Yale University | Oxford | New England

connecticut used to have lots of little manufacturing towns. so it was always enjoyable to travel around the state to these little villages: woodbridge, bethany, seymour, oxford, and milford, which is right on the coast. as far as more contemporary places, yale has a summer program in norfolk, which is music and art, and that’s a very attractive area. litchfield has a lovely, old, preserved, classic new england town. there’s a green with, typically, several churches around it. and adjacent to that, some shopping streets with ice-cream parlors and restaurants. new haven has a green, too. back in colonial times, the green was like a common pasture. you’d come with your sheep and your cows. it was a place to see and be seen. in new haven, yale university is adjacent to the green.”