Newtown Is a Pretty Typical Connecticut Community

Connecticut is a state of contrasts, and Interstate 84 -- which runs right through the middle of Newtown, Connecticut, the site of this morning's horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary -- is something of a dividing line.

To the south sits Connecticut's famous Gold Coast, one of the country's wealthiest suburban enclaves, where many residents commute to jobs in Stamford or New York City. To the north, the more rural half of the state sprawls though rolling hills to the Berkshires, a land of apple orchards and farms stretching to the Massachusetts border.