Tour de Forest Returns on Sunday 

Don't have 23 days to peddle through Europe in the Tour de France? How about riding in the annual Tour de Forest, set for this Sunday, which takes riders throughout Norfolk and through parts of the lovely Great Mountain Forest. Prefer the arts? This week offers an artist's reception for Janet Andre Block at the Norfolk Library, more Coffee with Shakespeare, book discussions and a writers' group.

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Reception Sunday for Artist at Library

There will be an artist's reception Sunday, October 9, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. for Janet Andre Block, who is showing her works in Silent Moves, at the Norfolk Library. The exhibition continues through October 31.The abstracted nature of the paintings is a new field for Andre Block, with the works reflecting a sense of rapid movement, change and, at times, imbalance. The artist, who studied at the School of Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, and Studio Art at New York University, has shown locally at the White, 3-L and Morgan Lehman galleries. For more information, click here.

Annual Tour de Forest  Is Sunday

Norfolk’s annual Tour de Forest, presented by Norfolk’s Rails to Trails Committee, has been set for Sunday, October 9, with registration at 8:00 a.m. The new Icebox Gravel route, with a 29-mile distance, will debut this year in addition to the classic 13-mile Tour de Forest route. Cycle through winding roads all over Norfolk and Great Mountain Forest. Click here to register

Book Group to Read "Fathers and Sons"

The Norfolk Book Group, sponsored by the Norfolk Library and led by Mark Scarbrough, is reading novels by Ivan Turgenev. Next up is "Fathers and Sons" (1862), October 20, followed by "Spring Torrents" (1872), November 20, and "Virgin Soil" (1877), December 13. The group meets via Zoom, with a morning and evening session on select Thursdays. To get an Zoom invitation, click here.

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