Flowers for Sandy Hook, CT

Sandy Hook's center is a bend in a river. Church Hill Road tips downhill into a knot of old storefronts — Foundry Kitchen & Tavern at the bottom, the Pootatuck moving behind the buildings — and from there the village climbs back out along Riverside Road, Washington Avenue, and the wooded lanes above Lake Zoar. Two miles up the hill, Newtown keeps a different postcard: the hundred-foot flagpole planted mid-intersection on Main Street, Edmond Town Hall with its famously cheap movie screenings, the general store, the borough's deep porches. The hollow takes 06482 and the hill takes 06470, and any florist covering this town learns both — plus Newtown High School on Berkshire Road and the Fairfield Hills ballfields, which generate more congratulations bouquets per season than most office parks manage in a year.

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