Cornwall CT

The Last Illusion - Hughes Memorial Library
2025-08-24 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-08-29 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-08-30 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-08-31 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Hughes Memorial Library, 35 Lower River Road, West Cornwall, Connecticut, 06796
Magicienne Belinda Sinclair
Saturday, July 5 – Labor Day
Friday, Saturday 7:30 – 9 pm
Sundays 4:30 – 6 pm

Affordable Housing Commission Meeting - Hybrid/Library
2025-08-25 17:00 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
Last Monday of month (except as noted*)
At 5:00pm Hybrid/Zoom/In Person at Library

January 6* via Zoom
February 24
March 24
April 28
May TBD*
June 23
July 28
August 25
September 29
October 27
November 24
December 29

Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting - Town Hall
2025-08-25 19:00 | Cornwall Town Hall, 24-26 Pine Street, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
4th Monday except as noted *
7:00 p.m. – on Zoom and/or in person
Town Hall Meeting Room

Community/Senior Breakfast - UCC Parish House
2025-08-26 09:00 - 10:00 | UCC Parish House, 8 Bolton Hill Road, Cornwall, CT, 06753
Tuesday, August 26th, Community/Senior Breakfast UCC Parish House @ 9:00 a.m.
MUST RSVP by FRIDAY Aug 22nd to park.recreation@cornwallct.gov or call/text 860-480-0600

Economic Development Commission - Library
2025-08-26 19:30 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
4th Tuesday at 7:30pm (except as noted*)
On Zoom and/or in person at Cornwall Library

Beginners’ Tai Chi
2025-08-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-09-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Cornwall Town Hall, 24-26 Pine Street, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
Beginners’ Tai Chi Wednesdays, from 5 to 6 P.M., Cornwall Town Hall
$15/class (first class free.) More information from Dave at 672-6726 or davidcolbert7@gmail.com.

Labor Day Art Sale - Library
2025-08-29 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-30 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-31 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-01 11:00 - 14:00 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
The legendary Labor Day Weekend Art Sale returns to The Cornwall Library this year, marking the seventh anniversary of this highly popular event. The sale is on Labor Day weekend only. It opens with a Cocktail Reception at the Library on Friday, August 29, and continues through Monday September 1. Sale hours are Friday, August 29 from 6 – 8, Saturday, August 30 from 10am to 4pm, Sunday, August 31 from 10am to 4pm, and Labor Day, September 1, from 11am until 2pm. Everyone is welcome. The sale and reception will be at 30 Pine Street, Cornwall, CT. All work will be documented to the extent feasible and will be very reasonably priced, starting at $25 and running up into much more.
As works are purchased, new pieces will take their place, refreshing the show every day. Come search for a treasure, a gift, or something to enliven your walls—there will be something here for everyone.

Coop Farm Market - Cornwall Village
2025-08-30 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-06 09:00 - 12:30 | Cornwall Village Green, Pine Street, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
Held Saturdays through October 25, 9:00–12:30. Across from the Town Hall.

West Cornwall Farmer's Market - Wish House
2025-08-30 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-06 10:00 - 13:00 | CT
Every Saturday 10-1 on the Wish House Lawn in West Cornwall, CT www.cornwallfarmmarket.org + live music every first Saturday of the month

Hocus Focus - Hughes Memorial Library
2025-08-30 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-08-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Hughes Memorial Library, 35 Lower River Road, West Cornwall, Connecticut, 06796
Magicienne Belinda Sinclair
Ages 6-12 with adult
Saturday, July 5 – Labor Day
Saturdays and Sundays 10:30 – 11:30 and 1 – 2 pm

Cornwall Open Studio
2025-08-30 13:00 - 17:00 | CT
Bringing Art, Artists, and the Community together in Cornwall.
The 19th Annual Cornwall Open Studios will be held Saturday, August 30, 2025, 1-5 pm.
For a list of the participating artists, directions to their studios and a map, please see below.

1. Lauren Brinkers Shoes
131 Kent RD S
Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754
(Located at the intersection of Route 7 and Route 45 in Cornwall Bridge. On the North side of 45, white building, Red door
w/ CBG sign.)
www.LaurenBrinkers.com
IG @laurenbrinkers

2. David Colbert Geometric Sculpture and Sculpture Path
76 Warren Hill Road
Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754
860-672-6726
(From Cornwall Bridge, go about one mile south on Route 7, and then turn left onto Route 45. Go about 1⁄2 mile. House is
on the left, across from mailbox.)
www.davidcolbert.com
www.instagram.com/davidcolbertweeklyphoto

3. Cornwall Bridge Pottery (Sanah Petersen)
69 Kent Rd S
Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754
860-946-9679
(South of Cornwall Bridge 0.4 miles, on the left)
https://www.sanahstellaceramics.com/

4. Cornwall Conservation Trust Gallery
7 Railroad Square
West Cornwall, CT 06796
860-248-3255
In the heart of Downtown West Cornwall, just up from the Covered Bridge by the railroad tracks
Magaly Ohika
860-248-3255
https://www.instagram.com/m.ohika/

Emily Waters
347-415-5057
https://www.emilywatersillustrations.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ylimesretaw/?hl=en

5. Nick Jacobs (Studio Art Photo-Mecho)
Bonney Brook Apt. 201
Cornwall Bridge, CT. 06754
959-799-4865
(I’m right on Route 7 in Cornwall Bridge (NOT covered bridge) same side and exactly between the Cornwall Country
Market and the Cornwall Fire House in 2-story newish building. Please do not take last space in lot: park on Route 7 in
front. To open outside door push disc on pillar. Buzz me #201 to enter inside door and let it open by itself- Voila!.I’m on
2nd floor)

