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Coloring Cornwall – A Coloring Book for All Ages from the Chronicle Archives
Ever wondered why the Chronicle is still all black and white?
So you can color it yourself!
Now it’s your turn to paint the town!
74 pages • 6.5” X 9.5” • over 100 illustrations • $10
Available at The Local, The Wish House, and The Cornwall Library
Order for mail delivery (via PayPal or by check): $12.50 each includes postage
Web Exclusives
March 2023
West Cornwall Septic Update
A sparsely attended Wastewater Management Project committee meeting was held via Zoom during the recent nor’easter March 14. With most committee members unable to attend on account of widespread power outages, Stephen McDonnell of [...Read More]
February 2023
Get Online with the CVFD
The Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department, CVFD for short, celebrated its 90th anniversary last year. One of the ways they are celebrating this milestone is by launching a new website, www.cornwallfire.org" www.cornwallfire.org. The site aims to [...Read More]
December 2022
Covered Bridge Damaged Again
It wasn’t the high wind and not the massive rainfall but a pickup truck with a backhoe in tow that damaged the West Cornwall Covered Bridge on Friday, December 23. The bridge had to [...Read More]
A Frustrating Hearing
Below is one resident’s reaction to the official hearing convened last week by the state to consider Nuvance Health’s request to discontinue maternity services at Sharon Hospital, a process requiring state approval. Further background [...Read More]
November 2022
The Cornwall–Hawaii Connection
One of Cornwall’s most influential institutions, the Foreign Mission School, traces its ties to Hawaii through a young native named Opukaha’ia. Opukaha’ia (anglicized to Obookiah when he lived in Connecticut) was the school’s founding pupil, and [...Read More]
Trouble Crops Up
“If it’s not one thing it’s another,” Roseanne Roseannadanna famously said on Saturday Night Live, which resonates as we recall some of this past summer’s agricultural challenges. First there was the spongy moth invasion, [...Read More]
October 2022
Places to Call Home
The Cornwall Housing Forum on October 19 gave the 36 people who attended via Zoom a good look at what Cornwall can do about housing and what has been done or is in the [...Read More]
Save Sharon Hospital, Again
If you fracture your hip at 9pm on a Friday and are brought to Sharon Hospital, expect to wait until Monday for surgery. That was the bleak hypothetical given by Dr. David Kurish at [...Read More]
Changes Afoot Around Cornwall Bridge
It seems as if suddenly there is change in the air around Cornwall Bridge, and I’m not just referring to the leaves or the temperature, or even the rain at long last. A quick [...Read More]
September 2022
A Buck with the Confidence of Youth
He trod towards me With audacious comfort in his eyes I wonder if he’d comprehend Why to fear human kind For I was in his native land An intact forest of hardwood trees Where [...Read More]
The Illustrations
The drawings on this slide show are by Elisabeth Cunnick, Amelia deNeergaard, Ania Hubbard, Cindy Kirk, and Erica Prud’homme, some of the scores of Cornwall artists whose witty and graceful work has decorated the pages of the Chronicle for more than 30 years. The slide show will change periodically.
Editors & Illustrators for Upcoming Issues
The Chronicle’s volunteer editors rotate monthly and are always open to new viewpoints and ideas.