May 8, 2025

05.08.2025

Hello Norfolk.

Things will be a little bit different today. As the Insider is growing, I’m learning how best to bring you maximum value. Your time is important to me, and I want the Insider to be useful and informative to you.

This edition will be no different. It will have all the best events, live music, and Norfolk community information that you’ve come to expect. Feel free to skip down the page to find all that good stuff.

This week, I’d also like to talk a bit about Norfolk life, and the things that make this a unique and wonderful place to live. So today, let’s discuss Long Point, and more specifically the Old Cut.

Long Point is really long. That’s why it’s not just called “Point”. It reaches out 40 kilometers into Lake Erie. If you want to traverse from the inner bay over to the Lake, you have to go around the point - that’s a long way to go.

Back in the 1800’s, a massive storm “cut” a channel south through Long Point, connecting the Inner Bay and the Lake. Over time, it became known as the “Old Cut”. While the channel has since closed off, boaters still use a portion of it that remains to launch their boats and travel to their cottages.

Fun fact: back in those days, some nefarious folks would put up fake lighthouses to lure in cargo boats to the Old Cut. When the cargo boats would run aground, the crew would abandon them, and the locals would loot the ships. They would then hide the valuables in different spots around Long Point.

Anyone want to go treasure hunting?