6. Debby Jones
12 Popple Swamp Rd.
Cornwall Bridge, CT. 06754
860-672-6263
(Leaving The Cornwall Market in the center of Cornwall Bridge, head towards Torrington on Route 4 East for approx. 2.5
miles until you see Local Farm. a big red barn, on your left. Shortly after that you will see 3 gray barns after which you
should turn left back on to Popple Swamp Rd. Studio is in the middle gray barn. White house with pillars across the street.)
debbyjonesartartgallery.com

7. Tim Prentice
129 Lake Road
West Cornwall, CT 06796
860-672-6728
(From the blinking light at the intersection of Routes 4, 128 and 43 take Rt. 128 West for 1 mile. Turn right onto Town St.
After passing the North Cornwall Church on the left take the next right onto Lake road for 1 mile.)
www.timprentice.com

8. Stephan Sagmiller
131 Kent RD S
Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754
(Located at the intersection of Route 7 and Route 45 in Cornwall Bridge. On the North side of 45, white building, Red door
w/ CBG sign.)
www.StephanSagmiller.com
IG @stephansagmiller

9. The Souterrain Gallery of The Wish House
413 Sharon Goshen Tnpk
West Cornwall, CT 06796
860.672.2969
(In the heart of Downtown West Cornwall, just up from the Covered Bridge by the railroad tracks)
souterraingallery.net
Sarah Blodgett
518-755-4933
https://sarahblodgett.com/fine-art/

Tina Puckett
860-309-6934
https://www.tinasbaskets.com/

10. Sally Van Doren Studio
418 Sharon Goshen Tnpk
West Cornwall, CT 06796
314-750-5406
(The studio entrance is on the ground floor porch of a white house on the main road in West Cornwall. It’s on the north side
of the street, three doors up from the Covered Bridge.)
www.sallyvandoren.com

Inland Wetlands Agency Meeting - Hybrid/Town Hall
2025-09-02 19:00 | Cornwall Town Hall, 24-26 Pine Street, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
1st Tuesday – 7:00 p.m., except as noted*
Zoom/Hybrid/ or in person -Town Hall

Board of Selectmen Meeting - Hybrid/Library
2025-09-02 19:30 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
Clerk: Jane Hall – (860) 672-4959
1st and 3rd Tuesday of month 7:30pm
Hybrid/Zoom/ In Person – Cornwall Library
Unless otherwise changed by the Board of Selectmen

Board of Education Meeting - CCS
2025-09-03 16:00 | Cornwall Consolidated School, 5 Cream Hill Road, West Cornwall, CT, 06796
Clerk-Annie Kosciusko- (860) 672-2939 ext.3
1st Wednesday of month (Except January 15th)
4:00 p.m. CCS Library or on Zoom if indicated

Author talk: Nathan Kerman - Library
2025-09-06 17:00 - 19:00 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
A Special Evening with Nathan Kernan, author of A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, in conversation with Alice Quinn on Saturday, September 6 at 5 pm.
Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the long-awaited definitive biography of this great American poet (1923-1991) who, along with Frank
O’Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so-called New York School of poetry. Nathan Kernan lives in New York and in Salisbury CT., and is the co-founder and board president of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, an exhibition space for painting in lowerManhattan. Poems, his collaboration with painter Joan Mitchell, was published by Tyler Graphics in 1992. He edited The Diary of James Schuyler, published in 1997, and has written numerous art reviews, catalogue essays and monographs. He will be in conversation with Alice Quinn, a professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and former poetry editor at The New Yorker who is currently at work on an edition of the poet Elizabeth Bishop’s journals.
Books will be available for purchase. Attend in-person only. Registration required: https://cornwalllibrary.org/events
Follow these links for more information about the book and the author: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/a-day-like-any-other-the-life-of-james-schuyler-nathan-kernan-book-review. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/james-schuyler-nathan-kernan-biography/, https://www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/review-day-like-any-other-life-of-james.html.

Deadline for Park & Rec Soccer Signups
2025-09-08 | CT
SOCCER THIS FALL IN CORNWALL- IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP, BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Deadline is Sept 8th. Go to Park and Rec website to sign up cornwallparkrec.org

Cornwall Agricultural Advisory Commission - Town Hall
2025-09-08 19:30 | Cornwall Town Hall, 24-26 Pine Street, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
1st Monday at 7:30pm, except as noted
Town Hall

Community/Senior Lunch UCC - Parish House
2025-09-09 12:00 - 13:00 | UCC Parish House, 8 Bolton Hill Road, Cornwall, CT, 06753
Tuesday, September 9th Community/Senior Lunch UCC Parish House @ 12:00p.m.
MUST RSVP BY Sept 4th to park.recreation@cornwallct.gov or call/text Michelle at 626-201-8567

Wastewater Management Project In West Cornwall Village Construction Committee Meeting - Hybrid/Library
2025-09-09 17:00 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
2nd Tuesday of month at 5:00pm
(except as noted*)
Hybrid/Zoom/In Person – Cornwall Library

Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting - Hybrid/Library
2025-09-09 19:00 | The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, 06753, United States
Land Use Administrator – Spencer Musselman – (860) 672-4957
Planning & Zoning Commission
2nd Tuesday -7:00 p.m. Except as noted***
Zoom/Hybrid/or in person – Cornwall Library
