Connecticut

Hungry and excited patrons inhale the aroma of morning coffee and scones as they wait to enter O'Rourke's Diner in Middletown, Conn.

For kids on bicycles, riding the streets is a lot safer than it used to be in Stamford, Conn., thanks to Glenn and Peggy Coppola.

A cold rain pelts Angela Dimmitt as she stands at the edge of a hardwood forest in New Milford, Conn., aiming her binoculars at the tops of towering oak and hickory trees.

Clyde's is the oldest producer of hard cider in the United States and operates the nation's last steam-powered cider mill.

The 5-foot-8-inch, 190-pound Burns is such an average Joe that he’s the unpretentious star of the 2005 book The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation’s Most Ordinary Citizen by Kevin O’Keefe.

When American Profile posed this question to readers, responses brimming with passion and pride poured in from across the nation.

Century-old farming families remain loyal to the land

The All-American Burger

“We’re so excited in there we can’t stand it,” squeals Carol Dingman as she steps into the bus. Her eyes widen as she tries to see it all—a crammed, top-to-bottom complete fabric store on wheels.

One way to know what America is, is to see where it's been.

“A day here is never typical,” says Suzanne Sankow of Beaver Brook Farm, which has been in the family for 85 years and is Connecticut’s largest sheep farm.

Those who sell what they grow do it out of a passion for tasty produce