposures and then using Photoshop to assemble them into one, I found I could create a much larger image, thereby increasing the field of view by over 330%.

What astonished me when I looked at the first few assembled files, which were taken in my front yard, was the incredible detail they had. They also had a very flat field of view which gave my new photographs a special quality of stillness that became totally fascinating to me. I came to like this idea more and more as it caused me to see my yard and the landscape around me in a completely new and much more studied and intimate way. With a few exceptions, most of the photographs in the exhibit have been taken on our own property. Our yard is mostly mosses, weeds and errant grasses. It needs no fertilizer, weed killers nor much care other than to cut it down from a flowery weedy patch at the end of the season a few times, then carry off all of the leaves in the fall. Nature is such a beautiful thing.

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 4, 2012, 4:00-6:00pm

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Documentary Film Series

Monday nights from February through mid-March, the Norfolk Library will present a documentary film on a topic of general interest. Each will be presented either by the filmmaker or by a member of the Norfolk community with a special knowledge of the subject. Free admission.  Click here to download a PDF of the schedule.  You will need Acrobat Reader.

Monday, February 27th at 7:00pm (Note skipped Monday)

We Still Live Here, 2011, 56 min. When a language dies, especially one belonging to an aboriginal tribe marginalized by many generations of colonizers, there is usually not much to bury. And not much chance of a rebirth. But among the Wampanoag of eastern Massachusetts, thanks to the mid-life vision of a tribal mom, the records kept by proselytizing Puritans, and the linguistics faculty at MIT, the miraculous revival of a lost language is even now in progress. The story has been beautifully caught on film by local documentarian Anne Makepeace, who will be on hand to introduce her film and field questions.  See their website.

Allie Humenuk and Anne Makepeace, filming with Wampanoag Indians Photo by Jonathan Reed

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Party Bridge Fireside Fridays at the Norfolk Library

Cruel winds may howl through the months of January, February, and March, but inside the Great Hall of the Library a fire will warm us as we gather and play party bridge.

2:00--4:30 pm every other Friday
Jan 13, Jan 27, Feb 10, Feb 24, Mar 9, Mar 23
Please sign up with a partner. Lessons will be offered for 1 table of beginners.
Won’t you come join us?

Contact Sally Estock at sallyestock@gmail.com to reserve a spot. Prior sign-up required.

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