Connecticut: affluent, well-educated, historic

Yale University Campus
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With the setting of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in a fictitious college in Conn, we note the importance of the state.

- Long Island Sound; the coastline offers access to the world and is close to NYC.
- Hartford - center of the US insurance industry.
- New Haven - home of Yale Univ.
- Bridgeport - historic manufacturing center.
- Saybrook - historic port.
- Mystic - historic port tourism center.
- Stonington - historic port.
- Stamford - one of many affluent suburban centers adjacent to NYC.
- Connecticut River valley - rich farmland.

Yale will be symbolic of an array of colleges, such as U Conn, and private schools (The Hotchkiss School).

Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is symbolic of Conn's place in US lit.

Nearby
- Massachustts is also affluent and influential in arts and science.
- Boston, home of Harvard & MIT.
- Cape Cod - historic peninsula.
- Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, islands that are summer enclaves of the wealthy.

- Rhode Island - small but affluent.
- Providence - capital and home to Brown Univ and Rhode Is School of Design (RISD).