Sandy Hook Shootings: The Horror Next Door
Friday's tragedy in Newtown, Conn., hits way too close to home for me.
My first memories of Sandy Hook are of it being "the back way." After we moved to Southbury, Conn., when I was five, my father's preferred route back to Danbury to visit our grandparents and other relatives was through the Sandy Hook district of neighboring Newtown on secondary roads, rather than the more direct, but crowded, Interstate 84. To this day, we refer to taking that route through Sandy Hook as going "the back way." I remember it being very quaint and country, with a small shops and old New England homes nearby. And I remember going to a food co-op there with my mom during the 1970s crunchy-granola health food fad. This past New Year's Eve, my husband John and I went to dinner with my sister, brother-in-law and parents at Figs in…
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Melissa Hebert
7:06 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Thanks, Jennifer. Love to everyone back home. more ›