Norman Rockwell, from New Rochelle to Vermont

Last week I wrote a bit about Vermont’s Covered Bridge Week, celebrating our hundred or so quaint but practical mid-19th century covered bridges of which there are two in ye olde Arlington, where I live. I write about the arts in Vermont two or three times a year — please indulge my prerogative as the art critic — so on to Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont, an engaging and revelatory exhibition at Shelburne Museum. It’ll bring joy, and then there’s a big surprise.