Tammy Barber, of Griswold, Connecticut, was a High School student and walked a mile to school and back every day during the time Michael Ross was committing the killings that he has confessed to in eastern Connecticut . "You always had that feeling in the pit of your stomach," she said. "I guess it's called fear." Barber said she later lived across the street from the Jewett City apartment that Ross had lived in during the time he committed several of the murders. Ross was in prison, but seeing the place where he had lived reminded her that perhaps she should have been more careful when he was at large.

Hartford, Connecticut, jazz singer Emma Walker, dances during a show at Kenney's restaurant, which was spearheading a jazz revival in the city.

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck at his home in Connecticut.

Buddhist monks in Kathmandu watch visiting climbers.

Connie Brown is a mapmaker in Durham, Connecticut.

Yale geneticist Frank Ruddle.

Actor Estelle Parsons, best known at Rosanne's mother on the sitcom of the same name, was in Hartford for a performance at Hartford Stage.

University of Connecticut Marine Biologist Peter Auster.

Viktor Kee is a juggler and contortionist with Cirque du Soleil.

Bill Doheny, who lives in a house that is on the border of West Rock State Park, in Hamden, Connecticut, works to keep the park up and advocates for improved maintenance and access.

A Tibetan monk at the Rongbuk Monastery near Mount Everest watches as climbers arrive at the monastery for blessings.

A Tibetan Black Hat Dancer performs the traditional dance at Tibetfest in Goshen, Connecticut.

Jason West, the mayor of the village of New Paltz, New York, was one of two Green Party mayors in the country, and supplemented his income by continuing his work as a house painter.

Randall Reid, a master violin maker in Hartford, Connecticut.

A mountain man in Estes Park Colorado.

A mountain man at a gathering in Estes Park, Colorado.

Ralph Nader's exhaustion shows during the final days of his 1996 presidential campaign.

Steven Daniel, an actor from children's television programs, has matured into a hip hop musician.

A Buddhist nun on a trail in the Solo Khumbu of Nepal.

Two firefighters in Colorado react to the news that they will get their first chance to bathe in a week.