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The Presence of Absence, Newtown's Hope { 19 images } Created 16 Dec 2013

Residents of Newtown, Connecticut are hoping for a return to life before the tragedy. The life the small New England town knew before the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012. One year later, townspeople don't want memorials…they don't want teddy bears, they don't want the world's attention…they want their town back, stolen from them by an unspeakable act.
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- The sun sets in Newtown on a snowy December afternoon. Residents are hoping for a return to life before the tragedy. The life the small New England town knew before the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012. One year later, townspeople don't want memorials…they don't want teddy bears, they don't want the world's attention…they want their town back, stolen from them by an unspeakable act.    (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- A sign on Church Hill Road welcomes visitors to the Sandy Hook section of Newtown. The small New England town is trying to move forward after the tragedy of the school shooting on December 14, 2012.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- The small shops of the town welcome visitors along Church Hill Road entering the Sandy Hook section of Newtown. The town is hoping to avoid extra attention as it prepares for the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012.   (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- Life slowly is returning to normal in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown as the town prepares for the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012.  The local paper, The Newtown Bee, carried stories dedicated to the anniversary in it's December 6, 2013 edition.   (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013-A sign decorates a shop window in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- This moment — this blissfully mundane experience of work and snow day for the kids — belies the town everyone else knows. This is the town which offers a “Resilience Corner” on its<br />
website, with links to therapists and support groups. This is a town known worldwide not for its bucolic New England charm, but because of a singularly horrific<br />
five minutes on Dec.14, 2012.    (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- The Pootatuck River flows through the center of the Sandy Hook section of Newtown. The town is hoping to avoid extra attention and return to life as normal. Life before the tragedy. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013-The green ribbon has become the symbol marking the tragedy of the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown. The ribbons can be seen throughout town in shop windows, on cars, and here on a tree outside a closed ice cream shop closed for the season.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- Edmond Town Hall in Newtown claims to be "home to the first-best second-run movie house in New England", according to it's website. A popular family spot with $2 admission and an affordable candy counter. Now showing: Free Birds (PG) and shows this weekend are free courtesy of a local sponsor. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- A sign in front of the Newtown United Methodist Church, located on Church Hill Road, states it's wish to avoid the media attention it received last December in the wake of the shootings. Clergy that a year ago held the town in its arms as<br />
residents searched for direction has taken a stand to protect its congregants from peering eyes.   (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- A single Rosary hangs from a tree in front of the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown. The church was the site for many of the funerals and memorials following the tragic shootings last December. Residents are hoping for a return to life before the tragedy as the small New England town prepares for the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- A makeshift memorial on Riverside Road dedicated to those killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The town is trying to resume life as normal as it prepares for the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- A year ago<br />
at Treadwell Park, satellite trucks inundated the<br />
parking lot. Journalists paced the hillsides chatting on cellphones with editors in faraway newsrooms to tell the world what had happened. Tuesday this week, teenagers spun doughnuts in cars, leaving wide swooping patterns in the snow. Laughing and hollering children zoomed on sleds.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- The flag at the rotary in the center of Newtown. Residents of this small New England town want people to stay as they remember the tragedy in which 20 children and seven adults lost their lives one year ago.  The flag was placed at half-staff following the tragedy last year. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- Rock of Angels, a monument by sculptor Richard Gray from Maine, is installed behind St. John’s Episcopal Church in Sandy Hook. Rock of Angels is a seven-ton granite memorial monument to those killed at Sandy Hook School on December 14, 2012. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- The Iron Bridge<br />
Restaurant and Bar at 100 Church Hill Road offers a $9.95 burger and beer special. A waitress greeting diners doesn’t bother with most of the menu, flipping directly to the burger page: a monstrous burger, onion brick and curly fries, served with a 10-ounce mug of draft<br />
Busch. Chatting with regulars sipping noonday beers, the waitress says she made sure to take today off.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- A sign along the street in front of the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, where funerals for eight of the 20 children killed were held a year ago, makes it clear they do not wish for any media attention on the anniversary of the shooting. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- Boxes decorate a small section of walkway in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown. Residents are hoping for a return to life before the Sandy Hook School tragedy of December 14, 2012.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • NEWTOWN, CT-10 December 2013- Sandy Hook looks different than it did last year, with new brick sidewalks.<br />
That work started two months before the shooting, and finished last summer. A man blowing snow said the town will have roving crews this weekend to collect any mementos left by visitors. No shrine will be allowed to<br />
last more than two hours, he said. At nightfall, two Christmas trees at the village center cast colorful light. One shines with old-style multi colored bulbs, the<br />
town’s Christmas tree for years. The other, a Norwegian spruce planted over the summer when people thought the old tree was dying. Residents rallied to save<br />
their tree, and now they have two. The new one twinkles in green and white LEDs, the colors of Sandy Hook School.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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